Striking Effects in Wood

BY GEORGIA HESSE

time-consuming care. This is true of the concrete as well, which is an idial deterrent to damage by Belvedere's hot suns and frequent rainY sPells.

Wood, of course, has its own integrity, a dynamic unity of art and of function, which has been particularly well adapted in the Belvedere church. The lack of false ceilings, boxing, and cold, skeletal framing is immediately apparent and eiciting. All around, one's eye follows the mellow beauty of wood incorporating support requirements with simple elega.nce.

Many pEople in the Belvedere congregation were skeptical of 'tie Lope of achieving the comfort and spiritual warmth of their old cabin in a church of surpassing modernity.

But the First Church of Christ Scientist proves just this: that, at its best, modern design is an outgrowth of, not a departure from, the ideals and realizations of the architecture of the past.

NWIIIA Holds Softwood Summer Meeting

Members o,f the softwood division of the National Woodwork Manufacturers Association met in San Francisco on August lst for their annual summer meeting. The division con-sists of producers of softwood doors, window units, sash and frames.

NWMA President Hugo W. Eckardt, president, Morgan Company, presided at the m-e-eting, the.purpose of which *"r io disiuss industry problems and keep memb-ers infnrmed of nroerressive-nCw develooments in the field of formed of progressive'ne-w developments in of manufacturinE.

millwork manufacturing.

Topics covered during the busy one day session included:

\ Pine Shon GradinoRules:

(1) Pine Shop, Grading ; (2) Dimensionally

(2) Dimensionallv Stabilized

Wood; (3) Marketing Concepts ; (4) Size Standardization of Lumber; (5) Lumber Inspection Service.

Mr. E. W.'Donahue, :Wabash Screen Door Company, Memphis, Tennessee, chairman of NWMA's Lumber Grades Committee and Mr. Carl J. Bishop, chairman of WPA's Shop Grades sub-committee led a discussion of recommended changes in shop lumber grades.

Other persons on the agenda were: M. W. Gaylord, Koppers Company lvho explained the treating of wood with icetic ankydride to increase dimensional stability; Richard HuE, discussed the Cellon Process of preservative treating; "nd Toh.t M. Bridman, of the marketing firm of Cresap, McCormick and Paget, reviewed nerv marketing methods for millwork.

According to James E. Nolan, Secr-etary-Manager of NWMA, the group will meet again in October in French Lick, Indiana -for their fall meeting.

New Booklet on Hardwood Lumber Gruding

A new booklet enti,tled "An Introduction to the Grading & Measurement of Hardwood Lumber" is now available from the National Hardwood Lumber Assoc'iation. This twenfypage booklet is designed rto be of par,ticular assis,tance to foresters, ,tree farmers, students, and others workin.g with hardwood lumber who des,ire to have the prirnary knowledge of ,how hardwood lumber is graded and the steps taken to describe p,roper National grades to the lumber at hand.

As the introduction points out, the purpose of the book is t'o acquaint the reader with the art of grading hardwood lu,rnber, yet all of the material pres,ented pertains to General Instructions and S,tandard Grados only. Fo'r more detailed rules, exceptions, species variat,ions, etc., the student is refer- re.d to the Standard Rules Book of National Hardwood Lumber Associration.

S'eve,ral pages are devoted to explaining hardwood grading ,terms and the figuring of measuriements and cuttings. Further help is given through the use of c'harts and drawings of speciman boards in the various Standard Grades. With each sketch is given a st€p-by-step method of ar'riving at the proper grade which will be of considerable help to the uninitirated.

A page .of review questions helps to round out this hardwood inspection primer which it is believed, will assist many who have a reasonable undensrtanding of the hardwood grading proce'sses.

The cover is printed in brown and shows nine individual species of hardwoods. The bookl,et measures approximately 6" x 9", and should find wide acceDtance wherever hard- wood timber is cu,t, sold or used. The price is 35c per copy, or three copies for $1.00. 'Copies may be purchased from the National Hardwood Lumber dssociation. 59 E. Van Buren St., Chicago 5, Il1.

Son Diego Hoo-Hoo Plqns

Sepiember Pqrfy

IVlembers of San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club, their wives and guests will gather Saturday, September 8, for a dinner dance to be held in the Atlas Room of the Town & Country Motel.

In addition to election of officers, trophies will be awarded to winners of the golf meet held earlier this summef.

SPECIAIIZING in-Douglos Fir Dimension, Bodrds & Studs

Western Hemlock Dimension, Boonds & Sruds

White Fir & Redwood Studs CARGO-RATL-TR

Pine qnd Plywood

Redwood Posts & Redwood Speciohies