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John Lowe toured the Oregon territory the last of October on business for Tarter, Webster & Johnson.

Railfan Don Bufkin, Southland representative for Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., joined the "high iron" railroad excursion Nov. 6 to Redondo, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach and way points on the remaining area rails.

Ray Whitootde, forrnerly with Woodhead Lumber Company, Los Angeles, and presently with Wells Custom Millwork, Gardena, slipped away from the office on October 26 for a round of golf. Starting against A. V. Seabury, IL Jorgenson and Ealdle Stewart, with a birdie on the first hole at Western Avenue Golf Course, he then fired a 4-iron shot right into the 165yard No. 2, fot a hole-in-one. Now trying to hush it up. Why do these things always happen when one is supposed to be working?

Ken Conriray entertained a group of Georgia-Pacific Corp. co-workers and other industry friends recently at a venison steak feast on the buok he bagged during one of his hunting trips to Utah and Wyoming.

Strable Lumber Company's Jim Overcast vacationed the flrst two weeks of November on the California coast, including stopovers at Monterey, Carmel, San Simeon and Santa Barbara, but his heart belongs to Oakland,

Doyle Bader, for the past 15 years a partner in the Ed I'ountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is said to be planning to retire at the end of this year "to go fishing and just have fun." Doyle has been associated with lumber production, distribution and sales for more than 40 years.

After three years with Black Diamond in Sacramento, Larry Backes joined the staff of the B and M Lumber Co. during October. He will be buying and selling chiefly for the southern California market, as before, and also moving some of the stock produced by the company's mill in the High Sierra. A native Californian, Larry started in the 20s with the old Stockton Box Co., later joining the Setzers of Sacramento. After spending 1942-55 in the wholesale business in southern California, he returned to central California, where he claims the golfing is better and the fish aren't so hard to get to. Backes presently commutes to his job f,rom Roseville, where he and his wife established residence close to the Sierra View Country Club in which they are both active.

New United Stotes Plywood Plqnt To Be of All-Wood Construction

United States PlJrwood's newest manufacturing plant is constructed of wood in every vital particular-from beams and trusses to siding and roofing. The decision to concentrate on wood in the company's new 80,000 sq. ft. particle board plant in South Boston, Virg'inia, was announced by Gene C. Brewer, president of United States Plywood,

"Inside a:rd out," said Mr. Brewer, "The new facility will be a standing display of products which are of sigrriflcance to the wood industry."

"To as gteat an extent as possible," he said, "we utilize our own company's products. The roof of the factory area, for example, will be three-quarter-inch Douglas ffr plywood, with a special surfacing, The sidewalls wiU be of pine Duraply-large pine panels to which have been bonded an overlag which provides a durable paint surface."

Mr. Brewer said the trusses and beams for the new factory will be glue-laminated wood, manufactured by Timber Structures, fnc., of Portland, Ore. They will be manufactured in Portland to blueprint measure, and shipped knocked down-each piece markedto South Boston.

Mr. Brewer pointed out that the advantage of wood trusses and beams are their superior fire resistance and their great dimensional stability.

He said that an exception to the all-wood rule will be use of the company's newest product-a new type of fiberglas panel called Weldwood Acrilux-in a green 8' band around the top to admit daylight. Invention of a process for manufacturing panels from the duPont Company's Lucite Acrylic Sirup has given USP's new panel superior light transmission and color-retention qualities.

The ofrce section of the new structure, said Mr, Brewer, will be constructed of pre-stressed plJrwood roof panels manufactured by a Seattle concern named Panelbild; originator of a new kind of wood component system. The roof panels will provide a series of six arches. Exterior walls will be of Douglas X'ir Texture 1-11-a large panel with vertical grooves. They will be stained Redwood. The interior of the ofrce section will be finished in United States Pl5rwood's own Weldwood Prefinished Wall Paneling.