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Re-elected Chairman of Management Committee lor l1th Consecutiye Year

Two new members have been added to the nine-man management committee of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association which directs the research and promotional activities of 37 West Coast fir plywoo.d factories. They are Victor O1son, president of Bellingham (Wash.) Plywood Corp., and J. W. Forrester, general manager of Coos Bay (Ore.) Lbr. Co.

The new members were

E. W. Dcniels named at a recent industry ' meeting at Portland, Ore., during which E. W. Daniels, president of Harbor Plywood Corp., was re-elected committee chairman for the 11th consecutive year.

The committee has been enlarged from the original membership of nine to keep pace with the increasing size of the industry. Members are selected to represent various types of plywood plant operations from each section of the Douglas fir region.

Other committee members include: N. O. Cruver, president of The Wheeler Osgood Co., Tacoma, Wash.; B. V. Ilancock, vice president of Cascades Plywood Corp., Portland, ,Ore.; Thomas B. Malarkey, viee president of M and M Wood Working Co., Portland; Robert E. Seeley, vice president of Simpson Industries, Seattle, Wash.; Frost Snyder, president of Vancouver Plywood and Veneer Co., Tacoma; Herman E. Tenzler, president of Northwest Door Co., Tacoma; Arnold Koutonen, president of Douglas Fir Plywood Association and general manager of St. Paul & Tacoma Lbr. Co's. plywood division at Olympia, Wash., and Charles E. Devlin, managing director ol the industry trade association. Tacoma.

Ycrrd Tcrlk

From "Yard Talk" issued by the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California:

Resacking broken bag goods-cement, lime, etc., has been made easier with a special chute. A cone-shaped chute made of plywood is set in a wooden framework. The chute is high enough off the floor so that the'top of the bag to be filled just fits over the lower end of the chute. The sacking stand is placed in the car being unloaded. When a broken bag is found the .contents arg dumped or scooped into the chute. The refilled sack can then be stored normally.

Tape-friction or any heavy durable type-applied to the parts of gloves taking the worst beating in lumber handling, will prolong the life of the gloves by as much as trvo or three times.

E. G. (Dave) Davis Wlth Rounds Trading Company

It is announced by Rounds Trading Company, San Francisco that E. G. (Dave) Davis is now a member of their sales department in their San Francisco office

Mr. Davis has been with the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, for the past 12 years. He has had a well-rounded experience that includes a knowledge of lumber manufacturing, which he gained in working at the St. Helens, Oregon, mill of Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co., more than 20 years ago. He was a salesman on the road for that firm for several years, and later was with Coos Bay Lumber Company in Los Angeles as salesman. He has resigned his position as manager of the wholesale department of Union Lumber Company, and will assume his new duties November 1.

Low Cost Rat-Repellent Board New ltem For Dealert

Development of a new, low-cost board that repels rats 'was announced today by United States Plywood Corporation.

The company is now producing a material known as Protekwood that promises to reduce substantially the yearly $2,000,000,000 American damage by rats to food, property and human life.

This new easily-applied laminated board, a combination of hardwood veneer with impregnated fibre fages, is non'poisonous and in no way affects poultry or farm animals.

Boardman M. Randall of United States Plywood's Tekwood Division has conducted numerous experiments with Protekwood. "fn every case," he says, "the rats were com-