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Lcrsco Reports 32"h lncreqse In First-Quqrter Soles

A 32 per cent increase in sales, due largely to growing demand for plastic pipe, was reported by Lasco Industries, Inc.,for the three months ended March 31.

President Roderick O. Lynch. reporting first-quarter sales of $582,000 as compared with $436,000 in the like 1960 quarter, said earnings for the period also were "substantially greater."

Sales of fiberglass building panels, another major product of the company, also were up significantly from the first quarter of 1960.

Lynch said a fifth extruder capable of increasing the company's pipe pro- duction 25 per cent was placed in operation in mid-March in an effort to keep.pace with demand.,A similar expansion was completed only last October.

Plastic pipe production is expected to continue on an around-the-clock basis at least through the second quarter, Lynch said.

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Milan Michie, vice president of Stahl Lumber Companv, Los Angeles, and Ken Tinckler, secretary-treasurer of the wholesale lumber concern, have definite plans for expansion of sales and service during 1961. The firm also expects to acquire additional yard space, which will double the present storage.area located in-the heart of the greater Los Angeles industrial district at 3855 E. Washington Blvd.

Stahl Lumber Company was established in 1949 to furnish imported and domestic hardwood and softwood lumber to retail lumber clealers. Ten years ago Michie and Tinckler acquired control of the wholesale firm with Flovd Scott. prominent hard'r,vood lumberman of southern ialifornia. The plant is situated on the Santa Fe spur, which has a capacity of eight cars and undercover storage of dry lumber in excess of a half a million feet.

Key personnel, include "Girl Friday" Violet Neal; Warren Matteson, assistant treasurer; Frank Rambeau, accountant : George Sullivan, sales and Pete Diggs, shipping.

New List of Softwood Lumber Groding And Inspecting Agencies Avoilqble

The American Lumber Standards Committee, whose membership is appointed by the U.S. Department of Commerce to assist in the administration of the Department's Simplified Practice Recommendation Rl6-53 on softwood lumb_er,.has just published a new list of the 16 organizations c_ertified for grading and grade marking the lumber produced in accordance with this Recommendation.

This Recommendation was developed in 1953 by the Commodity Standards Division, Office of Technical -Serv-