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G-P Storts Integrotion of the Booth-Kelly Properties

Portland, Oregon-Georgia-Pacific Corporation has taken the first step to develop its recently acquired Booth-Kelly properties. President Robert B. Pamplin stated that Georgia-Pacific is immediately starting construction of a new plywood plant adjacent to its lN%-owned Springfield Plywood Corporation plant and the newly acquired BoothKelly lumber mill. These plants will all share the use of the large log storage pond and sorting boom at Springfield. In addition, chipping equipment is being added to utilize the waste wood from all three of the Springfield plants and the pulp chips will be shipped to Georgia-Pacific's paper mills at Toledo, Oregon, some 85 miles distant. The productive capacity of the company's paper and containerboard production at Toledo is currently being doubled and the expansion will be completed by mid-1960, in time to utilize the additional raw material from this wood waste.

This is the first step in completely integrating the Springfield properties, Mr. Pamplin said. In discussing these plans, Mr. Pamplin stated, "This new plywood plant will be of the latest type construction and will include the latest technical developments for effrcient plywood manufacture and will be completed in the spring of 1960. It is the first step in better utilization of the Booth-Kelly timber since the high grade peeler logs, which were formerly sawed into lumber in the Booth:Kelly sawmill, will be diverted to the new plywood mill and to Springfield Plywood Corporation, providing greater utilization, and the sawmill will operate on logs from the timber harvest not suitable for the manufacture of plywood. The new mill will have a capacity of 10 million square feet of plywood per month and, due to the high quality of the logs, will be almost 100/o high-grade sanded production."

The new production will be marketed through GeorgiaPacific's 61 distribution warehouses and sales offices throughout the country, as well as through its overseas outlets in 36 countries.

Mr. Pamplin further said, "At the time of our acquisition of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, we stated that our ownershio would increase emolovment in the area rather than decrease it. The new plani *itt aaa approximately 2N employes at the outset and this number will probably be increased in the future."

The mill will have a floor area of 180,000 square feet, and included in the equipment will be two large lathes, four automatic dryers, as well as other modern equipment for plywood manufacturing.