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Building Design Convention

Mayor John F. Shelley has issued a ivarm welcome to delegates oI the American Institute of Building Design who will convene in San Francisco July 23-26.

"The AIBD's interest in bettering the sppearance and function of our present-day structures, both private dwellings and those in use for many purposes by the public, has won for your members increasing admiration," Mayor Shelley wrote Conve-ntion Chairman Ray S. Hall of San Rafael.

This is its l4th annual national convention and the third time in the past four years that San Francisco has been selected.

Some 1500 members and their wives are expected to attend the conference. Included on the progrem are exhibits by 60 leading suppliers in the building and design fields; a series of seminars on design; a unique program of interest to women, and election of officers for 1964-65.

One of the highlights will be a design competition in which leading AIBD members will provide working models and drawings of their skills in a dozen categories. The public will be invited to view entries on display in the Jack Tar Hotel mezzanine, Hall indicated.

New Sonto Roso Yord

A lumber yard in Santa Rosa handling hardwarg paint and all building supplies is planned by the Town & Country Lumber Co., Inc. on a l0-acre site.

The site will developed into an industrial park, Terry Nazworthy, the building-developer said. Leases also have been signed for a formica shop and a cabinet shop.

The new lumber corporation, recently formed with T. H. Nazworthy, president; Grant Evans, vice president, and E. F. Nazworthy, secretary-treasurer, has already beeun construction.

Chemicols Speed Redwood Growth By Twenty Yesrs

A Humboldt county farm advisor suggests that redwood trees-like any other cropcan be fertilized to gain increased yield.

The University of California farm advisor is D. W. Cooper, who has conducted preliminary trials for the past six years with the Simpson Timber Company of Eureka.

"While it normally takes at least 60 years to grow a satisfactory market redwood, by using the right combination of fertilizers, I believe we can speed up the rotation at least 20 years," Cooper said. He added that the same sort of results could be expected of both redwood and Douglas fir.

"We killed several hundred young trees in finding out that nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are lethal to redwoods four years old and younger. When we fertilize trees that are in their sixth year, leader growth can be increased at least two feet a year ahve norrnal growth," Cooper said.

He added, 'oFrom the trial we learned that our most outstanding results came from a combination of nitrogen end sulfur. We failed to get any results from phosphorus, and potassium actually slowed tree growth.

Economic studies on the value of fertilizing either redwood or I)ouglas fir for f.trests have not been -ade. .iid Cooper.

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