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Harbor Plywood Corp.

Expcnds in Oregon

Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam, Wash., has announced the purchase of 11,000 acres of timber in Douglas County, Oregon, and of the property of the Riddle Lumber & Manufacturing Co. of Riddle, Oregon.

E. W. Daniels, president of the plywood company, states that plans are being made to construct a green veneer peeling plant at Riddle, also a larger sawmill and sash and door factory. Work on the new manufacturing facilities will start immediatelv.

Plywood Production

June production of softwood plyrvood was 121,939,000 square feet. This compared with 128,489,000 square feet in May, and i21,383,000 square feet in 1945. Of the total produced in June exterior grade amounted to 37,623,0N square feet, and interior grade 84,326,00O square feet.

Plywood Association

Retail lunber dealers eve4rwhere are findios that it pays big &viden& topush the sale of Wolmanized Lumber. Promoting this "Iumber-with-a-plus" with your local indushies, in addition to your local home builders, will make more money for you. With Wolmanized Lumber-resistant to decay and termite attack, plus all of the normal advantages of lumber, you have much to talk about much to sell -much to gain.

Your Local Industrial Market

Cold storage plants, laundries, dyehouses, launel. ies, Ilour mills, warehouses, water works, all these and nany others need the protection.offered in Wolmanized Lumber. Stock most-needed sizes to give guicL delivery lo your custoners,

Personnel Chcnges

Harold Wilson, who has been in charge of the Los Angeles office of the Douglas Fir Ply'ivood Association, has been transferred to the Washington, D. C. office.

Dave Betcone,'lvho has been manager of the Washington, D. C. office, is norv at the association's main office in Tacoma.

Pcint Concern Opens Lcrborcrtory

A laboratory has been opened in Tacoma by SherwinWilliams Co. under the direction of E. A. Gross. The principal objective of this unit is to cooperate with the plyu'ood industry in the development of nerv and better finishes. Mr. Gross was formerly with the Douglas Fir Plywood Association for four years.

Cedqr Plywood

An attractive folder was recently issued showing uses for edgegrain cedar paneling in homes, ofifrces and specialty shops, and included with the folder is a page with suggested finishes for cedar plywood, also methods of application. The folder is published by Canadian Forest Products, Ltd., Pacific Veneer & Plvwood Division. Nerv Westminster. B.

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Fir Plywood Laborqtory Burns

Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the research laboratory of the Douglas Fir Plyrvood Association, Tacoma, August 16, with an estimated loss of $25,000. The association announced immediate plans for continuing the work, rvhich is mainly testing samples of the members' products.

The burned laboratory is not connected with the newer project in research in wood chemistry and plywood being conducted there at a different site by John Meiler for the industrv.