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Ace Mason, president of the Arizona Lumber & Builders SuPPIY Assn.' has named Marty \Yist as convention chairman for their 50th annual, upcoming next sPring. Others named are MeYer Turken, Dick Fretz and Mike RaY.

Joe Tardy of Phoenix and LeRoY Stanton of Los Angeles, two octogenarian lumbermen still going strong, recentlY visited Guadalajara, Mexico. They are both in such good shape that Joe ventured, "old Roy will make Seer of the House of Ancients Yet."

Keith Swaner, president of Swaner Hardwood Co., Glendale, Calif., recently returned from a worldwide buying trip.

E. S. Anderson is the new vp.-finance for Speedspace Corp., a Potlatch subsidiary.

Jim McGahey is the new mgr.-marketing services for Kaiser's So. Calif. cement div.

Sheldon Kaplan, vice chairman of the board of Evans Products, has revealed the election of William C. Finkenstaedt as corporate vp.

Leon Durham, Treated Pole Builders, Inc., Ontario, entered his prize Brown Swiss and Holstein cows in the L.A. County Fair.

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Kenneth L. Patrick is the new director of safety for WWPA. He held a similar job for the Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs.

Wallace N. Cory is a new environmental engineer for Boise Cascade in Boise.

Jack Banton is the new regional sales mgr. for Noblecraft Industries, Hillsboro, Ore.; Clifr Peterson has been named rep for Ore,, eastera Wash., No. Calif., and So. Idaho.

Russ Wood is the new asst. controller at Evans Products' prefinishing group.

Lee Kent Jacquay, Foothill Lumber, Glendora, Calif., joined the ranks of the newlyweds with his recent marriage to the former Miss Patty McGrane.

Glen Chasteen, Koppers Co., Wilming- ton, Calif,, recently combined business with pleasure by attending the ICBO convention in Portland, and then touring the Pacific Coast.

Dick Lambert, American Forest Products, Cerritos, Calif., recently returned from vacation.

Louise lfays, L. H. Eubank & Sons, Inglewood, Calif., and Mildred I)utton, Penberthy Lumber, who. is also new national president of Hoo-Hoo-Ettes, are spending two weeks in Hawaii.

Paul Bordiwich, has joined South Bay Redrvood Co., Orange, Calif., as inventory supervisor. Recovering from a recent operation is Ruth Paldanius, office manager of South Bay.

John Kirby of Swaner Hardwood, Glendale, Calif., recently took a 2 week vacation.

Bob Reed, president of the Lumber City stores in greater Los Angeles, says paint sales were especially good this summer.

Chuck Lemben D. C. Essley & Son' Los Angeles, recently returned from a vacation in the East where he attended the Hoo-Hoo inter' national convention in Boston, Mass.

John Gray has joined Lumber SPe' cialties of Los Angeles. FormerlY he was with W. B. Joneg and E. K. Wood Lumber Co.

Paul McCusker became a first time grandpa with the Sept. 6 arrival of Meredith Ackley, daughter of Dr. and lVlrs. Ifarry Ackley. McCusker is the president and owner of Douglas Fir Lumber Co., San Francisco.

Dave Mackin has resigned from Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., San Francisco, to enter the securities business. His brother Roger Mac' kin remains with the firm.

Evelyn Steed, ex-E. J. Stanton stafrer, has come out of retirement to go to work for Lane-Stanton Lumber, Industry, Calif.; she works for Vivian Fields, office super.

Anne Murray, Roy Forest Products' girl Friday and Hoo-Hoo-Ette

Also now producing kiln dried meranti, a product of Malaya. random length drawer sides and other furniture products extraordinalre, is getting over a broken bone in her foot.

Frenk Davis, exec. vp., Arizona Lumber and Builders Supply Assn.' Phoenix, was one of many who visited the highly successful, annual all-industry marketing conference in Oregon staged by Western Building Material Assn. exec. vp" Boss Kincaid.

Bob Maple recently rejoined Maple Bros., Inc., Brea, Calif., after a successful stint with Accessory Products, a div. of Textron.

David Penning left L.A. for Minneapolis after being promoted to vp., marketing and merchandising, home products div., Minneapolis-Honeywell.

Chuck Stone, marketing mgr. for Wint/co, a Brea, Calif., mfgr. of extruded plastie valves and fiL tings, had a combo vacatiort/ business trip to the midwest.

Boes Escalette, marketing vp., Ajax Hardware, won an award for his firm from Securitg World Magazine tor Ajax's series of crime prevention billboards.

John Richards is now sales mgr. of Potlatch's wood products group, according to R. M. Steele, corp. vp., wood products group.

Doug Kennedy, Colony Paints, L.A., vacationed with his family in Hawaii and included a visit with \ilallace Lai of Midpac Lumber Co.

Kris lVales, prez. of the Spokane, Wash., Hoo-Hoo Club, attended the international convention in Boston. His father is Ernie Waleg, Wales Lumber Co., and Rsmeses #50 in the order.

Tom Mock is now distributor s,h, western prefinishing, for Evans Products.

Jim Frodsham, president of South Bay Redwood Co., Orange, Calif,, is the proud papa of a new baby girl, Lisa Marie; the 6 lb. 9 oz. bundle was delivered Sept. 21.

William S. 'Bill' Ifart, western sales mgr., DaCor Miracle Brick, ls recovering from a recent oireration.

Dick Taylor, ex-Jamb Dandy Lumber warehouse foreman, is now with G-P in Des Moines, Iowa.

Harry Jordan, president, Jordan Companies, San Francisco, and his wife, combined business and pleasure on a recent trip to G.B., Scotland, Germany, France and Switzerland. In Ireland he saw plywood being made from peeler logs from African and the U.S. Paul Ward, asst. sales mgr., Arcata Redwood Co., was a recent business visitor to southern Calif. Doug McClellan is now Calif. Central Valley sales mgr. for Kaiser Gypsum.

Robbie Robbins is now iri sales for the new Fountain Industrial l-rumber Sales Co., a new corporation headed by Ed Fountain, Jr. An independent corp., it is not a part of Ed Fountain Lumber Co, though both share ttre same L.A. location.

YauEhan Justus has taken over the operations of Revko Forest Products, Albuquerque, N.M.

Ted Cowan, president, Cowan Forest Prodrrcts, Santa Monica, Calif., and Paul Charbonneau recently attended the Cedar Shake Bureau Convention in Seattle.

Gerald Burden has moved to Corona, Calif., to work in the wafehouse div. of Evans Products.

Dick Davis, formerly with Evans and Abitibi, is now in charge of sell- ing mobile home mfgrs. for Maple Bros., Inc.

Bob Goetze has joined S & B Supply Co., Montebello, Calif., as lumber and plywood buyer.

Frank Robertson, Woodland Products, Pomona, Calif., is back at it after an extensive business trip.

Ken Kristy is the new outside rep for Lancaster Products, El Segundo, Calif.

Janet Caldwell is the new sales secretary for Treewax, Culver City, Calif.

Tom Cavanaugh, president of LPS Industries, L.A., recently returned from an eastern and midwest business trip.

Al Friedman is a new inside salesman for Academy Door, Gardena, Calif.

We don't know of any wood that makes a smoother milled finish than clear heart Redwood. Higgins carries other selected softwoods too. Like Alaskan Yellow or Western Red Cedar, upper grades of Sitka Spruce, and vertical grain Douglas Fir.

Hardwood or softwood, you'll find the right lumber for every Purpose at J. E. Higgins Lumber Company.

A lumber for every purpose.

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