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Bill Nunnally is a new salesman at International Forest Produets, Pomona, Ca.; Pam Cesak is the new office mgr., according to Phil Butterfield.

Lyn Rabun is now with Coin Millwork Co., Prineville, Ore.

Kris Wales is the new mgr. and Jet Bibler asst. mgr. of Waleswood, Inc., Darby, Montana.

Neil M. Smith is the new head of Edwards Industries, Inc., Portland.

John O'Keefe is the new gen. mgr. of Rodman Industries' Rimco div.

Guy Daughtrey IY, Granger, Utah, has accepted a posthumous award for his father, Guy Daughtrey III' as Southland Paint Co. outstanding salesman of 1972. Young Daughtrey also works for Southland. His father was killed in a recent auto accidenL

Ken Schmidke has rejoined the sales staff at South Bay Redwood Co., Orange, Ca.

George A. Thompson is the new gen. mgr. of the Redwood InsPection Service. Migs llelen McDonald was named treasurer of the S.F.based organization.

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Frank A. Purcell, owner of CitY Lumber Co., Palm Springs, Ca., has been honored with a luncheon honoring his work as a fotmer City Councilman' i Joe Bowman has been named to gen. sales mgr. of West Range CorP., Cloverdale, Ca., by president Art Bond.

C. L. Slocum was again the instructor at the recent Northwest Hardwood Assn. short course in hardwood lumber grading, Kelso, Wash.

Stu DeYry is now in sales at Frank Dancer Lumber Co, Medford, Ore.

Chuck Morriss has become the Particle board sales mgr. for the northern div. of Sequoia Forest Industries.

"Stu" Stewart has garnered an award as "salesman of the quarter, western region" at Georgia-Pacific in San Jose, Take a bow, Stu!

Jack Drumm is back as a lumber trader at Gold Rey Forest Products, Beaverton, Ore. Also back after a sales trip is well-known Bob Dickinson.

Jim llayes has joined the plywood dept. at R. F. Nikkel in Sacramento. Jim was a 10-year veteran at G-P. Brian Eggiman was in the Bay Area recently on busine'ss for Nikkel.

Yic Goria has garnered salesman of the year award for Kaiser GYPsum div. Vic solicits Bay Area accounts for Kaiser Fir-Tex and gypsnm products.

Gary Wright, G-P, Albuqueryue, has won hotrors as manager of the year, Western region, at the annual sales meeting in San Diego.

Chuck Keesling has formed a new firm, Door Distributors, in San Jose. Assisting Chuck is RaY Ward, a knowledgeable door man. The firrn is wholesaling fir entrance doors as well as flush doors, plus custom milling.

Dlise Lewis, long-time "Girl Friday" to Palo Alto Lumber's Bill Gret4 is transfeming her affections to Hubbard and Johnson, Redwood City. Elise will assist both Jim Marron and Bruce Stinnett.

Yerlon McKinney is shipping alder lumber from his McKinneY Hardwood Lumber Co. at Sumner, Wash.

Al Osborne has been promoted to asst. gen. mgr., Ukiah div. of Louisiana-Pacific, rePorting to Lowell Ambrosini. Sam Cameron moves up to sales and Production coordinator; Dick SimPson is plant super now.

Bitl Hickey and Art Farrell have taken the big plunge and gone into business for themselves: Hickey and Farrell Lumber Co., Beaverton, Ore.

Sam Fineman, president of the Alhambra, Ca,-based Bel-Air Door Co., has visited his factorY in Korea and stopped in Hawaii for a brief holiday respite with his wife, Bayla, and son Ross.

Leon llurham, Treated Pole Builders' Inc,, Ontario, Ca., is back from ' a business trip to Albuquerque.

Pat Reagan, former mgr. of the Douglas fir div,, AFP, Cerritos, Ca., has joined the marketing team of Fremont Forest Products, Whittier, Ca., according to Fremont president Pete Speek.

Peter J. Yan Oosting, Glendale Lumber & Plywood, Glendale, Ca., and his wife Mildred, and their old friends, the Shaws, are on a month-long vacation in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Otto H. Leuschel is now group vp., U.S. v'ood products div., Evans Products, Portland, according to Peter H. Koehler, exec. vp.-group director of rnanufacturing.

I. Clarence Howard is now Evans Products' products mgr,-molding; Tony C. Carlson has been named mgr.-product and resources development-fiber products,

Erwin Kulosa is the mgr. of the new field office in Albuquerque recently opened by the Federal Timber Ilurchasers Assn.

BiU Fahs, president of Cal Panel & Veneer Co., Cerritos, Ca., has been honored by Formica for sales of 50 million sq. ft. of laminate. Formica men Robert Lowes and Joe Cullen made the presentation.

Dick Freeman, marketing executive' So-Cal Commercial, Los Angeles, has appointed Paul Simon director of sales for the warehouse div.

Patricia Young has been named promotion mgr. of the California Redwood Assn., replacing Keith Lanning who recently became gen. mgT.

Don Philips, Jr., Philips Lumber Sales, Thousand Oaks, Ca., and his wife, Florence, are back from a San Diego business/pleasure trip.

Ron Wiggins is now in charge of Pacific Northwest sales, out of Portland, for Westmark & Assoc., Newport Beach, Ca.; John Martin has been appointed for sales in No. Ca. He had been with Stanline, Inc.

Cal Mortensen is the new vp.-asst. gen. mgr. at Kwikset Lock.

Earl L. Flood has joined AFP's bldg. mtls, div. sales staff in Albuquerque, according to gen. mgr, Frank Hasy.

A. L. Bartel, Denver; II. H. Hougharn' Salinas, Ca.; F. lYarren, Anaheim; J. II. Iland, Riverside, Ca.; and G. W. Putnam, Albuquerque' N.M., have won regional sales awards in a recent G-P contest. Bob Schmidt, western regional mgr., presented the hardware.

Mike Dage has joined the sales staf of Ideal Brushes, Inc.

Jon Chase is now product mgr. for Masonitets Roxite div., a line of masonry panels.

Jim Waddell is Kaiser Gypzum's new salesman for No. Ca.; Bob Boltz is their new man for So. Ca. and Atiz.

Robert P. Stillwell, Ward & Ifarring- ton Lumber; Bob Reed, Barr Lumber Co.; John W. Larner, American Wholesale Hardware Co.; and Frank Bergstrom, Georgia-Pacific, are on the board of the Building Material Dealers Credit Assn., in L.A.

Thomas L. Arnett is now director of industrial relations for American Forest Products Corp.

Frank Ruggieri, San Antonio Construction Co., is back in Artesia, Ca., after a vacation trip to Italy. (Conti,nued on Page 48)

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