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3382 El Camino Avenue Sacramento 21, Calif. TWX- SC 67 in the cement industry. It introduces specially designed instruments that eliminate almost all of the human checks on operation vvhich would normally be required.

Clinker from the kiln was stockpiled until July 15, after rvhich it rvill be ground into cement in nerv finish mills.

The kiln began producing exactly 355 days after the order for it was placed. Normal construction time for a kiln of its size ranges from 14 to 18 months. Calaveras saved time by having the kiln shell fabricated ir-r the San Francisco yards of Bethlehem Pacific instead of in the east. and by assembling it rvith the help of three shifts (Walsh Construction Co.) working around the clock.

Wm. Wallace Mein, Jr., Calaveras president, said the project rvas rushed to help insure a steady supply of cement in northern and central California during the summer months when construction activity is high.

"We've had to cope with severe cement shortages during each of the past several years, but hope that from now on we'll be able to ship our customers all the cement they need," he said.

Although the kiln is 360 feet long, has a diameter of 1l feet 3 inches, and weighs 500 tons, it turns at the push of a button. All of its operation is automatic. It even calls for an attendant if it needs help.

To maintain its burning temperature of 28000 F, the

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Sin"" 1945 kiln uses 3,000 cubic feet of natural gas per minute. This is enough fuel to cook Sunday dinner in 5O homes.

The Calaveras fifth kiln is the major item in a 94,0@,000 plant expansion program that is increasing the company's production by 30/o.

Other items in the program include new cement storage silos, slurry tanks, crusher, coolers, electric precipitator, multiclone, ra.w and finish mills, materials handling ecluipment, and neu' shops, offrces, and warehouse.

The crew at Big Lagoon Plant No. 3 sawmill of the Hammond Lumber Company and the crew which does the logging for this operation have both completed over 2 full year of work with no lost-time accidents.

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Brush in New locotion

The Brush Industrial Lumber Company, wholesale dis_ tribution yard with sugar pine, ponderosa pine and hard_ woods, moved to its new location last month at 7GS3 Tele_ graph Road in Montebello, Calif., where the Southern Cali_ fornia dealers can be better served, it was felt. president John A. Brush said the new location will concenrrate more on foreign and domestic hardwoods and also render the trade better service. The same telephone number remains: RAymond 3-3301.

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Long Beach, Calif.-June buildine permits here totaled 2,337 at $3,878,030 valuation.

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Fred Tolbot qnd Joe ShiPmon

Form Tolbot lumber ComPonY

Partners Fred C. Talbot, Jr. and Joseph T. Shipman, Jr. have formed the Talbot Lumber Company, 819 A Street, San Rafael, California. The new wholesale lumber concern, which has also been appointed Northern California representative for Big River Lumber Company at Ukiah, will specialize in mixed truck-and-trailer loads and rail shipments of green redwood and fir. In addition, the firm will handle all species of west coast forest products on a direct mill shipment basis.

The new partnership brings together two men well known throughout the lumber industry of the West, Talbot being formerly connected with Pope and Talbot, Inc., and Shipman with Cloverdale Redwood Co. as salesmanager.

Joe Shipman, a graduate of the University of Oregon and a Marine Corps veteran, has had years of both production and sales experience lr'ith several California and Oregon sawmills. He at one time rvorked for C. D. Johnson Lumber Company at Portland and, from 1950 to 1952, rvas with Twin Harbors Lumber Company, both at Eureka and Grants Pass, Oregon. In 1952, Shipman joined Hollow Tree Redrvood Company, rvhere he rvas mill salesmanager at Ukiah, prior to taking over as salesmanager at. Cloverdale Redrvood.

Talbot, who began a career of lumber prior to WWII rvith Pope & Talbot, Inc., at St. Helens, Oregon, has spent his entire lt'orking life in lumber, with the exception of a stint rn''ith the air corps during WWIL After receiving his "reDrieve," Talbot spent three years in Seattle as as- sistant manager of the Puget Mill division of pope & Talbot. He later went to its Portland sales oflices for tu,o years, and then was transferred to Neu. York as assistitnt manager of P&T's of6ce there. For the first six months of 1955, Talbot was a director oi the Forest products Division, BDSA, Dept. of Commerce, in \\rashington, D. C. and, until joining forces rvith Shipman, had been the California representative for Eaton-Young Lr.rmber Company, of Den_ ver and E,ugene.

The netv phone number to call for Talbot Lumltcr Company in San Rafael is Glenwood 3-4322.

FPRS Membership or Highesr

Twelve months of untiring efforts and travel throughout the U. S. and Canads by President Moss Christian of the Forest Products Research Society, during r,vhich the society has expanded in membership and scope of activities, culminated with the 10th annual FPRS national meeting at Asheville, N. C., June 4-8. The meeting, under Mr. Christian's direction, was the largest in society history, when nearly 1@ technical papers were presentecl by exDerts in various phases oi the forest products industry.

The president has emphasized membership cluring his tenure. "The forest products industry is a diversifred indus_ try of some 100,000 individual plants,,' he said, ,,and the opportunities for growth are unlimited." Under his en_ couragement, membership has increased more than 10/o, with current representation of over 3,000.

(Tell them you saw it in The California Lwmber Merchant)