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The tlcrn Who Poys

G-P Advqnces PlYwood Prices 8olo

Georgia-Pacific Corporation announced to the trade last month that, effective immediately, it was advancing its prices on Douglas fir plywood on the index item of r/a" AD grade. A general price adjustment of other standard fir plywood items, except sheathing, is made amounting to an 8 to l0/o increase, restoring the price to the August 1956 level. In commenting on the increase, R' B. Pamplin, executive vice-president of Georgia-Pacific, pointed out that the wholesale price stlucture in the Douglas fir plywood industry had declined substantially during 1956 against a 2/o average price boost for all building materiais during the same period.

He stated that during the January-to-September period, prices of concrete products rose by 4/o, gypsum products, 4/o, plumbing equipme nt, 5/o, asphalt roofing, 3/c , heating equipment, 3/o, finished hardware, 7/o, and prepared paint, +"/o.

"We have made a realistic upward adjustment of the basic index price of fir plywood in line with the booming economy. marked by an unprecedented rise in personal income on all wage levels," Mr. Pamplin said' "In 1956, plywood consumption has been greater than in any previous year, outstripping the previous record of the year 1955 by 6%. In this fast-growing industry, however. overproduction and new plant capacity occurred largely in the spring of 1956, but th,e future outlook for that capacity is good'"

In making the price increase, Mr. Pamplin pointed out that in 7957 a fuller realization of Georgia-Pacific's potential diversification can be expected. "We are operating with maximum effipiency," he declared, "and the indications are that we should break all previous records. Company property is in peak condition and is constantly being improved. Georgia-Pacific now merchandises company-manufactured products through more than 7,000 retail dealers and industrial accounts throughout the country. A stepped-up advertising and promotional program will push all GeorgiaPacific products through its dealers during the coming year,"

Mr. Pamplin pointed out that, as the year 1957 goes along, there will, no doubt, be additional upward adjustments in the price of fir plywood, restoring the index to previous levels. No real shortage in fir plywood should develop, although a number of important items are likely to continue on the tight side. Gross national production promises to mount from $410 billion into the neighborhood of $425 billion in 1957, and Mr. Pamplin concluded that "construction is bound to get its share of this volume."

lnsulite Soles Chonges

Personnel changes in several Insulite territories announced recently by K. G. Maclntosh, Insulite dealer sales manager, include S. W. Shields as sales representative in Montana, northern Wyoming, and parts of North and South Dakota, with headquarters in Billings. Alvin L. Onsted replaces Shields in western North Dakota and northern 'Montana, rvith headquarters in Minot.

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Domestic and Imported Hardwood 1/a" PanelsV-Grooved & PlainAll Species

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Hyster Lifr ond Gor Wood Elevotor Get Shingles From Ground to Roof

COTIAPARE IH|S IIODERN ,I^ETHOD of moteriqlr hondling wlth old-time methods of hoisting shingles up lodder by hond (Gor Wood elevoting body, obove)

THE 9PEEDY, powerful cnd highly mcneuveroble Hysiot YT-40 (rop left) picks up rhingles in Scn Corloc yord for locding on truck to iobsite. The lift -removes silngle3 from boxcqr (recond, left) in modern method of moteriols hondling which reduces by $20.$30 demurroge chorges formerly running into hundreds of doltqrs monrhiy. The firm's shingles sole srrives reody, for opplicotion al the iobsite (lower lefi photo)

Cedar Products Company of San Carlos, California, literally "raises the roof" with a Hyster YT-4O, 4,00o-lb. capacity lift truck, and delivery trucks equipped rvith the Gar Wood elevating bodies. The company sells to builders an average of 23 cars of shakes and shingles monthly and uses profitable handling methods to transport roofing material from ground to roof level.

This efficiency-minded firm stores all shakes and shingles out-of-doors in an unpaved yard which is supplied with cedar products from incoming railway cars. Shakes and shingles are palletized within the car, and the Hyster lift truck removes the pallets to yard storage. Delivery trucks are loaded at the storage area with the Hyster YT-4O, an

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BOB BLISS operator and the delivery truck driver, who secures the high load with ropes.

Upon arrival at the job, the Gar Wood elevating truck bodies lift the load to roof level, allowing the shingles to be unloaded directly onto the roof, saving the cost, time and labor of carrying them up ladders by hand.

The shingles are tied into bundles, four bundles per square and eleven squares per pallet. Squares weigh 180 pounds each. Shakes come in light, medium and heavy r'veights. Heavy shakes are fir'e bundles per square and eight squares per pallet and a square of heavy shakes rveighs 400 to 500 pounds.

dwood's Wzqrd!

Whor q Difference the Yeors Mqkel

A "15 Years Ago" item in the Los Angeles Times on December 25 carried this item from Dec.25, I94l:. "In daring daylight raids off the California coast, Japanese submarines disabled two lumber schooners. One man was killed and 33 were rescued from the ship Absaroka, while hundreds along an undisclosed shoreline watched the spectacular whish of two torpedoes through the water. A second lumber schooner, the Dorothy Phillips, rvas also hit as she sailed along the coast close to the Absaroka."

Beover Joins Cooper Wholescrle

Now you can satisfy averry adhesive need with tbe famous Weldwood brand - thanks to our latestIOO% Waterproof, Glue. You can simplify ordering, cut down on inventory-with Weldwood as youi cehtral sourle of adhesive supply. With Weldwood, you get built-in demand... a famous name that's nationally-advertised. Stock up now!

Sidney Beaver, f.or 22 years with E. U. Wheelock, on January 1 joined the staff of W. E. Cooper Wholesale Lumber Co., Los Angeles, in its industrial sales department to handle direct shipments of imported and domestic hardwoods and softwoods. He is well-acquainted in the L. A. lumber trade and brings his years of experience to Cooper's wide accounts.

Cooper Wholesale maintains a distribution yard for Ponderosa pine and cedar and other yard items, and Beaver's sales will be strictly direct-car accounts to the industrial trade not in competition with Cooper's own retail yard accounts. The policy of W. E. Cooper Wholesale Lumber Co. remains sales to legitimate retail dealers and not calls on their dealer customers' own accounts.

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