New Design Uses Pole - Type Construction

Use of a new design concept involving pole-type construction has enabled hangars for 40 aircraft at Brackett Air Field to be built at a cost of less than $2,000 per unit.

Just completed on leased ground at the La Verne, Calif. field are two buildings, each 420 feet long and 50 feet wide. Each provides T-hangar space for 20 planes. Brackett is "home" for about 250 privatelyowned planes and the 40 hangar spaces were leased even before the buildines were completed. Rental is $55 per month]

The hangars were designed and built by the Forest Products Division of Koppers Company, Inc., using I42 poles and 42 timbers of 4 x 12 size. Before erection, poles and timbers were pressure-treated to protect them from attack by decay and termites. Poles were pressure-treated with creosote oil, while the timbers were treated with Wolman Salts.

Two rows of poles were first "planted" in holes drilled five feet deep, carefully aligned and concrete was poured around them. On either side of these, a row of timbers was "planted" to a four-foot depth.

HAI{GAR

These were used at the sides of the building instead o{ the eight-inch-diameter poles in order to allow a few additional inches for entry of the planes. With this system, each hangar space has a clear opening span of 39 feet, 8 inches-adequate for entry of twin-engine planes such as the Piper Aztec and the Cessna 3I0. Height of doors is 12 feet, l0 inches.

Sides of the hangar buildings are a series of sliding doors on tracks and runners. These are made of galvanized sheet steel and each door can be locked without interfering with operation of the adjacent doors.

Roofs and ends of the buildings also are of galvanized steel sheeting and asphaltic concrete is used for flooring. While the new Brackett field hangars do not have partil tions between units, Koppers engineers said these could be added, if desired, at an additional cost of about $400 per unit.

Under Cover Storage

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Under cover storoge doesn't moke the lumber good, but il keeps it cleon, dry ond os beoutiful os the doy it wos milled. {And, Hemlock is q bequtiful lumber olong with its mony other quolities|.

We stort with old growth Hi-Altitude Oregon Hemlock, we mill it with the most modern equipment ond kiln-dry it to mointoin the fine quolity. Our Hemlock is 100% KD, DET, Double End Stomped ond Associotion Grode Stomped. We store it ond ship it under cover to moke certoin thot you ond your builder hove o fine piece of lumber reody to use.

BURI(IAND LUMBER COMPANY . OREGON ALDER-MAPTE COMPANY

OREGON FIR SUPPLY COMPANY

Spoce Age Uses for Wood

Wood, nature's only renewable natural resource, is the only basic material to have found so many uses in the space age. Today's list of lumber by-products has grown to include such products as vanilla extract, industrial wax, rayon for tire cords, and space missile explosives.

The labels on many reducing tablets show that the basic ingredient is wood pulp. Toothpaste, ice cream, cold cream, and shaving cream use wood pulp as a stabilizer. Industry is using wood pulp to stabilize bricks, cement, ceramic products and gypsum board. Another wood derivative, cellulose, goes into more than 6,500 different products.

Traditional wood-derived standbys are such products as pitch, turpentine, and rosin rvhich have been produced in the United States from wood since the mid1800's.

Fountoin Lqunches Lumber ln the lond of Lqwrence

Some people will go a long way to'sell lumbero and Ed Fountain is no exception. In case you didn't recognize the sheik aboard that humped-back station wagon, it's Ed. This picture was taken during his tried to peddle his wares through Jordan, Israel" North Africa and a few other inde' scrible places.

The customers were apparently pretty rough because he's back doing business behind his desk in los Angeles. He says to come in any time for a complete travelog and description oI real sales resistance.

Jewett Lumber Soles Buys Arcolo SEwmill

Don Jewett, president of Jewett Lumber Sales, has announced his wholesale distribution concern has bought the Heistman sawmill operation in Arcata, Calif. The property and machinery were purchased late in March and production \tras immedi' ately started to fill the demand for oldgrowth Redwood.

sales program the firm has started. Ofi. shore shipments to Hawaii and the Orient established several months ago, are working out smoothiv.

While prexy Jewett is busy at the mill level Jack Campbell will watch the store at Redondo Beach headquarters and Bill Wickett, former Hollow Tree sales manager, will handle direct mill shipments from his office at 1215 ooM" St. in Arcata. The new rnill operation employes 25 men on a one shift basis to produce the 12 million feet:r of lumber. Production will be expanded i this summer.

No More Remodeling Stotistics?

ED FOUNTAIN recent visit to Egypt where he tried to conlince Nasser the Aswan dam should be made of laminated timbers. It obviously didn't work because his act was followed by a fat man named K??? Undaunted, Ed

"We have established a long-range cutting program of bandsawn lumber and quality manufacture will be emphasized throughout," stated Jewett, "and will produce more than a million feet monthly to augment the demand for our full line of green commons and kiln dried uppers." In addition his firm will offer small cut, lathe and special industrial items.

Jewett Lumber is continuously expanding it's marketing and distribution to anticipate additional changes in service to include all areas of the United States in a national

The National Home Improvement Council is urging all those who are interested in remodeling to write or wire the Bureau of Census, Dept. of Commerce and urge them to continue publishing remodeling statistics. The bureau, which began issuing the re. ports in 1960 has begun to wonder aloud if they are worth the $300,0@ per year that it costs to get them out to business.

NHIC feels that the department issues the only reliable statistics on home remodeling in the entire home improvement industry. The council urges that the flow of numbers continue so that those in home remodeling will be able to better inform and thus be able to do a better iob.

Technicol Informqlion qt Convention

"The forest products industry will practice a form of intraindustry cooperation to an extent largely unknown in many industries, through its open exchange of basic industry research information at its lSth annual meeting," reports Charles M. Kreider of Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., chairman of the Forest Products Research Society's 1964 annual meeting technical program. The FPRS meeting will be held in Chicago, June 2l-25.

This four-day conference, Kreider points out, is a strong program of over 80 technical papers to be presented in 21 technical sessions. That is why. it has taken for its theme "New Breakthroughs in Research for Better Forest Products" indicating that three major degrees of progress in research and development rvill be covered.

There will be presentations of the wood industry's newest techniques, processes and products now in pilot plant or trial stage but ready for commercial development; advances in applied research programs at or near the point of industrial application; and the continually all-important pioneering and basic research programs from which all "breakthroughs" eventually stem.

Hqwoiion Wood Report

Information about robusta eucalyptus wood recently gathered from milling experience and research in Hawaii is set out in a new publication by Roger G. Skolmen.

The report, "Robusta Eucalyptus Wood: Its Properties and f/ses," was released this week by the U.S. Forest Service experiment station in Berkeley. Assigned to the Station's Forestry Research Center in Honolulu, Skolmen is conducting research on the uses, properties, and processing of 11"*a1i-grown forest products.

Robusta-the most abundant of the timber trees introduced to Hawaii-is a fairly heavy wood, Skolman reports. It compares favorably with oak and hickory. In strength properties other than shock resistance and hardness, robusta is stronger than most mainland woods of comparable density. But robuJta has high shrinkage in drying-slightly more than comparable mainland hardwood. Consequently, advises Skolmen, the wood must be carefully dried in manufacture to avoid excessive loss.

Skolmen concludes that robusta is excellent for purposes requiring high strength and for finish work where an atiractively figured, dark reddish,brown wood is desired. He lists potential uses for the wood as single-wall house siding, small-membered furniture, highway guard iails, and sliced veneer.

Interstote Contqiner Sold

The Diamond National Corp. has purchased the Interstate Container Corp. of Red Blufi, officials said.

The price was not revealed.

W. D. Schwab, president of Interstate, manufacturer of plywood and wood veneer, said the New York firm took over on May, 29 without a work halt. AU f25 employees of Interstate kept their jobs, Schwab said.

New Wolnul Creek Yqrd

Ed French, former partner in Crane French Co., Walnut Creek, has opened a retail yard at 2190 Oak Grove Rd. in Walnut Creek. The new yard is operating under the name of Burton-French Lumber Company and is catering to the do-it.yourself trade. Fencing and patio materials are a specialty of the house. Prior to his interest in Crane French Co., French was a partner in Monument Lumber Co. with Jim Giles.