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George Kersey, Plywood L.A., dnd Larry Moore, Timber Products, recently visited Eugene and Pbrtland, Or.

C. Calvert Knudsen, a Weyerhaeuser senior v.p., has been elected to the board ofCascade Corp., Portland.

John T. Barrett is now director of lumber sales central for U.S. Plywood, based in Eugene, Or.

John F. O'Connor has been named mgr.-lumber purchasing for Evans Products' bldg. mtls. group, re- ports Pete Koehler, exec. v. p.director of manufacturing.

Harold O. Schadt (group leader) and Jim Hackett,- also with American Plywood Assn.; John J. Connors, Simpson Timber, Seattle; Charles M. Doolan, Willamette Industries, Albanv. Or.: Victor A. Durham. Hardel' Mutual Plywood -Corp., Olympia, Wa. ; Hal Matthews, Gold Rey Forest Products, Beaverton, Or.; Roberts W. Radcliffe, St. Regis Paper Co., Tacoma, Wa.; Douglas A. WestenhaYer, Jr., Louisiana- Pacific Corp. , Portland: and William G. Wysong, Brand-S Corp., Corvallis. Or., comprised an APA trade mission just back from a development trip to Japan.

Jerry and Alva Joyce, Palmer G. Lewis Co., Bremerton, Wa., are back from a Hawaiian vacation.

\ilayne Gardner, exec. v.p., Lumber Assn. of Southern California. is one of a number of Western lumbermen among a national group on a26-day trade development tour to Australia and New Zealand. Others include Inland Lumber Co.'s Fred Thomson and Oregonihn Roger Conrad.

Glenn Wyer and Neil DeWitt have joined the sales force at South Bay Redwood Co., Orange, Ca.

Stanley J. Starkey has been named to head the manufacturing operations of American Forest Products, replacing Howard l{. Blagen who has also resigned as a director of the company. Starkey is a 25-year veteran with AFP.

Leo B. Maskill is now superintendent of Union Pacif,rc RR's California div.. HQ'd in L.A. He succeeds Morris L. Samuelson who transfers to Salt Lake City as asst. director of safety, Utah-Nevada-California district.

Jerry Donahue has been named bldg. materials sales mgr. for Louisiana-Pacific's Weather-Seal div., according to Robert E. Galleher, div. g/m.

Donald Orsi is the mgr. of So-Cal Commercial's manufacturer's rep div., reports marketing exec. Dick Freeman.

Ron Butter is now branch sales mgr. of the Los Angeles servicenter of Commercial Plastics and Supply.

Charlie Reynolds is now with Morgan Staley Lumber Co., Lake Oswego, Or.

Bingham Klrk, American Forest Products' international div., has been appointed to the WWPA's export committee; Vincent A. Rocco, Jr., is the new AFP office service mgr.; and Ralph V. English has jdned the sales training program at Fresno.

Reuben F. Richards has been elected to the board ofPotlatch Corp., replacing Edward L. Palmer.

Willis H. Gill is now heading Pope & Talbot's operational services group; succeeding him as operations research mgr. is William R. McAlister.

Phil Harris celebrated his 22nd anniversary with the Palmer G. Lewis Co. the lst of this month.

Len Johnson hasjoine<i Benchmark Log & Lumber's trading staff in Spokane, Wa.

J. Bruce Fulton is noff a v.p. for Crown Zellerbach with special responsibilities in timber and wood products.

Richard D. Witt is now president of Clarendon Industries. a Phoenix based subsidiary of Southwest Forest Industries specializing in mobile home financing.

John Hunter, Ca. district sales mgr., Filon, won an all-expense paid trip to Mexico City in a company sales contest.

William H. Morton, president of American Express Co., has been elected a director of Boise Cascade.

Eugene C. Blankenheim has been elected a group v.p. of Diamond International Corp.

Gary O. Woods, Jr. is the new Western regional mgr. for Commercial Plastics and Supply.

"Tony" Gallagher is now handling the output of Publishers Forest Products' Burney, Ca., mill from Portland.

Dana Drew is now West Coast sales mgr. for Evans Products Paint div., reveals M. R. Farley' gen' sales mgr.

James W. Kynes has been elected to the board of Jim Walter Corp.

Thomas S. White has been appointed marketing services mgr. for Eaton Corps.' Iock and haidware div., announces William E. Butler.

Clyde Dickinson, Vancouver, Wa., and John Price. Tacoma. Wa., have received 25 year service awards from the American Plywood Assn.

Charles E. Caprye is now mgr. of Kaiser Gypsum's Seattle plant, says paul J. Franklin, mfg. v.p.

Fred S. Hazzaril is now in plywood exports for Publishers International Forest Products, Portland.

Jerry G. Koch is now sales mgr. for Oregon Pacific Industries' Tacoma, Wa., warehouse, according to Darrell Robinson, OP president.

L. E. "IXnk" Wilson has retired after 45 vears as loesine msr. at Haoov Jack. Az.. I5r Souihwest Foi6st Industries. He was hired in 1928 and never missed a paycheck with the company.

Kathy Stefano is the new receptionist/sec. for Al peirce Lumber Co. , Newport Beach. Ca. replacing Maryann Stanley who left to get marned.

Jim Jones, Foster Lumber Co., Vallejo, Ca., made a quick trip to Anaheim, Ca.. for the lst concat of the new Orange County Hoo-Hoo club.

Mark Lofland is back at it at South Bay Redwood Co., Orange, Ca., after his lst vacation in two years.

Paul Penberthy, Sr., Penberthy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Ca., has returned from an extended tour through the Far East.

Roger Baron, Western Building Material Assn. staffer, is back on the active list followine a hospital stay and recuperation after b-eing rushed to the hospital for a collapsed lung.

C. E. "Chuck" Spoor is now on Twin Harbors Lumber's Aberdeen, Wa., sales office.

Dave Dover has been advanced to Brand-S Corp. sales mgr., Corvallis. Or.

Sam Bass is managing Dutton Pacific Forest Products' new Kent. Wa.. plywood distribution warehouse. Gordon Brown is new as a sales rep. in the Seattle area.

Tom Bursegaard is now with Pioneer Products, Inc., Anacortes. Wa. He's ex-president of LakesideWestern Lumber Co.. Mt. Vernon. Wa.

Mike Huycke is now with Noble Lumber Co. in Eugene, Or.

Jack Davidson, Davidson Plywood & Lumber, Carson, Ca., is back from a recent photo safari to East Africa.

Fred R. Kingman, Jr. has been named merchandising mgr., Simpson Timber Co., Seattle, reporting to Dean Matthews, mgr., adv. and promotron.

Dan B. Hogan has been elected a v.p.-bldg. mtls. services div., by Boise Cascade.

Ross A. Johnson, 28, has been named acting gen. mgr. of the Ponderosa Pine Woodwork Assn., following Thomas J. Klotter's retirement, according to Bob Herbst, v.p., Western Wood Products Assn., which has a management contract with PPW.

Harry D. Smith, sec.-mgr., Northwest Hardwood Assn., Tacoma, Wa., reports the dates of their spring meeting are now May 1618, Red Lion Motor Inn, Victoria, B.C.