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Jack Sullivan, head of Midway Lumber, Inc., at Tucson, Arizona, is reported fully recovered and back on the job after early April surgery.

The appointment of Dr. John M. McEwen Weyerhaeuser Co's. E'iverett, Wash., area manager v/as announced by Charles W. Bingham, manager of areas for the company. McEwen, Springfield, Ore., area manager, will succeed Russell J. LeRoux, who will retire on his 65th birthday. Suc- ceeding McEwen will be Richard W. McDuffie, Springfield area controller.

Don G. Marshall joined J. H. Baxter & Co's. Washington district sales office as sales representative announced Robert A. Johnson, district manager.

Sterling Wolfe, Sr., soaked up the sun in Miami and the Canibbean aJter spending a few rainy days at the National-American meet in Hot Springs, Va. Sterling, Jr, manned the Marquart-Wolfe desks in Newport Beach, Calif., in his absence.

Donald C. Smith has been appointed Corporate Regional Manager for Koppers Com- pany, fnc., in the Pacific Region and also named a Vice President in the company's Forest Products Division, according to Douglas Grymes, executive vice president, Koppers.

Smith will continue as Pacific District Manager of the Forest Products Division, a position he has held since 1962. He is headquartered in Los Angeles.

Harold Cole, MacBeath Hardwood Co. manager in Salt Lake City, reports business is good and getting better.

Bill Hanen, manager, Al Peirce Lumber Co., Long Beach, Calif., moved his home to Newport Beach, Having barely turned the key on his new house, Bill started out and joined the Newport Beach Tennis Club.

Ray Tierney, formerly with Cal-Pacific Redwood at Walnut Creek, Calif., joined the sales stafr of Billings-Pacific Corporation in San Francisco last month. Ray has spent most of his working career in lumber in the Bay Area and prior to joining Cal-Pacific several years ago had been with Harbor Lumber Co. in San Francisco.

Frank Billings, head of Billings-Pacific Cor1r., has announced the addition of Bob Leachman to his plywood sales stafr. Prior to joining Billings in San Francisco, Bob had worked across the Bay for California Plywood and Warm Springs Lumber Co;

C. W. Galley was elected president of Ponderosa Pine Woodwork at its annual meeting. Galley is lumber sales manager of California Div. of U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers, Inc., Redding. Outgoing president Earl C. Swaneon is executive committee chairman of the Andersen Corp., Bay- port, Minn.

'!Rocky" Smith, former sales staffer at Kaibab Lumber's Downey, Calif., office has taken over the sales operation at the firm's Salt Lake City branch. He succeeds Tom Major who is managing Kaibab's Paugitch, Utah, sawmill.

Blake "Patch" Blakey, senior at Hart High School and son of B. Y. Blakey, manager of Anawalt Lumber, Newhall, r"eceived an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at Anapolis, Patch maintained a straight "L" averag'e, with no "B's", throughout his high school career.

Les Neadeau announced last month the addition of Bruce Ball to Hedlund Lumber Sales Company's growing sales force. Ball, who was formerly with Cal-Pacific Redwood Co. and more recently operated his own retail business in Fresno, Calif., will continue to make Fresno his home and will cover the Central Valley territory for Hedlund.

Skipp Gregg, Vance Lumber; Ed Difani, Tarter, Webster & Johnson; Bob King, Mercury Hardwood, and Dale Yates, Southwest Plywood, recently returned from a successful fishing trip at Rancho Buena Vista, south of La Paz. Honors for catching the first sail fish of the season from that area went to Skipp. Out-of-state members of the party included Frank Buehl, F. T. Dooley Lumber Co., Memphis, Tenn., and Craft Dewey, Craft Dewey Lumber, also of Memphis.

W. L. Kiger, National Fcrest Product Assn's. San Francisco building code dis- trict manager, recently spoke to the Norfhern Califorrria section of the Forest Products Research Society on the competitive position of lvood as a construction material.

Bob Pallo of AI Peirce Lumber Co., Long Beach, was one of the many people attending Inland Drnpire Hoo-Hoo Club's Ladies Night in Palm Springs, Calif.

Frank Rawolle, manager of Mahogony Imports (Mico), has recently returned to Los Angeles after an extensive trip to the Northlgest Mills.

Wedding bells rang for Bob Drennan, sales manager, Kaibab Lumber, and the former Jacqueline Simmons. Prior to her marriage, Jackie was office manager for Foremost-Mc-Kesson, Los Angeles. The Los Angeles lumber fraternity was well represented at the ceremony and reception. Humboldt Flakeboard's Steve Bacon was best man. The couple plan to make their home in Cypress.

Appointment of John Postman to the position of national marketing manager of Pope & Talbot's plywood sidings was announced by Clark A. Johnson, director of sales and marketing,

Carpenters Lee Struer, Monteley, Calif., and Harold Hartin, Sacramento, along with cabinet maker Frank Dickey, Santa Rosa, u'ill represent t}:'e 42 counties program at the statelgide contest in San Francisco.

Lynn Dawson joined the Santa Ana sales office of Twin Harbors Sales, Inc., last month, according to Jim Rossman. Lynn's long career in the southland dates back to

1939 with the old Hammond Lumber organization. In more reeent years he had been with Al Peirce Lumber Co., later engaged in research and profit planning for Lumber Service Co. in Burbank, and most recently was sales manager of Stafford Lumber Co. at City of Industry, Calif.

Jim Gater, forrnerly associated with Western Forest Products of San Francisco, has joined Califor-nia Lumber Sales, according to owner Don Coveney, Oroville, Calif., dealer Bud Miller, head of Las Plumas Lumber Co., recently took a few well deserved weeks off from the grind to do the Europe bit during early Spring.

Bonnington Lumber's Brian and Ruth Bonnington returned home to Oakland, Calif.. last month after a three weeks vacation in Jamaica and Florida where they took in the NFPA 66th Annual Meeting at Boca Raton.

Lou Chericoni and his wife Florence have jusb returned from a short vacation and rest in Hawaii. Lou is manager of Diamond National Corp's. Concord branch location.

Mead Kibbey, head of Black Diamond Lumber Co. in Sacramento, Calif., has expanded his talents into the world of TV. Mead was re-elected president of Sacramento's KVIE, Channel 6, Central California Educational Television station last month following a successful first term as head of the new and excellent station.

A. C. "Bo" Ahrens moved his California Sugar and Western Pine Agency offices last month from Burlingame, Calif., to 100

South Ellsworth in neighboring San Mateo after 12 years of doing business at the old stand. But heck, what's 12 years to a wholesale lumber firm that's been on the northern California scene since 1904?

Frank Baxley, vice-president of Brey- Wright Lumber Co., was right on hand and proud as punch greeting old friends and customers who helped celebrate the retail company's 50th birthday on May 10. Brey-Wright Lumber maintains headquar- ters at Porterville, Calif., and a branch yard at nearby Terra Bella,

Manager Wesley P. Mitchell and statr are calling upon hardwood users throughout Northerrr California from Tarter. Webster & Johnson's newly established hardwood wholesale distribution center at Vallejo.

Forsyth Hardwood's P. R. "Bob" Kahn and Mrs. Kahn will return to San Francisco the 28th of this month wrapping up a two rnonth's vacation safari through most of Western Europe and England. Bob's status as a seasoned traveler is becoming legendary among his many friends in the hardwood lumber industry of the Pacific Coast, his current trip being his 22nd venture overseas in the last 17 years. Meanwhile, Dick Quarg holds down the Forsyth fort and awaits his turn.

Gunter Silmar, head of the Silmarco Division of American Forest Products Corp. in San Francisco, has just returned to home port after a month-long business trip through Central America.

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