RESISTAt{T

Now, with Blue Diamond 5/s"'Fire Halt special core wallboard, applicator craftsmen have a ffne handling and ffnishing gytrrsum wallboard with a one hour fire resistioe rating.

Fire Halt may be used in institutional, commercial, industrial, apartment and home construction-wherever high quality interiors combining great strength with increased fire resistance are desired or required by building codes.

Blue Diamond's Fire Halt data sheet will be sent you on request. It gives full information on how to use Fire Halt in one hour walls, partitions and ceilings, in accordance with Underwriters' Laboratories' ffre resistive rating requirements.

New York City.-Dollar volume of building permits showed the month of May hit an all-time high of $647,806,950,9/o above April. The previous monthly record was June 1955, at $634,030,839. Dun & Bradstreet reported a 217-city survey showing a volume of $2,675,634,765 for the country's first five months of 1958, ttp 4.8/. from the same 1957 span.

lvory Pine Co. R.eceives 1957 Scfety Awqrd

Dinuba, Calif.-The Ivory Pine Company, Dinuba, was awarded the annual safety award of the California Lumbermen's Accident-Prevention Committee ata dinner meeting in Fresno, May 6, for the lowest frequency of accidents in the Mt. Whitney chapter. Ivory Pine staff members who were honored included Walter LaCasse, W. f). Runge, E. C. Mclean, B. H. Butler and Tohn R. Eckstein.

fuolumne lumber Jubilee

Tuolumne City, Calif.-The Lumber Jubilee opened here June 28 with a program of lumber events including two parades, logchopping contest and the state championship tug-of-war between lumberjacks and a Modesto weightlifters' club.

(Tell thern uou saw it in The California llumber Llerchant)