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NEDWOODDOUGLAS FIRNED CEDAN SHINGIESDOUGI.F,S FIR PIIJNG PODIDEROSA AND SUGAR PINE

2832 Windsor DriveP. O. Box 240

AI.AMEDA. CALIFORNIA

Telephone Lckehurst 2'2754

District Chairman Appointed For Lumbermen', Accident Prevention

The following district chairmen have been appointed by the California Lumbermen's Accident Prevention Association: qnd

District No. 1, Chairman, Bert Deems, IJnion Lumber Company, Fort Bragg.

District No. 2, Chairman, Fred Supply Co., Westwood.

District No. 3, Chairman, C. W. Door Co., Diamond SPrings.

Hull, Fruit Grorvers

Doe, The California

District No. 4, Chairman, Wm. Chatham, Jr., Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Broadway and Blanding, Alameda.

District No. 5, Chairman, Milton Cowling .E. K. Wood Lumber Co., 4710 S. Alameda Street, Los Angeles.

The association office is at 1706 Broadway, Oakland 12, Calif. Telephone number is Hlgate 4-ffi76.

Appointed I-M Distributor

The Western Asbestos Co. with offrces and warehouses in San Francisco, Oakland and Stockton, has been appointed distributor for Johns-Manville building materials for the San Francisco East Bay, North and South Coast and Stockton areas.

The 'company's new main office and warehouse at 148 Townsend Street in San Francisco is nearing completion' Their new Stockton ofifice and warehouse started operation on April 1. The Oakland ofifice and warehouse is located at 251 Fifth Avenue.

Home Building in 1948 Sets Highest Marlc in 23 Years

Washington, April 16-Home building activity hit a'23' year high mark in 1948, but it has begun to taper ofi in the first three months of 1949, the government said today.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said complete reports of housing starts for 1948 showed a total of 931,300-the greatest building boom since the all-time peak of 937,0O0 units in 1925.

Last month saw the beginning of a seasonal upturn in building with the start of 62,W0 permanent nonfarm dwellings. This was a gain of 16,000 units, or 35/o, over February figures. And it was 14,400, or l9Vo, under the number started in March last year.

For the first quarter of 1949, nonfarm dwelling construction reached a total of 158,0@. This was 22,000, or l2%, under the number started in the same three-month'period last year.

The Bureau reported that in the three Tull years since the end of World War II, a total of 2,450,800 nonfarm dlvellings have been put under construction.

Brush Problem

The Citizens' Advisory Council of the U. S. Forest Sen'ice met in San Francisco recently to discuss problems on brush control. Meeting with Regional Forester Perry A. Thompson, the council drew up three recommendations, copies of which will be sent to other agencies and organizations interested in brush control and range improvernent.