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INIAND TUMBER COMPANY
ICL from Yord ltocks Direct Mill Shipmenrs
Wholesalers of West Coast Forest Products
Red Cedqr Shingle Promotion
Formation of a special News Service for the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau is announced by Baker & Stimpson Advertising of Seattle.
The News Service will issue news releases and product inform-ation copy designed to keep you up to date on trends, statistics and personnel of this importanf Pacific Northwest industry and its national markets.
A key function of the News Service u,ill be to orovide all_publications with basic background copy on fhe red cedar shingle and its building cbmpanion, -the machinegrooved sidewall shake.
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We would appreciate your sending all requests for intormattolr and photographs to: Jim Lane, News Service, Red Cedar_Shingle Bureau, 300- Joseph Vor.. Building, Seattle 1, Washington.
Report On 196l Operoting Cosfs Survey
National Building Material Distributors Association ar1nounces_publicati-on of its Report on 1961 Operating Costs for the Building Material Distributor Industry.
The,operating ra-tios shown in the report are based upon IttS t?_Ot figures submitted by Wholesale Building Material Distributors on a voluntary basis, and are analyzed to provide management with a guide for making decisibns and locating potential trouble areas, says Association President, p B. Richardson, president, Richardson Lumber Co., Denver, Colo.
The report analyzes participating companies by earnings ratios, and_shows comparative opeiating-ratios over a fiviyear period.
For more information, write NBMDA Ffeadquarters, 22 West Monroe Street, Chicago 3, Illinois.
Special design and fabrication of equipment for the lumber inclustry is illustrated by Berman Leasing Company rlelivery van, shown here, produced for Weyerhaeuser Company.
We-n-erhaeuser needed these special trucks for delivering spl,it loads of plyvrood, panels, a,nd fin,ished lumber from its Philadelphia distributiorr cerlter to points with,in a radius of abo.ut fifty miles. One-man handling of loads was essential, as were reduct,ion of loading and unload,ing time and decreased load damage in hauling. To m'ee,t the Weyerhaeuser requirement, Berman designed a 2}-foot e,ight-ton p,ayload van with side bays frtted with nylon covers. Floor to top stake dividers separate particle loads and the bays m,ake each load accessible withou,t need for shifting others. The van body is moun.ted on an International BC-182A chassis.
The California Redu'ood Association's new pamphlet, Redwood Conservation and Tree Farms, reports ihat^wellmanaged redwood plots may contain moie lumber after logging than most forest areas of the United States before harvesting.
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