.,\MHO'S WHO'' Carl \llf. Watts

Higgins Lumber Company, San Francisco, and remained there for 12 years, a good part of this time being spent on the road as salesman.

Later he returned to Tacoma where he worked at every job in the plywood plant from peeler to warehouse.

On September I he became associated with the O'Neill Lumber Company, San Francisco, as salesman.

At Washington U he was active in athletics and prominent in campus activities.

His principal hobby is Rugby football. He played Rugby in high school, and when the California Rugby lJnion was formed in 1934 he became co-sponsor of the San Jose Rugby team and also played in 1934 and 1935. He found that the game was pretty strenuous and is now happy in officiating as touch judge or other position occasionally. He has done some sports broadcasting over station KQW.

Mr. Watts is married and makes his home in San Francisco.

Douglas Fir Plywood for Trench Sheeting

A potentially large new market for Douglas Fir Plywood has been developed by sanitary district engineers on several large midwestern sewer projects. On these projects concrete form panels of Douglas Fir plywood have been successfully introduced as sheeting material.

The replacement of the customary trench support of timber sheeting, wales and braces with concrete form plywood panels held by trench jacks was carried out by the WPA on four large sewer projects for the Bloom Township Sanitary District at Chicago Heights, Illinois. The system was devised by E. B. Dowd, construction engineer of the WPA, under the direction of C. H. Ashdown, district engineer of Bloom Township Sanitary District.

Carl Wheeler Watts, familiarly known on the road as "Duke," was born in Sacramento, went to grammar school there and to high school in Berkeley, completing his education at the University of Washington where he majored in forestry.

His first job was with the Standard Lumber Company in Sonora, Calif. where he worked in vacations, played semipro baseball for the Sonora ball team, and as a side line engaged in some four-round fights. While at Washington he worked during summer vacations in the Wheeler Osgood Company's door plant at Tacoma.

After finishing school he went to work for the J. E.

Savings in labor costs of more than 5O% and' in material costs in excess of.80% have been recorded in the installation of the sheeting, according to Mr. Ashdown.

All plywood used was Douglas Fir, concrete form grade, which is manufactured with a special water-resista,nt glue and is designed for repeated reuse.

With hundreds of miles of sewer and other trenching projects being constructed in cities and towns all over the United States through the impetus given this construction by the various government agencies, lumber dealers have an opportunity to materially increase their sales volume through aggressive promotion to this market'