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PILI NG tiating committee of the CIC) tentatively suggested exploration of a proposal that its members approve payment of I0/o of their dues to a joint industry promotion fund. He said that although the idea has lain dormant ever since, nol may well be the time for further exploration.

Difford also strongly urged that the n.ranufacturers drop all interior glues and produce a product with nothing but r,vaterproof adhesives to eliminate confusion in the market. He said that this may be the key to development of the vast potential in plyrvood sales on the farm. He warned that relaxation of quality could kill that and other markets for good.

In discussing new products, Difford urged on the manufacturers the development of over-size panels which could be used to sheath what he called a "wraparound" house. At the same time he challenged railroad executives present at the meeting to develop the ' shipping facilities to handle products like this. Such a development could mean billions in additional sales, he said.

Difford declared tl-rat there are other great untouched markets for plyr,vood still to be developed. He said that the progress made by the industry in the past has been primarily through cooperative industrv-n'ide efforts.

This is the first time that suppliers, equipment manufacturers, plywood producers and plyn'ood jobbers have sat down together in a mass meeting, he said, adding that only the element of labor rvas missing. This suggests that the real opportunity for complete realization of this industry's great potential lies in more team rvork and a joint effort by all segments of the business in n'hich they have a stake to build for a sound, secure future.

First Plywood Panel Memorial Dedicated

\\restern fir plyu'ood manufacturers unveiled in the Forestry building in Portland on Sunday, June 19, a permanent memorial containing the first panel of fir plywood manufactured 5O years ago for exhibit at the Lervis and Clark Exposition.

The historic panel went on display in a soft flood o{ light provided in an imaginative exhibit designed especially for the purpose. The background is a dramatic semicircular shaft consisting oi tall parallel ribs of laminated fir plyrvood. Dedication of the exhibit marked the opening event in Dorrglas Fir Plyu'ood Associatior.r's three-day Golden Jubilee.

The plyrvood panel, in effect, u'ill float irr front of a semicircular ribbed shaft rvith a soft flood of light illuminzrting the background. The foreground of the exhibit consists of a circular platform, enclosed u'ith a semicircular seat-railing, rvith a rvedge-shaped shaf t bearing a brief inscription concerning the origin and significance of the display. The entire memorial is nade of fir plyu'ood.

The unveiling \vas attended by top plyrvood execntives from three western states, and plylvood distributors representing Nati<-rnal Irlyrvoo<1 Distributors Association from across the conntry. The permanent memorial display was donated to the F'orestry building, the sole remaining structure from the 1905 Exposition, by the Douglas Fir Ply'n'ood Association, which sponsored the Jubilee meeting.

The memorial rvas hailecl as "a great and fitting tribute and a permanent reminder of an industry n,hich has grown from this small panel to become a kevstone in the economy of the Northr'r,est." The curtains on the display rvere pulled by Christine Ann Autzen, the great granddaughter of Peter Autzen, co-owner of the Portlancl Manufacturing Co., lvhere this first panel n'as m:rtle. Tl.romas J. Autzen, Portland businessman, and some 26 other relatives of the family were on hand for the event. Autzen still retains an interest in M and M Wood \\rorking's Plylock division, the plant that is still producing plywood

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