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Waldo Tinsley, corp. buyer, Vornado West Coast operations for lumber and building materials, recently vacationed lor a fortnight with his family in the Hawaiian lslands.

Ralph Lamon, Lamon Lumber Co., San l'-rancisco, spent two recent weeks on business in Oregon.

Dan Vance is Southwest Forest Industries new v.p. of off-highway operations for SFI subsidiary Southwest Kenworth, Inc., rePorts

Lee G. Crayton, SKI pres.

George E. Keck is the new president of eolumbia Corp., Portlahd. He's the former head -of United Airlines. Columbia produces wood products and runs the Thunderbird stores in the Northwest, among other things.

Dale Jeffers is the new product mgr., Roxite, for Masonite.

Tait Trussell is the new v.p. - administration, American Forest Institute'

Daniel W. Bosler has joined the team at the Redwood Inspection Service, San Fransisco.

Bob Rosso is now mgr. of GeorgiaPacific's Seattle wholesale bldg. mtls. warehouse, Woodinville, Wa., while Tom Davis replaces him as mgr. of the Boise, ld., center

Bill Marshall has joined the Arthur A. Pozzi Co.. Portland.

Carl DePerry is now repping Marlite in So. Ca.

John Judy is now v.p. U.S. purchasing; Jim Mathieu, v.p. Canadian purchasing; Mike Beymer, v.p. plywood purchasing; and Ray Haroldson, v.p./mgr. of American International's industrial div. All are in Beaverton, Or.

Robert Rose has been promoted to Palmer G. Lewis & Co.. Auburn, Wa., distribution center sales supervisor.

Michael Slavich is now mgr., Kaiser Gyp.'s new insulating plant, St. Helens, Or.

Norman Jacobs is now v.p. and gen. mgr. of Empire Pacific Industries' new Cal-Roof mfg. div., Eugene, Or.; Bruce Purdy is v.p. and gen. mgr., builders hardware & supply div., Eugene.

Robert L. Walton and Scott E. Gregg have joined Publishers Forest Products' Lumber sales staff, Portland.

Jim Wilharm is the new pres. of the Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club; with Dick Siokes, lst v.p.; Jerry Williams, 2nd v.p.; sec.-treas., Ernie Wales. Directors: Larry Caudill, Bob Grotefend, Denny Kettelsen, Larry Tooke, and Earl Winther.

John DeMarco, Sr., is now selling for Standard Forest Products, Eugene, Or.

Paul C. Gott has been added to Wisconsin-California Forest Products' Redding, Ca., staff sales, reports Ed O'Kelley, sales mgr.

Ed Stanton has been appointed sales nrgr. of Shakertown Corp., Winlock, Wa.

Mel Pellow is now with Eugene Lumber Sales, Eugene, Or. He had been with U.S. Plyuood.

Harl Crockett, Hexberg Lumber Sales, Long Beach, Ca., recently visited Portugal, Morocco, Paris and London; even ran into Ford Barclay' Barclay Lumber Co., City of Industry, Ca., in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel. Lisbon.

Paul D. Mackie III is now selling for Portland's United Alpine Lumber Co.

Don Hudock has joined Wesco Cedar, Eugene, Or., selling lumber. He had been with C&NW RR.

Jim Rossman is back at his Twin Harbors Lumber Co. office in Santa Ana, Ca., after a Mexico City/Acapulco trip with his wife, Alice.

Richard Kersenbrock, mgr., Hilo Wood Treating Co., Honolulu, has also been named mgr., Maui Wood Treating Co., according to Clint Hallsted. Both firms are divisions of Honolulu Wood Treatine Co.

Bob Headrick is group hgr. lor Niedermeyer-Martin's new industrial plywood mfgr. and sales group; with him in Portland are John Nolen, Dick Springer, and Dave Turner.

Dick Hipkins is Plywood Fresno's (Ca.) new sales msr.

Robert L. "Bob" Reed, Barr Lumber Co., Los Alamitos, Ca., was so impressed after touring Simpson Timber Co. facilities from Seattle to Eureka, Ca., he arranged to send fellow employees Ed Mee (recently promoted to purchasing agent from contractor sales) Charles Higgs, Jeff Locke and Gerrit Vos to Eureka to tour Bonnie Studs and Simpson.

Earl Arnold, gen. mgr., M and A Sash and Door Co., Harbor City, Ca., is in Bay Harbor Hospital, recovering from hip surgery.

Larry Humphrey has departed Weyerhaeuser to form Humphrey Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wa.

Al Owen, Suverkrup Lumber Co., San Bernardino, Ca., recently completed a management course sponsored by Armstrong Cork and Cranford Wholesale Co.

Anthony M. Pace has been appointed mgr. of corporate communications for Potlatch, according to director of corporate communications Francis E. Sammons, Jr.

L. Edward Shrw is now Shasta area mgr. for Champion International's U.S. Ply. div., reports v.p. William A. Whelan.

Pete Bingley of Jarrow Moulding was recently in L.A. from his home base of Chicago.

Howard Lee, Lee Lumber Hauling, Downey, Ca., is back after a 7 Western states vacation that included lots of fishing.

Ken Thompson, Southwest Forest Industries, has moved his family into a new home in the L.A. area.

Randy Philips, Philips Lumber Sales, 1M Oaks. Ca.. is back after a Pacific Northwest trip calling on laminated beam suppliers in Or., Wa. and B.C.

David Murphy is now managing the Ray Lumber Co. store at Pagosa Springs, Co.

Kenneth E. Long is the new mgr. of Sutherland Lumber & Supply, Denver.

Bob Cooper has been promoted to office mgr of King Lumber Co. in Greeley, Co.

Harold H. Brandt is the new chief operating officer for Union Pacific's l,400 mile southern ldaho to southern California territory. Edward W. Harris is the new asst. traffic mgr. for UP's northern California sales.

Chuck Seaman is a new dispatcher at Guerin Transportation and Distribution Center, Cucamonga, Ca., according to bossman Dan Guerin.

Bill Sharp, Inland Lumber Co., Colton, Ca., is back at it after a recent business trio.

Carl Bush, Hunter Woodworks, Carson, Ca., took a golfing vacation thru oarts of the Pacific Northwest and Mid-west.

Dick Freeman, So-Cal Commercial, Los Angeles, moderated a panel at the recent distributors convention. Scottsdale. Az.. that included Vaughn Pipes, BMD, Stockton, Ca., and Clay Blackstock, Lumber Supply & Warehouse Co., Seattle, who also acted as a moderator.

George F. Baitinger is now gen. products mgr. for G-P's distribution div. Richard H. Polsby, branch mgr., San Fernando, Ca., won G-P's President's Club award for excellence.

Wally Bunn has assumed management of A.P. Stewart Lumber Co., Thermopolis, Wy.

Ronald P. Hogan is heading up the Western regional office HQ for GP's distribution div., which recently moved from L.A. to Oakland.

Burt Luse, inside sales mgr., Palmer G. Lewis Co., Auburn, Wa., is making olans for that Hawaiian vacation he won in a PGL sales contest.

Merwin Speer is in charge of the new Beaverton, Or., sales office recently opened by Georgia-based MaxeyBosshardt Lumber Co.

Wayne Hill and Michael Fery have joined the sales force at Oregon-Pacific lndustries' Wilsonville, Or. office.

Roderick Steel is the new exec. v.p. of Potlatch Corp., S.F., according to Dick Madden, pres.

Smokey Pittman is the new marketing msr. for Publishers Forest Prodults, Portland, replacing Wayne E. Holm, who resigned.

Jack Ballard is new Northwest dist. mgr. for Marlite, according to gen. sales mer. R.I. Helvenston.

John D-. Riggs is the new management information services msr. for Western operations of Chaftpion International's U.S. Plywood div.

Bruce Pohle, v.p., Southern Lumber Co., San Jose. Ca.. was a recent visitor to So. Ca.

AFPCns International Div.

Although the international div. at American Forest Products Corp. was organized only 6 months ago, it has made substantial strides, according to James E. McGee, gen. manager. Some of the major "firsts" for the new division, which had as its nucleus the company's former Silmarco div., are: o The first, major, on-going volume order from the Philippines of 1.5 million board feet of mahogany. o The first order of parana pine2.6 million board feet from Brazil. o First orders of Malaysian plywood for AFPC's building materials div. and fencing operation were made. r First purchases of 31A million board feet of hardwoods from the Brazilian Amazon area and of 2 million board feet from Columbia. e The first orders of molding from Brazil and the Philippines were completed.

"We believe that we are well on our way to full implementation of our objective," McGee said, "which is to make AFPC a major element in imported hardwood distribution in the United States. We are, of course, using our established and growing, nationwide network of distribution centers to implement this objective. Consequently, a corollary objective is to promote the marketing and distribution of these imported woods by all the centers." ll|0

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Goodbye, Housing Recovery?

Housing activity stabilized in the opening quarter of this year, following 1973's steep decline, but hopes for recovery in the months ahead "have been all but eliminated" by the onset of the second credit crunch in less than a year, according to George A. Christie, chief economist of the F.W. Dodge Div., McGraw-Hill lnformation Systems Co.

He said the opening quarter's total of 344,575 new housing units was 35% below the same period a year earlier, but was only slightly below the low rate reached by 1973's fourth quarter.

Christie said, "It was during the second half of 1973, when money markets were tightened to the point where mortgage loans became extremely difficult to obtain, that the steepest part of the recent collapse took place. As credit conditions eased around year end, "the housing decline leveled off. With adequate financing, housing could have staged a good recovery this year. However, the latest round of monetary tightness by the Federal Reserve, in its effort to slow inflation, means that the expected improvement in residential building this year has little chance of happening."

Plenty of Plywood

John A. Ball, Jr., president, American Plywood Assn. and president of U.S. Plywood, stresses that softwood plywood is in excellent supply across the nation at bargain prices.

He referred to a Wall Street Journal story which reported a home builder's statement that all wood products are in short supply at high prices.

"This story represented the facts inaccurately," said Ball. "In contrast to chronically short and increasingly expensive products like steel, plywood is today's best buy among building materials." Softwood plywood prices "are now substantially below those which attracted screaming headlines in spring 1973."

He continued: "There has never been a better time to buy plywood. Plywood mill inventories are approximately double what they were a year ago."

New Hawaii Assn. Chief

Hamilton Ahlo, president of Hawaii Wood Preserving Co., has been elected president of the Wood Products Association of Hawaii, succeeding Richard Gray, president of Honsador, Inc. Elections were held at the annual meeting on Maui.

Howard Chong, lumber department manager of City Mill Co., was elected v.p. James W. Lovell, exec. director of WPAH, was re-elected sec.-treasurer.

The association is a Hawaii based non-profit trade association funded by 22 Hawaii members and 29 mainland member companies. Their primary purpose is to promote the use of wood products, the circulation of literature and the dissemination of technical information to architects, engineers, specification writers, builder and developers.