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Telephone: CApitcl 1934

H. R. Northup, executive vice president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, announces that already active plans are under way for the annual convention that will take place in San Francisco from November 6th to llth, 1949.

'fhere will be committee meetings November 6, Z and 8. On November 8 the secretaries of the Federated Associations will meet. On the 9th there will be a full day general meeting. On the 10th the Board of Directors r,vill meet through the morning. The final meeting will be Friday the 1lth.

J. D. McCarthy, of Springfield, Illinois, has accepted the chairmanship of the Committee on Transportation, which committee is already at work. This committee will make transportation arrangements from all parts of the country. A special train from Texas has already been announced. Hotel reservations will be handled through the association.

The Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California is preparing to play a very active part in making the convention a success.

Fire destroyed a considerable portion of Long-Bell Lumber Company's retail yard and building material store in pugene, Oregon, May 27.

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The prospective home builder will find the advice of experts presented in a concise and attractive form in the \Arest Coast Lumbermen's Association's new eight-page, fourcolor booklet entitled "How to Build Well and Save Money."

The booklet offers authoritative suggestions on many aspects of home building, including site selection, financing, letting contracts and construction details. Carefully selected drawings illustrate important construction steps.

Copies of "How to Build Well and Save Money', may be obtained without charge from the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, 14LO S. W. Morrison Street, portland 5, Oregon.

The Great Northern Lumber Company, a Nevada corporation with sawmills at Santa Rosa, Nevada City, and Forest Hill, California, has filed suit in the federal court in San Francisco against the Bank of America for $4,020,000 damages. The suit resulted from the.collapse of a contemplated lumber deal.

Johns-Manville has announced a new decorative Flexboard, an integrafly colored asbestos-cement sheet for interior use, in gray, green, bufi or rose. Manufactured in either a smooth or a tile scored surface, it is available through local Johns-Manville building materials dealers.

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Construction has started on two sheds with a'capacitv of 1,500,000 feet of lumber under cover at the Fern Trucking Cornpany's storage yard at 42ffi Bandini Boulevard, Los Angeles. The company is also building a new office building with nine rooms at the same address. The sheds will be completed about July 1, and the office building about August 1.

The B. F. McDonald Co., Los Angeles industrial safety equipment manufacturers, have added salt tablets in a throw-away dispensing carton to their long-familiar line. Known as McDonald "1-4-IJ" Salt Tablets, they offer a time-tested method of combating heat fatigue and reduced efficiency caused by loss of body salt through perspiration.

The Formica Company has recently issued a full color, four-page folder entitled "What's New in the Bathroom ?", illustratihg their new Vanitory unit, and containing construction suggestions. Single copies of the folder and construction detail sheet may be had upon request to F. C. Walter, assistant sales manager, The Formica Company, 4941 Spring Grove Ave., Cincinnati 32, Ohio.

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