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'Don Bufkin, Los Angeles representative of Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, made a fast trip to Tucson last month to pick up daughter Donna for the start of school at Alhambra High, where she is assistant editor of the school paper.

Mr. and Mrs. Al Boldt and their son Bill have returned from six weeks in Europe touring England, Scotland, Ireland and the Continent. Al, along with Charlie Beacom, heads the newly formed Boldt-Beacom Lumber Co. in Richmond, Calif.

Ed Dursteler of Sierra Lumber & Plywood Co., Van Nuys, entertained a group of cus-

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tomers and f riends at the Rams-Browns football game, Sept. 5. The lumber wholesaler, a Rams fan of long standing, hosted a pre-game dinner party at the Ram's Horn, after which the boosters boarded a bus with their do-it-yourself kits for an evening of lrigh entertainment.

Lyle Siebert and his wife June, who haverr't missed many recent Hoo-Hoo con-

The Public Utilities Commission has revised specifications for customer-owner power poles. No longer can 6x6 redwood timbers be used as power poles except as tem- ventions, are attending the 1959 annual in Duluth right now, going by way of North Dakota and will visit other scenic highpoints on the way back. Lyle will, as usual, provide San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3 with his usual comprehensive report in cooperation with the club's newly elected Snark, Bill Seeley, who is taking time ofi from his job at Dixieline Lumber Co. to attend his first Hoo-Hoo convention. porary installations. Permanent poles must now be 25-foot minimum length full-treated poles with minimum top circumference of 16 inches.-Lumber Merchants Assn. of Northern California.

Phil McCoy, head of Western Pine Supply Co., Emeryville, and Mrs. McCoy vacationed the month of August around Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Construction Gontrocts Set New High for July

Contracts for future construction in the United States in July rose to a new all-time high for the month, rising slightly above the previous July record set last year, reported F. W. Dodge Corporation, construction news and marketing specialists.

Impressive gains in single-family houses, together with increases in all non-residential building types, bbosted construction contracts in July 1959 to $3,656,537,000, up one percent over the like 1958 month. Dr. George Cline Smith, Dodge vice president and economist, pointed out that, "Although housing once again sparked the increase, probably the most noteworthy feature of the July contracts was the very strong showing in the non-residential category. All non-residential building types were up in July, and for the fourth consecutive month, particularly large g4ins were registered in contracts for commercial and manufacturing buildings."

Contracts for residential buildings in July totaled $1,689,-

833,000, an increase of 9% over the same month last year. Chiefly responsible for the gain was a 19/o rise in contiacts for single-family houses. The total number of dwelling units represented by the residential contracts was 125,562, sp 4% over a year ago,

Cumulative totals of contracts for the first seven months of 1959 show residential buildings at $10,569,533,000, up 3l/o.

Hyster Roises Welch

Fred Welch, with Hyster Company for 11 years in several marketing capacities, has been appointed to two key qositio_ns, according to Philip S. Hill, executive vice-presi- dent. lVelch will be generil parts and service manager and will also assume full responsibility for the operation of the eight company-owned retail dealerships in key cities throughout the country. Welch has managed Hyster Company retail operations both in Seattle and San Francisco and is well known in heavy machinery marketing circles.

Herschell Larrick, Sr., "more-or-1ess" retired from his activities at the Lumber & Builders'Supply Co., Solano Beach, wangled some time away from his o,ffice at the booming retail yard late in August for some deepsea fishing across the street.

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The annual garden party of L.A. HooHoo-Ette Club No. I was enjoyed by 35 members and guests in the beautiful green gardens of Bessie Stewart's Bell, Calif., home. The thoughtful hostess, gainfully employed by C. P. Henry Co., even provicled cool breezes. The committee ran things very smoothly and served a delicious luncheon of spaghetti, green salad, garlic toast and scads of coffee, with everyone in charge sharing in the general congratulations.

Jack Dollar, the Robert Dollar Co. veep, is back on the job following hospitalization at Ross General the week of August 24.

Bob Taenzer, president of American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, and his wife are to leave Sept. 15 for Montreal, site of the 1959 convention of the National Hardwood Lumber Assn., of which Mr. Taenzer is a director. The Taenzers will join a group of hardwood lumber executives in Toronto for the balance of the trip to Montreal via the new St. Lawrence Seaway. Following meetings with mernrbers of the National Hardwoocl Wholesale Distributing Yards Assn. after the convention. the Taenzers will return to California via the South, with stops in the Mississippi Valley, New Orleans and Texas points on a purchasing survey for the Los Angeles wholesale hardwood concern, arriving home about Oct. 20.

Larry Owen, eastern sales chief for Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., put in the first two weeks of August calling on mill connections in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana.

School vacation workers at Angelus Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, included Tim Williams and Pete Cisneros, reports Torn Burden, head of the wholesale hardwood firm. Pete worked at Angelus in order to better his background of hardwood species and help him at Jacob Ries High school, where he will teach industrial arts. Tim is a student at Compton High and expects to make lumber his career.

Wybro Salesmanager Scott Gould of White Brothers, Oakland, spent an August week up Humboldt County way on a business-pleasure safari.

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