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ROBERT S. OSGOOI)

3315 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles 5

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Bob Osgood

Western Reil Ceilar Lumber anil Sid,ings

John Osgood ending May 30; shipments were 7.2/o above production and orders were 6.3/o above ,the previous week. April production of 13 mills reporting to the California Redwood, Assn. was 52,n5,CfJ0b.1. compared to 53,842,000 during March and 41,582,000 in April 1958. April shiprnents of 53,49,000 b.f. were slightly under the March figure of 55,17Q000 but well ahead of the 43,687,000 in April last year. April orders of 58,N2,W compare to 58,527,000 this March and. 44,617,ON last April. Redwood stocks of 379,450,W b.f. on April 30 were appreciably under the 401,046,000 carried at the end of April last year.

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(Continued from Page 1) downtrend in No. 2 and 3 common ponderosa boards but there was no weakening in other board grades. Dry white fir dimension was still level at the mid-May price peak.

Shipments of 462 mills reporting to the National Lumber Manufactnrers Assn: in the week ending May 30 were l.l/o above production b 't orders-were 5.6/o below Orders of 106,901,265 feet were 4.5/o below production at 146 mills ,reporting (145 operating) to the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. in th" *.&'ending May-30; shipments were O.l/o above Orders of 77,329,0@ feet were 1.9Vo'b"lo* pro_ duction at 102 mills reporting to the Western pine Assn. in the week

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Fost Work

A construction milestone was reached in Los Angeles this month, when a conventional 1650 sq. ft. home was built in three days without a stick of lumber touching the ground. President Dale J. Missimer of the Los Angeles llome Show announced that Scholz Homes. Inc.. built an 8-room house between Wednesday morning and Friday night. Called the Mark 59, the house will be one of three model homes displayed during the Home Show, July 16 through 26, at the new Coliseum Sports Arena.

Scholz Official Bill Getty said all parts of the house were manufactured in a central plant and then trucked to the site where skilled workmen assembled it. Doors. windows. floors, walls, etc., were lifted right off truck and put in their proper places without touching the ground, he declared. A door, for example, comes completely equipped with all hardware and is hung in a matter of minutes by a workman using only a screwdriver.

Getty said the Scholz homes were not pre-fab construction, but were "more house than homes built by methods over 100-years old."

Putting 'U' in Aluminum

Washington, D. C.-The 1,475 U. S. lumber dealers franchised to build house parts under the Lu-Re-Co svstem of component construction will be offered a line of i3 or more Reynolds aluminum building products, including siding, under the agreement between Reynolds Metals Co. and the Lu-Re-Co Service Assn. The association. a srlbsidiary of the Lumber Dealers Research Council, will make Reynolds products available to its members at 5 to l5/o less than they could buy them elsewhere, reports the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. "Lumber Letter" of May 22.

A spokesman for the association explains the development: "We're not joining an-y- camp to the exclusion of others. lVe're willing to work with any material that is willing to work with us and move with us." The move was interpreted as an effort by retail dealers to keep pace with prefab home manufacturers in the East who have recently added aluminum houses to their lines.

Georgia-Pacific's "Abe" Abrahamson, affiliated with the Redwood division at Samoa, treated his wif e, his two sisters (and himself !) to a 2-week Hawaiian vacation starting May 20 at the Matson Line pier in San Francisco.

Arthur A. Hood, well-known lumber industry editor and speaker who recently conducted a southern California workshop for the SCRLA member dealers, and Mrs. Hood

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left Chicago, May 26, on a 4-month rounclthe-world trip by air. During the tour, Mr. Hood will spend a month in Australia conducting two managem€nt workshops for lumber dealers in Canberra and Brisbane sponsored by the Australian Tim,ber Journal. After visiting the Far East, Middle East and European countries, including the Scandinavian, the Hoods return home Sept. 1.5.

Anne Murray, founding mem,ber of L. A. Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 1 now with Roy Forest Products Corp., Van Nuys, entertained the Past Presidents group of the club at her home, May 23, with a delicious luncheon and gabfest. Topics concerning the welfare and future of the club were discussed. Alvina Boyle will hostess the next gathering of the group later this summer.

Clyde Baysinger, now in the Minneapolis office of Winton Lumber Company, visited his old Sacramento haunts last month on an inspection tour of Winton's expanding plant at Martell. Calif.

Don Bufkin, of Hobbs Wall southern California sales, and his son Herb, a builder from Tucson, Arizona, spent the second week of June touring western Ghost Towns. While Don fished, Herb made drawings of the areas covered on this 10-dav safari.

U.5. Plywood Corp. Agrees to Buy Booth-Kelly Assers for $8O million

United States Plywood Corp. has agreed to purchase the assets of the old Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., Springfield, Ore., for about $80 million cash, reports The Wall Sireel Journal, but a legal action to block the proposed sale was filed in l-ane County Circuit Court, Eugene, Ore., by Springfield Plywood Corp. of whose stock 81/o is held by Georgia-Pacific Corp., another big plywood producer.

U. S. Plywood's acquisition of Booth-Kelly is subject to the approval of stockholders of Booth-Kelly, a closely held concern whose principal assets include about 150,000 acres of virgin

Douglas fir containing an estimated three billion feet of timber. Directors of both companies have approved the purchase.

Circuit Court Judge A. T. Goodwin in Eugene said that by agreement of counsel for Booth-Kelly and Springfield Plywood, the hearing on the injunction to block the transfer of assets to U. S. Plywood would take place before Booth-Kelly stockholders vote on the liquidation and sale olan.

Springfield Plywood, l8/o of whose stock is held by BoothKelly itself, seeks to block the proposed sale until the settlement of a suit, filed in 1956, involving Springfield, Georgia-Pacific and Booth-Kelly. In this suit, Booth-Kelly is seeking to termirlate a contract under which it sells logs not needed in its own operations to Springfield for making plywood and in turn receives a portion of the finished plywood.

Booth-Kelly alleges its minority rights have not been served and.charges Georgia-Pacific has breached the contract. GeorgiaPacific jn lqrn alleges the suit is an attempt to evade the provisions of a l94O contract that has until 1965 to run with renewal up to the year 2OOO.

At stake in the current dispute is the big Booth-Kelly log supply. Springfield reportedly fears its first right to the log supply might be lost should the assets of Booth-Kellv be sold to !_. S^. P_lywood. Ironically, should Booth-Kelly sell-its assets !g q q Plywood, the two largest fir plywood manufacturers, U. S. Plywood and Georgia-Picific, wbulcl each become partowners of Springfield.

The current court contest is not the first to involve the rival plywood prodqsers. U. S. Plywood fought a patent-infringement suit. through Federal Courts in New York against GeorgiaPacific last year.

A U. S. Plywood official in New York said Booth-I(ellv timberlands are "one of _the largest and finest old-growtir stands of timber on the West Coast still in privatJhands and the forests have been developed with roads and utilities." Also included in the assets is a sawmill. U. S. plvwood's present timber reserves amount to about 4.6 billi6n board feet either owned or under contract.

Younglove Now Owner of Swqnson yord

Carl A. Younglove became sole owner of Swanson Lumber Company in Sa^cramento on April 1, with the purchase of Partner Dennis Sea's interest ir the business.

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