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Six-Month Trends Show Big Business Increcrse Over | 958

Six-months business figures indicate a "real upswing in the economic solvency of the Southland," J. E. Fishburn, Jr., president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, declared, reporting figures compiled by the Chamber's research department in a monthly "Business Trends" compilation. Fishburn pointed out that "many aspects of the prosperity-measurement scale are well ahead of last year" for comparable January-June periods.

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Capital investments in announced new plants and expansions showed a 3.8/o rise in the Chamber report. Total construction figure for Los Angeles county was ahead in all categories: total valuation of building permits, new dwelling units, residential valuation and deeds recorded.

Total valuation was up 14.6/o to a 1959 January-June figure of. $743,944,000, as compared to last year's comparable period total of $649,300,000. The number of new dwelling units involved during the six months increased 10.3% from a 1958 figure of 31,911 to 35,'190 this year.

Residential valuation was up 9/o to $334,738,000 for the period covered by the report. In 1958, the valuation was $306,974. A big jump was seen in the number of deeds recorded, with 109,755 in 1959 and 89,202|ast year, an increase of. 23/o.

During the six-months period, 484,775 out-of-state autos entered Southern California, an increase of. 2.1%. The nurnber of passengers also increased, showing a rise of 2.2/o. Last year, 1,257,030 passengers entered through the border stations, while the comparable figure for 1959 is 1,285,295.

McGoll to Twin-City Lumber Go. Post

Well-known Northern California Salesman Harry McCall has been named to head the Fresno office of Twin-City Lumber Company at 4583 East Olive Street. A native of Cottage Grove, Oregon, McCall received his lumber training with his uncle, W. A. Woodard, head of the W. A. Woodard Lumber Company, recently sold to Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Later, McCall spent several years with Mag- nolia Lumber Sales at Ashland, Oregon, and more recently had worked the San Joaquin Valley area for Santa Fe Lumber Co. and Clay Brown & Company.

Hollow free Purchqses Timber

Bill Moores, head of Hollow Tree Lumber Company, reports the purchase of. 12,@0 acres of timberlands located in southern Mendocino county. The purchase, which was finalized last month, was negotiated through the Murphy family, former owners of the property. The additional timber, which is predominantly old-growth redwood but includes sizable stands of sugar pine and Douglas fir, will add more than five years' reserve to the company's already sizable timber holdings, Moores noted.

Blood donations are still urgently requested for M. A. 'Arch" Freitas, head of the Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland. who remains on the critical list at Kaiser hospital, Walnut Creek, following his highway smash-up. Please do him some good, won't you?-at any of the three Kaiser hospitals-San Francisco, Oakland or Walnut Creek.

Fairhurst Lumber's plywood chief, Ernie Bacon, toured Humboldt and Del Norte counties on business during the week of Ju.ly 20.

San Rafael Wholesaler Bob Kilgore visited Humboldt county suppliers during an early July week.

Derith Lindsay, daughter of Warren Lindsay of the Lindsay Lumber Co., paramount, Calif., was in the Miss California beauty pageant at Burbank and was chosen