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. By JsckDionne '

Where Women Are Woefully Wonring

The husband was rushing around looking for his hat, when his wife asked him what he wanted it for.

"That fellow Smith, across thet street, just phoned and asked if I would lend him a corkscrew," replied the husband.

"Well, why should you deliver it? Let him come over and get it, or send it over to him by the maid," said his wife.

A look of deep sorrow and dejection spread over his countenance.

"My dear," said he, "that temark of yours sums up in its entirety the weakness of woman's reason. It is because of such reasoning as that that women cannot lead armies, control nations, be President, or take any outstanding part in the affairs of the world."

Fire Test Demonstrotes Superiority Of Heovy Timber Beom

A fire test sponsored by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and the National Wood Promotion Program at Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, has demonstrated conclusively that an unprotected heavy timber glulam beam has more fire resistance than an unprotected rolled structural steel beam.

On June 14 a wood beam and a steel beam were tested simultaneously under identical fire exposure and under eqnal loading conditions. The wood beam was 7 inches wlde, 21 inches deep and was made of nominal two-inch lumber, without chemical treatment, and glued together

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Cooperoting fully with the Nqtionol Wood Promotion Progrom AN DERSON, CAII with a casein adhesive. The rolled structural steel beam was a 16-inch deep, wide-flange member weighing 40 pounds per linear foot. lNvt{3ulw utswnl uNuoiltvf

The beams were tested over a span of 43 feet. 3 inches. Each beam carried a roof area 6 ieet wide and, 43/r f.eet long and was loaded with bags of sand to provide 30 pounds per, square foot of roof area plus the weight of the beam and roof slab. Both beams 'r,vere designed in accordance with accepted engineering practice. Fire exposure was pro- vided through gas burners and temperatures within-the test chamber were regulated to follow the Standard TimeTemperature Curve recommended by the American Society for Testing Materials.

Within several minutes after the gas burners were lighted the steel beam started to sag and this deformation grad- ually increased until, at the end of 29 minutes, ii trad reached approximately 36 inches. At the end of 30 minutes the steel beam with its roof slab collapsed into the test chamber.

The glulam wood beam showed very small deformation even though exposed to severe fire. At the end of 30 minutes, when the steel beam dropped, the wood beam was still supporting its load and its deformation was only Zfu inches. After removal from the test structure the wood beam was sawed through at about mid-length and showed a depth of char of approximately s/a inch on each side and on the bottom.

Thus, after 30 minutes of severe fire exDosure. there remained undamaged approximately 75 perient of the orig- inal cross-section of the wood beam.

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