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have all indications West Coast area.

Recent activities by the Western Building Material Assn., Olympia, Wash.; Lumber Assn. of Southern California, Los Angeles; Arizona Lumber and Builders Supply Assn., Phoenix, and our own Lumber Merchants Assn. of Northern California, of developing closer ties within the

Just recently I had the pleasure of attending the Lumber Assn. of Southern California's 21st Annual Management Conference. It was well-organized and presented excellent views of management for the 70's. More important was the opportunity for me to meet with members of the association and discuss mutual problems,

These associations are developing mutual exchange prog?ams. One such program is the exchange of panel participants to present panel discussions at the annual meetings of each association. This type of panel will bring dealers from other western areas together to discuss operations and management. This dealer to dealer panel will provide considerable adhesiveness to the bonding of our western dealers'

There is one important message that I wish to convey to all dealers in the four western associations: Although we are separated by imaginary boundaries we are ioined by our westera geographic location and our common interests in the industry. For these reasons it is essential that we consider ourselves western dealers as well as identifying ourselves with the state associations. Most of you will agree that the constant flow of legislation has geographical impact in most cases. Our strength will be quadrupled by our identification with the western dealers.

Redwood, pine, hemlock, cedar and fir* are right up our alley. One call to Hobbs Wall gets the ball rolling at once. lt puts you in touch with the output of over one hundred Western mills...for the right grades at the right

Richard Fretz, Masonite Corp., Phoenix, won a sales recognition award and trip to the NAHB exposition.

Leroy D. Johnson, Arizona, and Lanny D. Thacker, San Francisco, reps for Marlite, won sales recognition awards.

Emory E. Moore, pres., Vanply, Inc., Albany, Ore., is now serving a 3 year term on the Oregon Economic Development Advisory Committee.

Dd Stroup is handling the new Mouldings, Ine., distribution center in Tempe, Ariz. Don Warren heads the Denver, Colo., operation.

George H. Folquet, vp-finance, Pope & Talbot, Portland, has been elected to the board of directors, reports Peter T. Pope.

Walter E. Ousterman has been ap- pointed exec. vp., operations, Kaiser Cement & Gypsum. James C. Reilly is the new exec. v,p., administration and finance.

'Wayne Gardner, exec. vp,, Lumber Assn. of So. Calif., journeyed to Washington, D. C., for the American Lumber Standards Committee meeting.

Jerry Hall is, the new cr:edit mgr. for Kenmore Lumber Co,, Washington, reports James J. Pendergast, pres.

Grant B. Potter has been elected to the board of directors, Ward & Harrington Lumber Co., Santa Ana, Calif.

Fred S. Thomson, Inland Lumber Co., Colton, Calif., and Donald Irvine, Utah Lumber Co., Salt Lake City, have been elected to the rboard of directors of the National Building Material Distributors Assn.

Elwood Rose recently joined the sales staff of Blanchard Lumber Co.. Portland.

Floyd E. Weaver has been named pres. of Southwest Forest Homes, announces John V. Ward, shelter and land development gloup.

Jack McKinnon is the recently named pres. of American International Forest Products, Portland, replacing resigning Harold H. Saltzman.

Samuel S. Greeley is the new chief exec. officer of Masonite Corp., replacing John M. Coates, who is now chairman of the board.

Vic Hadley recently joined the lumber sales staff of Pope and Talbot, Portland.

Leo Robertson has been selected as assistant to the dir. of purchasing, Kaiser Cement & Gypsum.

John Yismek is managing the Eugene, Ore., office of R.olando Lumber, San Francisco, lValt Scholz, Ernst Hardware & Lumber, Seattle, won a portable tv in a Bostitch drawing at the Nt'I. Hardware Show in N.Y.

William J. McAuley is the new northwest region mgr.., Marlite Paneling, succeeding R. T. Helvenston, newly created field sales mgr.

J. H. Packham is the new pres. and g'en. mgr. of Arizona Box Co. John A. Rogers, dist. mgr. of Imperial Valley box operations, will retire.

James F. O'Donnell, American plywood Assn. forestry affairs mgr., received a Good Turn Award from the Boy Scouts of America.

Ed Fountain, Sr., Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a week's duck hunting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

R. Clyde Hindman has been selected manager-dealer market for U.S, Plywood div., U.S. plywoodChampion Papers, Inc., according t9 L. C. Heist, vp., sales and production planning.

Emanuel Fritz, prof. emeritus of forestry at the University of California, has been awarded the Gifford Pinchot Medal recognizing his outstanding service to forestry.

E. J. Patterson, Sacramento, Calif., is the recipient of an award as outstanding Masonite Corp. hardboard products salesman.

Joseph B. McGrath, staff vp. and legislative counsel of the National Assn. of Home Builders, has been named vp. of government affairs for the National Forest Products Assn.

Daryl Richardson, A&R Lumber Sales, Eugene, Ore., has been named to the Triangle Lake school board.

John Yance is the gen. sales mgr. of AFP's Ifarbor Box div., Manuel Damion is the new asst. Plant mgr.

Cecil Duncan replaced James Lundbeck as gen. mgt., western region, Dart Industries, Santa Fe SPrings' Calif. Robert Grant is the new regional mgr. for the comPanY's Wilson-Art div., Seattle.

Ilarry J- Hilgert has been named vp.operations of Mouldings, Inc. He previously had been at Chico, Calif., with Diamond-National.

John M. Richards has been Promoted to western div. gen. mgt: for Potlatch's wood products gEoup' Lewiston. Ida. Irwin W. Krantz is the new vp.'employee relations, San Francisco.

Gregory Hughes Casarella is the first gtandson, second grandchild, for Tom Hughes, Tlughes Lumber, Glendale. Dr. and Mls. Casarella (father and mother) are Tdoing fine, thanks. Ed also got in a Chicago trip in late fall for daughter Louise's 21st birthdaY.

Ray Nailor is branch mgr. for Palmer G. Lewis Co.'s neu' Los Angeles rrarehouse; Ron O'Neill is second man. Bob Vandewall has taken over Ray's old job as mass merchandiser coordinator.

Banily Phitips, Philips Lumber Sales, Thousand Oaks, Calif., and his wife Carol, spent Christmas time visiting relatiorrs in KentuckY.

Dwight Curran is now selling for Vic Roth's Triangle Lumber in the Greater S.F. BaY Area and into the San Joaquin ValleY. Dwight was with Evans and American Forest Products.

Bob Pope is the nerv mgr. for Builders Supply Co., Great Falls, Mont.

Leo B. Maskill is the new suPerintendent of the Union Pacific RR's Calif. div., rePlacing RalPh D. Smith.

"Put" Robbins has been named marketing services mgr. for Williamette Industries, Inc.' according to Geofge Swindells, vP-sales/marketing.

I)on Richardson. Richardson Lumber Co., Denver, has been elected a director of the Nt'I. Sash & Door Jobbers Assn.

Dave Ohman. director of PR and the adv. mgr. of American Forest Products. has been elected chairman of the board of governors of the Public Rclations Round Table, San Flancisco, one of the most prestigious professional societies of its type in the West.

Paul Bordewich, Sr., South BaY Redwood, Orange, Calif., got an early Christmas present when son Paul, Jr. returned home from Viet Nam where he was a helicoPter Pilot. Ken Schmidke recently took Part in an Al Malaikah Shrine bash in Palm Springs. SullY Sullivan recently celebrated his birthdaY (age not revealed) bY receiving an unusual gift from golfing buddy Bill lllerritt. Merritt Lumber Co.

Sterling Wolfe, Sr., Marquart-T[olfe Lumber Co., Orange, Calif., realized "one of his life ambitions" by cat6hing a 751b. sailfish 7%' long while vacationing at Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Tom Hendrick, president, Continental Moulding, Sequoia Forest Products, Orange, and family sPent the Christmas Holidays in the Hawaiian Islands.

Harold M. Flodsham. chairman of the board, South Bay Redwood Co., has returned from a triP to the Far East and Hawaii.

R. B. Cross, Merced, Calif., and WaYne Gardner, exec. vp., Lumber Assn. of So. Calif., have recentlY been elected officels of the Western Building Material Dealers Assn.

Claude Duncan. who until his retirement owned Duncan Lumber & H ardw a re, West Yellowstone, Mont., is now taking it easY with his wife Edna in Sun CitY, Ariz.