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On October 19, the Great Western Lumber Corporation rnoved its mill and all facilities, including storage warehonses, to the firm's new plant located at 8713 Cleta Street in Downey, California. Aciording to Norman Winsor, president of the wholesale lumber concern, the change was made to expand the operation and to relocate in the Greater Los Angeles industrial area. New phone numbers for Great Western are SPruce 3-4931 and WAlnut 3-1264. The transfer of locations was made over a long weekend and there was no interruption of service. it was said. The wholesale lumber firm formerly maintained headquarters and yard facilities at Glendale.

McPherson fo Heod Chico Moulding Soles

A. B. "Art" McPherson has been named sales manager of Chico Moulding Co., replacing Len Richert, who resigned last month in favor of entering a private venture. Dan Middleton, president of Chico Moulding, reports that McPherson has had nearly 14 years' experience in lumber manufacture and remanufacture in Oregon and California and is a forestry graduate of Oregon State College. For the past 15 months, McPherson had been assisting in sales at Chico n4oulding.

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NBMDA Meets in Ghicogo

The program for National Building Material Distributors Association's eighth annual convention to be held at the Edgewater Beach hotel in Chicago, November 16-18, will include a meeting open only to wholesale distributors, devotecl to discussing various aspects of the wholesale distributors ooeration. An afternoon session will include "Yardsticks of Performance-Do You Know When You Are Doing A Good Job ?" The opening day will be culminated with an Early-Bird Get-Acquainted Party, to which wives and manufacturers and their reoresentatives are invited.

The general meeting will be ireld on Tuesday, November 17, and advance registrations indicate that over 600 persons will be present for the two-day meeting.

Highlight of the Tuesday session will be a panel discussion-'(The Next Ten Years-What's Ahead for the Wholesale Distributor" with Don Knecht, president of NBMDA, acting as Moderator. Tuesday's activities will conclude with a reception and group dinner at which time new offrcers and directors for 1960 will be introduced to the audience. An optional meeting is available for wholesale distributors on Wednesday morning, November 18, entitled "FreeFor-All Bull-Session."

Arson qf Bqkersfield Yord

A firebug's efforts to burn the King-Marshall Lumber Co. in Bakersfield, Calif., resulted in approximately $200 damage to the yard and a term in the Chino prison for the arsonist. The 27-year old theatre usher admitted setting fire to a stack of grape stakes at the L Street yard in the early morning of Sept. 29. He was arrested at the fire scene by officers who said he acted in a suspicious manner. Early discovery of the fire prevented more serious loss to the yard, reports Larry King.

L.A. Urbqn Renewcrl Recerrified

Announcement in \Vashington that tl.re Urbarr lteneu'al Program of the City of Los Angeles liacl been recertifierl by the Housing and Home Finauce Agencl' gave the green light to continuation of plans to prevent and eliminatc blight in Los Angeles. This rn'as revealerl by \\'illianr I-. N'IcCann, Urban Renewal coordinator, l.ho receivecl a tclegram annorlncing the Federal €lovernr.nent's actiorr Oct. 30.

Tl're recertification rneans that tu,o types of special assistance loans r.r'ill be available to help Los Angeles citizens being relocatecl or to rebuilcl in urbarr rener,val project areas. N{cCann said that loans and capital grants to cover trvothircls of the r-ret project cost will be available for urban reneu'al projects such as the Naomi Street Project and otl'rers initiated clurir.rg the recertilication periorl. The exact amounts available 1'rave not beel rleterr.r-rinecl but it is ktrorvn tl.rere is a capital grart reservation of $15,176,4(rl for Bunker Hill anci $8,300,000 for the'ferr-rlrle Proiect.

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