Eureko Exponds Fociliries

lumber Reseorch Increoses

WASHINGTON-A sharp increase of 36 per cent in the number of lumber manufacturing companies sponsoring individual research projects at the TECO laboratory during the first four months of the current fiscal year, as compared with the same period a year ago, is reported by C. A' Rishell, director of research, Tirirber Engineering Company, engineering and research affiliate of National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

The upsurge in lumber clientele contributed to an 11 per cent increase over last year in the number of research contracts awarded by all clientele classifications. In addition to lumber companies' private contracts, the laboratory is conducting resear'ch for several lumber associations.

Fir Plywood €otolog

The 1954 catalog giving basic information about fir plywood to both specifiers and users of "America's busiest building material" has been issued by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

More than 54 million feet of Redwood were produced during 1953 at the modern, S7-acre plant of the Eureka Redwood Lumber Company, Eureka, California. The 1954 production schedule will exceed 60 million feet, according to Carl S. Walker, general manager of the concern.

Eureka Redwood Lumber Company is owned by the M and M Wood Working Company of Portland, Oregon, and is managed by the following'veteran lumbermen in addition to Mr. Walker: Alden Ball, plant manager; W. L. Brauning, sales manager; Del Slone, office manager, and Haley Bertain, shipping manager.

The greater percentage of California Redwood produced by Eureka is shipped to the middlewest and eastern states with the balance being consumed in Northern and Southern Californib, according to Dean Jones, Southern California manager for the manufacturing firm.

Eureka Redwood Lumber Company is a member of the California Redwood Association.

Max Krause, Lloyd Webb, Milton Pastornak, and Charlie Wilson of E. J. Stanton and Son, Inc', Los Angeles, spent the last week of May visiting executives of the Harold Casteel Mill Industries, Ukiah, California. Enroute home they stopped over in Sacramento.

Well illustrated with drawings and photographs, the ner,v catalog contains vital information about the types, grades and physical properties of plywood as well as FHA requirements for use in home construction.'

Single copies may be obtained without charge from Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Wash., or from plywood salesmen.

Enlorges Cement Plonf

A building improvement program which is expected to increase plant capacity by more than one million barrels a year is currently underway at the Monolith Portland Cement Company plant, it was announced by W. D. Burnett, executive vice-president, of Los Angeles. The Monolith Plant is located in Monolith, California.

Ford Will Try "lmpreg"

The Ford Motor Co. is trying out "Impreg" to improve production methods on its 1956 line of new cars' "fmpreg," developed by the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., is wood impregnated with resin to reduce swelling and shrinking from moisture changes in the atmosphere.

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Not Just "Exletlot", Not Jusf "Mdrine", , J{ot Just "Bool.Hull", BUT A COMBINATION of rhe Bener Quqlities of oll Three, PLUS All Heortwood Veneers, Mqchine Edge-Jointed Inner-Plies qnd Re-Humidified.

Redwoods Never Die NoturollY

One of the great Indians of history was Se-quo-yah. He was not a warrior like Sitting Bull. He was a thinker. He belonged to the Cherokee Tribe. The white men called him George Guess. In 1s21 he invented an alphabet for the Indian people, the first in their history. His tribe learned to read and write with his crude but practical alphabet. So, when it came to naming the most majestic group of trees growing on earth, the giant Redwoods of California, the white botanists kept alive the memory of the Indian thinker, and named the tree after him-Sequoia. Thus his name will live as long as things live upon this earth, for the Sequoia is the one and only living thing-so far as man can discover and measure-that never dies a natural death.

All men know something of the Redwoods of California. But the one outstanding thought that is seldom uttered concerning them is this fact about the LIFE of the tree. Scientists who have given much thought to the matter are of the opinion that, except for violence, the Sequoia Gigantes, has never died a natural death' They have been standing for thousands of years, and there is no indication that, like other trees, they become mature and decay. It is difficult to conceive of such a thing, but it appears that as far as our way of measuring time is concerned, this tree is everlasting.

Col. George Stewart wrote a book years ago called "Big Trees of the Giant Forest," and in it he tells of how almost miraculously one of tlre Redwoods will heal itself if terribly damaged, though not entirely destroyed. He says that when terribly burned by forest fires, one of these trees will actually renew its bark and covering, build new buttresses around its roots for their protection, and then continue its life uninterrupted. Sometimes lightning strikes one of these trees so as to entirely destroy its life. But otherwise, its health and life seem permanent.