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to Stanislaus Countl', Calif., to complete preparations of a comprehensive plan for growth and devclopment of the urban region of 590 square miles covering seven cities, inclurling subdivision regulations. Refer: Stanlel' F. Wakefield, chairrnan, Stanislaus County Planning Conrnrission, 2115 Scenic Drive, Modesto, Calif.

Thc city ancl county of Honolulu, Harvaii, have received a $58,15t) CFAdvance to prepare cornpletc plans, specifications antl cost estimates for construction of two outfall selver lines to cost al1 cstimatecl $925,750 and service the planned scwage clisposal anrl collection s1-stcm in the Kailua Beach area, r,t'lrcre hor.ncs in tlie rapidll- gro.w,ing district are now clepen<lent on cesspools. Alrplicant proposcs to use the self-cleaning ocean lagoon ponds on tr[arine Corps propertl. if use authorization can bc obtained. Ref er: Yoshio Kunirnoto. chief engineer; Projcct No. T. H. 51-P-3011.

The Housing and Honre Financc Ager.rc1. has approved thc rvorkalrle prograrn b1'u,hich Sar.r Joarlr:in Count1., Calif., proposes to clin.rinate slums and blight in Thornton, an unincorporated to'"vnsite of about 1,000 population, 21 rniles from Stockton.'I'he Countl-Housing Authoritl'has.10 ur.rits of lorv-rcnt public housing there ancl also rrranages a 31-unit farm labor carrrp, and a prelirnitrarl'lrlanning loan Itas been autliorizerl b1' the Public Housing Arlministr-ation for an adclitional ten units. Thc CI,C program inclrrtles incorporatiol of sevcral tou'nsites in the clcvclopntetrt of a general plan for San Joa<1uin count\'. Refcr: C. B. Ilull, chairman, lJoard of Countl.Supcrvls()fs.

\\'estmir.ristcr college, Salt I-ake Citr', Utah, has receivccl CFAplrroval of a $500,000 loan to corrstruct a clormitory fctr 120 \\-o1ncn stuclents ancl dining facilitl'for 200. Refcr: Jamcs J. Farlc1., vice-1>resident; Project No. LItah 42-CH-12-D (S).

Alizona State College, Flagstall, has receiverl CFApproval of a $100,000 loan, to be nratched riith $121,600 of its orvn funrls, for construction of apartrnents for 62 marriecl student familics at cstirnatecl total cost of $521,600. Rcfcr: J. Larvrence \\,alkup, grr.esident: Project No. Ariz. 2-CH-12 (D).

Nortl.rern X{oltana College, at Havre, has receir-ecl CFAppr.oval oi a $21-i,000 loan to cotrstruct an adclition to a nretr's dorn.ritorv tcr housc 68 students. Refer-: L. ,O. Brocknran, pre:i(lent; projcct No. Mont. 221-CH-19 (D).

The California conrmunities of l)uarte, Hollister, paramount, San I)ablo and Saratoga have received a $33,,tr50 fJrban Reneu,.al Comrnission grant to prepare comprchensive plans f or their growth and development, including subdivision regulations. Refer: Elton

Antlrew-s, local planning oflicer, l)epartment of Finance, Capitol Builrling, Sacramento 14, Calif.

The Great Falls-Cascade Countl-, tr{ontana, Planning Board has received an $11,856 Urban Renewal (.ommissiolr grant to prepare a cornprehensive plan for growth and developnlcllt of the Great Falls metropolitan area. Refer: H. Cler.eland Hall, prcsiclent, Clreat FallsCascade County City-Countl' Planning lloarcl, P. O. Box 1744, GreaI Falls, IIont.

J. Williom Bqck Lumber Re-Locqted

Before his recent (leDartrlre olt a business trio to tl're Orierrt, -Bill ltack nrove(l his l.os Arrgeles irrrl,orleil lrrmber and pl) $'oorl olfices t(, a ne\\' locati,,rr at l9(l(' \\-. \\':r.hing- ton Blvrl. The neu, telelrhone number for T. \\'illianr Baik T.ttnrber is rrorv R Eprrblic 1-E726. The firm's rrrrv offices are in line lvitl-r an expansion program currerrtlr- under$ray, and \,1r. Back t.ill be coml)letins arransements in the Orient ancl E,urope this Spring for ste:rdy slripmerrts of materials iur Sotrtlrlanrl rlistribrrtiotr.

Paeifie lumber Dealers Supply Inc.

25914 President Ave., Horbor City, Colif.

P. O. Box 667

Telephone DAvenpori 6-6273

Dealer Al Beals of the Rialto (Calif.) Lumber Co. and his wife celebrated their !'?th" wedding anniversary on March 7.

I Oakland Dealer Lu Green, officer of Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., San Francisco 'ind O'akland, spent a few weeks in the East on business and pleasure during March.

Kenneth W. Tinckler, an associate in the .Stahl LumbelCo., Los Angeles, was elected president at the March 3 meeting of the BellMaywood Rotary club, of which he has been 'a member four years. The wholesale lumberman, who will be installed in his new office in June, is a native of England and migrated to the U.S. in 1950, and the day he obtained rhis citizenship he led the pledge of allegiance :to the flag at the Rotary meeting. On Ken's Iuture club slate is attendance at the Rotary district conference this month, 17-18; the '.May district assembly, a training course for new club presidents, and the International "ionvention in New York City in June.

, Herb Schaur, Jr., now managing the Port'land branch of Atkins, Kroll & Co., was down around his old "stomping grounds" for a week during March while he checked in at A,K's San Francisco head offices to qonfer with Charlie Schmitt, the imported lumber products manager.

J, William Back, Los Angeles lumber and plywood importer and broker, and tris new bride departed March 18 on an extended business-pleasure trip around the world by ane and ship. Following a week's stop in rhvaii, the couple will continu€ to Japan, ,,Singapore and India before heading for 'Eirrope, where they will spend the spring and early summer touring Italy, France, Germany and England. They will embark on the Queen Mary for a return to L. A. about July 1.

A. C. "Bo" Ahrens, head ,of California Sugar & Western Pine Agency, Burlingame, returned last month from a Gweek business trip through the Southwest and east to Miami, where he was joined ,by Les Cody' sales executive of Red Bluff Moulding, who called on area accounts with Ahrens and then moved on north to call on east-coast customers.

Don Bufkin, who has successfully found time to sell Hobbs Wall redwood in southern California. serve as a member of the International Supreme 9 of Hoo-Hoo, and keep active in Masonic, civic and social affairs of his home town, Alhambra, has also kept up with his .boyhood hobby of amateur "Railroading." Railfan Bufkin for many years has made trips far and wide to pursue railroad history of the lar west, and has been active in the Southern California Chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society for the past two decades. Now his hobby has just won Don election to the board of directors of the society as reward for being so well-informed on railroading history and seldom missing an excursion trip. He spends some of his free time, too, at Traveltown in Los Angeles' Griffith park, in which Bufkin helped in his own small way to establish this "monument" to railroad equipment and history for future generations.

Hill & Morton's Jcr* lferhck, currcnt president of Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39, and his wife Barbara took in the Shririe tour (the whole tour and nothing but the tour) to Reno the first week of March. Didja spot Fred Ziese or Seth Butler during your tour of "the biggest little, etc.?"

Among the celebrants at the 50th Jubilee of Los Angeles Manual Arts high school, March 13, which included ex-Governor Knight, General Doolittle, General Page, etc., the lumber industry contingent included Jack Carlow of the Cartow Company, Art Mikell of the U.S. Plywood branch in Culver City, Frank Bossomworth of the Crest Builders Supply in Long Beach, and Gordon Little of Littlecrafts. the L. A. firm that makes furniture for the rnovie stars at nothing less than 4Gs. Art and 'Gordon formed one-half of a quartet which performed for about 2,000 of their former classmates (classes of 1930-,{O) in fine voice.

Bud Kinney being very shy, news of Ed Cryer's recent association with Kinney's Western Dry Kiln in Oakland reaches us through the old reliable "pipeline," ,Concord Dealer John Pearson, most able editor of the Club 39 "Meow."

President llorace Wolfe of the MarquartWolfe Lumber Co., Hollywood, and his wife leave next month for an extended Hawaiian vacation. Most of their time will be spent at the Kona fnn on Hawaii where Horace will get in some deep-sea fishing, but they will also spend about two weeks on the garden island of Kauai.

Jim Hdl, Jr., head of James L. Hall Co., San Francisco specialists in Port Orford cedar, returned in mid-March from a business trip to Chicago, Indianapolis and Memphis. Bill Smith, general manager of SmithRoibbins Lumber Co., Los Angeles, made a Pacific Northwest swing last month and stopped oft in San Francisco to visit with friends attending the Western Pine Association annual.

Jan van Wyngaarden, who heads W. R. Grace & Company's imported lumber prod-