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Al Baxter, J. H. Baxter & Son, San Mateo. Ca.. has been named to the agricultural advisory committee to the Federal Enersv Office. Its function is to dir-ectly advise William E. Simon, the nation's energy czar.

Pattie Lowe has moved to sales for Random Width Inc. in Albany, Or. She had been with Wood Tek Inc.

Robert S. Osgood reluctantly observed his 75th birthday recently ("I don't even want to think of it!"). Despite his insistence on no birthday party, well-wishers travelled from as far away as Louisville, Ky. (Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bryan) and Taiwan (C. K. Chen) to salute the founder/namesake of the Los Angeles firm that was founded on July l, 1922, the same date as the I st issu e of T lte Mercltant Magazine.

Eugene Breeskin, Cocobolo & Co.. is back in his Mill Valley, Ca., office after a hardwood buying trip to Mexico.

Dick Gittines. qen. msr. of Gittinss Lumber-Col, Denvlr, has won the Paul Bunyan traveling trophy from W.O.O.D.. Inc.. the Denver lumbermen's group, for his unstinting efforts last year for the industry.

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Rex Oxford, Rex Oxford Lumber Co., Carson, Ca., has replaced the big boat he lost in a crash off the Mexican West Coast (see Personals, Sept., p. 32) with his newly-built "Pupschen." Craft is a modified Cape Cod cat boat.

Gordon Bradley has joined the sales staff at American Forest Products, San Diego. He had been with Robert S. Osgood, Inc., Los Angeles.

Ted Pikes. Bircl & Son Portland district sales mgr., was recently in San Diego conferring with D. Stuart Laughlin, Jr., Bird's mgr., adv. & sales promotion.

Charles E. Watson is now district mgr. for Kaiser Gyp's. Portland office as well as their Seattle office. Tom Shackleford is now area mgr. for Portland and reports to Watson.

Dan Colgan is heading up Teton Sales Co., Casper, Wy., the new firm resultine from the merser of Cook Lumb.-er, Ft. Collinsi and Teton West.

Albert H. Wellman is now lumber buyer for all the Withers Lumber Co. yards. Firm is based in Woodburn, Or. Tim Sterrenberg is the new mer. of Withers' Brooks Lumber c6.

Julian Cheatham has retired as an officer of G-P after 39 years. He remains on the board, will be active in other business, civic and charitable activities.

Charles J. "Bud" Harkins. .Ir. has joined Withers Lumbei Co., Woodburn, Or., as mgr. of their Woodburn Floorcovering.

George Fauber, Clint Kelly and Don Burkhart have been honored by American Wholesale Hardware Co. for their sales effort for the Long Beach, Ca., firm.

Windlon Hodge, Sacramento, Ca., won national honors in G-P "Salesman ofthe Quarter" contest, according to Stan Dennison, v.p. Harold Fuerst, San Jose, inside salesperson, won Western regional honors.

Richard Krull will manase Plum Creek Lumber's new $10 iillion medium densitv fibreboard plant now under constfuction in Columbia Falls, Mt., reports Mel Brittain, gen. mgr. Don R. McDonald has been promoted to gen. operations mgr. of wood finishing operations of Evans Products' bldg. mtls. group.

Michael D. Sullivan is now director of public affairs for the Industrial Forestry Assn., Portland.

Doug Loth, Simpson Timber's merchandising mgr., redwood & lumber, Seattle, is now on leave to the U.S. Dept. of Commerce helping manage their overseas trade fair program.

L. L. "Stub" Stewart, president of Bohemia Inc., Eugene, Or., has been named a director of the Portland branch ofthe Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

JamesJay Kroeteris now managing DG Shelter Products service center, Denver, Co. Ray Koudelka has been transferred from the Placentia, Ca., branch to Cabot, Ark.

Ken Christopher, Stanline, Inc., L.A.; Zelma \ilhite, Sterling Lumber & Investment, Denver; and Bob Peterson, Palmer G. Lewis Co., Seattle, were recently in Marlite's Dover, Ohio, plant as members of that firm's Wholesaler Advisory Council.

Walt Farrow is now gen. mgr. of Klumb Lumber Co., Sacramento, Ca.

Bill Ralston is new to Sagebrush Sales's Portland office.

Joe Bowman, West Range Corp., Cloverdale, Ca., got stranded for a few days in Eureka during the recent big floods.

Ken Coleman. Eckstrom Plvwood. L.A., is recuperating again-after an unexpected third bout in surgery after'a recent illness.

John Gaskin, Capital Lumber, is back in Phoenix after a weekJong trip to the redwood mills.

Art Atkinson. Rounds Lumber Co., Cloverdale, Ca., is recovering from a recent heart attack.

Ted Gilbert. Product Sales Co., Newport Beach, Ca., vacationed in Mexico's Baja California.

Hugo Miller, Georgia-Pacific redwood sales, Arcadia, Ca., recently made a sales safari to Phoenix and Tucson.

Marjory Allen Lane, Pasadena, Ca., is now the exclusive agent for Allen Logging Co., Forks, Wa.

Dale Watson has left Watson Plywood, Long Beach, Ca., (now owned by Mitsui Trading Co.) "to set up my own firm in the plywood and lumber industry."

Jim Dorsher has been named "salesman of the year" for the second consecutive year by Virginia Hardwood Co. Bob Coldiron was named "most improved salesman."

John Schick, Louisiana-Pacific, is back in Portland after a visit to the home builders' show in Houston.

Richard A. Fletcher is now v.p. finance and a director of Kaibab Industries, replacine the late Richard Parker.

Allen A. Ladii m is the manager of Soco Lumber, Pueblo West, the new div. of Southern Colorado Lumber Co.

Francis E. Sammons, Jr., has been named to the newly-created post of director of corporate communication for Potlatch Corp., according to Dick Bullock, v.p. public affairs.

H.J. "Jim" Lussier, Sanford-Lussier Inc., Los Angeles, is still using a cane after a 1973 session in the hospital for knee surgery.

Charles V. Moran has been elected a director of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, succeeding George G. Montgomery, who retires for health reasons after more than 30 years on the board.

Don Derbes, v.p./sales mgr., Inland Lumber Co., Colton, Ca., is recovering after shoulder surgery; Ray Lizotte, v.p./director of purchasing, is back after a No. Ca. mill trip; and Billie Grothman is recovering from a surprise birthday party where she was "Shanghaied to Las Vegas by some of the girls in the office."

Don \ilatson has been promoted to mgr., inside sales at Bel-Air Door Co., Alhambra, Ca., by president Sam Fineman.

Jim Pottratz, Crenshaw Lumber Co., Gardena, Ca., suffered about $4,000 damages to his 25' motor home coming homefrom an outing. Worst part was standing out in the pouring rain trying to douse the ensine fire.

Denn-is E. Reinwald is new to the lumber /plywood sales staff at Boise Cascade. Portland.

Lloyd l-cwis has been elected v.p. special projects, at Willamina Lumber Co.

Warren Bradeen has joined Dwyer Overseas Timber Products as a softwood lumber trader in Portland.

Bill Suiter, v.p. of overseas operations, bldg. mtls. group for Evans Products, is now responsible for the operation of all overseas offtces.

M. F. Smith, Buhl, Id., won the western div. sales prize for Southland Paint Co.