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Down River qnd Mid-Sierrq Merge

The Down River Packaging Corporation, with converting plants at Wayne, Michigan and Stockton, California, and the Mid' Sierra Lumber Company of Stockton, have announced that their productive facilities will be combined.

The agreement also calls for a phase'in merger between the two firms.

Down River produces "Dor'Kor,t' ex' pandable corrugated honeycomb used extensively in the hollow core door industry as the sandwich material. Mid'Sierra man' ufactures the complete wood frame and oth' er specialized interior components for the same industries.

Under terms of the agreement, customer€ may order combined carloads of cut stock frame section and o'Dor-Kor" fillers to be shipped together from Stockton. This will allow tighter inventory control by the user and more flexibility in ordering and releas' ing, according to the company.

Plans call for the immediate relocation o{ Down River's Stockton plant to land adjacent to Mid-Sierra in Stockton. The site is serviced by three major West Coast railroads and is less than a mile from the Port of Stockton.

Los-C'ol Chonges Policy

Jim Frutchey, the president of Los-Cal Lumber Co. has announced a change in policy for the Los Angeles wholesale lumber company.

Their distribution yard will be leased and as of now Los-Cal is handling direct mill shipments, with milling facilities available at point of delivery when requested or necessary.

"We represent a number of good, solid mills throughout the Pacific Northwest and are concentrating our efforts on direct shipments," said Jim. "We have long been recognized as pine specialists but we'll also concentrate on all species of Pacific Coast softwoods." he continued.

Brush Lumber Finds San Antonio Buildings " ... Do a Better |ob"

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Duol Associqtion Meet in Son Diego

The National Woodwork Manufacturers Association and Ponderosa Pine Woodwork met at the Hilton Inn iir San Diego during early February. These two organizations complement each other.

NWMA, 39 years old, has been responsible over the years for setting standards and conducting research for its national membership of sash and door manufacturers. PPW, with a budget in the neighborhood of $500,000, devotes itself exclusively to pub' licity and advertising. Between them, these two associations have contributed much over the years to better engineered wood and a greater understanding of wood's uses and advantages in millwork. sash and doors.

Retiring NWMA President E. C. Swanson, who is also president of Anderson Corporation in Bayport, Minnesota, gave 120 delegates from all over the U. S. a comprehensive rundown on the association's accomplishments past and present. Particularly impressive was the. vigorous manner in which they have fought product boycotts by carpenters and others. A recent victory in a Philadelphia door boycott case was national significance. President Swanson also pointed with pride to the recent publication of the NIVMA, 450 page book, "Millworh," a bible for the industry, specifiers, colleges, trainees, etc.

We caught a glimpse of NWMA members Charlie and Jim Strait, Strait Door & Plywood, El Monte, accompanied by Laurent Wilkinson. Also in attendance were Bud Critchfield and Joe Reese, California Wood Products, Santa Rosa; Greg Clarke, Collins & Aikman, Los Angeles; Bob Ahrens and John Hawley, Diamond National, Chico; V. E. Czarnowsky, International Paper Co., Weed; W. R.Lund, Anderson; Ralph Prouty, Stockton Box; and rnany others from the Northwest and elsewhere, including Boise Cascade's champion conventioneer Lyn Rabun, and San Diego's own Lyle Seibert.

Lumber Output Increoses

Latest lumber production figures show that December was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 40.1 billion board feet which was 8.2 percent above the rate for the previous month and 10.5 percent above the rate of December a year ago, the National Forest Products Association has reported.

Softwood output accounted for 33.3 billion board feet, a rise of 8.2 percent over November and nearly l0 percent over December 1964. Hardwood production, at 6.8 billion board feet, also rose 8.2 percent over November and was l4.I percent above the year-ago level.

Total lumber shipments in December were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 39.9 billion board feet-6.1 percent above the previous month and 14.1 percent above December a year ago.

Softwood shipments, amounting to 33.4 billion board feet, showed an increase oI 8.2 percent above November and were 16.9 percent over December 1964. Hardwood shipments of 6.5 billion board feet, declined nearly four percent from the previous month but rose 1.5 percent over December of last year.

U.S. Ply Buys Another One

U.S. Plywood Corp., continuing its acquisition program, has arranged to purchase the assets of West Coast Plywood Corp., Aberdeen, Wash. for stock.

U.S.P. will swap 109,000 of its shares, with a recent market value of $5.6 million, for West Coast Plywood's assets, including a plywood plant and about 150 million board feet of timber in Washington. The timber includes cedar, hemlock, Douglas fir and spruce.

Directors of both companies approved the proposed transaction, but authorization of West Coast's shareholders is still required.