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Appointed Assistant Forester

Norman E. Bjorklund, former arrny air corps officer and gradtuate of Oregon State College School of Forestry, has just been named assistant forester for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the Pacific Northwest Logger's Association, according to Edmund Hayes, Portland, chairman of the joint cornmittee on forest conservation.

Bjorklund will headquarter in Portland at the West Coast Lumbermen's Association offices and will rvork under the direction of William D. Hagenstein, forest engineer. Bjorklund will supervise the Forest Industry Nursery at Nisqually, Washington, and will devote some time to the development and expansion of the industry's tree farm program which now includes 2,744,154 acres of private timber holdings in western Oregon and Washington.

Bjorklund graduated from Oregon State College in 1948, his college career having been interrupted by army air corps service from 1943 to 1946. He has a background of summer rvork in logging, lttmber manufacturing and forestry with private industry and one summer with the Klamath Forest Protective Association at Klamath Falls.

Weyerhceuser Timber Compcny Absorbs Two Alfilicrtes

The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, of Tacoma, Washington, has just taken over and absorbed trvo of its important affiliates, The Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company, and the Grandin-Coast Lumber Company. The Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company operates a very large milling plant with two sawmills and other complete equipment at Snoqualmie Falls, Washington. Since 1914 the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company has or,vned 67 per cent of the stock of this company and Grandin-Coast Lumlter Company has owned 30 per cent. Both affiliates now become part of the main Weyerhaeuser concern. A 141,000 acre tree farm is one of the big properties taken over. The products of these organizations are sold through the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, of St. Paul.

Fcrmily Affair

The four Blair brothers, Mattherv, Arthur, Walter and Bert, rvho have operated the Blair Bros' Lumber Co., Pacific, near Placerville, Calif., for the past 20 years, have retired and turned the operation over to the next generation.

Gordon Blair, Matt's son, is in charge of the retail yard, Alfred Blair, Walt's son, has cl-rarge of the woods operations, and Art Blair, Jr. and Clark Smith, nepherv of the Blair brothers, have charge of the sawmill and wholesale operations.

United States Plywood Expansion Program

Larvrence Ottinger, ltresident, United States Plyrvoocl Corporation, announces that the company l.ras committed itself to ng11' plants, operations, and distribution units, involving the expenditure of substantial amour.rts of money.

Nqn' accluisitions of timber ancl cutting contracts have been made covering 1,1,+0,000,000 feet, chiefly Porrderosa and Sugar Pine, in Shasta County, California, and 60,000,000 feet in Lane County, Oregon. To supplement their timber resources, substantial quantities of Philippine logs 'ivill be imported for hardrvood plyu'ood manufacture at the Seattle plant, ancl logs from the Belgian Congo n'ill continue to be brought in for the manufacture of tl.re Korina veneers.

The Company is marketing doors received from an impo.rtant West Coast producer along rvith the hollorv core flush hardnood door manufactured by The Mengel Company. Production of Weldwood Fire Doors, partitions and bulkheacls is also under progress.

Among the u'est coast expansion plans of the Company are : plant to estimated resin at

Erection in progress of a plant at Anderson, California, by the Company's subsidiary, Shasta Plyv,'ood, Inc. With initial monthly capacity of 4,500,000 feet on a 3/8" basis, pine and some fir plyn'ood rvill be producecl. Cedar logs from this tract, unsuitable as plyu.ood, rvill be sold to an affiliate of the liagel Pencil Company.

Conversion of the N{apleton, Oregon veneer lorv-cost plyrvood manufacture. On a 3,/8" basis, n-ronthly capacity rvill be 3,000,000 feet.

Nfanufacture of successfully tested synthetic nervly erectecl Portland, Oregon plant.

Erection of a distributing unit at Portland, Oregor.r.

"Our research organization," l\[r. Ottinger asserted, "has developed a substantial number of interesting and, we believe, important products and techniques. These include Honeycomb, in special fabrications ancl Armorply, metalcovered plyrvood, u,hich lve have been marketing for some time."

The corporation's consolidated sales, excluding sales of unconsolidated affiliates, for the fiscal year ended April 30, 1948, rvere $62,553,000, shou'ing a 43/' increase over last year.

New MiIl crt Forestville

Operations have started in a new diesel-electric sar'vmill at Forestville, California. It rvill cut about 50,000 feet daily oi both Redr,vood and Fir. T. I\{. Goldbeck, Sydney Berrv. and Ernest I-ane are the orvners.

Flcgpole lor Tower ol London

The British Governmdnt has received the gift of a tremendous Douglas Fir flagpole to be erected at the Torver of London. The giver u'as Prentice Bloedel, r,vell knol.vn lumberman of Vancouver, B. C.

Moves Olfice

H. W. Koll Mill & Lumber Co., its office to 8611 Crenshaw Blvd. is ORegon 8-3239.

Crted Our Hero

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Same goes for custom milling. It's a job for experts. We specialize in quality mill work, using the finest new, high speed molders, matchers and resaws. Whatever your need-surfacing, combed siding, pattern work-we are equipped to do it rapidly and well and at consider. able saving to you of both money and time.

Carloads to be surfaced or run to pattern will be unIoaded at our siding, milled and forwarded-fast. We will sort, grade and tally your random stock. Small lot orders for stock patterns get the same service as carloads. Overnight service on surfacing, if you're rushed. Phone us for action.

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Recommended 'Revision for Standird Stock Newrpap er Advertising Mats Available

Ponderosa Pine Doots Submitted to Industry

A Recommended Revision of Standard.Stock Ponderosa Pine Doors. Commercial Standard CSl2f.-46, has been submitted to manufacturers, distributors and users of this product for written acceptance, according to an announcement by the Commodity Standards Division of the National Bureau of Standards.

The revision as approved by the Standing Committee, was proposed by the National Door Manu{acturers Association. The purpose is to bring the standard in line with present manufacturing practice. Two new grades designated as "No. lF" and "No. 2F" f.or doors having panels made from Douglas fir plywood, together with illustrations of the grade marks, are now included in the standard. Also requirements for the prefitting of interior and exterior doors are given. The standard sticking patterns have been reduced to "Cove and Bead" and "Ovolo A." The patterns "Bead and Cove" and "Ovolo B or Rule Joint" were not retained.

Mimeograph copies of the Recommended Revision may be obtained from the Commodity Standards Division, National Bureau of Standa:ds, Washington 25, D. C.

New Moulding Plqnt Stcrts

The David Ostin Moulding Corporation has started operations in a new moulding plant in Sacramento, California, making both Pine and Fir mouldings.

A series of newspaper advertising mats, designed to assist retail lumber dealers in their local promotion of Certigrade red cedar shingles, has been produced by the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau and are available to lumber dealers free of charge.

The new mats, according to W. W. Woodbridge, secretary-manager of the Bureau, have been issued in onecolumn and two-column sizes and feature the use of Certigrade shingles for roofs and sidewalls, including overroofing, remodeling, and double-coursing with processed shakes.

i'A folder has been prepared which shows the mats which are available," Woodbridge said. "A copy of this folder will be sent to any dealer who writes the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau at 55i0 White Bldg., Seattle: using this folder, he will be able to select the newspaper mats he desires, and these will be furnished him without charge.

Woodbridge pointed out that the Bureau has been maintaining a large-scale advertising program in both consumer and trade publications, and that the new mats have been produced to enable lumber dealers to follow up and capitalize on public interest created by the Bureau's national advertising

Mcrking Loggringr Tools

A. Weigant and G. H. Clark have organized the Timberline Forge Works, at Eugene, Oregon, and will manufacture logging tools and equipment.