PERSONALS

Rick Richardson, PGL Building products, Yakima, Wa., has been named 1989-1990 top sales performer for the firm. Runners-up: John Coltinsworth, PGL, Tigard, Or., and Greg Creswell, Western American Forest Products, Phoenix, Az.

Harry James, owner, James Lumber, Poulsbo, Wa., has been elected to the board of the National Retail Hardware Association and lst vice chairman of the Pacific Northwest Hardware & Implement Association.

Bob Barritt, v.p. advertising, California Millworks, Pacoima, Ca., has retired.

E.L. "Al" Newkirk, retired from Chandler Lumber Co., Van Nuys, Ca., is now pres. of the executive board ol the La Quinta Chamber of Commerce.

Dave Brewer is now sales mgr. of Maywood-Anderson Forest Products, Eugene, Or. Vince Bricher is new to sales.

William A. Burke has been named advertising & promotion group mgr. at Courtaulds Performance Films, Chandler, Az., reports Robert Russell.

John C. Hampton, c.e.o., Willamina Lumber Co., Willamina, Or.. will address the Western Wood Products Association's fall meeting Sept. 22-25 in Monterey, Ca.

Keith Brandt has joined California Timberline/Heritage Hardwoods, Chino, Ca.

Christopher McKenzie is now central regional sales mgr. at General Marble Corp., Rancho Cucamonga, Ca.

Stan Leonard is heading Fullmer Lumber's new pine industrial div., Prineville, Or.

John D. Walker has been named gen. mgr. of Simpson Timber Co.'s Northwest Lumber Div., Shelton, Wa.. according to Jess Drake, v.p. & gen. mgr.

Reg Justus, Just Woods lrorest products Co., Portland, Or., recently returned front a trip to Alaska, where he inspected native tree species and visited his son Kurt.

Bob Inwards, Osmose Research l)ivision, Buflalo, N.Y., is relocating to the Osmose Wood Preserving div., Vancouver, Wa., to provide additional technical support to western licensees.

Denice Brinkerhoff has rejoined the sales staffat llrandt & Wicklund t;orest Products, F'ox Park, Wy.

Craig L. Simmons has been nanred president ol Oregon Builders Hardware, Salenr, Or., succeeding J. Kenneth Payseno, who has retired after 34 years with the co. Don llenedict Il ls now sec.-treas.

Ellen McNamara, v.p. - market development, has retired from WTD Industries. Portland, Or.

Gil Barton and John Sked have opened wholesaler/manufacturer Nikkel & Associates, Sacramento. Ca.

September 1990

Richard K. Kelly has been appointed v.p., mlg. for Potlatch Corp.'s consunrer products div., Lewiston, Id., reports Harry A. Cooper, corporate v.p. Robert E. Zipse is now v.p., pulp & paper div.; Bruce 1,. Baird, v.p., international mktg.

Bob Hajjar has been transferred to the Orange, Ca., office of Trus-Joist front Newton, Ma.

Dave McNabb is now in sales at Kuzman Forest Products, Hillsboro, Or.

John Maple has been named v.p. ol mktg. & sales at Snow Mountain Pine, Hines, Or.

Enita Nordeck, pres., Unity Forest Products, Yuba City, Ca., was a successful bidder at the Sutter County Fair acquiring two steers, three pigs and five sheep.

Pattie Ring has joined Boise Cascade, Boise, Id.

William Hendrix and Ricky Bowman are new to Harwood Products, Branscomb, Ca. Wayne Thompson and his wife, Clariece, are the proud parents of twins, 5 lb. 8 oz. Tami Ellen and 4 lb. 4 oz. Sara Rose, born July 6, l 990.

David Briggs is a new accountant at Gregory Forest Products, Glendale, Or., replacing Pattie Stogsdill, who is now with Sun Studs, Roseburg, Or.

Randi J. Enbysk has joined the sales staff at Timber Products Sales Co., Springfield, Or.

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Jerry Powell has been promoted to v.p. of Sherwood Lumber Corp. West, Sweet Home, Or., reports Andy Goodman.

Scott Klein is the new v.p. of mktg. at Sequoia Supply/PrimeSource, Irvine, Ca. Dick Passaglia is v.p. of merchandising.

David Still is now v.p. and gen. mgr. ol Weyerhaeuser Co.'s distribution business. He is based in Tacoma, Wa.

Ken Thim is a new sales consultant fot Exotic Woods, Carson, Ca., according to Sid Chattler, pres.

Artie Choak and Rudy Begah are covering the sales counter during noon hour at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, according to owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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September 1990

Cal Sugar Changes, Grows

California Sugar & Western Pine Agency has consolidated its Redwood City, Ca., headquarters and its Empire (Modesto), Ca., yard at a new paved three acre facility oneand-a-half miles from the previous Empire site. The new location, also on South Santa Fe Street. has a 60' truck scale and newly refurbished offices. A number of other improvements are underway.

Hugh Rosaaen, the company president, continues to sell doors and millwork from his Redwood City offices. Dan Hizer has established a Denver, Co., office selling moulding and millwork. Dan Mills has opened a Huntington Beach, Ca., office selling area retailers from an inventory. Donna Del Prato has joined the staff at Empire as an administrative assistant.

Fineman's Overseas Offices

Fineman Doors Inc., Van Nuys, Ca., has established offices in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, to expedite door shipments to the U.S.

Samuel N. Fineman, president, who recently visited factories in the Orient, announced an import program of standard doors that will include his own original designs in solid oak. The company also will introduce exclusive designs manufactured from K.S.K (kembang semangkok), a species closely resembling oak.

Fineman Doors will offer these new lines on an exclusive, limited basis to select distribution companies. Fineman was previously president of Bel-Air Door Co., which voluntarily closed in January.

Oregon Mill Fire

Dallas Planing Mill, Dallas, Or., was back in production two days after a middle-of-the-day fire caused an estimated $700,000 in damages to the plant.

The 3:00 p.m. July 3l blaze devastated a raw lumber shed. 9.000 bf of lumber, a shop and a modular lunchroom, but reached only one wall of the company's production facility.

Cause of the fire is as yet un- determined, although initially officials' "best guess is a cigarette," said v.p. Doug Brittingham.

PrimeSourcc Fusion On Track

A half-year after a $124 million merger created the nation's largest independent building materials distributor, PrimeSource, Inc., continues to grow and modernize.

Grip-Rite products including nails have been incorporated into former Sequoia Supply locations while some Sequoia lines such as hardwood plywood are being added to certain Cirip-Rite Group facilities.

The company has moved into new, bigger facilities in Seattle, Wa.; Greensboro. N.C.: Houston, Tx., and Elk Grove (Chicago), Il. Negotiations are also underway to obtain a larger distribution center in l)allas, Tx.. where PrimeSource continues to operate from separate Sequoia and Grip-Rite facilities.

Additionally, a state-of-the-art computer system linking together all branches and providing customers with instant inventory commitment has been installed in 14 of the 40 PrimeSource Iocations.

Unity Expands lts Facility

Unity Forest Products is building a new dry storage and manufacturing facility at its Yuba City, Ca., plant with a new moulder and resaw expected to be on line by October.

Over 140 attended a golf tournament sponsored at Plumas Lake Golf Course, Marysville, Ca., by Unity Forest Products and D&H Transport. Other summer projects included support of local 4-H Clubs, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, baseball and soccer teams as well as contributing financially to a tutorial program for the learning disabled at the grammar school level.

Raw Log Exports Banned

President George Bush has signed legislation prohibiting raw log exports from most state and federal lands in the West.

The measure is aimed at increasing the timber supply to Northwest mills to help compensate for an expected logging ban on millions of acres due to listing the spotted owl as an endangered species.

REllUt000 sales exceeding a million leet over the past year earned leather desk folders from Simpson Timber Co. for lll Tim Moxey, Jean Hamberg, Bob Haas, Gary Malfatti, Gordy Martin, Mariam Herden and (kneeling) Les LeGaux, Martin Forest Industries, Healdsburg, Ca. l2l Joe Kerschen, Kaibab Industries, Englewood, Co., with Simpson's Bill Scott. [3] Joel Hamel, Simpson, with Bob Park, Carol King, Georgia Pacific, Fort 8ragg, Ca. l4l Len Viale, Dan Naughton, Redwood Empire, Morgan Hill, Ca. l5l Bob Le De Rude and Duane Smith, Copeland Lumber Yards, Portland. 0r.. flank Rich Giacone. Simoson.

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