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Ylrayne Vlilson and his wife, Dottie, combined golf and D.C. Essley & Son business on a recent 10 day coast trip from Greater Metropolitan Lompoc to San trYancisco.

Leon Durham, Treated Pole Builders, Inc., Ontario, won a Blue Ribbon at the L.A. County Fair for his Brown Swiss bull plus some 20 blue ribbons for his Holstein herd. His 2-year-old cow set a new necord of 1,067 lbs. of butter and 23,700 lbs. of milk in a 365 day period, Elsie the Borden Cow: eat your heart out!

Jack Higgins, Higgins Hardwood, San Francisco, has been making a number of plans to celebrate '73, the firm's 90th year in business.

Bernadine Storm, Inland Lumber Co., Tustin, ,Ca., is the new president of the Orange County Hoo-HooEttes.

Arthur E. Pufiord is the new vp.-finance of American Forest Produets, according to J. T. "Jack" Guyol, chief exec. officer.

AIex Rosa is the new sales promotion mgr,, Bestile Mfg. Co., Ontario, Ca. He had been with Roberts Consolidated Industries.

Ruth Wiley, owner of the Foothill Lumber Co., Glendora, Ca., vacationed recently in the Caribbean.

Marie Eckstrom, Eckstrom Plywood, L.A., vacationed- for a week in Switzerland.

John Osgoo'd has just coniluded a pan-Orient business trip for Robert S. Osgood, Inc., L.A.

Dick Freeman, So-Cal Commercial, City of Commerce, Ca., recently completed a month's trip through 7 South American countries; some business, some fun.

Walter W. Dodson, Albuquerque, and Fred Oringdulph, Jr., Portland, and Bob Fletcher, Seattle, were Westeraers on the program of this year's Nt1 Sash & Door Job. bers'confab.

Bob Mullen, Armstrong Cork's mgr., western sales region, is back in Burlingame after a trip to L.A. just prior to Armstrong's grant bash in San Franciseo last month.

Colleen Courtwright has returned to AFP, Redding, Ca., as a buyer, replacing Virgil Mastelotto, who moved to Stockton Box as mgr., Iumber procurement, according to Bob Wells, vp.

Robert \r. Smith has been elected exec. vp. of the Wood Products Association of Hawaii.

Bud Radditz is now vp. of Plywood fmporters, Ltd. Bud had been with Higgins Hardwood, San Francisco.

Don Philipa, Jr., Philips Lumber Sales, Thousand Oaks, Ca., is back after a buying ( ? ) trip thru Ca., Ore. and Wash.

Stuart Cosslett, import rngr., G-P, Portland, has been elected a new director of IHPA.

Milt Taylor and T. C. Manous have joined P.W.P., Los Angeles, as officers and directors, according to P.W.P. chief Jack Davidson.

L. Russell Haan is the new import purchasing director for G-P's import dept., Portland.

Thomas R. Jones is Roseburg Lumber's new asst. sales mgr. for plywood in Roseburg, Ore.

Hugo Miller is back at home base in Arrcadia, Ca., after an Albuquerque trip on Boise Cascade business.

Bob Stermitz has been promoted to asst, group mgr., bldg. products group of Southwest Forest Industries, according to R. E. Baker. George Elder is now W.-g'en. mgr. of Schlage Lock Co., San Francisco, reveals Marron Kendrick, chairman and president.

L. Dean Seymore is the new mgr., Flagstaff lumber operations, Southwest Forest Industries, according to S. A. Shrigley, vp., wood operations.

W. E. "Bi[' Turner, D&M Products Co., Portland, represented the U.S.A. at the World Pallet Congress, Lucerne, Switzerland.

Benton R. Cancell has been elected to a third 1-year term as president of the American Forest Institute; R. J. Hogue, Medford Corp., is vp.; R. O. "Bob" Lee, G-P, was name.d treasurer, Les Corlett and Joel Kaplan have joined the Ideal Brushes, No. Hollywood, sales force.

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Frank Denny, Stilden Co., Upland, Ca., recently business tripped to Bakersffeld, Ca.; Topeka, Ks.; Houston,Tx.; and Vancouver, B.C.

Glen L. Graff is the mgr. of Marlite's lst regional distribution center. It's in La Mirada, Ca. R. E. Harriff is their new Southwestern region mgr.

Dr. Piotr Zenczak is the head man for Evans' new technology and engineering group.

Donald A. Graves is the new gen. mgr. of Cascade Locks Lumber Co., Hood River, Ore.

IIam Knott, Yosemite Lumber, Flesno, is recovering nicely from a fall off a roof that could have been very serious.

fub Kimble, Sequoia Lumber, Visalia, Ca,, and his wife, Betty, recently vacationed tripped to Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Rolston Johnson, Butler-Johnson Corp., San Jose, Ca., recently visited San Luis Obispo for a football game.

Jim Gaither, AFP, Fresno, is baek from a mill buying trip. Gary Stewart attended the NHI"A ?6th annual confab in St. Louis.

Elmar Brock and Ron Robbins left their AFP, Newark, desks for a week's mill buying trip.

Bryan Bonnington, Bonnington Lumber, Oakland, recently took the jet boat trip with his wife down the Rogue River from Grants Pass, Ore.

Al Stockton, San Bruno Lumber, San Bruno, Ca., got in nine days of good times in Spain recently.

Don Nay has been elected president of the Calif. Assn. of Port Authorities; he's the port director for San Diego.

lYalter E. Ousterman and JameB C. Reilly, both exec. vps. with Kaiser Cement & Gyp., have been named to the board of directors. Harlan C. Dupuis is now mgr,, dept. of planning, development and admin. Bob and Wally Arends escaped from OK Lumber, San Carlos, Ca., for a 10 day fishing trip on the Klamath; and are they all grins!

Jack Holmquist has joined Belmont Door & Plywood, Belmont, Ca., as asst. mgr.. rePorts JerrY Fernandez.

Don Thom and Paul Bauer, Bruce Bauer Lumber, San Carlos, made it to eastern Ore. for a week of hunting.

Bob Dickinson, Gold Rey Forest Products, Beaverton, Ore., took wife and kiddies vacationing to S.F. and Reno.

Paul Olson and Ron Delisle have resigned from AFP., Newark, Ca., to form their own wholesale firm. Name is P.R.O.D. (a combination of their initials); they're locating in the Bay Area. Ed llasenyaeger business tripped East this Fall for Colonial Lumber, San Mateo, Ca.

Joe Wheeler recently took over as plant mgr. at Louisiana-Pacific's Oroville, Ca., mill (ex-G-P). He formerly handled mill sales at Ukiah, where Fred Scaife is now handling those duties.

Ilirnry Yan de Yoorde was recently named mgr., Montezuma Plywood Co,, Cortez, Colo., a Southwest Forest Industries' subsidiary.

Roy Bayless has been appointed Boise Cascade bldg. products div. sales administration mgr., according to Art Phillips.

Steve Wesley, Hubbard & Johnson, Mt. View, Ca., took a v/eek off to entertain the relatives from Minn.

Jim Hayes has been promoted to asst. to the mgr. at Georgia-Pacific in San Jose.

Joe Allen, a longtime Evans Products etnployee, has been working out of their Sacramento distribution center for the past few months.

Norm Rose has resigned as mgt. of Globe Interaational's San Jose distribution center.

Harry Nilson, San Jose and Tom Halter, San Leandro, were among G-P'ers making it to the western regional mgrs. meet in San Diego.

Dale McElroy of San Jose's McElroy Lumber, didn't do anything this rnonth, but we thought we'd mention his name anyway.

Ron Sharples and Michael Connelly, both of whose fathers work for Sequoia Forest Industries, and Donna Silva, whose father owns Denair Lumber Co., have won scholarships from San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo club.

Don Gabehart is the new gen. mgr. in Ukiah for Golden State Forest Products.

Phoenix Firm Exponding

Entz-White Lumber & Supply, Inc., 909 East Camelback Road, Phoenix, Ariz., has started construction on a major expansion program. Interest. ingly, it is opposite a competing store, one of the Handyman outfits.

A leader in selling the consumer trade since its founding in 1952, it was the first building material store in Arizona to go to self-service, pricing lumber by the piece and other conveniences for the buyer that have now become standard practice in almost all lar$er retail building material operations.

FIRSI pour for Entz-White remodeling finds (l-r) Art Talbot, project mgr., Kitchell Con. tractors; Bob Crowe, job super.; Carl Buchanan, vp. of Entz-White; Gary Nelson of Haver, Nunn & Nelson, architects; and John Entz, president of Entz-White.

The new store, with expanded parking will cover two city blocks. Enclosed sales and warehouse space will total over 731000 sq. ft., and there will be an additional 25,500 sq. ft. of courtyard, inside the O-shaped complex, which will be used for dis' playing outdoor-type products.

Wotch Those Freight Billings

Western lumber shippers have been advised by railroad officials that more attention must be given to freight billing practices where mixed.species shipments are involved.

WII/PA transportation dept. man' ager James G. Manning has met with both carrier and Transcontinental Freight Bureau (TCFB) representatives in San Francisco to discuss serious problems arising from industry marketing of mixed lumber and wood producb species, such as hemfiro western woods .or white woods. Some shippers, charge the carriers, are freight-billing lumber and wood product combinations other than those species specifically spelled out in the tarifis.

For example: A hem-fir shipment must reflect, says Manning, the content of the car(s). The billing must indicate that the hem-fir is fir or hemlock or a combination of these individual species. Manning notes that a shipment billed only as hemfir, western woods or white woods creates a problem because the combination does not appear in the tarifi and must be rated under the general class-rate description 'olumber-nototherwise-indexed-by-namer" a classification taking on extremely high rate as compared to regular lumber rates.

His address is below. He'll be delighted to-help you.

Carrier-concern for the failure to bill specific species arises not because they object to the marketing or invoicing of these mixed species, but beoause tarifis spell-out species' rates and station agents throughout the nation are gbverned by these "spellouts." Correct freight billing is particularly important, says Manning, on milling-in.transit operations. In this latter case, the tariff authorizes no substitution of species. Both in. bound and outbound billing must clearly show on the bill of lading the species as defined in the tarifrs.

Stqndond Strucfures Moving

Standard Structures, Inc. is moving their operation from Santa Rosa, Ca., to Windsor, to the site of the old Speedspace plent.

The 34 acre facility includes 180,000 sq. ft. o{ plant, warehouse and office space available for lease. Lumber has already been moved into the dry kilns and the pro' duction equipment personnel will transfer next month, according to Richard Caletti, president of Standard Structures, which manuf,bctures structural glued larninated timbers. The offices have moved to Windsor already and the production departments will complete their move by the end of January.

Caletti said sales are running about $7.5 million and that he expects a 25/o increase in 1973. They plan to increase their marketing area from its present Western states base to include stat€s as far East as the Mississippi River.

The firm has more than I20 inside and outside iarpenters and an office stafi of 30.

New Humboldt Officers

Frank E. Stanger of Simpson Building Supply, Eureka, Ca., has been elected the new president of the local HooHoo club, Humboldt #63.

Other officers are Henry Dreckman, vp.; Paul Adams, sec.; Lynn Richardson, treas.l honorary board director, Sam Witzel.

The board members are Tony Gilbert, Rodger Oiler, John Kelly, Paul F. Wran Doug Clayton, Harvey Carroll, Paul Ward and Max Corning.

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Hqrdwood Price Appeol

The history oI hardwood lumber prices, Iactors afiecting hardwood prices and the effect o{ those prices on the furniture industry and the economy in general have been discussed by representatives of Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers, Inc., at a recent public hearing of the Price Commission in Atlanta.

James P. Hamer, Hamer Lumber Co., Kenova, W.Va., told the Commission, "We submit that, because of the unique nature of the hardwood manufacturing industry and the extraordinary circumstances which prevailed in the industry at the time the wage and price freeze was imposed in August of 1971, it is grossly inequitable to apply to the hardwood industry the rules and regulations which apply generally to manufacturers. Indeedp we believe that continued adherence to these rules and regulations seriously threatens the vitality, if not the survival, of the hardwood industry."

No statement in response was issued by the Price Commission.

1973 Home lmprovement Plqn

Contractor and dealer members of the five sponsoring associations of the industry annual o'Home Improvement Time" Program have been appointed to a new advisory committee to assist in creating and coordinating more efiective home improvement advertising and promotion aids at the local level.

This new advisory com,rnittee will meet March 7, in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Schroeder New RIS President

Darrell H. Schroeder has been elected president of the Redwood Inspection Service, succeeding Fred C. Holmr:s, president of Fred C. Holmes Lumber Co. Schroeder is general manager and treasurer of Miller Redwood Co.

Arthur H. Harwood, Harwood Products, .was elected vp. George Thompson, RIS building standards manager, was reelected secretary and Peter Johnson, Jr., California Redwood Assn,, was reelected treasurer of RIS.

Douglas Clayton and Dennis Hess were elected to the board of directors. Clayton is general manager of CalPacific Manufacturing Co.; Hess is sales manager for Simonson Lumber.

New Wholesole Firm

A new wholesale firm called High Sierra Lumber Co. has been started by Bob Theetge. Working with him in their Arcadia, Calif., office are his son, Dick, and John Ruan.

Strictly wholesale, they are selling furniture. mobile home. sash and door

FltM meeting and other manufacturers direct and Lc.l. as well as from their Gardena. Calif., distribution yard.

Lake Mendocino. Left, Fred Gummerson, Bill Smith, Hans Tschirch, Mike Edgar, Jack Fowell. At center: Chris Jepsen, Joe Bowman, Russ McDonnell, Jack Davies, Hans Tschirch. Right: Jack Powell, Mike Edgar, Gary Gamble. Nearly lffi attended. Ed Hanson, Jr. chaired event, is club prez. for new year.

. Theetge has been in the lumber business since 1945. For tl-re past three years he was the buyer for Pine Ridee Lumber Co.

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