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By the mid-7O's many employers will provide their employees with on-the-job baby-sitting facilities and in.plant marriage counselling, a noted Southland executive has predicted.

Edward B. Lindaman. Otis Elevator Company, has envisioned that "by 1975 employers will be directly involved with workers' ofi-the-job leisure in order to improve on-the-job efficiency."

Thirty or forty years ago, Lindaman noted, "work was everything. In the 70's because of automation and steadily rising specialization, jobs will come and go." Thus, employers will voluntarily concern themselves with a worker's leisure time, he stated.

The increasing demand to more efiectively communicate with employees needs a new look, said Lindaman. adding that "business and industry is best qualified to solve the problem." Lindaman foresaw: Shopping centers in the middle of industrial tracts for the convenience of women workers who could do their marketins on their lunch hour; \I/omen visiting their husbands on the jol,; Companies working closely with retirement villages; Executives assigned by their firms to work on community service projects.

"During the past 15 years. man has undergone more changes than he has in the past 2000 years. He has conquered gravity. liberated atomic encrgy and explored space.

"As a result, employees today are more sophisticated than ever before, and management is not going to be able to reach him in the same rvay. The key to reaching employees is off-the-job Ieisure time." Lindaman concluded.

Plywood Associotion Revises Booklets

The Douglas Fir Plywood Association has announced the revision of two publications-a plywood commercial standards handbook and a stressed skin panel components booklet.

The l2-page "Stressed Skin Panels" booklet is a revised and enlarged edition of the {ormer four-page publication. It was designed for use by engineers, architects, builders and fabricators.

The new booklet is a comprehensive compilation that includes load span tables for roo{s and floors and connection details in drawing form for end and edge connections. These connection specifications will be especially helpful to builders.

The revised edition also contains insulation property charts for various types of construction and for use in various weather conditions.

The 154-page "Plywood Commercial Standards Handbook" is a vest-pocket-size publication that has been revised to include a complete index.

New official commercial standards amendments have been added and a separate section explains manufacturing specifications and specifications for specialty siding-sheathing plywood panels.

The revised publication can be ordered free from the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma, Washington, 98401.

Celotex Corp. Purchcrses Big Horn Gypsum Co.

The Celotex Corporation, has agreed to purchase all the assets of Big Horn Gypsum Company, including its gypsum board manufacturing plant in Cody, Wyoming. James W. Walter, Chairman of Celotex, has announced that negotiations have been concluded with Sid H. Eliason, Big Horn founder and president, rvho with his {amily and a few close associates own a majority of the Big Horn stock. Total assets of Big Horn are in excess o{ $5,000,000.

Mr. Walter stated that Mr. Eliason, E. L. Hildebrand, Executive Vice President, and Sid H. Eliason, Jr., Treasurer, constitut' ing the present management, will continue to operate the business for Celotex.