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(Continued from Page 26) named new secretary. Koutonen is general manager of the plywood division of St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co., Olympia, Wash. C. Henry Bacon, Jr., vice-president and general manager of Simpson Logging Company, Shelton, Wash., was re-elected treasurer.

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Robert N. Kelly, general sales manager of M and M Wood Working Co., Portland, Ore., and Martin N. Deggeller, president and general manager of Harbor Plywood Corp., Aberdeen, Wash., were re-elected to their posts as DFPA trustees. New members of the Board of Trustees were Roy A. Gould, president of Diamond Lumber Company, Portland, Ore., and Enar Erickson, general manager, Peninsula Plywood Corporation, Port Angeles, Wash.

The meeting heard a report by Arnold Koutonen, chairman of the DFPA management committee, who urged the industry to maintain its present high standards of plywood quality or face the prospect of serious market problems. Koutonen and Garrison were moming speakers at the meeting. Koutonen took note of the fact that temporarily productive capacity of the 111 mills comprising DFPA had olrtrun demand. He described this as "typical of a growth industry such as plywood."

But, said Koutonen, prospects for plywood, now one of the leading northwest industries, are far from gloomy. Last year, he noted, the industry produced and sold more than 5 billion square feet of fir plywood, setting an all-time record. Despite a temporary slump this spring, productio,n is considerably ahead of last