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Burnett & Sons Yqrd Suffers !$60,000 Fire Loss

Burnett & Sons, long-established Sacramento retail lumber concern, suffered fire damage estimated at $60,000 on May 2l when a fire broke out in the firm's planing mill at 10:00 p.m. Although the planing mill was destroyed, surrounding buildings and inventory were saved and construction of a new mill will be underway this month, according to Roy Miller, head of the firm.

Tucson Streomlines Inspection

Tucson, Ariz.-The city council has streamlined city building inspection practices so that the building inspector can accept copies of house inspection reports made by the Federal Housing Administration and/or Veterans Administration inspectors, instead of separate inspections by the city inspectors. The and city inspectors city retains final approval, however, spoi-check construction for violations'

Son Diego Hoo-Hoo Club Dinner-Dqnce June 20

San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3 will hold the big, early.sum_mer, annu-l dinner-dance June 20 at the Lafayette hotel, according to Ed Gavotto, Gurdon of the fraternal order of lumbermin. Cocktails will be served (free) from 6:59 p.m' and dinner will be served promptly at 7 :59 to make way for the dancing and full evening of entertainment, Eddie says.

An open invitation is extended to all Hoo-Hoo and their wives tb attend this gala affair at the low tariff of $5 per person, which covers everything. Beautiful door prizes for ihe ladies and the usual fine cuisine will attract a good turnout to this affair, it was said.

484 Deqlers Prefobbing

Washington, D. C.-A recent survey by the Forest Products division of the Business and Defense Services Administration reveals that 484 retail lumber dealers are engaged in the manufacture of pre-assembled panels and other structural components for new home construction, reports the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. Houses built this way by retail dealers in 1957 totaled 5,760, sairl the BDSA.

Moy Construction Sets New High; New Housing 360/o Above | 958

New construction activity increased seasonally in Mav. and the $4.6 billion total of work put in place'was 15io above May 1958 and set a new record for the month, according to preliminary estimates prepared jointly by the Departments of Commerce and Labor. On a cumulative basis, expenditures of $19.7 billion for the first five months of 1959 also set a new high for this period that was l3/o above the comparable period of 1958.

Private construction outlays of $13.9 billion were dominated by spending for work on new housing, which was 36/o above the same period last year.

Gorey Sends Williqms to Cqlif.

_ E. C. Faqlkner, vice-president of The Philip Carey Mfg. 9orypq.ry, Cincinnati, Ohio, announces the appointment of R. D. Williams as sales manager of Carey's Cblifornia district, effective May 15. The district serves the states of California, Arizona and New Mexico. Williams will be in charge of the company's Los Angeles and San Francisco warehouse operations, all district sales representatives and the San Francisco contract division. He will headquarter at Carey's San Francisco office, 101 Williams Street. -

Ghrysler Cools long-Bell Building Maferiql Stores

Forty-four packaged cooling units, installed in 37 lumberyards over a seven-state area by eight air conditioning distributors and many more dealers, made up one of the most complex air conditioning sales of recent years by Airtemp

Division of Chrysler Corporation, announced P. M. Augenstein, president.

The multiple installations were an integral part of an extensive expansion and modernization program by the retail department of the Long-Bell division of International Paper Co., Kansas City, Mo. Augenstein said Chrysler Airtemp installed systems ranging from three to 40 tons in Long-Bell building material yards in Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado and New Mexico. The majority of the units were air-cooled, he added, although some water-cooled equipment was included. Installation of the systems was begun May 1 and completed in two weeks.

N. K. Irwin, assistant general manager of the Long-Bell Division, said the air conditioning program was part of an overall plan for the lumber firm which would include construction of a number of new yards in the near future, and remodeling and enlargement of several others.

Pqrsons Appoinred Credit Monoger of Smirh-Robbins Lumber Gorp.

Bill Smith, general manager of Smith-Robbins Lumber Corp., wholesale distributing concern of Los Angeles, announces the appointment of C. N. "Clare" Parsons to the important post of accountant-credit manager. Parsons is a veteran in the Southland lumber industry, having spent many years with the old Western Hardwood Lumber Company and the Westhard Importing Co., as comptroller. For the past five years he has been accountant and credit manager for Simmons Hardwood Lumber Company of Downey. He is a native Canadian, where he gained his knowledge of business administration in lumber and wood products prior to going to Los Angeles.

Business Expectctions Bright

Sales and profits prospects for the third quarter 1959 are ioht. accordins to the large maioritv of business execu- bright, according the large tives interviewed in Dun & Brradstreet's latest poll of busimajority of , 1 i r11 a L : ness men's expectations. Year-to-year sales gains were anti'cipated by 7a/o of the 1,513 respondents, while 24/o foresaw no change, and,2/o expected declines. The survey was conducted before the opening of labor negotiations in the steel industry and there was no attempt to evaluate the effects of a steel strike.