Weldwood Producfs Fair Attracts More Than 4OO Visitors af Glendale Open House

A traveling display, "Weldwood Products Fair-New for '62" arrived in Glendale, California, August 7th and was held over for the 8th so that the many dealers. builders, contractors, architects and woodworking company executives and employees could see the many new items of utility and beauty being ofiered by the United States Plywood Corporation nationwide.

Host for this special event was Clyde Vernon, manager of the Glendale branch warehouse, and his effiicent staff.

"This Veldwood Products Fair is part of an aggressive sales program to introduce new products and publicize our wide variety of building materials," said Irl E. Matheny. Sales Promotion Manaeer of the Pacific - South Division of the" national manufacturins and distributine concern. "The fair also gives our brancf,'manager, Clyde Vernon, an opportunity to demonstrate the various services he provides the wood products and building industry."

More than eighty of the company's branches have been selected to participate in the summer and fall sales promotion program. In the West, warehouses in New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada have been included along with branches in Santa Ana. Long Beach. San Bernardino, San Diego and Los Anseles.

The Los Angeles general warehouse will conclude the program in the West on September 12 and 13. Six laree mobile units are used to transport the displays from city to city, it was said.

The "Fair" also includes the custom manufacturing facilities, the technical assistance and sales merchandizine aides available to customers and dealers of United States Plywood Corporation.

[eft: condid comero shots token of U.5. plywood's Glendqle Open House. Second row. left: Glendole bronch monoger Clyde Vernon ond Williom Howqrd Pelers, Moyor of Glendole; right: Mrs. Clyde Vernon, Horry Obermeyer, Mrs. Alice Nelson ond unidentified guest. Third row. rightr Elmer Stem, Clyde Vernon, Chorles O'Grody, Zoro Leighton ond Doniel Leighfon-oll, with the excepfion of Clyde, of Leighton O'Grody l5sqsiqlg5-Archifects, Burbonk, Colifornio,

Poper Morket Increoses in 1962

Every year Americans use more and more paper, but even with this tremendous demand, the industry will have overcapacity for years to come.

"Despite this," said Lawson P. Turcotte, president of Puget Sound Pulp & Timber Co. in a recent speech to security analysts, "the long range outlook for the paper market is good. U. S. consumption of newsprint set new records for the first seven months ending in July. Consumption for January-July, 1962, was 4.291,048 tons compared with 4,\72,400 in 1961.

He noted that his firm has moved from a strictly pulp operation to a point where it now uses 40 per cent of its own raw materials for its own finished products. This industry-wide pattern will continue as the situation requires, he said.

With the acquisition of Gould Paper Co. of New York state, paper products have accounted Ior 55/o of the firm's opera- tion, Turcotte said.

Turcotte proudly pointed out that Puget Sound has been able to hold about even in the pulp and paper industrv despite sagging profits in the last few years.

Pulp prices fell apart about two years ago, dropping 14 per cent, and are still at about that level, he added.

Puget Sound would about duplicate its $48 million in sales this year and approximately repeat the 945 million profit it showed in 1961, he told the group.

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