LAWREIIGE- PHILIPS LUMBER GO.

420 N. CATTDEN DRIVE-ROOM 2o5-BEVER,IY HILLS' CALIF.

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More Plywood Plcrnts Reduce Output

Reports from the Pacific Northwest indicate further reduction of Douglas Fir plywood production of voluntary character, in addition to that previously noted. The following changes are rePorted:

The Astoria Plywood Corporation, a worker-owned plant at Astoria, Oregon, closed for a 2-week vacation; the Simpson Logging Company plants at McCleary and Shelton, Washington, changed from a 5- to a 4-day week; U. S. Plywood Corporation, Seattle, reduced its regular 6,000,000 square feet a week by about 50 per cent; Paragon Plywood Corporation, Crescent City, California, Biookings Plywood Corporation, Brookings, Oregon, and Northwest Door Company, Tacoma, Washington, have reduced their production about 35 per cent.

For the first 8 months of 1953 plywood production exceeded that of 1952 by about 27 per cent. There are 85 plants making. plywood today, as compared with 76 at the beginning of 1952.

Struclurol Engineers To Meet

The Structural Engineers Association of California will hold its annual convention this year on October 8, 9, and 10, at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite Valley. John E. Rhine is president of the association, W. W. Graham is secretary-treasurer, and Charles Scurich is general chairman of arrangements.

Two Weed Veterons Retire

Two veteran employes of the Weed Division of The Long-Bell Lumber Company, Weed, California, have just been retired. They are Charles W. King, who rvas chief forester, and Paul Peterson, who was master mechanic.

Mr. King has bt-len with The Long-Bell Lumber Company in their forestry division for the past 33 years. Mr. Peterson was master mechanic for ?5 years.

J. Roy Tucker has. succeeded Mr. Peterson as master mechanic.

Veleron Auditor Retires

Fred C. McConnell has retired as auditor of the retail lumber department of The Long-Bell Lumber Company af.ter 46 years of service with that concern. His home is Kansas City. He has been succeeded by Bert Boozman, previously traveling auditor for the same department.

Soles Survey frip

Jim Barron, general manager of Sand Door and Plywood Company, Los Angeles, completed an extensive sales survey trip last month covering the five Southern California counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, San Diego and Imperial, calling on dealers and industrial users of the various'products distributed by his firm. Sand Door and Plywood Company maintains a branch yard in San Bernardino for expediting shipments to all Southern California areas.

J. A. Brush Returns From EuroPe

J. A. Brush, owner of the Brush Industrial Lumber Company, Los Angeles, together with Mrs' Brush, has just completed a four months' visit in Europe, that took them all the way through the Mediterranean. They spent much time in England and Ireland.

Counter Cord Oregonbord

Paul M. Smith, President of the Western Hardboard Sales Company, Tacoma, Wash., has announced that building material dealers throughout the West are now being supplied with colorful, new stand-up counter 'cards featuring Oregonbord hardboard. The 11"x14" "Silent Salesman" is done in red and green. It includes samples of the product and a pocket containing descriptive folders. As in other promotion, Oregonbord's versatile bird "Tufiy" is again featured prominently. Western Hardboard Sales are sales agents for Oregonbord in eleven \Mestern states.

Krriser Rock Wool

C. E. Ilarper, vice-president and general manager of Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc., Oakland, Calif., has announced that Kaiser Gypsum has added a complete line of Rock Wool products.

The new products, to be manufactured to Kaiser Gypsum spe,cifications, will include : Full-Thick Batt-Blankets, SemiThick Batt-Blankets, Utility Batt-Blankets, 7' and 1" insulating quilts and granulated rock wool.

Big Log Pond Job At Weed

The Weed Division of The Long-Bell Lumber Company recently completed what proves to be a mammoth cleaning operation. The great log pond had been gradually filling up with silt and timber leavings through the years, so they drained it and cleaned it out. 130,000 cubic yards of dirt was removed from the pond, deepening the water and increasing the log storage and log moving.

At the same time they constructed the log decking areas to permit decking of logs in summer and fall, to be used when logging operations are closed by winter I'eather.

Jones Fishes In Alosko

W. B. "Bill" Jones, prominent Southern California lumber distributor; Ray Hommes, u'ell known builder of Los Angeles, and a group of ten sportsmen departed August 18 via United Air Lines for Seattle, thence on to Alaska via charter plane for two weeks' fishing in the wild interior where the rivers and streams are full of hungry fish just waiting for their lure, according to Jones.

They will try for cutthroat trout, steelhead trout and black bass as the season is at its peak in Alaska during the last two weeks in August and the month of September, and the weather there is perfect during Indian Summer.

Mr. Jones is an enthusiastic campaigner for major league baseball in Los Angeles and he has turned over the "beating of the drums" to his good friend Vincent X. Flaherty, well-known Los Angeles sports columnist, during his absence.