COAAPANY

HPI To Hold Annuol Foll Meering In Louisville, Kentucky

HPI's Annual Fall Meeting to be held October 4-6, at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky will be a "working convention." All hardwood plylvood manufacturers in the U.S. and Canada are invited and urged to attend.

President Robert J. Weber has called a meeting of the Institute's Board of Directors for Wednesday afternoon, October 4, where all 196l activities of HPIwill be reviewed and future plans will be crystalized. An EarlyBird Reception will be held Wednesday night.

Thursday's meeting will begin with a Legislative Breakfast. Byron Bryan, president of Calypso Plywood Company, Calypso, N. C., and chairman of HPI's Legislative Committee, will preside. The Institute's Counsel, R. N. Hawes will bring members and guests up-to-date on activities in Washington that vitally affect hardwood plywood manufacturers.

After breakfast, manufacturers will go to the particular product session in which they are primarily interested. Dan Tyler of Carolina Veneer & Plywood Co., Florence, S. C., will preside over the Cut-to-Size Manufacturers Meeting. Waldo Bradley, President of Bradley Plywood Corp., Savannah, Ga., will chairman the Stock Panel Manufacturers Meeting. Bob O'Donoghue, manager of E. L. Bruce Co. of Texas, Center, Texas, will lead the Laminated Block Flooring l\{anufacturers discussion.

The ladies in attendance will join the manufacturers for cocktails and lunch. Ted Magarian of Tacoma, Washington, who is responsible for hardwood plywood sales of the Weyerhaeuser Company, will address the group.

Thursday afternoon, Mr. Mortimer Doyle, Exec. V. P. of National Lumber Manufacturers Assn., will discuss the $2,000,000 wood promotion program for 1962. HPI is a member of NLNIA and a contributor to the National Wood Promotion Program.

Mr. P. I. Thomas, General Adjuster of The Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company, 'rvill discuss "Suppose You Have a Fire Tonight." He will cover inventories, building and machinery valuations and how to cope with some of the adjustment problems attending a fire loss.

Clark E,. McDonald, HPI's Managing Director, will give a reDort on all Institute activities.

Thursday evening, Paul Maclean, V.P. of Wood-Mosaic Corp., Louisville, Kv., has invited everyone to his farm for an "Evening in the Country."

Friday morning, the following plants in Louisville and New Albany, Ind., have cordially invited the manufacturers to tourtheir plants. Wood-Mosaic Corp., Gamble Bros., Southern Veneer Mfg. Co., E. M. Cummings Veneers, Inc., and Chester B. Stem, Inc. Mr. Chester Stem has invited the hardwood plywood manufacturers to have lunch at his plant. This is a continuation of the free exchange of production techniques and ideas. Plant inspection tours have been combined in the past with annual and regional meetings, and have taken "friendly competitors" into practically all of the hardwood plywood plants east of the Rockies.

Oqklcrnd Hoo-l{oo lfleering q "Musl"

Vic Roth, owner of Triangle Lumber Co., will chairman a meeting of Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39 at the Clarernont Hotel on October 16. The meeting will be devoted to Wood Promotion (Forest Products Week-Oct. 15-21) and the program will include two films to be presented by John Fies of the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. Following the showing of "Blueprint for Better Schools" and "Comparison Fire Tests," there will be a short discussion on the progress of Wood Promotion to-date.

Club 39 urges all members to bring a guest to this meeting. Architects, builders, school board oflicials, county and city building inspectors and all interested parties are cordially invited.