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Adopted by the Fir Door Institute almost two years ago, today they are io demand by Builders, Arcbitects, Reta.ilers, Jobbers.

All five grades have as their objective loilr protection-by assuring that your Douglas Fir Door is up to high-quality standards.

\7hen you see one of these five FDIgrade trademarks on a Douglas Fir Door, you know they come from a mill subject to regular Institute inspection and quality supervision.

Each gradehas its own specific purpose: tDf -A GRADE. This grade can be used wher e a maiority of the doors are td be narural finish. These doori are acceptable for high-class residences, hotels, hospitals, office buildings, apartmenm and clubs.

FDI-B GRADE. This grade has a small percentase thar can be finished naiural, bur rhe buik is for-paint. This grade is accepcable for residences, scliools, apartments, motels and hotels.

FDI-BP GRADE. This qrade is stricrlv a paint-door. It is acceptable for Tower-priced fiom'es, cantonmen6. armv Darracl$.

FDI-C GRADE. This erade is strictlv a oainr-door. It is suitable for sei,ice porch enirancis, garases. ouside basement doors.- medium and 'l6w-Iosr back doors.

FD|-IrAR GRADE. L%' only. Used for farm out-buildings, granaries, hen houses, farm tenements, etc.

Be sure to specifr the FDI grade mark on youf next Fir Door order.

Philippine Official Honored

, Continued from Page 14 fan Armstrong, Marsman Co. of California, San Francisco.

' P. R. (Boti) Kahn, Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Francisco.

Guy Post, Beffelen Mfg. Co., San Francisco.

M. W. Moss. Dahican Lumber Co.. San Francisco.

Harold Bendorf, Dahican Lumber Co., San Francisco.

John G. Ziel, Ziel & Co., fnc., San Francisco.

Fred Dunbar, Robert Dollar Co., San Francisco.

Harry Jordan, Nasipit Lumber Co., San Francisco.

Henry H. Barg, Barg Lumber Co., San Francisco.

George C. Cornitius, Geo. C. Cornitius Hardwood Co., San Francisco.

L. M. Ericsen, California Forest ft. Range FxPeriment Station, Berkeley.

Stephen N. Wykofi, Director, California Forest & Range Experiment Station, Berkeley.

Emanuel Fritz, Forestry Dept. University of California, Berkeley.

Florencio Tamesis, Director, Bureau of Forestry, Philippine Islands.

Carlos Fernandez, Nasipit Lumber Co., San Franciscc'. Benigno Pidlaoan, Philippine Consul-General at Sarr Francisco.

Jesus Esteva,_Trade Commissioner, Philippine Govqrnment.

Syd Fisher, L. & E. Emanuel, Inc., San Francisco.

Gardner A. Dailey, Architect, San Francisco.

Ernest Born, Architect, San Francisco.

Lester Hurd, Architect, Masten & Hurd, San Francisco.

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W. T. Black, The California Lumber Merchant, Sar'Francisco.

The hosts of the luncheon were: Harotd Bendorf, Ian Armstrong, John G. Ziel, Fred Dunbar, Harry Jordan, Henry H. Barg, and George C. Cornitius, all of San Francisco.

Hansen Lumber Co. Moves

Hansqn Lumber Company has moved from its Arm1' Street location to 367 Bayshore Boulevard, San Francisco.

Clarence Hansen, the owner, has had 25 years of experience in the lumber business. Hd intends to add hardware in the new store.

Appointed Sales Manager

Saxton B. Ferrell, generaF, sales manager, Pope & Talbot, fnc., Lumber Division, Portland, Oregon, announced today the appointment of J. Harold Cyr as Acting Sales Manager of the Northern California sales and wholesale offices with headquarters in San Francisco. He succeeds Fred A. Amburgey " who has resigned.

Mr. Cyr has had, a long association with Pope & Talbot, having joined the pioneer lum-. ber firm in 1934 at their Port Gamble mill. He served in thc sales division of San Francisco for several years going to the company's sales office in Seattle in 1942, rctwning,to San Francisco early in 1949.

He has a wide scope of acquaintances in the lumber industry up and down the Pacific Coast and a host of friends among retail lumber dealers of the West.

Pcpe & Talbot, Inc., will celebrate its 100 years in business in December of this year. The company has been progressively identified with forest conservation and has certified Tree Farms located in the Hood Canal and Upper Willamette River areas. Recently the company executed a lease agreement with the Pacific Northwest forest anci range experiment station in their Hood River Tree Farm area for a Z0-year program of forest management research in silvicultural methods, wood utilization, thinning proc.edures, forest regeneration, costs and returns.

Chcnges in Higqrins Scles Force

Pete Phillips, .who has been with J. E. Higgins Lumber Co. for the past year, will cover the entire San Joaquin Valley. He replaces Bob Hall, who is transferred to San Francisco sales. He replaces Jim Higgins in the upper San Joaquin Valley.

The Peninsula and Coast Counties territory will now be covered by Jack Higgins, formerly on San Francisco sales.

10O,OOO New Houses Started in September

Homebuilding set another record in September, with 100,000 new permanent nonfarm dwelling units started, according to preliminary estimates of the U. S' Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The increase was 2,000 above August 1949, and 17,800, or 22 percent, over September 1948. The large September volume reflects au August-September increase in building permits issued for residential construction iri urban areas.

Homebuilding activity has continued steadily upward since the beginning of the year, with July, August, ancl Septem-ber at record levels. Preliminary Bureau estimates show a 743,000-unit total for the first three quarters of 1949, surpassing last year's January-September total by 1,600 units.

Final estimates for the first 6 months of. 1949 indicate

Smith loins Mengel

Arnold Smith of San Francisco, formerly manager of the Cabinet Division of Mangrum Holbrook and Elkus of San Francisco, has been appointed district sales representative for the Door Department of The Mengel Company, i-ouisville, Ky., it was announced by Donald H. Gott, Door Sales Manager of the company.

Mr. Smith will be active in the Pacific Northwest and in the states of California, Nevada. Idalro, Utah and Arizona. He will make his headquarters in San Francisco at 1372--22nc1, Avenue, Overland l-7166.

AFPI Names Southern Mcrncger

Washington, D. C.-The appointment of C. Edward Stout, Atlanta newspaperman, as southern manager for American Forest Products Industries, Inc.,.was announced here this week. Mr. Stout, formerly information and education chief for the Georgia Forestry Commission, will maintain headquarters in New Orleans.

He succeeds Clyde J. Baser who is retiring ttr operate citrus groves in Florida. Mr. Stout's office will be located at 1033 Canal Building' Nerv Orleans.

Buys Plant Site crt Scrntcr Clarcr

Seattle, Wash., Oct. 24---The purchase of a small plant site at Santa Clara, Calif., by the Western Division of Monsanto Chemical Company was annottnced here today by Division General Manager Irving C. Smith.

The purchase was brought about by the need for manufacturing facilities in the San Francisco Bay area, Mr. Smith said, so that the Western Division could improve its services to this rapidly growing market.

Mr. Smith said that bids have been received and construction will begin in the near Tuture on the plant which will produce synthetic resins and specialty coatings for the California area.

that rental housing (units in 2-or-more family structures) accounted for almost a fourth of all new dwelling units started during this period. For the same months in 1948, rental housing rvas about a fifth of total ner'v housing starts.

Nonfarm housing in rural places comprised 44 percent of total new housing started during the first 6 months of both 1948 and t949.

Moves to I Drumm Street

Paul McCusker, San Francisco rvholesale lumber dealer, and representative in Northern California for Parelitts Lumber Co., Portland, has moved.his offrces to the Fife Building, 1 Drumm Street, San Francisco. He has retained the same telephone number, DOuglas 2-6027. The teletype number, 5.F.749, is also the same.

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The Blue Diamond Plaster Lath production line is equipped with hish speed automatic machinery of latest design and is Jynclironized from beginning to end'

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