New Laboratory To Be Built At Eugene, Oregon

Facilities for testing Douglas fir plywood in the panelmaking industry's continuing quality control program will be expanded with the erection of a laboratory at Eugene, Ore.

This new branch testing laboratory of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association will offer more rapid service to Oregon and California factories which are now sending plywood specimens to the main laboratory at Tacoma, Wash.

"Eugene was chosen as the location for the new branch laboratory because it has become a focal point of the southern part of the fir plywood manufacturing industry," Charles E. Devlin, managing director of the industrysupported promotional and quality control organization, said in an announcement from Tacoma.

Devlin explained the new laboratory will test samples of the different types of panels, produced by Oregon and northern California 'factories, to maintain the rigid plywood performance standards set up by the plywood industry in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Commerce" The facilities to be established in Eugene will serve as a branch of the existing testing and product development laboratory long-maintained by fir plyrvood manufacturers at Tacoma, headquarters of the trade association.

Tlre Eugene testing organization will be an integral part of the plywood association's technical department. ltrelson S. Perkins, association technical director and John Ritchie, chief of the Tacoma laboratory, will direct the overall operations of the laboratory in relation to the in<lustry quality control program.

The new Eugene laboratory will be headed by Robert H. Ripley, now in the Tacoma technical department of the

Attended World Series

Herb Klass, assistant to the president, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco; Terry McGovern, superintendent of production at the company's mill in Scotia, Calif., and Dan Coakley, who is in charge of the railroad at Scotia, left early this month to attend the \Arorld's Series baseball games. Mr. Klass and Mr. Coakley made the trip east by air. and Mr. McGovern traveled by train.