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PAGE SIXTEEN HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON MONDAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1954 Weyerhaeuser (Development ......... . Hardboard Gives New Kole To Lowly White Fir During the last ten years Indus : trial scientists have poured hun dreds of exciting new products from their test-tubes. Advertising copywriters have sharpened their pencils and their adjectives to cre ate a familiar ring to some words little known a decade ago: ura nium, isotopes, fiberglas, vinyl, neo- prene, koroseal, unlvac, etc. American Industrial Ingenuity has worked at top speed to pro vide better products, new products, things which add life, strength, beauty, versatility, function to the Implements of our everyday life. Many so-called man-made fiber products have been introduced, particularly in textiles; silk has bowed to nylon, wool is worried by orlon, dacron Is Invading sock coun ters In the nation's department stores. Though man-made fibers have made headlines during this post war decade, Weyerhaeuser develop ment men have made dramatic strides In freeing the natural fibers of wood man's oldest raw mater ialand recomblnlng them into new shspes for an Impressive num ber of industrial and consumer uses. Latest Weyerhaeuser develop ment in the field of wnole-wood fiber products is hardboard, which began commercial-scale production last month in a new, specially de signed plant In Klamath Falls, Ore gon. Weyerhaeuser hardboard Is the result of 15 years of aggressive study, carefully planned develop ment, pilot-plant trials, and inten sive market exploration. This ver satile forest product Is entering the market via a new manufactur ing process which gives it a su periority In performance and util ity. C. C. Heritage, weyerhaeuser's director of development, and Hugh B. Campbell, the company's Klam ath Falls branch manager, describe Good Menial Attitude May Be Help Against Cancer (The March of Science; Menta! Defense Against Cancer) By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE AP Science Reporter HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 13 Wl A happy, calm mind may be a good defense against cancer. So far there is a little evidence that being serene emotionally can alow down the growth of cancers. Studies under way here are going even further to learn If the ability to Handle the stresses of life easily could prevent cancers from developing. There Is a tle-UD between some kinds of cancers and the body's output of hormones. Certain hor mones make some cancers grow faster. And many kinds of stress, from worry to fear, anger, frus tration, excitement, can stimulate the output of hormones, - ' This interconnection between emotions, glands, and cancer Is the basis of new studies being mane at M. D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research of the Univ ersity of Texas by Drs; Beatrix Cobb and Jack Wheeler, psycho logists of the Department of Psychosomatio Medicine, and Dr. Jack Trunnell, head of Experimen tal Medicine. A first step concerns men with cancer of the prostate gland. This gland produces s chemical, an en zyme known as acid phosphatase, which is a pretty good barometer of how active the cancer is. More ensyme gets Into the bloodstream wnen the cancer is growine activ. ely; less when the cancer is quiet or under control. The medical team sometimes iinas a snarp diop in the enzyme wnen men with this cancer enter the hospital for treatment. The mere fact of being in the hospital makes the cancer grow slower. Why does this peculiar thing hap pen? A reason could be a change in mental outlook, more peace of mind. The man may no longer be worrying about whether to seek treatment, or may have overcome his fear of surgery, or is avoid ing stress because now the hos pital, not himself, is responsible Recruiter TECUMSEH. Okla. Ml State Trooper George Moore, questioning four young airmen from Sheppard Air Force Base, Tex., about a minor trafflo accident, thought the faces looked familiar. Wanted? Not quite. He had inducted th fam. ,hn. serving as a recruiting sergeant at Tahlequah, Okla., two years ago. for decisions. If that's true, then any new stress or worry should Increase the enzyme in his blood, meaning his cancer was growing again. To .test this, Drs. Cobb and Wheeler are trying to create psy. etiologies stresses. In one expert ment, a man was made to feel frustrated, angry at himself. There was a snarp increase in We tell. tale enzyme during three days of the test, then it dropped when his problem was solved. But the in crease had appeared a day before the test began, and so could be co incidence. More persons will be tested to see It stress affects the growth of cancers of the prostate, the breast, thyroid, and melanomas or black cancers. It's known that male sex hor mones can make prostate cancer grow faster. A treatment is to re move the male sex glands, and often slows cancer growth, or brings the cancer under control. MORE th nlant and oroducts as entire. ly different from anything prev iously Known in . ine naraooaro field. "The basic raw material of our hardboard," Campbell said, "is white fir abies concolor a species which grows In the western Dine area. In the past white tu nas had relatively low merchant able value, althougn we nave used it in the manulactuie of both lum ber and box shook. Now, with this new hardboard plant In production. we have perfected an important use for this species which occurs abundantly on our Oregon pine-area tree larms." Heiitnte pointed out that the plant is unique in Its flexibility. "Instead of limiting production to a single line of hardboard prod ucts, these facilities were planned so that we can manufacture a line of custom-tailored boards to meet the exacting needs of various Industrial users and processors." In manufacturing hardboard. Weyerhaeuser literally takes a tree apart, processes the ultimate whole wood fibers, and reconstitutes them Into an entirely new form of wood which then has a host of added. bonus qualities. After the white fir logs are chipped into pieces of uniform size, tt. chips are conveyed into one of three Asplund deflbrators. The machines reduce the wood to ultimate whole-wood fibers, un changed from their natural condi tion in the tree, by rubbing the chips apart. Tms defibratlng is done in an atmosphere of moderate steam pressure. If required, addi tives are introduced for tailored uses during the defibratlng. The defibratmg completed, the fi bers are further processed and modified by Weyerhaeuser-devel-oped Innovations. They are con tinuously felted from air suspension then hot-pressed into boards, hum idified to prevent warpage. trimmed and cut to specified size. Weyerhaeuser Timber Com pany," Heritage emphasized, "is first to produce hardboard by a dry process using Asplund-deflbra-tor fiber." Three types of hardboard are be ing made at Klamath Falls: stan dard, treated and tallored-to-the- use. The latter category is in 9th and Pine Phone 3188 a class by itself. The tailored pan els can be designed to take various stresses, to be cut by special tools, and to take various finishes, de pending upon the customer's spe cific requirements. Both the standard and treuttd Weyerhaeuser hardboards score highly in their basic characteris tics. In appearance, they have a uniformity of color, smoothness, surface texture (liber fineness). and gloss; the surface is hard, the edges clean-cut r.nd rugged. They nave exceptional uuruDini.v stltl- ness and transverse strength, impact-and abrasion resistance. The boards are readily handled, transported, and applied through their uniformity of thickness and density. In regard to permanence, the boards have the ability to with stand, without undue change, ex posure to moisture, heat, sun light, air, microorganisms, vermin, rodents, and wind; they are dl menslonally stable. These boards are exceedingly workable, having the ability to take nails and screws without, damas-e. They can be cut with knife edges, polished by buffing, easily and cleanly drilled, punched without purring, bent to permanent con tours, sawed, flexed, sanded. painted without bleed-through, and can take a baked-on enamel. In all their important character istics, the boards have high degrees of uniformity, especially in color, thickness, density and smoothness. The treated board, by choice of raw materials and processing con ditions, including pressing to higher densities, provides a board of su perior characteristics. Weyerhaeuser hardboards may be smooth on one side and a screened texture on the other, or smooth on both sides. These hard-boards have great internal bond strength which permits short - radius bends t-nd close edge-nailing, and provide good gluing characteristics either to nardboard itself or to other ma terials. The smooth surface has a good affinity for paints and fin ishes. Generally. Weyerhaeuser hard- boards will go to four classes of customers: retail lumber dealers. distributors. Industrial firms who win use it in their products, and to fabricators who will cut and shape the board for special uses. The end.uses for hardboards are practically limitless, in that new uses constantly are being de veloped. However, some of the cur rent Items In which hardboard ap pears are television cabinets and backs, auto parts, floor undcrlay- ment, mirror backs, furniture pan els, drawer bottoms, sliding cabi net doors, display racks, core ma terials for veneers and metals and plastics, perforated board, ply wood - and - hardboard combina tions called "Plyron." die - cut boards, template boards, . interior dry-wall panels, tiling, millwork Items, toys, novelties, containers, window valances, home radiator covers, window seats, card table tops, bed headboards, waste-baskets, door panels, and many others. The regular types of Weyerhaeus er hardboard are being made In four thicknesses: 1-lOth-lnch, Vnth- incn. 3-i6tn-inch, and Kth-inch. The board Intended for floor underlay- ment will be planed to T-32nds of an inch thick. Tailored boards cau be made in varying thicknesses, densities; and types. Panel sizes for all Hypes and thicknesses will be tour feet wide and up to sixteen feet in length. . R. D. Pauley, special products division manager, formerly mana ger of the company a Longvlew, Washington, development center. and his successor in the latter position, J. R. Roberts, imple mented the project, -and Roberts has supervised the new Klamath Falls plant chakedown period. For nearly three years, the develop ment center's process engineering section headed by Jack Sheridan, ran more than 35,000 press loads of hardboard through the pilot plant. process Engineers Norman Brlggs and George Matter estimated thnt three-quarters of a million sauare leet of hardboard were mada dur ing that period and sold by mar ket-exploration men. R. O. Bath iany, development center project engineer, was active in liaison work. The laboratory end of hardboard development was done by a team spearheaded by the center's ap plied cnemistry section chief, Arne Esterer. Special process machin ery was engineered by a team led by Arch McKeever of the center's mechanical engineering section. General plant engineering was accomplished by the company's Ta coma engineering - department. headed by J. S. Abel. Jack Rob inson, originally the hardboard program's project engineer, was later appointed to superintend the new plant by Ralph R. Macartney, recently retired Klamath Falls branch manager. . In Klamath Falls, ' construction was supervised by Dale Alter, the branch's chief millwright. Preliminary market investigation during 1949-50 was done by Roberts. The development center's John Crosby later handled the field trials and customer contact for pilot-plant production from Chicago. Still later, the company's special products division staff helped in market exploration and sales. Weyerhaeuser Sales Company has named R. T. Miller, St. Paul, Minnesota, to be manager of hard- board sales. He has a specially trained hardboard sales staff now In the field. One thousand feet (log scale) of white fir will make 4.000 sauare feet ot t-uth-incli hardboard. The plant will probably process about 25 mil lion feet of white fir per year. The plant is completed; t n e presses are turning out a new Weyerhaeuser forest product; 15 years of development now pays oir The implications and benefltls of this hardboard plant are wide spread. To its customers i-.nd users, nard board is a superior product, spe cially designed to do a better job for them. . i To the town of Klamath Falls, hardboard means 125 new Jobs and more community stability. To the company, hardboard means a broadened marketing base and another step In forest-harvest utilization. To the development center, hard boprd means another new forest u.iduct has been successfully created, introduced, and accepted. new uses are ' oeing round for nature's fibers grown on tree farms. Quick! 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