CRGS CIRSULATION

Col. Greeley Announces Future Activitiec

Col. W. B. Greeley, who is retiring shortly after October 1 as secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, a position he has held for the past 17 years, announced in a recent letter to the members and war subscribers of the Association that he will remain for a while in a part time, advisory capacity to the new manager and trustees, to complete some of the special jobs such as the estimate of log supply for the next 20 years, and to help out in other matters where he can.

He said he is particularly anxious to take a more active part personally ih the forestry and sustained yield developments of the industry, which are going to be doubly important from now on.

He also announced that the headquarters office of the Association will be moved to Portland, Oregon, about January l,1947. In taking this action the trustees recognized the trend of industry production southward, and the gradual movement of Association membership with it. The moving date has been deferred another year to give the Seattle employees time to work out the disposition of their homes and other personal acljustments with the least possible sacrifice.

Appoints Scrles Mcrncrger

Erik Flamer, vice president and general manager of Coast Lumber & Equipment Co., 1206 West 7th Street, Long Beach, announces the appointment o.f Francis U. Mandis, formerly with W. B. Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles, as sales manager. Urban Mandis, for many years with OwensParks Lumber Co., has been made assistant sales manager, in charge of local sales.

Terrible Twenty GolI Tourncment

Helmer Hoel won the first prize, a sterling silver goblet, n'ith a net 7l in the 232nd Terrible Twenty Golf Tournament held at the Virginia Country Club, Long'Beach, on September 13. Second prize, a sterling silver ash tray, was rvon by Roy Stanton with a net score ol 72. "Boney" Bohnhoff and Helmer Hoel sponsored the tournament.

WESTERT TILL & ItrOUIDITG GO.

Prefabricated Plywood Houses Shelter Atomic Bomb Workers

The 6,300 prefabricated plywood houses which shelter workers at the nation's two sprawling atomic bomb plants in Washington and Tennessee are said to be of a design as advanced in the housing field as is the scientific discovery which brought about the terrifying weapon.

In contrast to the war-fostered search for destructive force, however, development by Tennessee Valley Author-' ity of pre-built sectional houses was undertaken to provide comfortable living quarters for families at the great construction projects which harnessed water power of the southeast part of the nation.

Representing the ultimate in prefabrication so far attained, the TVA type houses are manufactured in three' dimension sections 2O or 24 feet long, 8 feet high and 8 feet rvide so they may be transported over highways. Inside and out the structures are of plywood with outer walls painted and interiors finished with light stains. At the factory most furniture is built in and plumbing and light fixtures installed.

Only 5 to l0 per cent of the total work of constructing the fully furnished home remains to be done in the field, principally the placing of sections on foundations and joining the units. Two sections fonn a one-bedroom home, three sections a two-bedroom structure and four sections a three' bedroom home.

Into the houses went 35 million {eet of plywood for interior and exterior walls, roofs and floors. But a minimum of framing members was required because the stressed skin principle of construction was followed with the plywood carrying part of the structural load as well as acting as a covering panel.

A single prefabricator, Prefabrication Engineering Co. of Portland, Ore., delivered the 1,810 one-, two- and threebedroom units to Richland, Wash., the residential city for rvorkers at Hanford Engineer Works. Fabrication of the units was in the plant of C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation at Toledo. Ore. : the sections were trucked more than 400 miles to Richland with furnishings, supplementing thrr built-in features, installed at Portland en route.

Thousands of Doors

At Richland an additional 256 houses were built by the slower methods of on-the-site construction. The units are primarily lumber but, like the other houses, required mucir additional plywood for the tens of thousands of entrance and interior doors and for cabinets. In all, more than 100,000 doors were required at the two projects as closures for the houses and other buildings.

Five companies turned out the TVA type houses for Oak Ridge, Tenn., a community for workers at the Clinton Engineer Works and their families. They are: E. L. .Bruce Co., Memphis, Tenn.; Schult Corp., Elkhart, Ind.; Gunnison lTousing Corp., New Albany, Ind; National Homes Corp., Lafayette, Ind., and Alma Trailer Co., Alma, Mich. The five eastern and one western concerns had a combined productive capacity of 55 two-bedroom houses a day.

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