Fir Plywood Association Annual Meeting

(Continued from Page 22) ager of Anacortes Veneer, Inc., Anacortes, Wash. ; and V. A. Nyman, vice president of Aberdeen Plyrvood Corp., Aberdeen, Wash.

Two new plywood plants, the Calpella Plywood Co., Calpella, Cal.,'and the Tacoma Plywood Corp., Tacoma, Wash., came into the Douglas Fir Plywood Association. Thus, 31 separate firms, operating 37 factories, no\,v support the industry's promotion-quality control program.

Charles E. Dbvlin, managing director of the Association, reported one of the significant developments in plywood manufacture during the past year has been continrled improvement of the glue-line-the adhesive factor in binding the wood plys together.

Expressing confidence in plyrvood's future, E. W. Daniels, president of the Harbor Plywood Corp., Hoqniam,

-.Ir were speckere Wash., said to the plant offrcials:

"The industry, with a ten-year record of aggressive, effective plywood promotion, is preparing for greater sales emphasis in the years ahead to bolster plywood use in homes, on the farm and for limitless industrial applications."

F. N. Belgrano, Jr., president of the Portland, Ore., First National Bank, speaking at a luncheon on the first day of the conference, warned the plywood leaders and all Americans that they must not give up their important freedoms to encroaching government controls proposed in the "midst of real or imaginary crises."

Roy Wenzlick, Real Estate analyst and counsellor of St. Louis, Mo., was the featured guest speaker on the second day of the conference. Wenzlick predicted a high level of Real Estate activity throughout this year, but he said Real E,state values have passed their peak and prices of homes will decline, going into a "slump" in the middle-1950's. ITe also forecast an end to the housing shortage in nearly all parts of the country by 1951.

At the sales clinic, held the second afternoon of the trvoday meeting, staff members of the industry trade Association subjected plywood to torture tests, revealing its amazing resistance to direct impact, racking and bending. In the impact test a l2-pound shot dropped from a height of six feet bounced off sheathing grade plywood, but smashed other sheathing materials to bits.