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ben je £ owing investigation was conducted by SA of the Boston Division: On March 7, 1961,[ bre Rising Paper Company, Housatonic, Massachusetts, advise a e only two outlets for the company's white bond paper bearing the watermark "Rising Parchment 100% Rag, USA" in the California area are the Neumann Paper Company, San Francisco, California, and the California Paper Products, Los Angeles, California. @ investigation was conducted by SA on the dates indicated: telephone advised that his corporation is the only official outlet for the Rising Paper Company in the Los Angeles area. He stated that the only other possibie source of the Rising Parchment 100% Rag paper would be the Rerency-Thermographers, 13212 Saticoy, North Hollywood, California, which is a branch ot a New York company and which recently,opened. He stated he believed that their New York company handles this paper and that the North Hollywood branch might possibly bootleg it in from the New York company. On March 28, 1981, [oe California - Paper oneL da Traction reet, los Angeles, Califirnia, stated that the piece of Rising Parchment 100% Rag used in this case was what they refer to as a monarch or executive size piece of personal stationery, seven and one quarter by ten and one half inches. He stated the 100% Rag paper is expensive paper, costing about $1.00 a pound and that because of the cost, it is not used very extensively. He stated that most of such paper is usually engraved and would be used by executives desiring prestige or lawyers or other business firms desiring a high degree of permanency in their records. He stated that the paper is generally received in sheets of 22 inches by 34 inches and that it will be cut down to the desired size. He stated that seven and one quarter by ten and one half inches is not a stock size and will usually be cut down by the printer or engraver. He stated that in 1960 the company sold approximately 4,000 sheets of 22 by 34 inches and that the firm purchasing the paper would probably cut that down into eight individual sheets. - 20.