PERSONALS

Wayne Solesbee is back from a Caribbean cruise, earned for devotion above & beyond the call of duty at H&M Wholesale, Rancho Cucamonga. New H&M operations mgr. is Bob Roth; Tony J. Rizzo has rejoined sales, covering his former territory.

Jim Duart has been vacationing after resigning as marketing mgr. for Crown Zellerbach's Northwest wood products div., Portland.

C. Mark DeWinter is the new product line mgr., paneling, for Masonite's hardboard div.

Vito Mule is now asst. controller and office mgr. and Doug McClurg is the new security officer and asst. credit mgr. at Hayward Lumber and Home Supply, Salinas, Ca.

Randy Lilyengren is specializing in Western sales for Wood Traders, Inc., Eugene, Or.

Len Ufford is a new trader for Shamrock Lumber of Eugene.

lYilliam A. Whelan, 56, is now exec. v.p. and chief operating officer for Pope & Talbot, Inc., Portland.

Dan Buttars is the new mgr. at Anderson Lumber. Provo. Ut.

Jim Martindale, a former lumberman who now operates his own Newport Beach, Ca., consulting firm, is campaigning hard to be elected state senator for the 36th senatorial district, the coastal area of Orange County. Voting is June 6.

Virgina H. Cross is now v.p., finance of U S. Stove Co., Chattanooga, Tn.

Daniel W. Byrne has joined lumber sales for Southwest Forest Industries, Phoenix.

Peter Wilhelm and Ken Laudenschlager have joined Two Ox Traders' new international div., Arcata, Ca.

Sig Ellingson, Ellingson Lumber, Baker, Or., is the new pres. of the Western Forest Industries Assn., Portland. Thomas J. Shaw, Modoc Lumber, Klamath Falls, Or., is v.p.; Adolph Hertrich Vanport Mfg., Boring, Or., is sec.-treas.

Frank R. Gilchrist, Gilchrist Timber Co., Gilchrist, Or., has been elected to the board of the Forest History Society, Santa Cruz, Ca.

Ray Kraft is new to sales at Eckstrom Plywood, L.A. Gary Precher is the new warehouse foreman, according to Ed Abdella, pres.

Ed Fountain, Sr. and Jr. and Frank Bader, Ed Fountain Lumber Co., L.A., and Jack Chamberlin, Eel River Sawmills, Fortuna, Ca., are back from a Baja, Mexico fishing trip.

Murray Gelleri, Four Star Building Supply, Oakland, Ca., is back from a vacation respite.

Dick Voelzke, Pathfinder Forest Products, Orange, Ca., was recently on a Medford, Or., mill trip.

Jim Oakley, Oakley Plywood & Door, Morgan Hill, Ca., is back from a New Orleans/Memphis vacation, as is asst. mgr. Bob Lynch, who has been island hopping in Tahiti.

Bill Brogan and Don Plenty are new lumber traders for Trinity Forest Products at their new Sebastopol, Ca., offices.

Hans J. Anter has been named sales rep, exterior products, by Alcan Building Products, Buena Park, Ca.

Judy Bahr has joined American Forest Products, Newark, Ca., in inside sales. Bob Martin, formerly at AFP, Newark, has transferred to resident mgr., bldg. mtls. div., Pelham, Al.

S. A. "Cy" Brigham is the new district sales mgr. for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Stockton, Ca.

Jack Davidson, Davidson Plywood, Carson, Ca., has been taking it easy after recent back treatments.

Harold T. Frodsham, South Bay Redwood, Orange, Ca., is recovering nicely from recent open heart surgery.

Greg Baker and El Louise Muth recently completed an Oregon buying trip for PSF Inc., Sacramento, Ca. Bob Bonner got in a recent week of vacation in San Dieeo.

Wayne Benton has joined the sales staff at Fremont Forest Products. Whittier. Ca.

Bob Tilton is now selling for Midland Coast Wholesale Co.. Santa Rosa. Ca.

Bruce Heiren is now with Foremost McKesson Building Products at their San Jose. Ca.. sales office.

Bill Barnett, Foresi Home Center, Lancaster, Ca., won a Caribbean trip at American Wholesale Hardware's recent Sales Galaxv.

Dale McCormick, Twin Haibors Lumber, Santa Ana, Ca., plans a Memor- ial Day motorcycle trip through the Gold Country of the High Sierras.

Don Walker, Pacific Forest Products, Fresno, Ca., is taking it easy after a heart attack sufferd on a Eureka, Ca., business trip.

Armand Fontaine has been named director of Western operations at the National Home Improvement Council's new Los Angeles office. He's also exec. v.p. of the American Building Contractors Assn.

Bob Reid, Reid and Wright, is back at his Arcata, Ca., office after working on their invitational golf tourney in Hawaii, where the firm also has an office.

John Lindsey has been promoted to v.p., sales and marketing, prefinished moulding div. and "Marty" Smith has moved up to re- gional sales mgr., manufactured housing for DG Shelter Products, Portland.

Duane Bray is the new mgr. and Bert Fuqua asst. mgr. of Lumber City's new Tujunga. Ca., store.

Bill Temple, Westmark & Assoc., Newport Beach, Ca., is a lecturer at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, Ca., in a how-to-do home improvements series for the public. Enthusiasm and attendance are both high.

Ed Maher is now working at Summit Creek Forest Products in Lake Oswego, Or.

Bob Winterhalter, Big Creek Lumber Co., Watsonville, Ca., vacationed recently.

Joe Ballard, Wayne Werner and Jim Adams are new to the sales staff at Cariboo-Pacific, Tacoma, Wa. Jerry Gates has joined Western Empire Forest Products, Eugene, Or. Gary Hansen and Rick Beilfuss, coowners of Compass Lumber products, Danville, Ca., recently took Fred C. Holmes, Noyo Investment Co., Fort Bragg, Ca.; Dave Men- sing, Louisiana-Pacific. Oakland: and Bob Brass, REB Transporta- tion, Woodland, Ca., in their company Beechcraft Bonanza for some fishing at Rancho Buena Vista, Baja, Mexico.

Cordes Langley, Noyo Investment Co., is back at his Ukiah. Ca.. office after a Nile cruise in Eygpt.

Mike Forth and Pat Kozisek are new to sales at Compass Lumber Products, newly moved to Danville, Ca.

Bill Sparks has been promoted by Alpine Veneers in Portland, to v.p., bldg. mtls.

Greg Myles is now a dept. head for paneling at Reliable Lumber, Rosemead, Ca.

James P. Rowe is the pres. and c.e.o. for Domtar Gypsum America, the newly-formed company which will own and operate the gypsum business Domtar recently acquired from Kaiser Gypsum.

Leon Lauderbach, former president of Orange Coast Lumber, has joiled the management of All-Coast Forest Products, Whittier, Ca., according to All{oast president, Daryl Bond.

Pete Dempsey is the new senior sales rep. for Simpson Timber's Columbia Door Div., according to Bill Chenoweth, sales mgr.,Vancouver, Wa.

Bill Evenson, American Mill & Manufacturing, Chula Vista, Ca., has been relaxing recently in Acapulco, Mexico.

Suzanne Barnett is a new regional sales rep. for VMC Corp., Woodinville, Wa., working out of their San Mateo, Ca., office.

Max Hill, Max Hill Lumber Co., Montebello, Ca., recently hosted a table at the annual Baseball Writers Award Banquet in L.A. Included were company employees and Ray Oakley, Oakley's Lumber Mill & Moulding.

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DESPITE AN absence of crab at the Humboldt Hoo-Hoo club's annual Crab Feed, more than 150 were present in Eureka, Ca., for the recent event, which included an initiation and a visit from the international pres., Laurn Champ. (1) Roger Burch, Don Kelleher. (2) Bud Byard, Ted Matthews, Bob Bonniksen, Don Walker. (3) Doug Grant, Bob McFie, Harry Lyon. (4) Dave Jones, Laurn Champ. (5) David Harrison, Bill Niesen, Rich Reid. (6) Martv 0lhiser, Ron Lewman. (7) Bob Fleming, Frank Thomas, Bob Britt'

(8) Sy Brigham, Jack Chamberlin, Ted Gilbert, Virgil Nesbitt. (9) Curt Wood, Rod Woolley, Jim McArthur, Sherman Hannon. (10) Alan Gradek, Corky Cornwell, Ken Gradek. (tl) Ron Martin, Frank Jack, Gary Blanc, Duane Martin, Jim Schnell' (12) Ed Gale, Curt Crow. (131 George Kreiss, Ted Gilbert, Dave Goetz. {14) Don Nelson, Mike Conway. (15) "Hap" Hasty, Dave Goetz. (16) Bill Scott. Mike and Len Vinum.

We are pleased to announce the formation of a new company exclusively engaged in the wholesaling of \7est Coast rorest products.

The Knollwood Corporadon sells Douglas Fir, Hem-Fir and Redwood; specializing in 2x6 Douglas Fir Suds and 1x6 resawn boards in Douglas Fir and Hem-Fir.

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