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Alto, Calif., who urged that NLI,IA directors take positive action on the research program.

Dr. Gibson declared: "It's hard to find a case where continuing research has not rung it up in the cash register."

The research expert reported that industry as a whole has plowed back one and one-half per cent of its sales volume into research, but in the lumber industry this figure is less than one per cent. Some research projects, Dr. Gibson aclded, have returned as much as 2,000 per cent on the original investment.

Other highlights of the meeting included reports by various staff members of NLMA. Robert E. Dougherty, assistant to NLMA's executive vice president, explained proposals that NLMA conduct a comprehensive sales training program among lumber salesmen.

Richard G. Kimbell, Technical Department director, gave an eye-witness account of the results of atomic tests conducted in March in the Nevada desert to detern.rine the resistance of wood houses, cars and personnel shelters to an atomic blast.

Reports also were made by George Fuller, NLMA vice president, on legislative developments affecting the industry, and by A. Z. Nelson, NLMA forest economist, on forestry and land management problems.

Harry G. Uhl, president of the Timber Engineering Company, reported on the current status of TECO sales, research and other activities.

Executive Vice President Leo V. Bodine brought the association's directors up to date on developments concerning the administration of NLMA.

Sixteen-year-old Rita Jo Thompson, of Davton, Ohio, took the spotlight briefly at the luncheon meeting May 25. She was presented with a bronze and wood plaque as a representative of the teen-age company which placed first in the 1953 nationwide Junior Achievement Contest for wood products. The contest is sponsored annually by Junior Achievement, fnc., and the National Lumber Manufacturers Association to encourage business enterprise among the nation's youth.

The winner's plaque was presented to Miss Thompson by Corydon Wagner, forrner NLMA president and board chairman. Miss Thompson's company, E,rco Products, of Dayton, won top honors for manufacturing a unique wood bookholder which holds books on an inclined plane and requires a support only at the lower end.

Mr. Wagner also presented a plaque to John B. Veach, president of the Hardwood Corporation of America, Asheville, N.C., and NLMA board chairman. The plaque was in recognition of Mr. Veach's services as past president of NLMA.

The Asheville meeting was preceded by a week-long tour of sarvmills, lumber camps, paper plants and other industrial facilities and landmarks 'in Tennessee. Alabama and North Carolina.

Herschell Lerrick, Sr., prominent lumberman of Solano Beach. California, returned the first part of this month following an extended visit to Vancouver, Canada. During his trip he called on various mills and people in the industry in California, Oregon and Washington.

There were water-driven sawmills in the neighborhood of Augsburg, Germany, as early as the year 1337.