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Larry Crabtree, mgr., Pacific Lumber Terminal, Wilmington, Ca., has retired after 40 years with Coos Head Lumber and Plywood Co., Inc. Doug Bench succeeds him, and Kent Thompson is now operations mgr.

Mel Lindberg has been named co-mgr. of 84 Lumber Co., Dublin, Ca. Jerry Eisaman has been appointed co-mgr., San Jose, Ca.

Dave Trybom, previously with Pacific Forest Products, opened a Santa Cruz, Ca., office for Stockton Wholesale Lumber Co., Stockton, Ca.

Don Willard, formerly with Sierra Pacific Industries, has rejoined the sales team at Redwood Empire, Morgan Hill, Ca.

Yic Garrison is new to hardwood plywood sales at Timber Products Co.. Springfield, Or.

Jay Rupp has been promoted to general mgr. of Craftsman Millwork, Inc., Cerritos, Ca., according to Robert Kincaid.

El Louise Waldron, Waldron Forest Products, Fair Oaks, Ca., wed John Laster Sept. 30 in the Village of Fair Oaks.

Steve Black, ex-Louisiana-Pacific, is new to sales at Landmark Forest Products, San Bernardino, Ca. Sandi Johnson has been promoted to sales service coordinator for the contract and hardwood products departments.

Michael Flannery has been promoted to pres., c.o.o. & director for Pope & Talbot, Portland, Or. Former pres. Peter T. Pope remains chairman & ceo.

Kim Sauls, formerly with Pan Pacific Forest Products, is new to Mokelumne River Forest Products, Lodi, Ca.

Robert Cross is new to sales at California Builders Supply, Sacramento, Ca.

Michael J. O'Neil has joined the sales team at Hirt & Wood Lumber Co., Inc., Eugene, Or.

Chuck Cannon, ex-Contact Lumber Co., is now director of market development at Mikron Industries, Inc., Kent, Wa.

George Caudill, v.p./sec., has retired after 21 years with Scott-Caudill Lumber Co., Industry, Ca., and 45 years in the industry.

Mike Drorbaugh is now western region mgr. for APA - The Engineered Wood Association, Tacoma, Wa., succeeding Ed Underwood, who is now handlin! insurance issues. Gregg Froman is now market development specialist.

Larry Overfield, previously with Hampton Lumber, is new to Northwest Forest Products, Tualatin. Or.

Kurt Bray and Guy Merriman iue now owners of Marine Lumber Service. Inc., Seattle. Wa.

Steve Gest is now with Avison Wood Specialties, Molalla, Or., as national sales mgr., handling the production from Molalla Forest Products Co.

Stan Nybo and Howard Raff are new to Pacific Lumber & Shipping, Seattle, Wa. Clint Thomason will handle dimension lumber and plywood for the Pacific Northwest.

Larry Wendling has left Cotter & Co. to join Wolfcraft Inc. of North America as v.p.-sales for North America.

Marcia M. Kennon has been named product mgr., material handling, for Teledyne Specialty Equipment.

Dan Bohannon, Bohannon Lumber Co., Orange, Ca., teamed with brother Dave to win the 45 and over division at the 1995 U.S. National Grasscourt Tennis Championship in Philadelphia, Pa.

Dave Snodgrass has opened a Ukiah, Ca., office for Ketcham Forest Products, Seattle, Wa.

Steven J. Zika is new to Hampton Affiliates, Portland, Or., as v.p.-finance & administration, replacing Tom Schmit, who has left after 20 years with the co.

Jim Cameron, 3C Trucking, Long Beach, Ca.. rode his three restored BSA motorcycles in the Vintage English Trials Organization meet, Steamboat Springs, Co. Dee Cameron rode his 1956 French Velocette motorcycle through Or., Mt. and Canada on vacation, with a break for some Alaskan salmon fishing.

Mike Herbert and Jean Hamberg, Nu Forest Products, Healdsburg, Ca., joined Marty Olhiser, Louisiana-Pacific, Santa Rosa, Ca., on a lumber purchasing tour to L-P's plant in Mexico.

Frank Davis, retired exec. v.p., Arizona Lumber & Builders Supply Association, vacationed in Walla Walla, Wa., attending a reunion of his l94l champion relay team.

Jim Pappas, pres., Honsador, Inc., Honolulu, Hi., just completed a West Coast business trip.

Haskel Causey, Sacramento Pacific, West Sacramento, Ca., won a 1995 HarleYDavidson 883 Sportster in a 230,000entry drawing at the state fair.

Mitch Swanson, Superior Lumber Co., Glendale, Or., bagged a 7001b. elk and a 200-1b., three-point deer in a Mt. wilderness area during September.

Robert Simpson; We$tern: Div:r mgr:, Louisiana-Pacific, Samoa, Ca., has iesigned :after intcrim exesutiv€s, including::his father, told:lrim he was not being considered as a potential:successor tO ouSted,; Chief Harry Meilo or,ex-v.p's rlim,:Bisses and Ronald Paul, He will stay on until Janr: 31:; aftEi, whibh:he: Plans :: to resume a careef as an entrepreneur developing environmentally friendly building products.

,Rick Wilson has,joined :1,.P;, Chino Ca., as gen. mgr. of four Califomia distribution centers.

Ronald, L. Paul;;;ex-LP; :iS, how v;p.' engineering & technology.building products for Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Stu Heath, Califomia Cascade Industries, Sacramento, Ca., is resting comfortably after what he describes as a neardeath experience salmon fishing off the Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada.

Wayne Benton, R B Forest Products Co., Murrieta. Ca.. has returned from a mill trip to Or. and Wa. and two days of steelhead fishing on the Cowlitz River with Nate Zerkle, Buckeye Pacific.

Tom Knippen, Diablo Timber Co., Napa, Ca., wed Tammara Pena Sept. 23.

Eaton B. Maree catered a recent employee picnic at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., report owners llugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

Fibreboard Sale Complete

Sierra Pacific Industries, Redding, Ca., has completed its acquisition of Fibreboard Corp.'s wood products business.

Sierra Pacific will operate the sawmills in Standard and Chinese Camp, Ca., and decorative bark plant at Keystone, Ca. A previously shuttered hardwood plywood mill at Standard and millwork plant at Red Bluff will remain closed.

Fibreboard Wood Products Co. sales mgr. Jim Murray has retired after 43 years in the industry. General mgr. Bob Shepherd as well as salesmen John Picot and Rod Thompson will stay on, moving to Sierra Pacific's Anderson, Ca., sales office. Shepherd will serve as sales m$. specializing in white fir and Douglas fir dimension.

With the sale, Fibreboard Corp., Walnut Creek, Ca., has severed all ties to the lumber business and will concentrate on its two Tahoe ski resorts, vinyl building products and industrial insulation businesses.

The company recently agreed to acquire the ski operations and golfrelated assets of Southern California's Bear Mountain Ltd. for $20 million.

U.S. Demand for Siding Materials

DRY ROT Chowder & Marching Society, an irregular collection of a dozen or so (mostly) retired lumbermen, meets monthly to reminisce, dissect the lumber business and generally discuss The Fate of the World. From lefl, standing: Bob Halbert, Chuck Lember, Ted Deacy. Seated: Hugo Miller, Joe Tenell (still going strong at 92), Gene Burnett. The group meets in the Los Angeles/Orange County, Ca., area and welcomes guests, Call Chuck Lember, (310) 421-1589. See if you can help them remember Whoozit, the sales mgr. at Whatchamacallit Lumber Co.

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Steady Siding Growth Predicted

U.S. demand for siding materials will rise 3.3V0 annually through the year 2000 to over 107 million squares, according to a new Freedonia Group study.

The growth is attributed to: (l) significant improvement in building construction outlays (especially non-residential), which create new growth opportunities for siding and related building materials, and (2) the aging of the U.S. housing stock, which will raise demand for repair, maintenance and renovation expenditures.

Ongoing advances in product designs and performance - including improvements in weatherability, color retention and aesthetic appeal - will also stimulate gains, especially in value terms.

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HELPING HANDS: Actor Louis Gossett, Jr. (top photo, teft) and Weyerhaeuser v.p. David Still assist volunteers on a Dow Chemical Co.sponsored house, one of 20 built at this year's annual Habitat for Humanity Jimmy Carler Work Project in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Ca. (Lower, l-r) Rosalynn Cart0r, Taran Noah Smith of TV's Home lmprovement, and former president Jimmy Carter in front ol the Dow house.