Masonife Showcases Products In New Chicago Building

I\lasonite Corporation's recent move to new cluarters in the l0-story X{asonite Building at 29 N. Wacker drive in Chicago is giving thousands of persons daily an excellent view of the beauty of Nfasonite decorative interior oanels as tlrey appear in actual applications.

I.ocatecl at the corner of the building facing both lrA'acker drive and Washington street is a new display room, desigrred by Allan J. Luck, marlag'er of nerv product clevelopmer-rt. It rapidly is becoming knou'r.r as o11e of the most attractive displays in Chicago.

Center of attraction is a room-tvDe <lisplay featuring glamorous Nlasonite Royalcote Cherry and Walnut woodgrain paneling. According to Luck, this portion of the display rvill be changed four or five times a year to show how various interior Danels can be used in derrs. living rooms, recreation rooms and elservhere in the home.

Other portions of the display shou' Masonite's exterior siding products, 'ways in which Peg-Board can make the homemaker's life easier, and the lr'ays in which various industries are putting hardboard products to use.

Most of the displays are mounted on removable panels which can be easily moved or changed periodically to keep a fresh, and interesting appearar.rce.

NIany passersby are attracted to stop in and examine the exhibits more closely. N{asonite will use the room to illustrate to lumber dealer and ir.rclustrial customers how they can benefit from attractive exhibits.

65th Anniversary Convention of NHLA Set for Oct. 1-3

The 65th annual convention of the National Hardwood Lumber Association rvill be held October 1-3 in ChicaSo, President Mark Townsend announced recently. Important speakers, exhibits from a dozen sister associations, and a special exhibit of NHLA memorabilia will be featured at the Sherman House based convention.

Forn.ral sessions will only be held during the mornir.rgs of October 2 and 3, but members have been urged to arrive by Sunday or Nlonday so registration can be completed by kick-ofi time.

Arnong the groups which have set special meetings for their members are: Northern Hardwood and Pine, Philippine Nfahogany Association, National Lumber E,xporters, Distribution Yard Wholesalers and others.

George Il. King, Jr., a member of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, will be one of the featured soeakers.

Governor I(ing, prior to appointment to the Federal Reserve was executive vice president of King Lumber Industries, Canton, X{iss., and is the son of Harold King, prominent in the lumber industry.

The Canadian hardwood industry will be represented on the speakers program by Arnold G. Muirhead, current president of the Canadian Lumbermen's Association. Mr. Muirhead is presently first vice-president and director of Gilles Bros. & Co., Ltd.

Special plans call for a Ladies Luncheon and entertainment Tuesday noon. The Junior Conference will have a party for young men and women on tOS AIIGEIIS OFFIGE

Trresday evening. Red Book will hold open house Wednesday from 4:30 to 6:30.

The program arranged will fully recognize and reflect the importance of tl'ris 65th anniversary. In addition a souvenir booklet will be distributed.

The rich soil and abundant rain of the \Arest Coast Douglas fir region will grow as much as 1000 board feet of u'ood per acre a year.

A garden will have a more serene atmosphere if the emphasis is put on g'reen plants. Fencing and screens should be as natural looking as possible, designed in weathered or woodstained western red cedar.

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Monthly Lumber Focfs

Douglas fir sawmill production fell an alarming ffi7 mlllion board feet in the first seven months below a comparative period in 1959, the last fairly normal year. Output so far this year was 232 million feet beloq' a comparable period in 1960, which lvas a slow year.

"We are feeling the pinch," said G. C. Edgett, executive vice president of the Wes,t Coast Lumbermen's Association, "of increasing imports of cheaper made Canadian lumber. Canadians now dominate the water shipments to the East Coast having 65% of the volume, and this is a hard blow to our wa,ter front mills, many of which have been forced to close."

The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in July was 132,136,000 b.f. or 83.3/o o'f the 1957-6- average. Orders average'd 142,639,W b.f. ; shipments 141,764,000 b.f. ; weekly averag'es for June were production 1ffi,215,000 b.f., 101.0% o,f the 1957-61average; orders 178,499,0W b.f.; shipments 181,072,000 b.f.

Kvol Door llochinery in Automoted Line

The continuing demond for oulomoted mochiner hos been responsiblc for some highly rechnicol equipmanl in lhe door industry.

Kvolheim Mochinery Compony, Pefolumo, Colifornio, hos developed equipment in voriour models to size doon ond outomoticolly lronrfer ond position doors for pre-molching for lock ond hinges.

Two bosic combinotion units qre ofiered. The ffrsf os shown ir o stroight line ret up. This is used in ihe door unit business lo size doorr for widlh, eose shorp edger, ond sond the sides. The doors ore lhen outomoticolly lronsferred to the KVAI 880A Routing-Boring mochine where fhe dors ore pre-mochined for hordwore.

The second combinqtion unif incorporotes lhe obove width sizing mochine os described. From lhe width sizing, doors ore oulomolicolly tronsferred ot right ongles through o double end lrim sow ond then of right onglas ogoin lhrough the model 880A for pre-motching. With this porticulor combinotion, doors con be removed offer the sizing operofions, or they moy be fed oll the woy lhrough lhe complefe operotion. This second method con be used by door monufoclurers os well os pre-honging concerns.

Seven months of the 1962 cum:ulative production 4,669,798,000 b.f.; seven months of 1961, 4,587,953,000 b.f.; seven months o,f 1960, 4,901,014,000 b.f.; seven months of 1959, 5,276,047,0W b.f

Orders for seven months of 1962 break down as follows; rail and truck 3,658,256,W0 b.f.; domestic cargo W4,726,M b.f.; export 183,515,000 b.f.; local 235,210,}IJt_b.f..

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 504,230,000 b.f. at the end of July, lumber inventory at927,328,Wb.f. Figures covering the second quarter ol 1962 have been revised.

Income from all Forest Service administered lands in 1961 amounted to $2I9,621,785. Of that total, National Forest timber purchasers paid $98,424,572 and received credit for $44,239,096 lvorth of road building work toward the full timber sale price ol $142,663,668.