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uses wood and paper products equivalent to what can be produced from one 100 ft. tree each year.

The forest products industry ranks among the top 10 employers in 40 of the 50 states, directly employing some 1.4 million people with an annual payroll of around $31 billion. This counts only those people directly involved in the industry, not the many thousands more who indirectly make their living from forest management and forest products.

Land of DINEH Reputation by Product PONDEROSA PINE

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NAVA-PAK the untreated sheathing.

"There has been a good deal of concern over heat degradation in FRT roof sheathing," said James Black of Dricon, "but these results again confirm our claims for Dricon FRT plywood." Hickson Corp., owner of the Dricon trademark, has claimed that there has not been a single failure of Dricon material due to heat degradation in any application over the product's l0-year history.

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Archadeck provides marketing tools, an accounting system, design review and training for both salesmen and construction crews. Special sales, marketing, administration and construction training is given at the Richmond headquarters. A full complement of manuals, video tapes, marketing materials, sales tools, forms and software is available.

At present Archadeck operates east of the Mississippi with 3l locations in 15 states as well as a Japanese office. Lemco, a subsidiary of Mellco, a Perry, Ga., pressure treated lumber manufacturer, owns 400/o of the Archadeck stock.

Dean Setg Fllght Record

Longtime pilot and former Air Force flight instructor Steve Dean, general manager of Dean Lumber Co., Gilmer, Tx., set a world speed record July 26 for a flight from Gilmer to Oshkosh, Wi.

"lt wasn't a hard record to sel," admits Steve. "since no record existed. ln fact, it's possible that no one has ever flown from Gilmer to Oshkosh before."

That did not dampen the enthusiasm of the 30 Cilmerites, including the reigning International Possum Queen, who saw him off nor bother the local newspaper covering the sendoff nor make embroidered "World Record Flight 1990" ballcaps less significant.

Steve flew to Oshkosh in his Beech Bonanza to attend the 1990 International Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-ln Convention, an event which annually attracts thousands of pilots. He was accompanied by passenger Huck DeVenzio from Hickson Corp., supplier of Wolman preservative and Dricon fire retardant for Dean's pressure-treated wood.

Steve soloed while still in high school and spent 20 years in the Air Force, totaling active, active reserve and inactive reserve duties. He figures he's logged about 6500 hours as a pilot, 2500 of those in jets.

Steve's record time from Gilmer to Oshkosh was just under seven hours. He says he could have made it quicker, but he stopped in lllinois to refuel, eat lunch, make a few phone calls and take a short nap.

A LTHOUGH NOT a true cedar, a Asouth-of-rhe-border namesake wood is developing an identity all its own. Unlike our domestic softwood cedar, Spanish cedar is a hardwood, but with that pleasant, familiar scent.

The trees can be found from Mexico to the West Indies and in all of the Latin American countries except Chile. Spanish cedar is also known as cedro, South American cedar, Brazilian cedar, Peruvian cedar, British Guiana cedar and like names, according to its country of origin.

The trees grow in mixed forests, where all commercial timber is harvested and later separated at the mill. Since railroads are rare in the dense South American forests, wood is carried to the mills and plants by huge trucks with capacities up to 50 tons. The manufactured product is then trucked to the closest port, where it is loaded onto cargo ships for transport via the Panama Canal to a West Coast destination.

Spanish cedar's heartwood, when freshly cut, is pinkish to reddish brown, darkening to a red or deep reddish brown after exposure. The color is said to vary with location, with the driest harvest sites producing the darker, prized wood. The grain is generally straight, although some interlocking does occur. The hardwood also displays a medium to high lustre, determined by the depth of the wood's colorl the darker the wood, the higher the lustre.

The wood is similar to Central American mahogany in most properties, trailing only in the areas of smoothness, hardness and compression perpendicular to the grain. It has moderately good bending properties; is strong for its weight; dries rapidly with only slight warping, checking