Palco Wool Used as a Cushion Layer in the New Track at Santa Barbara State College

Installation of Palco Wool as a cushion layer in the new running track at Santa Barbara State College, Santa Barbara, is now under way and the track will be ready for use some time this fall.

This is the first track in Southern California that has used Palco Wool as a cushion layer. The purpose of using Palco Wool is that it gives the track resiliency and more spring. The track will be a quarter mile in distance with a 22Gyad straightaway on the bleacher side.

The sub-base of the track is clay and sand, rolled carefully, on which is laid a 2l inch layer of Palco Wool, packed to about 10 pounds per cubic foot. Then a fine layer of sifted clay is applied to form a seal. Three different courses of clay are put over the layer of sifted clay, the courses being rolled with a 500-pound roller, each layer being separated with a very thin layer of sifted sand and clay.

The top layer, or running surface, is a very fine sifted clay, rolled with a 2000-pound roller, so that the surface will be absolutely smooth. The track is built on the old ocean bed and has exceptional drainage due to the ocean sand underneath the entire athletic field.

Thirty-eight tons of Palco Wool will be used in the track. The clay used is a special red clay {ound in the nearby mountains.

Palco Wool has been used in several running tracks in Northern California, including those at Stanford lJniver-

Showing prior to lirst lcyer ol silted clcy. sity, Palo Alto High School, San Jose State College, Campbell High School, Sequoia High School at Redwood City, Placerville High School and Junior College at Auburn, and the University of Santa Clara. In the east, the track at the United States Military Academy at West Point has a Palco Wool cushion layer.

The track at Stanford University was built in 1934. A core of this taken out early this spring showed the Palco Wool to be in just as good condition as. the day it was put in.

Palco Wool is manufactured by The Pacific Lumber Company at its Scotia, Calif., plant.

Dick Johnson and Bob Hoover of The Pacific Lumber Company recently made a trip to Santa Barbara with Harry Trotter, track coach at the lJniversity of California at Los Angeles, and Bill Nicholas, superintendent of parks at Pasadena, and both Messrs. Trotter and Nicholas were very much impressed with the neu' Santa Barbara State College track.

Buys Interest In Mill

J. R. Laurie, formerly with Menlo Mill & Lumber Co., Menlo Park, has purchased an interest in Arnold & Stevens mill in Redwood City. This concern, located at 1st Avenue and Middlefield Road, is now known as Laurie & Stevens Planing Mill.

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From September 15,1930 lssue

To serve as a clearing house for the interchange of merchandising ideas between 4-Square dealers, Weyerhaeuser Sales Company has created with headquarters in St. Paul, Minn., a Merchandising Bureau. The new department is under the direction of R. E. Saberson.

R. M. Gregg, R. M. Gregg Lumber Company, Hawthorne, retired from the management of the firm, his stock being taken over by the other stockholders of the company. Clarence B. Hyde, who has been connected with the management, will manage the yard.

Jim Farley, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, was elected president of the San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club at the annual meeting on September 4. Edward Tietjen, Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

Ed Seward, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company, Los Angeles, played in the California State Handicap Golf Tournament at Del Monte.

To further merchandise their millwork products, the Crown City Manufacturing Company, Pasadena, arranged an attractive miniature exhibit that created considerable interest. The exhibit was arranged by Lathrop K. Leishman.

Healdsburg Lumber Company, that Orlanda Truitt purchased an and took up his duties as assistant

A. S. McKinney was Monterev Bav Redwood