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Need Douglas Fir timbers or roofing? We have exactly what you need.

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As you can see, Crown Plywood has a wide range of products and we are ready to handle any size order, mixed loads as well. To sum it up, Crown Plywood is ready when you are - with everything.

DAVID CUTLER editor-publ isher

Oops, we threw out the baby!

'l'O THOSE millions who never thought I about the near miracle of being able to enjoy, on a daily basis, fresh fruits and vegetables that were produced hundreds or even thousands of miles away, the disruptions caused by the truckers' strikes should make apparent the necessity that America's transportation system function efficiently.

Especially in trucking, the entire system is being battered by a number of forces. Even before the current problems became as serious as they are now, more than a few were raising their voices for reform, changes and corrections.

But for all the difficulties, the system had one overriding virtue: it worked. A firm could produce food or goods and economically ship across town, across the country or overseas. America's tired old rail system, for all its grievous woes and failings, still moved the goods. Despite the finally were delivered. problems the widgets

Now the entire transportation system is in a period of lransition. Airlines are being deregulated by the federal government. Railroad and truck deregulation is in the wings, undergoing scrutiny as to the benefits to be gained, at what risk, and at what losses of current features that we presently enjoy that might not survive proposed changes.

We hope slate and federal governments will think long and hard (and clearly) before they make major changes in anything that works as well as distribution does in this country.

With the economy precariously balanced, it is no time for a trial and error approach to implementing change. Proposed changes ot' a reasonable scope are one thing. Across the board tampering with anything and everything looks to us to be a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

John Cameron Swayze isn't any stranger to torture tests. And, he knows a little about our L-P Redex@ particleboard, too. Because last year he helped us test its strength with Tunga, a 4lz ton elephant.

But now John was ready to put Redex to the ultimate test for particleboard. Water -the biggest single problem with ordinary particleboards. What would happen when a group offtremen put the full force of their ftre hose to a panel of Redex?

"Open the hydrant ac far ac lt goer," Swayze ordered.

The water gushed, then blasted out towards the single piece of Redex. Soon the full force of the hydrant drenched the particleboard.

There was no doubt about it. The L-P Redex had been blasted with enough water to ftll a small swimming pool. It was enough to ruin any normal particleboard. But what about Redex?

"fhc L.P Rcdex came through wlth flylng colorc," Swayzc erctalned.

"It took all the water the firehose could provide," Swayze said. "Now that's a particleboard that's not afraid of a little water."

How doec Rcdex do it?

Redex is made of long, very strong wood ftbers. Of course, wood fibers can absorb water. So we bond them together with a water resistant phenolic resin. Then we seal all four edges and give you the option of square edge or tongue and groove with face and back weathercoating or edge seal only. The entire process doesn't waterproof Redex. But it does provide a substantial margin of protection against moisture.

We'd llhe to tell you norc.

Builders everywhere are using Redex as a single panel subfloor/underlayment that's covered with carpeting or vinyl flooring. Redex is popular because it saves money and its price is much more stable than plywood prices.

For more information, please call (707) 528-6680 or (713) 756-0541, or write: Louisiana-Paciftc. 13(X) Southwest Fifth Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97201.

Helping the forest work for people lI OT AT ANY time since the late ll1800 s when the Interstate Commerce Commission was established by Congress to regulate the railroads has the subject of transportation regulation received more attention.

Heavy pressure from the railroad industry has led the Department of Transportation to promulgate S.796, the Rail Deregulation Act of 1979, which basically calls for total deregulation of the railroads over a five year transition period. Pressure from the railroads has come in the form of placing the blame for the bankruptcy of several eastern railroads [on the federal govern- mentl which resulted in the federally subsidized Conrail system. More recently, the bankruptcy of the Milwaukee Road and the poor financial status of other Midwest lines have been blamed on over-regulation.

The railroads' position is that if over-regulation is not eliminated, and soon, the entire private railroad structure will collapse, with the inevitable result beine nationalization.

The Carter Administration also is seeking to deregulate the motor carrier industry. The goal is to provide more competition, which supposedly would result in a more efficient transportation system.

In connection with both rail and truck deregulation, the Carter Administration points to the successful deregulation of the airlines as being highly beneficial to both the carriers and the public.

In the case of the railroads and the motor carriers, however, there exists a wide divergence of views between the two industries. The railroads support changes in regula-