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Rick Kelso, Raintree Lumber, Seattle, is back from a California sales trip.

Bob Riordan, retiring from LouisianaPacific sales, Coeur d'Alene, Id., was recently honored with a big party on a boat cruise of Lake Coeur d'Alene.

Gordon Jane, Zamboanga Wood Products, Inc., (partially-owned by Boise-Cascade) is back in his Mindanao office in the Philippines after being seized by kidnappers, held for about 24 hours, and finally ransomed for $13,300. And you thought the lumber business was rough here, right?

Charles W. Stone is the new mgr. of G-P's San Jose, Ca., wholesale bldg. mtls. outlet. He had been asst. mgr. at the Portland distribution center.

Reino A. "Ray" Talvola, treasurer of the Pacific Lumber Co.. San Francisco, has retired after nearly 50 years in the industry. He's living now with his wife, Barbara, at Junction City, Ca., on the Trinity River, getting in some hunting and fly-fishing.

Roger Burda is now market development mgr. for Simpson Building Supply, Seattle, reports Jack HaneY, v.p., gen. mgr.

William Berry has joined U.S. Plywood, Champion International in the newly-created job slot of lumber product mgr. He had been with Kimberly Clark.

Mike Ferrari, Virginia Hardwood, Monrovia, Ca., is back from a successful Hawaiian sales trek.

Dave Disselbrett is mgr. of Amwest Forest Products, a new firm recently opened in Medford, Or.

Harry H. White is back in his Newport Beach, Ca., offices after a business trip to Seattle.

Mike O'Malley and Earl Cox, The O'Malley Companies, Phoenix, were recently in Portland on a buying trip.

Tom Philips recently joined the sales force at A&R Lumber, Eugene, Or.

Don Philips (Tom's brother) Philips Lumber Sales, Thousand Oaks, Ca., and his wife, Florence, spent a fishing vacation recently in Id., Mt. and Wy.

Dick Caletti, pres., Standard Structures, Windsor, Ca., was a recent business visitor to Phoenix.

Jim Newquist, Eel River Sales Co., Newport Beach, Ca., business tripped to San Francisco recently.

Jean Martilla is now selling for Wesco Cedar, Eugene, Or.

Harold Sand, exec. v.p., Georgia-Pacific, Portland, was recently in Baton Rouge, La.

Seth Potter, national sales mgr., Dant & Russelt, Portland, is in the East on co. business following a recent Alaska trip. Pearl Hoskins is D&R's new personnel mgr. and Knute Baker is now selling in the Portland/ Vancouver markets.

Doug Loth is back with Simpson Timber Co.. Seattle after a 20 mo. stint with the Dept. of Commerce promoting U.S. trade overseas. Among the spots visited were Peru and Poland.

Jerry O'Hare is the new gen. mgr. of P.R.O.D. Wholesale Distributors, San Leandro,Ca., according to Ron De Lisle, pres, Ron, his partner Paul Olsen, and Jerry O'Hare recently fished aI La Paz, Mexico.

Jack Baisden is now managing San Leandro Building Materials, San Leandro. Ca. He had been with Rayberg Lumber, San Carlos.

P.D. "Dick" Johnson is now managing U.S. Plywood's Seattle facility.

Wayne Hill is now selling cedar shakes & shingles for Blue Mountain Log Sales, Mission, B.C., from his Oregon City, Or. office.

Keith Swaner is back in Beautiful Downtown Burbank at his Swaner Hardwood Co. after a motor home vacation thru Ca., Az. and N.M. Don White, White Brothers, Oakland, enjoyed a recent family reunion at Lake Tahoe.

Ed Fountain, Sr. escaped Ed Fountain LumberCo. business in L.A. recently for a white water run down the Rogue River. He heartily recommends it for anyone with a taste for roughing it and for shooting the rapids.

Don Orsi is now director of marketing and sales at Maybrik, Los Angeles, according to co. pres. Stanley May. Don had been with So-Cal Commercial.

Wally Swanson, Boand-Daly Lumber, Downey, Ca., is back from an Oregon vacation, where hegot in some salmon fishing.

Duane Bauch is the new OregonPacific, Fairfield, Ca., salesman for the Sacramento-Merced stretch, according to mgr. Bob Riggs.

Donald G. Stroh is now nt'1. sales mgr., for Artistic Brass Co., according to pres. Philip Friedrich.

Clinton "Chip" O'Neil and John T. Rickard are selling plywood for Publishers Forest Products, Portland, reports C.C. "Smokey" Pittman. Daniel J. Sheehan and Ramsey Fendall are in lumber sales and Dick Miller is selling poles and lumber.

Bill Dockstaeder and Mike Radcliff are now selling for Dwyer Forest Products. Portland.

Allan Fossum and Ed Williams have joined Karren Lumber Products, Pendleton. Or.

Jim Carnahan -is now a sales staffer with Mauk Lumber Products. Woodenville, Wa.

Kelly E. Powell, Jr. is the new gen. marketing mgr. of Georgia-Pacific's distribution div.: William Seal moves up to n'tl. sales mgr., dealers; and Charles Nease to n'tl. sales mgr., shelter group.

Howard Hofmann, WWPA, is back from a Eureka/Ft. Bragg, Ca., trip.

Robert Hitchcock is now regional sales mgr. (West) for Norton Company's Safety Products Div.

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Gerald J. Plec is American Forest Products' new director-personnel administration and develoPment.

Lanny D. Thacker is now gen. mgr. of Marlite's new Los Angeles distribution center, according to J.T. Ashworth, director of marketing.

Tom Hauptman is now plant suPerintendent and gen. sales mgr. of Lakeview Lumber Products, Lakeview, Or., succeeding Bob McNeal who has retired.

Larry Tooke is the pres. of Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club. lst v.p. is LarrY Caudill; 2nd v.p., John Howard; sec.-treas., Ernie Wales. Directors: Bob Grotefend, Jack Hern, Arnold Hiebert, Denny Ketelsen, and Miles Schultz.

Clay Simons, Sioux Veneer Panel, Boise, Id., and Frank Watson, Watson Plywood, Long Beach, Ca., were among Westerners at the Hardwood Plywood Mfgrs. Assn. bash in Bermuda.

Larry Baugh and John Bates, Westmark & Assoc., Newport Beach, Ca., are back from a combined business/ pleasure trip to Hawaii.

Andy Milton won recent "Salesman of the Month" plaudits from his bosses at Marlite. He covers central California.

Lyle Schafer has left Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, Ca., and its Timberjack home centers.

Knute Weidman has joined California Sugar & Western Pine Agency, San Mateo, after operating his own wholesale company for more than 15 years, according to A.C. "Bo" Ahrens.

Bingham Kirk is now mgr., export sales. for American Forest Products' international div., reports Jim McGee, div. gen. mgr.

Bronson J. Lewis, American Plywood Assn. exec. v.p., has returned to Seattle after a trade mission to Japan along with a group of others in wood products from the Pacific Northwest.

Mel Jensen is the new sales manager for Huntington Wood Industries, Springfield, Or.

Tom Brinton is now working in sales for Hampton Lumber Sales Co. in Portland, according to Gordon King, v.p.

Ron Gentry.has joined Crown Zellerbach, Poltland, and is working in sales.

Jack Pilgreen, recently moved to Louisiana-Pacific's Intermountain Div., Coeur d'Alene, Id., from Cloverdale, Ca., was married Sept 20, to Sherri Hansen Congratg newlyweds!

Ted Maple is new to the industrial sales staff at Fountain Industrial Lumber Sales, Los Angeles, according to Ed Fountain, Jr.

Don Muller of the Arthur A.PozziCo., Santa Ana, Ca., was joined during various legs of his recent redwood mill trip in northern California by Joe Jahraus, Jr., Laguna Beach Lumber Co., Laguna Beach, Ca., and Jack Chambers, Precision Milling Co.. Burbank.