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July Conslruction Activity Up | 4o/o Over July | 958

The value of new construction put in place in July is up seasonally to $5.2 billion, according to preliminary estimates of the Bureau of Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. This is an increase of 3/o over June and l4/o over July 1958. The total value of work put in place in the first s6veir months of 1959 is $30.1 billion, l5/o ahead of the same period in 1958.

New residential construction, which shows no appreciable seasonal change in July, accounts for the 1959 increase in private construction with a 32/o expansion over the first seven months of 1958-from $9.3 to $12.3 billion.

Henry Cohen Joins Plycoo

Henry Cohen has been appointed sales manager of the Plywood Corporation of America, announces Norman T. Bushberg, general manager of the San Francisco Bay area's only plywood manufacturing plant. Cohen takes over the sales helm of PLYCOA after seven years' service in wholesale plywood sales in the Bay area and the state of Oregon.

" Babe, tlrot therds what I call a SOUND FOUNDATION I " observed Paul Bunyan as he delicately lifted up the old house with his pinkie. The Blue Ox grunted. "See them mudsills, girders an' posts? Been settin' there 25 years in the damp an' dark, supportin' 50,000 pounds o' house-an' not a trace o' rot or termites anywhere. Sound as the day they was cut...Babe, sure as you're true blue, that's BAXCO Pressure Treated Foundation Lumber*."