GALENB AtR

June

American Society of Civit EngineersJune 9-11, National specialty conference on wood as a structural material, Chicago, IlI.

Western Red Cedar Lumber Association-June 10-11, Eleventh annual meeting. Qualicum Beach Inn, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2-June 11, Golf tournament and dinner, Palos Verdes Country Club.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181 & Redwood Empire Hoo-IIoo Club 65-June ,11-13, Annual Family Weekend, Brooktrails Lodge, Willits, California.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club l-June 14, Monthly meeting, Romeots restaurant, Downey, Calif.

American Plywood Association-June 14-16, Annual meeting, Marion Motor Hotel in Salem, Oregon.

Willamette Valley Annual Ifoo-Hoo Tournament-June 18, Eugene Country Club.

San Joaquin Hoo-IIoo Club 31June 25, Annual Bar-B-Que and Election Nite, Roeding Park, Fresno, Chef Chet Ifarshner presiding.

Seventh Annual Lurnbermen's Invitational Tournament-June 25, Alta Sierra Country Club, Grass Valley. ' JUIY

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2July 11, Golf tournament and dinner, Palos Verdes country club.

American Institute of Building DesignJuly 15-18' Fifteenth annual convention and suppliers display.

Western Wooden Box AssociationJaly 22'23, membership meeting,'Mark Thomas Inn, Monterey, Calif.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo ClubJuly 23, Annual Swim .and Barbecue at BilI Moores' residence, Ukiah.

Boxcqr Shorfoge Attqcked

New action to stimulate the solution to a boxcar shortage it claims is costins its industry $10 million a year, has been taken by the America"n Plywood Association.

A brochure explaining the problem, and asking for support o{ remedial legislation, has been mailed to about 70,000 distributors and dealers in the building materials field, the association reported. Quantities of the brochures also are being offered to association members, for mailing to their customers. The publication asks for support of legislation in the House and the Senate that would give the Interstate Commerce Commission authority to fix rental iates folboxcars.

The present shortage, the result of 20 years of attrition to the decaying national boxcar fleet, is blamed on the a'bility of eastern railroads to lease western-owned cars more cheaply than they can build their own. Rental rates are fixed by an association of railroads, which is dominated by eastern interests.

Fibreboord Buys Three Firms

Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation has announced it has acquired, for an undisclosed amount of cash, Clear Fir Sales Company of Springfield, Oregono a national distributor of plywood products; the Lorenz Lumber Company of Burney, California, a manufacturer of lumber and plywood, and the Cloverdale Plywood Company of Cloverdale, California.

According to George W. Burgess, Fibreboard's president, these acquisitions not only mark Fibreboard's entry into the plywood field, but also are a part of its program to further integrate into the forest products industry and to consolidate the company's raw material sources for its paperboard mills.