Millwork lnstitute Will Hold Fir Plywood Panel Supports

Annual Meeting at O.kland 12 Men in Test

The Millwork Institute of California will hold its annual meeting at the Hotel Oakland, Oakland, Calif., Friday, November 20. The meeting will be a one-day session. The directors will meet at the Hotel Oakland on Thursda/, November 19. The convention program is well under way and will be sent out to the Institute membership at an early date. A large attendance is expected and many of the mill-. men are planning to attend the California-Stanford game at Palo Alto gn Saturday afternoon, November 21.

/P"rchase Retail Yards o

The Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, have purchased the Culver City Lumber Co., Culver City, Calif' Warren S. Betts, formerly with the Culver City Lumber Co., has been appointed yard manager. T. C. and J. H. Montgomery, former owners, are now located at Winner, North- Dakota, where they are connected with the retail lumber business.

The Patten-Blinn interests have also announced the purchase of the H. W. Newton Lumber Co. yard at San Bernardino, Calif. F. W. Chase, formerly with the L. W. Blinn Lumber Co., is yard manager. H. W. Newton, former owner, has been connected with the lumber business in San Bernardino for the past twenty years and h'as been appointed assistant manager.

Seattle, 'Wash., October 15.-In an unusual test recently made at a Seattle lumber mill, an ordinary 4'x8' Douglas Fir plywood panel only r/4" thick supported' 12 men weighing'lfu3 pounds-wiihout showing a trace of cracking, splitting or splintering.

A stock panel was selected at random for the trial. This was set three feet above the mill floor on a loose steel framework, in such a way that it held the full test weight on its own surface. Turnbuckles braced its edges against slipping. ttre -tig board on which the group stood weighed -only 22 pounds-each pound of plywood carrying 83 pounds of human weight.

As the piywood was absolutely undam.aged in any way: further teiti with compact, inaniinate weights are expected to show a maximum indurance considerably greater than that proved bv the local demonstration. Plywoods, be."u.i of theif laminated, cross-grain layer construction, are the strongest form in which lumber is made.

A. Ninemire

A. W. Ninemire, well known Pacific Coast lumberman, died at Phoenix, Ariz., on Ocfober 9. He was connected with the John A. Johnson Lumber Co. of Phoenix. Before coming t6 Arizona-, Mr. Ninemire had been associated with the ltimber industry in the Northwest f9L " lon-g period. The remains were sent to Montesano, Wash., for interment.