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Americon Fciresf Products Corp. Elects Blogen qnd Gqrdner Vice-Presidents

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At the annual election of officers of American Forest Products Corporation held March 23 in San Francisco, two new vice-presidents were named: Howard W. Blagen (left) and Vernon C. Gardner. Both of these men have a lifetime of experience in the logging, sawmilling and lumber remanufacturing industry.

Howard Bligen, whose father and grandfather before him were lumbermen; was doing odd jobs around a sawmill when still a youngster. By the time he was high-school age he was working-summers in the woods, surveying and cruising timber. Mr. Blagen graduated with an enginee_ring degree-from Polytechnic College of Engineering in Oakland. He became associated with American Forest Products Corporation in 1939 as assistant sales manager in the lumber division. Subsequently he laid out millsites and engineered sawmills foi the corporation. In 1948 he became general manager of an AFPC sawmill at Wilseyville, California, which position he held until becoming director of all American Forest sawmill operations in 1958. Mr. Blagen was elected a director of the corporation in 1955.

Vernon C. Gardner (right) has spent his entire working life with American Forest Products, starting as a schoolboy sweeping out the office and doing jobs at a subsi{iary, Stoc[ton Box Company. Mr. Gardner is a graduate of Oregon State College. Through the years he has served as manager of two iompany sawmills and manager of one_ of the corporation's largest box factories and remanufacturing plants ln San Joaquin Valley. He became a director of American Forest Pioducts Corporation in 1959 and today is general manager of two of the corporalion's larqe Southern California operations, Mt. Whitney Lumber Company and Harbor Boi & Lumber Company, with two sawmills, California's largest industrial wooden box factory and remanufacturing facilities under his direction.

The entire output of American Forest Products Corporation's eleven sawmills and several remanufacturing plants is merchandised through their lumber sales subsidiary, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc.

New Mill Increoses Output Of Olympic Sroin by 3Oo/o

A 45O-gallon Patterson Pebble Mill has been added to the stain production facilities of Olympic Stained Products Co., Seattle, manufacturer of stains and prestained cedar sidings. John N. Anderson, vice-presid_ent in charge of production, said the mill would increase Olympic's production of stain by 3O/o. Olympic recently announced the addition of three n-ew types of stain : a penetrating stain, a penetrating stain wax, and a roof stain. The addition of these new stains, plus a continuing increase in sales, made the increase of stain production necessary, Anderson said.

During the first six weeks of this year, Olympic -Stain sales increased by 20,000 gallons over the comparable period of 1959. Anderson said.