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Tumber Ftoats To Catatina

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The Southern California Edison Company plans to expand water storage to sup- ply a permanent population ten times gr€ater than now,

The Pereira master plan calls for building o'cluster colonies" of view homes on the sky-high ridges at Avalon, in the Two ,I-I*rborg atba. n€ar the l*hmus as ileU as at the Airport-in-the-Sky. Funicular railways from the beach will serve each cluster colony. The character of the development will discourage us€ of motor vehicles on the island. The master plan aims to preserve the unspoiled beauty of the island intact, with minimal changes in the basic terrain.

Recent advances in the design of high speed watercraft, such as the hvdrofoil "stilt" _ boats pioneered by the Navy, open the possibility of practicable execu_ tive commuting from Catalina to the mainland. The island is already served by two airlines.

Redwood Fence Booklets

Redwood Fences rounds out the California Redwood Association's selection of promotional booklets for garden structures. CRA, over the years, has helped lumber dealers by persuading consumers to build in their garden rather than dig.

The new eight-page booklet on fences will give them even more ideas that will mean sales for dealers. A feature of the new booklet is two transparent overlays which permit the planner to place construction drawings over color photographs.

HOO.HOO-ETIE

CONCI.AVE

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No. 6. Business sessions were held all day Saturday by convention chairwoman, Mary Williams, Blanchard Lumber Company, with committee appointments and nomination of officers for the 1964.65 year.

During Sunday brunch the installation of officers was held prior to adjournment.

Pat Howard of the Shasta-Cascade, club No. 7, was elected president for the en. suing year. Donna Lea Dean, club No. 6, first vice president; Mary Caplis, club No. 5, second vice president; Wilma Spearman, club No. B, secretary; Trudy Dayton, club No. 2, financial secretary, and Mabel Skow, club No. 9, treasurer. were all elected to work with president Pat to expand the social order of oogirls in lumber" during the next 12 months.

Named to the board of directors were Ina Wheeler, club No. 4; Betty Jones, club No. 3 and P"ggy Mottola, club No. I. Sac- ramento was selected as the 1965 convention city due to the campaign work of thr girls from that city under the.direction of Mary Caplis.

More than 100 delegates and their husbands registered for the convention. The working convention comnittee included Rosa [,ee Bell, Jessie Culbertson, Donna Dean, Orinda Hazen, Lois Jones, Agnes Mclntyre, Renr5 Lester and Betty Shoenei 1ryhs q$isted Mary lf.i[ilms'in hdndling all the details of this successful affair.

The "piece de resistance" of the convention was a cocktail party and dinner dance hosted by the San Fernando Valley Club on Saturday evening. More than 180 HooHoo-Ettes. bosses- husbands and wives turned out for this well-organized event. The Sportsmen's served choice prime ribs of beef, the speeches were held to a minimum and following the presentation of the practical and beautiful door prizes everybody danced 'till the early hours of the morning to the music of Tony D'anna and his cornbo.

Throughout the convention, delegates, members and friends (including HoeHoo members) were introiluced to the lovely Colleen Courtright of San Francisco, who has been selected Queen of the Forests by the northern California group. C,olleen officiated as hostess during the social activities of the three-day get-together.

New G-P Distribution Center

Teyssier & Teyssier, Inc., San Diego, has been awarded the contract for a new building materials distribution center for Georgia-Pacific Corp. at 2200 Haffiey Street, in the new industrial area of National ,City, according to J. M. Samper, manager of the G.P. San Diego distribution center.

The tilt-up concrete structure will have approximately 27,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space, plus extensive office facilities.'Cost of the new structure, which replaces an older facility, is in excess of $175,000, and scheduled for completion in September.

A unique feature will be an entire room displaying GeorgiaPacific paneling and actual room settings to assist architects and builders and their clients in product selection. The office area, G-P's first in the nation of a new prototype and planned for use in some eight other new installations in 1964, features expandable areas, multi-use rooms and entirely new designs for office and customer service efficiencr,

Products to be stocked in the new center include many types of pre-finished plywood, Fiber-Ply concrete form, softwood plywood, imported plywood, hardboard, redwood lumber, particleboard, flakeboard, softwood lumber, moldings, doors and other huildine materials.

Record Deqler Tox Tqke

Dealers and stores handling building materials ranked fourth among California businesses collecting sales taxes during the fourth quarter o{ last year. Their contribution was $42.3 million, according to the State Board of Equalization.

The seven central coastal counties from San Francisco south to San Luis Obispo had a taxable sales increase of six percent. San Mateo and Santa Clara counties recorded gains of ten percent or more.

Sales of durable goods expanded faster than nondurable goods. Illustrating this was the building materials group which ended rhe year eleven percent stronger than in 1962.

Most spectacular growth was reported by farm implement dealers and trailer, boat, cycle, and plane dealers whose sales were up between 24/o and 2B/o.

Lumber Museum Proposed

A complete old-time logging operation and camp set in a virgin forest within a city?

It's not a mad dream" but the serious aim of backers of a Tacoma, W'ash. Lumber Museum they hope to see set up in Pt. Defiance Park.

Marcus Titlow, a logging engineer, has drawn up plans calling for an authentic old-time logging operation and camp on the site, including a rigged highJead, several logging trains, a camp car and various pieces of steam equipment.

Camp Six, as the museum would be called, has the tentatirie approval of the city's Park Board to have 20 acres set aside for the camp.

Plywood Survey Plonned

A comprehensive national survey of members of NBMDA, will be made as to the type and quantities of plywood distributed through their warehouselstocks, according to C. W. Walters of National Building Material Distributors Association.

One area to be analyzed will cover the office wholesaler and his efficiency on the overall distribution of plywood products.

In commenting on this survey, Mr. Walters stated that the vast majority of plywood is sold by wholesale distributors with warehouse stock available for immediate delivery. He pointed out that the merger of the National Plywood Distributors Association with NBMDA would permit a survey of approximately 850 warehouses belonging to the combined group.

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Reseqrch House Rebuilding

About a year ago fire raged through a 3l-year-old structure overlooking Silver Lake in Los Angeles which was well-known to architects throughout the world.

It was the 'oResearch House" which internationally-known architect Richard J. Neutra, FAIA, had built as a study in architectural design ideas.

A new "Research House" is now rising on foundations of the old. The project of Neutra and his associites, the two-story, house topped with a glass-enclosed penthouse will again embody revolutionary design ideas. It will integrate in careful composition research-developed materials, many of which are relatively new on the market.

The memory of the early niorning fire is still fresh in the minds of the Neutras and the new house has been designed to make it as nearly fireproof as possible.

The idea of building fire safety into the house is evident.even in the first framing. All wood for framing, subflooring and root decking is Non-Com Fire Protected wood, produced at the Wilmington, Calif. plant of Koppers Company, Inc. AII plywood also has been pressure-treated with chernicals that render the wood incapable of carrying flame, and also repel attack by fungus and termites.

The treatment, which imbedded deeply in the wood fibers, responds to heat below the normal ignition point, releasing nonflammarble gases and water vapor from the wood to disperse the comhustible gases from the ignition source. Koppers research developed this type of treatment to protect wood from fire and it has successfully passed tests of the Underwriters' Laboratories.

Lqnd Grqb Chorged

A spokesman for the nation's forest industries has charged that the federal government is buying up private lands needlessly -and that if this trend isn't halted, the nation's private land resources may become nationalized.

Charles A. Gillett, managing director of American Forest Products Industries. Inc.. warned a Natural Resources Conference of the American Rarm Bureau Federation that government land acquisition proposals are multiplying at an alarming rate. He said people are unaware of this dangerous trend because aqquisitions have to be studied in the aggregate to be noticed.

Gillett reported that the federal government now has 39 agencies with authority to acquire private lands. Some of these agencies, he said, need no Congressional approval in order to buy land. The government's take-over of private lands, "though perhaps not generated by a conscious desire for a socialized state, could certainly lead us into one," the speaker cautioned.

Federol Timber Sqle Revision

A final draft of the proposed revision to the Forest Service timber sales contract form has been released to the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association by Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman and hailed bv an industry spokesman as o' a tremendous step forward in achieving equity between buyer and seller of Forest Service timber."

Ralph D. Hodges, Jr., chief forester of NLMA, said: "The draft the Forest Service has put forward reflects two years of conscientious negotiation by the nation's leading authorities on both federal and private timber matters. Both sides have invested years of experience and thousands of hours of executive time to achieving this difficult objective. The final document, after consideration by both the Forest Service and timber purchasers, will overcome many of the contractual problems which have imposed hardslfps upon buyers and have complicated sales {or the Forest Service."