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The Merchant Magazine

Dwight Curran has been named sales mgr. of West Range CorP., Cloverdale, Ca.; he had been with G-P in San Jose. Dwight Plans to move to Cloverdale and will continue, we're happy to report, to be a contributing editor to The Merchant Magazine.

Roscoe Divine has joined sales with States Veneer, Eugene, Or., iccording to sales mgr. Don Weixelman. A Univ. of Oregon grad, Divine won the Pac 8 Mile in '67 and'68 and ran the fastest mile in the world in '70.

Larry Tooke is new prez of Spokane Hoo-Hoo club; lst v.p. is Dick Stokes; 2nd v.p., Larry Caudill; sec.-treas., Ernie Wales. Directors are Bob Grotefend, Jack Hern, Arnold Hiebert, Denny Ketelsen and Miles Schultz.

Ray Spelts, recently retired Yuma, Az.,lurpberman, has moved to Idaho Falls, Id., where he is working occasionally for Max Ker & Son Lurnber Co., and spending an indecent amount of time trout fishing.

John Osgood is back at his desk at Robert S. Osgood,Inc., Los Angeles, after a flying trip to Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore plus a stop or two in EuroPe on his way home.

Frank Robertson, president of Woodland Products Co., Pomona, Ca., recently squeezed in a brief vacation at Rosarito Beach. Mexico.

Howard Scott and George Caudill are currently toasting the successful completion of the first year in busi ness of Scott-Caudill Lumber Co., City of Industry, Ca.

"Smitty" Smith is the new sales mgr. of Karren Lumber Co., which recently moved from Sacramento, Ca., to Pendleton, Or.

Don Day, pres., Select Pallet Co., City of Industry, Ca., is back from vacation after surviving the rigors of the materials handling show in Anaheim.

Robert J. George, former Western district mgr. for Kaiser Aluminum Products, is now mart coordinator for their distribution centers through out the U.S.

Glen Breedlove is now the lumber marketing mgr. at Masonite's Western lumber div., Calpella, Ca.

Edward J. Wren is the new v.P.public affairs at Southwest Forest Industries, Phoenix, following the retirement of Jim BoYd.

Bill Sparks has joined Alpine Veeners Co., Portland, as a plYwood trader.

George E. Porter has been named corp. v.p. of Evans Products, Portland' He continues as corP. controller.

Roy Hinrichs, Oscar E. ChYtraus Co., Anaheim, Ca., has been.named a regional coordinator of the Council of Wholesale Distributors, an arm of the American Institute of Kitchen Dealers.

Monte C. Carpenter, exec. v.P., The Flintkote Co., has been elected pres. of the Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Assn.

Frank Fratessa, J.E. Peggs Lumber Co., S.F., recently celebrated his birthday with an impromptu gathering that included Jim Peggs, Jim Higgins-, former Higgins Lumber president, and "Mac" MacBeath. Joe Cortese and Verlon McKinney of MacBeath Hardwood. Any reports that it was a short and sober birthday observation, may not be totally accurate,

Bob Riggs has been promoted to distribution center mgr. at Oregon-Pacific, Fairfield, Ca. Don Robinson. an inside salesman, is back from Rio De Janeiro, Braztl, after winning a Certain-teed insulation sales contest. Taylor Hubbard was Fairfield's top salesman in May.

Ross Ingraham, Western Pine Supply, Emeryville, Ca., was a recent business visitor to Los Angeles.

Dick Emory, Pemko Mfg., is back from a two week Pacific Northwest business safari; home office is in Emeryville.

Bill MacBeath, MacBeath Hardwood. San Francisco, and Pete Bernthal. v.q., both visited the company's Salt Lake City branch recently. Don Cathcart is back from a Grand Canyon vacation to S.F. Hq.

Paul Olson, P.R.O.D. Wholesale Distributors, San Leandro, Ca., Bob and Jack Duvall, and Gary Hansen, Pacifica Lumber, recently took their limits on a Lake Oroville fishing trip.

Steve Johnson is heading up P.R.O.D. Wholesale Distributor's new Fresno. Ca., sales operation. Head office is in San Leandro.

Gene Campbell, overseas sales mgr. of White Brothers, Oakland, has returned from a 24,'761 mile trip done in I I days to London, Saudi Arabia, Amsterdam and New York. Averaee miles per d,ay:2,251.

Jack E. Sanford is now superintendent of Union Pacific's California div.. which Hqs. in Los Angeles. He succeeds Leo B. Maskill, who moves to Salt Lake City as super. of the Utah div.

Norris Hartshorn, co-owner of Meca Sales & Assembly, Emeryville, made a recent business jaunt to Reno.

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From Oueen to President

At the National Hoo-Hoo-Ette con' vention held in Redding, Ca., May 911, Colleen Courtright was installed as national president.

Colleen is a long-time lumberwoman, who was born in Kinzua, Or., where she grew up around the lumber and logging camps. She has been actively engaged in the lumber industry since 1953, having started her career as a secretary to Irv Bartel of Scott Lum' ber Co. in Burney, Ca.: then on to the buying office of American Forest Products in Redding: later as assistant sales manager, lumber division of Commander Industries, Red Bluff, for several years.

She is now back with American Forest Products as manager of their Redding buying office which serves 18 distribution yards throughout the United States.

Season, one will find Colleen out in the woods working with her familY cutting a minimum of 100 Christmas trees a day - that being the goal of each family member.

Other officers installed were: lst v.p., Karen Magnussen, Red Bluff, Ca.; 2nd v.p., Doris King, Los Angeles: secretary, Rose Miller, Eugene, Or.: treasurer, Onabelle Young, Phoenixl statistical secretary, Tilley Miller, Los Angelesl Directors: Roberta Schroeder, Beverly Sperry, Vivian Dowdall.

The 1976 convention will be held at the Regency Hyatt Hotel in Los Angeles.

Meet Noyo Timber Productr

Aubie Harness and Robert Shannon are president and vice.president, respectively, of a new wholesale lumber firm, Noyo Timber Products, that has offices in Santa Rosa and San Jose, Ca. H. Pierson Plummer, former exec. v.p. of Union Lumber Co. (now GeorgiaPacific's redwood div.), is on the board of the new company and is acting in an advisory capacity.

Noyo Timber Products will concentrate on fir and redwood and will specialize in hard to get items such as cuttings, special patterns, lath and split products in both redwood and cedar. It will concentrate on the Western market with additional sales to the East.

Beginning with the old Union Lumber Co. in 1959, Bob Shannon stayed with the firm after it was acquired by Boise Cascade and moved up to become redwood sales manager in Portland. In 1973 he went to work for Olson Lumber Co., Santa Rosa. The son of the late Ray Shannon, who was general manager of Union Lumber Co., he attended U.C. Berkeley and later graduated from San Francisco State.

Aubie Harnesswas with Olson Lum-

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ber for the past I I years and had earlier been the manager at the Sterling Lumber Co retail yard at Mt. View, Ca.

NAWLA Tipr For Dealers

A series of 12 special bulletins for retail dealers are being prepared by North American Lumber Assn. that covers a number of subjects relating to wood products distribution.

The once-a-month series will cover such subjects as qpecifying and ordering, problem shipments, loss and damage claims, marketplace feedback, etc.

The retail lumber dealer is by far the biggest customer of NAWLA member companies, accounting for approximatelv 7Vo of total sales.