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Dry Kiln Glub Meets

The first meeting of the Central California Dry Kiln Club for 1961 was held at the U.S. Plywood Corporation, Anderson, California, last month, with president Joe Hughes, Hughes Brothers, presiding over the afternoon business sesslons.

After a brief discussion by Bob Keeling and Brown

Miller, both of whom spoke of the advantages the club offered to their company (U.S. Plywood Corp.), Harvey Smith, Pacific Southwest Forest & Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, started the ball rolling by outlining the lumber drying phase of the log grade and lumber recovery study recently completed with the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company.

Art Uhl, Texas Refining Company, then talked on the advantages of adequate kiln coatings to provide an impervious vapor barrier on the inside surfaces of dry kilns.

Next in line was Joe Grist, kiln Superintendent at Collins Pine Company, who described and illustrated a new system for reporting daily readings of the company's new automatic, continuous moisture detector. As the loss of grade and footage during drying and subsequent remanufacture due to overdrying is more serious than a reasonable percent of stock being somewhat too wet, Grist noted that through use of the detector the percent "too wet," "OK," and "too dry" for each species and thickness is recorded daily. To prevent an unacceptable amount of lumber being overdried, some lumber that is marked as "too wet" is pulled, and repiled for redrying.

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Coy Brown, vice-president and general manag'er of Harbor Kiln Company, Alameda, then described the operation of a newly installed automatic lumber stacker aC his plant. At one-half speed, Brown said, the new stacker will lay 9 sticks per course, 12 courses per minute. With good lumber, it will stick 300,@0 board feet of lumber in one S-hour shift.

_ Windup speaker before the open session was Ron Plough, Chapman Chemical Company, San Francisco, who discussed the advantages of adequate end-coating as well as the result of research in the redr,vood area.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m. by president Hughes with the reminder of the club's March meeting at the Scott Lumber Company in Burney, and the big Annual to be staged in Medford this coming May.

List of Attendance

Jim Bowers

William Campbell

Ronald C. Plough

Joe Grist

Larry Gobin

Dallas G. Vernon

Richard J. Cyr

Bowers Lumber Dryers, Redding

Chapman Chemical Company, San Francisco

Chapman Chemical Company, San Francisco

Collins Pine, Chester

Diamond National Company, Red Bluff

Diamond National Company, Red Bluff

Dorris Lumber and Moulding Co., Sacramento

Coy Brown

Willard C. Bean

John Silva

Joe Hughes

Thomas Wheeler

John Owens

Harvey H. Smith

Clark Bowden

Flavel D. Grubb

Francis Hargidine

|ames W. Jacobsen

J. F. McAlister

Ray Hampson

Earl Oliver

Ray Brown

Henry J. Meyer

Art Uhl

Glenn Uhl

Roy Bradshaw

Bill Butler

Vern Dewey

L. B. Hodgkins

Bob KeelingBrown \{iller

Harbor Kiln Company, Alameda

Hudson Lumber Company, San Leandro

Hudson Lumber Company, San Leandro

Hughes Brothers, Foresthill

Hughes Brothers, Foresthill

Moore Dry Kiln Company, Portland, Oregon

Paci6c Southwest Forest & Range Experiment Station, Berkeley

Red Bluff Moulding, Red Bluff

Scott Lumber Company, Burney

Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company, Anderson

Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company, Anderson

Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company, Anderson

Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company, Wildwood

Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company, Wildwood

Stockton Box Company, Foresthill

Stocklon Box Company, Foresthill ln r I exas Kennerv- StocKton

Texas Refinery, Stockton

U.S. Plywood Company, Anderson

U.S. Plywood Comrpany, Anderson

U.S. Plywood Com'pany, Anderson

U.S. Plywood Com,pany, Anderson

U.S. Plywcod Company, Anderson

U.S. Plywood Company, Anderson

Certqin-teed Roofing Plonts Win Sofety Awords

Certain-teed Products Corporation's Richmond, California plant has won the company's annual Inter-Plant Safety Contest, it rvas announced this month by Matt Fink, national Safety director.

To mark the occasion a safety banquet was held for the plant's 160 employees to whom the President's Trophy was presented by Mr. Fink. H. E. Tittsworth is Plant l\fanager and f,. A. Hobbit, Plant safety director.

The Richmond Plant completed the year 1960 without a chargeable lost-time injury, working 3I4,636 accident-free man-houfs.

One of the eleven Certain-teed Plants across the country, the Richmond facility serves the states of California, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah.

At the same time Mr. Fink announced that the company's Tacoma, Washington Plant also marked an outstanding safety record with the presentation of hams to its 42 employees by H. E. Barnard, Plant Manager.

As of January 1, L96I, the Tacoma Plant had completed 1,565 days, or 450,144 man-hours, without a chargeable lost-time injury.

The Tacoma Plant serves the states of Washington and parts of Oregon, Idaho and Montana.

Certain-teed Products Corporation, one of the country's largest manufacturers of asphalt roofing materials, has administrative offices in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

Its products are distributed nationally by Bestwall Certain-teed Sales Corporation with offices in twenty-one principal U.S. cities.