Retailers See Schumacher Plant ,a'

of Tuesday, December 4th at their big plant on Slauson Avenue.

There were about forty dealers in the party, representing the Southeast Group of the Los Angeles Association, and they came as special guests to witness the manufacture'of plaster board at the great modernized plant. Five members of the Schumacher organization assisted by Earl Galbraith in acting as hosts and guides to the party.

First they were treated to a fine dinner,'at which Jack Dionne, Publisher of The California L,umber Merchaht, was introduced and made a short talk.

Then they were divided into parties of eight, and taken over the plant. They were first shown where the cement is brought in and stored in huge containers, and then they were shown the mixing room, where cement and finely powdered sarvdust were mixed scientifically and mechanically. They then followed the course of the materials right through the plant., They saw water added to make the mixture thickly liquid, then it was evenly and smoothly spread m,echanically, and then carried through the presses and sandwiched between two great sheets of stout paper; then down the long rollers in a tremehdous sheet to the kilns, and out in the finished product in about two hours' time.

The dealers watched these various processes with great interest, inspected the .mechanical handling of the board after it was dried, and tested its flexibility, smooth edges and surfaces, etc.

This was the third group of dealers that have visited this wonderful new plant.

lY.