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Boom men at Weyerhaeuser T.imber company's Everett (Washington) lurnber division are no happier about falling in their Snohomish river log pond than they ever were, but feel a lot more confident about floating than they did a month or so ago.

I)uring wet, windy rveather the men rvho jockey the big sticks around the pond .lvear bright yellolv rain coats and pants, rvith built-in life preservers. Inside each jacket are 28 air tubes and lining the pants :rre two king-size tubes. The combination makes it literally impossible for a man to sink, no matter horv big his shoes or how heavy his clothing.

"We have been looking for a long time Ior a r,vtry to make working on the pond safer," explains Keene Strobel, Weyerhaeuser's Everett lumber division safety engineer. "But every sort of life preserver we tried proved bulky and awkward. By buying regular rain jackets and pants, and having a local firm make the liie-saving lining to our specifications," claims Strobel, "we have come Llp with .lvhat seems to be the best ansrvet yet to the potential danger of rvorking on the pond."

Design of the new safety gear was the result of six months'trial on the pond by boom men. The inflatable air tubes are fastened to the inside of the rain clothing with snaPS.

Life preserver ecluipment is also worn by boom men at Weyerhaeuser's Springfield, Klamath Falls and Coos Bay branches in Oregon, and at the company's White River branch at Enumclaw. Wash.

New Timber lnstitute Officers

George E. Schweitzer, Rilco Laminated Products, Inc., St. Paul, u'as elected president of the American Institute of Timber Construction at the annual meeting in Wash'ington last month. He succeeds Frank B. Benzon, president of Timber Structures, Inc. of California, Ricl-rn-rond, who will continue on the board. Val Gardner, sales manager, Rosboro Lumber Co., Springfield, Ore., rvas elected vice-president and treasurer of the Institute.

L. A. Jacobson, president, Associated Wood Products Co., Berkeley, Calif., Max C. Hanisch, Jr., Peshtigo, !Vis., and Ward Mayer, Portland, Ore., continue on the board. Frank J. Hanrahan is executive vice-president and secretary.

The Standards Committee met to consider numerous projects, including a second edition of the AITC Timber Construction Standards, and Part I: Trusses and Bracing of a proposed Timber Construction Manual, both now in final draft form. E. R. Butler, manager of publicity and advertising, Timber Engineering Co., discussed trade promotion activities, and John Shope, director of building codes,

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Build Long-losting Porches

For a long-lasting porch floor or stoop, a lumber salesman can sell redrvood, cedar, or 'Iidewater Red Cypress rvith enthusiasm and a feeling that he reallv has done something worthwhile for his customer.

The best specification is 1"x4" kiln dried vertical grain, Clear heart run to standard flcioring pattern. The next best is 1"x4" as above, except flat grain with the top side rrln on the "bark" side of the board.

Do not sell any grades rvhich permit sapwood to be present.

To those rvho think these rvoods are so soft they will wear away quickly, the answer is that if one keeps the floor properly coated with floor enamel, there rvill be practically no wearing away. The wood will not rvear until the enamel'has rt'orn off. All one treeds to do is to keep the floor properly enan.reled.

If the floor is over earth and rvith the space under the floor enclosed, then lay 5-ply asphalt impregnated glossy coated roofing paper on the ground ciose against the sides rvith the sheets lapped about three or four inches.

If builders and homeorvners could be sold on a porch floor as above described, they would be getting a completely satisfactory, long lasting installation that would gain praise from everybody.-by The Pacific Lumber Company.

National Lumber Manttfacturers Association, was the speaker at the AITC Building Code Committee meeting. W. MacGregor Graham, sales manager, and Elon Ellis, vice-president, Timber Structures, Inc. of California, will continue to head up the work of these two committees during the corrring year.

A symposium on "Determination and Proper Recognition of Fire Safety of Timber Construction" included Harry W. Bolin of Ventura, Calif., well-known structural engineering consultant retained to conduct the Institute's research studies in this field, and representatives of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Southern Pine Association, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and treating and coating industries.

Although established only four years ago, AITC has many accomplishments to its credit-among them, publication of manuals on construction standards and inspection, adoption of a code of ethics and an official emblem, organization of a coast-to-coast netlvork of technical committees, and initiation of a research project on the fire resistance of engineered timber.

At the annual meeting of the membership which climaxed the lveek-long' convention, speakers included Thomas C. Mason, acting assistant director for lumber and wood products, Forest Products Division, Business and Defense Services Administration, U. S. Department of Commerce, and Wilson B. Sayers, assistant managing director, American Forest Products Industries. Inc.

Speaking on "The Timber Outlook in the United States," Sayers gave assurance of adequate supplies of timber rvith factual data from the Timber Resource Review, which, said Sayers, "shows that in every section of the country where olcl growth forests are gone and n'here regror.vth forests are being harvested, growth is far in excess of removal Our forest acreage is increasing. The supply of wood structural species is in danger nowhere Under good management and protection, our forests shorv promise of being able to grow all the timber rve need in the foreseeable future."

During the convention rveek, AITC and CITC delegates toured the laboratory facilities of the Timber Engineering Co., and visited the headquarters offices of the National Lumber Mannfactnrers Association.

Members chose Palm Springs, Calif., as the site for the 1957 meeting, tentatively scheduled to be held in late February or early March.

Reroil Yqrd's Design in Home-O-Rqnro

Eleven exhibition homes of the 1956 l{ome-O-rama, September 15-30 in Rialto, timed to coir.rcidc rvith the opening day of National Home Week, rvill include the "Morning Star" designed by Thompson Lumber Co., San Bernardino.

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