Cascadest Extra Long Panels

Ten king-size plyrvood panels-enougl"r to nearly cover two football fields lengthrvise-rvere recently made by Cascades Plyrvood Corp., Lebanon, Oregon.

These panels, each 50 feet long, topped by ten {eet the length of the Cascades-rnade panels used in a float in the 1946 Lebanon Stralvberry Fair Parade. Other long panels made at Cascades in recent years were the 36-footers made for the U. S. Navy during the rvar.

To produce the ten panels rvere required. scarf-jointed together due to their large size, deck sander.

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50-foot panels, 70 standard 4x8 foot These fu-inch thick panels were to give the required length. Then, the panels lvere fed through a single panels into a railroad car presented men \\ras organized to carry them out of the plant where they were transferred to three small lift trucks. Working in unison, the three lift trucks carried the fifty-footers to an open end freight car. The panels were shoved into place on top of a shipment of regular panels slated for Atlantic Coast delivery.

Don Philips Sr., Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from Humboldt County where he spent trvo weeks on a combined business and pleasure trip.

Bob Kreisler, West Oregon Lumber Co., Los recently spent ten ,lays calling on the company's Northern California and Oregon.

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Al Forslund, Edrvard Hines Lumber Co. Sacramento, was a recent visitor to Los Angeles.