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Mike McAllister, Dave Kenner, Hank Himan, and Bud Cligny, all of Doors, Inc,, were among those attending a sales meeting at Roseburg Lumber in Roseburg, Oregon.

Ray Toloski, Evans Products, San Francisco. is now an outside salesman covering the Peninsula, according to Al Mury, sales mgr. Lee Gurr, that lovely voice on the phone, replaces Ray on the desk.

Bill Lal. San Mateo Lumber, vacationed in Vancouver, 8.C,, dwing June. Tom Clark, vacationed in Tahoe with his family.

Jerry Fernandez, Belmont Plywood and Door, flew to New York to visit his mother who was ill. Incidentally, Jerry bought out Isbell's interest and now is the owner.

Wes Collins, Crestwood Lumber, San Francisco, spends week-ends on his ranch in Sutter County. Wes's pride and joy is a prize breeding herd of Aberdeen Angus.

Vic Yece, Rayberg Lumber, San Carlos, celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary with his wife, Jane, in June. Congratulations!

Bruce Kenney is new on the sales desk at Doors, Inc., Mt. View, Calif.

llob Arends, OK Lumber Co. in San Carlos, Calif., spent a few days in the Southland vacationing with his family.

Don Plumb, Kelley-Moore in San Carlos, got an eagle on the first hole at Palo Alto Muni Golf Club. And all this time he thought they were an endangered specie!

Chuck Bosh,has joined Santa Cruz Lumber as an outside salesman.

Stu "Bernie" Bernstein is a sales trainee at G-P, San Jose, according to Harry Nilson, mgr.

Jake Branson of Branson-Cross Lumber, vacationed in Alaska. That's getting away from it all, Jake!

Marv Compton, Pacifica Lumber, sPent a few days' vacation in Ebbets Pass, Calif.

Al Kerper, Paul Bunyan Lumber and Roy Dunbar of Redding were among those attending the 40th annual Reveille of Oakland HooIIoo Club S39. Len Putnam came all the way from Klamath Falls.

George Oreglia and Pete Yece of Rayberg Lumber, I'ill be sojourning in Europe for a month'

Dwight Curran, G-P, San Jose, Calif., has graduated from Calif. State University at Hayward with a B.S. in Business Administration' A suitable degree for a salesman, Dwight!

Gary Stewart, Bob Matthies, Bob Martin, Bob Lane, and Mark Carlson, all of AFP, Newark, Calif. were among those weekending on the KimberlY-Clark houseboat at Lake Shasta.

Gary Hansen, AFP, Newark, is the proud father of a baby girl' Tif' fany Ann. Congratulations' GarY!

John Phillips completes his fifth year as owner and manager of Half I\Ioon Bay Lumber in Half Moon Bay in June,

Don Comstock, L.A., Vic Riolo, San Jose, Kay Kahus, Scottsdale, and Chet Cowan, Portland, rePresented the WWPA at the annual PCBC show in San Francisco during June.

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Gene Nelson and Dave DaY, Portland, as well as Bud Smith and Bob Brazleton represented GeorgiaPacific at the Coast Builderfs Conference show in San Francisco.

Frank Curran, retired owner of the old Frank Curran Lumber Co. in Santa Ana, has turned to writing. Frank has just comPleted his first novel and is getting readY to submit it to publishers.

Jim llenderson, Western Pine, Emeryville, Calif., has been on a mill trip to Eureka and Redding to buy up surplus(?) redu'ood and Pine.

Dave Mensing, G-P, San Leandro, Calif., is back from a business trip to Samoa in June.

Art F'lood, G-P, Great Falls, Montena, was a recent business visitor to the redwood country.

Joe Casella, Casella Translortation Co., San Leandro, C'alif., recently went canoeing with his family down the Russian River.

Bill Johnson, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., Terra Bella, Calif., went on a mill trip during June to Eureka and Smith River.

"Chuck" Lauber has been elected vp. of Palmer G. Lewis Co.. Seattle.

Norman Mikalson is the new pres. of Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club 16, Also on the slate are: L. Richard Morris, 1st vp,; Jerry Williams, 2nd vp. and Ernie Wales, sec.-treas.

Jim Strait, Strait Door, EI Monte, Calif., recently returned from a northern Calif. business trip.

Lon Reynolds, Reynolds Lumber Co., EI Monte, Calif., shot his fourth hole-in-one in two years! Congratulations, Lon.

Carl Goodman, C. F. Goodman Lumber Sales, Whittier, Calif., passed the "ordeal" of his Order of the Arrow award at Camp Awahnee, Calif.

Ralph L. Ullum is the new exec. dir. of the San Diego Lumber and Wood Products Assn.

Mortimer B. Doyle has resigned as exec, vp. of Southwest Forest Industries building products group according to J. B. Edens, chairman. E. L. Quirk succeeds Doyle.

William E. "Bill" MacBeath is the new pres. of MacBeath Hard- wood Co., San Francisco. Now on the exec. staff are: Manuel Lavrador, vp.; Joe Cortese, sec. treas.; K. E. MacBeath, chairman of the board (continuing). Charles White is mgr., Berkeley yard; Harold Cole, mgr., Salt Lake City yard; Ralph Mannion, sls. mgr.; Peter Bernthal, carload sls. dept., and Andy Pizarek, controller.

Larry Baugh is away from his Westmark & Assoc., Newport Beach, Calif., desk on a sales safari to Ore. & Wash.

Greg Frumkin is now managing domestic wholesale operations in bldg. mtls. for S&B Supply, Montebello, Greg is continuing his own import operations in London under PWP (U.K.) Ltd. and in the U.S. as GF Co.

Abe Willis, Mission Fence Supply, Arcata, and Charley's Fence, Baldwin Park, Calif., went to Little Rock, Ark., for an International Fence Assn. meet. He is president of IFA.

Bob Haber has joined Bel-Air Door Co., Alhambra, Calif., as an inside salesman and buyer, Steve Hemela and Howard Headley are new sales reps for Bel-Air.

Max Barnette and Ken Schmidtke have left South Bay Redwood, Orange, Calif., to be president and sales mgr,, respectively, of a new firm, Max Studs. Sales office is in Newport Beach, the mill 10 miles south of Eureka. Co. plans production of 60 MM a shift, two shifts, is basically a redwood operation. Wade Spears is resident mill mgr., Bernie Hanes yard super.

Dave Steinmetz, United Wholesale, Montebello, Calif., is back from a 5-week business/pleasure tour of Europe.

Leon I)urham, Treated Pole Builders, Inc., Ontario, Calif., is back on the mainland after a Hawaiian business and pleasure trip.

Paul Fritchey, PaIm Avenue Lumber Co., Alhambra, Calif., is attending his 60th reunion at his alma mater, University of Illinois.

Bob Wells, AFPC, Cerritos, Calif., recently visited company operations in Vermont.

Frank H. McCullough is the manager of Evans Products Co's. new distribution center in Denver.

Jerry F. Gustafson, vp.-marketing, Honoiulu Wood Treating Co., Ltd., has been re-elected pres. of the Wood Products Assn. of Hawaii.

Ray Sedall, mgr., Hirsch Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., Bud Hambelton, and Yern Sumner did some Memorial Day fishing on the McKenzie River. On tJre way home the airline lost Ray's bags, including his package of frozen fish. Whew!

Harold Fuerst, G-P, San Jose, attended Hoo-Hoo Club 31's annual Sports Day in Laton, south of Fresno.

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College Profs look ot Ecology

Ecology as the pros see it highlighted a recent Humboldt Hoo-Hoo Club meeting in Eureka, Calif.

Dr. Donald W. Hedrick, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Dr. Dale A. Thornburgh, program leader in forestry, discussed their programs at nearby Humboldt State College. Thev contrasted the education now being offered at the College in relation to the current public thinking (misinformation)

Working with chrb president Paul Ward and secretary Paul Adains were program chairmen Ken Laudenschlaeer and Michael Roach.

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