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in City of Industry, Cali{., ha-" Monger, who has re-opened the
The Laco yard was owned and operated for many years as a materials supply facility for major builder'developer S. V. Hunsaker. The yard was closed when Hunsaker sold his construction company and its holdings to Occidental Petroleum Corp. MongJer, 47, had been manager of the Laco yard until its closing last year. His background also includes stints with Imperial Lumber in Norwalk and Cal-West Lumber, Los Angeles' Monger reports they will operate as a full-service consumer yard, with emphasis on do-it-yourself and industrial sales.
TIMBERS are big business at Inland. We iin-'srrtatEthem uplo 8" x 76"' They're all free of heart, construction grade and better and can be gradi:stamped after-surfacing..All are stored unOEr fine spray to prevent checking and splitting. No timbeis are surfac-ed, ^u.ntil your order is Teceived, yet we can offer 24-hour delivery' When you think of timbers, think.of Inland-the dealeris supplier, never his competitor.
Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co. has added John Braden to its San Francisco sales staff. Formerly with North Pacific Lumber, Portland, John will be active in LCL and direct mill sales of hardwood and softwood.
San Francisco's Bob Macfe spent a recent week at Georgia-Pacific's Portland headquarters comparing notes with Tom Houston, Duane Dufi and the rest of the G-P garlg.
Hal Saltzman is back at his Portland. Ore., desk at American-International Forest Products after spending the holiday season in Hawaii.
George Scrim is in the Orient, touring Taiwan and the Philippines on import business for Robert S. Osgood Co.
Fred Thomas, Sun Lumber Co., San Pedro, Calif., sales mainstay for the last ten years, has retired after nearly a half-century in the biz. Earlier he had been sales manager for Hammond Lumber Co.
Jean Masters, wife of LMA president Art Masters, head of The King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, was painfully injured in a bad fall while visiting relatives in the East. Fortunately, Art was attending a nearby annual meeting of the NLBMDA. At last reporb Jean is well on the mend and looking forward to being on hand for LMA,s big spring annual at the Sahara Tahoe.
Don Smith and Glen Chasteen of Koppers Co. wound up a business trip in Phoenix just in time to fly back to Southern California for the LASC Palm Springs get-together.
Frank Higgins, formerly sales manager at ,Consolidated Lumber in Wilmington, Calif., is now salesmanager at Sun Lumber's San Pedro operation at Berth 122.
Torn Butler, formerly with the now-defunct Orchard-Roberts Lumber Co. in Torrance, Calif., has signed-on at Clearwater Lumber, Paramount, as an outside salesman, according to bossman Jack Peterson.
Wholesaler Allen Bufkin, who formerly operated Allen S. Bufkin Lumber Sales, has joined Ralph Cardwell at Oregon-Pacific Industries' Montebello, Calif. sales office.
Don Swartzendruber and his Ings fle$' to Oregon for a tour through Davidson Industries' Mapleton mill, Don, formerly vice president of purchasing for the Rossman Mill & Lumber chain, now heads-up the southern California sales office for Davidson, which operates mills in Mapleton and Mount Mary, O're.
Ziel & Company's Mike Madison has just returned from three weeks in the steamy jungles of Brazil on company business, Life has been one big steam bath for Mike lately as he recently spent several weeks in the jungles of Borneo and Malay- sia inspecting tropical hardwoods.
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Marquart-Wolfe's Sterling riloEe is back at his Newport Beach desk after a 10-day swing down south of the border, where he and his missus Lorraine got in some loafing at Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta.
Warren Tuttle, formerly with Foster Lumber Yard at Vallejo, has signed on with Piedmont Lumber & Mill Co. at Walnut Creek, Calif., according to owner, Bill Meyers.
Mike Zapponi, owner of Lakeport Lumber & Supply, has been elected Mayor of Lakeport, Calif., after serving on the city council since 1962. Prior to establishing his Lakeport yard, Mike had been with the old Cloverdale Redwood Co. mill.
"Chub" Durnell, formerly with BrooksDodge Lumber and most recently an ace insurance salesman, has returned to the lumber business, joining Inland Lumber Co., Rialto, Calif.
Jim Russell took off a couple of weeks from Roy Forest Products, Sherman Oaks, Calif., for some loafing in the Lake TahoeReno area.
L. Lee Rappleyea has been appointed manager of technical services by the California Redwood Association, replacing Peter Johnson, Jr. who is now treasurer of the CRA.
Mr. and Mrs, Jesse Powers have gotten an OK from the San Marcos, Calif. planning commission for a lumber yard at Encinitas and Mission Roads.
Dorman Dane, for many years with Barr Lumber's Los Alamitos retail yard, has made the transition to wholesaler, signing-
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on with Ilallinan-Mackin Lumbey's Ios Angeles distribution yard as outside salesman.
Norm Wendeli has joined "Mac" Mac' Alister at American-International Forest Products' sales ofrce in Temple City. Norm formerly was with llallinan-Mackin Lumber and Jamb Dandy Lumber.
A quiek trip to the Midwest turned into a nightmare for Bolf Stolesen when he ran into record blizzards while on Stolesen Forest Products business.
Ed LaFranchi, formerly with Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., has joined Branson-Cross Lumber Co. at San Leandro.
Bud Kinney, former owner of 'Western Dry Kiln, spent a few late Fall weeks sunning it up in Hawaii.
Triangle Lumber's Yic Roth treated himself to a hernia operation for Christmas and as far as Vic is concerned he hopes he nevet sees Santa Claus again!
"Oz" Crenshaw has been named salesmanag€r qf The Robert Dollar Co., Glendale, Orcgon, succeeding Stoy Hliott, who retired the first of the year.
Simonson Lumber Company salesmanager Denny Hess, of Arcata, is sporting a beautiful new cast on his leg, the result of a little do-it yourself tree surgery. At least Denny picked the right time of the year as casts are very "in' with winter sports enthusiasts.
Gary Thomson and his Sara spent a skiing vacation in Aspen, Colo., during the holiday season.
A "welcome back" to Yic Wolf; head of Western Forest Products of San Francisco,, who suffered a recent heart attack. Vic's right hand man Jim Goter held the helm ana aiO a fine job of navigating during Vic's three month convalescence.
Iloward Libbey is on the good ship Mariposa on a 45.day cruise to Australia, New Zealand and other exotic South Pacific ports. It's the first half of a retirement present bestowed on the former chief of Arcata Redwood Co.
Bob Millar, former manag:er of Sterling Lumber Company's Morgan Hill branch' has joined Oakley Plywood & Doors at Morgan Hill, according to president Jim Oakley. Bob joins Ralph Bishop in outside sales.
Don Watson has been Promoted sales manager at Globe International, Los Angeles - based plywood distributors. Don's brother is Dale Watson at Watson Plywood' T[alt Ruth, former director of purchasing at Artesia Door Co., has re-joined some of his old Davidson Plywood buddies at Evans Products' international div., Corona, Calif., where he'll handle purchasing.
Andy Yasquez, former bossman at Artesia Door, is recuperating at home following a recent leg operation.
Al Wahl is up after a broken leg, the result of a slip while hiking in the mountains. Al was for many years Yp. sales at Consolidated Lumber Co. in Wilmington' Calif.
Jack Carlow g:ot together with some of his old school chums for a reunion of the
Ioyola University Law School, class of %2. Jack returned just in time for a phone call from Jack Jr. in Cape Town, South Africa, a freshman in the International ,Division of Chapman College aboard the SS Ryndam with 500 classmates.
Ferd Haas, longtimer at E. J. Stanton & Son, took his Marie on a three-week European trip. The couple flew to Germanyt rented a car and toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Art Parkins, California Door general manager, and his wife spent the Christmas season south of the border, driving down to Mazatlan and on to Mexico City and environs.
Memphis, Tenn., lumberman Frank Buehl of F. T. Dooley Lumber Co. visited Los Angeles and made the rounds with Vance Lumber's Jack Millikan and logged some time on the links at the L.A. Hoo-Hoo elub meeting.
Donald L. Gardner has been named a division vp. for Evans Products Co. Gardner is responsible for management of 12 manufacturing facilities and 31 distribution centers in the Building Products Div.
Marc A. Dupont has been named general sales manager of the E. A. Thompson Co., Inc,, according to E. A. Thompson, president. Dupont will be in charge of industrial and dealer sales and will assist in the expansion progtam following construction of the new Hollister plant. fireir King City plant was destroyed by fire. (See The Merchant, November, 196?, p. 14.) Dupont has wide experience in the paint field.
by BOB McBRIEN executive vice president of the
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Eugene, Medford HAMERSTAG EQUTPMEITT c0,, South San Francisco GREEN.FI0RY G0" fF THERE is one common thought in the rninds of California r retail building materials dealers these days, it has to be the recently enacted 20-Day Notice Law. I know, because the meetings LMA is conducting throughout northern California are producing literally hundreds of questions on this *subject.
Not only are dealers thinking about the 2O-Day Preliminary Notice, but their customers are thinking right along. And their lenders and sub-contractors, too. It's a most common area of interest and one that is best studied and understood if problems are to be shunned.
LMA has printed a most detailed ex- tlEll.. LAw problems, planation or ih" new law and its efiects :ir*t'o'ff* "lX.*iJo*1i on the existing California lien laws. We LMA in various ways. have. also-secuied easyro-use forms which can be ordered from our office at minimum cost' But still there are questions, so we've undertaken this series of meetings to answer them. * *
To date nearly 4O0 persons have attended these meetinss in Merced, Marysville, Tahoe, Sonora, Santa Rosa, Salinas. Fiesno and Visalia. Additional meetings will be held per regional request.
This being my first column of the new year in The Merchant Magazine, I'd like to thank all the many people who helped the LMA staff during the year just passed. Ii was a great year in many ways and you helped to make it so. Our events went off well, and you helped to make it so. We advanced in knowledee and understanding, and you made it so.
, This year shows even greater promise. We Iook for improved business,-many new friendships, fewer problems, better progru*., continued good health and the opportunity to continue ori u.ro_ ciation with you.
Koppers Building New Plont
Koppers Company will triple its output of fire-retardant red cedar shakes and shingles with a new plant at Oroville. Calif., scheduled for start-up in early 1968.
The plant will have a treating capacity of 60,000 squares of shakes and shingles per year. ttiis is equivalent to 6 million sq. ft. of roof surface.
Western red cedar shakes and shineles treated with the new Koppers process have been given an Underwriters, Laboratories, Inc. rating as a Class ooC" roofing materialo the same fire safet]. classification given to mineral "out.d asphalt shingles.
