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Jim Strait, Strait Door & Plywood, El Monte, Calif., recently visited the Bahamas and New Orleans on a business and pleasure trip he took with his wife Roberta.

Ilarvey B. Hof is now Utah area mgr. for Boise Cascade's building materials and services div. at Salt Lake City.

Bob Ifinson is Weyerhaeuser's new So. Calif. rep. for their Woodscape Light- ing system.

Lonnie Feigner is the new mgt. of Copeland's Madras, Ore., yard,

E. J. Gauthier, president of St. Malo Lumber, Oceanside, Calif., and Bill Meri- deth, vp. and gen. mgr., broke ground recently on a new severn acre site after 24 years in the old location. rililliam A. Franke has been named vp. and corporate counsel for Southwest Forest Industries.

John T. Moore has been promoted to western region mgr., bldg. products div. of Masonite Co"p., succeeding Tom J. Boucher, who is now sales mgr. of the industrial products div.

Glenn Chasteen, Koppers Co., Wilmington, Calif., has returned from a business trip to Phoenix, Ariz.

Jim S. McGahey is now mgr. of marketing services for the No. Calif, cement div. of Kaiser.

Bill Cowling, Jr., president of Dixlieline Lumber Co., San Diego, has been elected to the Young Presidents' Organiza- tion, a group of chief executives who headed sizeable firms before becoming 40. Good going, Bill!

Irwin H. Goldenberg, president of the Goldenberg Plywood & Lumber Co., Los Angeles, plans a trip to Israel in May.

Gilbert G. Walter has joined the Calif. Redwood Association's technical staff.

Bryan Coker is the new sales rep. for Forest Fiber Products Co. in the Los Angeles area,

William E. Penoyar has been appointed mgr. of association relations for Weyerhaeuser's wood products gtoup.

Dave Lashley, Lashley Lumber, Inc., La Canada, Calif., and his wife Betty, are recovering from whip lash after their car was rear ended at a stop sign.

David Ai, president of City Mill Co., Ltd., Honolulu made a West Coast visit in mid-February.

Joe Tidwell heads up Inland Lumber Company's new Eugene, Oregon, buying office. He spent four years in sales and purchasing at fnland's main office in Colton, Calif.

George C. Flanagan has retired from Boise Cascade aftet a 40 year career as a business and civic leader.

Alex Chubak, Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been promoted to ql.

Gale Daugherty, sales mgr. of Simmons Hardwood, Montebello, Calif., is the proud papa of a baby boy, John David.

Phil Gilbert, mgr. of Coos Head Lumber & Plywood, Wilmington, Calif., recently had a surprise visit from his son Phil Jr., who is on duty with the Air Force in England.

Kris Durham, daughter of Leon Durham, Treated PoIe Builders, Ontario, Calif,, recently exchanged wedding vows with Bernard Dino Ortega. The couple plan to raise purebred cattle while continuing their veterinary studies at Mount San Antonio College.

Harold M. Frodsham, South Bay Redwood, Hawthorne, Calif., recently visited the Hawaiian Islands, rililliam S. 'Bill" Hart, western sales mgr., DaCor Miracle Brick, Los Angeles, has returned from a San Francisco sales trip.

Frank Ruggieri, owner of San Antonio Const. Co., recently spent a few days in L.A. before returning to his home office in Williams, Calif.

Richard Smooke, Roman Properties, Los Angeles, vacation skied at Mammoth Mountain, rArcH, t970

Kay Kahus takes over the southwes,t territory as field services rep. for WWPA in June from Howard Hofmann who will then work out of Washington, D.C., for WWPA.

Ray Connolly, a member of the WBMA board, has been elected president of the Northwest Regional CoaI Dealers Assn. which covers Ore., Wash., Idaho, Nev, and Wyo.

Carl Poyner, U.S, Plywood, L.A., took a brief business trip to Hawaii.

R. Kirk Ewart is Boise Cascade's new administrative asst. for the timber & wood products group, Yern Gurnsey, vp., reveals.

George Sayegh has joined the hardwood sales sta.fr of American Forest Products at Cerritos, Calif.

Mike Kranda has joined the sales forre of Summit Lumber Co., No. Long Beach, Calif.

Bob Dickinson, Gold Rey Plywood, Beaverton, Ore., was visited by his brother, Bill, of Kodiak, Alaska.

Don Yoring of the Don Young Co., Yakima, Wash., attended the Westeni Building Material Assn's: annual show in Seattle.

Norm Guedon is now the asst. purchasing agent at Lumbermen's Mercantile, Fremont, California.

Stan Anderson, manager of the United Building Center yard in Billings, Mont., hosted the-regional managers' meeting for all .of United's yards in Montana, Colorado and Wyoming.

Yic Jones, mgr. of Boise Cascade's Yakima, Wash., distribution center participated in the WBMA annual convention in Seattle.

Joe Schram is handling the day-to-day activities for the Lumber Merchants Assn., pres. Duane Bennett reports. LMA is stiil seeking a permanent exec. vp. For the past 6 years, Joe is the one who has done such an excellent job on their PR and monthly Newsletter.

Russ Fritchey, Palm Ave. Lumber Co,, Alhambra, Calif., says business rir'as great in Jan., but tax time has slowed buyer activity.

Sam Hauert, president of the Arizona association and Frank Davis, sec-mgr., have been making a number of calls on the membership.

Shirley Marks, a blonde doll nicknamed ttSam" by former co-workers because of her knowledge of construction materials, is co-owner with her father Richard Frye, of Sam's Plywood & Lumber, newly opened in Walnut, Calif.

Horold L. Taylor has joined States Veneer' Eugene, Ore., aF a specialist in panel sales to mobile home mfgts, Harry Bremner, ex-lumberman bf Sacramento, Calif., has been named mgr. of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce's g:overnmental affairs dePt.

Frank Spangler, pres., Empire Building Material Co., Portland, Ore., was awarded the Oregon Building Congress's contractor-of-the-year award.

Don Muller has joined the sales stafr of Arthur A. Pozzi Co., Orange, Calif.

Charles P. Morrigs has been named asst. mgr. of particleboard sales for Southwest Forest Industries, Phoenix, Ariz., reports E. L. Quirk, vp., wood products sales.

'William II. Slemp, Jr., has been elected president of Speedspace Corp., Santa Rosa, Calif.; a subsidiary of Potlatch Forests. Slemp was vp. - sales and marketing at Potlatch.

Frank G. Bruneau has been named product mgr. - molding for Evans Products Co.'S western div., prefinishing group.

John Lung W'en joined Empire Metal Products Corp,, Gardena, Calif., as controller, reports David E. Stewart, pres.

Jim Augustine has joined the sales organization of Reel Lumber Service, Los Angeles.

Ifarold C. Ellicott, Georgia-Pacific Corp., has been appointed chairman of the steering committee of the American Wood Council. He replaces Allen MacKenzie, U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers, fnc.

Joseph Grevey, president of Duke City Lumber in Albuquerque, N.M., has had installed an extensive new system to control air pollution.

Darrel Tlalker has joined the sales stafr of Borg Warner's fngersol-Humphries div., Torrance,. Calif., for southern Calif. Rl Pachacki, ex-Western States Sales Co., represents the line in northern Calif. and Nevada.

Jim Moore, Sun Lumber Co., San Pedro, Calif., has been transferred frob out. side sales to timber sales.

Glenn Chasteen, Koppers Co., Wilmington, Calif., is recovering from a broken ankle as a result of a recent injury.

Craig Coleman, son of Ken Coleman, Extrom Plywood, Los Angeles, has recently completed training at the Army Microwave School and is' eing sent to Vietnam.

Dick Freeman of So-Cal Commercial Steel, Los Angeles, recently,returned from a South African vacation. Bill Birnkrant has joined the sales side of So-CaI.

Tillie Miller of Plywood Manufacturing, Torrance, Calif., has returned from a recent National Hoo-Hoo-Ette board meeting in Burlingame.

Al Capuchino is now the new planner for Larson Mfg. Co., Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., according to president and genmgr. Murray Studley.

Sallye Bissell, Yaeger & Kirk Lumber Co., Santa Clara, Calif., retires mid-month after many years in the business.

Kerry Goard, yard mgr. for Chan Sorenson's Midland, Inc., Baker, Montana, is still operating in temporary quarters after their recent fire. Holmes

Leonard K. Floan, corporate vtr1,, wood products group, Potlatch Forests, has been named a senior vp,