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rish, Dick Volske, Gordon Keith (Arcata, California), Forrest McMann, Jack Holmes, Woody Toal (two prizes), Bud Nelson, Lloyd Webb and John Gordon.

Secretary-treasurer Bill Smith entertained five retail lumber dealers at the February meeting. All wholesalers were urged to bring a guest and keep high the interest in the club.

"We would like to urge all members of Hoo-Hoo Club 2 to mark Friday, lVlarch 18, a very special date," said Snark Cole. "We irave planned a full d"y bi sports and club activity. The golf tournament will get underway promptly at 10:09 a.m. We shall have the Concatenation during the cocktail hour and a bar will be available in the initiation room from 5:39 p.m. until the Kittens have been shown the light of day.

."Following the usual good dinner which Lakewood Country Club in Long Beach always serves, a complete vaudeville show, with plenty of girl acts, will close the day of fun and frolic. Plan on being there . . try Club, Long Beach," emphasized Snark Lakerrlood CounHarold.

Fred Schiel,5r. Receives Potent On Pottern-forming Apporofus

Fred A. Schiel, Sr., president of the S & S Lumber Co., Downey, received grants for a patent last month, not an every-day occurrence in this day and age, especially on woodworking machinery and wood products. After approximately four years with the competent patent attorney, Thomas P. Mahoney, the patent was issued.

On Aug. 26, 1958, Mr. Schiel had received Certificate'of Registration 666,162 giving S & S Lumber Co. the right to copyright and offer redwood products for sale under the trade name of "Swirlwood." Now, with Pattern Forming Apparatus 2,918,096, S & S is shipping this item throughout the U. S.

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Gypsum Associqtion Suggests

Deoler Cost-Sovings Procedures

thereby eliminate unnecessary costs for building materials dealers.

Lloyd If. Yeager, secretary-general manager of the As'sociation, is appealing to dealers to clean all cars of dunnage and to dispose of it properly. He warned that "failure to remove and dispose of dunnage at the point of destination might force railroads to impose drastic regulatiohs that would nullify the inherent savings found in the unit-loading

Recognizing the vital importance of dealer cooperation in achieving lower costs of materials handling, the Gypsum Association-through its Materials Handling committeehas launched a campaign to reduce safety hazards and system presently being used by the building industry."

Dunnage left on a flatcar returning to the mill, Yeager emphasized. can fall on adiacent tracks and cause the wrecking oi att o..o-ing triin. IJnremoved wire ties and strappings, he added, represent a dire safety hazard to workmen or trainmen whether the car is moving or standing still.

According to Yeager, the gypsum industry pioneered the system of unit loading in the building industry to parallel and capitalize on the growing use of mechanical unloading equipment.

"Thia siientific unit-loading," he said, "has already saved building materials dealers throughout the country hundreds of thousands of dollars in unloading costs.tt

To help dealers further reduce time and expense of mechanical unloading, the Gypsum Association's Materials Handling committee suggests the use of dividing wedges.

These wedges are inserted under several bundles of gypsum wallboard and permit the forks of a lift-truck to remove them from a rail boxcar or flatcar. Their use makes it possible for an average capacity fork-lift truck to unload, by increments, any stack of gyPsum wallboard. Dunnage disposal is sharply reduced.

The wedges, which are produced from oak or birch lumber, are 16lnches long, 5 lnches wide and are full tapered from a 6-inch butt. They can be made locally at low cost.

Working with its member companies and others, the Gypsum Association is now engaged in developing- new approaches to the over-all loading and-unloading problem. The industry's leading experts in the field, as members- of the Materiais Handling committee, are engaged in this project.

Santa Maria-The largest building permit in Santa Maria's history has been issued to construct the Vandenberg Inn in the south part of the city. Construction value is estimated at $1,148,636. The 500-' room hotel will include a restaurant, shols and game rooms.