SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1955
IIERALI) AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE FIVE
Golden Building Ideas
To Be Shown At I(F Jubilee
OPERATING A GLUE SPREADER for the cold press at the Kalpine Plywood plant, these mill
workers stack the layers of veneer after it passes through the glue spreading machine. Herbert
Bigby, left, feeds the machine and Willard Brookshire, center, and James Sudbury, right, stack
. the sheets with the glue applied. The day Herald and News photographer Don Kettler was tour-'
ing the plant the men were making Vi inch interior plywood. The stacks of plywood are taken
to the cold press from the glue spreading machine.
re i en auiicn, pioneer
Grays Harbor lumber and
logging man, bought into the
Portland Manufacturing Co.
a short time before the first
fir panels were made.
Fun, Exhibits Slated For KF
Caliope music and waving ban
ners, a carnival atmosphere and
industrial horse sense, entertain
ment and information: all of these
are built into the Fir Plywood Ju
bilee free show which comes here
on Tuesday, October 25.
The show, which is designed to
attract every member of the fam
ily, will be located at the fair
grounds exhibit building, hours 2 to
9 p.m., during its stay here.
This traveling showpiece for fir
plywood is part of the year-long
promotional program of the Doug
las Fir Plywood Association honor
ing the West Coast industry's 50th
anniversary.
Displays cover the most dramat
ic elements of the "Fifty Golden
Ideas" for fir plywood construc
tion unveiled during the industry's
annual meeting at Portland, Ore
gon, in mid-June: a plywood mo
bile telling the story of industry
promotion through DFPA, the story
of markets and snipping, a sound
color movie showing how plywood
Is manufactured, and a fir plywood
menagerie: colorful circus animals
built from the versatile panels.
The entire show is accented by
the circus format, complete down
to the big red caravan wagons em
blazoned with jubilee announce
ments. Two. themes dominate the dis
plays: "You Can Build Anything
With Fir Plywood," and a mes
sage to people in plywood mill
towns of the Pacific Northwest and
Northern California where the show
will visit: "Fir Plywood is Made
Here Sold Everywhere."
The best of the western fir ply
wood industry's "Fifty Golden
Ideas In Architecture" will be
shown in dramatically lighted
color exhibit in the Golden Jubilee
ndustrial show Tuesday, October
35.
It's a free show with all the color
and drama of a carnival. It runs
from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Fair
grounds Exhibit Building.
The display of Golden Ideas will
be of partic. liar interest to home
owners, home buyers ana others
who are interested in things that
set the pace" in architecture
Some of the ideas are radical and
possibly controversial. Others are
do-it-yourself items ranging from
an imaginative boat bed to an un
usual set of triangular tumbler
blocks.
The ideas in the exhibit showing
here are the most dramatic of
those unveiled at the plywood in'
dustry'a historic Golden Jubilee an
nual meeting in Portland in June.
The 50 ideas honor the 50th an
nlversarv of the west's fir ply
wood industry being celebrated
with a year-long promotional ef.
fort for 1955. This program
of which the traveling show, to ply-
w o o d mllltowns of tne pacinc
Northwest and Northern California
is Just one part is expected to
spark an Increase of 10 million
feet a week in plywood sales.
In the "Golden Ideas" are
some brand new ways to use fir
plywood in home design that arc
expected to find their way into
general use because of practical'
lty and artistic merit. These in
elude an adaptation of a Japanese
bouse which almost eliminates the
need for furniture. It uses, instead,
island platforms defining traffic
patterns in the home. ,
Designed by Chris Choate,
l.os Angeles architect, the plat
forms are incorporated in a four
way plan containing new ideas for
a small home. The island units in.
elude a conversation platform sep
arating seating and traffic circu
lation, and substituting for an en
tire furniture - grouping: living
room furniture In the living room
and bedroom furniture in that ele
ment of the house.
A platform consists of 'i-lnch
plywood surface raised six inch
es above tne lioor. its main sec
tlon is covered with thick carpet
ing. On that platform, a further
elevation (also of plywood: of from
four to seven Inches is topped by
a low foam rubber cushion to form
a divan without arms or back
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Adjoining the divan Is a raised
plywood surface about level
with the cushion serving as an i
end table. The whole element in
the pilot model is 12-leet square,
mounted on a conventional trame
which is concealed by one-inch hor
izontal louvers which make the
platform appear even lower.
Another of the "Golden Ideas"
on display in the traveling show Is
the indoor-outdoor kitchen devel
oped by Anshen and Allen, a team
of San Francisco architects. '
This is Dart of an overall con
cept for indoor-outdoor living areas
in keemnK wun me irenu wwwu
blending house and landscape. In
this plan, an open central pauo
garden is closed off by glass. Ar
ranged around tnis in a -u snape
is an indoor barbecue area, an
all-purpose space (variously a TV
room. piayroom, a witucu
and a breakfast area.
The entire concept is accented
by a five-foot high indoor stone
barbecue directly nncHu ui uic
hnm entrance. The wnoie raea
makes a garden setting out of the
living - dining - working area.
Also amonir the "Golden Ideas
riisninved in the show is a new
way of using the currently wasted
wlthln-wall space. This design by
Choate breaks away trom tne con
cept that a wall is a flat plane.
By widening tne joist space anui-
lv. volume within tne wan is con
into directly usuable stor
age space. The idea memoes lei
down leaves, shelves and flat areas
of glass which break the wall Into
an attractive visual pattern. This
nnnnnnt lis Texture One-Eleven
(grooved fir plywood) to provide
supports for movable shelves.
Another of the ideas is a dramat
i. i,,,hor.ni. tble built around a
Japanese habachi cooker. This de
lightful piece of furniture is built
of a fir plywood specialty product
that, was first conceived as a panel
for concrete forms. These are pan
els surfaced with a high density
resin fiber which Is glass smootn,
agate hard, tough and wear reslS'
tant.
cithers of the "Golden Ideas'
are expected to stir the lmagin
tions of designers and home own'
ers to the possibilities Inherent in
the big. easy-to-use modular pan-
All of the ideas on display are
presented in full color, in large
color transparencies or in model
form.
TO THE
Plywood Industry
ON ITS 50th ANNIVERSARY
The business of manufacturing fir plywood is SO
years old this year, so we are happy to ioin the Nation's
salute to this $370,000,000 West Coast industry. And
we have faith that as new markets . . . new uses . . are
developed for fir plywood, our region will continue to
grow and prosper. May your next 50 years show as much
progress!
Be Sure To Attend the Big Fir Plywood
Jubilee at the Klamath County Fairgrounds
Tuesday, October 25, 2 to 9 p.m.
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TO THE PLYWOOD INDUSTRY
On the Celebration of
PLYWOOD'S
GOLDEN JUBILEE
Be Sure
To Attend
The Big
Free Show
Tuesday
A gigantic circus-type exposition will be at the
Klamath County Fairgrounds Tuesday. There's
something of interest for every member of the fam
ily. And, be sure to attend Kalpine's open house
Tuesday afternoon. You'll become better acquainted
with one of the West Coast's largest industries!
We Are Proud of the Part We
Have Played In the Plywood
Industry
Klamath Iron Works has just completed buildinq a
new "Barker" for Kalpine Plywood. Be sure to see
it during Kalpine's open house. And for heovy
industrial machinery of any type, be sure to see . . .
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Phone 7721
Your Klamath Theatres Salute The Lumber Industry
YOUR MEN WORK HARD IN THE WOODS AND MILLS TO BRING US THE MATERIALS FOR
BETTER LIVING .. .
We Try To Provide For Their Entertainment With The Finest Products Of The Movie Industry
50 YEARS OF PROGRESS
We salute the Fir Plywood industry which is
celebrating its 50th Anniversary and urge
you to attend the Fir Plywood Jubilee FREE
SHOW at the Foirgrounds Tuesday, October
25.
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Congratulations on
FIR PLYWOOD'S
50th AI1UIVERSARY
We salute the great plywood industry
on its 50th anniversary. Plywood repre
sents an important forward step in our
forest, products industry. It has created
new jobs and new payrolls along with a
great variety of appealing and usable
products which find wide distribution. The
future of fir plywood holds rich promise
of even greater growth.
To the management and workers in this
important industry we extend our eon
gratulatwng...and pledge continued sup.
port of "an Oregon bank serving Oregon."
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OREGON'S OWN STATE-WIDE BANK