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Celotex Wins Another Awqrd For Literoture Excellence

For its Technical Service Data folders, Nos. I and 2, The Celotex Corporation was awarded a Certifrcate of Honorable Mention at the 1953 Building Products Literature competition, sponsored jointly by the American Institute of Architects and the I'roducers' Council, Inc.

The Jury of Awards, which announced u'inners at the B5th annual AIA convention at Seattle in June, cited the Celotex entry for completeness; arrangement, appearallce, ease of use, clarity and format; and usefulness of subject matter to architects. The entry offered product information of a technical nature-

Celotex adds this recognition to another highly regarded award achieved at the latest annual competition of the Direct Mail Advertising Association. In this 1952 event, for the fourth consecutive year Celotex was voted Best of Industry for the all-around excellence of its direct mail brochures, booklets. folders and enclosures.

Notionol Hordwood Progrom

Salesmanship will highlight the program of the 56th zrnnual convention of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, rvhich will be held in Chicago October 5th through the Sth. tSecretary-manager Jos. L. Nluller urges prompt making of hotel reservations as a great crowd is expected.

Bolin on Wood School Buildings

Washington-E,ngineering progress with wood in school building construction, now helping communities solve crowded classroom problems quickly and economically, is detailed by Harry W. Bolin, prominent Los Angeles engineer, in a new publication just issued by Timber Engineering Company, research affiliate of National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

Profusely illustrated, the publication features the address by Mr. Bolin at a recent wood symposium. Mr. Bolin, a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, is principal structural engineer for California's State Department of Public Works.

Wood qnd tnetol Combine

A structural material for motor truck bodies, combining the strength and durability of metal and cross-grained lvoods, nor,v offers economies in both o.riginal and operational costs of trucks.

This rnaterial-Armorply, product of United States Plyrvood Corporation, offers greater rigidity, less vibration and reduces r'veight in the finished truck body.

Armorply is a laminate, with a metal facing bondecl to one or both sides of a plywood core.

Bruce Elmore, formerly the general manager of thc Soutl-rwest Lumber Company, McNary, Arizona, is a new partner in the Cloverdale Kiln Company at Cloverdale, California.

Deorh ls No Greqler Mystery Thqn Life

You say he's dead. You say so very surely That "he will live ne pe1s"-[ow can you know?

How can you be so sure of that call'ed death, When you knew nothing of the thing called life? Death is no greater mystery than lifeVeils shroud the living as they shroud the dead.

A litle while ago you said, "He lives."

You held his hand, you knew his face and form, But never once did you behold his self. His body was ? shell-as much a shell

While living as when dead. The shell you loved But hid within that form and spoke to you Through binding walls of flesh.

And yet you said, "IIe lives," although you never Perceived the man himself, nor knew from whence He came, nor how he lived and thought, nor of What secret essence he was made. All this Was veiled in darkness-still you felt he lived, And walked, without a question, by his side. Although between you there were silences, And constant strangeness-deep as any graveYou still had faith that he was always there, Though hidden from you by blank walls of flesh. Then have faith now!

If spirits can surmount the wall's of fesh, Why should they perish in the halls of death?

A man may leave a house, and walk once more Along a trail-and yet we do not say, "The man is dead."

So do not cry, "My loved one lives no more."

Say rather, "!Ie has gone along the trail To wider ventures and a freer air."

Then put aside your bitterness, your tears. You dared to love-dare now to pay the price ! Look down upon his face and say: "I'm glad We found each other in life's mysteryGlad that we lsrew the miracle of love. Then go, my darling; go, as I shall go, With head held hig-h in grateful memory, And heart set on great chances yet to come!

God bless you, dear ! Go free ! I'11 caqry on !

-Elsie Robinson.

A Gluestion of Volue

It was raining hard on Central Avenue in Darktown, and Mandy Hawkins, caught out with no umbrella, pulled her skirt up over her head for protection. Said another woman, standing in a doorway: "Put you' skirt down, Lady, don't you know you' showin' you' anatomy?"

Said Mandy: "I don'care if I is. I done had dis anatomy fo'thuty yeahs-but dis hat's n9w."

The God ldeq

Dark and drear must.be life's pilgrimage to those who see in heaven no star of hope. The first religion was probably born in the heart of some ancient mother who knelt at the death bed of her first born, and from that great yearning of her loving heart to see that child again, sprang the first belief in immortality. Even the great doubter, Ingersoll, in uttering the most eloquent funeral sermon that ever fell from human lips, declared that in the hour of death "love hears the rustle of a wing." The God-idea has been the chief underlying principle of civilization from John Stonehatchet until today. Crude it may be, but essential just the same. To many men religion is an absolute essential, without which their lives would be torture and gloom. What boots it that man be born and that women bring forth offspring in pain unspeakable, if only to glut the highways of death? Men like Stalin and Hitler, in trying to stamp out the God-idea, create their own destruction.

A Dunning Letter From An Ediror

"Lives of great men oft remind us, Honest men don't have a chance, And in dying leave behind us Bigger patches on our pants. On our pants once rich and glossy, There are stripes of different hue, All because subscribers linger, And don't pay us what is due. Let us then be up and doing, Send our mite however small, Or when the snows of winter strikes us, We will have no pants at all."

Different Now

A Sunday school teacher asked a small girl why Ananias was so severely punished. The little one thought a minute and then answered, "Please, teacher, they weren't so used to lying in those days."

To Do

It isn't the job we intended to do, Or the labor we've just begun, That finds us right on the ledger sheet, It's the work we have really done.

Our credit is built upon things we do, Our debts are things we shirk, The man who totals the biggest plus, Is the man who completes his work.

Good intentions do not pay bills, It's easy enough to plan, To wish is the job of an office boy, To DO is the work of a man.

Four Million New Cors

The automobile builders of the United States turned out four million new passenger cars in the first 32 weeks of 1953. The totat passenger car production of 1952 was just 4,337,000 units, due to the controlled materials program. Passenger car registrations in the nation have passed the 43,000,000 mark already this year; and more than 10.000.000 trucks are in service.

Proper Piling of Redwood

San Francisco, Calif .-Effective control of quality is absolutely essential to the lumber industry if it is to develop new markets and retain present markets in the face of strong competition, Williard E. Pratt, manager of the technical division of the California Redwood Association, told the seventh annual meeting of the Forest Products Research Society in Memphis, Tenn.

Pratt declared that "competitive products enjoy a relatively high degree of uniformity and the lumber industry must meet this challenge by continually improving quality."

Specifically, his talk developed the application of statistical quality control to the drying of lumber. may be employed as effective tools in the control of the

He pointed out that statistical quality control techniques final moisture content of kiln-dried lumber by indicating when the drying process is functioning properly, as well as when corrective action should be taken.

He added that quality control also provides information regarding the average moisture content of dry lumber being produced as well as the spread of moisture contents around this average.

In another talk delivered before the society, Victor H. Clausen, CRA technician, summarized the air seasoning experiments which have been conducted by the association's seasoning committee.

Clausen pointed out that spacings of piles of lumber in a drying yard have a profound effect upon the rate and uniformity of drying.

The experiments conducted in the Arcata, California, area shorn'ed that the most economical spacing between piles is approximately eight feet,'although this spacing may vary in difierent locations and at different times of the year.

When the experiments started, it was common practice for redwood manufacturers to space lumber approximately two feet apart. Wider spacings now in use have resulted in extremely large savings to the industry, he said.

The Colifornio Pines

Sugar Pine (Pinus lambertiana) belongs to the true White Pine group, and both botanically and physically closely resembles its famous relative, Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus.) This is the largest Pine tree in the world. It grows tall, straight, and with a clean trunk that has an important bearing on its lumber value. The average adult Sugar Pine tree is from 15O to 175 leet in height, and from 4 to 5 feet in diameter, although occasional trees of this species have been found 230 feet high and 12 feet in diameter. The wood is soft, straight-grained, and holds its shape well, making it ideal for pattern stock.

Fifty years ago an experienced Eastern pattern maker moved to California, and complained that only Eastern Pine was fit for pattern stock, and demanded that they get him some of that lumber. Suspecting that he was prejudiced they shipped him some Sugar Pine back from Chicago, and he found it perfectly satisfactory, not knowing it was not Eastern White Pine. Green, it weighs more than Eastern White Pine; but dry, they weigh the same.

Ponderosa Pine (Pinus Ponderosa) was called "California White Pine" for two generations, until a Federal order forbade the further use of that name. Botanically it is a Western Yellow Pine' This is a massive, straighttrunked tree that grows to an average of 125 to 140 feet in height, and 3 to 4 feet in diameter, although occasional trees reach a height ol 2ffi feet and a diameter of 8 feet'

The trunk of the Ponderosa is clear of branches for 40 to 60 feet. It is second only to Sugar Pine for size in the Pine family. It is light in weight, soft of grain, and holds its shape well. It grows in vast forests and is available in unlimited quantities.

Kinzuq Mill Compony Sold

. A last-minute report from Seattle, Washington, states that a group of buyers in that area have purchased t'he Kinzua Pine Mills Company, of Kinsua, Oregon. The property consists of a 30 million-foot annual capacity pine mill, a big remanufacturing plant, and 115,000 acres of timber land. J. F. Coleman, retiring president confirms the sale. The properties are in Wheeler, Morrow, Grant and Gilmorc Counties, Oregon. J. D. Coleman continues as general manager.

Fred Lamon, Lamon Lumber Co., San Francisco, Calif., has just returned from a vacation trip which started at Detroit where he picked up a new car. He then motored through many of the Eastern states including Maine, Mas_ sachusetts and New York and also took a side trip to Quebec and parts of Eastern Canada. While in New york he visited with his folks in Watertown, New york, ancl then drove home via a stopover at yellowstone National Park.

Deoth of R. G. Nelson

R. G. "Dick" Nelson, owner of the Buena Park Lumber Company, Buena Park, California, died August 20, at the age of 54. His father founded the lumber firm in 1904. Mr. Nelson was one of the rnost widely known retailers in Southern California. (Details will follow next issue.)

C)wing to the great size of Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock, Western red cedar and Sitka spruce logs, sawmills of the West Coast are of heavier construction and equipment is larger and stronger than in other lumber producing regions.

Most of the trees raised from the more than 15,000,000 seeds planted at the Forest Industries Tree Nursery in Nisqually, Washington, this spring will be lifted and planted in the forest when they are two years of age.