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O1{E lIOUR FIRE RESISTAl{T GYPSU'N WALTBOARD
Now, with Blue Diamo\d Y8" Fire Halt special core wallboard, applicator craftsmen have a ffne handling and ffnishing gypsum wallboard with a one hour fire resistirse rating.
th. lotest techniques of kiln drying-{Front row): Fred E. Dickinson, director of the Loborotory; Joc Hughes, Hughes Brothers, Forest Hill; Eric Ellwood, FPL stofr; A. P. Schniewind, FPI stofi; 'W. C. Bean, Hudron lumber Co., Son Lorenzo; G. Reinking, Blogen Lunber Co., Slockton; J. T. fhomcs, Southwest lumber Mills, ilcNory, Ariz. SECOND ROW: H. H. Smirh, Colifornio Forest ond Ronge Experimenl Stotion, Berkeley; John Ellis, Arccto Lumber Seruices, lnc., Montogue; Jock Tororon, Aborigine lumber Co., Fort Bragg; Norm Rondle, Marine Lumber Soles ond Diomond lumber Co., Eureko,. J. W. Hctch, Minton Lumber Co- Moun. lqin View; G. 1. Deitz, Diomond-Gordner Corp., Red Blufi; Alberr [. Towle, Moore Dry Kiln Co., Socrcmento. IHIRD ROW: John Silvo, Hudson lumber Co., Scn lorenzol C. Burler, Speck€rt Lumber Co., Marysville; Jock Pfeifer, Poul A. Itloriqni Co., Cupertinot 1. W. Mochnke, Brightwood lumbcr Co., Arcoto; H. K. i/lerkley, Ooklcy ond Merkley Western Hqrdwood lurnber, Sccrornentol V. W. Ashby, R. H, Emmcr:on & Son, Eoreko; ond K. O. Sm:th, Ch.n6y Sierro Lumbor Go., Willits (-Universiry of Colifornio College of Agriculture photos.)
Fire Halt may be used in institutional, commercial, indusbial, apartment and home construction-wherever high quality interiors combining gre&t strength with inueased fire rcsistance are desired or required by building codes.
Blue Diamondt Fire Halt data sheet will be sent you on request. It gives full information on how to use Fire Halt in one hour walls, partitions and ceilings, in accordance with Underwriters' Laboratories.' ffre resistive rating, requirements.
GROUND-BREAKING ond Dedicotion ceremonies for the Building Center Exhibirion in Los Angeles were held September 30 at 79OO W. Third for the first permonenf disploy ever plonned here of building industry personnel.5ronding qre Jeon Roth Driskel, presidenl, Assn. of Women in Architecture; Mrs. Anthony Thormin, presideni, SoCol Chopter, Women's Architecturol Leogue; Adele Foulkner, president, SoCol Chopter, Americqn Inslilute of Decorotors. Kneeling: A. B. Gollion, deqn of School of Architecture, USC; C. M. Deosy, president,5oCol Choprer, AIA; Hqrold Grieve, president, Americqn Institute of Decorolors, ond W. Bennetl Coverl, president, Cqliforniq Institute of lqndscope Architects
"THE HOUSE OF THE FUTURE" wos opened ot Disneylond in Southern €oliforniq during the Summer qnd lominoted wood wos on essentiql element in the experimentol proiect undertoken by Monsonfo Chemicol Compony to demonstrote the potentiol uses of plostics in conslruction. While virruolly every port of the house, os well os the interior decorqlions ond furnishings, were creoied of plostics, it wos deemed odvisoble to utilire lominqfed wood for the window woll fromes ond spondrel beqms. The novel design of the strucfure is bosed on tl-shoped molded modules 8xl6 feet, eqch forming port of o room's ceiling, floor ond end wolls. The two side wqlls receive the lominqted wood frome (lower photo) to which is opplied plostic woll qnd window sections. Eighr molded modules qre hung in poirs from o l6-foot-squore cenlrol utility core to form four rooms, eoch l6xl6 feet. Monsonlo does not expecl to engoge in the producrion of homes or even Gomponenls. The "House of the Future" is to demonstrqte woys in which ploslics con be utilized singly ond in combinqtion with other moleriols such qs wood. The oprons worn by the workmen in fop photo reqd; J. G. Roy Lumber Co.
ONE OF THE HIGHIIGHTS OF THE RETAII IUMBER YEAR wos The Retoil Lumber Troining Institute sponsored by lhe Southern Cqliforniq Retqil Lumber Associotion ond Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2. The closses were held in two neorby high schools ot nights for younger deolers qnd retoil yord employes. The meetings were reported regulorly in the news columns of The CAI,IFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT during their tenure losi Spring ond Summer for the good they brought to the future of the entire industry. In the phoro obove, foken when certificotes were presenled groduoles of the clqsses ot the onnuql convenlion of lhe SCRIA in the Ambossodor hotel, qre SCRLA President Hol Brown (left), Dr. Wendell €lose, the young coordinotor of the RLTl closses in both Los Angeles ond Riverside Hoo-Hoo Club I | 7, ond (in reor) Woyne F. Mullin, who wos iusl retiring ofter two terms qs SCRLA president
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THE Ot' REDHEAD, Arrhur Godfrey, scores o bull's-eyeNorrhwesl sfyleleorning the ort of oxe-ihrowing from Judy Johnson, the doughter of world's chomp lree-fopper qnd qxe-lhrower, Hop Johnson. Scene is Godfrey's recent visit to 5impson logging Compqny's suslqined yield forest neor Shelton, Wosh., where "Arthur Godfrey Time" wqs telecost to 40,000,000 who leqrned of timber country ond modern foresl monqgement wirh key Simpson personnel. Simpson olso dedicoted mossive mople 125 feet high ond l5 feer in circumference to lhe stqr (ri9hi)
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Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 4
Mcrkes Merry qt
Sqn Diego Party
San Diego Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 4 held its annual Christmas party. I)ecember 10, in the Park Manor hotel there. It was one of the most festive occasions the lumber girls have ever enjoyed, with ail reporting a gala time.
some carols as rvell as some of its specialties. One of the highlights was a l)oem especi;rlly rvritten for the occasion bv 1st Vice-I'resider-rt Florence room. The poem u'elcomed the Quartet : "\\'arren, Bill, John and lrerry" as it paraphrased "The Night Before Christmas."
The dinner was climaxecl r,vhen the Santa brought in a special surprise in a package covered u.ith chimney paper and adorned r,vith candles. It rvas a beautiful cake appropriately frosted in traditional Christmas decoration. FolIolving the reading of the poem and
Houchin, u,'ho also acted as Santa for the party.
The poem, which set the stage for the evening, paid tribute to the table decorations by "Mildred, I)onna and Ann" rvith poinsettias, pyracantha and uine branches enlivened with colored globe.. Recl and whitc c:rndlcs lit thc
<lelivery of the cake, the Hoo-Hoo-Ette Santa -took off "her" whiskers and ioined the fun.
