Hardwood club tour

ll ARKET conditions, supply lur and demand of imported hardwoods, Mexican lumber sources, furniture manufacturing and related industries sparked seminars and panel discussions during the Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club tour of Mexico's West coast aboard the M.S. Pacific Princess bound from Acapulco to Los Angeles, Ca.

Delegates to this second annual convention flew from So. California to El Paso, Tx., and then to Acapulco where the opening ceremonies and first business meeting convened aboard ship at a breakfast session conducted by Robert Wall, Wall Dry Kiln, Long Beach, Ca., the club president.

James Summerlin. Sumwood. Inc., Los Angeles, Ca., a past presi- dent of the group, was opening speaker for the educational sessions, presenting an optimistic outlook for hardwood imports in the third and fourth quarters. In succeeding meetings, Don Reel, Reel Lumber Service, Anaheim, Ca., discussed current market conditions in wholesale distribution yards and presented a comparative analysis of furniture manufacturing in the United States and Mexico.

Tours of furniture manufacturing in Zihuatanjeo, as well as furniture manufacturers showrooms and lumber sources in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, were augmented by panel discussions on the Mexican lumber industry and furniture manufacturing.

Planning for the 1981 LAHLC convention was initiated, but not finalized. Probable sites for the next annual are Palm Springs or San Diego.

Sports events included a ping pong tournament won by Bob Wall and a shuffle board mixed doubles won by Don Reel and Dawn Summerlin.

Personals

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Chuck Lember has joined sales at Capital Lumber Co., Orange, Ca., according to Mark Lofland. He had been at D.C. Essley & Son, Montebello, Ca., for 28 years.

Robert Del Prete is the new gen. mgr., Zork Hardware Co. of N.M., succeeding Henry McDonnell who has retired.

Carl Gavotto, 81, retired from the old Cal-Mex Lumber Co., San Diego, Ca., and his wife, Mary, are on a month long trip to Italy with their sons, Father Robert, O.S.A.l Richard and Ed Gavotto of American Mill & Mfg., Chula Vista, Ca. The senior Gavottos celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary in Rome. June 20. 1980.

Jay Gruenfeld, former corporate v.p., lands and forestry, Potlatch Corp., Lewiston. Id.. is now a forest resources and management consultant in Seattle. Wa.

Gary Hart, sales mgr., Sequoia Supply, Fairfield, Ca., and his wife. Barbara, are parents of their fiirst son, Ryan Kelly Hart, born June ll. 1980: 7 lbs. 9 oz. Bob Haas is back from a trip to Hawaii won lor sales prowess. Will Smith, salesman of the quarter, received a plaque and $100. Len Adamo. sales. and his wife, Peggy, have a new son, Clint James. born June 2lt 9 lbs. 9 oz.

Randy Philips, Philips Lumber Sales, Thousand Oaks, Ca., and Wes Caudle, Redding, Ca., office, while calling on mills in No Ca. and Or., attended a Hoo-Hoo meeting in Eugene, Or.

Ray Klosterhoff, Mike Mattson, Walt Cumbo and Rod Haney, Simpson Building Supply, Kirkland, Wa.; Dave Bein and Al Kravitz. Shelton. Wa.; Bob Matthies. Santa Clara. Ca.; and Lynn Richardson, Arcata, Ca., have all received recognition for outstanding performance in 1980, according to Haley Bertain, mgr. western distribution centers, Seattle, Wa.

Gary Thomson, Rick Kellso, Chuck Roelen, Larry Holquin, Harley Hart, Bill Eden, Pete Clough, Blair Simmons, Dave Bufe and Harry Moore, all from Inland Lumber Co.. Colton. Ca., rendezvoused recently at Lake Mojave on the Ca.Az. border on the Colorado River. Al Caldwell, Preston Lumber Co., situated in downtown Preston. Ca.. vacationed for a week in Lake Tahoe. Ca.

Tom Marrin is now with Copeland Lumber Yards, Inc., Portland, Or. Don Bookwalter is now selling for Louisiana-Pacific Corp., Albuquerque, N.M.

Larry Thompson has joined sales at McClellan Planing Mill, Wilmington, Ca., according to Ron McClellan.

Robert S. Wells, Hexberg Lumber Sales, Long Beach, Ca., became a grandfather for the first time, May 24, 1980, when his daughter, Holly Morton, gave birth to a girl, Melinda,6lbs.8oz.

William More is the new corporate mgr., purchasing, for Bendix Forest Products. Stockton, Ca.

Bob and Tom Bonner and Jerry Edwards, all formerly with PSF, Inc., Sacramento, Ca., have opened a new Sacramento oll]ce for California Sugar & Western Pine Agency, San Mateo. Ca.

Maury Jones is the new div. mgr. of Boyd Martin Co., Boise, Id., with G. LaMont Richards, Jr. succeeding him as consumer div. mgr., according to Randall Harmsen, pres. of the Salt Lake City, Ut., firm.

John Wydick, Georgia Pacific, Sacramento. Ca.. and his wife became parents of Brenda Nicole, 7lbs. l3% oz., on May 25, 1980. She has five sisters and one brother.

Walter T. "Tom" Brynn is now credit mgr. for Palmer G. Lewis Co., Auburn, Wa., with the retirement of O.A. Mosely, credit mgr. and assistant sec.-treas. Lee R. Singer is the new corporate controller.

Douglas K. Guerrero is now No. Ca. regional sales mgr., Kaiser Cement Corp., succeeding Bob J. Murphy who has been named gen. sales mgr.

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Western Lumber Trains

(Continued from page 1 I ) signaling system that boosts track capacity - was installed last year to bring UP's CTC to more tha; 3,100 miles under pushbutton control from just a few command points.

This year Union Pacific will spend at a rate of more than a million dollars a day for new rolling stock and improvements to its physical plant. The record $368 million budget includes 150 new locomotives and 4,fi)0 freight cars plus new or expanded repair facilities, communications links and track betterments.

Requiring I million gallons of diesel locomotive fuel a day, Union Pacific faces the energy facts of life with better fueling procedures, fuel saving practices that have reduced its consumption rate about l27o since 1973. These efforts at conservation are typical in the railroad industry which, although it moves 36Vo of intercity freight, consumes only 3.3Vo of the petroleum used by the transportation industry.

With the rising cost and uncertainty of the fuel supply, strong railroads and their fuel-efficient frains (3 to 4 times that of trucks) loom large in tomorrow' s transportation scene.

Personals

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Chuck Lauber, Palmer G. Lewis Co., Auburn, Wa., got in a recent week's vacation.

Terry Phelan is the first female lumber salesperson at Mallco Distributors, Phoenix, Az.

Skip Greg and Dick Lambert, LaneStanton-Vance Lumber, City of Industry, Ca., are in the People's Republic of China, after a TokyoBeijing (Peking) flight followed by a l6 hour train ride to Qingdao (Tsingtao), on the Yellow Sea, where they are visiting the sawmills from which they buy teak for sale to their U.S. customers.

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