tUilIBER CO.

7ll7 Eost Firestone Boulevord, Downey, Colifornio; P. O. Box 243

f 958 Fir Plywood Cofolog Reody

A new fir plywood catalog for 1958 is announced by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association. The three-part, 2}-page catalog presents basic information on fir plywood standard gracles and specialty proclucts for architects, engineers, builders, product design engineers, and building code officials.

The first section covers general information on plyr,l'ood needed in the construction and design field, including tabulate.d data on plyvuood grades; FHA and building code requirements ; properties an<l clesign data ; construction details and structural drawings of floor, lvall. and roof applications ; and engineering clata for use of plywood for concrete forms. Also listed in the table of contents are veneer descriptions, Western softwood plywood information, quality control, and rvorking and finishing plywood.

Tl-re other two sections cover fir olvrvobd properties for product desigr.r, and descriptions of ^specialty^products, inclu<ling overlaicl fir plyrvood, Textnre One-Eleven, and decorative panels.

Association Graded Plywoods Are Just One Of Our Specialties

"We offer personalized service qs well ss q complete line of on-grode producls"

The catalog is plannecl for quick reference, with concise tables and illustrations of products and applications. It is inclexed for A.I.A. filing systems, and appears in all Sweet's Catalog Files : Industrial Construction, Light Construction, Architectural, Plant Engineering, arrd Procluct Design.

Sample copies of the booklet may be obtained without charge from l)ouglas Fir Plywood Association , -facorna 2, \\,'ashington. Quantity prices, for sales ancl education purpose_s, are $,1.50 per l.runclred for the basic catalog, arrcl $2.00 per hunclrerl for the Specialty Proclucts or Prodlct Design sections.

Construcfion Confrqcts Drop Ten Percenf From Yeqr Ago

Jar.ruary contracts for future construction in the United States registered the sharpest decline in more than a year, reported the F. \\I. Dodge Corporation, construction news and marketing specialists. Tl.re January 1958 contracts totalled $2,066,059,000, a drop of l)/c from the same month last year. Contracts for rron-resiclential buildings were dou,n 77%. I{anufacturing buildings registerecl tlie sharp- est clrop, rvith contracts runninC 53% below a year agb. Con.rmercial ancl educational buildine contracti showed cleclines of six and four percent respeclively. Contracts for hospitals and religious buildings were down substantially.

I{esidential building contracts in January amounted [o $777,423,000, five percent below the January 1952 level. Contracts for one- and two-family houses accounted for the major portion of the clecline, while apartment building contracts continued to show strength relative to a yeai aso. The number of d.lr'elling units represented bv the Ianuirv residential contracts totalled 63,721, down 2/o frbm last year.