Plywood Days Are Here Again

The plyrvood days have come back. That is, the days rvhen Douglas fir plywood lvas used for a thousand purposes and in sight everywhere there was construction being done, before the war came along and plyrvood beca'me so precions and so scarce and so much in demand by all phases and departments of the u'ar effort that it became almost sacrilege to use it for everyday purposes.

Before the war plyr,vood had come into almost as common use in the State of California as eggs for breakfast. Around any sort of building construction, repair, or addition, they put up rvalls of plywood. They used it for false work, for concrete construction, for purposes too varied and too numerous to enumerate. That's why California became so dominating a plyrvood using state, buy-

Manson New Redwood Ass'n Engineer

San Francisco-Appointment of Byrne C. Manson as engineer in charge of research and utilization problems was today confirmed by the board of directors of the California Redu'ood Association, according to announcement by Sherman A. Bishop, the Association's general manager. He succeeds Ben F. Wade, deceased.

Until his appointment, Mr. Manson was associated with the ofifice of Herbert Fryer, consulting engineer on lumber production and use. lle was previously resident engineer ing and building with more of that material than n.rost of the other states of the country combined. in charge of the Association's continuing program of drying research.

It looks like those days are back. Everywhere you drive from Mt. Shasta to San Diego there is building going on, and rvherever there is building you see as in days of yore those big, bright sheets of plyrvood put into important use It makes you realize horv much you missed that familiar sight during the years rvhen the rvar needed all the mills could produce.

There is every reason tc believe that the general use of fir plywood for every sort of building purpose is increasinq all over California. And you can get all you want of it, any kind, any time, any place.

Yes, plywood days are here again.

A graduate of Stanford, M.. Manson has done post graduate lr'ork in lumbering and forestry at the University of California, and served as Lieutenant Colonel of Ordnance in the U. S. Army. For his wartime service in the Pacific he was awarded the Legion of Merit.

Producers Council Predicts 1949 Housing Totcl of 850,000 Units

Between 825,000 and 850,000 new permanent nonfarnr housing units will be started in the United States this year, according to a revised forecast issued by the Producers' Council, a national organizalion of building products manufacturers.

The housing forecast represents a drop of between 9 and 12 per cent from the 931,000 units started on 1948, but the total would be larger than in any other year since 1926, the council stated.

If the 850,000 total is realized this year, it rvould mean that 3,400,000 new permanent housing units will have been added to the national housing supply since the end of World War II, it was pointed out.