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WIB Gets 3 Yeor Go-Aheod

The nation's most extensive local-level promotion effort for lumher and rvood products-the Wood Information Bureau-will continue its activities for another three years.

The lund is made possible l,y the recent labor contract signed by Lo, al 2288 of the Lumber & Sawmill Workers and Lurirber Employers Council. the bargaining organization for more than 180 millwork. wholesale and retail lumber firms in Los Angeles county.

The primary function of the Wood Information Bureau has been to provide architects, designers, and builders with a permanent, readily available source of general and technical information plus developing publicity.

Richard Lloyd, spokesman for Lumber Employers Council's advertising committee, said that the "immediate plan is to continue to develop plans, in depth, {or WIB's proposed permanent "wood info:mation and displav center." "Everything learned to date indicries that we can successfully get this project ofi the ground," Lloyd continued, "and we expect to have a final decision ready by November".

Nqtionol Home Week Plons

National Home Week promises to be a boot-strap operation this Fall, as widespread preparation goes forward for its ob. servance,

Scores of builder associations are making plans to sponsor Parades of Homes and other types of observance, to mark the 19th annual national event. The dates are Sept. 25-Oct. 2.

Participating builders through the West will show new-model homes.

Many look upon construction of model homes as preparation for a market upturn.

G-P ro Build 28-5rory HQs

Plans to construct a 28-story office building in downtown Portland, Ore., costing in excess of $10 million have been announced by Georgia-Pacific.

Construction is to start September. 1967 with completion September, 1969. Including two floors of underground parking, the building will have 30 levels and will be the tallest commercial building in Oregon.

It will rise on a full city block bounded by S\tl 5th and 4th avenues and Salmon and Taylor streets.

Preliminary plans call {or a 27-story, 97x158-foot tower on a 200x200-foot three-level base. The tower rises from a landscaped plaza abor.e a full block concourse level that will have a one-story restaurant and shop entrances on SW 4th avenue.

DESIGN:WOOD on Tour

The American Craftsmen's Council, sponsor of the unique exhibition DESIGN:WOOD, held recently in the Bay Area, (see The Merchan, July, 1966), has announced a traveling exhibition schedule for the wood show.

Boise Cascade Lumber Company is underwriting traveling expenses for the exhibition, which will travel throughout the northwest.

The schedule is: September/October, 1966, Northwest Craft Center & Gallery at the Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington; January 8-February 5, 1967: Larson Gallery, Yakima Valley, Yakima College, Washington; March, 1967: Boise Gallery of Art of the Boise Art Association, Boise, Idaho; May, 1967l. University of Idaho museum, Moscow, Idaho; June/July, 1967: Idaho State Universitv. Pocatello. Idaho.