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Looks like a lot of intelligent and well-informed people in the world are deeply concerned about the rapid growth of population here and everywhere, and wondering if this globe-which the best astronomers say is about five billion years old come next Thursday, will be able to continue to wheel and deal not too many years hence.

From what we read, we gather the following skeleton of facts on the subject: The population of the world is increasing at the rate of about 70,000 people every day, or 25 million a year. Increased improvement of medicines and in ways of living has enormously extended the average human life, and thus brought on apace the population increase.

fn some countries on the globe the population is now doubling every 25 years. There are at present about 2,500,000,000 people in the world, and 45 years from now there will be about four billion, and one hundred years from now there will be about 7,500,000,000. In 1940 the United States had 132,000,000 population; today we have an estimated 166,000,000, an increase of about 34,000,000 in just 15 years.

What the scientific sharps are worrying about is, what is the world going to do with all these people and, especially, how will they be fed?

No doubt these are very serious matters and must be taken into consideration by planners. But to this writer comes the thought that it is indeed "an ill wind that blows nobody good." Just think of the houses that are to be built, the garages, the business buildings, the schools, the stores,

An Edltorial the churches, and all the other building things that must come to care for the great population growth.

Unless these scientific sharps guess wrong-which is not at all likely-the lumber and building industry has one primary duty, and a pleasant one: to furnish the buildings for the world of tomorrow. What a pleasant thought !

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Commemorating an extensive plant expansion, including the installation of exterior plywood equipment, Durable Fir Lumber & Plywood Co. at Calpella, California, celebrated the occassion rvith a big open house on November 17. Thousands of people from the surrounding region took guided tours through the big new plant, formerly called Durable Plyr,vood, r,vhich now employs 225 and has one of the county's largest payrolls.

Under the control of Twin Harbors Lumber Company of Aberdeen, Wasl-rington, which took over the majority of Durable stock last January 1, the Calpella firm has grown to one of the county's leading industries. The plant is also the largest plywood factory south of Arcata, where Twin Harbors operates another plywood mill.

Twin Harbors Lumber Company had been a minority stockholder in both operations for some time, and also took over control of the Arcata mill last January. Henry Anderson of Aberdeen is president, Don Anderson, his brother, is vice-president and Edgar Anderson of E,ureka, a nephew, is secretary,

The Durable Plywood Arcata plant recently underwent extensive modernization, its four-foot peeler lathe being supplemented by a new eight-foot lathe and a modern direct, oil-fired Coe dryer, which give the plant a monthly production of nearly 4,500,000 sq. ft. of interior plywood.

At the helm of both factories is capable and affable Ted Stolesen, general manager, an old hand in the lumber industry and with 20 years' experience in the plywood end of it. Besides vastiy increasing production of Durable Ply- l)urable Fir doesn't \\'aste any of its logs, either, except the bark which is burned. Log cores are salvaged and sent to a newly installed lumber mill which produces studs and other lumlter. The sarvmill is also operated bv the comDanv

'*'ood at Arcata, Stolesen (left) has brought the Calpella operation from 3,000,000 sq. ft. a month to better than 4,000,000 sq. ft.a jump of 33 l/3 per cent. In addition, the Calpella plant has now gone into the production of exterior plywood for boats and other iten.rs rvhere rvaterproof plyrvood is needed. The plant formerly made only interior plywood.

Ted Stolesen, who can talk plywood all day and never repeat himself, also has a son in the business. Rolf Stolesen also talks plywood with relish. He is sales manager of Durable Plywood Sales Company in Menlo Park. Another son, Edward, is in the retail plywood business in San Jose.

The Calpella mill itself uses $1,750,000 in logs a year, ali bought on the open market, some from the Ukiah region. Some of the logs also are shipped down from the Arcata log deck and, in addition, the parent company owns some timber in Mendocino and Humboldt counties. The latter timber is being kept for a reserve supply.

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