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Itrarl Grabe, Grabe Lumber ComPanY, Globe, and White Mountain Lumber Co., Pinetop, Arizona, spent March fishing off the Mexico coast.

Larry Whittaker, manager of Cal-Sac Lumber Co. in Sacramento, recently expanded his sales force to include Elmer Lewis and Del Pugh. Lewis was formerly with Brooks-Dodge Lumber Co. in Grass Valley and Pugh operated his own wholesale business in nearby Nevada City.

Fred Bjornson, Bjornson Lumber Company, Willcox, Arizona, has moved into a neu' 6,500 sq. ft. Mediterranean-style store at 650 South Arizona Ave., which leplaces an older outlet on the East side of town'

Evans Products Company has closed its Fresno branch at 752 Walker Avenue, according to Portland headquarters.

Jack Yates, Santa Cruz Lumber Co., spent a blustery and cold February along the East Coast on business.

Dick Brown, formerly with the impoltexport division of Boise Cascade Building Products in San Francisco, is now with Evans Products Company in Corona, Calif., following the recent move of the Boise Cascade San Francisco division to Portland.

Earl Heldt, Heldt Lumber Co., Phoenix, Arizona, celebrated the beginning of spring and another good year of business with a fishing expedition down Mexico u'ay.

Ilarry Robinson, manager of McWilliams Lumber Co. in Modesto, Calif., has expanded his thriving do-it-yourself operation into an effective contractor distribution yard including prehung doors and roof trusses.

Larry Hamman, president of HammanI'IcFarland Lumber Co., Phoenix, has been named National Dealer Director of the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association, according to Frank Davis, secretary-managel of the Arizona Retail Lumber & Building Supply Association.

Lew Silvera, Antioch's (California) leading retailer, has just held another grand opening to celebrate the tripling of his existing showroom and further expansion into the do-it-yourself field.

Tom Wentworth, Foxworth-Willen Lumber Company, Nogales, got his Javalina (wild pig) on opening weekend of the season, and just out of town to boot.

Dale L. Cap has been appointed sales manager of the door division of Simpson Timber Co., John Syme, the general manager reveals.

Rich Stanley, westetn division sales mgr. f,or American Timber & Trading recently finished two sales swings, one to Los Angeles and one to San Francisco.

Diamond National Corp. trimmed off two mor'3 of its su{plus branches last month, closing small operations at Cotati and Los Molinos, Calif.

Bill Levering has replaced Pat Small as credit manager of J.E. Higgins Lumber Co., according to Jim Higgins,