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Darrell Smith is a new salesman at Louisiana-Pacific, Ukiah, Ca., according to Merle Tanner, sales mgr.

Bill Gittings, Rounds Lumber, Cloverdale, Ca., recently vacationed in Nevada.

Dury Cords, Amrican Forest Products, Cerritos, Ca., ended a I hr. commute by buying a new Huntington Beach home.

Jim Harrison, Georgia-Pacific, San Leandro, Ca., has won the Vice Presidential Round Table Award for the third time and is now a permanent member. Congratulations, Jim.

Duain Schoeppler has transferred to G-P, Salinas, Ca., as an outside salesman.

Herb Farrell has retired from T.M. Cobb, Santa Rosa, Ca.

Ralph Boshion has "retired" to a job with Economy Lumber, Oakland, after selling his Castro Valley Lumber Co. in the town of the same name.

Jim Vasallo and John Bacon recently purchased Economy Lumber.

Tom Metzger has joined the sales force at R&L Wood Products in Whittier, Ca., according to bossman Ray Lizotte.

Otto Grigg, managing director of the Pacific Southwest Hardware Assn.. has recovered from a bout with the flu.

Lew Godard. the retired lurnberman recently honored by Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club for his 50 years with the group, is recovering at home after a session in the hospital.

Stan Cochran has joined sales at Capi- tal Lumber's new Orange, Ca., distribution yard, according. to Mark Lofland, mgr.

Bill Novak has joined All-Coast Forest Products, Whittier, Ca., and is based at their Grass Valley office, specializing in industrial sales.

Bill Jones is new to the sales team at Far West Fir Sales, Huntington Beach, Ca., according to pres. John Weston.

Thomas R. Ingham, Jr., 36, .is new v.p., California operations for Simpson Timber Co., according to G. L. Oswald, pres. He succeeds David D. Leland who has joined Southwest Forest Industries as exec. v.p.

Chris Schenkel, ABC sports announcer, was recently honored by an Indiana hardwood group as an Indiana tree farmer. You're thrilled to hear that, right?

L. C. McCormick, Simpson lumber marketing and development mgr. has revealed the following: John Rysdorp moves to the new post of market development mgr. lumber, George Baker has been promoted to softwood develop- ment mgr. lumber; George Baker has been promoted to softwood sales mgr.; Charlie Lutz moves up to sales mgr. Canadian -lumber production; Dee Snodgrass is now mgr., lumber production services. Greg Lambert is sales mgr. - redwood lumber.

Verlon McKinney, late of MacBeath Hardwood, San Francisco. has opened his own firm, Gulf Lumber & Kiln Co., Rye Tx. The only custom kiln in Texas. it is a modern 100,000' charge capacity model and the firm is handling import and transit business. GL&K sits on 3 acres and has a number of dry sheds.

Bill Kelley and Chuck Petty are now working at De Doors' mill, South El Monte, Ca., in charge of production of DE's new wood sash line. Between them, they have 50 years'experience.

Herb Brown has joined Western Woods, Inc., Chico, Ca. He had been with Kimberly-Clark for a number of years.

Bob Sullivan. PML Forest Products. Grants Pass, Or., watched the Super Bowl on tv in Honolulu during a recent vacation.\

Jim Crump is now lumber sales mgr. at Georgia-Pacific , Eugene, Or. Bill Zagone has moved up to chairman of the board of K&S Distributing Co., Portland; Bill Wojtech to pres.; Mike Zagone to exec. v.p., and Sally Wong to comptroller.

Bob Bonner, PSF, Inc., Sacramento, Ca., and his family, vacationed recently at Dillon Beach, North of San Francisco, enjoying the sea.

Paul Gaboury, Golden Gate Lumber, Berkeley, Ca., got in a mill trip late last year to Fort Bragg and Willits. Ca.

Joshua Webb Wilton was born Dec. 16 (6 lbs., l0 oz.) He is the son of John Wilton of Western International Forest Products, Portland.

"Red" Johnson is now at Hammond Lumber Co., Bellflower, Ca., according to Dick Bailey, mgx.

Weikko M. Rasanen is now Medford regional mgr., quality supervision, for the American Plywood Assn., announces Robert H. Ripley.

Robert Macy, asst. mgr., Peoples Lumber, Camarillo, Ca., recently retired.

Dave Mensing was the big winner in a recent Louisiana-Pacific stock incentive awards contest, taking home 50 shares of L-P stock. He's in their Oakland, Ca. office.

Steve Drangsholt is the new gen. mgr., remanufacturing, at KimberlyClarks's Anderson, Ca., forest products div.

Richard C. Tutt is now mgr. of J.H. Baxter & Co.'s Eugene, Or. lumber dept., replacing Val Gardner, who recently retired.

Les Oliv,er has recently joined Tree Produc:ts Co., Portland, as hardwood lumber mgr. It was his suit against North Pacific Lumber Co. that began the legal action that was reported in our News Brief section, see Jan., p. 19.

Vince Besinque, is currently on vacation ;from Lane-Stanton Vance Lumber, City of Industry, Ca., in the islands of Micronesia in the South Seas. Jack Millikan is on a business trip to Tokyo, Manila, Sidney and Fiji.

Ed Founttain, Sr., Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, got in a golfing and sun vacation with his wife in Hawaii recently.

Judy West is a sales trainee at AFP, Newark. Ca. She had been with G-P, San Jose.

John Gregor has joined Simon, Crabtree & Ryan, Lake Grove, Or., according to Don Simon, pres. Gregor had been with North Pacific Lumber Co., Portland, for I 9 years.

Bob Riggs, r11gr., Sequoia Supply, Fairfield, Ca., his sales mgr., Al Weller, and salesmen Paul Anderson, Tim Moxie, Ray Trujillo, Rich Vierra, and Gary Malfatti recently toured Abitibi's Cucamonga, Ca. prefinish plant under the tutelege of Westmark & Associates' Larry Baugh.

C. Herb Warwick, Vanport Industries, Vancouver, .Wa., is the new pres. of the Hardwood Plywood Mfgrs. Assn. Other Western officers include veeps Gail Overgard, States Veneer, Eugene, Or. and; Hank Dotter, Roseburg Lumber, Coquille, Or.

Frank Moloney, Crown 2., L.A., is vacationing in Hawaii this month, after getting in a Vancouver, B.C. business trip last month.

Al Dugan flew into Oregon-Pacific, Concord, Ca., on company business recently.

Ben Cassinerio is the sales mgr..at Inland Lumber's new Fremont, Ca., sales office (greater Bay Area). Shel Sussman is redwood buyer, Tom Chapman and Skip Osborne, pine and fir traders, Rich Favreau, utility sales and Christine Murchie, sec. Inland's Hq. is Colton, Ca. Gage McKinney, MacBeath Hardwood, spent a recent week at thqir Salt Lake City branch at the sider of the old master Harold Cole, branch mgr.

Doug Loth, Simpson Timber, Seattle, is off on a month's journey covering trade shows and other company business around the U.S. Dennis Richardson, South Bay Redwood's cedar chief at their big Orange, Ca., distribution facility, spent the second week of this month in Canada.