New Curtis "\fomen Designed" Kit"hen

catching grooves and ridges. Doors are fitted with semiconcealed hinges and embellished with a modern slender pulls, both chromium plated.

The new Curtis kitchens are said to embody a high standard of convenience involving the minimum of stooping and stretching on the part of the housewife. Sliding trays, for example, are provided for all ordinary size kitchen utensils, bringing ordinarily inaccessible space within easy reach.

Another new feature is the "Lazy Susan" revolving shel'r'es in base and wall corner units. Vertical filing storage space has been provided for trays, plates, platters and similar equipment. In addition, swing shelves in wall and base square cornered units make this entire storage area available. And a hanging pan unit provides vertical filing of utensils in a small area.

Curtis cabinets are completely assembled for quick, economical installation. Units are factory bored for proper alignment. Pre-assembled matching filler strips and newly designed Curtis chromium-plated hardware are furnished with the units, which are carton packed for clean, unmarred delivery.

New Sales-Building Folder

Styled to embody the 53 features which women want most in kitchens, the new Curtis wood kitchen cabinet units, announced recently, provide unusual advantages for Curtis dealers, according to ofificials of Curtis Companies, Incorporated, Clinton, Iowa, manufacturers of Curtis woodwork.

Curtis states, the cabinets are new in design, new in consrruction, nerv in styling, new in utility and new in finishes. All these features were planned with the aid of women, in order to provide maximum "housewife" appeal.

Recognizing the increasing desire of home owners for natural interior finish, Curtis kitchens are available with drawer and door fronts beautifully grained natural birch. In addition to the unfinished natural birch, the cabinets are also available in white gloss enamel for painting in colors of the owner's choice.

In the cabinet units, all projecting door and drawer fronts have been eliminated to create unbroken flush surfaces which are pleasing to the eye and which eliminate dust-

Just off the press is a full-color folder designed to give the retail lumber dealer an opportunity to participate in the Decorator Door promotion now being sponsored on the national level by Ponderosa Pine Woodwork and leading manufacturers of Ponderosa Pine paneled doors'

The new folder was planned by the association to stimulate consumer interest in paneled doors by showing them how to decorate these doors rvith paint, stain, decals, wallpaper and other appliques. It is intended to be used as an envelope enclosure to the lumber dealer's customers and prospects, or as an over-the-counter hand-out piece.

Space is provided for the lumber dealer's own message and address, and the customer is directed back to the lumber dealer for a colorful,24-page idea book which sells to consumers for 25c. Free sample copies of both the folder and booklet can be obtained from Ponderosa Pine Woodrvork, 38 South Dearborn Street, Chicago 3, Illinois.

Most of the 28,000,000 Christmas are naturally grown. trees used each year

U.S. Plywood Acquires Full Ownership Of Siuslaw Forest Products, Inc.

United States Plywood Corporation announced that it had acquired the 49/o minority interest in Siuslaw Forest Products, Inc., of Mapleton, Oregon, giving it lW/o ownership.

Siuslaw's 286,000,000 feet of timber increases U. S. Plywood's holdings and control of standing timber and cutting rights in the Pacific Coast states tc two-and-a-half billion (2,500,000,000) feet, the company said. Siuslaw's holdings adjoin a tract of 93,000,000 feet of timber owned for years by U. S. Plywood. These holdings have been a source of supply for the company's plywood mill located at Mapleton.

Earlier this year U. S. Plywood acquired the minority l0/o interest in Kosmos Timber Company, likewise giving it I0O/o ownership. Kosmos owns in the state of Washington approximately 913,000,000 feet of standing. timber and cutting rights. U. S. Plywood controls about one billion feet of timber in Shasta County, Cal. Besides the Pacific Coast holdings U. S. Plywood also owns timber or has cutting rights in South Carolina and in Canada.

Supplemented by purchases under normal plywood mill procedure, its timber reserves are estimated by U. S. Plywood to be more than ample at the present rate of consumption for continued operation of its 27 veneer and plywood mills over thenext twenty years. The mills and plants are located at Seattle, Wash. ; Mapleton, Ore. ; Kosmos, Wash.; Anderson, Cal; Algoma, Wis.; Orangeburg, S. C.; and Woodstock, Ontario. Other manufacturing plants are at Laconia, N. H. and Portland, Oregon. U. S. Plywood also has an option on the entire annual output of the Cascades Plywood Corporation plant at Lebanon, Oregon, and also has manufacturing interests and timber sources in Panama and Belgian Ccngo, Africa.

U. S. Plywood operates a distribution organization of.

more than sixty units located throughout the United States through which it sells the output of its own plants and allied materials bought from other manufacturers. The corporation's sales for its last fiscal year exceeded $107,000,000, the largest volume in the plywood history.

OliJuanica

Roy L. Bunch

Roy L. Bunch passed away at his home in Pasadena on November 14 follorving a heart attack.

A native of Lancaster, Mo.. he was a graduate of William Jewell College and the lJniversrty of Missouri, and a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. Before coming to California, he was with the Eciward Iiinds l-umber Co. of Chicago for a number of years as lumber buyer, and the Long-Bell Lumber Co. at Longview, Wash. He was a resident of Pasadena f.or 26 years, and had been associated with Owens-Parks Lumber Co. and San Pedro Lumber Co. in Los Angeles.

He is survived by his widov,', Mrs. Ora Birney Bunch; two daughters, Mrs.Virginia L. Ream of Altadena and Mrs.BettyAnn Lowenberg of Otttt'rrwa. Iowa, and six grandchildren.

Funeral services were Drivate.

Willicm Cross

William (Bill) Cross, lumber grader for Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, for the past six years, passed away on October 2 after a long illness. A well-known expert on pine grades, he will be remembered by many oldtimers throughout the California, Oregon and Mexican pine producing areas. Funeral services were held October 4 at Forest Lawn Church of The Recessional.

He is survived by his widorv, Mrs. Frances Cross.