Glu Lams Are a Lumber Rll ueater s Business

totally unfamiliar with tlrc product-and their contractor customers were in the same boat. To assist its retail yard customers, the company issued an eight page bulletin, o'Guide for Ordering Glue Laminated Beams". This guide is a summation of the pertinent facts concerning the bearr,s and lists the principle requirements in ordering beams:

1. Size and Shape-net width, depth, span, etc., along with plant capabilities.

2. Appearance Grades----explanation of the three appearance grades.

3. Stress Grades-a reprint of the TfCLA chart listing various stress grades and

Worried about the roof deckins business being lost by its retail yard cuiomers to applicators installing the complete roof structure, California Sugar & W'estern Pine Agency (Burlingame) began to take note last year that most jobs of any consequence involved the use of laminated beams-supplied and installed by the applicator. Therefore, the key to keeping its retail lumberyard customers in the roof structure busi- subscribes to the Daily Pacific Builder and offers its customers a "clipping service". o'In the early stages of our Glu Lam dis- tribution we found we had to do a considerable amount of 'take off' work for the yards," notes Jerry Griffin, California Sugar & Western's laminated beam and decking specialist. "However, once the so-called 'mystery' of laminated beams has been removed, and a dealer has bid a job, we find it is routine for him to obtain the beam specifications from the architect or struc. appropriate grade combinations of lumber used in laminations.

Each day as the various building projects are listed, the company screens the jobs requiring GIu Lam and forwards this information to the yards servicing the job area.

Reridence in Hillsborough uring 8 Glu lom bcom: rupplled by filillboe Lumber Cornpony. Ceiling is 1"x6" cledt hcorl rodwood with rerqwn foce.

4. A brief explanation of Casein and Exterior Glues with recommended usage.

In addition to these four points, the bulletin covers other requirements such as Protection, Finish, Special Fabrications, and a Comparison Chart for Sawn Timbers vs. Glu Lam Beams. Customers are also supplied with brochures published by the company's fabricators which contain further information and illustrations covering suggested span tables and engineering data.

To further assist and encourag€ its retail yard customers to seek Glu Lam business, California Sugar & Western Pine Agency

Boy fronsit Co. buc mqlnlenoncc tcrmlnol supplicd by lynan Lumbcr Cornpony of ilontcny. Kcith Doviron, monoger of Tynon lumber in foroground. Bcqmr orc 8"x22"r44' Glu l,ornt ond celllng lr 3'x6" decking.

Comrnerciol building in Compbell uring 23 beomr, ircfuding 14 beone 15"t18"x6o'l with spcciol lqpered .nd cufr on ovcrhong. Job wos ruppllcd by Hubbond & Johnron Lumbor Co., tcdwood Cily.

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We'd rather be right than rich!

Maybe we'd be richer, if we "joined up"-pledged allegiance to brands with a fast pitch and a o'hard sell." But if we did, they might tell us what we should sell you or else ! We'd rather make friends than make an extra buck that way. So we insist on re. maining independent-free to give you the best available materials from all lines for your particular job. That way, nobody's arm is twisted and you get what's right!

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However, on any job----especially school or church jobs calling for unusual laminated beam formations-Griffin is always available for'take-off' duty.

The sale of laminated beams to dealers is handled on a custom basis with the beams ordered and fabricated for a specific job. Orders have run from a single beam to a full truck load. All sales are strictly through the lumber dealer and shipments are made direct to the job site by the company's trucks.

During the past year, California Sugar '& Western Pine has shipped Glu Lams and Arches to home, school, church and all types of commercial and industrial jobs including war,ehouses, stores, restiturants, medical buildings, motels, apartmerrts and office buildings.

With the initial groundwork and educational effort behind, the stafi of California Sugar & Western Pine Agency is pleased to note a growing list of Northern California deatrers who have successfully bid and won -won back, you might say-roof structure jobs throughout the Valley and Northern California area

los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Plqns

Volentine's Doy Dinner Dqnce

It will be 'ohearts and flowers"-maybe Pink Martinis? (now there's a thought to set your teeth on edge!)-when members and guests of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club ft2 gather on February 14 for their annual Valentine's Day Dinner-Dance. Place: General Lee's in Chinatown. Time: cocktails, 6:29 p.m.; dinner, 7:29 p.m.; and dancing to the tunes of a real sharp combo, B:29 p.m.

Members oI San Fernando Valley, San Diego and Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo clubs have also been invited to the big night.

There will be "sur-prizes" for the ladies whose gentlemen make the first 70 reservations, For reservations, please call Florence Nearwick, U. S. Plywood, LUdlow 3-3441.

A Lot of Pulpwood!

Americans wrote 15 billion checks in 1962, and foresters are quick to point out that's a lot of pulpwood.

American Forest Products Industries, sponsor of the voluntary tree farm move' ment, says pulpwood required to produce the paper on which the checks were written would make a stack four feet wide, eight feet long and 25 miles high-32,760 stand' ard cords of wood.

The checks weighed 52 million pounds and would blanket a 57,000-acre ranch. If laid end to end they would reach I,654,000 miles beyond the moon.

Paper for checks, says AFPI, is only one of the useful products that come from the manas.ed forest,

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