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World's Biggest Log Cabin to Open Featuring Forest Products Industry The biggest permanent forest products exhibit in the world will open its doors in Portland in June. And it will be housed in the world’s biggest log cabin. Port land's famed old "Parthenon of the Forest,” the mighty building whose principal supports are 52 gigantic Douglas fir logs, is being converted into a majestic "Gal lery of Trees” featuring three- dimensional exhibits of the mo dern western forest products in dustry. Completely renovated and dra matically lighted, the vast 206 by 102 foot structure will be for mally re-opened Sunday, June 8, as the initial event of Portland’s annual week-long Rose Festival. But the Gallery of Trees will be a permanent exhibit, open winter and summer without charge to visitors. Originally erected in 1905 as part of the Lewis and Clark In ternational Exposition, the vault- id ”cab«n’’ once housed exhibits of Oregon’s fir, pine, hemlock, spruce and rare myrtlewood. Now, through the combined, ef forts of Pacific Northwest forest producers and Portland citizens, it will shelter a comprehensive display of modern forest industry methods and products. Most spectacular of them all will be a replica of a fire lookout station perched high above the floor, commanding a sweeping view of the colossal colonnades «.nd exhibits nestled among them. Visitors will mount an open stairway to a catwalk around the lookout, exactly as though they were in the forest. Inside, all the instruments and equipment used in fire spotting will be demonstrated. Floor exhibits will display mo dern industrial for ‘stry, logging and sawmilling, plywood making, pulp and paper, the manufacture of hardboard and insulating board, preservative treatment of wood, construction of laminated beams, woodworking, furnitur- making, and the production of shingles, battery separators, box es and other forest products. But the historic old structure is an attraction just in itself, a mecca for tourists from all over the world for 47 years, Tower ing 72 feet tall from the crest t.f a rise overlooking the busy Willamette river harbor, it is a monument to the logger’s skill. Each of the 52 huge logs stand ing in double column formation soars 54 feet and more to the rustic rafters above, Each is six feet through at the base, five feet at the top. Each was chosen for its symmetry and its strength. The building was designed to (YESTERDAYS stand for 25 years, but only two years ago—when the structure was 45 years old—just nine ot the colossal pillars had tu be re- placed. In all, there are more than 300 of the world’s largest Douglas Fir logs in the fabled old build, ing. Most of them form the walls, and tn true log cabin fash- ion they were bitted by hand with axe and adze. Hardly a nail was used. Inside, the cathedral sque cab in resembles the temples of old with their fluted marblu columns. Unlighted, only the twilight of tall timber illumi nates the scene and even the acoustical quality "bf the deep forest has been remarkably re- produced. In the "good old days," the building was construct d for only $30,165. Logs were put in place for about $50 each. Today the same logs would cost well ovei $500. The complete construction probably could not b? duplicated FIVE YEARS AGO From Th* Eagle. June 5, 1947 Because of the early appear ance of fireworks this year, the council Monday specifically in structed city police to enforce an ordinance adopt. d some years ago which prohibits both their sale and use within the corporate city limits. A reunion of the class of ’32 of Vernoma high school was held May 30 with 27 present. Des mond Laird was named pn sident and Mrs. Ervin Smith, secretary to taka charge of future re- for less than a half-million dol lars. As the "Gallery of Trees." it will now house a collection of exhibits representing th* west’s biggest economic factor—a billion dollar business that has grown from the simple function of lum ber production to a complex in- dustry turning out a multitude of forest products, It will link the past with the present in Portland, the world’s most forest - ed city. Stainless Sheen 1 RUBBER-BASE WALL PAINT J . .. 1 unions. Grant McCabe, son of Frank McCabe, has enlisted in the army air corps. He left hire June 4 for McChord field. TEN YEARS AGO From The Eagle. June 4. 1942 Ten boys who completed fores try classes held during four even ings at the high school last spring are now working in the Hamlet area in Tillamook county and at the Wilark guard station, They are: Clayton Aldrich, Keith Walker. Donald Zeiner, Bill Shepard, Elmer Goodman, Har- vey Johnson, Arthur Tousle y. Ralph McDonald and Melvin Schwab. Dick Fletcher was named cap tain of the Vernonia golf team that is slated to meet Sears and Roebuck in an 18-hole mutch here Sunday, The tournament committee of Phil Taylor, John Roediger and Ed Horn and the handicap and rules committee of Tom Bateman and C. L. Ander son made arrangements for the tournam. nt. Two Vernonia and two Mist men were included in the list of men accepted for induction from Columbia county May 13. VERNONIA. ORE They were: Richard D. Banzer and Stanley L. Mathews, Mist, and Leon E. Brock and Carl E. Jensen, Vernonia. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO • From The Eagle. June 4. 1937 Lester Sheeley was elected city attorney at an adjourned council meeting of the city council Fri- day night. Mrs. Lulah E. Fullerton will present some of her piano stu- dents in a second series of reci- tals this evening. To take part are: Betty Schalock, Elsie Dun can, Annetta Lane, Bobbie Silvis, Dorothy Myers. Irene Valpiani. Marjorie Silvis, Robert Kent, Kerry Soejima, Evelyn Hearing. 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