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Five new pieces of product literature, representing a brand new literature production master plan, have just been produced by the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association.

The new material, totaling 14 pages in all, deals with Western Red Cedar Paneling, Finishing, Tongue and Groove, Paneling Patterns & Finishes, and Channel. Cornbined they fornr the most cotnplete information package ever assembled on Western Red Ceclar paneling patterns, application and finishing techniques.

Each piece typifies, in format and area coverage, a single major category of WRCLA's new three category naster plan. Further development of the plarr is currently underway according to WRCLA.

WRCLA Trade Promotion Chairman, M. C. Jennings, reports that the new matertal represents nany long months of research and planning. He points out that the straight forward format, illustrations, tables and even .the copy type face and size were selected with a single purpose in mind: "To impose as few restrictions as humanly possible in the way of getting accurate useful and lasting information on Western Red Cedar lumber to the people who need it."

While much of the work is done in color, there is nothing "brochurish" about it Jennings points out. It has been designed with the "trade" in mincl. Architects, builders. wholesalers and dealers should find the treatment of specifying, application, and finishing especially valuable.

All pieces are standard sized (8lxl7) and three hole punchecl for ease of filing and cataloging. For more infolmation or free copies, write: WRCLA, 4.+03 White-Henry-Stuart Building, Seattle 1, Washington.

New Use For Useless Wood?

Lumber that's now suitablc only for firewood could become building material through Irurdue University research.

Prof. Arthur H. Westing of the Purdue forestry departn-rerrt is trying to find out what happens in conifers-pine and related tree families-to bring on the condition known as compression wood. He has been awarded a $24,9Cr0 grant by the National Science Foundation for a three-year study of the lumber blight that costs the industry countless ciollars.

Complession wood is useless for building; it becomes hard and brittle and has a tendency to twist, warp and shrink excessively. Storms probably are most responsible for the trouble, since it's found exclusively in trees that have been bent over, or lean.

Although there has been considerable work on the mechanical properties of compression wood and how it affects the uses of lumber there has been little on what happens in a tree's makeup to produce the abnormality.

In attempting to expose these underiyirrg mechanisrns Prof. Westing and his aids are growing small pines and spruces on a giant turntable rn the tree physiological laboratories at Purdue. During the three-year course of the study the conifers-chief source of lumber for the industry-will be subjected to all kinds of conditions to produce varying degrees and forms of the lumberman's bane.

If Prof. Westing and his crew succeed, the timber inclustry's problems won't be quite as knotty!

Production of Douglas Fir-Larch lumber in the Western Pine region reached a record 2.8 billion feet in 1959.