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New Bulk Gemenf Fqciliries

New bulk cement facilities have been placed in operation at the Calaveras Cement Company plant at San Andreas, Calif. The new system, in conjunction with existing loading facilities, will permit the simultaneous loading of three bulk cement trucks, two sack cement trucks and a railroad car.

Two steel bulk loading tanks, 25 leet in diameter and each with a capacity of 2700 barrels, are mounted above a 10 foot x 6O foot-long Fairbanks-Morse truck scale so that cement can be rapidly discharged by gravity to a bulk truck waiting on the scale. Cement is pumped from storage silos 350 feet away into the bulk loading bins by a lO-inch FullerKinyon cement pump which keeps the bins constantly replenished.

Design work for the new project was directed by J. C. Powell, Calaveras plant engineer. The tanks were designed, fabricated and erected by Chicago Bridge & Iron Company.

Redwood Exhibifion Tour

A photographic exhibit going on tour of the U.S. and Canada under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D.C., features the works of an architectural genius who introduced California redwood as an artistic building material. The exhibit, co-sponsored by the California Redwood Association and the University of California's School of Architecture, is a photographic study of the works of the late Bernard Ralph Maybeck, noted particu- Maynoted particularly for his designs of the First Church of Christ Scientist, larly nrs oesrg'ns -Ftrst ot 5c1en Berkelev. and the Palace of Fine Arts in San Franci Ijerkeley, ralace ot rn San -tranclsco. Maybeck is also considered to be the originator of the socalled Bav Reeion stvle of architecture. Region style lled ljay t(eglon ot archltectufe.

The exhibit consists of 12 double-faced redwood panels into which are set more than 100 photographs of Maybeckdesigned residences and other structures. Traveling under the Smithsonian's National Collection of Fine Arts program, the Maybeck exhibit already is booked well into 1960.

Gonservqtion Conference in October

Berkeley-Plans for stepped-up scientific efforts to aid timber production, wood utilization, and other major wildland uses, will receive expert appraisal at a conference planned for mid-October by the University of California's

Wildland Research Center. The two-day meeting, focused on the role of research in wildland conservation, is set for October 19 and 20 at the Ahwahnee hotel, Yosemite National Park. Director Henry J. Vaux said information about the conference may be obtained by writing to The Wildland Research Center, University of California, 243 Mulford Hall, Berkeley 4, California.

TI. A. FREITAS

M. A. "Arch" Freitas, 68, vice-president and salesmanager of Eureka Mill & Lumber Company, Oakland, died August lZ in Providence hospital there from injuries received in a severe auto accident. Mr. Freitas had been fighting for his life since June 26, when he was critically injured in an accident on the Danville highway, near 'Walnut Creek.

A native of Concord, Mr. Freitas entered the lumber