Redwood Inspection Servic n Full Time Bas e Now is In Southland

The Redwood Inspection Service is now serving Southern California on a full-scale official basis. A{ter a short experimental period, ihe sa-e grading inspection, and supervision will be available to remanu{acturers in Southern California as is available to producing mills in the Redwood Region.

Charter members sf "Zsns 3" of the Redwood Inspection Service are California Pacific Sales Corporation, 716l Telegraph Road, Los Angeles; D. C. Essley & Son, 7257 Telegraph, Montebello; Ed Fountain Lumber Company, 6218 S. Hooper Avenue, Los Angeles; and Independent Building Materials Co., P.O. Box 2065, Torrance. They join 3l members of RIS Zone l, the producing region north of San Francisco, and four members of Zone 2, around San Francisco and Santa Cruz.

A telephone office (MA 8-6306) has been set up by RIS in Los Angeles, and the Service's six inspectors are making regular tours of the Southern California member plants, as well as special visits for inspection or grademarking.

RIS training of graders at the four Zone 3 plants has already begun, and RIS Gradestamps have been issued.

RIS President Harry Merlo, President of the Rockport Redwood Company, said

Members Of The Redwood Inspection Service

Arcotq Redwood Compony, Becver Lumber Compony, Boiock Lomber Compony, Bronscomb Enierprises, Colifornio Fobricotors, Gol-Pocific Redwood Co., Col-Pociflc Sqles Corp.. Del Norte Box Co,, Inc., Diebold Mills. Inc.. T. M. Dimmick Compony, D. C. Essley & Son, Fluor Producls Compony, Ed Founfoin Lumber Compony, G t A Lumber Compony, G & R Lumber Compony, Georgio-Pocific Gorp., Guololo Lumber 6mpony, Hollow Tree lumber Co., Hollow Tree Lumber Co. {studf. Fred C. Holmes lumber Co., Hulberr & Muffly Co., ]nc., lndependent Bldg. iloleriols, Kinlon Lumber Compony, Molollo Forest Producls Co., New Age Enterprises, fhe Pqciftc Lumber Gompony, Peerless Lumber Compony, Rockport Redwood Compony, Sonlo Cruz Lumber Compony, Simpson Timber Compony, Archio Smith Lumber Co., Sonomc Wood Products, Torter, Webster & Johnsm, TidEwoter ltlills, Inc., Twin Pqrks Lumber Gp4pony, Union Lumber Conpony, Von De Nor Luiiber Co., Inc., Willifs Redwood Producls Co.

the formal institution ol Zone 3 was a natural result of the growth of the redwood industry and RIS. "As the responsible producers of redwood products join the RIS, we expect a general improvement in the overall quality of redwood products available in Southern California and shipped out of the area. RIS, with the existing quality control facilities of these firms, will mean products of quality uniform with those of other producers in the state, and even greater stature for the firms as the creators of criteria for excellence in lumber products in Southern California. We welcome them to the Redwood Inspection Service.tt

Information on the Los Angeles service of RIS can be obtained from Philip T. Farnsworth, Secretary-Treasurer, or louis L. Ehling, Building Standards Manager, at the RIS office, 617 Montgomery Street, San Francisco Il, California.

The Redwood Inspection Service dates from 1916, when it was founded as the Bureau of Grades and Inspection of the California Redwood Association. For the next 45 years, both as Bureau and as Service, it functioned as a department of the CRA. In 1962 it re-organized as a corporation separate from the Association, with its own Board of Directors and officers.