SHIPPERS QUATITY WESI COASI tUfrIBER

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Volley Losses

Sharp declines in San Fernando Valley construction during April_were blarned on a tight-money market by Los $_ngeles Building Department Superintendent Gilbert E. Morris. He reported J Valley totaiof $19,037,060 worth of new building', compared to $32,414,811 in the same month of _1959. The Valley normally accounts f.or 45/o of Los Angeles' building volume, but tallied less thai ZS% during April.

The value of building permits issued by Los Angeles this April totaled 947,121,288, compared to 953,265,643 in the city last April.

The value of Los Angeles County permits issued in April.-($26,989,785) was !/o above lisf year, but nearly $7 million less than the March figure. The county buildin! volume continues to increase, however, with a four-monthi total of $116,097,650, more than $4 million above the like period in 1959.

-Nalional Forest Products Week , October 16-22AWI

Convention in Nqfionql Copirol

The Architectural Woodwork Institute will hold its eighth annual workshop convention at the Sheraton Park hotel, Washington, D. C., October 11-14. This will be the first AWI convention to be held away from Chicago, the choice of the 1960 city being made in a member survey at last year's meeting.

John A. Erickson, Erickson Building Supply, Inc., Clay Center, Kansas, and Richard Marshall, Weaver Brothers, Inc., Newport News, Virginia, are serving as co-chairmen for the event. The AWI is a national association (with members from Canada and Australia) of quality millwork manufacturers and their suppliers. Robert iloe, bf the Hoe Corporation, Poughkeepsie, New York, is national president.