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Jack Dollar, The Robert Dollar family spent the first trvo weeks of at Coronado and Santa Barbara.

Co., and the Dollar September vacationing

W. F. Calhoun of Donover Co., Inc., Los Angeles, was married September 18. The bride was llelen McKewan, a sister of his late rn'ife. The couple went to Ne'll' York on a honeymoon trip.

Bob Hallsworth, formerly rvith A. W. Hastings Company, Providence, R.I., has joined the sales and inventorv staff of Lumber Mill & Supply Co., Los Angeles, according to Bill Belau. When with Hastings, Bob covered the eastern seaboard states and rvas prominent in Rhode Island Hoo-Hoo affairs.

Jim Hendrick, now a partner in Reid and Wright Co., and who maintains offices at 750 Thornton St., San Leandro, is the new publicity chairman for Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39. He will also edit the club's paper, the "Meow."

Harry Merlo, Rockport Redwood Co., spent five days during the latter part of September hunting in the Sierras. He was accompanied by Bill Johnson of Hobbs Wall Co., and Bud Crowfoot. They all got their bucks and returned home with enough venison to last them until next season.

Don W. Swindell, senior salesman of the Commercial Lumber Co., Los Angeles, flew to Detroit September 30 to pick up a new car there. He planned to head on east via Niagara Falls, Cleveland, Boston, New York City and Washington. According to reliable reports, it is purely coincidental that both the world's series and National Retail Lumber Dealers Association exposition were startrng in Manhattan at the same time. Swindell will be back on the iob October 25.

Don Clemmer, 'Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, and Mrs. Clemmer recently returned from a vacation trip (or, you might say, a "second honeymoon") follo'iving Henry Forest Clemmer's (another deduction) debut last Iulv.

Stoy Elliott, sales manager for The Robert Dollar Co. mill at Glendale, Oregon, returned October 5 from a three'iveek business trip through the south and midrn'est.

Herb Bickell, manager of Merner Lumber Co., Pato Alto, and Harold Bickell, manager of Progress Lumber Co., Redwood City, returned the first of this month frorn a 10-day hunting trip up Wyoming way.

Al Bell, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., returned to San Francisco September 28 af.ter spending two weeks in the east calling on connections. He made the trip east direct from Houston, where he took in the big Hoo-Hoo national convention.

Gus Hoover, A. I-. Hoover Company, San NIarino, Caiifornia, has been in Fresno and other valley cities during the past several weeks.

Jack Steiner oi the Steiner and Lou Ohlson of High Sierra a highly successful elk hunting the frrst part of September.

Lumber Co., Sacramento, Pine Nliiis, Oroville, made trip tt-r \\'-voming during

Lou Holland, Tacorna Lumber Sales, Los Angeles, spent most of l.ris vacation lazing 'round his srvimming pool rrr Glendale.

Douglas Cook, Western Door & returned to Oakland after taking an vacation trip through the midrvest.

Sash Co.. has just extensive three-rver'k

Norm Morrison of Millrvork Nlart, Inc., Sacramento, vacationed at Las Vegas for two vi.eeks during the earlv part of September..

New Field Office Will Serve Humboldt, Del Noile Truckers

San .Franctsco-Cstablishment of a nen, district field o;fice to serve shippers and truck operators of Humboidt arrd Del Norte counties is announced by the Calilornia Public Utilities Commission. The held section is concerned wrth enforcement of the Highway Carriers Act. Commissior President Peter E. Mitchell said that the new oftice will be open to the public and to shippers and truck operators to provide information on regulations and freight rates on intrastate shiprnents by truck. Applications for permlts to operate on a highway carrier may be filed at Eureka.

Under state lavr, truckers who carry property for the public for hire must obtain operating authority. They also must maintain specified amounts of liability and propertv damage insurance to protect the public on highr,vays of the state. Enforcement is necessary since those who fail to obtain permits usually do not carry required insurance, the commission has found. Enforcement of rates established by the commission is carried forrvard to maintain a stable and dependable trucking servicc for the public, Mitchell said.

He added that industrial growth in Humboldt and Del Norte counties has necessitated establishment of a fieid

Los Angeles Building Booming

Du'elling units are being built in the Los Angeles metropolitan area at a rate exceeding 100,000 a year, according to the research department of the SecuritrFirst National Bank of Los Angeles. Comparison rvith national figures reveals that the area is accounting for 8)(/a of all the dwelling units being built in the 'United States this 1'ear. This area offrcially includes Los Angeles and Orange counties.

During the first eight months of 1954, buildirrg permits u'ere issued lor 57,980 family dwelling unils in Los Angeles county, while Orange county listed 10,980 in the same period. If the year's total in L.A. county reaches 85,000, it rvill exceed 1953 and be the second highesi in the history, excepting 1950. Orange county's eight months total almost equaled the total for all of 1953.

During the postrvar period from 1946 to the present, more than 7ZO,Offi dr'velling units have been buiit in the metropolitan area. This is f::dly 8/o of all built in the entire nation during the period. As many family accommodations have been built in the Los Angeles area since the end of the vrar as existed in Cleveland, Boston and \\rashington, D.C., combincd at the 1950 census.

office in that area, u'hich formerly rvas served by the cornmission's field office in Santa Rosa.

R. M. Farran, head of the field section, said that William F. Meehan, Jr., has been put in charge of the Eureka office. He formerly headed the commission field office in Bakersfield. The office r.r'ill be open from B:15 a.m. to 12 noon and from 12:45 to 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. The telephone number is Hillside 2-3384.

There are now 658 highway carriers operating under commission jurisdiction in the trvo counties and operating about 2.00O vel-ricles. Farran said.

Fire Destroys Old Wholey Mill

Fire destroyed the old Whaley Lumber Co. mill, recently renamed Redwood Lumber Co., in Garberville, Calif., rvith loss estimated at over $150.000. It was reoorted that the fire started from r,velding sparks.