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New York-Two companion pieces of literature just published by Johns-Manville are, "Ceiling Panels and Wall Plank," an &page brochure in full color, and a "do-it-yoursetf" folder cntitled, "How You Can Build A Beautiful Room Like This In Your Unfinished Attic."

R.O.l/Ir Uh Od Conrylaerv... from inside the house . for cleaning, painting or glass replacement. Because of this exclusive feature, more than 7,000,000 are now in use. Ilomes with R.O.Ws seU faster in today's selective market.

Ceiling Panels and Wall Plank are insulating board materials. The brochure explains how they are manufactured, shows the colors in which they are available, describes special features such as the flame resistant finish and the Lightning Joint which conceals fasteners. The many color photographs and drarvings of completed rooms provide ideas for interiors throughout the house. This brochure concludes with descriptions of two related products-Building Board, a large size sheet material often used in combination with Ceiling Panels and Wall Plank, and, Fibretex Panels, perforated ceiling panels that absorb noise.

The 4-page "do-it-your3elf" folder shows how to build a room with the materials described in the brochure. The folder gives illustrated step by step instructions for changing typical unused attic space into an attractive living area. Drawings include a floor plan, elevations and a sketch of the necessary framing. Information on how to insulate the room is also included.

These two publications are now available by writing to Johns-Manvllle, 2 East 4oth Street, New York 16, New York.

Hyster Engineers Promoted

Smith joined Hyster in 1942 and has held the position of design engineer. He is a graduate of Antioch.

Hyster Company, manufacturers of industrial lift truckp and tractor equipment, in addition to the Holland plant, also has factories at Portland, Oregon and Peoria and Danville, Illinois.

Brushed Californic Redwood Plywood

Portland, Ore.-A new architectural product, softly brushed California Redwood plywood, is being introduced to the new home and remodeling markets under the name Malarkey Shadowood. This is the third Redwood plywood product created since 1949 by M and M Wood Working Company, makers of Malarkey plywoods and doors, and .rvill be available nationally at wholesale ayrd retail levels.

Two supervising Hyster Company engineers have been promoted, it was announced by Al Zwald, chief engineer. Milton Smith has been named engineer of the company's new plant at Nijmegen, Holland. Smith formerly was head of the lift truck design engineering department, with headquarters at the Portland plant. He sailed December 13 from New York to take over his new duties. Smith will be replaced by Paul Brainard, who formerly headed up the standards division.

Brainard has been with Hyster since 1940 and was assistant supervisor in the tractor equipment division for several years. He is a graduate of Oregon State College.

Shadowood is made in two styles, clear Redwood and Knotty Redwood V-grooved on 6, 8 and lO-inch centers respectively across the width of the panel to look like random planking. Knots do not exceed lf-inches in diameter.

Shadowood is a textured surface Redwood plywood from which a large part of the soft portion of the grain has been brushed.

Moves Olfice

Forrest Wilson, California representative for Olympic Stained Shingle Products, has moved his office to 2745 Monterey Road, San Marino, Calif. His telephone number is SYcamore 9-5788.

Charles E. Devlin Appointed Executive Vice President and General Manager

The appointment of Charles E. Devlin as executive vice president and general manager of Northwest Door and Plywood Sales, Incorporated, has been announced by H. E. Tenzler, president of the company.

Devlin has established his office at the company's headquarters in Tacoma, Tenzler said. Devlin u'ill direct the operations of the sales company s'hich markets the output of three large widely separated fir plyrvood factories. The manufacturing firms are: Northwest Door Company, long established Tacoma plywood and door manufacturer; Paragon Plyrvood Corporation of Crescent City, Cal., and Brookings Plyrvood Corporation of Brookings, Ore. The sales company has regional offices in Nerv York, Chicago, Memphis and San Francisco.

Devlin's experience goes back to 1938 rvhen he came to Tacoma as director of publicity of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association. From 1946 to 1919 he served as managing director of that organization, leaving to become general sales manager and later vice president of the Simpson Logging Company of Seattle and Shelton, Wash. He resigned this latter position to come with the Tacoma firm

Northwest Door Company is a pioneer producer of both interior and exterior fir plywood and a wide line of millwork products, including stock interior house doors, entrance doors, screen and combination doors, garage.doors and fir u'indow sash. The company employs 600 people' in the Tacoma, operations and has substantial timber holdings in the state of Washington.

Both the Paragon and Brookings plywood firms operate new, modern plywood plants constructed within the past year. Paragon is a subsidiary of Peninsula Plywood Corporation of Port Angeles and owns substantial timber in Northern California. Brookings plyrvood is located in the heart of the large Douglas fir stands in Southern Oregon.

Previous to joining the association in l93B Devlin had been with the Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash., and the Des Moines Register and Tribune of Des l\foines, Iowa, engaged in newspaper advertising and promotion u'ork. He is a graduate of Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, and IIarvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration.

In addition to work as a member of the staff of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association. Devlin has served as president of the Fir Door Institute, as a member of the management committee of the Dougla-s Fir Plyrvood Association and on the promotional committee of the West Coast Lumbermens Association and is currently a member of the board of advisors to the Institute of Technology at

Washington State College. He has also served on the softwood plyrvood industry advisory committees to the National Production Authority and'the Office of Price Stabilization.

Evans Ships First Car of Plywood From New Plant in Roseburg, Or€gon

The first carload of plyrvood produced at the Evans Products Company's neu'ly-acquired plant at Roseburg, Ore., rvas shipped this rveek. The plant, valued'at $1,5m,000 and purchased from the Mar-Linn Timber Corporation, Eugene, Ore., has an annual capacity'of about 48,UX),(m feet of exterior and interior plywood surfaces-

The Roseburg plant buildings, locatedt on a l6Gacre tract on the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, are of aluminum and concrete construction. The plant site is only 30 miles from a 400,0(X),000 board feet tract of Douglas Fir the Evans Company owns on the Umpqlra River.

Gene Mobley is resident manager of the new plant which employs 150 persons. H. B. Garrison, vice president of the company's \\test Coast Division, Coos Bay, Ore., is in charge of the nerv plant's operations.

With the addition of 'the Roseburg plant's productive output, the company's plyrvood capacity rvill be increased to nearly 100,U)0,00O feet annually. The Evans Products Company of Plymouth, Ilich., also operates plywood and lumber plants at Coos Bay, Ore., and Vancouver, B.C.

Canadian Construction Hitr 4'Billion

"The Canadian construction industry is norv, for the first time, a $,1-'billion-a-year industry," Mr. P. G. Wilmut, of Montrgal, president of the Canadian Construction Association, declared .in his annual report to members of the C.C.A. at their 35th general meeting recently held in Montreal.

"The capacity of our industry," Mr. \Vilmut continued, "has so expanded during the past dozen years that even those t'ith it do not appreciate its new significance in the econorny-such facts,-for eiample, that it involves more rvork than that performed by those engaged in agriculture, forestry or, by a large'margin. mining; that it gives employment on and ofi site, to about 16 per cent of our work force and that more than one out of every six dollars spent for end products and service is spent on construction.

"Builders of Canada" \

"Our 'role as the Builders of Canada in the physical sense is a unique and thrilling privilege. Currently, each person directly employed in the construction industry is adding through his rvork, on the average, roughly $10,000.00 of capital assets per year as his share in 1t1g S$llding of housesand highrvays, hospitals and high schools, pipelines and pos'er plants, dams and defence projects, places of rvork and worship. Felv Canadians can have as great a feeling of personal particiilation in the development of our country as do construction men," the president said.