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New vertically laminated wood beams and laminated wood roof decking will be displayed by Weyerhaeuser Company at the NLBMDA national exposition at Dallas, Texas, November 18-20.

They are new companion products, high in appearance value to serve the increasingly popular post-and-beam architecture but economical and carefully engineered to meet structural load requirements of light construction uses. Both have uniform moisture contents oI l2-l1Vo; both have water-proof gluelines; both cost less than previous similar products.

The beams, of Douglas fir, have the appearance of natural wood, free from horizontal gluelines; they are treated with a vrater-repellent sealer toned to lessen contrast between sapwood and heartwood. Lengths of 12 ft. to 60 ft. and sizes of 4x10, 6xl0 and 6xI2 are ofiered; the beams are pre-tested {or stiffness and wrapped for protection.

Laminated decking of light-colored hemlock is machine-sanded on the face for the finest finish and is availabr. tn 3*6,3r/2x6 and 4x6 sizes. Each section of deckins is end-matched. center-matched and *ittt edges beveled to form a V-grooved joint. The kiln-dried products, already in productiono are manufactured under an exclusive Veyerhaeuser process rather than the "horizontal" gluing common to other laminated beams.

San Francisco Roundup

(Contirwed, lrom Page 8) third best in the tourney. Overall low gross was again handily won by Andy Molinari shooting a pro round of 76, Bob West of Placerville finishing up second best.

Closest to the pin went to Ned Davis and the dubious distinction of high gross was captured by H&J's Bill Wray.

In the absence of a September meetihg, the new slate of officers was presented to the membership following dinner and it was a shoo-in for the following new "establishment":

President, Frank Billings, Cal-Pacific Sales Corp.; lst vice-president, Larry Owen, Dyken Lumber Co.; 2nd vice-president, Dave Mackin; treasurer, Ray Ryan, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co.; secretary? Ralph Hardin, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co.; lst sgt.-at-arms, Chuck Dickinson, and 2nd sgt.-at-arms Reg Ricci.

Directors for the coming year will include: Joe Mullin, J. H. Baxter & Co.; Harry Hood, The Pacific Lumber Co.; Max Cook, Colilornia Lutnber Mercharrt; Lew Godard, Hobbs Wall; Bud Byard, Big Four Lumber Co.; Ed Brush, E. S. Brush & Sons; Bill MacBeath, MacBeath Hardwood Co.; Bill Carter, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., and Art Wall, Arcata Redwood Company.

Weyerhqeuser qt Record Level

Sales and earnings of Weyerhaeuser Company climbed to record levels for the third quarter and the first nine months. President Norton Clapp announced.

Clapp said third-quarter earnings of 920,118,000 were the highest of any quarter on record, more than doubling the figure for the comparable 19613 period and exceeding net income for the third quprter oI 1962 by 84 percent.

Nine-month earnings, up 79 percent from the corresponding 1963 period, totaled $52,177,000, or $I.70 a share.

Clapp noted that figures for the second and third quarters of 1963 were afiected by a major work stoppage in the wood products industry.

Clapp also announced the development by Weyerhaeuser researchers of a new pulping process for using Douglas fir and other softwoods in the manufacture of a paperboard now made almost exclusively from hardwoods. This particular paperboard is corrugating medium, the middle of three sheets of board used in the manufacture of corrugated shipping containers.

Clapp said the company will spend more than $2 million at Longview, Wash., next year to install a 200-ton-a-day digester and washing plant using the new pulping process. The project is the latest outlay in an expansion program under which Weyerhaeuser will spend $225 million on capital improvements in a three-year period.

Womon Wins Forestry Prize

For the first time, a woman has won the nation's top award for "distinguished service to forestry ahd the forest industry."

Mrs. Dexter Otis Arnold of Saugerties, N.Y., who during her tenure as president of the General Federation of W'omen's Clubs mobilized the full force of the federation's membership behind wise forest management under the multiple-use principle, has received the Distinguished Service Award of American Forest Products Industries, sponsor of the nationwide tree-farm movement.

Mrs. Arnold quickly grasped the opportunities for federation conservation programs built on the theme that managed forests, or tree farms, serve the public interest by yielding wood for useful products along with the added benefits of wildlife, recreation, water and soil conservation.

Mobile Miss for CqnqdiEn Birch

A demure brown-eyed Miss Canadian Birch has set in motion one of the biggest storms of the hurricane season at the Eastern States Exposition in Massachusetts.

Lynda Barks is from Ottawa, Canada and is 2l years old. Her statistics are vital to her job: selling Americans on the new status symbol for better homes-Canadian yellow birch.

Assisting in her task is a crew of driver-promoters under John LeGare, a colorful Canadian with a bilingual background in direct sales and promotion. The sales pitch centers on a 35foot tandem trailer, especially equipped and decked out in all the various uses of Canadian yellow birch for private homes, churches, offices, institutions, schools and wherever walls support a roof.

The program, jointly sponsored by the Canadian Hardwood Plywood Association and the Federal Department of Trade & Commerce, has dispensed with the traditional hard sell and soft sell modes of operation. They've come up with what they call the smooth-sell. The product is honey-yellow, soft, sensitive, smooth and sensible. And the leader of the band of Canadians touring America is the.choice of lumbermen who believe in culling the less attractive or blemished, and putting on display their country's best product. 'fhe process led to Miss Canadian Birch.

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