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T. M. Cobb Molding Plqnf Erects Treqfed Pole-Frqme Sforoge Shed

Located about six miles south of Marysville, California, on highway 99E is a molding manufacturing plant owned by the T. M. Cobb Co., of Los Angeles. Leroy Smith, manager, recently constructed a trvo million foot capa,city lumber storage shed using the methods of economical poleframe construction.

This structure is 110 feet wide and IO feet long and is supported by six ro.lvs of Chemonite pressure treated poles set five feet in the ground. The poles in the outside rows are 25 f.eet in length, those in the intermediate rows are 271 feet in length, and those next to the aisle are 30 feet. They were placed on 2Gfoot centers in the rvidth of the building and on 22-loot centers in the length of the structure to provide room for placing lumber by mechanical fork lifts.

The structure was assembled in two sections, rn"ith a 3O-foot aisle between to provide easy access to any part

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of the building. A simple wood truss was provided to carry the roof load over the 3o-foot aisle. The roof is cf corrugated metal. Siding of the same material is norv being applied to protect the lumber from the r,vinter u'eather.

This structure was erected using part of the creu' from the mill, thus utilizing time not needed in the regu!ar operation. The pressure treated poles rl'ere supplied by National Wood Treating Corporation of Oroville, California.

CRA Represenlqlives Talk in Eclsf

San Francisco-Henry Lowell, service representative of the California Redwood A.ssociation, made his headquarters in Bcston last month while visiting architects, dealers and contractors in all parts of Massachusetts. On October 29 he talked on conservation in the Redu'ood region before the New Ycrk Lumber Trade Association club in New York City. Walter H. Parks, technical represerrtative of the CRA, attended the Pacific Coast Building Officials' conference in Denver, October 5 - B, and discussed technical matters associated with Redwood with specifiers and suppliers in that vicinity.

USP Revqmps Armorply Soles

A revamped sales program and ngs' production facilities gear the Armorply division of United States Plyu'ood Corlloration for a major merchandising campaign in the coming months. Armorply is a metal facing bonded to oire or both sides of a ply'"vood core. A11 sections of the Armorply division rvill be at Cattaraugus, Nelv York. In chargc of the nerv sales set-up is one of U.S. Plyu'ood's younger but no less veteran executives, Arnold S. Anderson, who previously heacled the Tekr,r'ood and Hardboard divisions of the plyu'ood organization.

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