PERSONAIS

Lrmar Yeager is now selling lumber products for Publishers Forest Products, Portland, Or., according to Drve Miller, acting sales mgr.

Al Weller, National Marketing, Portland, Or., recently spent a week in Salt Lake City, Ut., on business.

Jim Hunter, Schmidbauer Lumber, Eureka, Ca., vacationed recently by working in his garden and spending a few days at Whiskeyton Reservoir.

Bob Morhar, McKay Lumber Co., Van Nuys, Ca., was in Las Vegas, Nv., on business recently.

Ted Gilbert, Product Sales Co., Orange, Ca., and his wife, Rosemary, were recently in Ukiah, Ca., on buslness.

Seth Potter, pres., Dant & Russell, Portland. Or., and his wife, "Jimmie," attended the LASC education seminar where he was a guest speaker. Their son, Jeff, also attended as a representative of Aspen Lumber Co., San Diego, Ca. Rick Siltanen, son of Bob Siltanen, sales mgr., Delson Lumber, Taco- ho, Wa., has graduated from Oregon State, Corvallis, Or., and is selling for Uncle Dick at Chinook Wood Products, Scotts Valley, Ca. Norm Matthews, Jr., Union City Lumber Co., Union City, Ca., and his wife are parents of a son, Eric Wayne, born June 5, 1980, weight 9 lbs. 3 oz. He has an older sister. Lesley.

Dan Zirkle is new to sales at Southwest Forest Industries, City of Industry, Ca., according to Ken Thompson.

Craig Kincaid, Robert S. Osgood, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca., is the new pres. of Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club; Gage McKinney, MacBeath Hardwood, Montebello, Ca., v.p.; Dennis Johnston, Johnston Hardwood, Cerritos, Ca., treas.; Kenneth Tinckler, Stahl Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Ca., scribe; Bob Wrll, Wall Dry Kiln, Long Beach, Ca., sgt. at arms; Dale Yates, Southwest Plywood Corp., Compton, Ca., program chairman; Robert Kincaid, American Hardwood, Los Angeles, Ca., social chairman, and Charles Wall, Wall Dry Kiln, Long Beach, Ca., membership chairman.

Hank Aldrich, DMK-Pacific, Fremont, Ca., has made a sales trip to Or., including a visit in Salem, Or., with his 92 year old mother.

Dale Gibson, California Builders Supply, Sacramento, Ca., was recently in So. Ca. on business.

Earl Chalfan. Western International Forest Products, Portland, Or., and his wife vacationed in Geneva, Switzerland, recently. Enroute they visited their son, Richard and his wife in Alexandria, Va., and were there when their grandson, Jeffrey David, was born on June I l.

Ralph Coleman is now a trader at Western International Forest Products, Inc., Portland, Or.

Don Schott is now sales supervisor for the Wood Products Div., Chandler Corp., Boise, ld.; Royce Batey, a rep in Western Or. and Wa.; Larry Zahm, a rep in Az.; Paul Waldon, III, selling in Mn., and Kim Smith, servicing Id. and western Wy.; Gary Hogman, a sales rep in Id.; Ken Kinard, a rep in the Southeast Region, and Pat Tyler, a rep in the Cleburne Div., Tx.

TURNS ARE THE GAME -

USE YOUR LUMBER WHOTESALER!

Dead stock and slow-moving items play havoc with your turns. At the same time money costs you more, your customers are demanding ever - better service and a wider range of products. Use your wholesaler's inventory and quick delivery response for best use of your dollars and a faster turn.

James R. Pierce has joined Parantino Lumber Co.. San Francisco. Ca.. according to John P. Ferri. Jinr had been with Paranrino nrior to WW II and lor the last l4 vears was a v.n. of Mortgagc Guarintce Insuriince Corp.

John "The Whip" Kudron is retiring from Redwood Lumber and Supply, San Carlos, Ca., after l3 years, with a total history of 47 years in the industry beginning in the '30s in the lumber div. of the Ford Motor Co., and including 18 years with The Kirk Lumber Co., Santa Monica, Ca.

Russ Fritchey, Palm Avenue Lumber Co., Alhambra, Ca., plans a No. Ca. mill tour, including the wine country.

Mike O'Malley, Mallco Distributors, Phoenix, Az., plans to marry Terry Huskey on Aug. 2. Good going, Mikel

Steve L'Ecluse is the mgr. and Randy Moore outside sales for the new Sacramento. Ca.. full service dist. branch of Floor Service Supply, San Jose, Ca.

Peter F. Scott is the new pres. of Di Giorgio Corp., San Francisco, Ca.

Ken Gagne has opened a new Portland, Or., office as mgr. for Knollwood Corp., Healdsburg, Ca., according to bossman Art Bond.

John Forbes, Union Pacific RR, Los Angeles, Ca., is back from a Bear Valley Springs, Ca., vacation.

Harl Crockett, Hexberg Lumber Sales, Long Beach, Ca., visited Germany, Switzerland, and Greece recently.

Dwight Curran, DMK-Pacific, Fremont, Ca., plans a vacation at Shaver Lake, Ca., later this summer.

Ted Pollard has joined the management team at B.W. Randall Lumber Co., Huntington Beach, Ca., according to Bill Randall.

Joe Zabaldo is heading the industrial lumber div. of Tree Products Co.. Lake Oswego, Or.

Bob Rowse is now sales mgr., lumber div., Seaboard International, Vancouver, B.C.

Jim Brasch is now v.p., sales, Hampton Lumber Sales Co.. Portland. Or.

Don Weld is now in charge of the Mission Forest Products, Hollister, Ca., branch in Fresno, Ca.

Tom Embree is managing the Bohemia, Inc. sales office in Gladstone, Or.

Perry Ball and Cliff Montgomery are new salesmen with Bel-Air Door Co., Alhambra, Ca.

Walt Farrow, Western Cedar Forest Products, Sacramento, Ca., has returned from a Shasta Lake. Ca.. houseboating vacation.

Robert Von Bargen and Ron Taylor are new to sales at the Fair oaks, Ca., office of PSF. Inc. Glenn Miller is a new trader at the office in Palo Alto. Ca.

Duane Rolleri is the mgr. of the new branch office in Anderson (Redding), Ca., just opened by Ukiah, Ca., based Forest Products Transportation, according to Gary Hartman.

Jim Peck, Peck Building Materials, Eugene, Or., has completed a No. Ca. customer trip.

Jim Wilharm, Evergreen Wholesale, Spokane, Wa., has been threatening to bottle up the ash they've received from the Mt. St. Helens volcano eruption and send it to Ca.

Ted Schafer, Jr., Crown Distribution, Orange, Ca., got in a recent sun & suds vacation on the Colorado River.

Mead Kibbey, long time Sacramento, Ca., lumberman, was a recent Newport Beach, Ca.. visitor.

Sandy Redshaw, credit mgr. at P.R.O.D. Wholesale, Hayward, Ca., and not the secretary as we incorrectly had it in last month's article on P.R.O.D. Gee The Merchant, June, p.l5), has just won the National Assn. of Credit Management's associate award. Good soing, Sandy!