OFRED C. HOTMES TUMBER COMPANY O

Specializing in tlfixed Shipmenfs of Doug las Fir & Redwood

Produclion & Home Office:

Fred HO[ME9/Corl FORCE

P. O. Box 987

Fort Brogg, Colif.

TWX: Fort Brcgg 49

Phone: YOrktown 4-37OO

Ukiah Ofice: Gil Sissons

HOmesteod

2-s438

Wholesole

Arcats Ofice; Fron Holmes

VAndyke 2-3657

TWX: ARG 39 Only

June Nonform Housing Storts Up 2Oo/o Over June 1958

Nonfarm housing starts rose to 136,000 in June, from 134,000 in May, according to preliminary estimates of the Bureau of the Census. A moderate seasonal decrease usually occurs between May and June. The June 1959 starts total for privately and publicly owned units was 20/o greater than a year ago, and the highest recorded for June except in 1950.

The 131,200 privately owned dwelling units begun represented a seasonally adjusted'annual rate of 1,370,00G-up a little from the estimated rate of 1,340,000 for May, but somewhat below the seasonally adjusted rate of 1,390,000 for April. When averaged for the first six months, the seasonally adjusted annual rate of private starts in 1959 amounted to 1,378,000 units, compared with the relatively low rate of 989,000 for the same 1958 period.

Soulhern Calilornia Oficel

Don Muller

30712 Driftwood South Loguno, Gqlifornic HYott +80j21

9y tlt:. 6qa qi.June 1959, a total of 709,500 new private and public dwelling units had been put under construction, an advance of 32/o over the first six months of 1958. and lhe .higlr^e^sl for th.e period i1 any year. This year's private total (690,700 units) exceeded bi 192,700 uirits ttre tgSg private total for the first six months.

Long Beoch Yqrd Robbed of l$45OO

The George-T.._Wiley L_umber Co., Long Beach, Calif., was robbed of $4500 on Sunday afternoon-, August 9, in a daring burglary when a bright-red, bushy-haiied bandit lrl_ed the halds and mouth of Bookkeeper Morris Dale Ball, calmly threw his jacket over two lo&ed money travs from the yard's vault, and walked out of the store while several salesmen and customers of the yard were unaware wh_at was €oing on in the one-story, fi-ame offrce at 6925 Atlantic Blvd.

Mixed or Stroighl Truck & Troiler Shipments From Quolity Mills in Arizono - Colorodo & Utoh