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Ship San Diego Logs To Japan

A trial shipment of logs cut in San Diego's county's Laguna Mts. is enroute to Japan for what might be the start of some substantial trade, announced Harbor Department officials, May 25, The oak, fir and cedar logs are believed to be the firit local timber from San Diego, Calif., ever shipped abroad. Thev will be tested by plywood mills and match factories in Japan.

HUNT NAMED NEW B.C.A. EXECUTIVE

Robert S. Hunt has been apDointed the new executive director of the Building Contractors Assn. of California. He has served as director of councils and chapters of the BCA since February 1958, before which he was executive vice-president of the Lons Islaid Builders Institutel He has been active in trade associations 13 Years.

ALSYNITE OF'FERS {-COLOR POStrCARD DEALER SALES AID

Attractive, four-color Postcards, showing the five new Alsynite fiberglass embedment panelsin their natural colors, are now ,available for dealers to use as sales aids. T,he cards (D'P-Z), may be obtained free of charge from Alsynite Co. of America, 4654 De Soto Street, San Diego 9i California- The Alsynite Co. suggests dealers use them as direct-mail pieces, with brief, hand-written messages to sales prospects; or as Promotional invoice and envelope stufters. T'he big advantage for 'using the cards in direct mail, AlsYnite points out, is that theY save on postage bills. On the back of each card is a short descriPtion of the five fast-selling decorative panel patterns.

Two new trussed rafter designs prepared specificallY for use in component construction, accommodating: spans of 24'8" and N8". are the new TECO designs for a spacing of 24' on centers and a roof slope of 4/12 with a combined live and dead load of 35 pounds per square foot. Proper anchorage details with Trip-L-Grip framing anchors are shown on each design. TECO estimates an investment of less than $200 is needed to set up fabricating facilities. Complete fabricating details are available from TECO. The new truss designs can rbe obtained by writing Timber Engineering Company, 1319 18th St., N.W., Wastdngton 6, D.C., Ask for typical designs 5-474 and 5-475.

Insulcrr Lumber Appoinrs Keqrns Generol Monoger in Philippines

Insular Lumber Company announces the appointment of R. S. Kearns of Portland, Oregon, to be its general manager in the Philippine Islands, succeeding llarvey C. Pope, veteran general manager there. Effective September 1, Mr. Pope (right, above) will become a special consultant based in San Francisco for fnsular Lumber, leading Philippine manufacturer of export lumber and millwork.

Mr. Kearns (left, above) from 1950 to 1958 was general manager and later vice-president in charge of operations for the Winton Lumber Company of Martell, Calif. In December 1958, he became general manager of the Dwyer Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon. Kearns brings to his new post a lifetime of experience in the lumber industry. From Oregon State College he received a degree in forestry in 1930 and an M. S. dEgree in lumber manufacturing in 1931. A few years later he was professor of Forestry at Oregon State College, a post he held from 1935 to 1940. He has had

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