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Bill Fox, Max Hill Lumber Co., Pasadena, Ca., is set for an early Oct. pleasure trip to New England.

Harlan Winslow, Tacoma Lumber Sales, Arcadia, Ca., is back from visiting family at Huntington-By-The-Sea, Ca. ; Helmut Vorster earlier visited the Pacific Coast states and Canada, visiting relatives on a camping trip.

Rex Oxford, Rex Oxford Lumber Co., Carson, Ca., his wife and two crewmen, luckily came out alive after a midnight crash onto the rocks offCabo Colonett, some 65 mi. south of Ensenada. Mex.. near the end of a 2800 mi., two-month cruise on his steel hulled, hermaphrodite brigantine schooner. Rescued after 13 hours on the rocks, they were forced to leave the boat, which has since been stripped; total loss is about $80,000.

E. P. "Woody" Railey is now the g/m of the Eugene, Ore., spg131isn as well as Albany of Sharpf s Twin Oaks Builders Supply following retirement of George Scharpf.

Keith Runyon is now gen. sales mgr. and asst. gen. mgr. of Sagebrush Sales, Albuquerque, N. M.; John Weaver is the new director of marketing and purchasing. Bill Boney is managing their Portland office.

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Rick Mant has joined Boyd Distributing Co. Denver, as sales mgr.

Byron B Miller, pres. of Arcata Redwood, and Robert A. Ferris, sec.-gen. counsel, have been elected v.p.s of the parent co., Arcata National.

Thomas Halladay is the new yard super for Max Hill Lumber Co. at their Montebello, Ca., distribution yard, according to Max Hill, president. Tom is the son of Maynard Halladay, who originally owned United Lumber Co.

lVayne Gardner has been re-elected to represent dealers on the American Lumber Standards Committee. He has also been elected president of the So. Calif. Society ofAssociation Executives, a professional group of trade assn. mgrs.

Ronald R. Walker is a new NFPA field man for so. Ca.. so. Nev.. Utah. Colo., New Mexico and Ariz.

Sam Fineman, president, Bel-Air Door Co., is back to his Alhambra. Ca.. offices after a 2-week trip to Spain. He recently named Michael Hitchens as art director of Tyre Advertising, a Bel-Air subsidiary.

Bob Matthies, AFP. Newark. Ca.. has vacationed with his family in Happy Camp. Earl Dyer attended the Northwest Hardwood Assn. grading course in Kelso. Wash.: Bob Martin vacationed with his family at Shasta.

Harold Fuerst, G-P, San Jose, Ca., has returned from a week's vacation in Chicago.

Charles Hammonds, Neiman-Reed Lumber, Van Nuys, Ca., vacationed in Tucson, Ariz. and Mexicali, Mex.

Bill Reidlinger, G-P, Salinas, vacationed during August for a week.

Bill McGraw, g/m of Kelly-Moore Home Improvement Centers, Union City, Ca., reports that Jim Shelton will manage the new store in Union City, Norm Guedon is merchandise mgr. Store opened Sept. 15.

Gary Hansen, Pacifica Lumber, Pacifica, Ca., vacationed with his family near Shasta.

Ray DuPuis, Roseburg Lumber, San Jose, and his family vacationed near Lake Almanor.

Keith Johnson, McElroy Lumber, San Jose, vacationed near Lake Almanor and also spent a few days at Lake Tahoe.

Norm Rose, Oregon-Pacific, vacationed at Reno.

Len Viale, Simpson Building Supplies, recently flew to Los Angeles on business.

George Thompson, Simpson, Santa Clara, Ca., vacationed in Eureka.

Don Thom, Bruce Bauer Lumber, vacationed with his family in Yellowstone.

Dan Froehle, Med-Ply, Medford, Ore., vacationed in Los Angeles and Phoenix.

Hugo Miller, Georgia-Pacific redwood sales, L.A., vacationed for two weeks in Hawaii with his wife, Phyttis.

John Gaskin, Capital Lumber, Phoenix, got in a beach vacation with the familv at San Diego.

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Harry McCall is mgr. of Kaibab Industries' new Ariz.-Utah sales office in Kanab, Utah.

Dick Aaland has joined Sterling Lumber Co., Montebello, Ca., selling mouldings, specialties and plywood, according to Bob Smith. Dick had been with Commander Industries.

Bill MacBeath. MacBeath Hardwood, San Francisco, is back from a Philippines sales safari.

Roger Stainbrook and Charlie Riddle have opened an office in Riverside, Ca., for United Forest Products, Eugene, Ore. Both had been with Valk Wholesale Lumber, Riverside.

Mike Rasmussen. American Wholesale Hardware, Long Beach, Ca., has been promoted to outside sales in that area. George Fauber transfers over to cover the Phoenix-Flagstaff area.

Chuck Rouse has joined Willamette Industries, Albany, Ore., as plywood sales coordinator.

Wayne Ewing, founder and former pres. of Arrowsmith Mfg., L.A., is now ch. of the bd.; Bruce A. Willsey is the new pres.-gen. mgr. ; Ned Ewing, v.p., is now also sec.-treas.

Bill Gunnell, v.p., United Wholesale Lumber Co., Montebello, Ca., is back at it after 2 weeks of waterskiing in ldaho.

Dr. Richard R. West, Dean of the College of Bus. Ad., Univ. of Oregon, is now on the board of directors. Bohemia. Inc., Eugene.

Mel Brown is now in sales for Wvckoff Co. in Seattle.

Dave Town has transferred from Simpson Bldg. Supplies, Cerritos, Ca., to their Santa Clara office. Leo Benizo transfers out from their N.J. office to replace him. Pearly Fisher is back at Cerritos after an Hawaii respite with his 3 little girls; Steve Overton is a new man on the sales force there.

Ken and Dolores Coleman are on a Miami (Hoo-Hoo convention) and Nassau jaunt while Ken plays hookey from Eckstrom Plywood, L.A.

WayneC. Wllson, D. C. Essley & Son, L.A., recently business-tripped to Arcata, Eureka. Ukiah. Willits and Santa Cruz, Ca. Chuck Lember is back from a 2-week respite in Miami, taking in the Hoo-Hoo annual, and doing the Caribbean. Jerry Essley got worked so hard in moving to his new Newport Beach, Ca., home on vacation, he was glad to get back to work.

Vern Godbehere has been named mgr., wholesale sales, wood products div., Southwest Forest Industries, Phoenix. Jerry McGuire, Cal Forest Lumber Co., Gardena, Ca., was on a month-long European trip with wife Tine and the kids.

Gerald R. Ensworth has been named a lumber buyer for American Forest Products in Redding, Ca., working for mgr. Colleen Courtwright. Gary Lee Frush is a new salesman for AFP's Western Sierra Furniture, Stockton.

Randy Philips, Philips Lumber Sales, Thousand Oaks, Ca., and his wife, Carol. are back from a 2-mo. Eastern vacation visiting family.

James R. Summerlin,34, has joined the sales force at Robert S. Osgood, Inc., L.A., after a 5 year term as v.p.-glm ofa leading Manila manufacturer and exporter of lumber and wood products.

Ed Fountain, Sr. and Jr. got in some golf at the recent Medford Hoo-Hoo meeting, while on a mill trip for their Ed Fountain Lumber Co., L.A.

Tim Sterrenberg was recently named mgr. of Woodburn Lumber Co., Woodburn, Ore.

Howard L. Klafter is the new v.p. marketing for Welsh & Bresee, the no. Ca., wholesaler, according to co. pres. Robert E. Craves.

Frank W. Kirk is now sales mgr. for lumber, cedar products and fencing for Potlatch Corp., according to Nick Poletika, gen. sales mgr., who also announced Martin Phillips' appointment as product mgr., cedar products and fencing. T. H. Tate was named plywood products and futures mgr.

Vi Neal, Stahl Lumber; Ruth Armand, E. J. Stanton Lumber; Mildred Dutton, Penberthy Lumber; and Dorothy Hagernan, retired from Simmons Hardwood, all L.A. area firms, are now living it up on a 3-week European jaunt.

James E. McGee has been appointed gen. mgr. of American Forest Products'new international div.

Barry Fisher is Virginia Hardwood's new San Gabriel Valley, Ca., sales rep.

John K. Martin, Palco, San Francisco, has been named a regional board member of the Forest Products Research Society.

The Metric System

(Continued from page 7) affect land surveying in several ways. Principal areas ofconcern are field, block and lot, metes and bounds, and U.S. public land surveys. Areas described by the first three types of land survey are usually irregular in shape and generally not limited to specific or preconceived sizes. Therefore, these can be fairly easily converted from a r/zacre lot to an approximate Il5hectare lot.

"The public land survey is of primary importance for land location and legal description as well as measurement. To replace it as a land location tool would take a complete specialty species and products, such resurvey of all Western lands." as redwood, that have significant

So as Gerald Prange notes, the foreign marketso would be helped by problems are sizeable. But there are moving America into a system of also opportunities involved. The use measurement that is universally of nominal sizes by consumerism understood, regardless of the lanadvocates has come in for consider_ guage of the trading nation. able criticism. A change to metrics School systems are planning now would eliminate this as the nominal to begin teaching the metric system. size and the green size could becoms The nation's largest school system, the same. i.e.. a 2x4 would be called California, plans to begin in 1976. a 40 mm. x 90 mm., see Chart B. There is little question that the conMoRE rMPoRrs i"#H:il:*:::;""T$#fffil:? fast?

Increasing American dependence Great Britain found the cost less on imported forest products in both than imagined and that their hardwoods and softwoods could be planned program ofconversion was, simplified if everyone involved in fact, too slow. Japan, which measureC the same way. Domestic changed in 196 I, had the same