Glued Laminated Arches of Douglas Fir Provi de Beauty Plus Economy in Church Building

This will be a merry Christmas and happy New Year for the minister and the congregation of the United Brethren Church at Everett, Washington. For their hymns of the season will rise in a new church, a house of worship built within their means and yet having the architectural beauty of a miniature cathedral.

Modern timber engineering design and methods, using everyday Douglas fir lumber, form the material means of this accomplishment. There is a true efiect of soaring beauty in the roof lines, brought about not only by the pitch and height but by the finely finished design of the arches. As the picture shows, each arch seems to have grown from the ground and merged with the wall; then to rise and taper in a curving upward sweep. The laminations are streamlines that add yet more life to the warmth and glow of the finished wood.

Glued laminated construction, while modern in this country, has a record of successful use in Europe during a third of a century. The U. S. Forest products Laboratory says, "It is reported by Swiss engineers to be highly resistant to chemical deterioration and is, consequently, widely used where metal structures or metal in connector-built wooden structures would be subject to corrosion.,,

Retail lumber dealers everywhere may develop new busi_ ness by informing themselves on the glued laminated wooden arch, for there are few places where churches, audi_ toriums, theaters, town halls, and other buildings for pub_ Iic gathering's are not community needs. Frequently the needs are not met because of the high cost of non_wood construction. And when they are met, the retail lumber_ man may get only a small portion of the order for the ma_ terials.

Twenty cents mailed to the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C., will bring alZ3-page book on the glued laminated wooden arch, by T. R. C. Wilson, Senior Engineer, U. S. Forest Products Laboratory. Ask for USDA Technical Bulletin No. 691. The book carries 73 drawings and photographs.

F. N. Gibbs Gives Cost to Consumer of S-room Bungalow for Years 1920-1940

The comparative cost of lumber for a S-room bungalow as prepared by F. N. Gibbs, Gibbs Lumber Company, Anaheim, Calif., each year since l92O appears below. Our readers look forward with interest for this information everv year at this time:

Material list contains 9366 feet of lumber and cost includes the following:

Builds Addition to Store

Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Company, Lone Pine, Calif., is building an addition to its establishment. This enlargement comes only a few weeks after the opening of the new store. An office for bookkeepers will be built back of the owner's private office, thus permitting a store of 120 feet in length, with display space increased by 60 feet. In the new addition to the storeroom, 76 more feet of shelf room will be provided, bins and nail counters are included, as well as display space for table top radios, storage of bulk items, crated plumbing fixtures and roll linoleum.

R. R. Henderson is owner of the Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co.

SHOP$ SELECTS and C0lWilIONS

Soft Ponderosc cmd Sugcr Pine. Industricl crnd building items kiln dried crrd shed stored. In strcight ccrs or mixed cqrs.

LI'MBER CUT STOCK MOI'I.DING PTYWOOD INCENSE CEDAN PENCIL AIID BIJITD SLATS

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MrLL, FACTORTBS AND GBNERAL SALBS VEST\X/OOD, CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES

Sale.r Ofice: 715 Vectern Pacific Bldg., 1O31 So. Broadway

Werehouce: L. C. L l?holeaele, 7O2 E. Sleuron Ave.

SAN FRANCISCO

Sales Ofice: 315 Monadaoc& Building

OAKI.AND

Sdc Ofice: 9OE Financiel Ceoter Building MEMBER WETiTERN PINE ASSOCIAT1ON