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Weyerhqeuser to Boqrd Chcrirmqn; Norfon Glopp in Presidency

Tacoma, Wash.Weyerhaeuser Company announces changes in its officers to be effective February l, 1960.

Norton Clapp of Seattle, well-known Pacific Northwest business leader, has been elected president, succeeding F. K. Weyerhaeuser, who will become chairman of the board. Clapp, chairman of the board since March 1957, was elected after Weyerhaeuser announced his retirement as president effective February 1.

Mr. Weyerhaeuser has been president of the company since December 1956, at which time he succeeded his brother, J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., after the latter's death.

Clapp joined Weyerhaeuser's board of directors in 1946. He was named vice-president and a member of the board's Executive committee in March 1955.

F. K. Weyerhaeuser served as president of the company during a period of expansion and merger. He also reorgan- ized the company into three business groups: lumber, plywood and timberland group; pulp, paperboard and container group; research, new products and Silvatek group.

A resident of Tacoma, Mr. Weyerhaeuser began l-ris forest products career in 1919 with the Boise-Payette Lumber Company in Idaho. He joined Weyerhaeuser Sales Cornpany as a field representative in 1920. In 1929 he was elected president of the Sales Company.