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Stan llulett, Willits Redwood Products Co. and his bride, the former Mary Ann Minenna are settling into home at Willitts' Calif., after a Nassau and eastern U.S. honeymoon following their June 15 wedding Stan is Willits'asst. sales mgr.

David E. Gibson, president of Gibson Lumber and Apache Lumber, Albuquerque, N.M., and vp. of Gibson Lumber, San Bernardino, Calif., has been named a director of Sandia Savings & Loan, Albuquerque.

Richard G. Reiten is the new gen. mgr. of Portllnd, Or.e's. Hearin Lumber Co, Keith Swaner, president, Srraner Hardwood Co., Glendale, Calif., is back from

N.Y. whele he sarv son Gary off to study foreign languages at Paris' Sorbonne for a year.

Dee and Ada Essley are back from the International Hoo-Hoo convention in Albuquerque, N.M. Tour included a number of side trips.

Denny Hess, Simonson Lumber Co., sales manager took in the Pendleton, Oregon Roundup in early September.

Aaron Jones, Seneca Sawmill Co., Eugene, Ore,, is the new president of the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau. Other officers are Henry Welch, vp., Jack Gates, sec.-treas.

Murray Gelleri, co-owner of 4 Star Building Materials in San Lorenzo, Calif', has returned home to San Francisco after spend ing the summer with his family in a rented home in nearby Castro Valley.

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Denny Curran, salesman for Barr Lumber in Los Alamitos, Calif., has announced a 3-for-2 stock split. His wife presented him with a 9 lb. 2 oz. son. named Brett Dennis, September 1. A rather interesting note is that Brett was born on his father's 25th birthday and Brett was delivered by the same doctor that delivered his father. Godparents at the christening on Sept. 22 were Dwight Curran, TW&J, Vallejo, and his wife, Linda, TW&J, Newark.

Ron De Lisle of TW&J, Newark, Callf., took his family to southern Calif. for a short vacation. They toured Universal Studios and visited Disneyland.

Hank Aldrich is an inside salesman for Albrite Plywood in Walnut Creek, Calif. For many years, Hank was a lumber wholesaler in Portland and Eugene, Ore.

Elmer Padula, E. A. Padula Lumber Co., Willits, Calif., wishing, we suspect, to take life a little easier, found somebody who needed just what he had. The Moffet Wholesale Lumber Co. resurrected by Bill W'ray' pres. and Clayton Tfilson, sec., bought Elmer's real estate, buildings, rofling stock and equipment and will operate as a wholesale distributor from Willits headquarters. Bob tlamilton, formerly with Dyer Lumber Sales, will act as resident mgt.

A new firm, F. M. Crawford Lumber, Inc., Ukiah, Calif., has formed to handle all sales for the Crawford group of mills, as well as Aborigine Lumber Co.-all recently acquired by Georgia-Pacific Corp. Sales manager, Perry Adcock is in charge, assisted by Lowell Ambrosini, Don Sunstrom and Ed Scaife.

Lloyd Richardson has sold his Umpqua Builders Supply in Reedsport, Ore., to Clifr Furlott. Lloyd plans to semi-retire, do more of that good hunting and fishing.

Al Mury, sales manager for Evans Product, San Francisco, was seen calling on accounts in the East Bay for a month while the territory salesman was on vacation.

Leo Wofford, manager of the retail store for Warm Springs Lumber in Fremont, Calif., reports that his wife and son had a wonderful vacation in Neu' York and Montreal that lasted 3 weeks.

During the recent strike of S.F. East Bay lumber yards, many lumbermen filled in as yard men and truck drivers. Among them was Harry Larsen of Larsen Brothers Lumber Co. in San Leandro who pitched in by delivering orders.

Ed Barnes is now office manager at Wood Products Co. in Martinez, Qalif.. He recently left Diamond National in Concord, Calif.

Effervescent Henry Monje is now on the sales force at Rounds Lbr. in Cloverdale. For many years, Henry was associated with Evans Products in the S,F. Bay area, leaving them in early June.

Norm Wendell is back at Hallinan Mackin's Los Angeles office as asst. sales mgr. He had been with American International in L.A. He is working with Dorman Dane and area mgr. Alex Chubak.

Harry Sharpe, western lumberman and good friend of so many has retired from Morley Co. He's now on a 65 day flying Orient trip, with a New Zealand fishing stop included. Hal Daley is stepping into his shoes at Morley.

Ilill Hanen, manager of Al Peirce Lumber Co., Newport Beach, has retunred from a business trip in San Dipgo.

John T. Cole is the new sales develonment rep for central and So. Calif. for Boise Cascade's bldg. products div.

Dep Strauch and his wife have returned from a three week auto tour of the eastern U.S. Dep is with Eagle Rock Lrimber Co., Eagle Rock, Calif.

Walter L. "Bud" Cody, 25 year vet .n'ith Brush Industrial Lumber Co., Montebello, Calif., spent a recent week with his wife Violet in the Reno, Nev.-Lake Tahoe area.

Leo Hulett, Willits Redvrood Products Co., spent a recent u'eek ealling on accounts in the mid-west.

Alex Chubak is the new southerrr Calif, area manager for Hallinan Mackin. He replaces Jim Fair who has gone to work for Bob Heberle at G-P's redrrood div. in Pico Rivera, Calif.

F'reeman Campbell has moved from South Bay Lumber Co., Hawthorne, Calif., to nearby Oliver Lumber Co. Freeman is an exCal-Pacific stafrer.

A. L. Hoover and Stu Jones, A. L. Hoover Lumber Co., San Marino, are back in the southern part of the state after a mill tlip to Scotia, Calif. Ilob and Dick Hoover managed to sneak in some surfing this summer.. If you rvant to knov' hou' to "hang ten." just ask .Dick.

Gordon Larsen sold his interest in Larson Lumber, Corwallis, Ore., to Kermit Roth, treasurel and vice president of the opera- tion since it started 11 years ago. Larson was in lumber and logging for 22 years.

Irving Gertler, president, All-American Home Center, has announced plans for the neu' ?5,000 sq. ft. Downey, Calif., retail store located on a 1O-acle site.

Ilill Connor, ou'ner of Connor Lumber Sales, Pasadena, Calif., and u'ife Mary have lecentl]' returned from a vacation-business trip to Carmel, San Francisco and Sacramento.

Richard "Dick" Snider, president of Timberline Forest Products, Santa Ana. Calif.. has recently returned from Detroit, Michigan and the Mobile Home Shoq..

James D. WhitridSe, for.rnerly mi<lvresteur sales manager of Filon, has been tr.ansferred to their Ha'lr'thorne, Calif., home office as rvestern region sales manager.

Frank Rawolle, Mahogany Importing dept. of Potlatch, spent a week u'ith hii family touring the Sacramento and Stockton Rivers.

Pat Young, import-export sales mgr., Potlatch Forest Products, has relocated his home from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

Vince Besinque, Vance Lumber, Los Angeles, is back from a vacation spent visiting frienrls and family in Billings, Mont., and another son in Texas.

Neal Pinson, a civil engineer u,ith broad experience in structural u'ood desiqn has been namrd technical directorof the WWPA. He replaces W. T. K. "Tank" May, *'ho is retiring. Replacing Pinson as asst. tech. clirector is Byron L. F'oreman.

Bob Crotty is the neu' Rrush Industrial Lumber Co. salesman for central Calif.. according to sales mgr. Verlon McKinney. Crotty vrorked for Bill Howe at Mico for fir'e years.

Dave Jones, Western Dry Kiln Co., Alameda, Calif., was injured in a freak industrial accident, Aug. 31, and has since been mending in the Alameda Hospital. He hopes to get loose about mid-October.

Charlie Dart, president of K-Y Lumber Ccmpany, Fresno, Calif., and wife Jessie are cruising on a Norwegian freighter for 50 days and visiting, among other places, many ports on the Mediterranean.

Frank Chown, president, Chown Hard\\'are and Machinery, has named Davc Culver vice president Culver continues to manage Contract Builders Hardware anti Ruilding Specialties departments.

Scott Van Enger III, formerly with Townhouse Home Products, Montebello, Calif., has joined Home Equipment Manufacturing Co., Westminster, Calif., as director of marketing.

Ron Versi is the newly-named sales coordinator for Cloverdale Plywood Co., Cloverdale, Calif.

Illmer Padula, having unloaded all his headaches, continues in business as an office wholesaler in Willits, Calif., and I'r'ill elicit the usual fine lumber and service offered by this veteran lumberman.

H00-H00-EITE CLUB 14, 0akland, held first meeting. lnitiatine kittens were (1) Bill Johnson, Hobbs Wall; Anne C.-Murray, Roy Forest Products; Boots Erb, Bow and Bell. €) Jennie Maurer, Fanell Lumber; Ralph Boshion. Castro Vallev Lumber. (3) Amy Harrington' McElroy Lumber; her-husband, Lynan, Wilma Farris, Club 8. (4 Clare Pease, Warm Springs Lumber; Ron De Lisle, TW&J; Shirley Severa, Warm Spnings Lumber;

Bill Johnson; Valerie Dallas, Emsco Plywood. (5) Phil LaMonica, Doors, Inc.; Aggie Schilling, Foster Lumber; Jackie McKinney, Peerless Lumber; Patty Boshion, Castro Valley Lumber. (6) Ralph Hill, Hill tumber-Co. (7) Mary Paionis, Paoific Hardwoods. (8) Dwight Cur' ran, TW&J; -Betty Jones, Foster Lumber. (9) Edna Barber: suest: Ralph Boshion. Fourteen women established the clu6, initiating four new members.