L. ITI. MARTINEZ GO.

WHOI.ESAI.E IT'IUBER

Hobort Building sAN FRANCTSCO 4, CALIF.

Dubs, Lld., To Hold Annuol Birrhdoy Tournqmenl ol Monlerey

Del Travis, Travco, Inc., San Jose, and President of Dubs, Ltd., has announced that the Dubs Annual Birthday Tournament will be held Friday, June 18 at the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, Monterey. Tee off time is scheduled from 1200 noon to 2:00 p.m. Friday, and following the tournament there will be dinner dancing for all at the Monterey Peninsula Country Club.

Tom Jacobsen, Sun Valley Lumber Co., Lafayette, is General Chairman for the Dubs Annual. and is ablv assisted by Frank Brown, Helms Lumber Co., San F.rrrli".o. Tom and Frank also have charge of hotel reservations, so these are the fellows to contact for your week-end accommodations at Monterey. Arrangements for the Friday night dinner dance affair are in the hands of Jim Pierce, Pacific Manufacturing Co., San Jose, and the head of the prize committee is Jim Rossman, Twin Harbors Lumber Co., San Jose.

The Monterey Annual event will mark the 71st Dubs, Ltd., tournament and also the close of another successful club year under the direction of the Club's present officers.

Wood Dowel Kif For Yords

Adapting modern merchandising methods to a popular staple-a neat retail sales "kit," showing 296 wood dowels of 6 most practi'cal sizes in only 1 square foot of floor space, is offered by Cleveland Dowel Pin Co., Inc., 127A3 Triskett Road, Cleveland, Ohio.

NAHB Awords Gontrqct for Nqtionol Housing Cenfer

The National Association of Home Builders has awarded a contract for construction of its nerv two million dollar National Housing Center to be erected in Washington.

The building site at 1623-25 L St., N.W. in midtown Washington already has been cleared and formal groundbreaking ceremonies were held Monday, May 17, in conjunction with the annual Spring meeting of NAHB's National Board of Directors.

R. G. "Dick" Hughes, President of NAHB, and Nathan Manilow, Chairman of the Association's Building Committee, said the contract was awarded to the Washington construction firm of Joseph F. Nebel Company, on thrbasis of sealed bids submitted.

Construction will begin immediately, the NAHB officials said, and the National Housing Center .ivill open its doors in approximately one year.

On Trip ro Middle West

Floyd Scott, president Western Custom Mill, Inc., Los Angeles wholesale lumber and custom milling company, departed June 6 on an extended business trip itrrougtr the middle west and east.

Later this month he will be joined by his wife and their two children in Chicago, where they rvill pick up a new Buick, returning to Los Angeles via Hawarden, fowa, and Yellowstone National Park. The family will spend several days visiting friends and relatives in Iowa before heading for Wyoming. They expect to be gone five to six weeks.

3OO Million Cubic Feet of Wood Treoted in | 953

Approximately 300,188,000 cubic feet of wood materials were treated with preservatives such as creosote, coal-tar, petroleum, pentachlorophenol, and chromated zinc chloride during 1953, the U. S. Department of Agriculture announces.

The report, issued by the Forest Service in cooperation with the American Wood Preservers' Association, shows that the materials preserved include; 39,305,000 crossties, 5,336,000 poles, 22,O57,000 f ence posts, 5,27 8,0W crossarms, 413,619,000 board feet of lumber, n336,M linear feet of piling, I32,9rc,n0 board feet of switch ties,2,125,00O square yards of wood blocks, 62,500,000 board feet of timbers and 47,777,0m board feet of miscellaneous items.

Although the report is preliminary, based on information fuom 278 of the 306 knor,vn wood treating plants throughout the country, indications are that the amount of wood treated in 1953 was five per cent less than the 314,998,00O cubic feet of material treated in 1952. Greatest decreases were reported in treatment of crossties, poles, lumber, piling, and wood blocks. The number of crossarms treated, however, increased 67 per cent. A final report with revised data will be published this fall.

The use of liquid preservatives such as creosote, coal tar, and petroleum decreased 9 per cent from 267,193,538 gallons in 1952 to 243,068,734 gallons in 1953. Solid preservatives (applied as liquids), however, such as pentachlorophenol, chromated zinc chl'oride, and others increased 8 per cent from 12,425,156 pounds in 1952 to 13,429,744 in 1953.

The report also includes tables showing the breakdown of the classes of u'ood material treated by the preservative used, kinds of wood and method of treatment and the amount treated in each region. A copy of the report (Preliminary Wood Preservation Statistics, 1953) may be obtained by writing to the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D.C.

Bill Belau, manager, Lumber Mill & Supply Co., Los Angeles, spent the last ten days of May in Sacramento, Roseville, Susanville and Reno, Nevada, on a procurement and sales survey trip for his firm.