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Herman Snider Elected President Dan L. Lindsley Goes With Pope & Talbot, Of Fir Door Institute Inc.; Lumber Division

Herman Snider, general manager of Acme Door Company, Hoquiam, Wash., has been elected president of the Fir Door Institute, Tacoma, f.or 1949.

The other four ofifrcers, and trustees, elected at the annual meeting, at the Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, are:

Vice-President-A' C. Peterson, sales manager' Buffelen Manufacturing Company, Tacoma'

Treasurer-N. O. Cruver, president, The Wheeler Osgood Company, Tacoma'

Secretary-T. B. Malarkey, vice president, M and M Wood Working Co., Portland, Ore'

Trustee-R. E. Seeley, vice president, Simpson Logging Company, Seattle, Wash.

Snider, who has for many years been associated with the Douglas Fir stock door industry' was one of the organizers of Acme Door Company in 1939. The previous name of the company was American Door Company, for which he had worked for some years' as well as the Durable Door Company, at Hoquiam.

Born in Idaho, Snider moved with his family, when a boy, to Centralia, Wash. His first job was with the Henry Vtccleaty Timber Company of McClearl, Wash' He remained with that company for some years and then moved up the ladder in such door companies as The Wheeler Osgood Company and Buffelen Manufacturing Company in Tacoma.

Dan L. Lindsley joined the Pope & Talbot, Inc', Lumber Division, on January I and will be located in the company's Portland office.

He started with the Pacific Creosoting Co' in Seattle in May,1927. He was sent to Los Angeles by the West Coast Wood Preserving Co. in October, 1930, and until July 1935 officed 'ivith the Consolidated Lumber Co', who were California agents for the company during that time'

In July, 1935, J. H' Baxter & Co', took over the West Coast Wood Preserving Company representation in California and Mr. Lindsley moved into their of6ce, working for them directly from January l, 1941, until the present time. He was sales promotion and field engineer in the wood preserving field for both concerns' West Coast Wood Preserving Company and J. H. Baxter & Co'

Prior to coming to Seattle in 1927, he was in the Cedar pole business in Chicago with Lindsley Bros' Co' of SpoLurr" u. vice president in their Chicago ofifice in charge of sales.

The Fir Door Institute, of which he will serve as president until the next annual meeting, was reorganized in July,1947, At that time it was placed under the direction ti ;"tt" O'Hara Harte who continues as managing director of the grouP.

The Institute has its offices in the Rust Building, Tacoma.

Typical of the hundreds of farm uses for Exterior-type Douglas fir plywood is thig arched-roof poultry brooder house-built and tested at Iowa State College. It is lighter and more rigid than a conventionally built structure. , easier to heat practically impervious to wind.