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Charles T. Gray, presider,t of the Stockton Box Company, announces its purchase of all the physical assets of the American River Pine Company and the Foresthill Logging Company at Foresthill, Calif. Operations started July 18 and will continue on a two-shift basis cutting approximately 30 million feet of lumber annually. Harold Foote will be in charge as resident manager. The transaction involved around $3 million. which included the sawmill, logging and automotive equipment, inventory of logs and eight million feet of finished lumber, together with 100 million feet of privately owned and Forest Service timber. Stockton Box Company was called the logical organization to purchase this mill because of its ownership of 350 million feet of timber in the Rubicon Ridge and Nevada Point areas, including French Meadorvs. This purchase obviates the necessity of the company building a mill in the timbered area as originally planned and announced.

Eugene Caldwell, vice-president and general manager of the Hyster Company, will sail from New York August 3 on a five-week management consulting tour of Chile under auspices of the Foreign Operation Administration of the Department of State. Caldwell has been selected to lead management discussions on industrial organization and financial management by the Council for International Progress in Management, which supplies FOA consultants and, unlike FOA's previous European team-tours, it will be carried out by individual authorities in respective fields. Caldwell will follow Harold C. McClelland, president of Old Colony Paint Corp. and chairman of the board of N.A.M., who has completed similar conferences in Chile on other management problems. Hyster Company, one of the leading manufacturers of material handling equipment, markets industrial trucks and tractor job attachments through a world-wide network of over 500 dealers.

As of July 12, 737 carloads of lumber were backed up in Northwestern Pacific yards, with more expected, while work progressed slowly from many delays in reopening the northern California tunnel which was blocked earlier from a cave-in.

Work was completed on a fence that makes Feather Falls, fourth highest cascade in the U. S., safe for observation. The falls are six miles from the logging community of Feather Falls and spectators can approach the brink of the 640-foot box canyon into which the Fall River plunges. Money for the fence was donated by the late Dr. O. O. Cooper, former executive of F'eather River Pine Mills.

J. G. (Ji*) Harries became manager of the Tamp.r, Florida, sales warehouse of Harbor Plywood Corporation. He was assistant manager of Harbor Plywood Corporation of California at San Francisco.

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Fire Wipes Out los Angeles Wqrehouse of Mason Supplies

A disastrous fire on July 72 completely wiped out the warehouse and offices of Mason Supplies, Inc., Los Angeles wholesale distribution firm of building materials and standard brand products for retail lumber dealers.

Immediately following the fire, Paul Sink, general manager of the concern, announced that temporary warehouse facilities had been established at 1650 South Alameda Street, Los Angeles, made lossible by Blue Diamond Corporation. Through the cooperation of many firms in the Southern California area, Mason Supplies was able to continue servicing its accounts without interruption by drawing on the inventory of these allied business concerns.

"Although our stock \vas completely destroyed, through the assistance of our many friends in the industry we have been able to take care of the needs of our customers. We have enjoyed complete cooperation and arrangements are now underrvay to rebuild a modern warehouse and plant, which we hope to occupy late this fall," declared Paul Sink. "We appreciate the cooperation from our many friends, customers, competitors and suppliers. They have helped us to continue rvithout interruption," he said.

Bob McDonnell Joins MICO

Bob McDonnell, prominent Southern California lumber executive, l-ras joined the sales staff of Mahogany Importing Company, reports Ji- Mcleod, president of the Los Angeles lumber concern.

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Elect Holes PC President

Nlorris Hales, Ceco Steel Products Corp., Los Angeles, was elected president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Producers Council at the recent June meeting. Or,r'en NlcComas, Arcadia Metal Products Co., rvas elected secretary. Special guest was William Glenr-r Balch, president of the Southern California chapter of the AIA. He spoke on the California Council of Architects convention at Santa Barbara in October, and the AIA national convention in Los Angeles in 1956.

Hales announced that the National Producers Council's traveling Caravan of Building Exhibits 'ivill be in Los Angeles for trvo days next March, with the Breakfast Ciub on Los Feliz reserved as the tentative site March 3-6. The Caravan will make this a stop on its nationlvide sr'ving of several months; it rvill comprise about 4O displavs.

Son Diego Merchqndise Mqrt

San Diego.-Construction rvill start soon on a $2 million merchandise mart and cooperative rvarehouse on a 13-acre tvaterfront site in suburban National City. Leon Bornstein, president of the San Diego Bureau of Home Appliances, the developer, said the countv merchandise mart will have 140,000 square feet of n'arehouse space and 110,000 feet in sholvrooms, parking, offices, etc.

Seqttle Permits Beqt 1954

Seattle.-Building permits here and in rural King county are running about $15 million more than last year despite some slack in June. For 1955's first six months, Seattle's permit valuation was $39,733,280, compared rvith $35,649,035 in last year's same period. King county permits totaled $45,241,239, against $34,322,307 in the first half of 1954.

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