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The American Plywood Association's research laboratories will serve as consultant in the use of wood products for a national housing experiment described by former Housing and Urban Dev. Secretary Robert C. Weaver as "the most ambitious ever undertaken" in the United States.

The association is among a group of cooperating organizations brought together by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, one of three prime contractors selected by HUD to launch the national "in-city" experimental low.cost housing project.

The program is aimed at isolating new techniques for low.cost housing and using these techniques to get massive housing programs started in as many as 20 of lhe o'model cities" participating in federal programs.

Information will be gathered from other forest products industry organizations and funneled into the project.

Westinghouse and the two other successful bidders have until June 15 to decide on the most promising construction approaches, to contact officials in cities where experiments might be undertaken, and to recommend to HUD which of the model cities should be selected initiallv.

Walter S. Johnson, chairman of the hoard of American .Fqrest Products Corp., corporate .parent, of 'Tartern Webster , & Johnson, did the cereanonial spadework at the groundbrqaking o{ their new Western Sierra Lurnber, facility in pleasanton, Calif.

I)ue for completion this April, the quarter million dollar .facility will feature a 10,000 sq. ft. retail store, According to Johnson, .the Livermore Valley where Pleasanton is tocated is the fastest grpfing area in thb United States.

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