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Summerbell-Fluor Wins Big ftfW lominoted Gonstruction Job

Summerbell Roof Structures division of The Fluor Corporation, Ltd., has been awarded a contract to engineer, fabricate, assemble and erect a glued-beam plywood deck combination roof system to cover the mammoth Oakland distribution center of Montgomery Ward & Company at San Leandro, Calif. The contract, awarded by The Austin Co., engineers and builders, calls for the most extensive use of laminated construction since World War II.

The warehouse will be 960x600 or approximately l3l acres under one roof. More than 1,000 glued-laminated beams, of various sizes, will be required to support the panelized roof structure.

Joe Bugley Nqmed Sqles Monoger

Mendo Wood Products, Inc., has named Joe A. Bugley, prominent San Diego wholesale lumberman, to the p,ost of general sales manager of the remanufacturing concern. Joe will maintain offices at the Ridgewood Ranch plant in Ukiah, California, following closing of the Walnut Creek sales office, which Bugley formerly ran.

For the past 20 years, Joe Bugley has been identified in lumber sales in San Diego and Southern California. He managed his own wholesale lumber firm in that city and was an important factor in lumber shipments to Baja California in Mexico. He is well known in west coast lumber circles and has the knowledge and experience necessary for the big job ahead with Mendo.

967o of the Timber Cut in Redwood Region Done Under Best Proctices, Soys Survey

A recent survey of private industry timber cutting practices in the Redwood Region shows that 96/o of 1 billion board feet harvested during 1957 was cut under acceptable or better forest harvesting practices. The survey, covering a substantial portion of all timber cut on private lands in the region, was made by the California Redwood Association Tree Farm Committee, disclosed R. R. Chaftee of Willits, committee chairman in a report to the State Board of Forestry meeting at Placerville, june 12.

This is the first time a survey of private timber cutting practices has been made in the Redwood Region, Chaffee explained. He asserted that it showed that much progress was being made in the management of private timberlands in the region under tree farming principles.

Bill Wilson Publishes Book

William M. Wilson, former Los Angeles wholesale lumberman till earlv 1956. has published an interesting little book, handsomely illustrated, which shows what he has been doing the last couple years. It is called "Around the World at l2c a Mile" and sells for the modest price of $1. Wilson's vivid recollections is now available at about 40 book shops in Southern California and he is presently in the northern part of the state to start off his book there and look over the lumber situation.

More than 54/o was harvested under high order forestry practices, which includes stands of timber selectively marked by foresters, stands cut to a diameter limit substantially above the state forest practice rules reqrtirements, and stands cut very lightly for thinning. Redwood and Douglas fir are the principal species included in the survey.

An additional 42/o of the survey production was considered to be fully acceptable forest practice according to the state forest practice rules. This group includes stands harvested according to diameter limits specified by the state rules where removal of all merchantable trees above the limit left adequate seed trees or young growth for the next croP.

Onlv 47o of the entire 1 billion board feet within the sur.'.y *m considered minimum forest practice, Chafiee explained, and a substantial portion of this production represented cutting under clearcut permit on ranchers' lands. Violations of the state forest practice rules are not indicated within this category.

(Tell them Aou salD it in The California Lumber Merchant)

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