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mitment to product quality, at a time when regulatory agency requirements affecting quality are steadily becoming more stringent.

Moore suggested that while quality problems may be limited to quite a small segment of the industry, an entirely new approach should be developed to foster pride in workmanship. He urged the industry to work toward the goal of a guaranteed plywood glueline.

Bronson Lewis announced that the board of trustees has ok'd purchase or lease of two blister detectors. These will be outfitted as mobile units

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Speokers urge o relurn lo strong selling role for plywood industry in 1974 . . o commitment to increosed producl quolity needed to combot increosed regulotory ogency oction . Emory Moore elecled to top slot.

for use by the Division For Product Approval at member plants in the West and South. The new equipment will'not be used for quality enforcement but will provide problem-solving information for the benefit of the industry.

The new officers elected at the Portland meeting chairman of the board of trustees, Emory E. Moore, president of SWF Plywood Co., Albany, Ore.; president, John A. Ball, president, U.S. Plywood div., Champion International, New York; vp., William C. Smith, Timber Products Co., Medford, Ore.

New trustees elected to the board are Ralph G. DeMoisy, Fiberboard Corp.; Ward K. Hoseid, Great Northern Plywood Co.; Eliot H. Jenkins, International Paper Corp.; William Swindells, Jr., Willamette Industries; and F. M. Thomson, Peninsula Plywood Corp.

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President of the National Forest Products fusn.. Alfred Baxter save the meeting an up-to-the-minute- ac. count of key legislative and political issues confronting the wood produch industry. Among "bright spots" in timber supply, he listed steps being taken under the leadership of Cost of

Living Council Chairman John DunIop to increase federal timber sales by 1.8 billion board feet this year, and assurances that promise increases in Forest Service levels of harvesting will definitely occur.

Among issues of grave current concern, he identified 5.1033, the Packwood-Stevenson bill which would curb exports.of softwood lumber and plywood as well as logs. The bill would extend restrictions to all 50 states.

"This portion of the bill must be eliminated," said Baxter. He said the measure would set an annual export ceiling, of. 2r/a billion board feei on softwood logs and I.2 billion board feet on softwood lumber. "Plywood will undoubtedly be included specifically by a technical amendment in the bill," he added.

Nine new member plants joined the association in the past yearBoise Southern Co., DeQuincy, La.; Industrial Lumber Products, Inc., Tacoma, IVash.; Kogap Mfg. Co., Medford, Ore.; four plants of the Louisiana-Pacific Corp.; Potlatch Corp., Lewiston, Idaho; and Tamco, Gold Beach. Ore.

At a meeting in Portland following the June annual meeting, the board of trustees appointed Joe C. Denman, presidento Temple Industries, Inc., as a voting trustee to fill a vacancy.