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OREGONBORD Plant
(Continued on Page 45) is primarily responsible for the careful selection of rarv materials, special resins and tested techniques so necessary to make a sound hardboard. The counsel of such an outstanding authority has been of tremendous value to us," Gilkey stated.
A large and competent staff at the Chapman plant is virtually "loaded" with forest products know-how. But management is not content in having produced a harclboard already recognized as one of the finest in the industry. Research go?s on-in an up-to-date laboratory featuring the most advanced testing e<luipment available. It contributes important findings rvhich make possible a strict quality control, and lends punch to OREGONBORD'S trade slogan, "Toughest by Test."
The expanded production of OREGONBORD is marketed in the eleven Western states by Western Hardboard Sales Company. Paul M. Smith, well known for many years in the industry, heads up this aggressive organization. "We strongly believe that hardboard has a' tremendous future," Smith said. "An increasing number of cost-conscious contractors and individual consumers have founci this product to be an answer to many building problems," he continued. "Costs are often materially cut because of the simplicity and speed of application. The fact that these panels can be sarved, nailed, painted, planed and bored give them almost unlimited uses." Smith is assisted at Western Hardboard Sales by Mrs. Ruth Berliner, a capable lady lr.ho has an impressive total of twenty years in the forest products business.
The building trade has been seeing quite a bit of ORI::GONBORD's promotion lately-and it is due to see much more. A hard hitting schedule of direct mail and large trade magazine ads has been scheduled to promote the product in the Western states.
Ncmed Mcncrger
Glenn L. Thomas has been named manager of Hammond Lumber Conrpany's yaid at Arcadia, California. He was ureviously irssistant manager at Arcadia where he has ireen employed since 1943 with time out for a year's military service at Camp Roberts in 1945 and early 1946. Previous to hrs emplovntent at Arcadia he rvas rvith Hammond's ljasadena yard for six years, excepting a shorr time in defense work.
Glenn, his wife and three children make their home in nearby Azusa.
C.lni.n. Meets in San Frqncisco
Officers, directors and members of the California Lumbermen's Accident Prevention Association to the number of 21, met at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on November 10, 1952. The scope of association activities was the principal subject of a discussion, at the conclusion of which it u'as moved. seconded and carried past policy l:e continued without change, namely that C. L. A. P. A. activities be confined to the task of reducing industrial accidents in the "forest products inclustries" in the State of California.
