Geo. C. Cornitius Hardwood Co.

465 Calrlornla Street, San Frandsco 4

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Plywood News

New P\ryrood Plcnt Opened At Belinqhcrm, Wcsh.

A new plant has been opened at Bellingham, Wash., which will operate under the name of Pacific Veneer & Plywood Corporation. The new plant is owned by Canadian Forest Products, Ltd. of Vancouver and New Westminster, B. C., which is shipping veneers from New Westminster to be made into plywood at the Bellingham plant, which will produce about 2,000,000 feet of plywood a month.

J. G. Prentice, vice president of Canadian Forest Products, Ltd., is president of the new corporation. L. L. G. Bentley is vice president. Bruce Boyker is secretarytreasurer. H. E. Manning is sales manager, and Frank Craig is superintendent.

Georgicr-Pcrcilic Buys Hilgcrrd Lumber Co.

O. R. Cheatham, president of Georgia-Pacific Plywood & Lumber Co., has announced the purchase of the Hilgard Lumber Company, Chicago, to be operated as the Hilgard Lumber Co. Division of Georgia-Pacific Plywood & Lumber Co. Former owner and manager P. L. Musick wili continue with the company, and all personnel will continue as in the past. Offices will remain in the McCormick Building in Chicago.

New Alrican Plywood Mill

Lawrence Ottinger, president of United States Plywood Corporation and W. D. Illyne, chief of the mission of Compagnie Francaise du Gabon, have completed an agreement by which U. S. Plywood will receive 20 per cent of the output of a huge hardwood plywood mill now nearing completion at Port Gentil on the Ogooue River in Gabon Province, French Equatorial Africa.

Mr. Ottinger explained that the new hardwood plywood mill will have a capacity of 10,000,000 feet a month, oi which 2,000,000 feet will be available for American building, furniture and re-veneering purposes. The project rs being financed by the French including the Paris banking house of Seligman & Co. United States Plywood Corporation is furnishing the technical skill in construction of thc plant and will put it into operation about November 1. One feature of the plant is an air-conditioned storage room for plywood. The controlled humidity prevents moulding.

For the past two years, U. S. Plywood has been importing Korina logs, a blonde hardwood from the Belgian Congo.

Roy Stanton, Sr., E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, Snark of the lJniverse, left for Dallas, Texas, on April 24 to attend a Hoo-Hoo meeting and concatenation. He will then go on to St. Louis and Detroit where Hoo-Hoo Clubs will be organized.