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

Rusg VYood is the new asst. controller at Evans Products'prefinishing group.

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.

Keith Anderson, Northwest T\rbe & Metal Fabricators in Portland, at home with back trouble, keeps in close touch with his office by phone.

Roy D. Jurgensen is the new Calif. sales mgr., cement group, for Kaiser, according to vp-sales Gus J. Chavalas. Mike Jared is the new sales mgr. for Hawaii and the Pacific NW.

Pierson Plummer, gen. mgr., of Boise Cascade's Union Lumber Region, and long-time exec. vp. of Union Lumber, has retired after a particularly distinguished 31 year career. Douglas Westenhaver replaces him at B-C.

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Frank Kern is the new manager of Evans Products' Corvallis, Ore., hardboard plant.

Harold M. Hill has sold his Hill's Builders Bargains store in Longview, Wash., and has retired in Bellingham.

Mahlon Kilgore, Arrowsmith Tool & Hardware, L.A., recently made a business trip to Denver.

Max Barnette, vp. and gen. mgr., South Bay Redwood Co,, Orange, Calif., is back at it after a short illness.

R. G. Murdock of Portland. is Timesavers Sanders' new rep in the Pacific Northwest.

Donald Chamberlin, Portland, Ken Miller, Pascoe, Wash., Jim Harrison, Berkeley, and Floyd Adkins, San Diego, were westerners honored in Georgia-Pacific sales contests.

Jay Glassmaker, mgr., Benica Lumber, reports they had a successful grand opening at their new yard. It is in the northern Calif. town of the same name.

Gil Bissell, Speedspace Corp., Windsor, Calif., recently flew to Minnesota to celebrate his aunt's 100th birthday. Then it was off to Dallas with wife Sallye to celebrate her mother's 86th birthday.

Paul Cohune has been named asst. ad. mgr. for American Forest Products Corp., according to Dave Ohman, ad mgr. and PR director. The new job slot was needed to handle the increased advertising for AFPC's growing product line.

Frank Bruneau, Evans Products, Corona, spent a week traveling in Idaho on company business last month.

Jim and Betty Jones, Foster Lumber Yard, Vallejo, Calif. were in attendance again this year at the Hoo-Hoo Convention in Boston.

PauI Olsen and Bob Martin, AFPC, Newark, attended a recent specialty managers' meeting at Avila Beach.

I(arl Johnson, Savogran Co. of Los Angeles, has returned from a Western business trip.

Art Reeves of Fir and Pine, Burbank' Calif., is back to work aftel a visit to the hospital.

Phyllis Sykora, Nordahl Door Co., Burbank, recently returned from a vacation to Sierra County whele she and her husband panned for gold.

Cail A. Bricken, has been appointed vinyl moulding sales mgr, for the forest products div. of KimberlyClark.

Joe Fischer is back at work at BelAir Door in Alhambra, Calif., after a recent Asian tour.

Skip Gregg, Lane-Stanton Lumber, City of Industry, Calif., did the midwest recently during a 3 week vacation respite.

John Weston, president, Far West Fir' Sales, Glendale, Calif., vacationed bliefly in northern Calif. and the Pacific NW.

Leon Durham, Treated Pole Builders, Inc., Ontario, entered his

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prize Brown Swiss and Holstein cows inthe L.A. County Fair.

John Bozich, recently inspected Capitol Plywood warehouse Reno and conferred with mgr. Martin Tweet.

Dave Webb, Evans Products Co,, flew to the S.F. Bay Area on business in late October.

Dick Polsby, Georgia-Pacific, has been transferred to the Canoga Park warehouse from Berkeley, continuing as branch mgr.

Leonard Geul, Big B, Oakland, was injured in a car accident and was ofr u'ork for 2 weeks.

Bill Johnson, Hobbs-Wal[ Terra Linda, Calif., attended the Hoo-IIoo convention in Boston, during September.

Dennis Curran, AFPC, Cerritos, Calif., was among several grandchildren present to honor his maternal grandmother on her 91st birthday.

Larry Whittaker has joined R. F. Nikkel Lumber in Sacramento, Calif. He had been with Forest Products Marketing.

Don Derbes, Gary Thomson, Ray Lizotte, Don Cameron, Harley Hart, Bill Helbron, Paul Allyn, Nelson Sembach and Dale McCormicks were Inland Lumber Co. staffers. and their wives. who went to Hawaii on Inland's 3rd annual promotion trip. Also attending were Mrs. Fred Thomson and Mrs. Bill Sharp.

Al Mury, sales mgr. at Evans Products in S.F., took a week's vacation recently.

Dick Lambert, AFPC hardwoods in Cerritos, visited, the Newark hardwood operation and conferred there with Gary Stewart for a day.

Tom Halter is the new mgr. of the G-P branch in Berkeley. Tom transfers out here from Columbus.

Alan J. Hensley has become asst. sales mgr., distributor sales, at Evans Products, Corona, reports Tom Mock, sales mgr.

Earl Woodward, Evans Products, Corona, called on accounts in Colorado and Texas during October.

Yerlon McKinney, Pacific Hardwood Sales, Oakland, reports a fruitful sales trip to the Mid-West and East Coast late last month.

Dale Yates, Southwest Plywood & Lumber, L.A., has been elected to the board of the L.A. Hardwood Lumbermens Club, Frank Quattrocchi and Joe Contestabile, AFPC, Cerritos, took a recent swing thru mill country.

Jim Cooper, former L.A. lumberman, is in St. Agnes Hospital in Fresno recuperating after a serious car accident.

Phil Gilbert, mgr., Coos Head Lumber in San Pedro, Calif., is back at work after a recent car accident

Len Holman is back at work at Bel Air Door Co. after a High Sierra fishing trip. Don't ask how he did !

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Ken Yeager, Yeager Trucking, L,A., his wife June and daughter Lorie have visited Germany to see son Ron, stationed there with the U.S. Army.

Harry White, White Lumber Sales; Bob r#ells, AFPC; Lloyd Webb, Lane-Stanton; and Jack Tweedy, T\reedy Lumber Sales, were among Southlanders visiting the big Shasta-Cascade Hoo-Hoo blast.

Bill Sullivan, Big B Lumber, Oakland, reports he spent a glorious vacation with his wife in Vancouver and Lake Louise.

Wayne Watson; Wilhold Glue Co., Santa Fe Springs, Calif., recently returned from a one week business trip.

Jack Havens, formerly of Stan Swaford, and rep for Rex Lbr. Co., has joined the expanding: sales stafr of Lane-Stanton Lumber Co., City of Industry, Calif.

Chuck Riemann, comptroller for Barnett Lumber Co., Los Alamitos, Calif., recently returned from a vacation at Lake Tahoe.

R. H. Polsby has been named branch manager, San Fernando, Calif., distribution center of GeorgiaPacific Corp. reports Stanley S. Dennison, vp.

Ray Sedall, Calif. mgr. of Hirsch Lumber, had his hands full trying to keep the flames of the recent Malibu fire from jumping Pacific ,Coast Hwy, and devouring his home.

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