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Donald R. Suva is Bird & Son's new Pacific div. gen. mgr., following G.D. Page's resignation.

"Frostytt Foster, Foster Forest Products, San Marino. Ca.. is now the PR director for the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, sponsor of the famed Rose Parade and Rose Bowl game

Arthir Betterley is demonstrating nationwide, Evans Products' Panelyte line of plastic laminates.

Paul R. Nelson is now director of management services for the West coast mfg. operations of Champion's USP div.

Pat McDaniel will be the mgr. of the new Wickes store now under construction, Lancaster, Ca.

Rlck Willlams is the mgr. of GeorgiaPacific's new Beaverton, Or., wholesale building materials distribution center.

Jack Bell, pres. of Suba Mfg., Benicia, Ca., has been honored by Sears with a "Symbol of Excellence" award for their countertops and accessories.

Merl E. Tlnner has moved up to lumber sales mgr. at Ukiah, Ca., for Louisiana-Pacific.

Roger Anderson is now with the Delson Lumber Sales Co., Olympia, Wa.

Grrnt Shaw has joined the lumber div. at Davidson Plywood and Lumber Co., Carson, Ca., working with Pete Parrella and Bob Goldlng. All three had been with MarquartWolfe Lumber Co., Orange, Ca.

Frank Barker is the new chairman of the board at Shakertown Corp., Winlock, Wa.; Cralg Brrker is pres., Paul Thomas, v.p.-administratron.

Mttchell Hall is the mgr. of the new lumber div. at Eagle Forest Products, Sacramento, Ca.

Dennls M. Weber is now gen. traffic asent for Union Pacific RR with HQ at Long Beach, Ca.

Harold D. Drgg, MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.. Vancouver, B.C., was reelected pres. and Inu Flora, Weyerhaeuser Co., Tacoma, was reelected v.p. of the American Wood Council.

Bob Smlth, Sterling Lumber Co., Montebello. Ca.. vacationed recently on a Lake Shasta houseboat, courtesy of Pete Lane, WisconsinCalifornia Forest Products, Redding, Ca. Chuck Bridges has joined Sterling Lumber working on credit and specialty items.

Morris Tropp, the West Los Angeles lumber wholesaler, is having a good recuperation from serious heart surgery earlier this summer and plans to be back at business full-time verv soon.

Ted Megarlattr v.p., wood products sales. has retired from Weverhaeuser Co.

Cllfford Von Keltz is the new lumber mgr, at Davies Building Materials, Hilo, Hawaii.

E.L. Newklrk, Chandler Lumber Co., is a judge in a plan drawing contest for San Fernando Valley, Ca., high school students.

Ken Burden, Eugene, Or., and Mrrk Mortenson, Billings, Mt., have been named winners in Georgia-Pacific's Western region "Salesmen of the Quarter" awards, according to Stenley S. Dennlson, v.p., distribution div.

John W. Blewett, has assumed additional responsibilities for Kaiser Gypsum's partition and metal products, reports Robert A. Costa, v.p. Jemes P. Rowe is now mgr. of Kaiser's new concrete products div.

Ron Benson is now plywood div. sales mgr. at Portland's Henning Forest Products.

Dee E*rley, D.C. Essley & Son, Montebello, Ca., was feted with a big 80th birthday party that drew wellwishers, and old friends, from all over the West. For a story about his career, See The Merchan /, July, p.l 6.

Lloyd Webb, Lane-Stanton Lumber. City of Industry, Ca.. is back after a No. Ca.. Or. mill trip.

Houston D. White hai joined Bruce International as an import sales rep., reports Robert C. Brown, v.p.

Dwight Currm, Georgia-Pacific, San Jose, Ca., is back at work after vacationing at Shaver Lake with his family.

Gene Courchrine, American Forest Products, Cerritos, Ca., is back from a Pacific Coast buying trio that included a stop at the-Sp6kan'e World's Fair.

Jrmes M. Benson is now with Western Wood Products Assn.. Portland. as asst. tramc mgr.. transportation, reporting to mgr. James G. Manntng.

Tom Mljor has been elected v.p. and div. mgr. of Kaibab's Arizona/Utah forest products, Ted Hlscox has been named operations mgr. Joseph Kershen has been promoted to v.p. and regional msr.. bldg. mtls. iales and-distribution centers.

Joe Derrah, Jr. and Cullen Murohy are now with Champion's i,t.S. Plywood, Eugene, Oi., lumber sales lorce.

Peter Bernthal, MacBeath Hardwood, San Francisco, recently visited their Salt Lake City yard. Verlon McKlnney plans a trip to Sumner, Wa., on company business.

Betty Shoener is the new national president of the Hoo-Hoo-Ettes. Others elected at their recent convention are: lst v.p.. Colleen Courtright; 2nd v.p.. Onabelle Young; stc., Karen Magnusson; treas., Vivian Dowdall: Stat. sec.. Rose Miller: Directois are Ruth Wood, Sandy Munell and Lovey McCarthy.

Jeanette Share has retired from the Lumber Association of Southern California after l8 years ofcheerful service to the induStry.

Joe Contestablle has been promoted by American Forest Prodircts Corp. tir regional mgr. of their distribution yards in the Southeast. He'll shortly be leaving Van Nuys, Ca., for Charlotte. No. Carolina.

Jrck Holmes is back at Shale Lumber Co., Orange. Ca.. after a 17 dav European- Tour with the Lo.s Angeles Chamber Orchestra that included a reception with our ambassador to the Court ol Saint James, London.

Jim Cooper, former lumberman and now v.p., Doremus & Co., L.A., an ad agency, is back from a Hawaiian respite that he insists is part of his "usual two months vacation." Hhmmm.

Evan W. Williams has been named msr. of DG Shelter Products' Denier service center, reports Jim Craig, otv. pres.

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Bob Ferkula is the new purchasing agent at Bel-Air Door Co.. Alhambra. Ca. Bill Storey is the new plant mgr. Ben Patino, new art director, and Ted Conger, management trainee, according to Sam Fineman, president, who recently returned from a trip to Korea.

Reg Ricci, Ricci & Kruse Lumber, is the new president of San Francisco Hoo-Hoo club: Pat Tynan, Lamon Lumber. is immediate past pres. Verlon McKinney, MacBeath Hardwood, is v.p.: Pete Johnson, Calif. Redwood Assn.. sec.i and Hugh Pressner, West Coast Timber Products. treas.

Bob R. Woods has been appointed sales field mgr.. warehouse div., So-Cal Commercial, L.A.. according to Dick Freeman, director of markcting.

Paul Taylor is now the sales mgr. for industrials at Harbor Lumber Co.. San Francisco, reports Ike Zafrani.

R. Eugene Dunbar hts joined American Forest Products. Sun Francisco, as mgr., personnel dev. and training, according to Thomas L. Arnett' director. industrial relations.

Ken Guenther is now gen. development mgr.. new product lines, for GEorgia-Pacific's distribution div.

"Fiber Oriented" Hardboard

Louisiana-Pacific Corp. has signed a long-term agreement with MK-RDA, Inc., Portland, to purchase the newly developed "fiber orientation" process for manuf'acturing medium density hardboard panels, according to Harry A. Merlo, L-P president and Ronald Dorsett, MK-RDA president.

Unlike conventional hardboard manufacturing where fibers are randomly positioned on a mat, the new process aligns the wood fibers or particles in a single directionjust as they originally grew in the Iiving tree. The result is a higher strength-to-weight ratio with superior properties which far exceed conventional hardboard and duplicates the strength found in Iumber and plywood.

At L-P's hardboard plant at Oroville, wood fibers or particles will be polarized as they fall between electrically charged plates onto the continuously moving 8" wide mat. Between 40oio - 8590 of the total surface fibers are aligned depending upon the desired properties of the finished board.

Although the voltage required is fairly high, actual power consumption is light becasue of the closed circuit principle involved in the process.

Sterling to New Offices

Reflecting the needs of their expanding business, Sterling Lumber Co. has moved into bigger quarters at 1140 Mines Ave., Montebello, Ca., just a few doors down from their previous location.

The firm sells Ponderosa and sugar pine, incense cedar and white fir and is one of the few firms on the Coast that specializes in selling extra heavy thicknesses in shop and better grades of sugar pine, such as l0/4, 12/4 and 16/4.

Heading up Sterling is president Dick Stegall, v.p. Bob Smith and staffers Dick Aaland, Tom Upton, Art Ballou and Chuck Bridges. Founded in 1966, it sells mainly to retailers and cabinet and furniture manufacturers.

A separate, sister company, Sterling Forest Industries, sells raw and prefinished mouldings, cut stock and furniture parts.