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CRA Stqrts New Lumber Groding Series of Redwood Schools in Stqte

Cal-Pacific Redwood Company. Other schools will be presented throughout the Redwood Region as requested by interested companies subscribing to the Redwood Inspection Service.

Company grading schools are conducted by RIS inspectors as a, part of their regular services to subscriber mills. The schools consist of four or five evening classes, ea"ch two hours long. The classes are designed as a refresher course for graders, trimmermen, edgermen and sawyers, Talvola said. Purpose of the schools is to raise quality standards and to integrate grading policies of redwood lumber companies.

The company refresher grading course is an offshoot of the community grading schools sponsored in the region for several years by redwood mills and the California Redwood Association.

Socromento Box Compony Closed

A new series of redwood lumber grading schools is being conducted for subscriber companies by the Redwood fnspection Service of the California Redwood Association, according to Ralph Talvola, RIS chief inspector. Erio Giuntini, member of the RIS inspectors staff, is conducting the first of the company grading schools at the Blue Lake yard of

Sacramento, Calif.-The Sacramento Box and Lumber Co. was closed down here August 18 by its new owner, Woodleaf Timber Corp., saying the boxmaking industry had become too speculative and competitive for economicil operation. It had been operating here since 1923 and was recognized as a leader in its field. Woodleaf bought Sacramento Box, Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co. and L. J. Carr & Co. from the Carr interests six weeks ago (CLM, 8/L/58).

5,OOO June Housing Stqils

The preliminary estimate of 115,000 new nonfarm dwelling units started in June is 15,100 units more than June a year ago, and 10,000 units above the May figure. The 530,400 units started the first six months of itriJ year is 16,800 units more than the same six months last year, reports the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association.

June Nonfarm Housing Starts

Highest for Month Since 1955

Secretary of Labor lames P. Labor James P. Mitchell said that, according to preliminary estimates of the U. S. Labor Departmentt Department's

Bureau of Labor Statistics, the June figure was I5/o above a year earJ!,e_r and was the highest total for any month since August 1955. Privately owned starts alone -increased 7Vo from May !o 104,500 in June-the best monthly figure in two years. Seasonally adjusted, private starts in June were at an annual rate of 1,090,000, the highest since August 1956, and was 19/o above the 9- JO, an(] was ry"/o aDove tne y-year low ot last -hebrua

At the end of the first half of 1958. the total of 530 February. 8, of 530.400 new houses and apartments put under construction was 3Vo more _than the 513,600 units begun in the comparable l95Z period. This year's private total (494,400 units) was about 2/o above_the figure for the first half of 1957. Housing begun with Government-backed mortgage assistance hai been accounting for the stronger activity in private starts during recent months, although for the first six months as a whole, conventionally financed units in 1958 accounted Ior 7O/o of the private total, or about the same as a year earlier.

Final figures for the first three months of 1958 show a continuation of the upturn in the number of units begun in multifamily buildings, for which the trend was generillv downward from 1950 until1957. The number of nJw ^p^ri- ment u-nits begun in the first quarter of 1958 ,epres&ted 17/o of the^starts-t^otll compared with I2/o in the first quarter of.1957, and9/o in the same period of'1955 and 1956.

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