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Paul Foote has retired as sales mgr. of Collins Pine Co., Portland, after 45 years with the firm. Al O'Brien is now lumber sales mgr., Dick Grahlman flakeboard sales mgr.

Don Philips, Philips Lumber Sales, lhousand Oaks, Calif., was a recent visitor to the redwood country near Santa Cruz, Calif.

Ken Pottmger has been named mgr. of Simpson Building: Supplies' Washington distribution centers, according to SBS vp. and gen. mgr. Harvey Warnaca. They recently opened a new center in Kirkland.

Richard T. Corson is the new asst. traffic mg". for Union Pacific RR in L.A., according to mgr, Fred L. Morgan.

Bob Iloover of Palco and Donn Furlong, Fluor, have been elected to the board of the Redwood fnspee- tion Service, San Francisco.

Edwin O'KeIley has been appointed vp. of Wisconsin California Forest Products, Redding, Calif.

Jack lfawley has been named millwork div. mgr. for Sierra Pacific Industries. He had been vrith R. F. Nikkel Lumber Co.

Ilon Andrews has joined the Oregon Lumber Export Co., Portland, and is working closely with H. II. Tfood, director of purchasing, as well as handling export sales to selected markets.

"Fez" Fegmire has won Marlite Paneling's t'Roadrunner of the Year" award for the Pacific region. Lanny Thacker is Marlite's new man in the San Francisco area.

G. M. Stonitsch, Stonitsch Lumber Co., was a donor and helper in building the new Petaluma, Calif., Boys Club gym.

Richerd Cesana is now nt'I. sales mgr. for Bostitch's dealer div.

Ken Schmidke, South Bay Redwood, Orange, Calif., has been putting in a lot of work on making a suceess of the annual Shrine Children's Circus.

Al Gardner is a new inside salesman at Orange Coast Lumber Co., Tustin, Calif. Headman Leon Lauderbach reports no changes since becoming a Boise Cascade subsidiary earlier this year.

Paul Wright, Wright Forest Produets, L.A., suffered a stroke recently and is now in Veterans Hospital, Granada Hills.

Terry Mullin, Tarzana Lumber Co., T*tzana, Calif., and Homer IIayward, Hayward Lumber, Salinas, attended recent NLBMDA meetings in Washington, D.C.

Dwight Curran, former Evans Products staffer, has joined Phoenix

Mutual Life Insurance as a salegman.

Carl W. Frasier is the new mgr. of sales at Rain Jet Corp. in beautiful Burbank.

Bud Smith, San Jose, Calif., and Carl D. Johnaon, Phoenix, have won regional honors in Georgia-Pacifie's "Salesmen of the Quarter" contests.

Peter T. Pope has been appointed chairman of the board and chid exee. officer, Pope & Talbot, Inc.; Guy B. Pope, president and chief operating officer; George A. Pope, Jr., honorary chairman of the board; Adolphue Andrews, Jr., senior vp.; and Cyrus T. Walker, corporate advison

Dale E. Ogle has been named to head Evans Products'bldg. mtls. group, which now includes forest products, fiber products, prefinishing and the international group. Lawrence Flahive, senior exec, vp., is director of marketing for the new group.

Bert McKee, Forest Lumber Co., San Marino, Calif., is back from trips to Canada and Scottsdale, Ariz,, for Ducks Unlimited.

Jack lfavens is the newly elected president of the Los Angeles Hardwood Lumbermen's Club. Dale Yates is vp., Dick Lambert, see,, Woody Toal, treasurer. Havens is with Lane-Stanton Lumben

Ham Knott had a successful opening recently for his newly-expanded

Yosemite Lumber Co. store. His son Gordon is active in management, Howard L. Ladd is oPerations vp, Richard E. HoPkins, merchandising mgr.

C, C. Snyder, gen. mgr., Dixieline Lumber Co., Escondido, Calif., is staging a second annual show and sale of fine art. TheY expect 150 artists to display. Event was a big draw last year.

Harry and Don Dunbar, father and son owners of Dunbar Lumber and Snohomish Lumber, have opened a new operation in the old Carlson and Son Lumber Co., Monroe, Wash.

Bob Gaylord, Fir and Pine Lumber, Burbank, Calif., recently got in a week's vacation of fishing in Old Mexico.

Frank Higgins, Sun Lumber Co., San Pedro, vacationed in the Hawaiian Islands.

Eric Hexberg, of Hexberg Lumber Co., Long Beach, Calif,, wife June and family, spent Easter Week at Point Bartow, Alaska, comPlete with dog sled.

Clint Rygel, Rygel Lumber Co., Long Beach, Calif., is back from a one month vacation in Hawaii.

George Veasy is now region mgr. for Idaho timber and wood Products manufacturing operations for Boise Cascade.

Phyllis Hewitt has been honored bY her employer, Barr Lumber Co., Alamitos, Calif., for her 50 Years with the firm. This was no retirement dinner, though, she looks great and is still going strong!

Tom Richardson, Honolulu, and Ken Moore, Huntington Beach, Calif., both won color tvs from Masonite for their sales efforts for the company.

Roy P. Tinder is the new marketing mgr. for roofing products, shelter materials grouP' Certain-teed Products.

Nicholas J. Lane, Jr., has been aPpointed Washington/Alaska div. sls. mgr. for Kaiser Cement & Gypsum's cement grouP.

Jack Vetterli, pres. of Flecto Co., Oakland, Calif., received a Prize in the merchandising awards contest of the Point-Of-Purehase Advertising Institute.

William E. St. Clair is the new asst. vp. and asst. to the gen. mgr. of Koppers' forest Products div.

James R. Batchelder has been named product mgr., round stock sales.

Philip Nell is the new gen. mgr. of Georgia-Pacifi c's sawmill, plywood and woods operations in Humboldt County, Calif,

Gus J. Chavalas is now vp.-sales and marketing for Kaiser's cement Broup, according to James E. Boyce, vp.-gen. mgr.

Art Parkins, president of PM Products, makers of door guards, recently returned from an eastern business trip.

C. W. Danner is the new divisional controller at AFPC's Cerritos, Calif., center' Tom ViscountY has been promoted to regional credit mgr. Bill Lamb has joined as inside sales coordinator in hardwoods.

Cal Wood, The Merchant Magazine, has completed a three week sales safari in No. Calif., Oregon and Washington.

Roy Dunbar, North ValleY Sales, Redding, took a recent business triP to Dallas.

Max Barnette, South BaY Redwood Co,, Orange, Calif', took a brief mill trip late last month'