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Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., has completed a $2 million improvement and expansion program atits F-lagstaff and McNary, Ariz., plants. $1,500,000 was spent enlarging and modernizing the mill purchased last year from the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Co. Annual capacity of this Flagstaff sawmill is now 60 million board feet ,of Pine and the same footage can be processed in the planing mill and box factory. McNary's capacity is now 90 million feet. Southwest can now season lumber without regard to weather. One kiln has been increased to a battery of 10.

Building permits for the first five months of 1955 at Calexico, Calif., are above those for all of 1954 in the border city. Total so far this year is $888,830; for the entire year 1954 the figure was $812,627.

Interference from a pair of Plumas County loggers delayed 250 passengers on the California Zephyr June 6. The W.P. train was tooling through Feather River Canyon at 35 mph when the woodsmen accidentally felled a tall Pine across the tracks. The Diesel engine crashed into the tree; locomotives were changed at Oroville; the crack streamliner fell behind schedule; Plumas County sheriff's deputies were reported still looking for the loggers, who took off for the tall timber when they saw their mistake.

Dee Essley, D. C. Essley & Son, Los Angeles lumber wholesaler and chairman of the new hospital board, said in five and one-half months this year, without a single gift of more than $25,000, the people of Whittier, Calif., and area had con-

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