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Plywood Manufacturers Meet and Make Plans

Though maximum plywood production for the nation's pressing housing program remains the immediate concern of Pacific Northwest panel makers, continued development of the progressive, 33-factory industry occupies prime attention among the manufacturers.

This pronouncement was made June 10 at Tacoma, lMash., as 150 leaders of the Oregon-Washington industry met for the annual business session to chart long-range promotion for their product. The Northwest plywood manu{acturers who produce virtually all the country's construction plywood, now are turning out the material at the rate of 1,600,000,000 square feet a year.

As announced at the meeting of the industry trade or'ganization, Douglas Fir Plyrvood Association which has Tacoma headquarters, the future progress of the industrv is founded on:

1. Continued high performance of the product, now in .demand not only for home construction but alike for boat building, railroad cars and farm structures.

2. Development of new, improved surfacings for ply_ wood and supplementary panel materials through research instituted three years ago.

3. Continued national promotion of plywood to sustain <lemand.

Thomas B. Malarkey of Portland, Ore., vice president of M & M Wood Working Co. and retiring president of the plywood trade association, forcefully presented the case for plywood when he said, "The industry is dedicated to a road of quality production and efficient distribution that leads toward a vista of prosperous and productive years.

"The widespread preference for plywood among construction men and industrialists ha-s been built directly upon the integrity of our product based upon its performance in service."

Malarkey fired his address with an attack on Senator Harry Cain of Washington for "blocking passage" of a Congressional bill that would stimulate plywood and lumber production by authorizing construction of more logging roads in timber lands. The bill, House Bill No. 3203, rvould appropriate $10,000,m0 to the United States Forest Service to build "access roads" into remote forest regions.

Plywood manufacturers, Malarkey explains, long have supported the "access road" program as a means of obtaining greater output of lumber and plyrvood through reach- ing timber stands now bottled up. Plywood remains in short supply, with' conventional builders and prefabricators alike demanding more than ever before. Production now is at a peak level, but any increased output is dependent on available log supplies, which would be bolstered by the "access road" program.

Exhibited at the meeting were npmerous new plywood products, surfacings foi panels and combination products, somq of them manufactured from sawdust and other substances previously considered as waste. Displayed were . numerous laboratory sanples made by the industry research organization, Plywood Research Foundation of Tacoma and which are being readied for factory production.

Also shown were several plastic surfaced plywood items now being produced by several manufacturers. Samples with metal facings also were displayed.

New president of the industry trade association, named to succeed Malarkey who has served three terms, is Arnold Koutonen of Olympia, Wash., general .manager of the plywood division of St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co. The Olympia plant which he manages, until recently was owned by Associated Plywood Mills of Eugene, Ore., a company which Koutonen formerly headed as president.

J. \\t. Forrester, general manager of Coos Bay (Ore.) Lumber Co., which operates a plywood factory at nearby Coquille, is the new vice president of the plywood trade association. Secretary of the industry organization is Leon- ard Nystrom of Eugene, president of Associated Plywood Mills. The new treasurer is Joe H. Smith of Tacoma, general manager of Puget Sound Plywood Inc.

Trustees of Douglas Fir Plywood Association include: Philip Garland, general manager of Peninsula Plywood Corp. at Port Angeles and formerly of Tacoma; Fred L. Johnson, general manager of Anacortes (Wash.) Veneers fnc., Vern A. Nyman, general manager of Aberdeen (Wash.) Plywood Corp., and Dennis Slenning of Tacoma, assistant general manager of Oregon-Washington Plywood Corp.

E. -W. Daniels, president of Harbor Plywood Corp., Hoquiam, Wash., and chairman of the management committee of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, gave his ninth consecutive report to the industry today.

E. L. Blaine, Ir., of Seattle tvas the guest speaker on the luncheon program. Ife gave an interesting dissertation entitled "Which Road?" tslaine is vice president of the People's National Bank of Washington and president of the Seattle chapter of the American Institute of Banking.

In outlining the continuing development program for the industry, Charles E. Devlin, managing director of the industry trade association, emphasized the importance attached by plywood makers to performance of their product to sustain "consumer confidence." "I just. want to say that plywood quality is not good enough if it can be made better; the industry is dedicated to that principle."

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