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Lumber Yard For Sale

Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-480. Care California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED_EXPERIE,NCED PINE BOX FACTORY SUPERINTENDENT

Wanted experienced Pine Box factory superintendent capable of assuming full charge of plant capacity approximately 50,000 feet per day; willing to pay top salary to man that can qualify. All replies will be treated in strictest confidence. Please answer fully on past experience, age, if employed at present, salary expe,cted, etc. Address Box C-519, care California Lumber Mer,chant.

Organizing Pole-Piling Division

Washington, D. C., Aug. 13.-The Pole and Piling Coordinating Committee, in charge of the administration of the Lurnber Code as applicable to the Pole and Piling Division, held its organization meeting at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, July 30. By-Laws were adopted and the following officers elected: L. A. Page, Page & Hill, producers and distributors of white and red cedar poles, Minneapolis, chairman; Charles Chadbourne, Puget Timber Co., Seattle, Wash., vice chairman, and Arthur Bevan, secretary pro tem. The chairman was authorizecl to appoint an executive secretary to serve at his discretion. A. N. Robertson was elected as the Division's member of the Lumber Code Authority, with Mr. Page as alternate.

Following a discussion of code fees and budgets, the chairnran was authorized to prepare a budget to cover the Division expenses including the LCA assessment, and the secretary was instructed to use the most recent statistics of the Census Bureau in respect to the volume of business as a basis of establishing the percentage of the Coordinating Committee and Lumber Code Authority expenses to be paid by each Subdivisional agency. Each Subdivisional administrative agency will be instructed to prepare and submit a budget to the Coordinating Committee within the next thirty days, the budgets to be accompanied by a detailed report of possible income to cover the budget, supplemented by recommendations on basis of assessments.

Each Subdivision is to prepare a set of Fair Trade Practice Rules for submission at the next meeting of the Committee, these to be consolidated irrto a set of Fair Trade Practice Rules for the Division.

The follorving persons attended the organization meeting: C. D. Zagelmeier, L. A. Page, Ray V. Clute, Charles Chadbourne, T. B. Morgan (representinC E. C. Gates), H. E. Austin, A. N. Robertson, H. N. Roach, E. H. Chapman, J. D. Mylrea, and Harry W. Cole (representing Mason E. Kline).

Experienced Lumberman Wants Position

Lumberman of long experience wants position as bookkeeper, office or clerical work. San Francisco Bay district preferred. Address E. T. Paulson, 1735 Grove Street, Berkeley. Telephone AShberry 932.

Yard Foreman

Wants position with wholesale or retail lumber yard. Knorvs both softwoods and hardwoods. Long experience. Anything considered. Can furnish references. Would prefer Los Angeles District. Address Box C-517, care California Lumber Merchant.

Tests Show Structural Adaptability of Plywood

Washington, D. C., August 23.-Architects, home owners and contractors contemplating either modernization or new construction will be interested in tests concluded by the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, 'Wisconsin, shorving that plywood as a covering for frame walls and as the sub-floor and ceiling of floor panels contributes improved strength and stiffness and furnishes opportunities for prefabrication of these units of a building.

Two series of tests'completed this year are described by Geo. W. Trayer, Senior Engineer of the laboratory, in a recent issue of the Engineering News-Record. The first test covered the action of plywood when utilized as a structural covering for frame walls and wall units; the second dealt with floor panels with stressed plywood coverings.

The investigation of plywood for wall units developed the fact that well nailed plywood in large sheets contributes strength and rigidity equal to that obtainable with diagonal lumber sheathing, and, consequently, greater than that obtained with horizontal sheathing.

Hitherto unknown advantages in the use of plywood when nailed and glued to the top of floor joists as a sub' floor and to the bottom of joists as a ceiling, were developed in the floor panel tests. These indicated that such construction permits the plyrvood to contribute to the flexural strength of the floor system and in effect reproduces the action of a box girder. This method of construction would permit shallower joists and contribute greater stiffness and strength.

"The extent to which the inherent rigidity and strength of large plywood sheets are utilized depends upon the security with which the plywood is attached to the frame", rvrites Mr. Trayer. "By gluing, a rigidity is obtained that is far superior to anything possible with nailing, whether plywood or diagonal sheathing is used."