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P.O. BOX 665

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SALES OFFIGE:

928 H Street

ARCATA, Colif.

TWX: ARG 17

June 28 to July 3. The 1960 meeting will be in Montreal, and the executive board voted to accept the invitation of the Society's Ohio Valley Section to hold the 1961 meeting at Louisville, Ky.

Mr. Acuff witnessed the dedication of the new executive office building of the Research Society. It was constructed by means of cash and material donations received from the forest products industries. It is made almost entirely of wood and demonstrates many of the unusual wavs in *hi.h wood can be used in building construction

An estimated 150 persons attended the dedication ceremonies of the new FPRS Ofifrce Building, just one block from the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory. In remarks at the ceremony, R. g. Berry, fund drive chairman, told the assemblage that $61,000 in cash and materials had been received for the building, exceeding by $1,000 the original goal of $60,000.

Among the larger contributors of materials are Rilco

Laminated Products Corp., St. Paul, Minn., laminated beams and arches; Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma, Wash., lumber; U. S. Plywood Corp., N. Y., paneling.

Other large contributors include International Paper Company, New York, New York; Potlatch Forests Founda[ion, Lewiston, Idaho; Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, California; Fibreboard Paper Products Company, San Francisco, 'California; Monsanto Chemical Company, Seattle, Washington; Michigan-California Lumber Company, Northern California; Scott Lumber Company, Inc., Burney, California; Simpson Timber Company, Seattle, Washington; Ralph H. Smith Lumber Company, Anderson, California; Collins Pine Company, Chester, California; Tahoe Lumber Company, Reno, Nevada; American-Marietta Company, Seattle, Washington; Ivoly Forest Products Company, Dinuba, California, and Wood Conversion Foundation, Cloquet, Minnesota.