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I)ean Drake, general manager of O'Malley Building Materials of Phoenix, Lrizona, nearly wa.lked away with all points at the recent Far Western Regional Bridge Tournament at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco the first week of September, Dean celebrated his near victory visiting relatives and seeing the sights in southern California on his return trip home, Lee Bennett, former Eugene, Oregon, wholesaler, has joined lke Zalrani in Harbor Lumber Company sales in San Francisco.

George Bradt has sold his Bradt Lumber Company to Clyde LeMaster of LeMaster Builders Supply Company, Everett, Wash.

Mendocino County lumberman Gil Sissons has joined Oregon Pacific Forest Products in a buying capacity and is tentatively scheduled to work out of Ukiah, Calif.

Sterling Wolfe, Sr. of Marquart-Wolfe Lumber, Newport Beach, Calif., and his understudy Sterling, Jr., capped an Oregon buying trip by stopping in Medford for the Rogue Valley tourney.

Walt Ruth slipped away from his desk at Artesia Door for a couple of weeks of Ioafing at Lake Tahoe, Calif.

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Mortimer Il, Doyle, the National Forest Products Association executive vice president, has been elected senior vice president of the American Societv of Association Executives.

Paul Fritchey, Palm Ave. Lumber Co,'s top frond is on a month long mill tour thru the northwest, He'll be coming back to Alhambra, Calif., from Vancouver, B. C. on a Norwegian freighter.

Ray Sedall, California manag:er of the Hirsch Lumber Company, decked a 37 lb. halibut on a sportsfishing boat ofr Santa Cruz Island. Even though Ray's catch was a whopper, he lost out on the 965 jackpot to a 371+ Ib, black sea bass. dnyone for halibut fillets contact Ray, but please don't mention black sea bass

Inland Lumber's Dick Yisek and his missus, Dee, visited relatives in Nebraska.

Ilarry Bleile, merchandising mgr. for Kimberly-Clark Corp., returned to Redding, Calif. after a week in Portland at the WWPA semi-annual and a week in Wisconsin on business.

Anno Willison, formerly with American International in Temple City, Calif., has gone to work for Hearin Lumber Co. in Portland.

Frank Denny, Angels Lumber & Hardware acting general manager, reports for August that their southern Calif. stores had the best month ever.

Lou Godard and his missus are currently on a five week round the world tour. Included are Tbkyo, most of south East Asia, India, the Near Ebst, Greece, Rome and then back horne to the Bav Area and Hobbs Wall.

Paul Gaboury is back at his Golden Gate Lumber 'Co. desk after taking in Expo 67. He says there were many good shots of the lumber industry and the shortest skirts you'll ever see. But Douglas fir dimension and timber can't compete in the Montreal market due to the unfavorable exchange rate, he said.

Ken Bowes, former ass't. salesmanager of Michigan-California lumber at Camino, Calif., has been promoted to the top sales spot succeeding Hugh Schaffer who recently retired after nearly 30 years. Ken, former Sacramento wholesaler and past president of Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club 109, is a native of Portland and started his career there. He was general salesmanager of Winton Lumber Sales Co, in Sacramento, Calif., and prior to wholesaling on his own he directed sales for Ostrom LumberCo. at Marysville, Calif.

Jerry and Brian Bonnington have named Frank Kelly to their Bay Area Sacramento Valley terrritory. In 196.1 he headed the laminated beam div. for Hubbard & Johnson Lumber Co. at the Port of Redwood City and later the sales div. of Dant Forest Products. Prior to joining Bonnington he directed sales for the James L. I{all Co. of San Francisco.

Robert Yener and his son Dennis, Sunset Plywood, Los Angeles, flew to New York and Pennsylvania on a business trip. This was the first time Dennis had been to the east coast.

John Eells has visited relatives in Wisconsin, and stopped of in Pella, Iowa, to tour the Rolscreen Co. plant. John's Pella Architectural Products in Paramount, Calif, is the southern Califomia distributor for Rolscreen.

Conley Brooks, president, Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., Bend, Ore., reports that Charles M. Kreider, formerly general manager, is now vice-president, research and development. Mike Hollern, is now general manager at the Bend operation.

Wayne Gardner, executive vice president, Lumber Association of Southern California, was elected chairman of the Managing Officers of Federated Associations of the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Assoc. During the past year he served as vice-chairman and, in the absence of the chairman, handled most of the chairman's duties,

Ed Israel, head of Edwards Lumber & Manufacturing Co. in San Francisco, vacationed in Canada last month with special emphasis on Montreal's great Expo. "67."

Mike Madison, sales director of San Francisco's 118 year old import-export Ziel & Company, has just returned aftel a month in Southeast Asia including a few steamy days in the Borneo jungles which made the usual Bay Area fog look like paradise when he landed.

Dick Ranft, salesmanager of Cloverdale Plywood Company, flew to Cincinnati to visit relatives early last month.

Lamon Lumber Company's Gordon Saunders and family selected tiny Weber Lake in Sierra County for their two weeks sabbatical after lear-ning the nearest phone was 30 miles away.

Yern Nielsen, former owner of Hillview Lumber & Supply at Nile, Calif., has joined Ralph Boshion at his Castro Valley Lumber Co. retail operation. Ralph and Vern are not particularly strangers, however, having first met when they worked together at the old Lincoln Lumber Co. yard in Oakland some 35 years ago.

Stan Hulett has spent two weeks last month calling on Willits Redwood Products customers in the East.

Ray Swigert, former head of Clear Fir Lumber Co. at Arcata, Calif., is now general manager of Arkley Lumber Co. on Hwy. 299 West of Arcata. Del Davenport, former salesmanager of Clear Fir., handles export sales for Arkley and Cliff Smoot of Molalla Forest Products will continue to sell their domestic production.

Supreme Nine Member for Jurisdiction VI Larry Owen and his wife Fern lepresented the San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9 at the recent big International Convention in Memphis. The Simone Williams Lumber Co. veep finished ofr the trip with business calls in Chicago and Montreal.

Fran Heron, a moulding, millwork and cut stock specialist for Dant Forest Products in Menlo Park, has joined Pickering Lumber Corporation, according to vicepresident and general manager John Lowe.

Tom Welch of Welch Planing Mill, Midvale, IJtah, and Salt Lake City lumberman Rex Zeiger, brought back two big buII elk from a recent hunting trip in Wyoming, stopping off on the return trip to fill up their lockers with trout.

Lee Lambach and Clarence Dame have just started their own wholesale-retail plywood outlet in Santa Clara. Lee for many years was associated with Roseburg Lumber Co. and Clarence was former salesmanager of Strable Lumber Company.

AT BARBE0UE: (1) Vicegerent Snark Chef Chet Harshner. 0) (L-R) Harold Fuerst, Georgia Pacific; President; President Bob Lewis, Madera Lumber Co.; Jean Hartsock, K-Y Lumber Co. (3) Standing, Ted Mathews, Reid and Wrisht Co.: Charlev Dart, K-Y Lumber Co.; Verne Hawkini. Arviri Lumbei Co. (4) Past President, Bert Dennis, Sequoia Forest Industries; Don Walker. (5) Bob Whitney,' Johns-Manville; Elmer Rau, Madera Lumber Co.; BAb wright, Reid and Wright Co. (6) Some of the Cats. (7) Larry 0wen, member of the Supreme 9 from Jurisdiction Vl. (8) Hugo Rath,

Iarter, Webster and Johnson, new member of the Board of Directors; Carl Nystrom, Rich Bros. Lumber Co.; Jim Gaither, Tarter, Webster and Johnson. {9) Don Walker, Pacific Forest Products, in the chow line. Serving, (L-R), Chet Harshner; Bob Schlotthauer, Willard Lumber Co.; 0llie Johnson, Willard Lumber Co.; Craig Gaffney; Ed Silva, Western Door and Sash. (10) Nominating Committee: (standing) Bob Schlotthauer; facing ca-mera, Chet Harshner -and Craig Gaffney; backs to camera, Elmer Rau, Bernie Barber, Jr. (11) Craig Gaffney, Bonnington Lumber Co.