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Methods for keeping in step with the vast production of building science research literature currently published throughout the world, and for making the new knowledge more conveniently available, will be considered at the Fall Conferences of the Building Research Institute to be held in Washington, D.C., November 17-19. Charles H. Topping of DuPont, BRI past president, will head up the sessions to review this constantly growing store of information, and leading workers in this field will report on their activities in classification, indexing and organization.

Constructlon of a $300,000 wood treatment plant by Southwest Forest Industrlee, Inc., wlll soon begln on land leased from the Yovapal Indlan Trlbe. The 3Z-acre site ls on the Santa, Fe Ballway' approxlmately l/2 mlles north of Prescott' Arlzona. Source of the tlmber to be usod ln the new wood treatment plont ls the Proecott National Foreet, whlch on May 23 olfered for sale 6,900,000 board feot of tlmber for sa,w logs anil tie logs a,nd 1,898,000 lineor fest of tirnber for utllltlr poles. The saw logs wlll bo processed at the new wood trea,trnent plant into railroad tles.+f whlch approximately 50,000 wlll be used by The Apache Rallway, at McNary, a subsldlary of Southwest Forest Industries. An atltlltlonal 10,000 trea,tod ra,ilroad tles wlll be used by the compamy's logging railroad ln connoction wlth lts I'mber mills ln Flagstaff.

Latest member of Forest Fiber Products Company's staff of field representatives is John Caruth, recently assigned to the Southern California-Arizona area. Caruth was born in Belfast, Ireland, and worked there upon graduation from the Royal Academy with his father's contracting firm of Caruth & Sons. His business experience includes the building field with a Los Angeles fabricating firm.

Ifenry W. Balslger, bulldors' hardware expert wlth nearly a half-century of experience in the lndustry, has been appolnted contract hardware specialist for The Yale & Tovvne Manufacturlng Company ln the state of Hawall. Balslger ffrst jolned Yale & Towne ln 1913 and a,t the tirne of his a,ppointment was servlng as contract hardwane speclaIst for Yale & Towne tn Ca,lifornia and Arlzona. Balslger wlll work very closely wlth Amerlcan Factors, Ltd., YaIo & Towtro's contract handwaro dlstrlbutors ln Hawaii.

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