Ostling Monufclcturing Co.

U.5. Plywood Repofis Record 9-Months Sqles qnd Eqrnings

New York-United States Plywood Corporation, the world's largest plywood organization, announces that sales and earnings for the first nine months of its current fiscal year were the highest for any comparable period in its history. Consolidated sales for the nine months ended January 31, 1956, were $149,311,000, compared with $106,844,000 in the corresponding period a year ago.

Consolidated net profit for the nine months was $8,615,900, after estimated income taxes of $7,592,800, compared with net profit in the corresponding nine months a year ago of $5,097,100, after $4,255,200 income taxes.

For the three months ended January 31, 1956, consolidated sales were $47,839,000, compared with $40,975,000 in the same period a year ago.

Jim Aiken Joins Superior

Jim Aiken, rvho for six years headed the Dant & Itussell buying office in E,ugene, Ore., joined the sales staff of Superior Lumber Sales Co. in Sacramento March 12, according to Ken Rose of that {irm. Prior to entering the lumber business with Dant & Russell, Aiken attended the University of Oregon, where his father, Tom Aiken, was head football coach during the Van Brocklin-George Bell regime.

Due to his extensive lumber background in buying, Aiken rvill be active in both buying and selling for Superior Lumber, Rose said.

\7e now carry the following Baxco Pressure Tleated Foundation Lumber in stock ar Alameda and Long Beach for immediate sbipment to dealers:

Douglos Fir 54S AtS 2x4,2x6,2x 8,2 x 10, 3x4,3x6,4x4and4x6.

Special sizes will be purchased from local stocks and pressure treated without delay.

.l$(e offer prompr custom treating service at both our Alameda and Long Beach plants. Your lumber can be delivered to us by truck or treated in transit in carload quantities. Consult us for addition4l information.

NewGroding Rules on Shokes

The first industry-wide grading rules ever issued for handsplit red cedar shakes have been published by the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle, lvhich recently startecl the grading and inspection of handsplit shakes at the request of many rnanufacturers who sought a uniform grading system f<,rr their product. The prograrn has been welcotned by the building industry as a means for ending indiscriminate ancl non-uniform manufacture of handsplit shakes, which are gaining phenomenal popularity in the building field.

The new grading and packing rules folder for l-rar.rdsplit shakes includes the approximate coverage r-rf these basic types-handsplit-and-tapersawn, tapersplit and straight-split barn shakes.

Inspectors of the RCSB examine each member mill's output in handsplit cedar shakes and only those manufacturers whose product meets gracling standards are permitted use of the association's Certi-Split label trademark.

Copies of the grading rules rnay be obtained free of charge from the Red Cedar Shingle Rureau, 5510 White Rldg., Seattle, Washington.

The other two well-known metnbers of the Bureau "family" of inspected products are the Certigrade shingle and the Certigroove machine-grooved shake.

USP Gets Youngs Boy Lumber Co.

S. W. Antoville, president, ann()ul-Ices that United States Plywood Corporation formally accluired the assets of Youngs Bay Lumber Co., Inc., comprising more than 500 rnillion board feet of timber in and around Roseburg, Ore.

Baxco Pressure Tieated Foundation Lumber is impreg. nated with preservative salts in accordance with Fed. Spec. TT-rV-57Lc. k is approved by FHA, Uniform Building Code - P.C.B.O.C., State Architect for mudsills in School Construction, and U. S. Governmenr Specifications.