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Representing Northern Colifornio ond Oregon Mills

porating an idea for non-objective sculpture in plyn'ood suggested as a new medium of the fine arts, a shade scheme by Choate featuring a handsome easy-to-execute fence pattern and a truss-shade in an elongated zig-zag that would create a fascinating patio shadow pattern, a structur.al system for rvalls and roofs for a vacation home that could be built at extreme lorv cost arvay from the site and installed u'ithout further finish or labor.

The finale in the shorv was a bridge surrounded on both sides and above in a tunnel effect of variations in Smith and \\rilliams' Nfok6 concept. They were arranged in an ascending effect so the spectator was dazzled as he left by a sunburst design tl"rat rvould make a dramatic decorative accent in many contemporary settings.

Gen. Groves Speech Closes Jubilee

The rvestern fir plyrvood industry closed its historic Golden Jubilee meeting ir-r Portland June 2l rvith a warning from the man r'vho directed the making of the first atom bomb that this country "might not survive an atomic rvar." It came from Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves USA (Ret), former head of the rvartin.re Manhattan Project.

Groves, rvho is presently a vice-president and director of Remington Rand Co., Inc., declared at the same time that if America should survive, "I believe it rvi1l usher in the greatest period of prosperity mankind has ever knoln."

Groves u,as the keynote banquet speaker at the threeday assembly of equipment and materials manufacturers for the plywood industry, plywood producers and panel jobbers from across the country.

Other highlights of the meeting were an adclress by

Ben llazen, president of the Benj. Franklin Federal Savings and Loan Association in Portland and past president of the United States Savings and Loan League, urging formulation by the manufacturers selling to the building industry of a home loan insurance program that would get the governmnt out of the home loan business; an election of officers in which Howard B. Garrison, vicepresident and general manager of Evans Products Co., western division, was named president of Douglas Fir Plywood Association, and a theatrical show patterned after a Broadway musical that set a pace for something dramatically different in business entertainment. The show contained an original composition for an orchestral suite inspired by the Jubilee celebration and an original comic ballet.

In the major address of the meeting, Groves warned that not a single target city in the country is prepared to survive atomic attack. He emphasized that apathy and indifference have dangerously imperiled our entire defense program. He went on to say that the atomic age is not confined to the making of bombs and he urged that atomic research development be moved as soon as possible into private industry.

Groves declared that in the field of plywood and other building materials, developments in "nuclear science are creating fantastic possibilities." He said there were already new atomic radiation processes which promise molecular changes in plywood that could revolutionize its use in the building industry.

In the welcome address to the entire meeting, which