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GilberrOswold Promoted in Simpson R,edwood Copocity

Gilbert L. Oswald (above) has been promoted to vicepresident and general manager of the Simpson Redwood Company at Arcata, California. He has served as general manager of Simpson Redwood operations in Northern California sincb July 1959, succeeding Gordon J. Manary, who continues as a Simpson vice-president in an advisory capacity.

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Oswald joined the Simpson organization at Shelton, Washirrgton in 1946 and was transferred to the Simpson Redwood Cornpany in 1958.

Simpson Redwood Company operates timberlands, lumber and plywood plants in Klamath. Arcata. Korbel and Eureka, California, employing approximately 1800 people.

Jim Giles Succeeds fo Ownership Of Monument lumber Gompony

Jim Giles took over ownership of Monument Lumber Company, 22ll Contra Costa Highway, Pleasant Hills (Calif.), last month with the purchase of Ed French's interest in the business. Monument Lumber enjoys a good walk-in trade as well as a growing custom builder volume in the fast-growing area between Concord and Walnut Creek.

Nqtionql Forest Recreotion Studied

Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service is now readying field task forces which will begin on-theground studies July l. Called the National Forest Recreation Resources Review, its purpose is to get a complete and factual inventory of recreation resource potential of the National Forests. Facts thus gained will be the basis of programs for the activation of all recreation resource management activities on the National Forest system.

The American people, said the Secretary, are turning to national forests for recreation in ever-increasing numbers. In 1924 about 4 million recreation visits were made to national forests; by 1958 that figure had jumped to 681 million, an upsurge of. 12/o over the previous year. All indications are that this trend will continue.

Service in the Lumber Region

The 100,000-rnile tire has come and gone. Now it's 200,000 n-riles and more. Not for passenger cars, but tank'rigs like that operated by E. B. Hinkle & Son at Redding, California, are getting over 200,000 miles on a set of tires that have never been off the wheels. Eight Hood Mile King truck tires on the drive wheels of one of the Kenworth rigs operated by Hinkle have traveled more than 260,000 miles and are still in service, it is reported by W. P. Murray, Hood district field manager for B. F. Goodrich Tire Company. The rig, with a capacity of 8,400 gallons, transports gasoline from Avon to Redding, Wilclwood, Weaverville, Hayfork, Mt. Shasta, and Yreka-all irr California.

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The NAHB Research-Masonite house at Knoxville, Tenn., first of the basic building material research houses built under the direction of the National Association of Home Builders Research Institute, is exciting the home building and supply industries as a tegt of ways and means to provide people with better homes for less money. Aim of the Research Institute is to demonstrate what can be

NAHB Reseorch-lllosonite House Proves Sovings in Low-cost Building ldeos

dotre to create attractive, low-cost homes through the use of new building materials and equipment or bold concepts in the uses of kuown materials. Full details on the houses may be obtained from NAHB Research Institute, which is publishing booklets available at $2 each.

Main feature of the Masonite house is the use of hardboard as the basic structural material. Four-inch component walls, 4' wide and 8' high, have an exterior skin of Masonite Sunline, the siding introduced on a test basis in the 1957 NAHB Research Institute house in Kensington, Md.; an interior skin of Masonite Misty Walnut, a factory-grained board needing only an on-the-job coating of wax, clear varnish, shellac or plastic; and between the faces, 3" Fiberglas insu{ation with aluminum vapor barrier attached to the 7"x4" and 2"x4" lraming members.

Sunline siding, an industry 6rst still in limited production, is distinctive for the preformecl integral ribs appearing at 4" intervals in the Knoxville house. It also is made with ribs spaced 8" o.c. The shiplapped panels are 4'x8'x5/16", and the thickness at the ribs is '1". In the Knoxville house, the ribs are 1/e" wide an<l on 4.265" cen ters.

The prefabricated panels, nailed and glued, have far more than FHA required minimum racking strength for a sheathed wall. In addition to the saving of time in erecting the component walls, there is a saving of 20' ol 2"x4" Tumber in every 20' of wall. There also is a saving of the sheathing layer.

There are seven layers of material, including paint, in the exterior component wall, compared with 13 to 14 in a wall of a conventional house. The construction of the window wall units eliminates the customary header and gives the residents more light and outdoor vlew.

Interior, non-load-bearing walls are Masonite Duowall construction. Consisting of panels l, 2, 3 or 4 feet wide and 8' high, the 2-inch-thick panels are faced with Masonite Presdwood. The surfaces were pairrted in order to contrast with the Misty Walnut surfaces of the component walls.

A feature of.the Duowall construction is its function. Steel splines separate the panels. Fixtures distributed by Masonite Corporation fit irrto the splines at l" intervals to hold magazine racks, shelves, dressing tables, clesks, pictures, plants and even peripheral furniture, in addition to the various closet items. Every closet in the Knoxville house has Duowall construction.

In the kitchen, cabinets are hung on the functional wall. Masonite Corporation reports that this system of cabinet construction effects considerable savings. It explains that the cabinets consist of the wall that supports wood shelves, which in turn support wood ends and an extruded track for hardboard sliding doors. In addition to sup- porting the cabinets themselves, the Duowall holds fixtures for various racks and shelves needed for dishes, various kitchenware and tools.

Installation of the thin non-load-bearing walls made available in the Knoxville house 21 sq. ft. that otherwise would have been lost under thicker conventional walls, according to Ralph Johnson, director of the NAHB Research Institute. Incidentally, the one-story, six-room structure is 36'8" lons and 28'8" wide and has 1.050 sq. ft. of living space.