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West Goqst Lumbermen's Assn. Nomes Edwin Thompson Copitol ltll,sno

Edwin O. Thompson (right), a 29-year veteran in the lumber industry, has been named Washington, D.C., manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau office. He succeeds the late Cecil A. Luce, who was Washington manag:er for 15 years. Thompsons' appointment was announced by H. V. Simpson, executive vice-president of the lumber association and manager of the inspection bureau, who said Thompson was exceptionally well-qualified to represent the west coast industrv in the nation's capitol.

Dick Brown Reioins Getz Bros.

Dick Brown rejoined Getz Bros. & Co. on July 15, and will be in charge of sales promotion in the company's specialty plywood division. He will also be responsible for the promotion and marketing of a domestic hardwood plywood now being distributed by Getz Bros. Brown will also work with the cbmpany's various sales offices throughout the U.S. helping Getz salesmen and promoting the sale of new specialty products to the jobber level.

Brown originally entered the hardwood plywood business with E. L. Bruce & Co. in Oakland, and was previous- ly associated with Getz Bros. & Co. for better than four years. For the past two years he had been directing sales for another import firm, Beton Company of San Francisco.

-National Foresl Products Week Ocfober 16-22-

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The new Washington aide aircraft carriers. IIe was stastarted as a logger at 18 in tioned on the fndependence durTillamook County, Oregon, but ing some of the hot action with soon changed to lumber man- Admiral Halsey's fleet. ufacturing. He worked for five

Back from the war, Thompyears for the old Hammond- son, joined the West Coast Tillamook Lumber Company at Lum!,er fnspection Bureau and Garibaldi, then took time out was first stationed at Lebanon. to help build the Bradley- Oregon. He was named a super- Woodard Lumber Company at visor in lgb3 and. in the Bradwood. He worked at West- intervening years, has served port Lumber Company on the throughout the United States. Columbia river as a planing mill F.or the past three years, he has supervisor. Early in World War worked out of the porfland ff he worked in a Portland air- headquarters of the association craft factory but soon joined a"nd the grading bureau on spe- the Navy, where he saw lots of cial assigrrments.

-Nafional Forest Products Week October lA22- schools, churches, farms, towns and cities through three centuries of our history, and

WHEIREIAS, the nation could not live without a continuous supply of lumber, plywood, pulp and paper and thousands of other products made from wood, and

WHEREAS, lumber is our oldest manufacturing industry, dating back to 1608 when the first shipment of clapboards from Jamestown, Virg'inia Colony, started an American heritage of industry, and

WHEREAS, in all those years no formal recognition has ever been given this great national forest products industry, NOW, THEREF'OREI, BE IT RESOLVED that the week of October 16 to 22, L960 shall be known in-...---.-----------as NATIONAIJ FOREIST PRODUCTS WEEIK and all citizens are urged to participate in any ceremonies a^nd observances, f hereby fix my hand and seal this-.-.-----.--.-----day of........-.-.---..-, 1960. Sigred....-..--..

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