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Koibob Lumber Co., Flogstoff, Adding lfiill itochinery ond Boosting Pockoged Shipments for
Economicol Unlooding
The Kaibab Lumber Co. of Flagstaff, Arizona, is installing a new Stetson-Ross Matcher, Trimmer and End Printer and Waxer at its Flagstaff mill. Their Holbrook, Fredonia and Littleton (Colorado) mills are putting in neu' Stetson-Ross Trimmers and Encl Printer and \\raxers only.
This installation is part of a long-range pian to manufacture and ship the best qualitv available from Arizona's ample timbei crop. The nerv machinery will do a lot to "dress" the lumber produced and the grading will continue
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under the rigid supervision of the Western Pine Association, of 'lvhich all four mills are members.
General Manager Milton A. Whiting says, "We produce in excess of 100,000,000 BFM of lumber per year, and in marketing our product rve find the user appreciates quaiity above all factors, therefore rve intend to take advantage of new and better manufacturing processes as they develop."
Along this line, Kaibab is nou' experimenting r,vith package loading in boxcars. Through the cooperation of Signode Steel Co. they are loading doultle-door boxcars with steelstrapped units. In-transit clamage is held to a minimum and, in many cases, the customer can unload more economically. For several months Kaibab has offered a package flat-cir loading. These units are covered with Sisalkraft "tents" u.l-rich protect the lumber in transit and in storage at the customer's yard.
CRA's Post Heods 5.F. Junior Ad Club
Mal Post (left) of the CRA's Promotion Division, was installed as President of the San Francisco Junior Ad Club at the December 19 meeting. He will serve for the first six months of 1958. Mal came to the California Redu'ood Association in Tune of 1956 after a tour of duty with the U.S. Navy, during which he served aboard the USS COLUMBUS rvith the Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean rvaters. He also attended the Naval Postgraduate Schot-,I at Monterey a.td served in the Offrce of the Chief of Naval Operations in rrA'-ashington, D.C His primary duties were in comntunications. Post was graduated (Cum Laucle) from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1947 and \\ras on the Dean's List during his four year-s at Yale University, rvlrere he was graduated in June of 1951.
Bob Osgood Wins 379th fTT
The 379th Terrible Tlventy tournament .n'as held at Oakmor-rt Countrr.' Club, Decimber 10. Vern Huck, our host, hanclled the details beautifully, includins the .rverithcr. Oakmont is spending a fortune otr at-r automlatic sprinkler system and rvhen the turf is built up, similar to San Galtriel. what a golf course it u'ill be !
Rob Osgood rvon the tournament hands clorvn, u'itl-r 80-10-70; the handicaps at Annandale are very accurate. rrn<l Osgood is an honor:rble man brrt-let nre lie rvith lrim at a 10!Vern Huck and Svd Alling tied in the lower bracket at 89-15-74 and 86-12-7,1, ind u'ill ilav it off ncxt month. (lur February tournament'is saheduled for San Gabriel, Friday the 7th, if you u'ish to mark your calendar. -H. M.
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ACCO log Truck Binder Choin Approved by Highwoy Potrols
The acceptance by the State of California Highway Patrol, Sacramento, directly on the heels of approval and acceptance by the State of Oregon, of American Chain & Cable Company's X-Weld Accoloy 125 non-kinking'chain for utilization as a binder on log trucks, has been reported bv the Division of Industrial Safetv. San Francisco. It replaces 3/8-inch HT chain. The safeiy division had asked the California Highway Patrol whether the 5/16-inch chain would be permitted by the Vehicle Code as a binder.
The laws of California, as well as Oregon and Washing. ton, state that logs which are transported on state highways must have binders on them which are made from chain that is recognized by the manufacturer to have a minimum breaking strength of 15,000 pounds or more. In the past, California and Oregon had established the larger 3/8-inch HT (heat-treated) chain as the standard and the lightest chain t[at could be used and still meet the specifications. ._In granting the approval, the section of the code covering "Minimum Binder Requirements" was interpreted to mean "wire rope or steel chain of any size may be used as binders, provided that its strength is at least equal to the binders specifically referred to in the Vehicle Code."
The approved 5/L6-inch Accoloy 125, chain, a product of the American Chain Division, American Chain & Cable Company, fnc.,,York, Pa., is equal to or exceeds the break ing strength of 3/8-inch HT chain and was accepted to meet state requirements in this respect in both California and Oregon. It was thoroughly tested by the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, 651 Howard Street, San Francisco-.
Palm Springs, Calif.-Beverly Hills real estate investors Arthur A. Desser and Harold B. Garfield have acquired 400 acres of Rancho Mirage properties for $3,500,000 for construction of luxury homes here.
