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NEIi,TAN REED LUftTBER COAAPANY
TARGE LOCAL INVENTOR,Y - OVER 2,OOO,OOO FEET UNDER, COVER
month in the city's history, and the most active this year, bringing the year's total to 49,ffiL. This is well ahead of 1958s record breaking total for the like period.
Building permits granted in Los Angeles in September showed a record upsurge. The county reported a sli,ght increase. The city siid iti'4,925 permits, valued at $75.9 million, made September the second most active building
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Reporting on the totals, G. E. Morris, superintendent of building, said that September's record figure is especially significant since September usually reflects a decline in !uilding construction authorizations.
Buildlng construction in Los Angeles' unincorporated areas and22 cities in the county totaled $25 million, according to Cassatt D. Griffin, superintendent of building. This figure is $2 million above September 1958, but below the August 1959 total of $34 million. The nine-month total comes to $279 million, compared to $247 million last year.
Dollor to lnougunqte South Pocific Airlines Flight Next Yeqr
J. H. Dollar, vice-president of South Pacific Airlines, the holder of a certificate authorizing scheduled service between Hawaii and Tahiti, announced from his San Francisco offices, October 28, that operations will be inaugurated on February 15, 1960. Initial flights will be between Honolulu and the island of Bora Bora until construction of a new airport at Papeete has been completed. Dollar noted that a rapidly increasing interest in the South Pacific is developing and that construction is now underway on a modern hotel facility in Tahiti. At the outset, South Pacific Airlines plans to operate a weekly round-trip flight.
Hennessey Storts Mt. Shqstq Yqrd
Jim Hennessey, for years identified with the retail lumber business but more recently in the wholesale end of the business with Hollow Tree Redwood Co., established his own retail lumber business in Mount Shasta last month. The new yard will operate under the name of Hennessey Lumber Company, P.O. Box 568, phone WAbash 6-4576. Business will be conducted from a large dry shed which is now being remodeled to include office space, a showroom and a large undercover area for lumber and building materials storage to allow year-'round operation.
New Troilers Built in N. H'wood
Camp trailers are the product of the new Apache Trailer Mfg. Co. in North Hollywood, Calif.