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New Plywood Plant in Operation

The new plant of the Springfield Plywood Corporation at Springfield, Ore., is now in full scale production and manufacturing hot plate press Douglas fir plywood exclusively. The rated annual capacity is 75,000,000 square feet.

The officers of the corporation, which is affiliated with the Washington Veneer Company of Olympia, Wash., are: E. E. Westman, president; Charles G. Briggs, vice-president; Norton Clapp, secretary; E. N. Drain, assistant secretary, and W. H. Schultz, treasurer.

E. E. Westman, E. B. Tanner, C. R. Bordeaux, Edmund Hayes, J. P. Weyerhaeuser, R. R. Macartney, and Charles G. Briggs are directors.

Fred Fant, assistant general manager of the Washington Veneer Co., will manage the Springfield plant. Ben Wentjar is assistant manager aand superintendent; Paul Troejel, office manager, and James Wilson, foreman.

CHARLES F. WARD

Charles F. Ward, 55, passed away from a heart attack on Sunday, September 22 on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge while returning from a visit to the Exposition.

He was r;r'ith the Redwood Manufacturers Co., Pittsburg, Calif. for many years, and was a past exalted ruler of the Pittsburg lodge of Elks. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lillian Ward and a daughter, Dorothy.

New Plant In Oakland

California Moulding Company recently started to manufacture window and door trim, sash stock, lineal and cut to length mouldings for Eastern shipment at their new plant at 4625 Tidewater Avenue, Oakland.

M. R. Colliard is owner of the business. A. S. Osborn is superintendent of the plant and E. M. Betts is office manager.

Items o[ Interest

Two Rock Commercial Co., Charles Garrison, owner, has rebuilt the store which burned down a few weeks ago.

Paul Galle of Western return October 17 from a Lumber Co., Reedley, expects to trip to his old home in Newton, Kansas.

Ralph Joss, Whiting-Mead Co., Los Angeles, is on a trip to Crescent City.

Hi-Way Lumber Yard, which is located one mile east of Hanford on Highway 198, opened for business on September 16. Geo. A. Cowman is manager.

Loren Foster, Patten-Blinn Lumber has been calling on the Pine mills. Co., Los Angeles,

With government building-permit figures showing that more than 24O,W dwelling units were built in nonfarm areas of the nation during the first half of 194O and with F.H.A. acceptances of mortgages for appraisal rising in volume, there is every indication that 500,000 or more new homes will be built this year, according to C. W. Pinkerton, Los Angeles, chairman of Southern California Homes Foundation.

Attends Penn Bicentenary

J. Z. (Joe) Todd of Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, returned last week from a trip to the Eastern states in the course of which he attended at Philadelphia the frOth anniversary celebration of the founding of the University of Pennsylvania, of which he is a graduate. He picked up a new car at Flint, Mich., and visited many points of interest to himself and Mrs. Todd, who accompanied him.

Roprorenffng in Southem California: The Pacif,c Lunber Company-Wendling-Nathrn Co.

tane \(/ithers' Playroom Remodeled

T'hroughout with Douglas Fir

No movie fan needs to be told that when Jane Withers likes anybody or anything it is with her whole heart and soul and she is never in any doubt as to what she wants. Such are the parts in which this young American has become one of the top screen favorites of the country. In real life Jane is more quiet and demure, but she still has ideas of her own. One of them was on the sort of playroom she desired as part of the remodeling of the home of the Withers family in Hollywood during the summer of 1940.

Here is the playroom, finished and fitted up according to the young ideas of "that there Withers gal"-or at least here's the soda-fountain half of it. Walls, ceiling and fountain are paneled in Douglas fir, a wood that is being selected more and more by the stars of Hollywood in styling the rooms of their homes along modern stream lines.

The Withers family purchased their present home over two years ago. It had been built by a real estate firm for exhibition purposes and was widely advertised as a model home for the average American family. A single-story dwelling, the main feature of the remodeling job was the ad- dition of a second floor. The playroom is in this upstairs addition.

Jane's fan mail is now greater in volume than that of any other star. Her latest picture is "Youth Will Be Served." It will be released in December.

Lumbermen's Post Has Football Meeting Medford Corp. Plans Extension Program

Lumbermen's Post, No. 403, American Legion, held its annual football meeting Tuesday evening, October 8, at the Royal Palms Hotel, Los Angeles, and there was a big attendance. Lloyd Milne was chairman.

Former football stars who attended were: Charlie Erb, California; Stan Barnes, California; Reg Caugney, Stanford; Paul Sweiger, Washington; Jack Nolan, Santa Clara; Hans Gude, Wisconsin ; Fritz Hawn, Southern Methodist; Bill Ream, Notre Dame; Vic Kelly, Texas A&M; Jim Blewett, U.C.L.A.; Mike Pecarovich, Loyola, and paul Zimmerman, sports writer for the Los Angeles Times.

The next meeting will be held November 12 and T. B. Lalvrence will be chairman. Joseph Scott will be the speaker.

The annual Hi-Jinks will be held Friday evening, December 13.

Andrew Foster is Commander of Lumbermen's Post.

An expansion program, involving expenditure of $20O,000 for dry kilns and equipment, by the Medford Corporation, has been announced by Jas. H. Ou'en, general manager.

This expansion will be started with the immediate installation of a double end trimmer and new double track dry kiln. In addition to this, the planing mill will be modernized and two storage sheds are already under construction.

B. L. Nutting, general superintendent, states that the new work will go forward on schedule and will be complete within the next 6O to 9O days.

When the entire development is completed, approximately 85 per cent of the mill production will be kiln dried and stored in sheds. This shed storage will be so planned that the lumber can be handled in unit packages, which is a method of handling being practiced by the most modern mills.