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Time ls Neor for 'Big Show' of Forest Products Reseorch Society

How lumber coiirpanies turn laboratory research into research experts from throughout the United States and profits will be one of the major topics at the 13th national Canada. mee.ting of the Forest Products Research Society, to be A record 20 technical sessions will be presented during held in San Francisco,.June 28-July 3. The FPRS meeting, the five-day conference, based on the presentation of p"pe..] at the St. Francis hotel, is expeited to attract technicar anr meeting is Dr. E. S. Harrar, dear-r of the School of Forestry, Duke University. who is also President-elect of the FPRS. General chairmiir of the meeting is Ray Berry, vice-president and general manager of Scott Lumber Company, Burney, Calif.

A highlight of the coming meeting is a series of one-day tours scheduled to a variety of wood industry installations in Northern California. N. Thomas Shelton, industrial engineer for the Diamond Gardner Corporation, Red Bluff, is in charge of this program. Trips 6y chartered brrs are scheduled for Thursday. Tuly 2. to Fibreboard Products in program. Trips scheduled July 2, scrrcuurcu ror l nursoay, Jury z, to lr lDreDoaro rrooucts Corporation's plant at Antioch ; Michigan-California Lumber Company, Camino, and the University of California Forest Products Laboratory, Richmond. All-day trips were scheduled for Friday, July 3, to Union Lumber Con.rpany's redwood mill at Fort Bragg; Masonite Corporation, Ukiah. and Diamond Gardner Corporation, Red Bluff. Shelton said a chartered plane would be used to transport delegates to the Diamond Gardner operation.

Some 80 technical papers based on the theme, "Research for Profit," will be presented by the FPRS' 14 divisions during the 1959 meeting. Among- the papers will be studies by Emanuel Fritz, professor emeritus of the University of California School of Forestry; Dr. George Marra, Washington State Institute of Forest Products ; \V. A. Davies, head of the Forest Engineering Department, Oregon State College; E. P. Ivory, Dinuba, Calif ; San Francisco Architect Henry Hill, and Robert Ripley, Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma, Wash., and many other well-known forest products experts from throughout the U.S.

Assisting General Chairman Berry witl-r arrangements for the FPRS meeting were Fred E. Dickinson, director of the U. C. Forest Products Laboratory, Publicitv chairman ; Victor S. Roth, Triangle Lumber Co., Oakland, in charge of Exhibits and other visual aids, and William G. Van Beckum, The Pacific Lumber Company, chairman of Social and Hospitality committee.

Roberf M. Kuhn, Rees Blow Pipe Mfg. Company, Berkeley, is chairman of the 1959 FPRS meeting's Budget and