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For over 90 yeors, Hobbs Wqll hos stood for the !9jlj@g'od' for grode, size for size. And for over 9O years, deolers everywhere hove been coming bock for more.

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Coll, write or wire Hobbi Woll for prompl service.

Marysville, Calif.-Police here late last month arrested Ollen Steele, 39, painting contractor, as the man they said they saw setting a fire in the local Diamond Match Co. lumberyard after following him and rvatching him start a fire with crumpled paper and kindling wood as they r,r,ere investigating minor fires set during the night at the Union Lumber Company yard.

Dr. Howard D. Salins has developed a treatment which he claims completely ends the ravages of Dutch Elm disease, Elm Pholem Necrosis and Oak Wilt. It is called Trelife and commercial marketing of the product is going forn'ard.

Stanley Brown, president of the Chandler Lumber Co., and the San Fernando Valley Building Contractors Assn. are sponsoring their fifth annual plan drawing contest among students from eight Valley high schools. Dealer Brown is a director of the SCRLA.

W. P. Van Den Bosch, formerly of Dant & Russell and other west coast lumber firms, has taken his 30 years' experience in mill management sales and wholesale to N{orrill and Sturgeon Lumber Co., Portland, which he joined last month as mixed cars, industrial and cutting representative, replacing George Young. Dave Gowans will handle the Neal Creek operation, plus green commons, and Robert S. Mee continues with other species.

W. W. Gamble was elected president of the Maple Flooring Mfgrs. Assn., at the recent 60th annual to succeed D. S. DeWitt, who served five years.

Harbor Box & Lumber Co., Los Angeles, suffered a $54,000 loss last month in a fire that destroyed $36,@0 in lumber and three trailers. W. E. Arblaster, general manager of the yard, said cause of the fire was undetermined.

Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma, Wash., is again offering college scholarships worth up to $1200 a year to ten sons and daughters of employes. Sixty such awards have already been made.

The third annual Western Plant Maintenance and Engineering Show and Conference will be held June 11-13 in San Francisco.

Benjamin C. Bowker has been appointed director of public relations for the United States Plywood Corp., announced President S. W. Antoville. He succeeds James J. Dunne, who retires af.ter 27 years with USP.

The 1957 Los Angeles Home Show will be held June 20-30 at Pan Pacific auditorium, announces President Donald E. Reed.

Lloyd Milne has been appointed general manager of the Palo Alto, Calif., business of Traynor and Silver, announced the partners in the building materials firm.

Gilbert E. Morris, general manager, Los Angeles City Dept. of Building and Safety, recently received the annual Building Industry Achievement award presented by the Hardwood Flooring Council of So. Calif. It was presented by Dave Ferrari, retiring president of the Council. New officers are R. T. Brassell, Jr., president; Thomas Stephens and J. H. Neece, vice-presidents, and Charles Cole, secretary-treasurer.

Central States section, Society of American Foresters, will hold a symposium on Hardwood Sawlog Grades, June l0-1 1, Hotel Warren, Indianapolis.