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HPI Holds l9th Annuol Foll Meeting

The 19th annual I'all meeting of the Hardwood Plywood Insti- tute was held October 6 a^nd 7 at the Dinkler Plaza hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. Carl D. Wheeler, Georgia-Paciflc Corporation, aJrd president of the Institute, presided at the meeting. There were over 90 hardwood producers and their wives from aJl over the United States attending the meeting. There were also three Canadian and one Panamanian hardwood plywood manufacturers at the meeting. The board of directors approved two new members.

At the general membership meeting', Loren Dorman of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D.C., covered the expanded 1961 program of the National Wood Promotion Program which had been endorsed by HPI. A 1961 HPI program was considered along with an evaluation of past HPI activities. Regional and product meetings will be emphasized in 1961.

Tinsley Rucker, president of the Dixon-Powdermaker F urniture Company, Jacksonville, Florida, and newly elected president of the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers, spoke at the I'riday luncheon. E. Sigurd Johnson, professor of Furniture Manu- facturing, North Carolina State College, Raleigh, addressed the convention Friday afternoon regarding plywood production around the world and his observations made this summer of the Japanese hardwood plywood industry.

E. H. Gatewood, executive vice-president, Fine Hardwoods Association, discussed the new FHA-sponsored "Finishield Process" and was assisted by H. L Watson of the Aluminum Company of America. Many members of HPI will make this pl5rwood for the furniture manufacturers and many of the manufacturers of finish have had their "F inishield" samples tested in the HPI laboratory in Arlington, Virginia.

S. M. Nickey of Nickey Brothers, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee, led a panel discussion on core stock, and D. H. Gott, Weyerhaeuser Company, Marshfield, Wisconsin, described the activities of his compalry in the field of "fire-retardant plywood."

Guests enjoyed the President's reception honoring President and Mrs. Carl Wheeler with a bufiet dinner and dance. The 1961 Spring membership meeting of the Institute will be held Thursday and F riday, March 9 and 10, at the Shoreham hotel in Washington, D.C.