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Bob Reid, Jr. Reid & Wright, Arcata, Ca., and his wife, Kathie, are packing for Reid & Wright's 5th annual invitational golf tourney, Mar. 3lApr. l, on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

Dick Lambert has joined Lane Stanton Vance Lumber Co., City of Industry, Ca. He had been with Bendix Forest Products and its predecessor companies for more than two decades.

Charles S. Gardiner, gen. sales mgr., Roseburg Lumber Co., Portland, Or. has annouced the promotions of William F. Price to the Los Angeles olfice and Mark J. Muro to the Sacramento olTice.

Bob Bratton and Jean Burnett are new to Cariboo-Pacific Corp.'s staff in Tacoma, Wa.

Arthur Parnes is now Western ree. sales mgr. for the Douglas Randa'il Div. of Walter Kidde & Co.. Inc.. according to Joseph K. Schulein, marketing dir.

Eliot Wilson has joined Sunol Forest Products, Pleasanton, Ca. as a salesman.

Robprt A. Pacelli is now marketing research mgr. for Weiser Lock, South Gate, Ca.

Tom Hilton is the new sales mqr. at Gorge Lumber Co., Portland 6r.

Paul Andrews has joined Chandler Corp., in charge of all lumber products purchasins.

Bill Bucli has been-named v.p. of Timberland Products, Seattle, Wa.

Duane Duff is now gen. mgr. of Missoula White Pine Sash Co.. Missoula, Mr., succeeding Richard Bush, who has just retired.

William Niedermeyer is now Weyerhaeuser's customer service center mgr. in Miami, Fl. He had been in Tacoma.

Gary Wallace, F.T. Dooley Lumber Co., Memphis, Tn., recently visited So. Ca. lumber yards.

Bob McBrien, former exec. v.p. of Lumber Merchants Assoc.. No. Ca.. is manager of the new Flintkote Supply Co. distribution center, Saticoy, Ca.

George Ritchie is filling a new position as gen. mgr. Western div., wood products mfg., Georgia Pacific Corp., Portland, Or. James Coon is gen. mgr. at Fort Bragg, Ca.

Dury Cords has joined Fremont Forest Products' sales team at Whittier. Ca.. according to Pete Speek, pres. Blaine Smith is back from a Mexican cruise vacation.

"Robbie" Robbins and Ed Fountain. Jr., Fountain Industrial Lumber Sales, L.A., have returned from a business trip to Vancouver, B.C.

Walter C. Minnick, Trus Joist Corp., is the new director, pres. and chief operating officer. Harold E. Thomas, chairman of the board, is new c.e.o.

Darrell Cook is new to sales at Cardwell Forest Products. Fullerton. Ca., according to Ralph Cardwell, pres.

Charles "Chuck" Clemensen is the new mgr., Bendix Forest Products Corp., Cerritos Ca., succeeding Dick Lambert.

Tom Gibson has joined the trading staff of Hampton Industrial Forest Products, Tigard, Or.

Mike Wells is the new president, Tumac Lumber Co., Portland. Paul McCracken remains chairman of the board.

Vaughan Justus, Justus Lumber Sales, Albuquerque, N.M., and his wife, Peggy, recently celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary.

Wayne Murphy, Diamond International, Red Bluff, Ca., and Ray Louvier, Erbe Wood Products, Costa Mesa. Ca.. are back from a Mexican hunting trip with Ted Gilbert, Product Sales Co., Newport Beach, Ca.

Mike Hammitt is the new pres. of the cabinet hardware div., Norris Industries.

Robert Anderson, Arcata, Ca., is the new pres. of Redwood Region Conservation Council. Paul Evans, Arcata, is v.p.; James Keegan, treas.; Bud Good, v.p.

Pete Kepon, sales mgr., and v.p. with Burnette Henry, pres., Arcata Redwood, Arcata, Ca., got in a recent Baja California bird shoot with Ted Gilbert, Product Sales, Newport Beach. Ca.

Dave Walton has joined the expanding sales staff at DMK-Pacific, Fremont, Ca., according to Dwight Curran, pres.

Bert Hamilton has been named the new asst. to the president and general mgr. of Gittings Lumber Co., Denver, according to pres. Clark Gittings. Vern Thompson has been named new v.p. and sales mgr. and Don Quist has been promoted to v.p. in charge of millwork. Harold Johnson is a new lumber buyer.

Mike Bakula and Kelly Lyon are handling sales at Kelleher Lumber's new Fresno, Ca., facility. Gary Radvany is plant superintendent and Julie Ahler handles the phones.

Rick Callahan has been named to handle all moulding operations for Kelleher Lumber, both at Fresno and Hq. in San Rafael, Ca. Sid Thompson is new to sales at San Rafael.

Gil Sissons, Jr. is new to the sales staff at Knollwood Corp., Healdsburg, Ca., according to bossman Art Bond, who just returned from a grueling mill trip to Geyserville, Ca. (Downtown Geyserville, that is.)

John Marsala is manning Knollwood's new office in Newport Beach, Ca.

Eliot Wilson has joined Sunol Forest Products sales, Pleasanton, Ca.

John Gregor, Simon, Crabtree and Ryan, Inc., Lake Grove, Or., has returned from a Los Angeles business trip.

Linda Weber, Waldron Forest Products, Sacramento, Ca., recently took a 2 week Caribbean cruise.

Bud Chenoweth has joined Inland Lumber Co. at Cloverdale. Ca.. as a salesperson, according to Dave Damon, sales mgr. for that div.

Earl Woodward, Western reg. mgr., Flintkote Supply, Monterey Park, Ca., is back from an Or., Tx., and Nv. business trip.

Alan Malm, Semling-Menke Co., Merrill, Wi., is new pres. of the Fir & Hemlock Door Assn., succeeding Roger Eklund of E.A. Nord Co., Everett, Wa. Pete Tronquet, West Coast Door Inc., Tacoma, Wa., is new v.p.; Craig Agee, Nicolai Co., Portland, Or., sec.; Robert H. Hunt. treas. and exec. sec.

Mark McGuire has joined Simpson Building Supply, Cerritos, Ca., as industrial sales rep.

Patrick R. Eaton is new transportation mgr. for Dant & Russell, Portland, Or.

William J. Adams is new gen. mgr., Western Hardboard Div.. Masonite. Corp., Ukiah, Ca.

Bill Gittings has joined sales at Bowman Lumber Sales, Cloverdale, Ca., according to headman Joe Bowman.

Roger Bunge and Peggy Lewellan are now selling for Delson Lumber Sales, Olympia, Wa.

Mike Wells is the new president of Disdero Lumber Co., Portland, succeeding Paul McCracken who remains chrm. of the board.

Jim Conomikes has been promoted to v.p. of Globe International, based in Redondo Beach, Ca. Jerry Peterson has been named new sales mgr.

Mike Roach, Cal-Pacific Manufacturing Co., Arcata, Ca., plans a March trip to So. Ca.; April to the Deep South and back through the Middlo West, with a swing back in May to hit the lake states.

Jim Peterson, Trinity Forest Productsn Sebastopol, Ca., and his w-rfe, Cindy, got in a week's vacation in Hawaii. Paul Anderson has joined Trinity in sales, according to Karl Drexel, pres.

Rosemary Nelson, # I girl at PSF Inc., Fair Oaks, Ca.. celebrated her birthday with her first trip to Hawaii.

Don Stobaugh, Lonestar Industries, El Segundo, Ca., is recovering nicely after open heart surgery.

John Martinson, has retired as gen. mgr., Cladwood operations of Publishers Forest Products., Portland, Or.

Ron Brady, new gen. mgr., Chandler Corp. So. Ca. sales and distribution operations, is operating from a temporary oflice at Riverside, Ca., while a permanent facility is under construction at Fontana, Ca.

Wayne Benton, trader; Al Martin and Al Reed, outside sales; and Gordon Pugh, order desk, have joined Rolando Lumber Sales. Etiwanda. Ca.

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Galif. Market No. 1

Ofall lr-rmbcr shippc.d f'rorrr westcrn ntlrnufltctur,,.rs to tlestinatior.ts in thc \\cst. (alil'<lrniir rL-nrlr in\ thc rcgiot.t'. lrrrue:t custontcr. accoLl ntlng lOr s()rIc ,13.1 lr of tlrc roluntc, thc Westcrn Wood Proclucts Association's 1978 I)estitratiort q/ Sltrlrrrlrtts rcports.

Approximutely' 60'fi, of thc total 18.9 billion board lccr of- lunrbcr shipped (exclucling ru-dwoocl ) b1, \\cstern mrnulirt'tuicr: stays in thc West.

The rcport covers 65(X, 6lf'ths total shipntents fronr 11 wcstern softwood lumbcr producing states.

While Calilbrnia is rhe Wcsr's best custonter. shipntents destined therc actually lcll 1.9"/,' ofl' last year's pacc to 2.516.401 nrillion boarcl feet. The only,other state whcre incoming shipntents cleclincd fronr I 977 figLrres was Idaho. ofl'2.8'[, to 266.680 million b.f'.

Total shipntents to thc cntirc I lstatc western region w'erc up 3.7,X, fronr I 9ll. Arizona had rhc largest .jump. up 2-5.8(1, tr> 344.113 million b.f. Shipments to Ncvada were also up sonte 19.9'1,. but as a low(['lausr'Ltrrn lo l)ugc -5-i)

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IGGEST IMARKET for the 'est's lB billion board feet f annual softwood lurnber roductron rs theWest itself, hich takes nearly 11 billion )et. Of tlrat, Californra rkes try far the larqest ng e chunk some 43./u last :ar alone, or more than 4 llion board feet.

ata: Western Wood Products ssociation's 1978 summary estination o{ Sh ipments report.

3.77o Montana 2.7% Nevada 1.3% Wyoming 0.77o

At our orlglnal Klnzuo mlll slte ue produeed quotlty gvmorteed lumber producb tor ooer ha$ a cenfitry. Klln-drled Pondqoca plne, Douglos tlr and Western larch lumber products mot) rre commodtnes to some, but they oe out speclalt:les. We haoe o modern plyuood operol plywood sheathlng operotlon pltla a new computerlzed plne mlll and a shtd mlll ot Heppne4 Oregon.

Sometfmes we teel llke the lost ol the lilohlcans tn thts lndustll uhere lndependents are becomlng o uanlshlng breed. But we cherlsh our lndependence. It ollows us to rcspond qdckly to ouJ cugtomers'speclal needs. We're short on colp,orate red tape ond long on'can do" eftort and know how. Eoe41 cttstomet ue haoe ls BIG ln out eyes.

To sqoe our cuatomers bettet we haae a soles offce ln Lake Oswego, Oregon. One call to Ray Kelson, Jan Grudy, Btace Long or Kent Goodyem (503) 63*44O6 gets 1nu tast actton on yout lumber, sfrrd and plytoood sheathlng requlrements.