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miles of terrible jungle.

"Impossible," said an officer to whom they reported. "There are no roads through those jungles and over those mountains."

"Not so loud," said one of the correspondents. "Our Jeep hasn't found.out about roads yet, and we don't want to spoil it."

Meruin R. Mento Opens lmpofi House

Mervin R. Mento, former officer in Pacific Hardwood Sales Co., Oakland, has entered the lumber products importing business on his own, with headquarters in the Professional Building, 3124 East 14th St., Oakland; phone KEllog 6-5700. The new firm, operating as Mervin R. Mento Importer, in addition to the importation of a general line of lumber products, will specialize in mouldings and semi-manufactured products from Japan.

Mento has had considerable experience in specialty lines, having traveled extensively through the Far East producing regions, and having at one time owned and operated the Bav Citv Pattern Co. in Oakland. Mento had been affiliated with Pacific Hardwood Sales as a partner since 1947, and as an officer of the same company and its subsidiary, Asiatic & Western Trading Co., since 1954.

DFPA Signs Four Plywood Mills

Four more plywood mills have joined Douglas Fir Plywood Association, the non-profit trade organization which carries out promotion, quality control, and research of fir plywood. The new subscribers, which bring the total number of DFPA affiliated plants to 125, are: Bohemia Lumber Co., Culp Creek, Oregon; Willamette Sheathing Corporation, Arcata, California; Georgia-Pacific Corporation's plywood plant No. 2, Samoa, California, and'Weyerhaeu,ser Company's new Snoqualmie, Washington, plywood mill.

Sanded grades of plywood are being produced at GeorgEPacific's new No. 2 plant at Samoa. Principals are R. E. Floweree, Jr., vice-president; Vance Vollmer, plant manager, and Jack Harmon, production manager. Weyerhaeuser's new Snoqualmie Falls plywood mill produces hemlock sheathing. Production began early in August under'the direction of plant superintendent Cloy Archer.

We'ue added 25 experts to yourstaff

Through our recently-opened Southern California office, we place directly at your disposal our highly experienced staff of more than 25 lumber merchandisers.

This means that you will have, right at your finger tips, the diversified resources of more than 300 Pacific Northwest mills with which we are in daily contact. In addition to this independent production, we offer our own controlled production of more than 1,000,000 board feet daily.

We hope that you will use our new sales office to take full advantage of Oregon-Pacific's facilities . the rapid selice, the diversity of production, the instant information which all our customers enjoy.