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Dougfas Fir in sizes to 24" x 24"

Redwood in sizes to 12" x 12" - lengths to 24'

Planer capacity for surfacing up to 24" x24"

Remanufacturing facilities for resawing up to 34" x 34''

Long-Bell Exponding in Plywood

J. D. Leland, Long-Bell president, announced July 20 that company directors have approved construction of a new plywood plant at Vaughn, Ore. This additional plant will be the company's fourth plywood plant, and carries on Long-Bell's policy of integrating operations to afford maximum utilization of its timber resources. Leland said.

Construction of the plant lvill start immediately, and it is expected to begin producing plywood by March 1, 1956. The plant will have an annual production capacity of 50 miilion square feet of plywood on a two-shift, five-day basis and will incorporate the latest improvements in equipment and design. It is expected that about 250 men u'ill be employed with an annual payroll in excess of a million and a quarter dollars.

The company's Vaughn division, under the supervision of J. M. White, Jr., general manager, includes a complete lumber manufacturing plant at Vaughn, recently completed, comprising a modern sarvmill, dry kilns, planing mill, storage ancl shipping facilities. Long-Bell also operates a small green lumber mill at Austa, Ore. These plants are located adjacent to the company's timber holdings ir, that area.

Other company-o\\'ned lumber as 'n'e11 as pl.vrvood plants on the rvest coast are located at Weed, Calif.. Gardiner, Ore., and Longvierv, Wash., and a lumber mill at Vernonia, Ore.

Seventy-eight per cent of vehicles involved in fatal cidents in 1954 r,vere traveling straight ahead.