WOODE]I SHUTTERS

There is nothing like Hurricqne wooden shutlers to enhqnce lhe beouty of o home.

* Only the finest quolity speciolly kiln-dried wood is used in q Hurricone shufter, f All ioints hove firmly glucd dowel construclion.

f, Well sonded for eosy pointing or stoining. f Use them lo dromqfize windows, cobinefs, book-co.ses or for other decorqlive uses.

f, All Genuine Hordwood used throughoul eoch unii.

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R.ecord Cut of Notionql Forest Timber

Timber operators in California purchased and cut record-smashing amounts of National Forest timber during 1955. 1,300,000,000 board feet were sold under new contracts and 1,000,000,000 board feet were cut during the year. The volume cut is enough to construct 100,000 average homes-sufficient to house the residents of a new city about the size of Oakland or San Diego. The volume of timber business that year represents a 2O/o increase over 1954. The timber cut was valued at more than $15,000,000, while the value ofthe amount sold amounted to more than $23,000,000.

The National Forests of California can continue to produce sawlogs at about the current level, under a program of sustained yield management. This means an annual crop harvest of about 1-1/3 billion board feet from the National Forests.

. Kellogg-Little Company, California distributors of McCulloch chain saws, etc., opened a branch retail outlet in Fresno, Sept. 7. Robert Kendall, partner in the San Francisco firm since last September, was named manager of the new central valley branch.

The record cut of timber was produced from 18 national forests, led by the Plumas National Forest with a cut of 178 million board feet. At the other extreme, the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California produced a cut of 16,000 board feet. Cutting in the limited but highly important stands of timber in Southern California is being confined exclusively to removal of insect trees to control epidemic losses in these valuable recreational and watershed forests.

Gombined Wesf €oqst Kiln-Glub Men Meet

The recent meeting of the ofificers of the Combined West Coast Kiln Clubs was called to order by President Larance Wood of the West Coast Dry-Kiln Club inthe Eugene hotel. He said it was the wish of Ed Knight, coordinator from the Western Pine Association, and others at the 1956 Berkeley annual that the host-club president preside at future combined officers' meetings.

Herb Geisenheyner of the Southern California Lumber Seasoning Assn. re-extended the standing invitation to hold the 1958 annual meeting in Southern California but, in considerable discussion prior to voting on the meeting site, it was brought out that most kiln oDerators north of California would not be able to persuade their managements to allow sodistant meeting attendanle. Mr. Geisenheyner alternately suggested the 1959 meeting in the Southland or else that a general poll be taken to see if the kiln men would ever want to meet so far south.

With the 1958 invitation thus regretfully withdrawn, the next year's meeting site was settled for either Spokane or Yakima, hosted by the Washington-Idaho-Montana Kiln Club.

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Gypsum wallboard craftsmen know the importance of Blue Diamond uniformity. Uniform clnracteristics aid in the fast production of smooth, ffre resistant walls and ceilings. tUniformitg is a result of quality control.

Blue Diamond quality control begins with the grading of gypsum rock at the mines. It carries through every step of gypsum wallboard manufacture to the ffnal placement of dunnage to safeguard its condition in transit.

Applicator craftsmanship and Blue Diamond uniformity join hands in producing smooth . sokd fite resistant walls and ceilings.

Rock,Sond Employers Win Pension-Plon Wqr

The D Southern California firms of the rock, sand and ready-mixed concrete industry won a long-delayed victory, September 4, in the arbitration of the final disputed item dealing with a pension plan for 1700 truckdrivers working in the local industry when Arbitrator Dr. Paul Prasow, UCLA, awarded the employers the right to establish a locally controlled pension plan for their employes instead of compelling them to accept the controversial multi-milliondollar plan of the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust Fund requested by the unions, and over which they had a 3-months strike in 1955.

In his Seotember 6 bulletin to dealer members of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn., Orrie Hamilton said this is the first setback encountered by the WCTPTF which, the producers charged, the union had been promoting as an effective substitute for the closed shop, which is illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act.

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Fidler's Nqmes Monny Hoffmon tKombercoret Soles Monoger

Fidler's Manufacturing Company, Inglewood, has appointed Manny Hoffman as sales manager on all "Kambercore" door products. Hoffman comes from Perry Door Company, San Fernando Valley warehousing subsidiary of Fidler's Manufacturing. The Perry Door operation in Burbank will continue to maintain full stocks for their regular Valley trade, and Manny will continue to service his many customers for Perry Door as well as servicing the market in general for Fidler's.

After four years as sales manager for Perry Door nationally, Hoffman has a real working knowledge of the distribution of door products and building materials in general, and Fidler's Manufacturing is delighted to welcome him as part of the "Kambercore" sales team, declared J. Don Hanauer, general manager.

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