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o rOTJB MZDFORD (OREGOlf) MAIL TRIBTJKE Friday. October 21. 1933 g " - .1-' - JK J : ' . ' : : G z?.m&ii&w&x& h ' nri i lss X ' " 1 CHILD'S DESK of fir plywood Is scaled to junior proportions, con tains generous storage space for the juvenile artist. n THESE FAST RUNABOUTS of commercial construction are planked with fir plywood laid down according to building procedures Tips Given on Building Boats from Plywood TOY STORAGE SAND BOX of fir plywood has handy compart ments for playthings, seals tightly down at night. fascinating Toys Possible From Easy-to-Work Plywood Fascinating new children's toys each containing hours of playtime enjoyment, are easily within your reach if you build thenr yourself. And building them can be a simple enjoyable pastime when you use big, easy-to-handle panels of fir plywood. Some of these toys are avail able only if you make them your self. No manufacturers are pro ducing all of them. Several, how ever, are being made by west coast companies. Flans are available free from the Douglas Fir Plywood Associa tion at Tacoma 2, .Wash. DFPA is the quality maintenance and WTH 1 YOWEIH NEW WOMELITE 5 HP 20 LB CHAIN SAVJ Civesyon... , Most power per poumf of any chain saw . . . cuts faster ... handles easier G Nigh compression, short stroke precision built engine for dependable service and low, low maintenance More attachments for cleaning out brush, clearing land, or doing many cutting chores i ASK FOR A FREE DEMONSTRATION TODAY M. & W. CHAIN SAW CO. S320 N. Hwy. 99 Ph. 3-2591 Across from Elk Lumber Co. control organization of the west ern plywood industry. These are the toys for which DFPA can supply the plans: Play Planks, Child's Drawing Desk, Giant Building Toy, Child's TV Snack Table, Toy Trailer, Child's Table and Chair Set, Modern Doll House, Space Raiders' Club House, Space Guns, Plywood Playhouse (out door), Toy Storage Sand Box. Names of most of the above plans give you an idea of what each toy is. Several of them, however, are so new and in triguing that an explanation is in order, The Play Plans are notched construction pieces with which children may build walk-in size projects without nails. Three standard panels of fir plywood form the entire set. This is one of the simplest home craftsman projects on the list. Cutting it out will take part of one day on a week-end. A small version of this toy is made by Hogan-Spar- ber Products Co., Oakland, Calif., under the name "Junior Contrac tor Set." The Giant Building Toy in volves seven basic pieces cut from one panel of fir plywood. The seven pieces are notched tri angles, providing parts for an almost inexhaustible supply of backyard 4 kid-struction" proj jects. In this respect, it is similar to the Play Planks. However, the pieces are of a radically dif ferent shape and are assembled with birch dowels. The set is being manufactured under patent by Martin Metal & Associates, Sausalito, Calif., and the Muir Co., Mill Valley, Calif. The Space Raiders' Club House is what the name suggests: an outdoor play structure shaped like a rocket ship, designed for easy construction with four pan els of fir plywood. Each of the projects has been amateur-tested for building sim plicity, durability and appear ance. The furniture is scaled for short legs, and some will grow with your children. A postcard to the plywood as sociation will get you the plan you want, Douglas fir plywood has had many nicknames in its long and colorful career. Some have call ed it "the carpenter's friend"; others have named it engineered wood, America's busiest build ing material, and the jack-of-all- trades of the building industry. This year in the Golden Jubilee year a new nickname has been added. It is "the 20th century wood miracle. , First commercial use of fir plywood, now an all-purpose hiiilHinff material urac in 1005 7or door panels. If you are going to build a ply wood boat, here's some valuable information assembled from lab oratory test and experience data collected by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association. Construction of a plywood boat requires attention to a few details that may or may not be required in conventional con struction. Such attention will be more than paid off in trouble free operation. The average plywood boat has only four seams to a side, and if they are well laid up in glue or composition when the boat is built, they may very nearly be forgotten. This is doubly im portant if the boat is to be taken into and out of the water-frequently. The plywood planking won't shrink and swell, alter nately leaking and pressing out the caulking. A board-planked boat is expected to leak for the first few days until the planks swell against the caulking, and caulked seams of cotton and compound cost an owner a tidy sum during the lifetime of a board-planked "boat. Probably the most important must in building a boat with ply wood is to cover the panel edges. If any deterioration - oc curs, it is along the edges where the alternate layers of veneer and waterproof glue are exposed. Even when buried in other mem bers, these edges should be sealed to prevent the entrance of moisture. Provided a boat is pot to be subjected to unusual . stresses, one-quarter-inch plywood may be used for planking on craft up to 16-feet in , length. The three eighths inch thickness is recom mended for boats out of the pram class. However, larger boats call for thicknesses up to one-half inch, often gained with two layers of quarter-inch glued along the entire facing surface. ' For an outboard boat, ply wood is lh transom material. The constant hammering of an .outboard motor will cause a transom of glue-doweled, or otherwise jointed boards, to work at the joints. This is not true of plywood. Pound for pound, the material is actually stronger than steel. The glue bond is tested to be stroneer than the wood fibers. A plywood transom, prop erly seated and with sufficient knees and good corner bracing, should give no trouble jf or the tested by long experience. Result: hulls re quiring minimum upkeep and maintaining sound usefulness over a long period. lifetime of the boat. The strength that fir nlvwood can imriart with reasonable cost. makes it the recommended ma terial ior piaruung ana "wons- horse" areas. However, more costly specialty plywoods are often used for "show" in some places. Many of these more ex pensive surfaces are bonded on fir plywood cores and have gen erally the same weight and strength characteristics. Two facts about fir nlvwnnrf snouid be kept in mind when it comes to finishing the material on a boat: Unless properly sand papered during finishing,, the wavy grain characteristic Wo. duced when the veneering knife sliced through the annular rings of the log, may show right tnrough the finish as surface rip ples: second, on lone evnnsnre to weather, plywood has a ten dency to develop many small splits or checks on the surface .these do not reduce nan el strength, but they muss oip the appearance unless steps are ta ken to nullify these conditions. Apply the primer coat prefer ably when the panel is cut to size or immediately after fabri cation. Don't paint the surfaces which are to be elued. Labora tory test data on painting fir plywood boats may be obtained from the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Wash DRAMATIC EMPHASIS on wide supports for new flooring system with thick fir ply wood subflooring is given by this low-angle photograph. Picture taken at Thorpe Bros. Construction Co. operation, Billings, Mont, where a subdivider is using this method. ' Sheathing Saying Building Costs in Homes Using Plan Something new in a cost-saving technique is gaining accept ance in the construction field, thanks to laboratory tests by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association and recent field experiences of builders. . The new technique of plywood over supports 4-f eet on centers on both floors and roofs.. At least one builder using such a system on subfloors reports total savings resulting from the new technique at $500 on a $15,000 house. In one new school build ing the system has saved $2,700. Comparable savings have been and multi-unit residential con struction. DFPA laboratories have com pleted extensive tests to provide the structual data for acceptance of this system by both Building Codes and FHA authorities. Conventional plywood floor and roof sheathing normally ranges up to -inch thick on supports up to 24-inch o.c. The thicker panels in the new sys tem permit a reduction in di mensional lumber .and offer time labor cost and construc tion advantages which lead to several contingent savings. Beam spacing of 4-feet is probably the most practical for the system because it conforms with ac cepted building modules and' is most adaptable to the standard 8-foot fir plywood panels. DFPA test data shows that one-inch fir plywood is entirely adequate as a subfloor over sup ports spaced 4-feet on centers. Such a floor readily takes loads of 75 to 90 pounds per square foot with minimal deflection, and a more than ample safety factor. LI PAINT WITH BURGESS PAINT & WALLPAPER STORE Cornar 6th & Holly, Diagoiully Across from the Post Office We Give S&H Green Stamps PHONE 2-9321 . "Let Us Recommend Reliable ' Peinte" ' IN BOTH AMATEUR and commercial construction fir plywood planking goes on all types of pleasure craft because of its many basic advantages. Here is the construction of an 18-foot cruiser. The fir plywood eliminates hundreds of feet of seams, reduces maintenance to a minimum and insures high-strength, lightweight hull for your boat. Development of Materials Major Task for Industry Development of new materials to ease the builder's work, pro duce longer lasting structures and expand the ways to use standard fir plywood is a major task in laboratories of the Doug las Fir Plywood Association. The DFPA effort is part of west coast plywood manufac turers' continuing aim at main taining industry growth pro ducing more jobs by opening new markets. Here are some examples . to show how well this research is paying off for the benefit of the West's economy: Research by DFPA structural engineers in the association's two laboratories at Tacoma, Wash., and Eugene, Ore. developed the method of using fir plywood for roof decking in large build ings such as warehouses, schools, theaters, markets, and other in dustrial structures. Designers now specify fir plywood for these structures in many in stances where extra rigidity and strength are needed to with stand earthquakes and hur ricanes The DFPA research proved that plywood, nailed according to a schedule devised in the lab oratories and in actual construc tion tests, is a highly economical method of achieving superior lateral strength on large, flat, plane-like roofs. The Federal Housing Authori ty bases many of its structural requirements on ' industry re search. Studies proving ply wood's strength paved the way to FHA approval of thin ply wood construction over wide rafter spacing. This created major structural economies in home building at no sacrifice in strength. Research of this type pays off in sales. In only one instance, DEPA laboratory data saved $2,800 in construction costs of a Washington school: Architects used this data as a basis for specifying a plywood roof deck over widely spaced supports. Using similar research data, a I Seattle builder pioneered a sys tem of fir plywood floor con struction which saved $500 on a $15,000 house. - Other home builders have reported savings up to 50 per cent in wall and roof construction where they used fir plywood according to data developed by DFPA re search laboratories. . Odd Fellows OK Sale of Building - Corvallis (U.R) Members of the Odd Fellows lodge here have announced approval of the sale of their building in downtown Corvallis for $107,200. The frame building once was a church and is on a 100-by-100 foot lot across from the former city hall that recently was sold to a department store. While actual purchase has not been announced, it was reported the J. C. Penney Company is considering leasing the building that will be built on the prop erty. Whooping Crane Family Arrives in Southland Rockport, Tex. (U.R) The first family of the nearly ex tinct Whooping cranes has ar rived at the-Arkansas National Wildlife Refuge near Rockport, Manager Julian Howard report ed yesterday. The rare bires, parents and one young showed up yesterday. The birds, which total only 21, spend the sum mer in Canada and return to Texas for the winter. The mummy cases of many of the Egyptian kings were made of plywood. . . EXTEND 1905 Mm mi 19551 TO TOE FHCS o PLYWOOE) ONIDWILISTOY ' on their 50 YEARS of PROGRESS! v . . ... Today we salute the fir plywood industry which this year Is commemorating its 50th anniversary. Since its beginning the industry has grown from nothing to a $370,000,000 per year giant . . . and is still growing.. Fir plywood produced only on the West Coast' is sold .everywhere. It is used to build millions of useful things, and new uses are being discovered constantly. We are fully aware of the importance of fir plywood to the Jackson's County's economy, and we will continue to lend our support to the industry and to its efforts on behalf of fir plywood's increasing popularity and usefulness. JORGENSEN'S DAIRY PRODUCTS Another Important Jackson County Industry JORGENSEN'S DAIRY PRODUCTS mean quality purity, depend-' ability, reliability and economy . . . JORGENSEN'S DAIRY PRO DUCTS mean health for all the family . . . more vigor, stamina, and ll-'round physical and mental fitness ... JORGENSEN'S DAIRY PRODUCTS mean economy ... the biggest bargain on your groc ery list .... but above all, Jorgensen's dairy products mean deep, ' delicious goodness . . . pure, goodness. These fine products come from the expanding dairy herds of the Rogue River Valley, and dairying is an important factor in the growing economy of Jackson County! For the FINEST, Always Ask for "JORGENSEN'S" 4
