Sqn Fernondo Club's Holloween "Compony Night" Porty

A Hallowren theme was the highlight of A Sut, Fernando Valley Club No. 6's o'Company Night" party, staged at the Sportsman's Lodge in Ventura, Calif. in October.

The annual get-together drew a crowd of more than 100 Los Angeles area lumbergals and their bosses, co-workers and friends for dinner, drinks and dancing to the Starr Gallo Quartet.

Orinda Hazen headed-up the committee that produced the big show, assisted by Mary Williams, Donna Dean and Bobbie Christensen. Lois Jones, president of the club. was on hand to greet guests.

| 965 Demqnd for Plywood Expected to Continue Up

A demand for 12.3 billion square feet of plywood in 1965-a 9 percent increase over last year-has been forecast by the American Plywood Association. The association says residential construction will continue to be the industry's biggest market.

The residential construction market is expected to use more than 6 billion square feet. The second largest market-industrial buyers-will use about 2t/, billion square feet.

The plywood industry is listed as the fastest-growing industry in the nation, ac' cording to Federal Reserve Board figures.

The average annual growth rate of the industry over a l5-year period was pegged at 14 percent. This compares with an aver' age annual growth rate of 4 percent for all other industries in the country.

Last year, the association predicted a demand for 11.4 billion square feet of plywood in 1964. It appears that figure will be right on target.

The industry needs a continually increasing demand for its products because more plywood plants are coming into existence. Advancements in technology have made this growth of plywood possible in

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More firms are interested in beccrming plywood producers becaufse there is more profit in making plywood instead of lumber from the same log.

By the end of next year, 28 new softwood plywood plants will be in production with a rated annual capacity of 2 billion square feet of plywood.

The 12.11 billion {eet o{ plywood pre' dicted as the dernand for next year is nearly l0 times what the industry produced in 1946; four times the production figure in 1952, and. double production in 1958.

For comparative purposes, a -foot wide strip of a/s-inch plywood stretching from the earth to the moon and back again would represent about 1'0 billion square feet. If you added a stack of x8'{oot pan' els 370 miles high, the total would nearly equal the expected demand for 12.3 billion square feet next year,

New Evons Worehouse l{allery has been with Evans Products, most recently as divisional marketing man' ager, since 1957. Previously. he was vice president and general manager of FiddesMoore, Chicago wholesale plywood and lumber firm, acquired by Evans Products in 1957.

Bruce 'W. Mallery has been promoted to general manager of warehouse operations for the building materials division of Evans Products Company, the firm has announced.

In his new post, which has been vacant for several months, Mallery will be responsible for the division's thirty sales distribution centers across the country.

The largest in sales volume oI the three operating divisions of Evans Products, the building materials division isa major producer and marketer of prefinished hardwood and hardboard panels, specialty plywood and hardboard products and related building materials. It operates mills and plants in Oregon, Washington, Tennessee and British Columbia, in addition to the chain of distribution warehouses managed by Mallery.

We wish to extend our sincere thonks ond oppreciotion for the support of the industry during the post yeor.