Red Cedar Shingle Bureau Holds Annual Meeting

Seattle, Wash., Dec. 10, 1948-The clevelopment and expansion of markets for red cedar shingles throughout America was the theme of the 32ncl annual meeting of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, held here today.

First announcement l'as made at the meeting of the IJureau's plans to promote on a national scale during 1949 an attractive all-sl-ringled house design, knorn'n as the Certigrade National Home. R. V. Winters, vice president of National Plan Service, Chicago, described the program to the 200 Pacific Northrvest shingle manufacturers assembled for the convention, and presented an attractive model of the home to W.W. Woodbridge, secretary-manager of the Bureau.

Other featured speakers at the meeting u'ere Phil Runion, secretary of the Nebraska Lumber Merchants Association, Lincoln, Nebraska; Ralph N{arteney, Kansas Whole- sale Lumber Co., Wichita, Kansas; Neil NI. Mathews, vice president of Farm Journal Publishing Co., Philadelphia; Chas. W. Goodrum, C. W. Goodrum Lumber & Shingle Co., Kansas City; and P. W. Bailey, Stained Shingle and Shake Association, Seattle.

Offrcers of the Bureau elected at the meeting were E. It. Scott of Edmonds, Washington, president; W. H. McLallel of Vancouver, B. C., vice-president; W. W. Woodbridge, Seattle, secretary, and Virgil G. Peterson, Seattle, treasurer,

Woodbridge described the meeting as marking the initial step in an intensified program of cedar shingle advertising and trade promotion. He pointed to a rising volume of sliingle production, approximating six million squares in 1948, stating that the shingle industry has made a remarkable recovery from its wartime position, rvhen output was at a low ebb.