LAWRENCE. PHITIPS LUMBER COMPANY

"Plywood Distributors Hondbook" Mqkes ldeol Christmqs Gifts

For those manufacturers, wholesalers or distributors who are looking for an original but economical and useful gift for their customers or business associates for Christmas.

John Eells is ofiering a Christmas "special" on the Plywood Distributors Handbook. Those .rvho have seen the book know. that it isn't just a book about plyrvood, but actually contains information about lumber, hardboards, plastics and is useful to anyone buying or selling building materials.

Mr. E,ells says his "Christmas present" to the industry rvill be to personalize the copies in gold letters, gift wrap, and mail direct to the recipient, at no extra charge. In addition, a N/o discount from the regular $1O price will be allowed on orders of 2O or more cooies.

A handy order fornr for listing names to be imprinted and mailing addresses of those to receive the books can be ob- tained by calling RAvmond 3-3167 orwriting John Eells, Inc., I). O. Ilox 22060, I-os Angeles 22, Calit.

RCSB Offers 'Sidewqll' Guide

A specially prepared technical guide for starting doublecoursed side rvalls is being offered by the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau. Designed to aid builders and retailers, "How to Begin a Cedar Shake Double-Coursed Sidewall" offers complete details on the quick, simple method of applying the first course of cedar shakes to exterior walls.

A piece of shiplap is the only extra equipment needed. It is used to level tl-re first and succeeding courses. The instruction sheet further points out the steps in applying trvo under-courses on the first ror,v. This will introduce the proper tension to the collrses above.

Free copies may be obtained by writing the Bureau. 5510 \\thite Bldg., Seattle 1, Washington.

You Never Hnow What'Ynu'll Find Uniler,'(or IN) the Christnas Tree

;:Richmond, Calif.-When Arthur B. Anderson's wife new products made from wood, find new uses for wood, and -find new ways to produce mgre of these things at once.

I him to get rid of the Christmas tree, he didn't burn haul it to- the dump, as most husbands would do' He it to the office.

i; " "Bill," he said to his assistant in the lumber company ' treboratory where he then worked, "let's sec what we can make out of this." ii", He shows it to visitors as an e>rample of total tree lrse. and in a wav it svmbolizes what the whole Forest

Thev fed trunk, branches and needles into an attrition iill-i sort of oversized meat-grinder-and produced a ile of irude fiher. Addino watei thev made "fiber soup," ile of irude fiber. Adding water they "fiber iimed, a mat, and squeezEd it in a hot press. In.a few inutes they had baled a square of pressed wood with Vuletide smell.

The hardboard, made from a Douglas fir Christmas tree, i bn display in Anderson's office at the University of )alifornii F6rest Products Laboratory, Richmond, where heads the division of forest products chemistry.

'. Productq Laboritory, under the direotion of Fr-ed E. ,Diclrinson, is trying to do-that is, find more and better i,rises for wood.

,' .Vfe lose vast amounts of the tim'ber harvested in our ,ts. Mountains of sawdust decay near mills. Stumps, I trunks. and branches rot in the woods. According the U.S. Forest Service, the industry wasted one cubic ot out of everv four cut in 1952.

,California's r6cord is worse. For almost every cubic of lumber used in 1953, it threw away another cubic hot. The actual figures were 750 millio-n cubic f.eet put to use and 600 million cubic feet wasted-30O million in drrill residue, 300 million left in the woods.

What is the answer to the wood waste problem?

Chemical, physical, and economic research to creat€

When it comes to producing more things from a tree, says Anderson, it's hard to beit the Brazi-lian tribes who taice from the carnauba palm not only food, drink, and a cash crop, but also fiberi for clothing, timber {or householding, and light. The trunk makes pilings, the bark firewood, the leaves window and door shades, the endshoots a tender food, the fruit a cooking oil. Flour comes from the pith, medicine from the roots, 'cattle food from the saplings, hats from the l6aves, as well as cordage, nets, ' baskets, mats, curtains.

Although we. don't use a single tree g9 intensively, we obtain a -great variety of products besides lumber from trees in general. For exarnple: germicides, deodorants, perfume, iattle feed, a toughener for 'road surfaces, pingiong balls, shoe polish, fiieworks, beel barrel coatings. irrom r,rlood cellulose-rayon, photographic fi lm, cellophane, paper, household cement, lacquers, sponges; from wood iignin-tarmins, vanillin, and a base for plastics, radio cabinets, etc.

Without listing half ttre things wood chemists can extract from trees, it's safe to conclude that a quiet revolution in wood utilization is being hatched, not only by the chemists at Richmond but throughout the country.

Don't be surprised if, in a few years, tlrese chemists provide vou wilh perfumes, plasters, and fiber products irom stu-mps; anti-bxidants fiom incense cedar (to keep butter and bther foods from turning rancid) ; vitamins from wood yeast; special fire-proof and insect-proof woods; oerhapi even pdtent explosives made from wood. '

Nof all of this research needs to be done over a hot test