PLACTRVITTE tUMBfR COMPANY

P.O. Box 752, Plocewille, Colif. Mqnufqcturers

Specializtng In Roof Decking

felephone: Pl,qcerville-NAfionol 2-3385

Unicom Design Book Used At Fresno Stqte College

Unicom modular coordinated component principles are playing a major role in the learning processes o{ the industrial technology majors at Fresno State College, where the Unicom manuals are used as a reference text in the Wood Frame Build' ing Construction course.

The students' practical cxercise takes the form of building home models according to Llnicom construction methods.

The College's Industrial technology majors come to Fresno State with a strong background in residential building from junior colleges or with trade experience. reDorts Professor James H. Itockwell. "The U,licom emphasis should make this course r.aluable to those students because their previous experience has been of a quite traditional custom building nature," he said.

Pro{e,.sor Rockwell stated that the man- ual came to his attention just in time to rer-ise plans for the students' building project {or the 1963 spring semester.

"For construction practice, we build 17/r-inch equal to one-foot scale models," and all materials are sawn to scale b1' the students, Rockwell said.

Del Volle, Kohmon Nomes Mgr.

Del Valle, Kahman & Co. has appointed Rome Hanning manager of the company's southern Cali{ornia office at 1052 West Sixth St.. Los Angcles, according to Robert Del Vallc. Hanning replaces Jim Barron and will be calling on DVK's rvholesale and door manufacturing accoi.rnts in southern California, Arizona" New N{cxico and Texas.

Hanning comes to DVK with both a wide knowledge of the trade and the products {rom many years with Evans Products. A native of Seattle. he ruas mo-*t reoently manager of Evans Products Company's Dallas. Texas. branr;h. Prior to that Hanning had managed compan,v branches at Houston, Texas" and Oakland. California.

G-P Monogemenl Promotions

Five western employees in the distribution division of Georgia-Pacific Corp. have been recognized for outstanding achievement and promoted, according to Charles l). Fratt, operations manager.

Norm Rose has been advanced to manager of the San Jose distribution center. He set an excellent record of achievement in Los Angeles. Replacing Rose at Los Angeles is W. J. Van Noy who is promoted to branch manager there. Van Noy has been branch manager at Riverside since 1958. Replacing Van Noy is John J. Muckey. who will assume the responsibilities of branch manager. Muckey established an outstanding record as assistant branch manager at the Los Angeles center.

In the Pacific Northwest two men were advanced. Bill Holzer has been promoted from Billirrgs, Mont., to branch manager of the larger Spokane, Wash., center. New branch manager at Billings is Dean Hansen who has had an excellent seven-year record as a salesman and was resident manager at Twin Falls, Idaho.

Monlhly Lumber Fqcts

Production at Douglas fir sawmills fell off in July to 16I million feet, compared to June output of I75 million feet. Orders for July exceeded June orders, while July shipments barelv nosed out June.

Caiifornia Tumber Iaerchant

Seven months output totaled 5.4 billion feet, according to estimates of the ['estern Wood Products Association. Through the first seven months, orders topped 5.29 bil. lion feet. The industry's order file stood at 490 million feet. down slightly from rhe June figures. Total industry inventory was estimared to be I.002 billion feet.

The weekly average oI Douglas Fir Region lumber production in July was 161,656,000 b.f. or 102%o of the 1959-63 average. Orders averaged 171,295,000 b.{.; shipments 177,579,000 b.f.; rveekly averages for June were production 778,975,000 b.f., I72.9o/o of the 1959-63 average; orders I68,5I9,000 b.I.; shipments I77,274.000 board feet of lumber.

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George, Mary and son Rick of the Clough clan spent the first tu'o weeks of August recuper.ating on vacation to the miII country around Arcata. George is general sales manager for Tacoma Lumber Sales, Inc., Arcadia.

Rich Tucker, Kaibab general sales manager, spent late July at the company mills in Arizona. He attended a management seminar in Flagstaff before returning to his base in Santa Ana.

Swen Gummer, a partner in the MGM brake plant in Cloverdale, has returned home after a trip to Sweden and a vacation tour through Western Europe.

Disiribuiioii

Iljorn Haugen, salesman at Fir & Pine Lumber Company recently christened his cruiser, the "Lady Aquavit" and is spending two weeks cruising the Channel Islands and Mexican watels.

Horace Wolfe, Long Beach distributor, spent the first week of August seeing mill operators through the northern timber area on a procurement trip for fall deliverl..

Bob Richter. salesman at Fir & Pine Lumber Company, jetted to Corpus Christi fol a few days in August. He was trying his luck at fishing in the Gulf.

Bessie Stewert of Tvgin Harbors has returned from her Honolulu vacation wondering u'hy she didn't go 10 years ago.

Bob Wall. of the retail General Lumber & Supply in Los Angeles, flew to England last month on a business-pleasure trip. He visited his father's business friends in Berlin and met his aunt Gloria on the French Riviera.

Don MuIIer, Los Angeles manager of Hobbs-WaII Lumber Co., has completed an extensive trip to the northern mill country on his regular mid-summer procurement safari.

His many friends will be happy to hear that Vince Wilson has leturned from Texas where has was managaing a retail yard to take over management of Noah Adams Lumber's Fairfield branch. Vince for many years operated Central Lumber Company in Stockton.

UKIAH, CAL.

P.O. Box 804

HOmesteod 2-7535

Tumberman Tooks At Russia

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Moecow. This is probably due to poor logs, lack of adequate dry kiln facilities or a combination of both. The same type of floors in the Moscow University are coming apart in places, which is in keeping with the entire interior which is in exceedingly poor condition. The students are housed in wings of this same building and the enameled sinks and the other hardware looked like US rejects. The whole building is less than ten years old.

There is a tremendous crash program to build apartments but able to lessen appreciably shortage of apartments. hasn't been the appalling

Little wood is used in construction as they are precast concrete and are put into place up to eight stories by a single crane that runs parallel to the building site on a railroad type track. Assembly takes less than thirty days and the result looks like an eggcrate. Most new apartments have only three hundred feet of space for each family.

The hotel we stayed at in the city of Kiev is only three years old, yet the ceramic tile in the bathrooms was coming loose, the floors, again of the herringbone type were very poorly finished and the glass was of the usual poor quality. The wardrobe closets appeared to be made out of cheap Ga,bon and were poorly finished and manufactured. The doors were of painted hardboard.

Our conclusion is that Russia is fifty to one hundred years behind the United States.

Pooser Lumber

Pooser Lumber Co. in Sacramento is one of the newly approved members of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, according to J. J. Mulrooney, vice president of the association.

Logging by Skyhook

"Lighter-than-air logging" is being tried at Culp Creek, Ore' for the first time anywhere, so far as known.

The Bohemia Lumber Co. has a pair of skyhoolc balloons inflated with helium, undergoing trials on its Culp Creek logging operations.

The "skyhook," produced by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.o actually consists of two Dacron balloons tied together at the nose, forming a "V" with the tails extending outward at a 4O-degree angle, like an aerial snowplow.

The balloons, filled with 75,000 cubic feet of helium are designed to lift one end of logs weighing up to 2r/2 tons, according to the Goodyear Co. They are built to take the place of a "highline" for skidding logs down steep slopes and across rough terrain to loading docks.

Price of the unit is quoted at $65,000.

Lumber qnd Home Building

How big a part does lumber play in the horne construction picture? A just-published Labor Department report on single-family housing says the "lumber and lumber-products industry including prefabricated and package-house manufacture" accounts for 40 percent of the total materials bill, or 19 percent of the total construction price.

Labor Department economists figure that, of the average construction dollar for one-family dwellings, 48 percent goes for materials, supplies and equipment; 22 percent for wages to onsite workers, and 30 percent for such overhead costs as administrative off-site salaries, expenses for sales office and yard operations, profits and related items.

Unlike mony wholesolers, our yord inventory is mointoined with the retoiler in mindyou con olwoys depend on United tofill oll your Pine ond White Fir needs.