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Poftlqnd, Oregoh, Out to Get the 1960 Deqlers Erposition in tlqmmoth Wood Building

Portland, Oregon (Special)-The world's largest buildl designed oredominatelv in wood. the Exoosition-Recrea- ing predominately in wood, E tion Building slated for comoletion here e e Exposition-Recrea- ing predomi tion slated completion early in l96f, may be initiated by the nation's retail lumber dealers.

A committee of western retailers headed by J. W. Copeland, past director of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, and including W. C. Bell, secretary-manager of the Western Retail Lumber Dealers Association, and James Buckley of Georgia-Pacific Corporation, is spearheading the campaign to bring the NRLDA 1960 convention to Portland.

The E-R Center is seven stories tall and will be 360 feet square. It embodies an entirely new concept of wood use in large areas. Basically, the entire structure of the entrance canopy and the main arena building is of wood. The roof of the arena building spans a distance of 360 feet and is a new design using modulated delta plate girders which, in turn, are supported by four columns.

The exterior of the building is wood, or glass in a wood frame, with lateral resistance for the glass wall provided by laminated Douglas fir wood members measuring 8 inches by 3 feet by & feet tall. A concrete bowl inside the main wood structure will seat up to 15,000 people for various sports, conventions and arena tlrpe events.

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, nationally known architects, designed the structure, with Nichol, Moffitt and Tay- 'lor, consulting engineers, supplying the engineering.

Directors of the NLRDA will shortlv receive an official

Forest Indusfries in Denver

Establishment of a Denver, Colo., field office for American Forest Products Industries of Washington, D.C., is announced by C. A. Gillett, AFPI managing director. Alan O. Miller until recently assistant manager of the Yakima, Wash., Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed AFPI district manager for Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas, officed at 4Ol Ross Bldg., 1726 Champa St., Denver 2, Colo.

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Remnqnl focilities for rescwing to 34" x34"

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