Snyder President Douglas Fir Plywood Association

means continued high demand for the versatile material for housing, heavy construction, industrial, marine and farm uses.

Arnold Koutonen, retiring president of the plyu,ood association, pointed out that product performance, coupled rvith the new sales-building drive, are helps to continued good business. Association managing director Charles E. Devlir-r outlined the overall strategy and objectives of the campaign. The third speaker, Richard N. Jones, associatc advertising director of Architectural Forum, called o1'l every segment of the building industry including producers, distributors, dealers and builders to continue 'to expand markets with intelligent, hard-hitting promotion.

Frost Snyder, president of Vancouver (Wash.) Plywood Co., was elected president of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, replacing Koutonen, who has served in that capacity for two terms, and who is general manager of the plyr,r'ood division of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co., Olympia, Wash.

Moving into high gear for a hard-hitting market expansion program, the Douglas fir plywood industry trade association met in Tacoma, Wash., recently, attended by over 250 industry executives from Washington, Oregon and Northern California. It was the annual meeting of west coast plywood makers.

Presenting an unusual display of exhibits featuring plvwood uses on the farm, with demonstration grain bins. silos and corn cribs, the tenor of the two-day meeting reflected the industry's nel million dollar drive to increase demand for fir plywood for 1949 and the years ahead. Alsr-r included among the exhibits were house sections with plywood walls, floors and roofs as well as photographic panels depicting the 1,000 uses of the panel material.

In setting the tempo of the meeting, three separate feature speakers expressed confidence that sharpened selling techniques, backed by increased advertising and promotion

Other officers elected at the annual meeting are : F. L. Johnson, general manager of Anacortes (Wash.) Veneer'. Inc., who will serve as vice president; Leonard Nystrom, president of Associated Plywood Mills, Inc., Eugene, Ore., re-elected secretary; J. H. Smith, general manager of Puget Sound Plywood, Inc., Tacoma, Wash., who will again hold office as treasurer.

Named trustees of the plywood association are: R. E. Walton, Walton Plywood Co., Everett, Wash.; J. W. Forrester, general manager of Coos Bay Lumber Co., Coos Bay, Ore.; Dennis M. Slenning, general manager of Oregon-Washington Plywood Co., Tacoma, Wash., and J. P. Simpson, vice president of Buffelen Manufacturing Co., Tacoma.

Additional firms joining the trade association and announced during the meeting include: Crescent Plywood

Co., Crescent City, Cal.; Evans Products Co., Coos Bay. Ore.; Fir Manufacturing Co., Myrtle Creek, C)re. ; Humboldt Plywood Corp., Arcata, Cal.; Menasha-Coos Head Plywood Corp., North Bend, Ore.; Pacific Veneer & Plvwood Corp., Bellingham, Wash.; Southern Oregon Plylvood, Inc., Grants Pass, Ore., and Western Veneer Co., Lebanon, Ore.

Lomitcr Lumber Ycrd Leased

Gardiner's Lumber Yard, 1800 Pacific Coast Highwal', Lomita, has been leased to Robert Sullivan and Al Stanger, the owners announced recently.

Mr. Sullivan, a B-29 pilot during the rvar, will be manager of the business, which was established in l92Z by A. T. Gardiner. The yard has for some time been owned by his son Norman Gardiner and grandson Ben Gardiner. Norman will remain active in the business. but Ben has taken up another lihe.

Keeps Us Posted

For many years The California Lumber Merchant has been to me like a letter from home. It keeps me posted as to what's doing on the firing line.

Max E. Cook Director of Promotion The Pacific Lumber Company San Francisco

Larry Owen

With Atkinson-Stutr Co.

L. J. (Larry) Owen, formerly manager of Nicholls Brothers, wholesale lumber dealers, E,l Cerrito, Calif., has been associated with Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, as manager of their Ponderosa and Sugar Pine department since June 1.

He is ;r graduate of the University of Oregon, and worked in mills during school vacations, and after gradua- tion. He started his lumber career in California lvith E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland, and was with Gorman Lumber Sales for some years before the war. During the rvar he was in the lumber purchasing department of the Kaiser Company. After the war he was manager of the San Francisco office of R. G. Robbins Lumber Co. uo r,o the time he went with Nicholls Brothers.

Hardwood Distributors' Convention

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Wayne Rawlings presented the golf prizes to the winners.

Lawrence Culter created a lot of amusement with his reading of the Roll of Honor, which he said was written in Sanskrit, making it difficult but not impossible to interpret. And a good laugh greeted the reading of a telegram to Jim Overcast, supposedly from a well-known gaming resort, charging him with damage to a number of slot machines.

The attendance included the following:

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Culter, J. Fyfe-Smith & Co., Ltd., Vancouver, B. C.

Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Donnan, and sons, Tom and Mike, Ehrlich-Harrison Co., Seattle

Nlr. and Mrs. K. E. MacBeath, and son, Bill MacBeath, Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co., Berkeley

Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Gordon, Gordon-MacBeath Hardwood Co., Berkeley

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Mossop, Ehrlich-Harrison Co., Seattle

Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Reel, Reel Lumber Service, Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Mclean, General Hardwood Co., Tacoma

Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Wanke, and daughter, Alice, Wanke Panel Co., Portland

Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Kahn, Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Francisco

James Davis, Davis Hardwood Co., San Francisco

Ed Cryer, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco

Ralph Mannion, J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco

Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Jones, Jones 'ivood Co., San Francisco

Wayne Rawlings, Harbor Plywood

Hardwood & PlyCo. of California, San Francisco

Clarence Dame, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland

Jas. B. Overcast, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland

NIr. and Mrs. Don F. White, White Brothers, San Francisco

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Mclellan, White Brothers, San Francisco

W. T. Meyer, White Brothers, San Francisco

Don Braley, United States Plyrvood Corp., San Francisco

Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bond, American Hardu'ood'Co., Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. William Moore, American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Cooper and son, Wm. G. Cooper, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles

N{r. and Mrs. James Cooper, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Davidson, Davidson Plywood & Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davidson, Davidson Plywood & Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. Chandler Hart, Davidson Plywood & Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Stanton, Sr., E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Stanton, Jr., E.J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Swafford, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Scott, Tropical & Western Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Von Breton, Tropical & Western Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Connolly, \Mestern Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Stofle, and son, Rod, 'Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Byrne, Sr., B. W. Byrne & Sons, Long Beach.

Guests :

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Glasson, and tr'vo daughters, Glasson Mill and Lumber Co., San Diego.

Gosslin-Hcrrding Lumber Co.

Moves to Scrn Lecrndro

Gosslin-Harding Lumber Company moved July 6 tcr their new address, 750 Thornton Street, San Leandro, Calif. Their new telephone number is LOckhaven 9-1661. The teletype number remains the same, OA 251.