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Seth Potter, AFP, Cerritos, helPed organize a welcome for one of his neighbors, ex-P.O.Iil. Lt. Col. John J. Pitchford, returning home after 7 years in a North Vietnam prison. IIis plane was shot down in 1965.

Ilarold M. Fr,odsham, South Bay Redwood chairman of the board, is back in Orange, Ca., after a Ilawaii sojourn.

Bobert Withers, Withers Lumber Co., \Moodburn, Ore., has been elected to the board of the Bank of Oregon.

Gene Gerrard, Elof Hansson Inc., Compton, Ca., made a successful sales trip recently to Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.

Sterling \f,olfe, Marquart-\Molfe Lumber, Orange, leaves next mo. with his wife Lorraine for a 5-week Orient pleasure trip.

Jim Richardson, who has his own lumber firm in Laguna Hills, Ca., recently suffered a heart attack.

Balph Lamon, Lamon Lumber Co., San Francisco, made a recent mill trip to Portland.

Gary Malfatti is now working for Doors, Inc. covering the Sacramento Valley.

Kramer Adams is now PR director for David'W. Evans, Inc., the big S.F. ad agency. He had been PR director for the Calif. Redwood Assn.

Jim Forgie is just back to his desk at Robert S. Osgood, Inc., L.A. from a sales cruise to the Philip- pines, Malasia, Singapore and Taiwan.

Bill Connor, Connor Lumber Sales, San Marino, Ca,, recently did a business/pleasure trip to San Diego.

Phittip Edwarda, owner of Mira Loma Lumber, in the Ga. town of the same name, is a candidate for the local school board. Good luck.

J. J. Miller is Marlite's new San Francisco distriCt mgr.; Dave Olds is rep'ing them in no. Ca. and J. G. Ballard in Wash. He had been in Ore.

Bud Beil, Ray Beil Lumber Co., Spokane, is a new member of the local Hoo-Hoo club.

James Parsons has joined Bel-Air Door's So. Ca. sales team, reporting to sales mgr. "Skip" Face. Greenberg & Cleary, fnc. are now representing Bel-Air in no. Ca. Chuck Morriss is now KachinaBoard sales mgr. for Southwest Forest Industries.

Jack Milliken, Lane-Stanton Lumber Co., City of Industry, Ca., is back from a business safari to Australia, Fiji and Ilawaii.

Orville Bresee is now selling for West Range Corp., at their Cloverdale, Ca., office, as is Jim Wood who is now at Palo Alto and Roger Baer at the Corona office.

Leon Durham, Treated Pole Builders, Inc., is back in Ontario, Ca., after working on a big job in Rancho Santa Fe.

Bill Griebeler has received a 20 year service award from APA. He is their director of planning.

Lou Eaynes, Potlatch import dept., recently business tripped to Tokyo.

Jim Henderson, Westera Pine Supply, Emeryville, Ca., recently made a business trip to Bedding, with 8 employees. They also took in the Shasta Cascade Hoo-Hoo concat, as you can see on ft. 22.

Leo Wofford, tr"remont Lumber, Fremont, Ca., reports his son, Ken, has earned his commission as I 2nd. Lieut, USAF, at BYU in Salt Lake City.

Norm Rose, Oregon-Pacific, Sacramento, Ca., has recovered from a long siege of the fluPaul Foot is the new mgr. at Builder's l)mporiirm in Santa Clara.

Ollie Lce, Oakley Plywood, Morgan Hill, Ca., reports his daughter, Mary Alice Woodford gave birth to her first son and his sixth grandson, Ryan Lee, 6 lbs., 7 oz. In addition, OUie talks about his two great grandchildren!

Frank Timmers, Van Arsdale Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, had a nifty 25th wedding anniversary bash with his bride, Betty, and a number of friends at Mendocino's Little River Inn.

Bill Johnson, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., Terra Linda, Ca., made a recent mill trip to Crescent City.

Stu "Bernie" Bernstein, G-P San Jose, is the proud papa of Kevin Paul, 8 lbs. 7 oz. of offspring.

Ed Nave, who heads up Northwood Lumber Co.'s new Redding, Ca., office, recently business tripped thru Ca., Ore. and Wash. Ed previously was with Commander Industries.

Mort J. Berger is the new 14)., corp. development for Flecto, Oakland. Newt Jacobsen is now marketing mgr.

Nick Bastings, and Thad Green, AllState Plywood, Sunnyvale, and Ken Barnes, All-State, Oakland were among Western lumbermen catching the Bing Crosby golf tourney at Pebble Beach. Others: Al Ligi, U.S. Ply., Oakland; Jerry Fernandez, Belmont Ply.; and John Thompson, Evans Products, S.F.

John Schick is now western lumber sales coordinator for LouisianaPacific at their Portland HQ.

Greg Godbout is Masonite's new asst. regional mgr. for the Rocky Mountain area.

Grant Shaw is now working in Yard sales for Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Orange, Ca. He had been in Redding with Kimberly-Clark.

L. R. "Andy" Andergon is a new inside salesman at Castro Valley Lumber Co., Castro Valley, Ca.' reports Ralph Boshion.

Jim Webber, Hubbard & Johnson, Mt. View, Ca., and Al Stockton, San Bruno Lumber, San Bruno, recently escorted 55 Japanese wood industry representatives th r u their respective yards.

Paul S. Curd is the new controller at Welsh & Bresee, Oakland.

Steve McGill, AFPC, Newark, attended the recent Northwest Hardwood Assn. grading school in Longview, Wash., according to Gary Stewart.

Melvin L. Levine, the president of of Fibreboard Crorp., has become chief executive officer. George Burgess remains as chairman of the board.

Sam Eggers, Allstate Plywood, Sunnyvale, Ca., spent a week in sunny Palm Springs at a golf tourney. Sam reports he didn't miss the rain a bit!

Gerald J. Nelson is a new supervisor of inspection for the Redwood Inspection Service, working under chief inspector Paul Jarvela.

Horace Ward recently celebrated 25 years with Fallbrook Lumber Co., Fallbrook, Ca.

Ted Oakley, (son of Jim Oakley, Oakley Plywood, Morgan Hill), has opened the 7 Oaks Home Center, a retail lumber and building materials store at 365 Tennant Ave. in l\(organ Hill, Ca. Best wishes, Ted!

Yirgil Nesbitt, sales mgr., Eel River Sawmills, Fortuna, Ca., enjoyed a visit from his children who came up from Sacramento ovet the holidays.

Dick Allen has been promoted to dept. hgr., moulding-millwork div., AFP, Cenitos. Denny Cur' ran and Chris Ilexberg, AFP' Cerritos, inspected the AFP Stockton millwork plant on a mill trip.

Ken Brauner, Giustina Bros,, Eugene, Ore., recently had his own art show at a local dept. store, Hugh Lineweaver is now Evans Products' marketing mgr. for their residential products group, Portland.

Ross MacCarty and Jefi Loftus, G-P, San Leandro, vacationed in Mexico for two weeks.

Dale McEIroy, McElroy Lumber, San Jose, was hospitalized in early January.

Marv Compton, Pacifica Lumber, Pacifica, Ca., spent New Year's at the Boulder Creek Country Club with his wife. Marv reports he couldn't find anyone to golf with though.

New PGL Dislribution Cenler

Growing pains have caused Palmer Lewis Co., a Pacific Northwest and Alaska building material distributor, to build new corporate offices and a warehouse compound in Auburn, Wash., 20 miles southeast of Seattlg a $1.4 million structure on a 7 acre site. Move in date is late Spring.

The warehouse is 102,000 sg. ft., with 12,500 sq. ft. for general offices. The present Auburn branch will be consolidated with the new distribution center.

Swen years ago the company real. ized 'it was running out of ware. house space at its central location in Seattle. After three years of searching it was decided to build in Auburn. Plans and designs were set in motion.

Key to the choice of Auburn is the proximity of every major type of transportation, plus ease of getting to and from the new location. A spur of the Milwaukee R.R. is adjacent.

The present Seatde office and ware. house, although reduced in size and personnel, will remain basically to serve Alaska customers.

Hordboord Outlook Bright

Frank S. Burgen, vp-marketing Celotex Corp. has been elected by the American Hardboard Assn. as its president..

Other officers elected: vp., Linn Edlen, Boise Cascade building products, Portland; secretary, G. D. Landes, U. S. Plywoodl treasurern Roy E. Schneider, U. S. Gypsum; asst. secretary, R. S.Spangler, Mason. ite.

While 1972 was a record breaking year for hardboard shipments, optimism was generally expressed at the annual meeting that 1973 would see furtlrer increases. L972 can be estimated conservatively to exceed 5 bil. lion 750 million sq. ft.

WCIIB for log Export Bon

Calling for a complete ban on all log exports, the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau joined a growing list of lumber organizations striving to halt the runaway bidding war that is raising havoc with West Coast log supplies.

John Kelln WCLIB president, stated that mounting concern over a new and intensified wave of Japanese log buying led to the passing of a resolution at their annual meeting in Portland. It "Resohted, that WCLIB work to promote and enlorce a comflete ban on oll log exports to ituure an adequate and continuing suppLy ol lumber prodacts tor U.S. Iwme build,ers,"

'The log supply situation on the West Coast is extremely critical," Kelly added. '?Many Iog inventories are already only one-half to one-fifth of normal for this time of year. If exports continue at their present rate some sawmills will soon be forced to shut down with resultant job loss. Critical lumber shortages will drive already inflated prices even higher."

New G-P Bldg. Products Div.

A new building products marketing division has been organized by Georgia-Pacific Corp. in a major expansion of its former plywood and specialties sales group, it has been announced by F. V. Langfitt Jr., G-P vp., who heads the new operation at Portland headquarters.

The division will handle mill sales of \fiestern softwood plywood, prefinished hardwood plywood and engineered board products, plus outside buying of Western plywood, lumber, particleboard and hardboard from other manufacturers to augment G-P's own production, aecording to Langfitt. He headed the former plywood and specialties sales division.

New general sales manager in Portland is John Prince, formerly marketing manager for G-P's nationwide building products distribution division. Also reporting to Langfitt are K. A. McCaskill, national account executive for the former plywood and specialties sales group, who retains that position in the new division, and H. C. Wise becomes operations manager. Wise formerly was statistical and billing manager for Western plywood and specialty sales.

The new division will be the seles arm for G-P mills, as well as filling inventory requirements at distribu' tion division warehouses from outside sources to supplement comPany pro' duction.

Reporting to Prince are four newly reorganized groups in Portland. They are Western plywood sales; building products purchasing for plywood, specialties, Western lumber and moulding; prefinished paneling sales, and Western hardboard and particle' board sales.

Named sales manager for West' ern plywood is M. A. Vidano for' merly asst. sales manager for prefinished paneling. Ken Watt, formerly accounts manager for plywood and specialties, becomes manager for West Coast mill scheduling. J. E. Hande, new manager for building products purchasingo was national accounts manager for plywood and specialty sales.

J. J. Balle, whose responsibilities were enlarged last yearr.continues as general sales manager for pre-finished paneling.

Big lnlond Empire Club Meeting

Eleven new members were initiated by Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo Club 11? at the meeting shown abovi:, held in Yucaipa, Ca. They are Richard Lovesee and Jim Gross, Boyd 'Iovesee Lumber Co.; Tom Thomson and Frank Smith, Inland Lumber Co.; Ralph Shoaf, Sand Door; Ralph Shoafo Jr.o AFP; Paul Murphy, Bob Dice, Jim Busalacchi, City Lumber Co., Palm Springs; Bill Peter' son, US. Plywood; Roger Baer, West Range Corp.; and Major Overbeck, T. M. Cobb Co., a reinstatement.

Program chairman for the successful concat was Nelson Sembach. Committee me,rnbers were Rudy Gonzales, Walt Smith, Jim Abbott, Don Olsen, Charles Jaehnig' Wayne Solesbee, Roger Braniger and Dutch Bauman.