The Times Standard from Eureka, California • Page 21

Creative Building Aim Of Modern Wooden Toys Today's small fry starts working with wood before they're old enough to aim a hammer, according to spokes- Now the trend is to large-size wo'od hollow blocks, prefabricated building components such Redwood Output Bald Hill Improvement A i "I i Association Formed lo Maintain Vital Roadway Finally realizing that taxes paid into the county's coffer! board feet in August, bringing the total for the first eight months to 397,389,000 board dustries. Small children like the feel of wood because it was once a living thing, according to the Toy Guidance Council, Inc. And they now get an early start on creative building because their material is in more realistic form, the National Lumber Manufacturers association adds. Father may struggle with a pattern for making a coffee table but Junior already knows his way around such use of boards and strips. Use of wood equipment and wood materials in schools and nurseries has also influenced parents to provide similar playthings at home, it was pointed out by Mrs.

Lenore K. Bartlett, former teacher and operator of the Play Center, which supplies many schools in the Washington D.C. area with play equipment. "We hope that the gadget era is on the way out," Mrs board feet in the like period of 1953, the California Redwood Association reported. Shipments of redwood by the reporting companies a 389,033,000 board feet in the first eight months of 1954, compared with 349,671,000 board ieet in the like period last year.

Stocks on hand as of August 31 stood at 340,373,000 board feet, against 334,073.000 board The Eureka Newspapers, Inc. ramps and but hold a child's interest long and Humboldt county i and maintain themselves a roadway to the.r joint in terests, but which lay beyond the means of the county road department to keep in log-hauling condition. M. C. Skelton, vice president and road superintendent for the newly formed Bald Hills Road Improvement association, said the loggers recognized the Straw Expected To Outdo Wood In Box Building organization was formed, and has so far put about $20,000 into maintainance on the road.

Ui.1 i His a had a rock Box Board Co. crushing plant and furnished ALTON, III. Paperboard made from wheat straw instead of the usual wood pulps may produce boxes that can take more crushing, reports Alton the Joggers -th material to start the 1m- lundj provemejits then the corp to maintain the much-used Bald Hills road to an extenet that PPT aaainsL feet on August 31, 1953, while produces efficient hauling IBtJl uii 5 uoi. i tical curves, ramps ana The empha tresses. sis "both at school and home is! "Children's building blocks n(w toys and i that letj have evolved into miniature: he imaginative powers! lumber yards," Leo V.

Bodme, orders on hand as of August 31 this year were equivalent to 67,737,000 board feet against board feet last year. oration was formed. realized they must maintain the road themselves to minimize travel time and to cut wear and a lime emu -L4i. w--. tear on equipment.

A non-profit! dlvidens last year. The firm's new product, "Cor- U-Cel," is used as the grooved center portion of the corrugated material that helph make paperboard boxes strong. It "excels American farmer-members of the product manufactured from in Marvin W. Swaim, vice president, explains that the corrugated part used to be made almost exclusively of straw, bul that during the last few years, I I I li I I -not, the Alton official reports. NEW 4-H ASSISTANT: Kenneth Zamzow, 24, arrived in Ukiah to take over duties ss upturnedTto first fuMime to wood pulps to get bettor crush r.n.miv 15 4 resistance.

The new development "should reverse that trend" Mr. Swaim believes. farm loan associations received almost four million dollars in traditional wood pulps in ability to withstand crushing, Alton says. Usual methods of making County's 15 new advisor was Mendocino clubs. The from Oregon State College in 3952 with a degree in animal husbandry, and spent two years in the army with rtr.wtalopVperbo.rd c.ok and two years in the wrtj wash away the bulk of the ad-j veterinary.

He is a native of Oil executive vice president of the National Lumber Manufactur- said. "Schools take over where the toy design ers leave Wood usually fills this role well. Children unde- i niably like the feel of wood a ers association, amia. niably HKe tne leei ui wuuu and nurseries are equipped! secure an confident in! with extensive 'lumber stacks solid wood units and large hollow wood blocks in modular sizes, together with Jm ade of oo d. They are cleated or notched for easy dont rust or ge hot or sembly.

The nursery set builds cold nese ood ladder net- airports, apartment houses, worl long lasting play farms and stores. "Even before they I working and playing with it. "For example, gyms and lad- nodular der un gies for young children boards' of wood. They are 1 hesive substances in the are ideas; they may be floored and uciu old ro ofed with cleated boards at enough for hammer and different levels to make a house. projects, youngsters today are developing a lifetime familiarity with woodworking.

is because educators and toy designers some years ago found Large blocks are inserted into: the ladder squares to make! tables, seats and platforms." Children are the original do- it-yourself enthusiasts, accord- that children' were happier ing to Mrs. Bartlett. "They don't when they could work creative- like to be spectators and watch -J a toy work," she said. "They want to work their toys and put their own ideas into action ly with wood. They discovered that a child outgrew his varicolored ABC blocks as soon as he realized that the house he was trying to build didn't look EXPERIMENTS PAY: Improv- like a real house.

This brought led drying techniques and re- to the market sets of cost of yard and kiln blocks in interrelated shapes drying have been resultts of ex- that i encouraging periments carried on by the building material." I Redwood Seasoning Committee. Plain talk about INSURANCE DO YOU SHOOT CRAPS Maybe not, but if you haven't checked your insurance policies, lately, you're qquite a gambler. Should lire destroy your home, the insurance you took out ten years ago would only half replace it. Quit gambling--have George Petersen adjust your insurance program before too late. TRY US! BE ON THE SAFE SIDE Coll Now! CATERPILLAR 50 YEARS ON TRACKS! PIONEER Fifty years ago this November, Benjamin Holt tested the first crawler tractor.

Caterpillar today is the result of a merger between the Holt firm and another early prominent builder, the C. Best Tractor Company. LEADER The year 1954 Is a significant milepost because the crawler has played such an Important role in the progress of our nation, in both peace and war. During this half century it has been instrumental in development of modern methods in the construction, logging, mining, oil and agricultural fields, which affect all of us in way or another. A GLIMPSE of the FUTURE This year Caterpillar gave us a look at the future with the huge new D9X, world's largest crawler tractor.

Shown opposite are Brizard-Marthews Machinery Company personnel looking over the D9X. This machine is an experimental tractor and has been tested the past summer at the Hammond Lumber Company and at the Pacific Lumber Company. The approximate dimensions are 10 feet wide, 18 feet long, 10 feet high, with a weight of approximately 75,000 Ibs. when equipped for logging. GEO.

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