Celifornia Building Permits for July

Ncw Plywood Plant In Arcata

Construction has started on a new fir plywood plant in Arcata, the first to be built in the Redwood Empire. The plant, which will cost $1,000,000, will be called the Humboldt Plywood Corporation. Clay Brown, well known in the Douglas Fir plywood business, is president of the new concern.

The plant will produce 5,000,000 feet of plywood a month for a start. Head ,'ffice of the organization will be in Portland. Other officers of the company are C. A. Hill, vice president; C. W. Booth, treasurer; C. N. Souther, secretary and legal counsel. Ted Snyder is production manager, and C. W. (Red) Spiering is logging manager.

Only fir plywood will be produced at first, but experiments in the prodrrction of Redwood plywood will be made, according to Mr. Brown. It is expected that the plant will be in operation by February l,1947.

Visitors From Oregron

Mace Tobin, Jack O'Neill and Rube Ross, Oregon lumbermen, were recent Los Angeles visitors.

Swartwout Ventilouver

The Swartwout Ventilouver, advertised on another page of this issue, meets the need for a serviceable lorv-cost attic ventilator in dwellings and other buildings. Its installation needs no wood framing or other construction.

Swartwout Ventilouvers are carried in stock bv Peter J. Van Oosting, 6527 San Fernando Road, Glendale 1, Calif. Telephone number is CHapman 5-2090.