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The lumber industry will have two members of a delega- tion of twenty five industry and business executives of N.orthern California when Wendell Robie of Auburn and Leroy Miller of Sacramento are on the trip to the Soviet IJnion where the delegation will be guests of the USSR Chamber of Commerce and the Soviet Foreign Trade organization.

Miller is President of Burnett & Sons Planing 1\4ill and Lumber Company, of Sacramento. Robie was Chairman of the California State Board of Forestry and representa- tive of timber ownership on the Board during eighteen years. He is the executive officer of Auburn Lumber Company and president of several lumber companies in the Sacramento Valley. He is also, president of the Central

California Federal Savings and Loan Association with offices in Auburn, Davis and Vacaville. Miller is a director of Senator Savings and Loan Association in Sacramento.

They state the Soviet Uni,on is much more interested in the lumber industry than in such savings and thrift institutions for a nation where family home ownership is not encouraged. Although Russia has large forests, the over-all shortage of timber and lumber is so great that their effort in recent forest planting over great regions has been given a top priority in the economic program of the Soviet Union.

The delegation will leave Sacramento April 25th for a briefing session in Washington the next morning by the United States f)epartment of State and for introductions at the Russian Embassv. Thev will arrive in Moscow bv airline the next afternooir, folloiving a brief stop in Brusseli. Host introductions, industry observations, sightseeing, personal contacts, and entertainment will occupy the several

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days before the May Day celebration of the Soviet Union.

The entire day of May first will be occupied in viewing the million people in the annual May Day Parade which attempts to portray in Moscow all facets of Soviet life in a famous day-long spectacle.

Other industrial and business tours of the delegation and host attaches will follow in Leningrad, Kiev, and in Budapest and Prague of the satellite nations of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The delegation will continue on to Berlin and Paris before the end of May.

Plywood Constructed From freqted Veneer Using A Resin Glue

Procedureq for producing treated plywood from veneers that have been preservatively treated before gluing are described in a report of Government research just released to science and industry through the Offrce of Technical Services, Business and Defense Services Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D.C.

Also available from OTS is another report of a joint research project by the Agriculture and Navy Departments on the deflection characteristics of laminated wood. The two reports are described below.

Bonding Preservative'Treated Veneers. Forest Products Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Bureau of Ships, Navy Department. January 1961. 10 pages. Order PB 171 167 ftom OTS, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D.C.,50 cents.

Defection Characteristics of a 20-foot-diameter Laminated Wood Ring Subjected to Compressive Loading Along a Diameter. F. Werren and R. Ethington, Forest Proilucts Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Bureau of Ships, Navy Department. January 1961. 30 pages. Order PB 171 165 from OTS, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D.C.,75 cents.

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