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Michael J. O'Neill has opened a Tucson, Az., office for Shamrock Lumber Co., Eugene, Or.

Dave Higi has joined the trading staff at North Pacific Lumber, Vallejo, Ca.

Tim Wenzl, Square Deal Lumber & Hardware, Springfield, Or., has retired after 4l years in the industry. James Kuykendall succeeds him as general mgr.

Ann Wrobleski is now v.p. of the American Forest & Paper Association's intemational affairs division.

Randy Roget has been named mgr. of Stockton Wholesale Lumber, Stockton, Ca. Orville Chedester continues as lumber mgr.

Richard Atkinson, ex-Sierra Pacific, has joined Pope & Talbot, Inc., Portland, Or., as v.p. and chief financial officer. He succeeds Maria Pope, who is now v.p. and general mgr. of P&T's wood products division and president of Canadian subsidiary Pope & Talbot Ltd.

Mark Grube has been named sales mgr. for Zip-O-Log Mills, Eugene, Or.

Dan Byrne, ex-Zip-O-Log Mills, is new to Hambleton Lumber, Washougal, Wa.

Jane Govenor is store mgr. of the new Home Depot in Ridgecrest, Ca.

Richard Paulson, president and c.o.o., Potlatch Corp., Spokane, Wa., has delayed his planned end-of-the-year retirement until March. William L. Driscoll, v.p. of strategic accounts, Pnccpss, Portland, Or., has been elected to the Potlatch board of directors.

Colleen Rocha Levine has joined the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association as mgr.-legislative affairs. Thomas "T.J." Cantwell is now mgr.-regulatory affairs, and Nikki Mayers, coordinator of member services.

Fred Snyder has been promoted to director of national housing sales at Universal Forest Products.

El Louise Waldron, Waldron Forest Products, Fair Oaks, Ca., is back from a trip to Acapulco and Cozumel, Mexico, with her husband and her son, Patrick Hunter, Blue Ox Timber, Orangevale, Ca.

Wood Crushes Yard Worker

A 56-year-old worker at Front Range Reload, Denver, Co., was killed when he was buried beneath a stack of lumber that toppled from a forklift.

The unidentified man was helping load a semi-trailer Dec. 19 next to a forklift operator, who had lifted a bundle of 2x4s from the top of a 20-ft.high stack of lumber. As the boards were loaded on the trailer, they tumbled off.

To reach the victim, 17 firefighters spent nearly 10 minutes removing the boards by hand. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Matt Stanley and Ted Brackett, Stockton Wholesale Lumber, Stockton, Ca., recently returned from Las Vegas, Nv., where they entertained Kennan and Jason Pardini and John DeArcos, Hills Flat Lumber, Grass Valley, Ca., at the TPD Canyons Links and Sierra Golf Club.

Bryan Herrera, Guihen's Lumber & Landscapes, Lamar, Co., was elected to the local Chamber of Commerce.

Webb Foote is teaching swimming safety to employees of Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., report owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga., has merged its industrial wood products group with its structural panels and lumber units to form a new wood products division.

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The new wood products division is headed by executive v.p. Ron Paul and Elliott Savage, senior v.p. of wood product sales.

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