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Three California Cities Listed Among First Twenty in Buildins in 1939

Three California cities were listed among the first twenty in the United States reporting the largest building volume for the year 1939.. Los Angeles was in second place with a total of $74,7m,44L, San Francisco was eighth with 924,950,593, and Long Beach was sixteenth with $12,186,040. New York was i.n first place with a total of. $235,069,542. The twenty cities showing the largest permit valuations for 1939 and comparative figures for 1938 as compiled by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., follows: ---'Twelve Months

$365,301,696

Convention Dates

Feb. l5-:Western Pine Association, Portland, Ore.

Feb. 2t-Z3-Nebraska Lumber Merchants' Association. Omaha, Neb.

Feb. 22-24-Western Retail Lumbermen's Association and Utah Retail Lumber Dealers' Association. Salt Lake City, Utah.

March S-fSouth Dakota Retail Lumbermen's Association, Sioux Falls, S.D.

March 7-&-Southwestern Iowa Retail Lumbermen's Association, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

March 12-13-North Dakota Retail Lumbermen's Association, Fargo, N. D.

April 4G-Florida Lumber & Millwork Association, Coral Gables, Florida.

April 8-1G-Lumbermen's Association of Texas, Fort Worth. Texas.

May S-7-National Retail Lumber Dealer's Association, Annual Meeting board of directors, Washington, D. C.

June 4-5-National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, Rye, N. Y.

Eishth Annual Reveille April 12-13

All the various committees are working hard to make the eighth annual Reveille of Central and Northern California lumbermen an outstanding success.

-qponsored by East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, the Reveille will be held at Hotel Oakland, Oakland, on Friday, April 12. The annual golf tournament will be held on Saturday morning, April 13, at Sequoyah Country Club, Oaklarrd.

Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, is general chairman, and Carl R. Moore, Oakland, is general secretary.

Tickets for the Reveille are $2.00. Green fees for those who play golf are $1.75.

First Public Building

The present White House was the first public building to be erected when the site was laid out for the new Nation's Capital. It was called the "President's Palace," at first. Then it was called the "Executive Mansion," a name often applied to it to this day. When it was partly destroyed by the British in 1814, Dolly Madison directed that it be covered with a coat of white paint to hide the blemishes and fire marks. Si.nce that time it l-ras been known as the White }Iouse.

California Visitor

Perry A. Dame, sales manager of Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Co., Vancouver, Wash., visited Los Angeles and San Francisco around the first of the month on his way back from an Eastern business trip.

Good Will

r$Thileyou are buildingextra "footage" by selling the extra "yearage" of Redwood for outdoor lumber, don't forget it is also rdeal for interior panels, tnm, beams, etc. Sell Redwood for ALL exposed placesinside and out. Order yours as Palco Redwood.