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(Continued from Page 8) in four panel discussions related to basic and continuing concern to the association's 156 members who operate 360 warehouses and sell 64/o of all the plywood in the nation. Both distributors and manufacturers lvere on the panels, a procedure followed for maximum co-operation of the two groups. Subjects were Plywood Grades and Quality, Transportation Problems, Plyrvood N{arkets, and Specialties and Hardwood Plywood.

From the panel on transportation came a resolution admonishing railroads for failure to keep abreast of shipping trends by supplying side-door cars for lift truck loading and unloading. The resolution provides for a committee to meet with a similar committee of manufacturers to work with the railroads to overcome this bottleneck toward more efficient, more economical handling of materials.

The NPDA program was schedulecl to permit distributors and their wives to attend the outstanding functions of the Fir Plywood Golden Jubilee arranged by Douglas Fir Plywood Association. Social functions of NPDA were limited accordingly to an olrtstanding lawn barbecue beside Lake Osrvego, the annual banquet and one luncheon. At the luncheon, the jobbers were entertained by "Barefoot Distribution in Arkansas" by Roland R. Remmell of Southland Building Products Co., Little Rock. They also heard a New Zealand plywood maker, Carlton W. Pollard of Henderson & Pollard, Ltd., tell how scrub pine from the west coast of California transplanted in his countrv has