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, Hirschhorn Appointed Monoger of Morketing Reseorch, Wood Conversion

G. W. Hirschhorn has been appointed manag:er of marketing research for Wood Conversion Company, St. Paul, Minnesota. He was formerly senior commercial development engineer in the firm's research and development department. In his new assignment he will forecast immediate and long term sales trends, study sales potential for present and projected products, analyze requirements of sales territories in relation to distribution and manpower, and collect other data and information.

WALKER NAMED FORESTRY BOAR,D CHAIRMAN

I{enneth R. Walker, president of the Paul Bunyan Lumber Co. in Anderson and Susanville, Calif., has been elected chairman of the Board of X'orestry in California. Walker, son of a pioReer lumber family in the state, has been the pine industry representative on the board for 15 years and succeeds E. Domingo Hardison of Santa Paula as chairman. W. B. Carter of Lancaster was elected vice-chairman, representing the public at large. Walker is a vicepresident of the Western Pine Assn., chairman of the Conservation Committee of Western Pine, and is a member of Western Pine's California X'orest Practice committee. He is a director and past president of the California Forest Protective Assn. and is a certified tree farmer in California's pine region.

EVA.IYS PR,ODUCTS COMPANY CUTS PLYWOOD PR,ODUCTION

Evans Products Company of Plymouth, Michigan, has cut back production of its plywood plants to 687o of capacity' announces Edward S. Evans, president. Evans several months ag:o was a leader in the move at that time to reduce production to 80/o of capacity. "Our latest step has been taken to make our plywood production more nearly conform to demand," Mr. Evans said.

Ha,mpton Lumber Mills Installs "Rotobarker"

Production problems due to dirty logs are scheduled to come to an end at Hampton Lumber Mills, Boston Bar, B.C. NicholsonMurdie Company of Victoria is building a 43" Rotobarker for the plant, The sawmill operates from a dry deck, and dirty logs have been a major problem. fmproved saw life and better grade recovery are, expected, along with increased production and better utilization of timber resources. Production volume is moving' toward a sustained yield cut of 24,000,000' annually.

Slsalkraft Reports \ilestern Changes

Recent field sales changes in American Sisalkraft Corporation's western division include: John A. Sunkenberg, who has been promoted to sales representative, Sacramento area; Philip Paulsen' promoted to asst. mgr., San Francisco office; Jack Green, transferred from Los Angeles to the Oakland-San Francisco Bay area; Charles Hargrave, who replaced Green in Los Angeles, and E' L. McKinnon, moved from Sacramento to cover part of Los Angeles.

Ilovard Appointed Area Marketlng Ma,nager

John F. Hovard, United States Gypsum Company, has been appointed Area Marketing manager, Insulatiorr Wool products, at Los Angeles, announces the department's Merchandise manager' G. V. Lane. Hovard joined USG in 1953 in sales at San F rancisco' became line salesman for Contra Costa county in 1955' and roofing specialty salesman for the Oakland district in 1957' He has headquartered at Alameda since 1958.

\lVood Converslon Promotes Three

Wood Conversion Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, announces the promotion of three members of its Technical Sales Service deiartment, according to M. S. Wotf, vice-president, sales' G' A' ^Erickson was appointed Director of Technical Sales Service' Named managers of Technical Sales Service for the company's two product divisions were M. A. Nicholson' building products, and C. E. Swanson, industrial products.

Sala Assigned Northu'estern States

The appointment of Rene Sala as sales representative for Dexter LocIi bivision is announced by John B. St. John, general sales manager of Dexter. Mr. SaIa has been in the builders hardware field ior the past 14 years in various selling capacities' He will headquarter in Seattle, Washington, and cover the states of Idaho' Montana, Oregon and Washington.

Gormly to Western ADL Staff

Richard W. Gormly has been named to the Western Division staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc-, the San Francisco laboratories of the international research and engineering flrm, Cambridge, Mass' IIe also has been assigned as project leader on ADl-developed foamed adhesives for the plywood industry of California and the Northwest.

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l27,4OO Housing Stcrrts in August

Work was started on 127,400 housing units in August 1960, according to preliminary estimates of the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, in comparison with the 115,000 units started in July, ancl the 742,400 :units started in August 1959.

Privately owned housing starts totaled 122,800 rrnits, representing a seasonally adjusted annual rate of I,275,000, up almost 8/o from the estimated annual rate of 1,184,000 in July but l2/o below the August 1959 seasonally acljusted annual rate of 1,450,000.

Nonfarm housing starts in August amounted to 125,300 units, up 12,000 over July but I2/o below August 1959. Privately owned nonfarm starts numbered 120,700 units, representing a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,256,000 trp alnrost 8/o fuorr' July but 73/o below the August 1959 estimated rate of 1,446,000.

In August, as in previous months, the greater part of housing starts was from building permits issued during the current month and several preceding months. Building pernrits covering 95,017 new privately owned housing units. representing a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,021,000 units, were issrred in August 1960 by the 10,000 places with local building-permit systems. In July these places issuecl permits for 86,155 private units, representing a seasonally acljusted annual rate of 917,000 units.

-National Forest Products Week October I6-22L.

A. Building Hifs Neor Record

Construction in the city of Los Angeles last month scored the second-highest September on record at $41,178,180, while the Los Angeles County mark of 928,985,670 also made it the second-highest September in history. The city's nine-months total of $46,664,475 is under 1959's $517,086,068 in the same span, but the county's $283,979,771 for the period is ahead of last year's $279,326,814.

The County report showed Hawaiian Gardens first in permits issued at $3,386,300, followed by Norwalk with $3,288,950.

-Nafional Foresl Producls Week October 16-22-

Clqrence Bowmon ot Chino Yord

Employment of Clarence Bowman as take-off man and estimator at the Valley Lumber Co., Chino, is announced by Peter Johnson of the retail yard at 13339 Central Ave.

Bowman is no stranger to Chino, having been brought there as a small boy by his parents, now retired and living in Ontario, Calif. After his graduation from Chino schooG in 1942, Bowman enlisted for Navy duty ancl served in the Pacific. Follorving the war, he was employed in the of6ce of the Pomona Lumber Co. and, for the past 18 months, has been with a Rialto, Calif., lumber concein.

-Nationa/ Forest Products Week . . . October 16.22-

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The National Housing Center, Washington, D.C., annual housing industry marketing conference this year will convene at the Roosevelt and Monteleone hotels in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 22-23, for the fourth annual Conference. The Housing Center is headquarters of the

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-National Foresl Producfs Week October | 5-22-

Goloverqs Awqrds €ontrocts

The M & K Corporation of San Francisco was announced as low bidder for construction of the manufacturing portion of a new plant north of Redding, Calif., for Calaveras Cement Company, a division of The Flintkote Company. The contracior's $4,355,000 bid covers installation of crushers, raw and clinker storage, mill buildings, kiln, and auxiliary equipment, said Calaveras vice-president Grant W' Metzger.

Homan & Lawrence Engineering Co., also of San Francisco, was awarded the contract for construction of raw storage silos, cement storage silos, and packhouse after submitting a low bid of $1,585,000.

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Calaveras rejected all bids for a third phase of the project, construction of an administration building, because they were substantially higher than engineers'. estimates, Metzger announced. He said a new call for bids will be issued as soon as possible.

The new Calaveras plant, which will have a capacity of 1,500,000 barrels of cement annually, is scheduled to begin operation in September 1961.

-National Foresl Producls Week , , October l6-22-

Wholesqle Lumber Sqles R.ising

The Bureau of the Census announced Sept. 30 that August 1960 sales of merchant wholesalers, estimated_ at $11.2 billion, were lI/o ahead of July 1960 and were 5/o above August sales a year ago. Cumulative sales for the first eight months of 1960, totaling $84.4 billion, were up slightly (l/o) over the comparable period of 1959.

Sales in the Lumber and Construction Materials line were 8/o above this July, 6/a below August 1959.

-Nafional Foresf Products Week Ocfober | 6-22-

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