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Large diversiffed stocks of foreign and domestic hardwoods -our vard.

o Prompt delivery by our trucks o Immediate service on "will calls"

Complete milling facilities

New, modern dry kilns

Centrally located

Competitively priced

Puget Sound Plywood Morks 20

A 'l-acoma" \{'ashington. firm" whi<'h has the distinction oI lreirrg orrt'oI the oldest co-o1rs in the pllu-ood industrl', ce]elrratt'd its 2()lh annirersarv in St'ptemlrer. It is Puget Sound Plynood. lnc., o[ 'l'acoma" S-ash.. ont' of thc {ew firm-* in the industrl to have Irt'r'n operated as a co-op from its first day.

Thc Tacoma firm uas cunct'ived in the minds of Frank L. White. its first presitl'rrt. and Adolph M. Olson. The organizing grorrp tlt'< itlt'd to ofler 3(X) shares of stock for sale at $1.000 each to launch the organization and another $l f0,000 was borrowed from tht' shareholders.

Plywood, Inc., of Tacomo, Woshington, celebroled its 2Oth onniversory in Seplember. The firm hos lurned oul neorly one-ond-one-holf billion feel of plywood since I 942. Shown discussing eorly operctions ore, lefr to righr, A. G. ldso, choirmon of the boord, Alfred Anderson, president of the fim, ond John H. Morfinson, vice president ond generol mdnoger.

Some $295.000 was enough to huild a structure and buv equipment and soon the firm's only product, interior t1,pe plvwood panels made on a second-hand cold press, were being produced at the rate of two-million square feet a month.

"Because we got started during the war years, equipment was hard to come b-y." says Harold Wenman, the firm's treasrtrer and one of the original share-holders. "W'e had an old 'junker' lathe operated by steam, a single cold press and drier, and one old Hyster-model lift tmck."

But since i942 the organization has come a long wav. A total oi $l.8-million has been poured into nerv buildings and equipment and now 270 workers push eight and one-half million square feet of plywood a month onto the sales floor for shipment all ot'er the nation. In all. the plant has produced nearly one-and-onc'half billion feet o{ plywood in the past 20 years.

Along with an increased output. the Tacoma plant can also boast of producing a number of specialty products besides fir plywood panels. Included among these is Texture 1-11. a specialty siding; 2.1.1^ the combination subfloor and underlayment panel; a brushed fir panel trademarked by Puget Sound Plywood as "Grain-Glo"; and panels faced with birch, maple, oak. mahogany and knotty pine.

Puget Sound Plywood is one of the few firms in the industry which handles all its own sales and one of the {ew which has always supplied its own logs and veneer. In 1943, a year after production began, the Skate Creek Logging Co. was organized to supply peeler logs and in 1955 the Tacoma co-op bought out