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Twin City Lumber Compony Sqles Stoff

Don Jer,vett has joined the sales staff of Twin City Lumber Company of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Don received his early training in the sawmills, logging camps and retail yards in and around Seattle where he worked for the old Lake Union Lumber Company and Elliott Bay Lumber Company. He attended the College rrf Forestry at lJniversity of Washington and finished at UCLA after four years' service in the army. For the past three years he has been with the Hammond Lumber Company in Southern California, and for two of these years, the Mill Representative for Hammond's Redwood Divisio:n.

Don is married and with his wife and trvo children makes his home in Whittier.

Dodge Repods Five Month Building Boom

NEW YORK, June 20-The construction boorn in the 37 states east of the Rockies continued to spiral towards a 1953 all-time record in contracts awarded as five-month totals gave the current year an B per cent edge over 1952, it was reported today by F. \\r. Dodge Corporation, construction news and marketing specialists. The live-month 1953 figure was $6,792,329,000 according to Dodge Reports total.

Nonresidential building for five months shorved the greatest increase over 1952 rvith a $2,492,801,W total r,vhich was up 16 per cent. Residential awards at $2,795,412,N0 was up 1 per cent. Heavy engineering (public works and utilities) at $1,504,1i6,000 was up 11 per cent.

The Dodge Reports construction total for May was $1,606,091,000 or 8 per cent behind April but 3 per cent ahead of May 1952. Individual May awards showed nonresidential contracts of $582,061,00O down 15 per cent from April but up 26 per cent over May last year. Residential awards of $637]21,000 were 5 per cent less than April and 15 per cent less than May 1952.Heavy engineering at $386,309,000 was less than 1 per cent below April and was 11 per cent above May a year ago.'

Dave Davis, Simpson was a recent visitor at rvhere he conferred with

Logging Company, San Francisco, the company's Los Angeles offrce, George S. Melville.