PACIFIC-MADTSON TUMBER COMPANY

7117 Easl Firestone Blvd. DOWNEY, Colif. SPruce 3-2292 P.O. Box 243 TOpoz l-6701

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Philippine Forest Induslries Receive Technicol Aid

l.lnder an international program to aid the Philippine Republir' in developing its own forest industries, Dr. Arthur B. Antlerson will be spending the coming year in the island nation.

Dr. Anderson, wood chemist in the University of California l'orest Products Laboratory at Richmond, will devote his year in the Philippines to evaluating the wood chemistry program of the Philippine Forest Products Research Institute, working with the Institute's scientists to develop new ideas.

The Institute, a part of the University of the Philippines, is situated at College Laguna. Sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization o{ the United Nations, the Institute came into being around 10 ,vears ago. Experts {rom around the world have been sent to the Institute by the F.A.O.

Through development of a lorest products industry, Dr. Dickinson said, the lnstitute aims to broaden the economy of the Republic. Until recently much of the timber harvested {rom the Philippine forests have been shipped as logs and manufactured into lumber and plywood in other countries.

Hordwood Plywood Booklet

"The Story of Hardwood Plywood" from forest to end-uses in the home and in industry, is told in a new l6-page illustrated booklet published by the Hardwood Plywood Institute in cooperation with American Forest Products Industries, Inc. I00,000 copies are available [or distribution.

The Hardwood Plywood Institute, realizing that tomorrow's customers are today's school children, {eels that this booklet. in high school and college teachers' hands today, will help sell hartlwood plywood products in the future.

"The Story of Hardwood Plywood" is the latest in a series of booklets AFPI distributes to high schools. forestry colleges, and libraries. Other booklets are "The Story of Pulp & Paper," "The Story of Lumber & Allied Products," "The Story of Hardboard."

Included in "The Story of Hardwood Plywood" is the historlof veneering. advantages antl versatility of hardwood plywood. the manufacturing process, distribution channels, types" grades and sizes, products, consumption, and in{ormation on the American Tree Farm system.

Copies are available free from AFPI. f8f6 N Street, N.W.. Washington. D.C.. or the Hardwood Plywood Institute. P. O. Box 6246, Arlington 6. Virginia.

lumbermon Solves DEW Line Dilemmo

One telephone call to one Western lumberman started just one piece o{ lumber on its r.ray to a (ustomer in Alaska.

The special-ordered piece of lumber rvas shipped by truck lrom Seattle. \I/ashington, to Cape Lisburne, Alaska.

The customer specified a 6-inch by B-int:h by 26-foot long piet'e of penta-treated selt'ct structural lumber for a vital constructiott project on the DEW (Distant Early Warning) line.

Less than a week after the order was received by Bla-"en and Cranat Lumber Corp.. Portland, Oregon, the hard-to-find specialty order was on its way to Elmendorf Air Force base in Alaska.

Since the original inquiry was received, he had located a supplier. receir-ed a price, quoted this price to the customer. received a formal orrler and instructed the supplier. The pie<:e rvas loaded on a truck and headed up the Alcan Highway lor the frozen North. The entire operation had been handlcd by the wholesaler.

"W-e arc lvcll-suited to hanclle specialt,v orders as part of our many {unctions." says f)avid llla-.ert. "but this is the fir,.t tirne I have erer hearrl of so small an order traveling,"o far itt sut'h a short time."

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Com plete Inventory: Sugor pine, Ponderoso Pine, White Fir, Coliforniq

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