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Termire Shield Fqilure Cited

Metal termite shields afiord homes little actual protection against subterranean termitesn a Georgia survey disclosed recendy.

The report is based on the inspection of 3I0 houses in northeast Georgia to determine whether termite shields.-metal flashing installed between - tle foundation and wood members-meet the Federal Housing Administration's minimum property standards.

Conducted by James B. Cobb, school of forestry, University of Georgia, the survey revealed a total of I,423 installation defectsan average of 4.6 a house. No house was found with properly installed shields!

Dr. Thomas E. Snyder of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., inventor of the shieldo acknowledged that it has fallen into disrepute. To replace shields as a termite deterrento he now urges home owners to chemically treat the soil under their houses before construction.

This work, he noted, should be performed by professional termite control operators.

A former Department of Agriculture entomologist, Dr. Snyder is consultant for Bruce-Termix, the nation's largest termite control service.

Associqtion Pushes Wood Use

The \fiestern Wood Products Association has strengthened its field servic€ activities nationally, Wendell B. Barnes, executive vice president, has disclosed.

The department, under Albert A.Zander, will promote increased use and demand for wood products in the principal marketing regions of the U.S. Ten regional managers and five field men now contaet prime users and specifiers.

Regional olEces are in New York City, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Adanta, Minneapolis, Dallas, Los Angeleso San Francisco and Portland with additional field men stationed at Boston, Des Moines, Greenville, South Carolina, Houston and St. Louis.

Additional field are men budseted for next year and association stafi members are currently anlalyzing market potentials.

Forest Service Promolions

Dr. Robert Z. Callaham, assistant director for forest genetics, silviculture, insect and disease research at the U.S. Forest Service experiment station at Berkelen California, will become chief of the forest genetics research branch in Washington, D.C. Callaham's successor at Berkeley will be Dr. Donald W. Lynch, new chief of the mensuration branch of the timber management research division in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Callaham was born in San Francisco. He received both his B.S. in forestryn in 1949, and his Ph. D. in botany, in 1955 from the University of California.

, He is widely known among scientists in forest genetics research. Currently chairman of the Society of American Foresterso commit' tee on forest tree improvement, he is also a member of the inter. national editorial board of Silaac Cenetica. He was a participant at the World Consultation on Forest Genetics, sponsored by FAO at Stockholm in 1963.

Dr. Lynch is a native of Montana and received his undergraduate degree in forestry from Montana State University in 1939. He studied further at Duke University where he was granted an M.F. degree in 1940 and a D.F. in 1955.

During his research career, Dr. Lynch has contributed signifi. cantly in the fields of forest growth and yield and in forest sampling methods particularly applicable to National Forest timber sales activities.

Better Construcfion Fostening Asked

Improvements in fastenings for house construction topped a list of research recommendations made to the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory by a lumber industry advisory committee meeting October 2. The annual meeting is to discuss industry ,"."ur.h needs.

In putting need for more engineering information on fastenings for housing first on its list of research recommendations, the committee stated:

"Methods of holding wood members together in a house require continued attention. Load data for the new types o{ nails, staples, tnd other potential devices now available are urgently needed. The laboratory is also requested to keep abreast oi developments in hidden fasteners and to evaluate these devices."

Burglories Agoin Increqse

The record number of nearly one million burglaries in the United States in 1963 calls for expanded efiorts by the builders, hardware industry and those connected with it to make certain that high quality, adequate locking devices are installed on all buildin-gs, said Leo J. Pantas, a vice president of yale & Towne, at the National Builders' Hardware Convention and Exposition in Los Angeles.

Pantas said the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows that in J?91, tn" number of reported burglaries incriased 9 percent over 1962, and 40 percent since 1958. The 1963 losses from these burglaries totaled more than $205 million. The number of non-residential burglaries comprised 55 percent of the 1963 total.

"This clearly indicated the need not only for more adequate lock protection, but also for a broad educational program to familiarize property owners with proper burglary prevention measures,', Pantas said.

Hedlund Lumber's Stqff

The recent addition of King Palmer and Bob Aiken, a red hot lumber team from Oregon, has brought the sales staff of Hedlund Lumber Sales up to the magic Hoo.Hoo number 9. Pictured here

Exclusively for California . .

are as many of the Hedlunders as we could round up on a recent visit. From left: Les Neadeau, Bob Aiken, Ray Haroldson, Josephine Potter, Lulu Mae Howe, Marlene Faurnier, King Palmer, Dorothy Meyers, Ellery Ferson and Ellis Coombs. Part of the missing crew, busy moving 'oall species-everywhere" include: Matt Ryan and Roy Harrison of the Sacramento office; Jim McKillop, Bay Area representative; Gary Levi, San Joaquin Valley salesman; and Ed Dursteler, who represents the big Hedlund organization in southern California.

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Old Growth Fir Dimension from F.S.P. Lumber Co,, Port Orford, Oregon

Hemlock Studs from Warrenton Lumber Co., Warrenton, Oregon

Hemlock Dimension from Westport Lumber Co,, Westport, Oregon

Douglas Fir Studs from Shepherd & Dasher Lumber Co., Longview, Wash.

Fast, regular ocean shipments by barge from Southern Oregon and the Columbia River direct to Southern California.

Now, over 5,000,000 feet of dimension lumber and studs monthly . , . manufactured especially for Southern California construction needs.

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