WESTERN LUA,TBER COfiTPANY

New Wood Products In Components Show

The forthcoming Components Arena at the NITLDA Chicago exposirion with its up-down-up demonstration of "how to build better for less" will parade easy-to-use ne$, wood products as rvell as advanced construction techniques rvith pre-built ser:tions.

There rvill be t'ost-saving Primcwood siding on some erterior walls" made-tomeasure rough vertical siding of Douglas fir Nu-Loc 16" wide on other outside surfaces. Interior prefinished hardwood panelings to be di-.pltrved include hoth 7/16inch Craftwall manufactured erpre-ssly fs1 application direr:t to studs and thrifty /ainch Forestglo. All are new from \trreyerhaeuser Company this year. The {irm also is -supplying the brand-marked framing lumber anrl plyrvood sheathing.

Plannt'd as a highlight of thc dealers' erposition. the Components Arena actually i-s a two-Part demonstration. On-the-spot falrrication of the pre-built < omponent,s will be shown in a 12.000-foot area lr,ith both Lu-Re-Co and Q-System methods lreing demonstrated. Nearby, the components are to be assembled into an actual house of 1,768 square feet and featuring the ncw Lu-Re-Co utility core to be exhilrited for the first time.

A sizealrle section of the house rvill be erected and dismantled daih. to ,shorv construction easc.

Will H" Gonyeo Heods

E. L. Bruce Co.

The election of Will H. Gonyea. lumber executive of Eugene, Oregon" as president of ll. L. Bruce Company. X'Iemphis-based hardwood flooring firm. has been announct'tl bv E. L. Bruce, Jr.. r:hairman.

O'Connor Lumber Co., Volleio, Sold

Mrs. C. ],I. O'Connor has sold thc O'(lonnor Lumlrt'r Companr'. 18,35 Uroadu a1. Vallejo. to Arrgrrsl Pierre of Sunlr

Rosa. Pierre has been identified with PBNI of Santa Rosa. and Pierre Development Co.. also of Santa Rosa.

New Remqnufocturing Plont Completed ln Eugene

Engineered Forest Products has announced the completion o[ its new plant in Etrgene. ()regon.

Equipped with the most modern machinery" the plant will supply the 50 plywood plants and the lI particle and hardboard plants in Oregon with r:ut to size and mar:hincd items for distrihution through jobbers and industrial outlets-custom machining of panels to patterns.

'fexture l-11. Tongue & Groove, 2-4-lShiplap and Random V Grooving will also be alailable.

David S. Betcone uho has had 15 1'ears experienr:e with prefabricated prodrrr:ts has been selected as gent'ral manager.

For litt'rature addrt-ss: Enginecrt'd Forest Products" lloute 5, Box 66. Fiugcne, Ore.

Cleor Ook Thresholds

Rod ond Spirol Dowels

PTYWOOD

Wood Finishes, Glues ond Hordwood Speciolties

August 1962 Construction Expendifures Amounl to $5.8 Billion

The value of total new construction put in place in August 1962 amounted to $5.8 billion, according to preliminary estimates of the Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department o{ Commerce. This amount was virtually unchanged from the estimate {or July 1962, a seasonal pattern to be expected at this time of the year. Spending for total new construction in August 1962 was 7 percent more than in August 1961.

Privote Conslruclion

New private construction expenditures in August 1962 amounted to $4.0 billion. not appreciably different from the July i962 estimate. On a seasonally adjusted basis, expenditures in August were almost the same as the July- level. The value of work done in August 1962 'rvas 8 percent greatcr than in August 196l.

Spending {or r:onstruction o{ new private non-{arm residential buildings in August 1962 amounted to $2.3 billion. a decrease of about 3 percent lrom the July 1962 estimate but 9 percent ahead of August 1961. Normally. a seasonal declinc of about I penrent is exper:ted hetween July and Augrrst.

Public Conslruclion

Total nerv public construction cxpenditures in August 1962 amounted to $I.8 billion, 5 percent more than the e-ctimate lor July 1962. An increase of about 3 percent is normally exper:ted between July and August. Spending for pul-rlic construction in August 1962 was 6 percent more than in August l9(tl.

First Eight Months of 1962

Spcnding for total nel const,ruction in the first 8 months of 1962 amounted to $39.11 hillion, 7 percent ahove the $36.8 billion spent in the comparable period of 196I. Corresponding values for major components of total expenditures were: total prir,ate con- struction $28.1 billion in 1962 and $26.0 in 196I, an increase of 8 percent,; private nonfarm residential building $16'1 billion in 1962 and $14.3 billion in 196 1, an increase of 13 percent; total public construction expenditures at $11.2 billion in 1962 were 4 percent above the 196l level of $10.8 billion.

Foirhurst Leoses DiqmondMill

Fairhurst Lumber Company of Fortuna, California has lea-"ed the Diamond Lumber Company stud mill at Beatrice, California for three years beginning September 17.1962, according to F. C' Riley, Executive Vice-President of Fairhurst.

The Mill will contilue to cut redwood, white fir and Douglas lir studs at a rate of 25 million board feet a year, and sales will be handled by T. H. & F. Sales, Inc., Arcata, California.

Jar:k Fairhurst stated that leasing of thtr l)iamond facilities is a {urther indication of his {aith and confidcnce in the {uture of Humboldt County and the entire Northern California economy.

Acquisition of the Diamond mill t'ill raise Fairhurst's total lumber production to 125 million hoard {eet a vear. Logs will be supplied from private timber holdings as well as by open-market log purchast-'s.

Henrl' Vogel. assistant to Len Clark, Fairhurst's Fortuna mill manager. r,vill be Superintendt:nt of the Diamond mill.

The Fairhrrrst-L)iamond leasc was negotiated bv f)on Falk of Falk and Falk, Attorneys, and by Stan Preble and Forrest Simmons acting for John $ryLttryt Diamond.

If the recent increase in domestic consumption of hardwood plywood could have bcen satisfied in appreciable degree by varie' ties other than Lauan (Philippine Mahogany), both the imports and the domestic output of those othcr varieties would have risen substantially. They have not.

Speciolizing in the Efticient Distribution of MAHOGANY ond APITONG from BETTER MIILS in the PHILIPPINE ISTANDS