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The Menasha-Coos Head Plywood Corp., formed by the merger of the Coos Head Timber Co. and Menasha Woodenware Co., is beginning construction of a $2 million plywood plant on the waterfront at North Bend, Ore.. which will have 7OpN square feet of floor space. Manufacturing will begin in about nine months.

The corporation purchbsed from the RFC the property of the former Commando Packing Co. for their new plant, and also leased additional land from the Southern pacific Railroad. They will draw logs from 56,0@ acres of timber holdings, valued at 915 million.

Corporation officers are Mowry Smith, Mehasha, Wis., president; Don Turner, Menasha, and E. R. Wood, Coos Bay, vice presidents; F. Willis Smith, Coos Bay, secretary, and Charles Ducey, Coos Bay, treasurer.

Smith and Ducey, who formed the Coos Head Timber Co. in 1946, will be sales and operating manager, and head of the logging and timber managing division, respectively.

The Menasha Woodenware Co. was organized as the Southern Oregon Company in 1887, operating in the area for 60 years. The Coos Head Timber Co. operates a sawmill at Empire, a builders' supply retail store in North Bend, and is associated with the Elliott Bay Mill Co. in operation of the Myrtle Point Veneer Co. at Norway, Ore.

Hcs Moved To New Loccrtion

Davidson Plywood & Veneer Co. completed moving to their new warehouse and office building July 12.

The new location is at 3136 East Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles 23. The new telephone number is ANgelus 3-6931.

Announcement is also made by this company that they are in production on Etch-Wood, the new three dimensional plywood. This is manufactured exclusively by Davidson Plywood & Veneer Co., and is available now.

Long-Bell ltynrooa Itoa.r"ti*

During 1947, plywood production of The Long-Bell Lumber Company, Weed Division, Weed, California, was approximately 3O million feet on s/g" basis, and it is expected that this year's production will be about the same.

A new lathe, of the latest design manufactured by the Merritt-Monsanto Company, is being installed.

We sell in carlotg or mcnulccture lrom your rtoclc Grcded, Milled, Dried, Bundled, End Trimmed aad lo'cded into ccrs in TIIBEE WEEKS lrom receipt oI rough lunber