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millio,n regional shopping center on a 2-acre site at Mc,Callum Way and Farrell Drive in the now- uilding Civic Center area.

Ukiah, Calif.-The State Wildlife Conservation Board may spend up to $200,000 in developing ,recreational facilities at Coyote Valley Dam on the Russian River, Projecrts include car-boat ramps, restroo:rls, floats and walkaways and water suprply systeors.

Goleta, Calif.-A $10 million yacht harbor projected rhere will have facilities four times as large as the Santa Barbara harbor and cover 500 acres of land and lagoons with moorings for oceangoing yachts, a yach,t ,club and "yach'tels." Homesi,tes will be provided on the acreage near D'evereaux Ranch sohool.

Lemoore, Cal.if.-Plans have been presented for zoning and surbdivision controls and land acquisition and construction to accomrnodate 17,000 persons in the city by 1980. A residential area bounded by Hanford-Armona road, Lemoore Ditah, Highway 198 Freeway and Highway 41 was rproposed by the San Francisco planning consultant. The plan provides for 29 acres of retail commercial development, 350 acres of industr'ial proper,ty, five new elementary schools, a junior high, five recreation parks, etc. The 40 acres of commercial service

TWX: VN2299 land needed ,to contain such businesses as lurnberyards, etc., would face raitroad tracks between the extension of Olive avenue and Lemoore avenue north along Lemoore.

Modesto, Calif.-Directors of the Valley Builders Exchange called on city council and county supervisors to 'bring building, electrical and plumbing codes up to datc.

Fullerton.-Permits were issued for a 20-uni't apartment house worth $110,000 at 34 W. Valencia Mesa Dr., and a lO'unit worth $44,000 at 1700 Peppertree Lrne.

Santa Rosa, Calif.-An uniden'tified "client" in Los Angeles has offered the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors $60G$650,000 for the county courthouse. The client ofiers to demolish rthe crumtbling old edifice and ereot a four to l2-story build'ing in its place.

Arcadia, Calif.-Tuttle Enginecring ,Co., Inc., with offices here and in Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska, was awarded a $500,000 government contract for surveying and engineering work in Alaska. The firm's engineers, draftsmen and 'computers will survey and engineer roads, highways and bridges in some of the territory's most isolated spots, some as far as 1400 m,iles f'rom t'he operational base.

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Boord of Foresfry Meering

State Forester F. H. Raymond announced a State Board of Forestry meeting on June 12 at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds two miles west of Placerville on Highway 50- The agenda included a review of Board policies, presentations by representatives of the California Division of Forestry and U. S. Forest Service relating to their respective fire plans for the coming fire season, general agency co-operation, and cliscussions concerning phases of the agency's prevention and protection system for the Central Sierra area. A representative of the California Redwood Association made a report on the Redwood Region fire-protection activities. Mid afternoon on the I2th, the group moved to the Placerville airport for a large display of numerous pieces of various fire fighting equipment and a demonstration of aerial chemical drops, where a hose lay took place.

On June 13, the meeting toured the Institute of Forest Genetics located near Placerville, and U. S. Forest Service, MichiganCalifornia Lumber Company, and service forestry plantings located in that general area.

TV Awqrd to Forest Fire Film

The American Association for Conservation Information's national award for "The Outstanding Television Production lor 1957 by a State Conservation Agency" was presented to California State Forester Francis H. Raymond at the State Board of Forestry meeting in Placerville, June 12. The winning program is a 13-minute motion picture, "The Careless Crime," in which the financial responsibility of each individual who illegally or negligently causes forest fires is stressed. The film was produced by The Geo. Fox Corporation of Hollywood for the California Division of Forestry in 1957. A large share of production costs were contributed by Mr. George Fox as a public service cooperating with the California Fire Prevention Committee's state-wide forest fi re-prevention campaign.

Hozel Vclley lumber Co. Hir by Fire

Haze-l Valley Lumber Company, Diamond Springs, suffered fire damage last month but, according tb Operator Loren Hall, the loss was confined to one dry kiln. the mill's sorting chain and some stock in the immediate area. pnooooo/o

_ Kay Murray Thurmond, former popular office girl at the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. until-her marriage two years ago, has been back in Orrie Hamilton's headquarters a few weeks this summer helping out on the vacation relief and on the insurance.

Monty Montgomery, manager of sales for Lake Logging the proiect requires.

Olson steomers ore ovoilqble up to 5300 lons deod weight, Olson borges up lo 6000 tons . oll with mounted crones for independent looding ond dischorging.

You puf over holf a century of shipping experience to work for you when you get in louch with Olson. Plon oheod. Inquire now.

& Lumber, export division of Twin-City Lumber Co., left San Rafael Aug. 5 on a two-months trip thru the Far.,East, with customers in Hawaii, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand andthePhilippinesonhisport-of-ca11sheet.

John Kent, a gentleman from the north, arrived in southern California last month to join the sales staff of Twin-City Lumber Co., Beverly Hills. Immediately upon his arrival in L. A. he was assigned the San Diego territory and left for the deep south of California without spending a night in Angeltown. Kent has been with various wholesale lumber firms in the S. F. Bay area the past several years.

Volney Spalding, well-known figure in southern California lumber circles, who presently resides on an island off the coast of Washington, was a recent visitor to his old haunts and saw friends in Los Angeles, Glendora and San Diego.

Following appeared in Art Ryon's column in a recent Los Angeles Times: "On the outskirts of Costa Mesa is the College Lumber Co. Owned, probably, by some guy who went to boarding school." Come in, Henry L. Jones ! ilow-

Serge Matzley, head of the Matzley Corporation in San Francisco, flew to New York late in August for a quick business trip.

Art Lashley, manager of Pacific Western Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is spending two weeks in Oregon visiting Headman Rich Robbins in Portland. He is due back Sept.22.

Portland Lumberman Clay Brown spent an August week visiting his Clay Brown & Company offices in Oakland and Downey, Calif.

Art Parkins, salesmanager of The California Door Company of Los Angeles, vacationed last month with his wife, sons and daughter at Lake Gregory in the San Bernardino mountarns.

Jack Dollar, his wife and daughter returned home Sept. 10 after two weeks in Hawaii on business and pleasure, with emphasis on the latter.

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