California is lmportant Market For \(/ayne Rawlinss Spends

Exterior and Overlaid Plywood

California is becoming an increasingly important market for exterior plywood and overlaid plywood. For example, out of the total of California shipments in 1948, 27 per cent was in sound one side exterior, and 3g per cent in sound two sides interior. Industrial uses for overlaid account for a substantial portion of that tvpe of material that moved into the State.

Overlaid or so-called plastic-faced plyrvoocl has come to be recognized as a superior concrete form material. It is used particularly on those jcibs calling for multiple re_use of the panels, and/or where a superior cast on the concrete face is desired.

There .are two principal types of overlaid plywood on the market, the principal difference being in the percentage of resin content in the overlay faces. Both types of panels are used for concrete forms. However the lower resin content panels are reported to have sufficient form_liner effect as to impart a harder finish to the concrete by reason of the suction created.

This effect has been likened to case-hardening of metals -a desirable feature to increase weathering qualities.

Some Time in Los Angeles

Wayne I. Rawlings, manag.er of Harbor plywood Corp. of California, with warehouses in San Francisco and Oak_ land, is spending a good deal of time at the George E,. Ream Co., Los Angeles, of which he is vice presidenq and is active in the affairs of that firm. The San Francisco and Oakland business, like the Los Angeles business is a subsidiary of the Harbor Plywood Corporation, with mills and administrative offices in Hoquiam, Wash.

N{. S. Munson, manager of the George E. Ream Co., u,ill shortly establish a home in Los Angeles, as Mrs. Nlunson joined him last rveek. Coming from Grays Harbor in Washington State, rvhere the annual rainfall approaches 100 inches, he finds the Southern California climate a pleasant contrast to that to u'hich he is accustomed.

Repcrirs and Vcccrtions Will Close Most Plywood Mills

It is reported that the large majority o{ plyu,ood mills of the Pacific Coast will close during the summer months for varying periods. Nfost of them rvill make their annual summer repairs and renovations, and many will take vacation periods of idleness. Some of the periods of idleness will start around lulv first.

sAws wifh o cleon edge. Clore, cven-lexfured Ponderoso Pine resists chipping olong the foce veneer edges.

1{Atts without spliring. fhere ore no splits lo mor surfoce beouly when you specify Ponderoso Pine plywood.

HiltsilEs smoothlyond rloys smooth! Ponderora Pine's even fexlure gives c fine, permonently smooih rurfoce for ony fype of finish.

These three.superior qlalities of ponderosa pine plywood make sellrng easier-increase volume-and build satisfied, casiomerc. ponderosa Pine Plywood saves- time in h-u;14;tr"- savis time i" n"irfinJ_."a retains a smooth finish far longer. Feature these pondei"i. pi"" Plywood characteristics and you witt burtd customers r" the caie*ork and interior finish field.

WHOIESALE

Veteran Representative o[ Lumber and Plywood Mills

W. W. (Wilkie) Wilkinson, who has spent more than 30 years as representative in Southern California for lumber and plywood manufacturers, got his first job in the lumber industry in 1900 in a logging camp in Wisconsin' He was born in Ontario, Canada, and came to the United States with his parents when he was six years old' They settled in Indiana. His second job was in a retail yard, Laird-Norton Co., in Westbrook, Minn. Then he decided to go west in 1902, and went to work in Seattle for Schwager-Nettleton Lumber Co., and stayed with them lor 12 y"urr. During this time he had experience in the sawmill and sales department, purchased'lumber, and when he left was manager of the wholesale department.

He started in the wholesale lumber business with E' L' Connor in Seattle in 1913, but sold out to his partner in the fall and represented Northwest mills in Los Angeles until 1918. He moved to Portland in 1918 and became a partner in Lumber Buyers, Inc., and in 1923 sold out and returned to Los Angeles, where he has been representing plywood and lumber manufacturers ever since. He represents Oregon-Washington Plywood Co., Tacoma, Wash', Nicolai Door Manufacturing Co., Portland, and McCormick & Baxter Creosoting Co., Portland.

Mr. Wilkinson was married 37 years ago to Miss Lillian Long of St. Louis, Mo' They have one son, D' W' Wilkinson, who is associaied in business with his father' They live in Hermosa Beach.

He has been a member of the Masonic Order for the past 23 years, and is Past Patron of the Eastern Star'

United Stcrtes Fir Plnrood Production 1925 - 1948

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