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The Building Material Dealers Credit Assn. of Southern California will hold its fourth annual convention at the E,l Mirador hotel, Palm Springs, Oct. 2l-22. Several entertainment events are pianned to augment the business sessions.

Paul Clark, president of a I'asadena paint colnpany, rvas installed as president of the Retail Paint and Wallpaper Dealers Association of Southern California, Inc. Other nerv officers are Jim NIullins, Jr., Montrose, first vice-president ; C. R. Smith, Temple, second vice-president; \\rilliam Ward, Los Angeles, treasurer, and Robert Downey, Whittier, secretary.

The State Forestrv Board has declared the Big Lagoon area a hazardous fire region, along u,ith the Bear Mountain area of Fresno county.

Government timber is selling far above the minimum advertised sale price tl-ris year, reports A. I(. Crebbin. resources manager, Klamath National Forest.

U. S. Plyrvood Corp, has purchasecl the Kalpine Veneer Co., near Santa Rosa, for $250.000.

150,000 acres of Spruce budn'orm-in{ested forest in Oregon will be sprayed.

An amendment to the Federal Reserve Act now permits 'l>ankers to accept standing tin.rber as collateral on first mortgage loans.

Timber on tl-re County Line and Mahaley Creek units in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest was sold to Junker Logging Co. of Eureka and Ralph L. Smith Lumber Co. of Andersen and Castella, Calif., u.ho submitted high bids.

F. H. Raymond was appointed California's state forester on June 2I by DeWitt Nelson, director of the Dept. of Natural Resources.

The former O'Neil lumber mill in Hopland, Calif., was purchased by B. G. Buckley of Santa Rosa and will be known as the Buckley Lumber Co.

Herbert P. Ringer, Burbank, Calif., building superintendent since 1952, has resignecl to accept a similar post rvith the city of Santa Barbara, effective July 22.

The Pacific Luml>er Company plant at Scotia set a new record for visitors in 1954, t'ith 23,995 registering for the guided tours.

Western fir plywood manufacturers have unveiled a permanent memorial containing the first panel manufactured in Portland 50 years ago.

Plans for a $3,500,000 residential development on a 300-acre site near Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif ., were announced by a Costa Mesa contractor. The 1500-home project rvill be completed in December 1956.

Dave Willock and Cliff Arquette are returning to Los Angeles television 'rvith their "\\rillock's Workshop," a do-it-yourself program sponsored by an aluminum manufacturer.

Fire destroyed the planing mill of the Williams Lumber Co., Azusa, Calif., last month. Damage .was in excess of $25,000. George M. Rodecker ou'ned the vard.

A motor company has purchased the H. H. Shoup Lumber Co. building in Los Angeles as the site of a body shop.

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Sold Arcata, Calif.-l'roceedings for the voluntarv u'indingup and dissolution of Dolly Varden I-umber Company, a Caiifornia corporation, lvere started June 22. The salvmill and timber holclings of the company r'vere sold last month in one of the largest deals of the year, involving more than $2 million.

The Dolly Varden timber, covering 9,000 acres in the Snorv Mountain area northeast clf Eureka, n'as purchased by the Buck Mountain Logging Co., headed by Axel Erickson. It consists mostly of Douglas fir with son.re pine and will be cut for the Eureka-Arcata mill market. The sawmill was purchased by a group headed by Sam Davis, general manag'er of the Dolly Varden Lumber Co., u'ho 'rvill continrre in that capacity rvith the nen'operating organlzatron.

The sawmill is the largest fir manufacturing plant in Humboldt county and one of the largest in the state, ll'ith $400,000 im1>rovements made last year. The sale marks the retirement of David D. Bohannon, president of Dolly Varden and u'idely knorvn San Francisco industrialist, from the Northern California lumber field. Bohannon previously had sold the cornpany's Rainborv mill and a large Redr,r,ood timber acreaqe to tl.re M and NI \\rood Working Co.

Orven McComas u,as tendered a luncheon recently by the building industry in Los Angeles honoring his past services and his new post as director of merchandising at Arcadia Metal Products.