PERS NALS

Jim Sasser is the new mgr. of Wickes Lumber Co., Goldsboro, N.C.

Nate "The Kitchen" Newton, Dallas Cowboys football player, has been named the official spokesperson for Boro Wood Products, Fort Worth, Tx.

Gerald Cook, Cook Industries, Orlando, Fl., has been elected to the board of the American Wood Preservers Bureau, Lorton. Va. Other new board members: William B. Cox Jr., Cox Wood Preserving, Orangeburg, S.C.; Clif Jones Jr., Brunswick Pulp & Paper, Brunswick, Ga.; Howard Powell, Timber Products Inspection, Conyers, Ga.; Ken Porter, GeorgiaPacific Corp., Atlanta, Ga.: Jim Respess, Langdale Forest Products, Valdosta, Ga.; Jack Smith. Hoover Treated Wood Products. ThomsonGa., and Alan Bell, Quality Forest Products, Enfreed, N.C.

Edwin Hughes, v.p., Strong-Lite Products Corp., Pine Bluff, Ar., has been elected pres. of the Perlite Institute.

Charlie James has been appointed v.p. and gen. mgr. of FLM Building Products, Orlando, Fl. Robert Davis is now v.p. and gen. mgr. at the St. Petersburg, FL, branch; Warren Rowley, v.p. and controller. Mario Martinez and Bob Davis will run the new Tampa, Fl., branch, according to Fred Macl-eod, pres.

Nora Logan has joined the sales team in Fl. for ldaho Timber Corp. Cary Holaday is now in Tx. sales. Richard Anderson has been named gen. mgr. of Foxworth-Galbraith. Lampasas, Tx. Tim Alderson will manage in Pearsall, Tx., and Bill Briggs, in McKinney, Tx.

Gary S. Broughton, American Plywood Association, has been ap- pointed Northeastern region field rep, concentrating on Richmond, Va., area. Gregg W. Froman, now South Central rep, will focus on Dallas, Austin and Lubbock, Tx., and Oklahoma City, Ok., markets.

Mike Walker has resigned from Duke City Lumber Co., Albuquerque. N.M.. alter 13 years with the co. to become a bond broker in the Houston, Tx., area. Kathy f'resquez Chavez succeeds him as southern yellow pine salesperson in the Houston area.

E. Sterling Brown has been appointed mgr. of marketing services at Briggs Plumbingware, Inc., Tampa, Fl.. according to J. L. Huss, pres. Diene P. Sicks has been appointed government affairs asst. for the Southern Forest Products Association, New Orleans, La.

F. Daniel Wilder, senior v.p., Champion International Corp., has resigned after 27 years with the firm to pursue other interests.

Drrrell Thornton, Steger Lumber Co., Durant, Ok., has completed the basic estimating course arthe MidAmerica Lumbermen's Association. Kevin f,dwerds is now co-mgr. of 84 Lumber Co., Baton Rouge, La. Willie Heyes is now distriburion mgr. for Glamourtop Corp., Birmingham, Al. Dick Gerdner is production mgr. Bred Foreman will manage Scotty's l03rd St. S. srore in Jacksonville. Fl. Other new Fl. mgrs. are Mike Hager, Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala; Jimmy Lewis, Arcadia; Fred Sims, Tamarac, and Drn Yrrosh, St. Johns Bluff Rd.. Jacksonville.

Gary Moore is now director of millwork operations at CausewaY Lumber Co., Boca Raton, Fl., according to John W. Wigger, exec. v.p. and gen. mgr.

James H. Stoehr, Searcy Flooring, Inc., Cincinnati, Oh., has been elected pres. of the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers' Association, Memphis, Tn., succeeding W.T. Mullican. McMinnville Manufacturing Co., McMinnville, Tn. Harry Preston, Cumberland Lumber & Manufacturing Co., McMinnville, is now v.p., and new directors are Mullican, Terri Birkett, Stuart Flooring Corp., Stuart, Va., and Lawson Maury, DeSoto Hardwood Flooring Co., Memphis.

Ken Boone will manage the new Scotty's Hardware in Tifton, Ga. Other new mgrs. in Ga.: Joel Fuller Moultrie, and Mike Thompson, Bainbridge. New mgrs. in Fl.: Juan Cabo, Bradenton; Jim Crews, Lake Placid; Michael Dickinson, TamPa; Rodney Faulk, Belle Glade; Rita Glenn, Winter Park; Bob High' West Palm Beachl Colin Leisher, Altamonte Springs; Larry Little, Orange Park; Ray Mason, Orlando; Wayne Mayo, Tampa Carrollwood; Leonard Nix, Port St. Lucie; Scott Page, Fort Myers; DwaYne Prater, Land-O-Lakesl Milt Reed, Stuartl Wes Shallenberger, Port St. John, and David Sparks, Vero Beach.

Kalisa Kydes will head the new M.L. Sandy Lumber Sales office in St. Petersburg, Fl.

Jerry Norris has been elected v.p. of Westvaco Development Corp., Summerville, S.C.

Stark Buckner is the new waferboard/ OSB products sales mgr., Southern div., for Louisiana-Pacific Corp., Conroe, Tx.

W.T. "Bud" Eichhorn has been appointed national sales mgr., construction, at Stanley-Bostitch lnc., Atlanta, Ga., according to George Weissman, senior v.p., sales & marketing.

William G. Durocher is now product mgr. of Briggs Plumbingware, Inc., Tampa, Fl., according to J.L. Huss, pres.

Randy Mahaffey, owner, Ply-Mart, Inc.. Norcross, Ga., has been named Associate of the Year by the Homebuilders Association of Metropolitan Atlanta.

Bobby Graves has been named mgr. of Houston's Building Material & Supply's Roswell, Ga., facility.

Lana Leitner-Salts has been appointed director of communications at MidAmerica Lumbermens Association.

Harold L. Garber is the new Ga., S.C. and Fl. regional market mgr. for Southern Forest Products Association. Stationed in Atlanta, Ga., he succeeds Jim Haney, who will retire in March.