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F. J. "Ferg" Poole has joined Pope & Talbot's wood products div., wholesale mgr. Lex Taylor has announced.

Thomas J. Boucher is the new western regional manager for building products sales for Masonite, according to O. R. "Dick" Braun, vp-sales.

Allen Kramer will rep Noble Manufacturing Co. in southern Calif. and Las Vegas. His firm, Allen Kramer and Associates, will service a broad assortment of retailers.

A. J. Heineman has been named marketing research mgr. for Weyerhaeuser's wood products group, marketing manager J. P. Weyerhaeuser III has revealed.

Sidney H. Topol is now resident mgr. of Truckee Sawmill-timber operations of Fibreboard Corp., William C. Birdsey announced. Harry H. Surprise will be project mgr.

Homer H. Burnaby, president of Sun Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been reelected to a two-year term on the Governing Board of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association.

Arcata Redwood salesmanager Lloyd Hecathorn shivered his redwood timbers in January calling on Arcata customers along the East Coast and Midwest.

Welcome back and good health to Harold Bratten, salesmanager of Miller Redwood

Company at Crescent City, Calif., who underwent December surgery and had to spend the whole holiday season in the hospital.

McBeath Hardwood's Mac and Pauline MacBeath spent a few days at Palm Springs, Calif., during the holidayq and then put the icing on the cake with a two week cruise to Acapulco.

Frank Billings, Billings Pacific, Inc., in San Francisco, spent a recent week in southern California on business.

Tim and Ruthie Wood vacationed in New Orleans, Florida and the Caribbean during most of the holidays and early January. For Tim it was his first vacation since becoming salesmanager of Al Thrasher Lumber Co. many years ago and Ruth, who works for Knute Weidman Lumber, sports a similar batting average.

Congratulations to llomer and Nancy Hayward of the Homer T. Ha)ryvard Lumber Co. on their newest heir, a baby girl name of Wendy, who just missed being a 1967 deduction by a few days.

Charlie Wilson, owner of Woodside Lumber Co. in Burlingame, Calif., has announced suspension of the firm to devote full time to his real estate activities with brokers Raybould & Bartlett. Charlie orig- inally established Woodside Lumber in San Francisco 11 years ago, but had operated out of Burlingame for the past several years.

Mal Hill has relocated his Watson Plywood and Abbe Corp. offices in larger quar-

Weslrrn lurnbcr ! Building lloteriols ,YIERCHANT ters at 2333 Palm Avenue in San Mateo, Calif.

Hubbard & Johnson's Bud Hubbard vacationed with the family in the Tahoe area during Christmas.

John Braden has returned to Hallinan Mackin's S,F. offices after a two week deep freeze in the East on company business.

Art Masters, president of the Lumber Merchants Association, has welcomed n. J. Hauge and his Lumber Dealers Materials Co. in Sacramento into the association. Credited with the new associate member was Jerry Derr, J. M. Derr Lumber Co., Elk Grove, Calif.

Ralph Boshion is back at his Castro ValIey Lumber Co. yard in northera California following successful surgery.

Bill Johnson spent an early 1968 week in southerar California on Hobbs Wall Lumber Co. business.

Strable Lumber's Dave Jopes flew to Miami for the big Superbowl football game along with 4,000 (yes, we said four thousand) rabid- Raider rooters, but alas, what happened there that Sunday afteraoon is now ancient history. Just wait until next year, Green Bay!

Dealers Jim Gladd of the Build 'N' Save yards and Jerry Higman of Reliable Lumber, Rosemead, Calif., flew to Arizona for a tour of Kaibab Lumber's Flagstaff moulding plant and the Fredonia sawmill. Tour guide was Bob Drennan, who heads-up Kaibab's Downey, Calif., sales ofrce.

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Bob Goetze has successfully moved from wholesaler to retailer, recently being named manager of Ward & Harrington Lumber's Orange, Calif., branch. He was formerly at the Garden Grove yard. A longtime redwoodman, Bob was for years with CalPacific Redwood, Ted Deacy Co. and later with Jewett Redwood.

Friends of The Merchant Magazine have asked what happened to Andrea Friese, the pleasant voice at the other end of the phone at our Los Angeles ofrce. Andrea, who was the magazine's circulation manager for four years, left The Merchant's stafr several months ago for a very good reason: to become the mother of a baby girl, Jennifer TullS 7 lbs. lYz oz., bora October 15 at California Hospital. Jenny is the first for Andrea and her husband Don.

Pacific-Madison's Fay Madison and the missus Katherine and son George visited with Gene Burnett and the gang at the firm's Downey, Calif., distribution yard enroute to Mexico for a two-week vacation. The family boarded the S.S. Princess ltalia for a South of the Border cruise to La Paz, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco and Mazatlan.

Longtime lumber trucker "Fritz" Quirin has been elected chairman of the Forest Products Conference of the California Trucking Association for 1968.

Roy Stillwell, general manager at Simmons Hardwood in Downey, Calif., is recuperating at his Long Beach home following a bout with ulcers which landed him in the hospital. He's getting along fine and hopes to be back in harness soon.

W. R. 'Bill" Loper has joined Simmons Hardwood Lumber in Downey, Calif., as comptroller. Bill was forrnerly assistant controller and national credit manager at the Holly Div. of Lear-Siegler Corp. He replaces Art Meehan, who has joined a produce firm.

Arriving just in time for a '67 tax deduction was little Kristen Gaylord, a 1ty'z lb. girl born December 29, at Glendale Memorial Hospital to Bob and Dolores Gaylord. Bob is bossman at Fir & Pine Lumber in Burbank, Calif.

Bob lleberle was ofr to Hawaii for a week on Georgia-Pacific business. Bob headsup G-P's lumber sales div. in southern Calif.

Hugo O. Rath has been named manager of Tarter, Webster & Johnson's Fresno, Calif., distribution center. Kenneth Biggs takes over his old slot as assistant manager.

Lloyd F. Koth, Jr. is the new president of the American Hardboard Association, succeeding Dr. Piotr .Zenczak. Koth is from Tomahawk, Wisconsin.

Co-owners Bob Beed and Bob Neiman are building their third Lumber City store in southern Calif's. San Fernando Valley. They say they hope to open a new one each year.

Joseph E. Watt, eastern sales manager for Union Lumbbr C6., has been elected president of the Builders Club of Chicago.

Carl Holert has sold his half-interest in Vashon Lumber, Vashon, Wash., to his nephew, George Endlich. Holbert has been with Washon since 1945 when he and his brother Frank bought. it from Axel Petersen. Jim Osilvy retains his half-interest.

George Beimler and his wife have puichased the Monmouth Building Materials Co. from Mr. and Mrs. Al Watson No price was disclosed on the Salem, Oregon, sale.

Carl F. Bridges has joined J. H. Baxter's Portland sales staff. Previously he had worked by Dwyer Lumber Div. of Publisher's Paper,

C. W. Jacobson, manager of Bestway Builders Center of Idatro Falls, presented $ S500 check to the Sacred Hearb Hospital Development fund on behalf of Boise Cas- r cade Corp., parent organization of Bestway.

Jack Mattoch is the new manager at the Van Petten Lumber Co. in New Plymouth, Idaho. Jack worked at their Ontario ya'rd for seven years.

William I. Christopher has been named ,. advertising assistant at the San Francisco : Hq. of American Forest Products Corpora-.., tion, according to Dave Ohmann advertising and public relations manager. l

We represent over one hundred Western producers of Ponderosa and Sugar Pine... Redwood lumber and Redwood split products. Douglas Fir and White Fir ... Hemlock and Cedar lumber, as well as a complete line of Cedar fencing. Your one callto Hobbs Wall is a short-cut to fast service and the right grades at the right prices, backed by a solid reputation for dependable dealing.

. Club Gets Viet Nom Briefing

, A" official U.S. Navy briefing on Viet' nam plus meeting a viiiting brolher from , Australia enlivened Los Angeles HooHoo's first meeting of the year.

Capt. M. J. Carpenter told of the Navy's mine sweeping activities in the . rivers of Viet Nam and also described , his experiences on a re{ueling ship off 'Vietnam.

Melbourne, Australia vp. Brian Tutton joined Club 2 for some golf and gave a short rundown on Down Under club activities. He is the managing director of C. H. Tutton, Pty, Ltd.