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Portland, Ore.-A special committee earlier.this month approved a 335,000-member merger of two big lumber industry unions, the 135,00Gmember International Woodworkers of America and the 200,000-member International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers. Their executive councils are expected to act within 60 days and approval seemed certain.

Grass Valley, Calif.-A $300,000 fire destroyed the Matson Lumber Company sawmill here July 31. The mill, which employed 22 persons and kept another 80 loggers and truckdrivers busy, will not be rebuilt, the owner declared. , The conviction of Arthur King Wilson, wealthy Hum',boldt county lumberman facing an l8-month jail term for evading payment of $118,078 in withholding and Social . Security taxes, was afifirmed July 28 by San Francisco -* Federal Court Judge Louis E. Go6dman, -who ruled that a review of the evidence of Wilson's 1956 trial convinced him of the lumber mill operator's guilt, reported The San Francisco Examiner. The review had been ordered bv the U. S. Court of Appeals, which had questioned whether the government had proved Wilson's "wilfulness."

Dean Morrison was elected president of the Associated Home Builders of the Greater Eastbay, Inc. Other new officers are jMasud Hehran, Livermore, vice-president; Donald L. Stone, San Jose, secretary, and Louis G. Rahlves, San Leandro, treasurer. Directors are Lowell H. Duggan, Alameda; Louis C. Enkema, Berkeley; William L. Maynard, Oakland; Rowland E. Meadows, El Cerrito; Gordon Petersen, Oakland; Harold W. Smith, Orinda, and Rex C. Valpreda, Berkeley.

Yreka. Calif.-The McCloud River Lumber Co. lost an appeal before the Siskiyou County Board of Equalization against a $460,000 increase in the assessed valuation of its county holdings. County supervisors, sitting as a board of equalization, rejected the company's plea despite hints from Assistant Manager Milton Gerlicher that the increase might eventually pressure the lumber company into having to shut down its McCloud operation, reported The San Francisco Examiner.

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Yreka, Calif.-Klamath National Forest Supervisor Charles A. Yates has rejected a request from the Siskiyou County Lumber Manufacturers Assn. that he recommend ; to the Secretary of Agriculture that sale of Klamath Forest timber to Oregon loggers be halted. Yates appeared before the county supervisors and said he would "like to have

Western Dry Kiln operator Bud Kinney is justifiably proud of his new 8700-sq. ft. Pasco Steel warehouse, recently erected to provide much needed undercover storage. Kinney reports the building urent up in double-quick time using inexperienced yard help-not to mention a most pleasing, completed cost-persquare-foot figure. Besides the new warehouse, Western Dry Kiln facilities include an additional 4500 sq. ft. of undercover storage, a dry yard and up-to-date Bay Area kiln facilities.