Ne* Industry ln Los Angeles

The International Veneer and Plywood Corp., at 5510 W. 102nd Street, Los Angeles, brings to the Southwest area a new industry that will manufacture veneer which is of importance to the furniture and construction industry. The company which began operation shortly after the first of the year will manufacture more than a 1,000,000 square feet of Philippine and African plywood as well as an equal amount of veneer each month.

Logs are imported direct from the Philippine Islands and Africa. These high-grade mahogany logs, together with fir logs from the North'rvest, are sliced into veneer for the manufacture of plywood, furniture panels and doors.

The neu' plant is located on a two-acre site in the nelv Hayden-Lee airport industrial tract near International Airport. The firm represents an investment of more than $500,000. It u'i1l employ 75 personnel locally and rvill distribute its products through jobbers in the United States and overseas as rvell as in California. The company expects to maintain three shifts, seven days a week by spring.

Plant equipment and facilities include warehouse space, three underground vats for "cooking" logs, a veneer slicer, dryer, and a specially constructed hot hydraulic plyrvood press.

Officials of the firm are Charles E. Strait, president; Thomas A. McDougall, sales manager and secretary; George E. Keiter, treasurer, and Z. E. Beiser, r'ice president. Strait and McDougall orvned Strait & Co., Los Angeles, importers and distributors of hardwood, ply'ivood and doors.

Add New Salesmcn

T'wcr ne'rr. salesmen, Clive P. Jatrray of Norfork, Nebraska, and Sl-rerman Troxel of Springfield, Oregon, have been added to the sales staff of Weverhaeuser Sales Co. at Los Ar-rgeles.