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Gene C. Brewer

New President New York, Sept. 17-The board of directors of the United States Plywood Corporation today elected S. W. Antoville chairman of the board and Gene C. Brewer president. Mr. Antoville will continue as chief executive officer. He had been president since September 1953. The position of chairman of the board had been vacated upon the death of the company's founder, Lawrence Ottinger, in December 1954.

Mr. Brewer's previous assignment was vice-president in charge of U.S. Plywood's West Coast operations. He joined

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In his report to the stockholders' meeting which precedld the directors meeting, Mr. Antoville pointed out that U.S. Plywood's improved earnings for the first quarter end.ed Juiy 31 could be attributed only in small measure to inireased prices for fir plywood. The major factor he cited was efficienry in sales and in plant operation, particularly in the West Coast manufacturing operations. Mr. Antoville was optimistic about prospects for increased earnings in the immediate future. Sales for the month of August, he said, were $18,963,000 as against $18,547,000 for July. Further gains during the first half of September point to record sales in the current quarter, with continued improvement in earnrngs.

S. W. "Tony" Antoville joined United States Plywood as an office boy in 1921. He has been with the company ever since, becoming president in 1953 and chairman of the board today. Mr. Antoville has remained the star salesman of the plywood industry. He still maintains close friendships with iome of his earliest customers. He has a son ("Tony," Jr.) who works for U.S. Plywood at the Anderson, Cal., operations. Mr. and Mrs. Antoville reside in Manhattan though they spend approximately half of their time visiting the company's far-flung operations.

Gene C. Brewer, U.S. Plywood's new president, was bortt Oct. 13, 1913, on a farm in Grays Harbor county, Washington, the youngest of six children. He graduated from high school at Montesano, Washington, and studied business administration at the University of Oregon. Mr. Brewer started his business career as a butter-and-egg salesman, in which capacity he traveled western Washington from 1934 to 1937 while living in Centralia.

"In 1937," he says, "I was lured by the future of plywood." He moved to Seattle to join the United States Plywood Corporation, working throughout the plant, learning production methods and advancing to a supervisory position. The company transferred him to Orangeburg, South Carolina, in 1943 to become superintendent of U.S. Plywood's hardwood plywood operation there. He subsequently took part in designing two highly advanced plywood plants, one of them for French interests in Equatorial Africa. He was elected a vice-president and director of the United States Plywood Corporation (South Carolina).

In 1949, he transferred to Shasta Plywood Inc., a subsidiary of U.S. Plywood near Redding, Cal., to serve as ply-