5CI VEARS AffiCI fromn the pages of

^ B.E. Bryan has been elected pres. of the Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, Ca.

William L. Aisthorpe, Griswold Lumber Co., Chico. Ca.. was a San Francisco visitor.

Hugh P. Alderman, well-known redwood salesman, sailed from San Francisco, Ca. on the Matson Line steamer Lanoa for Honolulu where he is to be associated with Lewers & Cooke lumber and building material dealers.

, Arthur Bevan, sec.-mgr. of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle, Wa.. was a recent visitor to San Francisco. Ca.

Roy Harrington, head of the Califgrnia Moulding Co., Los Angeles, Ua., ls spending a month in the east.

J.W. Flora from Denver, Co., has started a new yard in Lindsay, Ca.

A large shipment of walnut shipped 9yt 9f Norfolk, Va., to ttre For-syth Hardwood Co., San Francisco. was iost when the vessel carrying it foundered off the Bahamas in the recent storm.

H.W. Bunker is new pres. and gen. T-cr. o-f the Coos Bay Lumber Co., Marshfield. Or.

Warren S. Tilson, Modesto LumLer Co., Modesto, Ca., is pres. of the Central California Lumbermen's Club.

B.W. Lakin, McCloud River Lum- ber Co., McCloud, Ca., has been elected pres. of the California White & Sugar Pine Assn.

_-..Dale Craft, Royal Shingle Co., Whites, Wa., is rhe new prei. of rhe Red Cedar Shingle Bureau.

J.H. Prentice, Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, Los Angeles, Ca., made a hole-in-one on No. 6 at Chevy Chase. Witnesses were Ed Culnan. Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co.. Los Angeles. Ca.; A.C. Penberthy, Defiance Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and C.D. Lloyd, Bloedel Donovan, Bellingham, Wa.

Edward Hines. Hines lumber interests, Portland, Or.. has announced that he is planning a new mill to cut fir in Or.

C.N. Ambrose, owner of the Pacific Fir Co., Seattle, Wa.. was a recent visitor to San Francisco and Los Aneeles.

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R.R. Macartney is mgr. of the new Weyerhaeuser Timber eo. sawmill ar Klamath Falls, Or.

P.R. Smith, M.R. Smith Lumber & Shingle Co., Searrle, Wa.. is rhe new pres. of the Washington & Oregon Shingle Assn.

E.L. "Bud" Reitz has ioined the sales lorce of A.L. Hoover, Los Angeles, Ca., So. Ca. rep for The Pacific Lumber Co. and the'Wendling- Nathan Co

J.J. Farley, The Pacific L-umber Co., San Francisco, Ca., and Mrs. Farley have returned lrom a vacation in California's Humboldt Countv.

J.J. Donovan. mgr.. Dubois-Lumber Co., Vancouver, Wa., was a recent visitor to San Francisco.

Robert C. Parker, mgr., Portland, Or., branch, E.K. Wood Lumber Co., and sales mgr. at Anacortes and Hoquiam, Wa., mills is in Ca. on a sales trip.

Assuring

PROMOT|O}|AL PREVIEW of California Redwood Association plans for emphasizing redwood garden grades was part of iuncheon meeting hostet by Sunset-Magazlne with Jim Ramsey (lett), No. Ca. Div., Georgia-Pacific Corp., turning over the chairmarishio of the CRA promotion committee to Greg Lambert, redwoob sales mgr., Simpson Timber -C0., Seattle, Wa..Redwood tub planter6 were presented to Ramsey in appreciation of his two-year leadership of the committee.

Newsweek Home Remodeling SurveY

A shrdy from Newsweek reporls three out of ten home remodeleis said they undertook the project instead of having to move to a new home, and fully 65Vo said they did aI or part of the work themselves' The study also found that the active home remodelers surveyed generally tended to be affluent, well educated people in the prime of their lives.

The profile that emerges from the study indicates that more than three-quarters are 35-years-old or older; twothirds are college'-educated; mor6 than half have household incomes of $25,000-plus.

Over SOVo of the projects were financed by either cash or credit cards; the median cost for all home remodeling proiects reported was $1,515. Kitchens led the list of ieniodeling- projects, followed closely by roofing, other rooms and bathiooms. Among building products involved, floor coverings were the most frequently purchased item. And, withinlhat category, carpeting is the leader-,-followed by vinyl. The nExt'most ?requintly purchased item was lighting fixtures, followed by insulation'

Home Appliance Sales Increase

Wholesale sales volume for the home appliance industry is expected to rise 4.4Vo thrs year starting with the second half.

Richard F. Zoellner, president of Frigidaire, predicts a sales volume of 29.4 million units for the industry as compared to28.2 million in 1980 and 30.5 million in 1979.