This is our 63rd, Uear of Reliable Sera'ice W. E, Cooper Wholesale Lumber Company, Inc.

* Charles M. Cooper

ciation has published full-sized patterns which make the boat's construction practically foolproof.

Although the plan for the five-footer is more detailed than any other DFPA boat plan, it is available to dealers at the same price as the other eight plans in the series: $3 per hundred. The full size patterns are available to dealers for SO-cents per set at DFPA, and are designed to sell to the customer for $1.00. The boat is ideal to teach youngsters how to sail.

The plan has 19 "how-to-" pictures. After constructing this little craft, the customer will feel much more knowledgeable about tackling a larger boat. Its appearance as a recent Life Magazine feature, plus an l8-minute period shor'ving its construction on NBC's Panorama Pacific television show, has sparked the interest of sailboat fans.

Plans and patterns from Douglas Fir Washington.

are available at the prices quoted above Plywood Association in Tacoma 2,

Group ro Study Forest Insects

Berkeley-A committee of experts will tour Northern California forests this summer to find out why insects destroy some 137,000,000 board-feet of sugar pine every year. Federal, state and private foresters and entomologists will inspect several thousand acres of timber in the ChesterSusanville area during July. Members of the summer study committee include Warren A. Carleton, forester, Winton Lumber Company, Martell, Calif.; Knox Marshall, forester, Western Pine Association, Sacramento, and Richard D. Roseberry, forester, Diamond Match Company, Chico.

New So€ol 1956 Building Record

With the May total now in showing$tll,M0,402 for 76 Southland cities and$1,986,279 in the nine unincorporated county areas, the joint five-month total of building permits in Southern California reached $890,907,269 in that span of 1956, compared with $885,426,125 in last year's same period, and puts this year in line for another new building record. The city of Los Angeles hit $38,230,934 in May, a $4,n8,483 hike over May 1955.

Grenshow Yqrd Joins SCRTA

The Crenshaw Lumber Co.,3213 El Segundo Blvd., Hawthorne, Calif., has joined the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. The yard is owned by Lloyd H. Olson.

The fastest-growing state in the nation, California is also the number one lumber-consuming state.

Inglewood Permits

Of the $774,235 in building permits issued in Inglewood, Calif. in May, $56,700 was for single-family dwellings and $461,540 in multiple residences.