\(/ood-Ply Research Group Meets in Chicago

Formation of the Wood-Ply Research Foundation, a research and merchandising organization which was completed more than a year ago, was announced at a meeting held in the Morrison Hotel, Chicago, on September 17. Eighteen distributors, all old ar.rd well-established wholesale lumber firms, are members.

New plywood products on exhibit included plasticized plyrvood molded boats, plastic covered plywood for table and desk tops, molded plywood and plastic parts lor aircraft, plastic-plywood flush doors and building blocks for home construction, a new rvaterproof plastic glue for use in bonding wood, and various other items using plastic and plywood combinations.

The objectives of the Wood-Ply Foundation include the development and merchandising of new plywood and plastic products.

Products approved by the Foundation r,vill be merchandised under the label "Veriply".

It is expected that large quantities of these ner,,, products will be used in the home building, furniture, boating, refrigeration, outdoor advertising and transportation industries.

The eighteen approved distributors of Veriply products include the following rvholesale lumber firms : BennettBailey Lumber Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; Berg, Patterson & Buck, Inc., Detroit, Mich.; Daniel Buck, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. ; Ehrlich-Harrison Co., Seattle, Wash.; Charles F. Fischer & Co., Inc., New York, N. Y.; Forest Products Corp., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Fry-Fulton Lumber Co., St. Louis, Mo.; J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco, Calif.; Huss Lumbcr Co.. Chicago, Ill.; Kilpatrick Bros.,

Oklahoma City, Okla.; Maclea Lumber Co., Baltimore, Md.; Omaha Hardwood Lumber Co., Omaha, Neb., and Sioux City, Ia.; Plunkett-Webster Lumber Co., Inc., New Rochelle, N. Y.; Texas Oak Flooring Co., Dallas, Tex.; Twin City Hardwood Lumber Co., St. Paul, Minn.; Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Calif.; and Winde, McCormick & Chapin, Inc., Charlestown, Mass.

While every section of the country is now represented, additional distributors will be approved in the future.

Officers of the Foundation are: L. S. Clark, Twin City Hardwood Lumber Co., St. Paul, president; Geo. W. Bateman, Daniel Buck, Inc., Philadelphia, vice president, and Wellington R. Burt, Chicago, secretary-treasurer and managing director.

Included on the executive committee are: J. Glennon Cahill, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Alvin H. Huss, lluss Lumber Co., Chicago, and D. Carlysle Maclea, Maclea Lumber Co., Baltimore, Md.

Frqnk Brown Will Mcncge

Tyncrn d Rogers

Frank Brown has resigned his position in the sales department of Pope & Talbot Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, and will take over, effective October 15, the management of Tynan & Rogers, Salinas, manufacturers of Utility Fence.

Frank brings to his new position an experience of more than 12 years in selling, both in the office and on the road for Pope & Talbot, Inc., and as well a very large acquaintance among California lumber dealers. His many friends wish him success in the new field.

National Hardwood Association Reelects Officers

All officers of the National Hardwood Lumber Association were reelected at the annual meeting held in Chicago on September 20-21. They are: D. Carlysle Macl-ea, Baltimore, president; George H. Henderson, Lufkin, Texas, Frank W. Hutcheson, Huntsville, Ontario, and James C. Walsh, Chicago, vice presidents, and John W. McClure, Chicago, secretary-treasurer.

J. B. Veach, Washington, and Kerry L. Emmons, Memphis, were elected directors for three-year terms. Directors reelected for tl.rree-year terms are : A. J. Bailey, Toronto; A. H. Bankston, Savannah, Ga. ; F. G. Christmann. St. Louis; A. M. Fox, Iron Mountain, Mich. ; B. O. Gerrish, Boston; H. F. Gill, Montreal; O. B. Hayes, Norfolk, Va.; H. Ii. Kline, Louisville, and F. S. Underhill, Philadelphia. C. H. Barnaby Jr., Greencastle, Ind., and Charles Good, Bay de Noquet, Mich., filled vacancies caused by death in the 1947 directorship.

New Mcncger

W. E. Abrahamson has been appointed manager of the St. Helena yard of Hammond Lumber Company. He is a brother of E. E. (Abe) Abrahamson, well known member of the Hammond staff at Samoa, and was formerly in charge of retail sales at the Hammond Lumber Company, Eureka.

Announces Plans for New Research Center

Plans for a new Research Center in which greatly expanded and accelerated development work will be carried on in the fields of building materials, insulations and other products urgently needed to help house the nation and increase efficiency of industrial operations in the postwar period, were announced recently by Lewis H. Brown, president of Johns-Manville Corporation.

It is the first project announced in a company-wide expansion program in the United States, Canada and abroad which calls fbr the expenditure of approximately $CI,000,000 and which is hoped will provide 25 per cent more jobs than were available in the company's most successful prewar year, N{r. Brown said.

The Research Center, the first unit of which is already under construction, is planned ultimately to be a group of six buildings located on a 93-acre plot of land near Bound Brook; N. J., and across the Raritan River from the large Johns-Manville plant at Manville, N. J.

Resigns As WPB Millwork Chiel

Clifford T. Melander has resigned as Chief of the WPB Millwork Section after serving in that capacity since November, 1942. His plans for the future are indefinite at the present time. During his three years vvith the War Production Board, Mr. Melander did an excellent job of supervising government controls in the millwork industry. He has been identified with the industrv for about fifteen vears.

Iim Crow

It was away back in the early part of this century when Oklahoma had recently become a state and the "Jim Crow" or race segregation laws had been recently enacted and put into effect. A gentleman walked into the post office one day in Claremore and noticed a small negro boy looking hesitatingly around, in his hand a freshly stamped envelope. After a little, he went over to the gentleman, in he and asked:

"Cap'n, is dis de box whah de cullud folks puts dey mail?"

Olio Perhcps

The man in the restaurant was suspicious. He looked hard at the little pale yellow cube on the side dish, then sniffed at it, suspiciously. Then he picked up his knife in one hand and a hunk of bread in the other, and said to the bit of grease:

"I take thee for butter. or worse."

Lord Buddhc On Right Living

The first Good Level is Right Doctrine. Walk In fear of Dharmam, shunning all offense; In heed of Karma, which doth make man's fate; In lordship over sense.

The second is Right Purpose. Have good will To all that lives, letting unkindness die And greed and wrath; so that your lives be made Like soft airs passing by.

The third is Right Discourse. Govern the lips

As they were palace doors, the King within; Tranquil and fair and courteous be all words Which from that presence win.

The fourth is Right Behavior. Let each act Assail a fault or help a merit grow; Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads, Let Love through good deeds show.

Four higher roadways be. Only those feet May tread them which are done with earthly things; Right Purity; Right Thought; Right Loneliness; Right Rapture.

The Retort Courteous

He was digging into the mud around the wheel of his bogged down car, when a stranger hailed him.

"Stuck in the mud?" he wanted to know.

"Oh, no," said the sweating gentleman with the shovel. "You see, my motor died here, and I'm just digging it a grave."

Dryden On Love

Why should a foolish marriage vow, Which long ago was made, Oblige us to each other now, When passion is decayed?

Till our love was loved out in us both, But our marriage is dead when the pleasure is fled; 'Twas pleasure first made it an oath.

-Dryden.

To Be Poor

\Me have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. We have lost the power of even imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant; the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are or do and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly-the more athletic trim; in short, the moral fighting shape. It is certain that the prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

-Wm. James

The Personcl Touch

"And when did you first become acquainted with your husband?"

"When f asked him for five dollars the day after the wedding."

The Letter "E"

The most unfortunate letter in the alphabet, some say, is "e," because it is always out of cash, forever in debt, never out of danger, and in hell all the time. That's all true. Still, it is never found in war, is always in peace, and never out of eats. It is the beginning of existence, the commencement of ease, and the end of trouble. Without it there could be no life, no heaven. It is the center of honesty, and is always in love. It is likewise the beginning of encouragement and endeavor, and the final end of failure.

Hidden Rooms

Within my heart are hidden rooms, To which I hold the key, And even those who love me best. Can't wander there with me. The doors of love that dreaming built, I open if f choose, And find within the portals there, Romance I never lose. And when my rendezvous is done, I'm loath to turn the key, Upon the hidden little rooms, Within the heart of me.

-Hilda Butler Farr