George T. Gerli nger Succeeds M. L. Fleiihel as President of National Lumber Manufacturers Ass'n

A. J. Glassow Elected New Head of American Forest Products lndustries, lnc.

Chicago, Illinois, December 15, 1943 George T. Gerlinger, Willamette Valley Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon, was today elected president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, succeeding Marc L. Fleishel of Shamrock, Florida, who has served the association for the last four years.

L. O. Griffith, of Huntington, West Virginia, was elected vice president, and W. M. Ritter, Columbus, Ohio, was :eelected vice president and treasurer. Regional vice presidents newly elected were A. J. Voye, Klam'ath Falls, Oregon; Paul T. Sanderson, Trinity, Texas; C. Arthur Bruce, Memphis, Tennessee; and O. R. Miller, Portland, Oregon. Wilson Compton, Washington, D. C., was re-elected secretary- manager.

A. J. Glassow, Bend, Oregon was elected president of American Forest Products Industries, Inc. Officers of AFPI re-elected were: Wilson Compton, vice president and manager; W. M. Ritter, treasurer and Henry Bahr; secretary.

Mr. Gerlinger has been engaged in logging, lumber and railroad industries for more than 40 years. For several years he served as vice president for Oregon of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and, in 1939, was chairman of that association's traffic committee. He has long been interested in forest conservation and has been on the joint committee on forest conservation of the West Coast Association and of the Pacific Northwest Loggers' Association. He has also represented the West Coast on the board of directors of the National Association, which he now heads.

He is president of both the Willamette Valley Lumber Company and of the Snow Peak Logging Company of Oregon. He has served on the Oregon state board of forestry and as director of the Portland branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

A brother is associated with the Dallas Locomotive and Machine Works, manufacturers oI the Gerlinger lumber carrier.

Chief business before the more than 100 lumbermen who met at the Blackstone Hotel for three days in the 41st annual meeting of the NLMA was the lumber requirements of the war program in the immediate future, research and chemical utilization of wood products, improvement in the condition of cut-over U. S. forest lands, and problems which will arise out of the return of the nation's lumber production to domestic markets at the close of the war.

Principal guests of the lumbermen during the three-day session were Lyle F. Watts, chief of the U. S. Forest Service; J. Philip Boyd, director, Lumber and Lumber Products Division, War Production Board; Col. F. G. Sherrill, U. S. Corps of Engineers; Dr. J. A. Hall, chief biochemist, U. S. Forest Service; and George M. IIunt, U. S. Forest Products Laboratory.

In addition to regular NLMA business there were annual meetings of American Forest Products Industries, Inc. and the Board of Directors of Timber Engineering Company, plus committee meetings of NLMA and AFPI.

On Tuesday evening Mr. Fleishel was host to all the delegates at the annual president's dinner. One feature of