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Ed Gilbert, pres. of Halstead Lumber Co., Alhambra, Ca., celebrated his 80th birthday recently at a bash put on by his son, Ted Gilbert, pres. of Product Sales Co., Newport Beach, Ca.

Bill Welsh has joined sales at Capital Lumber, Orange, Ca. Bill had been with Connecticut Mutual, handling insurance programs for lumber and building materials companies.

Leroy McCormick is now gen. mgr., lumber marketing, following a reorganization of Simpson Timber's lumber sales. Greg Lambert is sales mgr. redwood; George Baker sales mgr., fir and hemlock, Charles Lutz, sales mgr., spruce. John Rysdorp is the new market development mgr. George Kreiss, Ed Day, Bob Esterle, Gene Ritchings and Max Harker are area supervisors under Rysdorp. Industrial sales mgr., lumber is Hal Carlson.

Bill Blackwell, B&C lumber, Sparks, Nv.. is back from a Caribbean vacation.

Mabel Staser, a retired lumber lady who started in the business before World War I (!) and retired in 1966, recently celebrated her 85th birthday. That was just after a 15 day, 5 island tour of Hawaii.

Ray Brown, Southwest Forest Industries. Phoenix. is back from a business trip to Or., Wa., and Ca.

Gaelen Norton has been promoted to merchandising mgr. of the Palmer G. Lewis Co., Auburn, Wa.