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Announces Extensive Plant Expansion

(Continued from Page 16) end, this line of wood fiber felt was quickly accepted as a new and unique material suitable for industrial uses," Mr Pattie said. "Because Tufilex combines the qualities of resilience, flexibility, fleecy softness and durability, it found ready acceptance in many industrial fields, and demand soon exceeded plant capacity. Currently, Tufflex is serving more than a hundred industrial uses throughout the United States."

Prominent among the uses of Tufflex, Mr. Pattie said, are its application as a sound and thermal insulation in the roofs and dashboards of automobiles, as a cushioning material in upholstered furniture, protective wrapping for the shipment of fragile items such as lighting fixtures, and as padding in mattress borders.

"Our continued emphasis on research and development of new products," Mr. Pattie stated, "will, in the future, produce a still wider variety of materials to serve housing and industrial markets. In doing so' we will create an increasing number of employment opportunities and further the development of the pulpwood industry in northern Minnesota."

Wood Conversion Company began construction of its first production unit in Cloquet, Minnesota nearly 26 yeats ago. From the original small plant producing a single productBalsam-Wool house insulation, and employing less than a score of people, the company has expanded to an organization of national prominence'

1948 Reveille To Bc Held At

Claremont Hotel April 23

Announcement is made by Tom Hogan, Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland, general chairman of committees for the 1948 Reveille, that this big annual event will be held on Friday, Apri| 23, at the Claremont Hotel, Berkeley.

Sponsored as in past years by Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, this year's Reveille will draw a big crowd of lumbermen. As usual there will be a golf tournament in the afternoon, and a banquet and entertainment in the evening.

Committee chairmen announced by Mr. Hogan are as follows : Banquet Committee, Tom Jacobsen; Finance Committee, Lu Green; Program Committee, Tom Jacobsen, Jr.; Pubticity Committee, Bill McCubbin; Ticket Sales Committee, Herb Farrell; Golf Committee, Miland Grant and Chris Sechrist.

Elected Association Director

C. Gilmore Ward, president of the Ward-Harrington Lumber Company, Fullerton, was elected a member of the board of directors of the Southern Calilornia Retail Lumber Association at a meeting of the Orange County lumber dealers at a dinner meeting held at the Elks Club, Anaheim, January D. Walter Spicer, of the same firm, will act as his alternate. Wilbur Barr, president of the Barr Lumber Company, Santa Ana, Presided.

Mr. Ward succeeds Mr. Barr, who served on the board from that area for a long Period.