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Fall and early Winter Construction and Repair Business requires Spot Shipments from Mills with ample diversified stocks' Our production hos been steody ond our inventories qre well bolonced.

\(e can supply your mixed car needs in SUGAR PINE, PONDEROSA PINE, DOUGLAS FIR,TTHITE FIR, CALIFORNIA INCENSE CEDAR and a limited amount of PORT ORFORD CEDll.R in 4/4 and 8/4 hl9h grade commons.

Pine Mouldings can be included in yott mixed car

Gelotex Plqns lo Spend S22 .OO9,OOO for Exponsion

ChicagoThe Celotex Corporation has filed a registration statement u'ith the Securities and Exchange Commission covering a proposed public offering of $10,@0,000 of convertible subordinated debentures, due May l, 1976, as a part of the company's expansion program of $22,000,00O. Part of the net proceeds fgom the sale will be used for the acquisition of 242,00Q acres of timber and timber land and an existing plant site located in the L'Anse area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, for $6,850,000. The sellers are the Ford Motor Company Fund and the Ford Motor Company, with whom Celotex has a purchase agreement.

The remaining proceeds, together with additional funds to be provided from internal sources, will be used to build a fiberboard plant at L'Anse, Michigan, to be completed within two years, at an estimated cost of $6,100,000, which rvill increase the company's fiberboard capacity by more than N/o.

This $22,000,000 expansion program also includes construction of a gypsum board plant and new plaster mill near Fort Dodge, Iowa, scheduled for completion in 1957 at an estimated cost of $6,000,000. The company also recently acquired land near Pittston, Pennsylvania, and is planning a new mineral fiber acoustical tile plant there, together with a plant to produce the mineral wool used as a basic raw material for the tile. Completion is scheduled for the early part of 1957, at a cost estimated at $3,000,000.

The company has entered into a long term contract (with a firm whose personnel have substantial timber holdings in the L'Anse, Michigan, area and have had long experience in logging and sawmill operations and in marketing saw log timber) for the marketing of saw log timber in accordance with Celotex plans.

A planned forestry program will be undertaken at "Celotract," the name given to the newly acquired timber lands. Cutting will be as directed by Celotex to provide for a normal growth of timber. Such a program will best assure replenishing timber resources and thereby provide a continuing source of pulp required for raw material substantially in excess of the planned initial plant capacity.

O. S. Mansell, Celotex president, said this addition of three new strategically located plants is in line with the company's need for additional production at advantageous plant locations and further rounds out the network of Celotex plants.

In addition, Mansell said this puts Celotex in a position to more adequately supply the increased demand for products to serve the building industry and its other markets.

The registration statement discloses The Celotex Corporation had net earnings in the fiscal year ended October 31, 1955, of $5,081,643 on sales of $71,136,590, compared with $3,n2,649 on sales of. $2,257,623 in the preceding year. Net earnings for the first four months of the current fiscal year were $1,606,947 on sales of $23,487,669, compared rvith $1,024,816 on sales of" $19,569,247 in the comparable period a year ago.

Housing Administrqtor Cole Predicfs Biggesr U.5. Boom in L. A. Speech

In just four years the U.S. will be seeing the biggest homebuilding boom in history, FHA and HHFAdministrator Albert M. Cole predicted in a speech at a Los Angeles luncheon sponsored by real estate, construction and finance executives last month. He acknowledged that 1956 home building had receded somewhat and saw little change until 1960.

But then, he noted, the bumper crop of babies from the early 1940s would be homeowners, the same "crop" whose impact is now being felt in new school construction. He cited the increasing problem of land availability with probably further ingress into the suburbs, community development and rehabilitation of older areas as part of the coming building boom. He believed there are today 5,000,000 houses which could be replaced. He said the present administration had done more than any other to help the growing number of older people to obtain homes.

Free Booklet for.Gontroclors

Hyster Company's popular booklet, "9 Profitable Minutes for Contractors," is again available for distribution. With a reading time of only nine minutes, the brochure outlines methods of increasing productivity through the use of Hyster job attachments on either new or used tractors. It is prepared from on-the-job case histories. Pictured. and described are many of over 30 different Hyster attachments. Copies are available from CaterpillarHyster dealers or by writing to Hyster Company, 2X)2 N. E. Clackamas Street, Portland 8, Oregon. Request Form No. 1305.

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Back on the job and feeling right well is Al Bell of Hobbs (Bell) Wall (Godard) Lumber Co., after minor surgery at St. Luke's hospital in San Francisco earlier last month.

G. Max Thomas and Jack Samper, both formerly of Bay Plywood, Oakland, have joined the sales staff of California Plywood, Inc., Oakland, reports Pat Cardin, president. Thomas will cover the Richmond, Marin county and San Francisco area, while Samper services southern Alameda county. Dick Osmundson continues to cover his central Alameda county and Contra Costa county field.

Marie Hutchins of the Fern Trucking Co., Los Angeles, is now Mrs. Irvin Keener, having been recently married in Las Vegas and, after some time there, finishing the honeymoon at her old home town of Beaver, IJtah, and up in the mountains near Puffer's Lake. The newlyweds are at home in Anaheim.

Loren Hall of the Diamond Springs Lumber Co., Placerville, is on a 1.0,000-mile tour of customers in the east and midwest.

tr'ran Heron, president of Heron Lumber Co., visited mill connections in the Medford region for a November week.

"Mac" McCormick, Simpson Redwood Co., returned to San Francisco November 19 from a 2-week business trip along the eastern seaboard and stopped over in Washington, D.C., to visit Walter Parks, Simpson's southeastern representative.

James S. McKay, who is in charge of the lumber activities for Getz Bros. in the U. S., has returned from a 3-months trip to the Orient, spending two months in the Philippines and visiting Hong Kong, Taipeh and Japan. McKay was formerly associated with the Findlay Millar interests and made the trip to familiarize himself with the Getz Bros. lumbering operations in the Far East, with the emphasis on Philippine mahogany and plywood.

Simpson Redwood, U.5. Forest Service Lounch Go-op Reseorch Proiect

Simpson Redwood Company and the U.S. Forest Service will soon launch a broad-scale cooperative research project seeking answers to forest management problems in redwood and Douglas-fir timber of northwestern California. W. E. Lawson, vice-president and general manager of Simpson Redwood Company at Arcata, and George M. Jemison, director of Forest Service research in California at Berkeley, jointly announced completion of a cooperative agreement for conduct of the project. Under the agreement, experimental work will be carried out by the research staff of the U.S. Forest Experiment Station with the help of compbny foresters.

Site of the new project will be timberland on High Prairie Creek in Del Norte county. The area includes about 900 acres in the Station's Yurok Redwood Experimental Forest and an adjoining 1,100 acres owned by the Simpson Redwood Company. The company will log timber on both tracts by special methods set up as part of the research plan. It will also contribute to the cost of experimental work and will take an active part in planning and completing the work. The company will pay the appraised valuation of publicly owned timber removed from the experimental iorest during-the experimental harvesting.

"The company expects this project to turn up information that will benefit forest land owners throughout northwestern California," Lawson said. "We believe it will contribute a great deal to further development of sustained yield , forestry. The results of the research work will be publishea by the Experiment Station for public use."

Jemison said that the Experiment Station recently com- ''.1lt',1$ pleted a survey of the most urgent problems confrontin$ ,iillii foresters in the redwood and Douglas-fir timber types. This survey will guide the project, which he said will include a variety of studies. Among those to be included are work on timber growth, harvesting methods, logging techniques, utilization and protection.

Research Forester Kenneth N. Boe wilt be in charge of the cooperative project, Jemison said. He will be stationed , at Yurok Redwood Experimental Forest, which has been inactive since before World War II. ,.,,,f

Grockeft Wirh W"t*r. F"*st Products

Harl Crockett, 26-year sales veteran in the Southern Cali- .'r;i fornia lumber industry, popular member of I-os Angeles Hoo- ,1: :;i Hoo Club Z,has assumed an executive position with Western '.

Forest Products Co., Los Angeles, according to Bob Theetge, t,,i'ii,i president of the new wholesale lumber concern.

Both Harl and Bob were formerly identified with Tarter,

Webster & Johnson in the sales department covering the southern counties of the state. They are well acquainted throughout the retail lumber field as both of them have gained experience at all levels of production, procurement and sales.

Crockett will specialize in the sales of redwood direct from

Hollow Tree Redwood Company in Ukiah, and fir, pine, hem- lock and spruce from other reliable mills in northern California.

1956 Home Ideas

In 33 states, a hunired builders are cooperating with retail lumber dealers and other suppliers in building fullscale models of "The 1956 Better Homes & Gardens Idea Home."

Three are in Oregon at Portland, Salem and Eugene, three California cities have them, and four are in Seattle, Tacoma, Kennewick and Wenatchee,'Washington.

The big story of this annual project of the Iowa mag- azine is in the value of its 1956 design-as in previous ones-in demonstrating use of West Coast lumber products for the realization of contemporary architectural ideas in a popular style of home that today's family can afford to build.

Open framing, with post-beam-plank construction, stands out in living and recreation rooms and outdoor living areas. Every new house in this style is another order on the book for Douglas fir, more income for the Pacific Coast states.

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The popular idea home of 1956 also calls for much in boards and dimension lumber. Joists, studs, rafters have their uses, and the exterior sidewalls are board-and-batten. Lattice and fence features also suggest markets for western red cedar. Roof decking, wall paneling and floor areas of wood visualize places where west coast hemlock can work as well as any wood that gro\,vs.

The talk of the building industry is of a market of 2,000,000 homes a year by 1956 as a matter of course. The big question for owners and employees alike in our region's major industry is, "Where will lumber products be in that picture?"

Young America is today growing up in houses which are largely like the lumber homes that find favor with the architectural editors of magazines on the order of Better Homes & Gardens. The boys and girls will, in due course, decide whether West Coast trees are to continue to be converted into houses.

Schools and Churches..

WLumber is more than holding its own in homes and farm buildings, as far as current construction is concerned. And the kids like their handsome wood homes of today, with so much space given to indoor recreation and to life outdoors. But all of them go to school and most of them go to church on Sunday mornings. In the public schools, metals, plastics, glass, brick and stone often loom over wood materials.

And this fact plays a heavy part in the enormous costs of providing buildings for the growing school population. Enrollment in the elementary grades has gone up from 18,000,000 to 27,0M,000 in ten years. Ba'bies are being born at the rate of 17 per minute. Each youngster, at present rates, will cost the taxpayers some $4,000 to put through a dozen grades of public school, on a national average. The figure doubles for each student who goes on through a taxsupported university.

How can this condition help but lead to the economy of more use of wood in new schools ? It is already happening everywhere with new church design and construction. This should make for a new generation of wood-minded American family home owners. Three cheers !

Nqrrow Siding Moking Gomebock

Narrow widths of bevel siding appear to be regaining popular favor among home'builders. This is a natural trend, as a large percentage of today's houses are relatively small and rabbetted bevel siding in widths of. (' and 0' make these small houses appear larger and more imposing.

Wide bevel siding is fine for-large houses as it gives them an appearance of compactness and neatness, but this same wide siding appears out of place on small houses as it makes them look even smaller. This aesthetic consideration is also true of vertical board siding. Narrow vertical boards make a small house look longer and taller. Likewise, small rooms appear larger when panelled with nargorv patterns.

Cost is probably another influencing factor with the builder as wide siding and boards are a lot more expensive than narrow ones, being aboat 5O/o more costly for material. Some of these savings are lost by higher installation labor costs, but the final monetary advantages still favor the narrow siding and panelling.-John Reno, The Pacific Lumber Company.