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Phone 685-4506

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Wycoff, Seaboard Lumber Co., Seattle, Washington.

Guest speakers attending the three-day WFIA conclave included Wyoming Sen. ator Gale McGee, Oregon Congressmen Al Ullman and Wendell Wyau; California Congressman James C. Corman; Wash. ington Congressmen Thomas F. Foley and Lloyd Meeds; Interstate Commerce Com. missioner Paul J. Tierney; Assistant Sec. retary of the Interior Harry R. Anderson; the U.S. Forest Servicds deputy chiefs, Ira J. Mason and Burnett Payne; regional foresters; state foresters; a member of the Public Land Law Review Commission. and state legislators.

Arco Wins Sofety Awqrds

The C. R. Johnson Accident Prevention Committee has named Arcata Redwood Co. winner of their Safety Trophy for 1965.

Their winning rate (number of disabling injuries per one mil' lion man hours worked) was 3.330. It was the lowest ever recorded by a member company. Arcata also won the Logging Award with a frequency of 11.529, the Plant Award, frequency 1.946 and the Achievement Award for the greatest injury fre' quency reduction when compared to the average of the previous three years. Arcata Redwood showed an 87 percent reduction.

Union Lumber Co. won the Allied Products Award with a "0" injury frequency in their veneer plant operations.

Auditing of the 1965 records was done at the quarterly meeting in Scotia at The Pacific Lumber Company. Committee members also visited the new plywood plant at Scotia'

Pqrticleboqrd Officers Elected

Ronald G. Frashour, manager of the particleboard division of Forrest Industries, has been re'elected president of the National Particleboard Association at the annual meeting of the l8'member association {or producers of mat-formed wood particleboard.

Also re-elected for one-year terms were Robert L. Bremhorsq U.S. Plywood Corporation, vice-president; and Robert Pauley of Weyerheuser, secretary-treasurer.

Named to the executive committee were Frashour, Bremhorst, Pauley, Frederick R. Loetscher, Formica Corporation and William W. Afrolter, Duraflake Company.

Kqisei Buys Flintkote Plqnt

Kaiser Cement & Gypsum Corporation has acquired the San Leandro, California paper manulacturing plant of the Flintkote Company in a multi-million dollar sale, according to Kaiser Gypsum President Claude E. Harper.

Terms of the sale were not disclosed, but Harper said that Flintkote will continue to operate corrugated container manufac' turing facilities in the plant.

Harper said this is an important step in complete integration of the company's gypsum board manufacturing. Paper used in the facing and ,backing of gypsum wallboard and lath is the only major raw material not previously produced by company-owned facilities, he said.

Remodeling Bound to Increqse

The amount of money the homeowner will spend for remodel' ing is going to continue to increase, forecasts Sanford R. Goodkin, a Los Angeles building researcher.

He sbys that as today's individual homes are built bigger and bigger, and hence become more expensive, the number of people able to afiord them will decline. This will result in homeowners staying where they are and spending disposable dollars on remodeling their present home.

Another by-product of this development, according to Goodkin, is that the increasing house cost will result in more apartments, as soon as the present glut is absorbed.

Monnon Relocqtes in Vqncouver

Mannan Building Supplies has relocated to a new building on N.E. 43rd Ave., just ofi St. Johns Road in Vancouver. The firm had been located in downtown Vancouver, Oregon.

Home decorator service, complete retail paint department, and a complete line of building materials for new construction of re' modeling is ofiered in the new 120000-square-foot building.

Costs of Privqte Trucks

A second edition of a comprehensive study that compares the costs of privately owned trucks and full-service leasing on an item-by-item basis has been issued by University Research Center of Chicago.

The 48-page study for top mana€iement is the only such comparison ever developed. It is entitled: ooTruck Costs: A Comparison ol Priaate Ownership and FullSeroi.ce Leasing."

It is based on a cost analysis of I,338 companies owning 7,359 trucks and of three national full-service truck leasing organizations owning 38,000 trucks. Analyzed are the usefulness of private trucks, actual