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A welcome back to Chet Nortz, executive secretary of the Mountain States Lumber Dealers Assn., after two weeks and a complete recovery in a Salt Lake City hospital. Chet celebrates his 30th anniversary with the big Mountain States association this year.

Beid & 'Wright's Bob Reid returns to his Fresno office the middle of this month after four weeks away from it all in the sun at Hawaii.

Gordon Howell, general manger of Dixon Hardware & Lumber, reports a successful grand opening celebration marking completion of a large store expansion and yard revamp. The long established Delta-area yard was formerly part of the Auburn Lumber chain.

Merl Tanner has joined Chuck Lewis in the operation of Coastal Wholesale Lumber Co. Inc., In Hayward, Calif. For the past 17 years Merl has been with Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., most recently as general manager of TW&J's big Newark, California, distribution yard.

Larry Owen and Mase Tobin took in the recent N-AWLA annual at Banff and by driving were able to work in some SimeoneWllliams and'Westwood Lumber Sales business in Oregon, Washington, Wyoming and Idaho.

Rich Tucker, formerly salesmanager at Kaibab Lumber, Flagstaff, Arizona, has joined the sales staff at Inland Lumber Rialto, Calif. Rich is calling on dealers in the L.A. area.

San Francisco welcomed home Jack Butler after a 10 year absence with the appointment of the former lumberman as assistant to the vice-president-sales for States Line, one of the country's leading steamship lines. Jack spent several years in the northern California territory for the old Dant & Russell organization and later headed the company's rail department at Portland. For the past several years Jack had been headquartered in southern California where he headed the Ifammond Lumber Company chain of retail yards.

Bill Hedding has opened Hedding's Building Supplies at 2000 San Ramon Valley Blvd. in San Ramon, Calif,, with a grand opening attracting over 1,000 Diablo Valley residents. Originally in the construction business, Bill gained his retail experience with CBS Plywood and later with Simon's Hardware.

Art Richardson, Triangle Lumber Co., Kensington, Calif., and Mrs. Richardson are currently on a two month vacation trip through England, Spain and Portugal and plan to return to the Bay Area just prior to Labor Day.

Steve Anderson of Modern Materials, Inc. in Los Angeles was a winner in Masonite Corp.ts "Away We Go" contest to sell more Royalcote panels and accessories, His prize: shares of Masonite stock, and we don't mean the kind they keep in the warehouse.

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A father and son trio, salesmen for three plywood firms, recently put together a record 1,000 ton shipment of plywood to Europe from Coos Bay, Oregon. They are Howard A. Page, Sr., Coos Bay Timber Co.; Howaid A. Page, Jr., of GeorgiaPacific's Portland office, and Fritz Page of Menasha Plywood Corp., North Bend, Ore. The sale, negotiated by G-P, included several grades and dimensions of plywood.

Archie D. Craft has been named Bureau of Land Management's state director for Oregon replacing James F. Doyle who retires July 31. Craft is now responsible for the multiple-use management of public domain land in Oregon and Washington and the Oregon and California grant lands in Oregon.

Arcata Redwood sales veep Lloyd Heca' thorn attended his daughter's graduation at the University of Oregon and then flew on to Banff for the big N-AWLA convention where he was joined by ARCO's Barney Miller.

Bernard R. Kahn, who calls on western lumber dealers and distributors for Minwax wood finishing products, was married July 1. Bernie's new bride is the former Norma Andersen of Los Angeles.

tVendell "Sawmill Sales" Paquette and Mrs. Paquette vacationed in the Puget Island area of the Northwest for a couple of weeks last month.

Carlow Company's Mike Colernan married Betty Louise Stein in Las Vegas over the Memorial Day holiday. Mike is administrative assistant to Carlow's Jack Carlow.

Richard C. Boynton is the new Arizona rep for Philip Carey building products, vp Charles J. Bainum has announced.

Merv Kjer flew to Hawaii on a quick K/D Cedar Supply Co. business trip last month and unlike the Pacifie Coast reports the Island's building economy booming.

Stanley Brown, president of Chandler Lumber Co. in Van Nuys, Calif. and cosponsor with a local contractors association and the A.I.A. has for the 15th year held their plan drawing contest for high schoolers. It is the largest contest of its kind in the U.S.

Ralph G. DeMoisy has been named general manager of its Clear Fir operations by Fibreboard Corp. and responsible for the manufacturing operations of their Lotenz Lumber and Cloverdale Plywood facilities. Frank S. Clarke continues as head of the sales organization of Clear Fir Sales. Glenn J. Lorenz continues as manager of the Lotenz Lumber Company, and Richard J. Ranft will continue as manager of the Cloverdale Plywood plant.

Philip D. Shea, assistant manager of The Philip Carey Manufacturing: Company,s western division in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., has appointed John Sullivan as a sales rep. He will be based at the plant.

Joe Bowman, president of Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181, reports that due to the death of Bill Moores last month the site of the club's Annual Barbeque has been moved to 460 Vichy Hill Road, Ukiah. The date remains the same, July 21.

Bennett E. Smith has joined Kenmore Lumber Co.'s new building materials center and component plant at Maltby, \ilash. Formerly he had been with Plywood Supply Co. at Kenmore.

After 61 years at Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co. in San Francisco, Milo Jeffers has decided to try a little of that there retirement back on the Syracuse farm where he was born in 1875. Milo was never one to move around much! When he joined Van Arsdale.Ifarris during the year of the '06 quake, the yard was then located at 5th & Brannan Street and was, of course, a cargo operation. Forty-four of Milo's 61 years with the company were spent on Brannan Street and the past 17 years at what he always referred to as the company's "new" location on Tunnel Avenue in San Francisco.

Congratulations to Horace Wolfe, senior lumberman at MarquarLWolfe Lumber, Newport Beach, Calif., and his wife Nona who last month celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary. The "newlyweds" traveled to Hawaii for the occasion, as they have done for the past 11 years, where they vacationed at the Coco Palms.

Larry Freeman, manager of the Anderson Lumber Co. in Rupert, Idaho, held open house recently in a new building replacing one that had earlier burned. Company president Roy Anderson is also president of the Intermountain Lumber Dealers Association.

\Milliam G. Seal is the new manager of Georgia-Pacific's Pasco, Wash, wholesale building materials distribution center.

Llwight S. Billington has sold his interest in the Billington Builders Supply, Inc. in Yakima, Wash. to his business partner Ormand Fluegge. Billington founded the company 25 years ago, non/ plans to retire. Fluegge became his partner four years ago. Sale price wasr not revealed.

Jack Phelps recently celebrated his 26th year with United States Plywood and his 32nd year in the plywood business. Jack is manager of USP's Los Angeles branch.

Robert Neiman, co-owner of Lumber City in Van Nuys and Chatsworth, Calif. was San Fernando Valley Chairman for a City of Hope charity drive. Bob was ap- pointed by the area chairman, movie actress Joan Crawford.

H. R. "Jimmy" Neel, head of McKuen Moulding Company in Sacramento, survived a serious head-on collision in that city during late May with only minor injuries, thanks to the seat belts he was wearing.

Hugh Rosaan is back at his California Sugar & Western Pine Agency desk after a six week convalescence from a back operation.

Inland Lumber has purchased a twinengine Aero Commander which they'll use to keep in closer touch with mills by making frequent trips to the lumber producing areas. Sales staffers Ray Lizotte and Gary Thompson and their pilot recently took the seven-place aircraft on a shake-down cruise to Standard, Calif., where they toured the Pickering Lumber mill.

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Guy J. Barnett, former president and general manger of Ross' man Mill & Lumber Co., and a group of fellow employees have joined together to purchase the l2-acre Morgan-Davidson Lumber Co. of Los Alamitos, Calif. The new firm will operate as Barnett Associates-Lumber.