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Apprentice C<rrpentry Conlest

Sacramento area joint apprenticeship and training committees along with the 42 Counties Carpenters JA&TC hosted the California state wide carpentry and mill cabinet contest in Sacramento on June 24-25.

In the carpentry contest, Alan R. Larkin, representing the 4 Bay Counties placed first, winning the $100 first prize and will represent California at the Western Regions Contest in Las Vegaq Nevada, August lB-20. First runner-up and winner of $75 was Allan D. Larsen, representing the 42 Counties Carpenters JA&TC. Second runner-up, winning $50 was James Lessard representing the l1 Southern Counties.

Doyle R. Yonts, also representing the 4 Bay Counties, was the Mill Cabinet winner of $100 and will join Larkin at the Western Regions Contest. First runner-up, Robert E. Mathews represented Ihe 42 Counties Carpenters JA&TC. Second runner-up, Robert Castillo represented the ll Southern Counties.

Eogle Lcrke Lumber Opens

Eagle Lake Lumiber Co. held an open house at its new Susanville, California, plant on luly 29, considerably embellishing the usual mill tour with cocktails, bufiet dinner and dancing (yes, the wives were along).

Eagle Lake Lumber succeeded the old Fruit Growers operation at Susanville a few years ago and since that time the entiie plant has been rebuilt from the ground up. The newest features of the plant includes new kilns, a new a\rtomated planing mill and new storage sheds replacing older facilities destroyed by fire last year.

Jerry Bruce is salesmanager of the pine and fir operation.

Edwqrds Lumber Moves

The wrecking ball will soon reduce San Francisco's historic 25 California Street Building to rubble, so Edwards Lumber & Manufacturing Co. has moved uptown, so to speak, into larger offices in the Hearst Building, $5 Third St., in San Francisco, the phone number remaining the same.

A father-son operation, Edwards Lum,ber was started in 1948 by Ed Israel, Sr. and had been at 25 California St. since 1950.

Sqles Agents Nomed

Lumber Specialties, Inc., L,os Angeles, has ,been named sales agent for t}le nearly three million ft. of Gnadian lum,ber and plywood from the lumber ship Irini Stefanou, which ran aground ofi the Mexican coast in January, 1965. (See CLM, July; 1966, Page 50.)

Heading up the sales effort is owner Howard E. Wray, Los $.ngeles area wholesaler since 1946. Lumber Specialties offices ard on Telegraph Road in Los Angeles.

Lumbermen Honor Revert

A group of 25 lumbermen and building materials wholesalers gathered last month for a testimonial dinner honoring long-time Iumberman Paul Revert on his 85th birthduy.

Paul Revert. whose lumber career spanned 3O years, was formerly manager of Los Angeles operations for the Red River Lumber Co. until the firm closed its doors in 1944.

T. M. "Ty" Cobb of T. M. Cob,b Co. in Los Angeles, host for the Los Angeles dinner, recalled for the group his first meeting with the guest of honor in 1926 when 'oPaul cut quite a figure in the territory with his gauntlet gloves, snap brim hat, driving a 1925 Jewett and always ready and willing to expound the virtues of the Red River Lumber Co."

He is now retired and lives in Los Angeles.

Foctory Builr Homes Neor 25%

Nearly one in every four single family dwelling units built in the United States during 1965 was factory fabricated, according to the Home Manufacturers Association.

A report released by HMA indicates that 24.11 percent, which represents 232,829 units, of all single family housing started last year was produced in industry factories.

In addition to this record production high, the fabricators manufactured an estimated 36,915 units of multi-family housing. The survey also indicates that there are 560 home manufacturers in the United States.

It was the thirteenth straight year that the percentage of manufactured homes to total single family starts increased. Industry officials expect the increase to continue at an even faster pace during the coming year than the previous growth rate. They attribute their prediction in part to escalation of the severe skilled labor shortage which the building industry now faces.

LltlA Officiols Scry Thonks

Confident that a productive year lies ahead for the lumber industry, LMA president Homer M. Hayward, recently elected at their Lake Tahoe convention, expressed gratitude for the assistance given him by association members.

Elected to the top post in early May, the 4S-year-old dealer from Salinas, California is guiding the association through the term of his office and shouldering executive responsibilities and decisions important to framing the policies of the membership.

Elected along with Hayward were vice president Arthur E. Masters, president of King Lumber Co., Bakersfield; treasurer Alfred H. Stockton, president of San Bruno Lumber Co., San Brunol National Dealer Director Frank E. Heard, president, Motroni-Heard Lumber Co., Woodland; and executive vice president J.R. (Bob) McBrien, Los Altos.