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HPI Elects Two New Members

S. M. Nickey, president of the Hardwood Plywood Ins_titute, announces that Harold R. Jones, Inc., E,ugene, Oregon, and Sheridan llardwood, Inc., Sheridan, Oregon, were elected to membership in the Institute at the recent Chicago meeting of the board of directors.

Clark E. McDonald, managing director of the Hardwood Plywood Institute, stated that there are now 10 mills in California, 13 in Oregon, and 16 in Washington that are producing hardwood panels on fir or particle board cores. Mr. Nickey and Mr. McDonald recently visited a number of the mills in both Oregon and Washington and the Institute's directors have invited all producers of hardwood plywood on the west coast to join the Institute.

Mr. Nickey observed that it is now obvious, since the recent U.S. Tariff Commission's report, that the hardwood plywood industry cannot look to our government for re- lief from imports. The program to outsell this support of every U.S. needed, it was said.

HPI must carry out an intensified competition and the cooperation and hardwood plywood manufacturer is

KW Gqliforniq Mills Joins DFPA

KVV California Mills, Inc. has joined the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, bringing the total number of DFPA subscribers to l2l. The mill was to begin production about Jun_e_15. -Principals are Robert N. Kelly, president; George R. Van Vleet, vice-president, and Mabelle J. Van Vleet, secretary-treasurer. Jack Harmon is general manager of operations. Sales will be handled through Kelly-Van Vleet, Inc. of San Francisco. The mill's output is contracted to individual jobbers.

The DFPA also a.nnounces that National Plywood Inc.. of Roseburg, Oregon, has become an association subscriber.