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William F. Rooney of Georgia-Pacific has been named by the American l{ardboard Association to head their promotion committee.

Henry Fulcher, Jr., head of Sitco Lumber Co. and current president of the Imported Hardwood Products Association, extended a warm welcome back to another veteran Texas concern, the Alexander Schroeder Lumber Co., which rejoined IHPA as a regular member last month. Freil P. Gerney, vice-president of the firm, will take an active part in future IHPA affairs.

Don D. Goode is the new store manager at Stringfield Bros. Lumber & Building Supply in Eugene, Ore. For the past nine years he had been salesman and asst, credit mgr. for Eugene Planing Mill.

Jim Allen is the manager of Forest Plywood Sales'new retail div., co-owners Allen E. Boal and Philip H. Weston have announced. Outlet is in No. Hollywood, Calif.

Harold M. Philip has joined Tarter, Webster & Johnson's Stockton, Calif., office to head up a lumber buying operation established there. Jack's been with T.W.&J. since 1946.

Bart A. Ecklund has been appointed superintendent of research at Union Lumber Co. He was fortnerly wood technolog:ist for the research and special products dept.

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R. H. Emmerson & Son sales chief Sam \Yltzel spent a week in Texas longhorn country last month on business.

Ziel & Company's Mike Madison has just returned to San Francisco after nearly a month tramping around the steamy jungles of the Brazilian Interior in search of additional exotic hardwood sources.

Fred Baybarz, the president of Lodi-Fab, has appointed Bob W. Bethurum as general manager of the Lodi, Calif., based manufacturer of universal and cantilever type racks.

Alan Lambert has been promoted by Dant & Russell, Portland, to vice president. He handled their Canadian onerations for the last five years.

It's a boy!! for Jim and Roberta Strait, Anthony Francis, by name. Birthday was June 6. Jim is the energetic rp. of Strait Door Co,, El Monte, Calif.

Evans Products Co. announced the ap- pointment of John A. Elorriaga as vice president. Elorriaga joined Evans as assistant to the chairman of the board, which position he will retain.

At the 1968 annual meeting of shareholders held in Portland, Ore., the shareholders reelected 14 Evans Products Co. directors.

Ralph Dales has rejoined E. A. Padula Lumber Co. and has opened a second sales office at 407 South State St. in Ukiah, according to owner Elmer Padula. Ralph more recently had been with Sam Wingate Lumber Co. in Cloverdale and prior to that had been 7 years with Padula Lumber at Willits, Calif.

Mel J. London, has been promoted to vice president and general manager of the Calaveras Cement Div. of The Flintkote Co., H. F. Stepanek, cement group vp. has announced.

George J. McGaffigan is now marketing mgr. for Serendipity@, the leisure home division of American Forest Products Corp.

Mrs. Evelyn Silva, formerly of Angelus Hardwood, has joined the office staff of Simmons Hardwood in their new Montebello, Calif., facility.

Jay Calloway has joined the sales staff of Fir and Pine Lumber Co., Burbank, Calif., for the San Fernando Valley and West Los Angeles Area. fle had been with Anawalt Lumber in San Fernando.

Les Passmore, Central Valley Box and Lumber Co., is now marketing, from a Los Angeles office, forest products imported from "fmnadec" of Quito, Equador.

Yalerie Gardner, eldest daughter of Lumber Ass'n. of Southern California exec. vp. Wayne Gardner, is celebrating her high school graduation by taking a combination train and bicycle tour of Europe with ten other girls.

George H. Awai is Kaiser Cement & Gypsum's new cement rep in Hawaii, according to div. sales mgr. John S. Farmer. Charles A. West is the new plant mgr. at Abitibi's modern new plant in Cucamonga. (Yes, Virginia, there really is a Cucamonga, Calif.)

Lester M. Hansen is the new director of sales and marketing for the softwood plywood div. of Vancouver Plywood Co.

Henri Muth. who headed International Paper Co.'s Longbell Div. in San Francisco is retiring. He managed import-export trading.

Miss Catherine llandley has been appointed publicity manager of the Building Products Division of Boise Cascade'Corp., Robert J. Weston, divisional general manager, announced. Miss Handley has a wide background in the advertising and public relations field.

The first awand "for distinguished reporting in depth on the region's wood industry" was presented to Malcolm Epley, associate editor on the Long Beach, Calif., IndependentPress-Telegram. Presenting the award was William J. Cary, Jr., acting director, public afairs, Western Wood Products Assn. The award was signed by Frank R. Gilchrist, WWPA pres.

Charles Sappington, head scaler at Kimberly-Clark's Anderson mill, has been named certified scaler by Westem Wood Products Assn. on the basis of written tests and check scaling. Sappington is one of the first scalers in this area to be certified.

Gene Courchaine, who put in two decades in the lumber biz, before opening his Tastee-Freez store in Whittier, Calif., saw his daughter Gayle become Mrs. Richard Stevens Aug. 3, wedding was at St. Gregorys.

Frank Bader, manager of the Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, shot a holein-one recently at Irvine Country Club. One of the witnesses was John Ferguson, Bayshore Lumber Co., Tustin, Calif,

Pete Speek, Daryl Bond and Ed Evans are back at their Fremont Forest Products' desks after the Willamette Valley Hoo-Hoo blast in Eugene, Oregon.

Bob Shannon is now selling out of Union Lumber Co.'s San Francisco ofrce, after transferring north from Union's Santa dna, Calif., office. Pete Parrish is taking over for Bob in the southland.

Robert C. Gimlin, a veteran of more than 20 years in the building material industry, has been named president of Abitibi Corp., a national manufacturer of hardboard and plywood interior and exterior building products.

Bill Nickerson of No. Hollywood's Nickerson Lumber recently returned from a two week vacation in Hawaii. They returned viaLasVegas...whee!

Raymond T. Estes is back at IBMC in North Long Beach, Calif., as plant manager after a two year's absence.

John Yertin has joined Nickerson Lumber, No. Ifollywood, Calif. He is specializing in brokerage sales, direct mill, l.c.l. and the like.

Paul Kent and his wife have returned to southern Calif. from a month's visit to Alaska. Now it's back to lumber wholesaling for Paul. Tour included flying to Sitka, visiting several cities, then home to the lower 48 via the Inland Passage.

A. J. Agather, resident mgr. of St. Regis' big spread at Libby, Montana, says he plans to retire after more than 40 years in the business.

A. O. 'Al" Marshall is the new director of sales and marketing for Forest Products Service Center, Spokane, Wash. according to company president Gene D. \il'ard.

Tom Hugunin, Mountain States Lumber Dealer's Ass'n. vp., is reported to be recovering nicely from a heart attack suffered the last day of May.

Earl Clendaniel, ex-San Francisco area mgr. for Kopper's forest products div. has been promoted to district mgr,, Houston, Texas. R. E. Hug, a Kopper's tech rep. working out of Oroville, Calif., has been promoted to Clendaniel's old job.

Bill Howe, sales manager of the new Mahogany Importing Co. Div. of Potlatch Forest Products, has returned from a 2 week sales trip to the Midwest, Colorado and Utah.

Nlarshall Munt joined the California Redwood Assn. as wood technologist in the association's technical service division. Munt will be assistant to the division manager.

Clifr Rauch, former director of sales and marketing for Sunset Plywood is now sales mgr. for Monier-Raymond Concrete Tile Co. in Carona, Calif.

Sallye Bissell is now working for Yaeger and Kirk Lumber Co. in Santa Rosa, Calif. Sallye has worked for both 'Weyerhaeuser and Tarter. Webster & Johnson in Los Angeles.