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Slop excessive end splitting of lumber ond limbers in the stock. Apply by sproying. Cost is low -354 per MBF.

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BUI1DINGIIAIETIAIDISTRIBUION.' IN1ANDI.UilBEN,COIIPANY lresnFsqqqmento-Son Jo5+ Anoheim-Bloomington Stockfotr

L H. BUTOIER COTPANY

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HALEY WHOIESAIE COIIPANY

I.UIIBER PRODUCTS EugenFPortlond

IUNDGN,EN DEAIER SUPP1Y Iccomo

SAGRAflEIttO WHSLE. HARDWARE CO. Santo lorbara North Sqcromento

HAI.IACK & HOWARD LUflIER GO. WHO1ESAIE BIDG. SUPFIY, INC. DenYer Ooklond

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meetings, this room is intended to be used for sales meetings and seminars. fn connection with the directors' room is an electrically equipped kitchen for serving lunches to officials without their having to leave the building during conferences.

The facade of the building includes a28'x2B'section made up of vertically placed redwood boards. Centered in this is the company's trade mark and insignia, an American eagle 12 feet high and nine feet wide that was carved from redrvood by the Bay area's well known sculptor, David Lemon of Belvedere. Wood for this carving was obtained frorn large redwood timbers from a dismantled highway bridge that had been in place for many years about 40 miles souih of Big Sur.

Expanding activities in the container division, such as the entry of the American Box Corporation a year ago into the corrugated'container field and the expansion of the sales program of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, necessitated more space and larger quarters for the American Forest Products Corporation. The new building provides all the facilities and garaging for these increased activities and room for future expansion has been provided.

Dqve Rose Wirh MqcBeqth

K. E. MacBeath reports the addition of Dave Rose to the sales staff of the MacBeath Hardwood Company in Berkeley recentlv. Rose is well knor,vn to the Northern California hardwood lumber and plywood trade and was formerly active in sales for Pacific Hardwood Sales Co. of Oakland.

Gonslruction Acfiviry Gontinued Seqsonql l$3.3 Billion Put in Plqce Mqtches | 955 April Record

Outlays for nerv construction expanded seasonally in April to $3.3 billion, matching the all-time April high achieved in i955, according to preliminary estimates prepared jointly by the U. S. Departments of Commerce and Labor. The 9/o increase over March brought expenditures thus far in 1956 to $11.8 billion, the same figure as for January-April a year ago.

Most of last month's increase resulted from gains normally cxpected at this time of the year in private residential building and highrvay construction, but outlays for private residential building were off 8/o from last year's unpre-

Advqnce in April 1956

cedented level. Private industrial more than seasonally to surpass the month. Commercial building 'w'as April.

building rose somewhat volume for any previous at an all-timq high for

Ahrens Appoints Hugh Rosqqen

A. C. Ahrens, vice-president of California Sugar & Western Pine Agency, announces the recent association of Hugh Rosaaen with the fifty-year-old lumber concern. Rosaaen, who had formerly been selling and buying for Western Pine Supply Co., will represent his new firm throughout California. He will headquarter in the firm's general offices in San Francisco.