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*PLYWOOD FOR E\TERY PUNPOSE" is still good, with wqr needs the mcrin 1rurpose now.

The plywood industry's research and promotion work will brocden postwcrr plywood mcrkets lor the decrler.

IEST WE FORGET!

Born February 22, 1732, he was the first president of the United States, also the first leader of the armies of the United States.

FIe was presiding officer of the convention that framed the Constitution.

Buy that extra War Bond, and help preseroe the Freedom he Fouqht For.

Retires for the Duration

B. W. (Bobby) Byrne, secretary of the Western Hardwood Lumber Company at Los Angeles, resigned his position on I)ecember l5 and has retirecl for the duration. He was witl, the company thirtythree years, and served as secretary for over twentvfive years.

Douglcrs Fir Plyvrood Advisory Committee Appointed

Appointment of a five-man Douglas Fir Manufacturers Industry Advisory Committee-to consult with the Office of Price Administration whenever pricing problems arise within the industry-was announced today by OPA.

The members are:

Clay Brown, vice-president, IJ. S. Plyu,'ood York City.

E. W. Daniels, president, Harbor Plywood quiam, Wash.

Thomas B. Malarkey, vice-president, M. and M. Woodu'orking Co., Portland, Ore.

B. W. Byrne he plans an extended rvhere they will visit Jersey.

Bobby is widely known in lumber circles on the Pacific Coast. He has ju;t completed a month's trip to the Northwest, going as far as Vancouver, B. C.. where he. called on many of his lumbertuen friends. About March 1, trip E4st, together with Mrs. Byrne, his relatives in New York and New

He has alu'ays been active in Hoo-Hoo, and is a former Vi,cegerent Snark of the Los Angeles district. His two sons are connected with the lumber business, George C. Byrne, salesman for the Western Hardwood Lumber Company, and B. W. Byrne, Jr., who operates a plant manufacturing custom milhvork at Hawthorne, Calif.

Stcrte Board ol Forestry Meets

Sacramento, Feb. 3-W. S. Rosecrans of Los Attgeles was elected chairman of the State Board oi Forestry as the'board, recently reorganized by Governor Warren, uret for the first time since the change to discuss general California forestry problems. Wendell Robie of Auburn was selected as vice chairman.

The other members of the board are Kenneth R. Walker, Westwood; J. J Pendergast, Redlands; Frank W. Reynolds, Ukiah; Domingo l{arrison, Santa Paula, and Roderick McArthur.

J. R. Robinson, president, Robinson Manufacturing Everett, Wash.

Herman Tenzler, president, Northr,r'est Door Co., Tacoma, Wash.

Tough, laminated Douglas fir plywood board, produced in undisclosed millions of feet annually, is used in the manufacture of the famous Liberty ships and auxiliary naval vessels, also in airplanes, war housing, barracks, huts and other military buildings, lifeboats, barges and landing craft, boxes and crates for ammunition, engine and aircraft parts and ordnance items and other military needs.

l\fanufacturing plants of the Douglas fir plywood industry are located in Oregon and Washington.

The five members of the committee, OPA said, have served informally as an advisory group to OPA since 1941, when price control began. At present, OPA added, there are no immediate pricing problems with regard to Douglas fir plywood

Executive Committee Meets

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Lumber Merchants of Northern California was held in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, January 26.

Bob Ingrcrm in South Pcrcific

Commander Robert M. Ingram, former sales managel of the E. C. Miller Cedar Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., has been on active duty with the U. S. Naval Reserve for the past two and a half years. He was 21 months in the Aleutians area, was promoted to commander in May, 1943, and is now in the South Pacific.