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is John Brewer, general superintendent and assistant general manager; I(eith Elschlzrger, knife grinder and salv liler; Carl Wilson, moulder operator; Don Boles, matcher operator, and Hugh Hannon, vice-president. The all-new plant has been designed for future expansion ar-rd is located in the heart of the Los Angeles industrial area and harbor district at l52nd street and Figueroa. It is just minutes in transportation from freeways which serve all Southern California cities and communities.

"Service is our most important product and has been for almost three decades, said President l{annon, "and we intend to grow with Southern California and will continue to offer unexcelled custom millwork on scheclulecl opelation."

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(Continued from Page 6) ucts Company, Pan Asiatic Trading Company, Inc., and the C. B. Smith Company.

It lvas resolved by unanimous vote that the Imported Hardwood Plyrvood Association and the Japanese Plywood Trade Promotional Committee immediately act to coordinate progressive, constructive activity to improve the im- portation of Japanese hardrvood plyrvood.

A similar meeting oI the IHPA members of the San Francisco area with Japanese trading firms was held in San Francis'co on March 8. IHPA member firms represented were Berelson, fnc., Beton & Company, Inc., The E,ast Asiatic Company, Inc., Getz Bros. & Company, Pacific Coast Division-W. R. Grace & Company, Isbrandtsen Company of California, Inc., and Ziel & Company, Inc. American President Lines, an associate member, was also represented.

As in the joint meeting in l-os Angeles, there were reviewed the obje,ctives and progress of the association. Ho'r,'r'ever, in the San Francisco meeting, there developed a discussion on the latest developments in the campaign of the domestic plywood interests in their efforts to get the Congress to legislate a quota on the import of Japanese plywood.

After the meeting, Executive Vice-President Jan van Wyngaarden announced that definite steps were being taken to counter this action. "We are prepared to lay the facts before the public, the ,consumer, the supplier and the United States Congress," he said. "We defeated these same interests in their attempt before the United States Tariff Commission in the escape clause action by the Commission. to get the import duty of Japanese plyrvood imported into the United States increased."

A revierv by the directors of the Tariff Commission's report in the Escape Clause Action showed that the hardwood plywood group could not prove damage to the domestic hardwood plywood industry from imported plywood. Other factors reported to be responsible for the success of foreign plywood vl'ere preference for Lauan and other Japanese plywoods over the domestic gum, and other types of domestic plywood. Domestic plywood suppliers were said to have commented on the quality of the Japanese product.

A report by one of the directors showed that the bulk of the plywood imported into this country consists of Lauan,