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Government Selling Big Stand Alaska B.M.D. in San Jose Moves Timber fior Pulp Makins To New Location

On August 2nd in Washington, the U. S. Forest Service opened a qualified bid for the sale of a billion and onefualf cubic feet of spruce and hemlock timber on government land in Alaska, which sale is expected to open a great new industry-the wood pulp industry. There was but one bidder, the Ketchikan Pulp & Paper Company, a newly formed affiliate of the great Puget Sound Pulp & Timber Company. A month ago this concern also took an option on a pulp mill site six miles from Ketchikan, where their first pulp mill is expected to start. It will take two years to build the plant. It is expected that more plants rvill follorv, and a great new industry will be built on Alaska forests. The timber just being sold is ideal for making rvood pulp.

Government figures shor,v that there is about 14 billion cubic feet of commercial timber available in Alaska, and the step just taken follows years of thinking and planning in this direction. Previously there had been no bidders for this timber.

This first sale is timber on a strip 300 miles long in the Tongass National Forest, near Ketchikan.

Bcrbecue For Coqst Counties Declers

The third Annual Barbecue of the Coast Counties Dealers has been planned for Saturday, August 21, at the Salinas Golf Club. A gala afternoon and evening of good sport, good food and good fellorvship have been lined up.

"A new high in wholesale service operations" is the promise behind the announcement that Building Material Distributors, Inc. has moved its San Jose warehouse operations from 668 Lincoln Avenue to, a new locatiqn at 582 Stockton Street.

According to F. M. Riley of the San Jose branch, the new warehouse location has perfect trucking and parking facilities and should result in faster, easier movement of materials.

"Our invitation to inspect the new distribution center on Stockton Street will show retailers that henceforth they can expect a new high in wholesale service operations from an even more complete stock of quality merchandise," 1\Ir. Riley concluded.

Building Material Distributors, r'vith main offices in Stockton, also distributes out of Stockton, San .Jose and Fresno rvarehouses to cover all of Central California and Western Nevada.

Awcy From Farm Trend

Far reaching in its implications for the hornebuilding industry is the long-term trend of families away from rural areas into non-farm communities. In the last 60 years, the Housing and Home Finance Agency points out, the percentage of farm families has declined steadily from 38 percent to 17 percent and the trend is not believed to have run its course.