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Delegotes to FPRS Meeting in S.F. To Tour leoding Mills of Areq

_ An important, feature of the 13th national meeting of the Forest Products Research Society, J:une 29-July -3 i.n San Francisco, will be the opportunity foivisits to-a variety of wood industry plants and to a research laboratory. Tom Shelton of the Diamond Gardner Corporation. chairman

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TWX: ARC 3l of the Plant Trip Arrangement committee, announces that the trips are scheduled for the last two days of the national meeting, July 2 and 3.

On Thursday, July 2, groups will visit Fibreboard Prodqcts Corporation, Antioch; Michigan-California Lumber Company, Camino, and the University of California Forest Products Laboratory, Richmond. All-day trips on Friday, July 3, include Union Lumber Co-pany, noil ntrgg; Mli sonite Corporation, Ukiah, and the Diamond Gardner Corporation, Red Bluff. Chartered bus will be used on all trios 91ce_pt the one to Diamond Gardner Corporation at Rad Bluff, which will be by chartered aircraft. The committee has chosen operations of quite divergent character so that a variety of interests can be served and many unique features can be examined.

The Fibreboard Products Corporation has its main office in San Francisco with produition facilities located at Antioch about 40 miles from San Francisco.

Poil of Historic Ronch Sold for Oronge Gounty Housing frocf

Sale of more than half of the 15p00-acre Moulton Ranch in Orange county was disclosed May 18. The ranch, one of the few Spanish land grants still with its original boundaries, stretched from Laguna Beach to El Toro.

The land was purchased by James M. Barr, Santa Ana developer, for a sum believed in excess of $8,000,000 in cash outlay. The estimated 8,128 acres will be used for construction of homes in the $14,500-$18,500 price range. The tract to be developed is divided in the middle by the Santa Ana Freeway and on _the south by the proposed San Diego Freeway._One end of the property abuts-the recently sold Laguna Niguiz tract.

Teqm fo Guide BRI in 1959

Climaxing a long record of service and enthusiastic participation in the activities of the Building Research Institute, Harold L. Humes has been elected lts 1959-60 oresident, with Robert W. Cutler named to the vice-oresidencv. llumes is vice-president and a director oi gitdwin-Hlit Company, Trenton, N. J., manufacturers of home and industrial insulation and acoustical products. A general partner in the famous architectural firm of Skidmori, Owings & Merrill, New York, Robert W. Cutler has also been one of the staunchest boosters and hardest workers in BRI.

lowq's Eclipse Lineyords Sold

Purchase of all the assets of the Eclipse Lumber Company of Clinton, Iowa, is announced by H. B. Pearl, president and chairman of the board, and George Sasine, vice-president and treasurer, of the Eclipse Lumber Company, Inc., the acquiring company. Eclipse, for 55 years a major supplier of lumber and building materials, operates a chain of. 32 retail and wholesale lumber and building materials yards throughout the state of Iowa. It is also engaged in extensive home building operations at other points.

Operations for the current fiscal year, with sales at a rate of over $7,000,000 per annum, reflect substantial gains in both sales and earnings over preceding years. The purchasing company is owned by a New York investment group which also owns and operates a number of other substantial companies throughout the country: Fulton Cotton Mills, Atlanta, Ga.;

Continental Gin Company, Birmingham, Ala.; Columbia Mills, Syracuse, N. Y.; O. W. Seibert Company, Gardner, Mass., and Wright Machine Company, Wooster, Mass.

King Lumber Co. Completes

Delono Store Remodeling

E. H. Metcalf, general rnanager of the King Lumber Co., headquarters Bakersfield, announces completion of an extensive remodeling job on the company's Delano yard last month. Carrying a well-diversified inventory, the new store features new plumbing and built-in departments.

Hill& Morton Ghonges Fresno Phone

Hill & Morton's Fresno manager, Bob Hathaway, has changed his Fresno office phone listing to AMherst 8-5343 in order to get a larger series of rotary numbers on the line.