MR. RETAILER:

In business to make a profit? So are we! Repeat orders represent proftt to us. Simple? Of course it is. Sell lumber and seroice that satffies Aour customers.

Yes, we have Old Growth Redwood Commons for immediate shipment to your yard (Uppers, too, if you use them).

Engelmann Spruce? Sorry, but very few Selects as our spruce mills are logging in stands of small high-altitude timber. We are, however, quite proud of the Common grades produced from these small trees: The knots are unusually small and tight-kriottedstock is carefully manufactured . precision milled. We believe your customers will like the productOurs do.

P.S. Want your Spruce Grade-Stamped? Just ask-We do it. All stock from Quality-Minded, Western Pine Association mills.

L. A. October Building Soqrs

^ Los Angeles city and county building construction in October soared sharply over Septembei. Superintendent of. Building Gilbert- E. Morris said the city's October perqrits we-re $40,650,677, compared to September's $35,714,232. Th_e 4875 permits compared to 4559 ihe prior month.'The 1958 total stood at $503,970,661, w?y abbve I957's $446,- 0U,662 in the same span.

Los Angeles County's 3589 October permits were valued 1!-$2(t,-356,516, compared to the previous month's $21,141,- 762. Of. the county's totals, 2803 permit s at g21,414,262'*ri" issued in the 21 incorporated cities and included 305 dwelling units, reported County Engineer John A. Lambie.

New Deqler Monuol

The most comprehensive dealer manual ever made available by-a manu-facturer of fiberglass reinforced plastic pangls has-beelr pgbllshed by the Filon Plastics Corporatiori, El Segundo, Calif. The 66-page, two-color book contains hundreds o{ photographs showing Filon in industrial, commercial and residential applications; also includes a square footage conversion table; Filon coverage chart; heat and light transmission tables; list of available accessories : instructions on how to build a patio and other construction details; list of dealer sales aids; sample building code approval ap- plications.

Construction Shorr Courses Ser

Urbana-Champaign, Ill.-Two short courses on home construction will be conducted by the University of Illinois Small Homes Council in December and Tanuary. announces Rudard A. Jones, Council director. An inteniive 10-day course.in building techniques and planning and design principles is scheduled for December 1-10 in-cooperation with the National Association of Home Builders. Tinuarv 14 and 15 are dates for the Council's 14th annual Short Cburse in Residential Construction.

Registrations for both courses are now being accepted by the l-.,ivision of University Extension. The fees of $tfS io, the 10-day school and $14 for the two-day session'include tuition, publications,.field trips, and speciil dinners. Regis- trations may be made by wrlting to ihe Short Courre 5upervisor, Room 116c, Illini Hall, Champaign, Ill.

WCIA's Corl Ramstrom 'Holds Bokersfield Groding Clinic

Bakersfield, Calif.-Carl Ramstrom, district supervisor in charge of the Inspection Bureau of the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn., put on a Grading Clinic here, October 24, for the benefit of city and countv building inspectors, the FHA; Cal-Vets and retail lym!_e1 personnel, reports I..arry King of the King-Marshall Lumber Co., Bakersfield. The clinic was held in the offices of Lee Middleton, superintendent of inspection of the Kern County Division of Building and Satetv.