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While concerned primarily with forest products, his future activity will not be limited to that field. His area of experience embraces organic chemicals, pulp and paper and, more recently, a variety of wood and bark products. In November he will iead the sessions on integration and research at the second forestry seminar for company executives at Yale University. He plans to continue to serve as a member of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's national forest research advisory comrnittee,

Following Heritage's retirement, Weyerhaeuser's research program will be directed by Dr. Winton I. Patnode, a chemist who specialized in research and its administration at General Electric Company.

During Heritage's 18 years with Weyerhaeuser and Wood Conversion Company-a former Weyerhaeuser subsidiary in Cloquet, Minnesota-he pioneered whole-wood fiber for netv uses in felts, boards and contoureld articles. He spearheaded the development of a new line of softboards, stone roll fiber refining, new plywood resins and their extension with new additives, new log-barking techniques, new plywood varieties from previously unused species, commercialization of bark products by continuous mechanical processes, chemicals from the continuous fractionation of bark and wood, packaging and paneling materials from sandwiched veneer and paper, a new line of wood particle boards, and a new line of air-laid hardboards.

Kansas-born Heritage, from 1927 to 1929, was chief of the pulp and paper division of the U. S. Forest Service's Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin. fn 1937, he joined Wood Conversion and led the development of Tufflex, whole-wood fiber insulation, and improved Nu-Wood, interior-finish softboard.

He is on the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association products and research committee and editorial committee of the Forest Products Research Society.

lro Bonde on Menlo Gouncil

Menlo Park, Calif.-Ira Bonde, who operates the Cleese Lumber Co. here, and former C. of C. president, was unanimously chosen to the city council. Praising the lumberman, Mayor Burgess said, "ff anyone has earned the opportunitv to sit up on this platform. it's fra."