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Boy Areq Strike Shorr-Lived

San Francisco, Calif .-10,000 carpenters struck major construction projects in San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda and Nlarin counties July 9 in a drive for higher wages and a shorter work day' The short-lived strike rvas settled three days later. Many laborers lvere laid ofi before the settlement but, had it continued for trvo weeks, about 25,000 craftsmen would have been thrown out of work' Building valued at more than $10O,000,000 was tied up in the labor standstill.

Bay area business agents of the carpenters' local were trying to sign up individual contractors on contracts calling for a 1S-cent hourly wage hike, a 1O-cent per man-hour employer contribution for a vacation fund after Sept' 1, and an agreement to grant a 7-hour day at eight hours' pay if employment fell off. Richard Boyle, executive vicepresident of the Associated Home Builders of San Francisco, stated it was unfortunate that union members themselves had not been given an opportunity to vote on management's counter proposals before the strike was called'

! Boyd Moving ro UPlond

! Uptund, Calif.-The Boyd. Lumber C^o.To"lt is prepari i"* to -o,r" its operations here from Alhambra to a site recently purchased from the city, a 1O-acre site on Arrorv Highway west of 14th Avenue. A $12,000 building permit for Boyd's office has been issued as the first building in its development. At least two other buildings for handling its lumbei business will later be erected on the site, reported the Upland News.

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Dixon Succeeds Gotton Bigger Post; Him of Ukioh

Mqsonife Gives

William A. Cotton. vice lrresident in charge of the Ukiah (Calif.) plant of Masonite Corporation, has been appointed vicepresident in charge of manufacturing of all plants, announced President John M. Coates. Mr. Cotton will headquarter in Chicago and supervise production activities in all of the company's facilities. In point of service, Cotton is one of the oldest em- ployes of Masonite, having joined the company in 1926 'w.hile the original plant rvas being built in Laurel (Miss.). In 1950, he n'as transferred to Ukiah when the California plant went into operation and has been general manager of it, and a vice-president, since 1954.

Succeeding him as resident manager in Ukiah will be Gordon Dixon, rvho joined N{asonite in 1949 in Laurel and moved to Ukiah in 1950.

8 Scrntq Bqrbcrrq Subdivisions

Santa Barbara, Calif.-Eighteen subdivisions with a total of about 1,200 lots were under construction or ready to start here last month, according to the City Planning Commission. Lots will range from 6,@0 square feet to three acres.

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Wood Preseryers Lecrrn of New Trends crf WWPOA Meeting

Outstanding authorities in the field of rvood preservation attended a meeting of the Western Wood Preserving Operators Association in Portland June 5 to.discuss matters of vital importanc€ to their industry and of great interest to Western development.

The meeting was presided over by Ralph F. Dreitzler, recently elected to the executive board of the American Wood Preservers' Association. Others in attendance were W. W. Jackson, a director of West Coast Lumbermen's Association and general sales manager, J. H. Baxter Company, San Francisco; Charles McCorrnick, Jr., McCormick & Baxter Creosoting Company, Portland; Vic Monahan, Cascade Pole Company, Tacoma; Don Mitchell, Koppers

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Company, Inc., Wood Preserving Division; A. X. Baxter, J. H. Baxter Company; Robert Graham, Oregon Forest Products Laboratory, and the luncheon speaker, Robert E. Mahaffay, director of advertising and trade promotion, West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

The group discussed an American Wood Preservers' Institute report submitted recently to the Building Research Advisory Board in Washington, D. C', for consideration by the F.H.A., entitled "How to Prevent Decay and Termite Attack in Houses." It is accompanied by comparable records sholving that pressure-treated materials can practically eliminate the present annual $500 million damage created by these attackers.

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The group also revierved the continuous research being conducted by the industry to improve preservatives and methods of impregnation. Interest was also engendered by the report of W. R. Bond, district engineer for the American Wood Preservers' Institute, in his review of the developments and trends in the wood preserving industry. Bond advises that the capacity of industry plants has been developed so that it is now abofi 35/o greater th,an the demand. He points out that pressure treatment of posts for highway and railroad rights-of-way, farm and home fences, garden retaining walls and similar uses u'ould more than continuously fill this unused capacity, but that the industry must first solve the problem of economic production and distribution.

Progress is being made with engineers and architects

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towards adoption and use of the industry-sponsored "Rigid Post" method of construction. Originated as an economic method for constructing farm buildings, it spread rapidly into use for industrial buildings and is now being considered for homes and schools. Pressure-treated poles or posts set into the ground to specified depths and on regular modules provide the entire foundation and frame of the building. This eliminates costly formwork and foundations, economizes and speeds construction. Cost-wise, it has revolutionized the farm and industrial building field and the wood preservers are confident that its possibilities in these and the home and school field is unlimited.

Paul Christerson, Manager of Pope-Talbot, Inc., Wood Preserving division, remarked upon the discrepancy in time and knowledge of r,vood and rvood preservation available to engineering and architectural students. This meeting will be followed later by similar meetings in Seattle and in San Francisco.

Foresf Service ro Try Cloud Seeding

Cloud seeding as a means of preventing or reducing the severity o{ lightning will be tried out in northern Arizona as part of the Forest Service-sponsored program knorvn as "Project Skyfire," the U. S. Department of Agriculture announced. Experiments rvill be carried out on the Coconino National Forest, r,vhere lightning causes hundreds of fires annually. More than 6,0O0 lightning fires occur each year in western forests.

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NEW CONSTRUCTTON TO REACH RECORD-BREAKING $44rlz BltLlON lN 1956

Outlays for new construction are expected to total $441 indications are that, compared with earlier expectations, new billion in 1956, 4/o above last year's record of $43 billion, ac- housing will decline more but other building will show greater cording to revised outlook estimates prepared jointly by the gains.

Departments of l-abor and Commerce which reflect very little The present outlook for construction assumes that the curchange in total construction activity from the $44 billion level rent high level of overall economic activity will remain relaprojected for 1956 by these agencies last November. Present tively stable, and that disposable income of consumers will con-