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California Building Permits for September
E. A. Bloclclinger
E. A. Blocklinger, president of the Chiloquin Lumber Co., Chiloquin, Ore., passed away in a Los Angeles hospital on October 21 following an attack of pneumonia. He was 69 years of age.
He was born in Dubuque, fowa, and started in the lumber business when he was seventeen years old. He was a salesman for Carr, Adams & Collier of Dubuque, and later was manager of their Peoria, Ill., branch.
When Carr, Adams & Collier bought the Westside Lumber Co. at Tuolumne, Calif., in 1901, they appointed Mr. Blocklinger manager. They sold the mill a few years later, and he became their Western purchasing agent with headquarters in San Francisco.
Mr. Blocklinger was made manager of The Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia in 1905, remaining there until 1911, when he organized the Dorris Lumber & Box Co. at Dorris, Calif. IIe owned the mill at Dorris for about ten years, then started the Chiloquin Lumber Co.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Blanche Jackson Blocklinger, and a son, Arthur F. Blocklinger, manager of the Chiloquin Lumber Co.
Funeral services were held at Dubuque.
Army Lumber Buying Centrclized
PortlandThe Portland district, U. S. Army Engineers, has been designated as the contracting agency for the Pacific d,ivision in a move to facilitate the movement of lumber from mills to war theatres. The agency will purchase lumber for the entire area, including Alaska, Honolulu and the South Pacific.
Previously, it was the practice for each engineer district to make its own purchases through the Portland office.
Construction
Starting October 25, applications for beginning industrial and non-industrial construction where cost is $1e000 or less will be filed with and processed by WPB field offices. These offices also will handle applications increasing cost of a project to $10,000 or more provided increase in not more than 5O/o above original estimated cost. WPB Washington office will handle all applications now pending. (Field Administrative Order 78-n, as amended Oct. 25), issued Oct. 21.
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