It bore one, then a second eight-foot panel and rested while the crowd who had come to watch murmured with respectful appreciation. William G. Wasiary, president of the International Conference of Building Officials, in session at the Hilton across the street, opened the demonstration. You do not turn up your nose at a new building idea with that kind of an introduction. Nick Carter, the managing director of ICBO was up there on the platform too and with them was the onetime Portland attorney and graduate of North Western College of Law, Lewis Dillman, whose Richwood Industries built the machine. Now two panels of honeycomb building panels, sheets of gypsum sandwiched over a paper honeycomb, may not seem like much of a curtain raiser. But in that crowd were Bill Hunt, the president of Georgia Pacific Corp., and Hal Sands, G-P's plywood marketing expert.
Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.
Photo is dated 09-09-1970.
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