HAROLD R. COLE

to Tykle Cove wherc it was installed with strips of foamed plastic attached to the bottom for increased buoyancy.

C. S. Leonardson. manager of the Olympia mill, says there now is no limit to the length of plywood. "We r,ould produce a single panel that would strctch from Ol1,m- pia to New York if the need arises-and the transportation problems can be solved."

REC0RD-BREAKING 4x200foot panel of plywood, "tall" as a 2Gstory building, was specially produced at one of GeorgiaPacific's 0lympia, Wash., mills for two boating families who needed a one-piece floating walkway from land to their deep-water float.

Similar giant panels, admittedly not close to the latest record breaker, are ust'd in construction of boats, truck and trailer bodies. big freeway signs, oLrtdoor advertising signs and in building construction.

6,000 Pressure-Creosoted Piles in Giont New Pier

San Francisco's largest commercial piercapable of berthing nine occan-going vesscls at a timewill requirc approximatcly 6,000 prcssure-creosoted piles in its construction.

The nerv pier is now under construction at the foot of Army Street in the Bay City and is scheduled lor completion next October.

Cost o{ the project is estimated at fi29,000,000.

A major requircmcnt {or construction of the pier was approximately 6,000 pressure-creosoted pilcs which were {urnished

{rom the V'est Coast wood prcserving plants of Koppers Company. This is believed to be the largest single order for pressurecreosoted piling cvcr givcn {or a West Coast nort installation.

Tlrt' piling rra. sltip1,,',I from Koppers' plants in Orcgon and Oroville, Calif., and rcquircd alrout 100 railroad cars.

The prcs,curc-creosoted piles range in loneth from 50 to 63 {eet rvith butts 14 inches in diameter and tips B inches in diameter. All are Douglas fir, treated to protect the piles against attack by decaycausing organisms which thrive in the damp atrnosphere of the bay shore'

The piles are being driven both on filled' in land and in the water.