NEIA'TAN I REED COAAPANY

High Desert Lumber Yqrds Promote Home to Aid Hospitol Ghority

Yucca Valley, Calif.-Lou Holland of the Builders Showcase here, and Dean Howell of the Yucca Valley Lumber Co., as members of the construction and publicity committee, are instrumental in a worthwhile local charity now underway here. The Yucca Valley Chamber of Commerce is fostering a plan to construct a 2-bedroom home valued at $25,000 and to be given away Christmas day to some lucky donater to the Yucca Valley Hospital Fund.

The C. of C.'s Building and Publicity committee said the modern home will be built in 24 hours, Aug. 30 and 31, including erection, landscaping and furnishing, and will be ready for an "Open House" on Labor day, Sept. 1. The site is in Western Hills Estates on a lot donated by Art Miller, local developer. Labor, materials and furnishings are also all to be donated for the project.

Lumber Dealers Holland and Howell said nationwide publicity will be given the building feat in The Saturday Iivening Post, and tentative plans have been made for TV coverage.

At the annual installation dinner of the Valley Chamber, July 10, I)ealer Holland urged all local craftsmen who would donate their time and efforts to contact him or fellow Dealer Howell at their retail yards. "This is a project which will require much planning and coordination to make it successful," Holland said. "Therefore, we must plan ahead. We have the land and the building materials, now we need the craftsmen."

The committee met again later at Burnt Mountain Dude Ranch and all tradesmen in Yucca Valley offered their services and support in the project, including the general contracting, slab, ornamental stonework, plumbing, framing, and electrical work. A Banning firm volunteered to do the roof. All labor was offeied free, and materials either free or at cost.

The idea to attempt such a feat for the hospital fund originated with Bud Stewart, an associate of Lou Holland's in the Builder's Showcase. Dealer Holland then proposed the idea at the Chamber of Commerce's July 3 meeting, wlrere it was received with enthusiasm. The 1964-foot, 2-bedroom home will be built to plans and specifications furnished by the Masonite Corporation. Harold Brown is coordinator of the project.

Hqsselberg to Twin City Sqles Post

The addition of Bert Hasselberg to Twin City Lumber Company's growing Northern California sales force is announced by T-C Partners Hac Collins and Bill Ramsay. Hasselberg, who was formerly associated with Fairhurst Lumber Company, will continue to reside in Marin county and will be working out of T-C's San Rafael ofifrces.

Bert, a University of Washington graduate ('42), entered the lumber business in the late thirties working part time in the woods while attending college. After graduation, he went to work for A. M. Paulson Lumber Agency, first at Scott Lumber Company, Burney, and later in the Paulson Lumber Agency sales office in San Francisco. In 1946, he became a partner and manager of a retail yard in San Carlos, remaining there until 1948, when he joined Don Coveney, owner of California Lumber Sales. After several years with Coveney, Bert joined Arcata Redwood's Northern California sales force, remaining there until two years ago when he joined the Fairhurst organization.

Steel Buildings ln Golor

Complete details on the recent development of the first pre-engineered steel buildings in color, using a new vinylaluminum protective coating, is contained in a new brochure available free from Stran-Steel Corporation, Detroit 29. Mich.

New l6-poge Redwood Booklet Aid to Retoil Yqrd Soles

How to add living values to a home is the subject of a handsomely illustrated "Home Planners" booklet published by the California Redwood Association and available now, without cost, to homeowners, builders and other interested persons. The 16-page booklet, containing many striking illustrations of interior and exterior redwood usage, principally in color, was prepared as a special edition of "Redwood News," quarterly publication of the California Redwood Association.

This booklet is intended as a service to homeowners who are interested in remodeling or changing the appearance of their homes, and as a source of ideas to those who are actively interested in the design and building of a new home.

ASSOCIAIION-sraded plywoods

We distribute the reyolutionary new BERRY FloatAway steel folding-doors -available in 8' height for floor.toceiling closets and storage. And each door panel is backed to full height with fibrous sound-deadening material, too!

Imaginative designs by prominent architects throughout the United States show the versatility and great natural beauty of redwood. One of the featured homes shows how redwood can be left to weather naturally, without benefit of any exterior finish, to achieve a driftwood gray tone. Also featured are redwood exteriors which have been stained or painted. Uses of various patterns of redwood siding are illustrated, to show how siding may be used to complement or serve as a contrast to the natural lines of the home, and how redwood siding may be used in combinations with native stone or brick.

Interior design with redwood is illustrated in the use of all-heartwood paneling for subdued interiors, or the contrasting effects which may be obtained by using A-grade redwood which includes the creamy alburnum wood. Several designs show how redwood siding and paneling can be used to integrate the indoor-outdoor relationship of modern living.

The use of small redwood jalousies for control of sunlight and ventilation and large-scaled vertical louvers which double as movable space dividers and shade devices are among other imaginative millwork ideas presented in the booklet.

For single copies of the "Home Planners"' booklet, write to the Service Librarv. California Redwood Association, 576 Sacramento Streei San Francisco 11, Calif.

Newmqn Heqds Seosoning Commiftee

Bob Newman of The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia, Calif., was elected chairman of the Redwood Seasoning committee at the group's meeting July 26 at Willits, Calif. Re-elected secretary was Pete Johnson of the California Redwood Association.

The committee, made up for the most part of technical specialists from throughout the redwood industry, voted tq host the 1959 joint annual meeting of West Coast Dry Kiln Club at Eureka. May 7-8 was set as a tentative date for the meeting.

Topics covered during the committee meeting included a discussion on uniformity of air drying. The committee, one of the oldest technical groups within the redwood industry, was formed to study common problems in the seasoning of redwood lumber, for the benefit of the industry.

Nodhern Cqliforniq Lumbermen to Stoge 3rd Annuql Roseville Tourney

September 5 is the date set aside for the 3rd annual Northern California Lumbermen's Golf Tournament, again to be played on the Sierra View Country Club course in Roseville. Tee-off time has been set for 8:00 a.m., according to Chairman George Duff, Cal-Ida Lumber Co., Auburn. Cost of golf entry is $12, which includes registration, green fees, dinner and trophies. Non-golfers attend for $7, which includes registration, dinner and prizes.