Bob Osgood Wins Terrible Twenty Tournqmenf

Shooting the lowest score of record of any member of the Terrible Twenty Tournaments, and by far his lowest score witl-r the group, Bob Osgood shot a beautiful 7l-9-62 at Annandale Golf Club last month to win the tournament prize for the event. Bob Alcorn took second place with an 83-18-65 and Bill Groschan's 89-22-67 also broke his record, but it was not good enough.

In the Match Play, Tom Fleming won the finals beating Bob Falconer 1 up on the final green. In the lower bracket George Gartz came from behind to beat Bob pierce 1 up.

At the annual meeting D. C. Essley, D. C. Essley & Son, was chosen "Most Terrible" for the coming year and will head the organization during the fiscal 1954-55 tournaments. The next Terrible Twenty Tournament will be held at Riviera Country Club during this month. Date to be announced later.

School Construction Booms

NEW YORK: Contract awards for future school construction in the 37 eastern states set new records far above last year's levels during April as well as during the first four months of this year, F. W. Dodge Corporation, construction news and maiketing specialists, reports.

Contract awards reported in April for school and college buildings (including additions and major alterations) totaled $156,554,000, setting a new record for any April in Dodge,s 63-year history. This total was 17 per cent above thc previous April record set last year.

Dodge e,conomist George Cline Smith predicted that this boom in school construction, already of long standing, would continue as states and communities try to keep pace with increasing child population.

Ooklclnd School Boy Wins Awcrrd

Albert Stoermer, 77, a l2th Grade student at Technical High School, Oakland, California, has been judged Grand Prize Winner of $500 cash and an all-expense trip to Washington, D.C., in the National Association of Home Builders' First Annual Model Home Contest, Leonard Frank, NAHB Educational Committee Chairman. announced.

Mr. Harry A. Donlevy, teacher who sponsored the youth's entry in the nationwide contest wins an all-exDense trip to Washington with his student.

Crofoof Buys Timber

The Crofoot Lumber Company, of Ukiah, California, has purchased the famous Eden Valley Ranch of more than 26,trfi acres, from the Henshaw Investment Company. There is 25 million feet of fine timber on the ranch. Henry Crofoot and his son Henry Jr., own and operate the Lumber Company. They also own the plywood mill at Capella.

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New Mochines Speed Log Handling ot Everett

Everett, Wash.: A hydraulically powered log splitter and a twelve-foot floating rip saw, both of which incorporate unique design features, are helping Weyerhaeuser Timber Company's Everett lumber division improve wholelog utilization and speed the handling of oversize logs.

Designed and developed by local Weyerhaeuser personnel, the new machines represent a further step in the efficient use of all the forest harvest.

Located at Mill C, the hydraulic log splitter develops 65 tons pressure using water from the hydraulic barker pumps. Operating on a hydraulic ram prin,ciple, the splitter forces 8-foot logs through four knives arranged in a crisscross or tic-tac-toe pattern. Logs up to 42 inches in diameter are split to a maximum width of 12 inches. The split pieces can then be chipped and conveyed to the adjacent Weyerhaeuser pulp mill.

The twelve-foot rip saw is housed in a covered shed mounted on two pontoons which provide a floating platform. Located on the log pond in front of Mill C, the big chain saw rips huge logs down the center, so that they may be conveniently handled by the sawmills. Logs 6 feet in diameter and larger, too big for the headrig to handle efficiently, are halved and then quartered in a fraction of the time it formerly took to do the job with wedges and sledges.

Logs are floated into position between the two pontoolts, locked in place with pins from each side, and ripped down the center by the chain saw which moves the length of the shed on its carriage. The saw. driven by a 3O-horsepower electric motor, is positioned hydraulically.

Both the hydraulic splitter and the floating rip saw were designed and developed by Weyerhaeuser with Alan Smith, plant superintendent, and Ted Fuller and Howard Hunt, assistant superintendents, playing key roles.

Housing Stqrts High

Starts of privately owned housing advanced in April to the highest level for any month in more than 3l years, according to preliminary estimates of the U. S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. A 14 per cent rise from March brought the total number of new dwelling units begun in April to 110,000, of which 109,100 were privately owned. Public housing starts dropped from 1,200 in March to 900 in April. The April rise in private housing was general throughout the country, except in the Southeast.

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