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CaliforniaJoins 10,000,000 Population Clags

Washington, Oct. 2.-California has joined New York and Pennsylvania in the 10,000,000 population class, the census bureau reported Saturdav night.

Releasing provisional estimates for the United States as of July 1, 1948, the bureau said 31.1 per cent of California's 10,031,0@ had been gained since 1940, when the last official census was taken.

California's increase in that span is estimated at 3,124,00G-an advance of 45.2 per cent in eight years.

Pennsylvania passed the 10,000,000 mark in 1946 and New Yo:k cleared it in 1919. For more than a century these two states have been the most populous in the nation.

Total population for the country as of July 1 is esti-

Johns-Manville Holds Meeting

Seattle, Wash., Sept. 29-A period of stiff competition for the consumer's dollar is approaching as production, at its present rates, continues to make more and more goods available to the public, Harold R. Berlin, vice president and general manager of the Johns-Manville Building Products Division, told a meeting of the company's dealers and salesmen today.

Johns-Manville dealers, jobbers and salesmen from all over the Pacific Northwest gathered at the New Washington Hotel to hear company executives from New York mated to be 146,114,000, as compared with 131,669,275 in 1940. The gain is 11 per cent. discuss the outlook for the building industry.

Aside from California, the biggest gainers in the United States are Michigan, up 939,000 since 1940; New York, 907,000; Ohio, 891,000, and Texas, 815,000.

The Bureau said 41 states and the District of Columbia increased population in the lg40-48 period, while only seven lost. In just two, North Dakota and Montana, did the loss exceed five per cent. The other five are South Dakota, Nebraska, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mississippi.

The list of stateg with July t, l9+8, estimates, official 1940 figures in parenthesis and the percentage change include: West south central: Arkansas, 1,925,000 (1,949,387), i.3; Louisiana, 2, 576,000 (2,363,880), 9.O; Oklahoma, 2,362,000 (2,336,434), 1.1 ; Texas, 7,230,60 (6,414,824), 12J.

Among those accompanying Mr. Berlin from New York were Vice Presidents R. S. Hammond, general sales manager; W. R. Wilkinson, merchandise manager, all of the Building Products Division; and H. M. Shackelford, sales promotion manag'er.

Following the Seattle conference, these Johns-Manville executives will hold Building Products Division district meetings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, New York, Boston, Memphis, Dallas, and Philadelphia.

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Dramatic Tests Preceded lntroduction of Curtis Prespine

"Exhaustive and dramatic tests preceded the int:-oduction of Prespine, new Curtis wood product," stated E. J. Curtis, President of Curtis Companies Incorporated, in discussing this new Curtis product recently.

."Almost every conceivable punishment was employed by Curtis research engineers to make certain that the new product would match Curtis standards of quality. Prespine, for example, was'boiled for hours, then frozen immediately and dried at I4O degrees Fahrenheit. Other samples wel'e boiled and then dried in atmosphe:ic temperatures. Samples of Prespine were soaked eight weeks in water. In all these tests," Mr. Curtis stated, "Prespine came through to our entire satisfaction.

"Prespine also was exposed for several months on the roof of the Curtis research laboratory, undergoing punishment more severe than it would ever receive in actual service. In addition, Prespine panels were installed in doors which were then subjected to a long period of high heat and humidity. Samples in both tests showed very little change."

Prespine is made by a special Curtis process in the Clinton, Iowa, plant of Curtis Companies Incorporated. It is made from finely divided wood, to which is added resin and other ingredients for binder, and it is then pressed into panels. The color of Prespine is very close to that of the species of wood from which it is made. It is cut and machined like wood and made into door lranels for inter-