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Mileoge to Lumber Solesmen Reqches All-Time High

Chicago-The cost of keeping a lumber salesman on the road in an automobile has reached an all-time high. Mileage payments to lumber-industry salesmen driving their own cars on company business reached a national average ol 9.16 cents per mile this year, topping the 9-cent mark for the first time. National average for all industries is 8.91 cents, also a record high.

This represents a jump from a year ago, when th€ national average was 8.22 cents per mile. It is an increase of I5/o over 1957, when the national average was 7.72 cents per mile.

This was disclosed by A. J. Schoen, president of Wheels, Inc., Chicago, one of the nation's largest auto fleet-leasing firms. For the first time, more companies paid 9 cents per mile than any other rate-36/o. Next most popular rate was 8 cents per mile, paid by 23/. of the companies studied. Sixteen percent paid more than 9 cents per mile, while the lowest reported rate was 6.5 cents per mile, paid only by two companies.

According to Schoen, this year's jump in mileage payments to salesmen is a reflection both of increased costs and the nation's economic recovery. Mileage payments, which tended to hold steady during the recession of 1957-58, are now overcoming tl-reir temporary lag, as companies strive to hold the salesmen they have and add to their sales forces.

according to Keep California Green. They estimate that the outlook this year is even more grim than in 1958, when more man-caused fires were started than any year in history ! In California, 78/o ol the forest fires ire started by people, Hubbard said.

Keep California Green is a citizen and industry-sponsored organization to publicize fire prevention and carry on education programs. Headquarters are at 1903 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento,

Son Diego Hoo-Hoo Enioy Picnic

San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3 held its annual picnic, Sunday, July 19, at Picnic Lake Park in Potrero, about two ryiles past the Tecate turnoff on Highway 94 (Campo road). The lumbermen and'theii families enjoyed the trees aplenty, the two nice lakes where the kids could fish or row their boats, the swimming pool of which the crowd had exclusive tuse for two hours and could swim all dav if thev liked.

Barbecued beef was served and all fne beei and soft drinks they could hold. Games and prizes were staged and horses could be rented for riding. The barbecue was served at Noon and there was jukebox music for dancing and listening. Bill Seeley and Wes Thomas.handled the'reservations at $1.90 for adults and 909 for kids.

Residentiol Consfrucfion Up 32o/o

New construction activity expanded seasonally in June and brought the total value of work put in place to nerv highs of $5.0 billion for the month, and $24.9 billion for the January-June period, according to preliminary estimates prepared jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Commerce. The totals for both Tune and the first six months were up l5/o from a year-ago. Spending for new construction thus far in 1959 was at a seasonallv adiusted anlua,l 11te o! $55.1 billion, compared with actuai outlay of $49.1 billion for the entire year 1958.

Private outlays for new construction in the January-June 1959 period reached a record $17.5 billion,, mainly because of the 32/o expansion in residential building (to $10.8 billion) over the first half of 1958. However, this year's Mavto-June increase in residential construction wis less thin seasonal.

Responsibility for the collection and compilation of all statistics on housing and construction activity is being shifted to the Bureau of the Census of the U.S. Department of Commerce on July 1, 1959. The present report is the final one in this series to be issued iointlv bv the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Depirtment 6f Labor and the Business and Defense Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

O'Donovon New HBA Secretory

Pat O'Donovan has been appointed executive secretary of the Home Builders Assn. of Lbs Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties, announces HBA President Milton J. Brock, Jr. He assumed his new duties August 1, following resignation from the L. A. Chamber of Commerce, where he had managed the Construction Industries department for nearly slx years.

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Socromento Hoo-Hoo to Sponsor 'Forest Products Doy' of Foir

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club 109, pressing its drive for a "National Forest Froducts \Areek," has succeeded in having September 9 set aside as Forest Products l)ay at the coming California State Fair and Exposition in Sacramento, September 2 through 13.

The Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club will sponsor the "Day" by inviting all Hoo-Hoo in the state to take part and visit the fair on Forest Products Day, September 9. The club has also arranged for a no-host luncheon at the Picnic Grounds, located at the southeast corner of the fairgrounds. The luncheon will be open to all Hoo-Hoo and "Forest Products" personnel and will be marked by Hoo-Hoo banners.

Jack S. Berry, Supreme Custocatian of Hoo-Hoo International, will chairman the affair, and Wayne G. Hubbard, secretary-manager of "Keep California Green, Inc," will be in charge of special events.

There will be a headquarters booth on the grounds (well-marked) where all "forest products personnel" may obtain information and badges. Everyone connected with the industry should wear a badge.

Attending the luncheon will be representatives of W.P.A., W.C.L.A., C.R.A., State Foresters and leading lumber manufacturers and prominent lumbermen. The club has also arranged for a nationally known speaker for an after-lunch progfam.

Goldenberg Plywood & Lumber Moves to New Locqtion in L.A.

Harry Bailey, general manager of Goldenberg Plywood & Lumber Co., Inc., announces his firm has moved offices and warehouse facilities to 824 East 29th Street, Los Angeles, in the heart of the greater industrial district.

"\A/e now have more than 45,000 square feet of storage space which will enable us to carry a much larger, more diversified, inventory," said Bailey.

In the new central location. a faster, more efficient service is offered the trade, and the personnel has been increased to handle the anticipated expansion of sales, it was said.

Secr-Ghrome Appointment

Sea-Chrome, Inc., Los Angeles manufacturer of bathroom accessories, has appointed Ted G. Pollock of Tucson as manufacturers' agent in Arizona.