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The Ruberoid Co. expects to make gypsum products one of its major lines and intends to put up a new asphalt plant in the Los Angeles area to compensate for its 18 existing plants all east of the Rockies.

Howard Taylor, 40 years a cabinet-maker, and Bernard Duffy., his stepson, have opened Taylor & Duffy Cabinet Shop in Mill Valley, Calif., on property of the Mill Valley Lumber Co., for which they will do sublet millwork.

Caspar Lumber Co. mill employes have completed 365 days without a lost-time accident.

A high-climbing and tree-topping performance sponsored by Simpson Logging Co., Shelton, was chosen by ,,you Asked for It" TV show as one of its five best acts in 1954.

Charles E. Matkin has become manager of Rockport Redwood Co. at Rockport, and Leslie I. Ifolmes, vicepresident and general manager, rnoved to Cloverdale.

Expansion of Fortuna Veneer Co. with construction of a new plywood mill south of Fortuna was announced.

Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. completed negotiations with Matson Navigation Co. for purchase of the SS Hawaiian Forester to extend inter,coastal service to cover shipments of lumber and products from Humboldt Bay to Atlantic coast ports. Weyerhaeuser's fleet now includes eight 10,900-ton vessels.

The maturity board on second-growth timber for Humboldt county met and ruled that about 3,000 acres should be placed on count;r tax rolls.

Pacific Board Fabricators of Los Angeles has been purchased by Masonite Corp.

Walker B. Tilley, chief forester for Masonite Corp., recently told a dinner meeting of the Cloverdale Circle of the RRCC these recommendations: be hesitant about encouraging installation of ,more sawmills but seek estab_ lishment of plants to remanufacture and further refine lumber products, promote greater utilization of trees currently harvested, and promote establishment of industries based on forest products other than sawlogs.

More than 3000 people visited Redwood Acres to see the Scout-O-Rama recently.

Forty miles west'of Healdsburg is the new milling opera- tion of California Timber Products Co., Healdsburg, ancl the new logging operation of Denney Logging Co.

Joe H. Smith has been named manager of Fairhaven,s Mutual Plywood Corp.

Purchase of a 680-acre tract of timber west of philo by Alvin M. Boldt from J. E. Higgins Lumber Co. *", recorded.

Truck-weighing stations in Humboldt county went on a ?4-hour schedule last month after numerous complaints of overloads.

"Lumber Industry Night" was held last month by the Arcata Chamber of Commerce.

Rep. Russell V. Mack (R., Wash.) asked the House Appropriations Committee for $8 million to procesd sales of beetle-infested timber from western forests.

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