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Fire Halt may be used in institutional, commercial, industrial, apartment and home construction-wherever high quality interiors combining great strengfh with increased fire resistance are desired or required by building codes.

BIue Diamondt Fire Halt data sheet will be sent you on request. It gives full information on how to use Fire Halt in one hour walls, partitions and ceilings, in accordance with underwriters' Laboratories' ffre resistive rating requirements.

, The yard- is open weekends and exrra clerks are otten employed on these days to care for the extra fiow of trra..-Ct"it'.'.r" trai ned .to give -helpf ul advice- on -to"oi." "na marerlals, and in repair and beautification p.rojects_ which have'spurrea ttr.-si;*it, "f the yard. The yard nrJ,...rrtty'ua?.l'r'fi". of paints,. glais_ brick, "turni,i,r* .-.iring., powgl and hand tools, and fl.;;s ii[;. ^" {":^19,u_r, Turn er-offer. f r""a-"f i""ry or matertals and dimension cutting of most lumber with no mifling ;'h;;;-".'

Flood Woters Hit tumber yord

Vista, Calif.-Flood waters from recent l"rty rains struck tt " Fi". r."I"Lriiu", Co. yard h-ere, Febru ^ry 4., "ra """".'J'i,t " collapse of a lumber iryarehour.. *ai trr" height of the flood .uri.,i ",a"i w..i v,:H'$vli ;J:?-$:t flowing a foot deep across the road.

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Shostq crnd Trinity Counties

Feel Pinch in Lumber Industry

Redding, Calif.-The slowdown in the lumber and construction industries in Shasta and Trinity counties has left one of every five workers unemployed. Nlany workers have had to sell their TV sets and a bank reports car repossessions up 50/o. Other area businessmen, who say they have just as many people working as at this time last year, blame the unemployment figures on men who recently came into the area seeking jobs that didn't exist. About 1,000 rvork-ers moved in since last July hoping to find jobs on the $237 million Trinity River dam project.

AFL-CIO Local 961 oi the Construction and General Laborers Union has 700 of its 1,200 membership out of work. The business agent said normally abouC 2Cf.-3W would be out because of the winter construction shutdown. The Carpenters Local says 350 of the 668 members are out of work.

Loggers and sawmill workers are mainly affected. When the industry is up, they collect prime pay and overtime from the lumber industrv-Shasta countv's No. 1 business. It is estimated 37/o of the unemploymeti insur.nce checks handed out in January went to lumbermen. February 15, there were 250 more lumber workers out of iobs when the McCloud River Lumber Co. in Siskiyou .ounly shut down.

L.A. Hoo-Hoo Meet Morch 2l

Friday, March 21, is the next gathering of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2, when golf and dinner will be the attractions at the Clock Candlewood Country Club in Whittier. An unusual entertainment will follow dinner with the showing_ of color movies on the Los Angeles Dodgers, including highlights of the famed ball clubrs colorfuf history and most exciting games.

(TelI them Aou sau it in The Californin Lumber Merchant)

Dimensions Are All Wrongr Boys

Urbana-Champaign, Ill.Dimensions are an obsolete means of judging the livability ol a house, according to the University of Illinois Small Homes Council. It is furniture size and placement anj the activity space needed for living that should be taken/(hto account, William H. Kapple, research associate profe$sor of architecture, told more than 400 builders, architect5 and lumber dealers at the annual short course in risidential construction.

"Once we have established the furniture size and placement and the activity space," he said, "We can then determine the smallest comfortable room-the most efficient room." Floor area in itself is meaningless, he emphasized. The effect of door, window and closet locations on furniture placement and its use is more.realistic.

The "geometry of efficient planning," Prof. Kapple explained, involves (1) devising an efficient room airange- ment based on furniture and activity, and (2) determining the best locations for doors, windows, and closets. Studies, for example, he said, show that the most efficient double bedroom (it is 9-6"xll'6') should have the closet on the long wall.

New Guide on Gedor Siding

Complete and easy to find information on Western Red Cedar Beveled Siding and Tee-Gee Paneling is contained in a new 4-page brochure of the .Western Red Cedar Lumber Association. Grades are illustrated in addition to sizes, use information, and conversion tables. One page reveals comparative physical properties with .othei siding products. 'Painting information is also included. The new brochure has been designed to fit into standard catalogs. For copies, write: Western Red Cedar Lumber Association, 4n3 White-Henry-Stuart Building, Seattle, Washington.