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Jim Hayes, retired from Boise Cascade and long active with WBMA in assn. activities, is now doing consulting work for Kusulos and Neill, Seattle.

Don Philips, Jr. is back at Philips Lum- ber Sales, Thousand Oaks, CA., after calling on mills and gluJam plants in Ca., Or., Wa., and B.C.

L. W. "Mike" McCullough is the new controller of Dant & Russell, Inc., according to J. S. Heigel, pres.

Carl Knoll, past president of the Western Building Material Assn., is recovering at home after a bout with phlebitus in Seattle General Hospital.

ErwinW. Storck has been promoted to personnel mgr., E. L. Bruce Co., according to C. J. Meister, v.P.administration.

Vi Neal is back at Stahl Lumber Co.. Los Angeles, after a 4 mo. layoff for a cataract operation. It worked out well and Vi says, "l'm glad I had it done."

George Steele is the mgr. of American Forest Products' National City, Ca., operation. Jack Berutich replaces him at Cerritos, Ca., as gen. mgr. Ed Boies, the former National City mgr. was feted with a farewell party, Feb. 28.

Fred Hemborg is now an industrial sales rep in So. Ca. for Roseburg Lumber Co.

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Bob Hunt, WWPA, Portland, spoke before the Seattle Chamber of Commerce recently in an Exports for Japan Seminar.

Ross A. Johnson is the new Portland rep. for the National Woodwork Mfgrs. Assn., which now includes the old Ponderosa Pine Woodwork Assn.

John W. Lowe is now resident mgr. of Publishers Forest Products' Burney, Ca. mill.

B. Paul Fratello is the new Western regional sales mgr. for Structo.

Leroy Damm is the mgr. of the new Boone's Ferry Building Supply, Wilsonville, Or.

Ralph Froiland, Jr., mgr, Malibu Lumber Co., Malibu, Ca., is again a director of the local Chamber of Commerce.

Darrell Covington is the operations mgr. for Acropolis Wholesale Lumber Co., newly started by Chris and Richard Paras. Jim Rasmussen and Bud Jacobson are working in sales.

Roger Minehane is the new branch mgr. at Georgia-Pacific's Tacoma, Wa. distribution center.

Sam Hauert, Grant Road Lumber Co., Tucson, Az., was a recent vacationer in San Francisco.

John Osgood, Robert S. Osgood, Inc., Los Angeles, has been Down Under on a trade mission sponsored bY the Australian Government. The Aussies invited him to help them with their timber export to the U.S. Kurt Gelbard recently celebrated his I 8th year with the Osgood firm.

Pete Falconer, Falconer Forest Products, Fullerton, Ca., has a personalized license plate that says: I by 12; perfect for someone who got into the business selling pine boards.

Charles Sutliff is the mgr. of the new store Pine Tree Lumber Co. has opened in Escondido, Ca.

James F. Craft is the new president of Kraftile Co., Fremont, Ca. He succeeds his father, C.W., who was president for 39 years.

Richard Krull is now a v.p. of Plum Creek Lumber Co., Columbia Falls, Mt., according to Fred A. Winegar, pres.

Jack B. Schneider has been named pres. of Jim Walter Window Components, a div. of Jim Walter Corp.

Nick Carter, Clear Fir Sales Co., Springfield, Or., recently squeezed in a vacation.

Dan Smith has been promoted to asst. to the sales mgr., McElroy Lumber Co., San Jose, Ca.

Rick Williams continues as mgr. of G-P's Portland distribution center since its recent move to Beaverton.

Dean Huber, a Lake Oswego, Or., consultant. is back at home base after some recent travelling.

Robert H. Platt, former pres. of Magnavox, is now vice-chairman of Lone Star Industries, parent of National Building Centers.

Doug Parsons is now repping Philstone Nail Corp. in Wa., Id. and Or.

Howard llofmann, WWPA, plans a Denver area business trip for late April.

Harold M. Frodsham, South Bay Redwood Co., Orange, Ca., recently returned from a trip to Russia.

Doug Berquist and Tom Gilstrap are manning Far West Fir Sales's new Portland branch office. Hq. are in Huntington Beach, Ca.

Alan B. Cook is now gen. mgr., bldg. materials group., DiGiorgio Corp., according to Robert C. McCracken. Tom Philips, Northern Lumber Sales, Corona Del Mar. Ca.. is back from a Bay Area business trip.

Bill Bright, Western lumber div., Masonite, Ukiah, Ca., has returned from vacation.

Jim DiMatteo is now the n'tl. sales mgr., particleboard, for Lousiana-Pacific, Cloverdale, Ca.

Dennis Mawhinney, Vancouver, B.C., is the new pres., Western Lumber Marketing Assn., succeeding Mason Jones,Portland. New lst v.p., Curtis J. Heneghan, Seattle; 2nd v.p., Herbert E. Charnstrom, Portland; 3rd v.p., Ted Hansen. Dick Laird is sec.. Jack Curran is treas.

William T. Uphill is the new v.p., forestry and timberlands, Canada, for Pope & Talbot, according to Richard W. Reiser, v.p., Canadian operations.

Richard S. Gittings, Gittings Lumber Co., Denver, Co., recently testified before the Senate Select Committee on Small Business in Washington, D.C.

Jim Hormuth is now sales mgr. of the construction div., for Reliable Wholesale Lumber Co., Temple City, Ca., according to Jerome Higman, v.p.

Fred Zito has joined the plywood dept., Gold Rey Forest Products, Beaverton. Or.

Del Cole, Rounds Lumber Co., Cloverdale, Ca., hasn't changed his name, we just had a typo in his name when it appeared in last month's Letters column. That's a horse on us, Del.

Robert A. Jorgenson is the new asst. v.p. of Plum Creek Lumber Co.. Columbia Falls, Mt.

Pete T. Funke is now marketing mgr., residential roofing, for Certain-teed Products.

Bob Plunkett is the pres. of newly- formed Rocklin Forest Products. Roseville, Ca.; sales mgr. is Jerry Wilcox, the third principal is Jim Hayes.

Roger Hancock, Arizona Millwork, Phoenix, has completed a recent L.A. area business trip.

Art and Harlen Jensen, cb-owners of Valley Building, Rigby, Id., have won Boss-Of-The-Month awards from a local education club

Charles D. Bartholomaus is the new business mgr., Hobin Lumber Co., Philomath. Or.

Len Mills, who covers Eastern Co. for Komac Paint Co. has won the company's Salesman of the Year Award.

John Schick, Louisiana-Pacific, is back in Portland after a So. Ca. vacation trip.

Ken Kirk is a new salesperson at Eckstrom Plywood, Los Angeleg according to Marie Eckstrom, pres. John Wilton, Georgia-Pacific, San Leandro, Ca., vacationed recently in Portland.

Ralph McClure is the new pres. of the Woodwork Institute of California. New lst v.p. is John Murray; 2nd v.p. is Al Ebneter; treas., Ed Bernhauer. Directors are: Richard Garlick, James Eastburn, George Laughton, Warren Olson and Harry Pulaski.

Norm Wendell has moved his Wendell Forest Products from Whittier, Ca., to Garden Grove.

Gene Zanck, Pre Built Structures, Spokane, Wa., and Jim Jones, Foster Lumber Co., Vallejo, Ca., recently attended a Hoo-Hoo officers meeting at Gurdon, Ar., birthplace of the lumbermen's fraternitv.

Larry Cessun is now in sales- for Bud Frank Lumber Co., Sacramento, Ca. Samuel G. Craven. Jr. is the new directorofpurchasingfor Pope & Talbot, Portland, according to Peter T. Pope, chairman/chief exec. officer.

Dennis Kirk has joined softwood sales for United Wholesale Lumber Co., Montebello, Ca., according to sales mgr. Miles E. Butterfield.