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(Continued from Page 1) tion, 127,077,0217 leet; shipments, lnJ4Z,676 feet; orders, 100,597,167 feet (ZO.B/o under production). In the week ended August 27, 162 operating mills reported production 126,8n,522 feet, shipments 1i6,801,863 feet, and orders 106,222,754 feet.

Western Pine Assn. reported for lO2 mills in the week ended September 3 : production, 88,654,000 feet; shipnrents, 80;484000 feet; orders, 70,938,000 feet. For the year to date, both shipments and orders were comfortablv above production and all were ahead of 1954 although orders in the week were 6/o below the rveek ended August 27.

Southern Pine Assn. reported lor l2l mills in the rveek ended .September 3 : production, 18,957,000 feet; shipments, 19,463,000 feet (2.67/o above production) ; orders, 19,119,000 feet. Although new orders were 2/o behind the week ended August 27, they werc 2/o over 1954.

California Redwood Assn. reported production of. 46,805,000 feet and shipments of 38,892,000 feet by 20 mills during July 1955. Production was 5,716,000 feet over Juiy 1954, while shipments decreased 8,891,000 feet, and both were under June 1955. The decrease reflects the usual July mill shutdown for overhaul and vacations, the collapse bv fire of the NWP R.R. tunnel north of Alder Point in southern Humboldt county which prevented shipment byrail of nine of the 20 reporting companies from June 30July 27, and the continuing car shortage. These three

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Homer M. Hayward, general manager of the Homer T. Hayward Lumber Company in Salinas, is currently bracing himself for the "big plunge" on September 24. Homer and his bride will spend the month of October honeymooning in Hawaii.

Carvel Brown, general manager of Orban Lumber Company, Pasadena, returned last week from his vacation. He and his family toured sections of the state, visited national parks and had a good time loafing, swimming and fishing.

Mack Giles, Drakes Bay Lumber Company, with offices in "sunny San Rafael," spent a week during the first of August calling on mill connections in northern California and southern Oregon. He was accompanied on the trip by Art Bond, Drakes Bay buyer, of Cloverdale.

Floyd Scott, president of Western Mill and Lumber Company, Los Angeles, spent two weeks during August in northern California on a procurement trip.

Ev Lewis, Gamerston & Green Lumber Company, Oakland, and Mrs. Lewis returned to reality August D, alter spending two weeks' vacation in the Eel River couhtry.

Joe Terrell, president of Lerrett Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Terrell, accompanied by Don Muller and his wife, spent 10 days the latter part of August in San Francisco and Ukiah. It was a combined business and pleasure trip for the lumber folk.

H. T. Merritt, Santa Fe Lumber Company auditor, and the Merritt family returned to San Francisco September 6 following a two-week vacation trip through Colorado and Yellowstone Park.

Don Bufkin, Hobbs Wall Southern California sales representative, with his wife Helen and daughter Donna, spent the last week of August in San Francisco and Redding, California. Immediately following his return to Los Angeles, Don and his wife boarded a flight for Detroit to attend the annual Hoo-Hoo convention.

Frank Brown, Helms Lumber Company, and the Brorvn family spent the last two weeks of August vacationing lt Eel River.

Ray Wiig, manager of Southern California Lumber Sales, made a fast business trip to the Kaibab lumber section in Arizona. He returned the first of this month.

Northern California Plywood, rnc., has acquired Para- gon Plywood, Inc., plywood factory at crescent city,I paragon

Corp. at Port Angeles, Washington. The purchase price| of gJo00,00o was paid in cash for the comptete mill prop- erties in crescent city. The sale was completed at the| main office of the Bank of America in San Francisco.

Northern California Plywood, fnc., was organized as a co-op worker-owned plywood plant by Ray Robbins, presi- dent of North-Robbins Plywood, fnc., Seattle. Through the Securities Exchange commission registration, and pJr- mits for the sale of stock in the states of California, Oregon, andWashington,Robbinssold300workingsharesof ranged for the balance of finan'cing to complete the transfer

$500,000 has been provided for working capital. In addi- tion, the timber program included financing arrangements making available to the plant approximately g12,000,000 il worth of timber.

North-Robbins Plywood, fnc., will be the exclusive sales company for the mill's entire production. The sales company represents a number of Douglas Fir plywood and door manufacturers through their Seattle home office and branch offices and representatives throughout the ,18 states. The plywood plant is located in one of the last large supply areas of timber for this type of industry and has prospects of many years of full operation. The mill is practically new, having been built less than three years ago, and is considered one of the finest up-to-date plants in the industry, having a production capacity of over six million feet of plywood per month.

NBMDA MeetingNovember 14

The National Building Material Distributors Association will hold its annual fall meeting at the Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, Ill., November 14 and 15, announces S. M. Van Kirk, general manager.

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