DIRECT SHIPffIENTS of:

Incense Cedar and Engelmann Spruce

year. Douglas is general manager of Powell River Forest Products. Ltd.

"Plans are being formulatecl {or an expandecl 1960 program," Douglas saicl. "During the next year we will clevote ourselves to intensive promotions at the consumer, builder and clealer levels, throughout our sales areas in both Canada ancl the United States."

DURSTELER TUMBER PRODUCTS. INC.

Flintkote, Cqloverqs Cemenf Srockholders Approve Merger

Stockholders of The Flintkote Company at a special meeting in Boston, and shareholders of Calaveras Cement Company at a similar meeting in San Francisco, voted ap- proval Sept. 29 of the proposed merger of the two companies and Calaveras Cement became a division of Flintkote, Sept. 30. This is the eleventh acquisition by The Flintkote Company since it announced in February-, 1956, plans for a modem expansion and diversification program.

Calaveras owns and operates a Portland cement plant at San Andreas, Calif., 13O miles northeast of San Frincisco, with an annual rated capacity of 4,300,000 barrels.

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87Ol Wilshire Boulcvord (Suite 2OO)

Beverly Hillr, Colilornio

Phone: Oleqnder 5-6312

Wm. Wallace Mein, Sr., chairman of the board of Calaveras, was elected to the Flintkote board, increasing that group to 14 in number. I. J. Harvey, Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Flintkote. said. "By merging with Calaveras, Flintkote continues the expansion of its cement business into new market areas in accordance rvith its announced program of diversification.

"The addition of Calaveras' cement production facilities," 1\{r. Harvey explained, "will add to the present line of Flintkote products on the West Coast. Additionally, Calaveras possesses valuable cement rock and shale deposits in Shasta County, Calif."

Commenting on the merger, Mr. Mein saicl it "brings Calaveras into Flintkote where greater financial resources will be available for the further development and expansion of the Calaveras business as well as providing certain operating economies because of combined management."

Messrs. Harvey and Mein jointly pointed out that it is the intention to continue the present management and personnel of Calaveras.

Bockmier Plugs ldqho Pine Cors

To promote the sale of carload lots of kiln-dried Idaho white pine, R. H. Bockmier-Lumber, Spokane, is issuing bulletins called "Bock's Car Specials." l-Irging consideration of this specie, the bulletins offer cars loaded in four equal lots, competitive prices and list the advantages of Idaho white pine. E. A. Anderson, Pasadena, California, is listed as the Southern California contact for the firm.

Retailer Layman Lightfoot, prominent in San Diego- lumber circles and owner of a yard at La Mesa, Calif., spent several days in Los Angeles last month on a purchasing trip.

Orrie W. Hamilton, executive vice-president of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn., and Tom Fox, president of the John W. Fisher Lumber Co., Santa Monica, and the SCRLA's dealer delegate to the NRLDA, and their wives headed the southern California dealer delegation to the sixth annual Building Products Exposition of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn. in Cleveland. Ohio. Nov. 14-17. Hamilton and Fox sat in on the two clays of directors' meetings prior to opening of the Exposition's doors, which got underway on Saturday

Do Your Due-ty

The Steering committee of Los Ange'les Hoo-Hoo Club 2 is urging all delinquent members to reinstate and clear up their records before the end of the year. The International order of lumbermen is conducting a membership drive and local Snark Harold Cole will push this action in L.A. Club 2 Officer John Osgood says, "Being the largest Hoo-Hoo club in the world, it seems it is also the hardest job in the world to collect the annual dues. We will appreciate it if every member who hasn't yet will immediately take care of this annual duty."

evening, Nov. 14, with a "Westward Ho" party setting the stage for next year's 1960 Exposition in San Francisco, first time in the West for the gigantic annual dealer show. Mildred and Gilmore Ward, president of Ward & Harrington, Santa Ana, and president of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn., were enjoying their annual vacation in November with a Caribbean cruise.

Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Henry of C. P. Henry & Co., Los Angeles, arrived home Oct. 31 lrom a S-week vacation that took them across the U. S. and Canada by jet airline, automobile, bus, train and steamship-jet to Chicago, Trans-Canada Airlines to Toronto, auto to Montreal, boat along the St. Lawrence to the Thousand Islands, bus to Hamilton, Ont., and auto to Niagara, where both Canadian and U. S. sides were visited. After Quebec and Ottawa, back to Toronto to board the C. P. "Dome" train for a leisurely trip across the Plains and through the Canadian Rockies to Vancouver. B.C.. where passage was obtained on the "Buffalo," a Norwegian freighter, to Los Angeles. AND, at most all points visited, the llenrys were entertained by some of her relatives, each showing them the grandeur, beauty and points of interest of their particular part of the country. They report the trip was perfect from educational, scenic and weather points-of-view (except some terrific heat in Chicago). However, "Charlie" couldn't leave his work at home; in both Vancouver and Portland he called at the offices of Twin Harbors Lumber Co. P.S.: By coincidence, the "Buffalo" was the same ship the Henrys had sailed on a few years ago on a short sea trip to Vancouver.

Keith Harry of Georgia-Pacific's San Francisco sales office, spent the week of Oct. 19 in Oregon on business, including a visit to G-P's new Booth-Kelly operation.

Earl Deering, formerly with Paul Bunyan Lumrber Co., joined Chico Moulding Company on October 15, according to President Dan Middleto'n. Deering will assist Art Mc-