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Brod Import Mcncrger

In line with its expanding interest in foreign sources and markets, United States Plywood Corporation has appointed Harold Brod as its import manager, according to an announcement by Edward J. Maroney, vice president and sales manager.

Mr. Brod, who has been with the plywood company for five years, will coordinate activities in the importation of all plywoods, especially flat-cut Honduras mahogany, manufactured at the organization's Panama mill.

Wcrgrner Is U.S. C oI C Director

Corydon Wagner, 57, former president and board chairman of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, was reelected last month to the board of directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by a majority of 203 votes.

Wagner, vice president and treasurer of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wash., rolled up 733 votes to 530 for his opponent, oil man W. C. O'Ferrall of Shreveport, La.

Coast Counties Plcrn Golf

The Coast Counties Hoo-Hoo Club No. i14 is planning a big event dated August 20, 1953. It will be the annual barbecue dinner and golf tournament, the place the beautiful Monterey Peninsula Country Club. Ollie Lee rvill be general chairman of the event. Golf will start at 11:59 a.m., cocktails at 5:D p.m., and barbecue at 6:59 p.n.

Schultz to Vice Presidency

Freeman Schultz, general manager of the big sawmill of the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Company, at Flagstafi, Arizona, has been elected a vice president of the corporation, according to the announcement of G. R. Birkelund, of Chicago, president. He has been with the company for three years, but has been in the lumber business in both the United States and Alaska for 28 years.

Pres-to-logs For Jcpcrn

Weyerhaeuser Timber company officials hope to tap a Presto-log market in the Orient with a recent shipment of the cylindrical, processed fuel to Japan.

The company's first Pres-to-log shipment to the Far East left for Yokohama aboard the S.S. Java Mail last month. Export companies, familiar with the Japanese fuel market believe Japan will respond favorably to Pres-to-logs, creating an excellent foreign outlet.

Special crating for the logs was developed by Weyerhaeuser at Longview, Washington, one of several Weyerhaeuser branches in Oregon and Washington producing Pres-to-logs. t'he initiul five-ton, 1310-log order was loaded at the port of Longview and will be used by the Japanese for domestic heating.

New Clinton Yqrd

Fred Moore has rented space in this little city, and will build a retail lumber yard thereon.

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