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C. R. Kalahan, Weyerhaeuser, Tacoma, Wa., was a recent Portland business visitor.

Gordon King, pres. Hampton Lumber Sales, Portland, recently toured and camped on the Rogue River in Southern Oregon.

"Buck" Newsom, National Forest Products Assn., Washington, D.C., has been in Portland on association matters.

G. C. "Smokey" Pittman is the new v.p., marketing for Mitsui Corp. at their Seattle/Tacoma area offices. He had been with Publishers Forest Products. Portland.

Ed More, merchandising mgr., consumer products, Formica Corp., is back in Cincinnati, Oh., after an extensive West Coast business trip.

George Fletcher is the new plant superintendent at DE Doors, Inc., South El Monte, Ca., according to Paul Wheeler, pres.

Bob Pallow, Fremont Forest Products, Whittier, Ca., and his wife, Peggy, spent last mo. touring Europe.

"Charley" Wilson, Lane Stanton Vance, City of Industry, Ca., got in a fortnight's vacation in England; Lloyd Webb vacationed in Mexico City and Acapulco. Luana Gilmore and Jean Frizell are new office girls.

"Bud" Radditz is the new gen. mgr. of Intercontinental Trading Corp., Lake Oswego, Or.

Stan Hulett has been chosen by the California Forest Protective Assn. as new exec. v.p.

Dave Duncan is now asst. lumber sales mgr. for Portland's Caffall Bros. Forest Products.

Allan Hudjohn is the new asst. mgr. and Leslie Speckert, new merchandise mgr. for Diamond International's Yuba City, Ca., store.

H. H. "Hap" Hasty, Jr., Schmidbauer Lumber Co. sales mgr., is back in Eureka, Ca., atter a Colorado vacation with his wife Mary.

Kim Fichera is a new member of the staff at Redwood Empire, Inc., Morgan Hill, Ca., according to pres. Roger Burch.

David M. Johnston is now national accounts mgr. for Leigh Products.

Elmer L. Erwin and Ian M. Watson have been elected v.p.s of Kaiser Cement & Gypsum, Oakland, Ca., according to Walter E. Ousterman, Jr.

Thomas C. Callen is new product mgr.re-siding, for Masonite Corp.

Bud Bristow is the new sales mgr. for Wood-Ply Forest Products, Chico, Ca.

Marceil Coor-Pender, Vent-Vue Products Co., Los Angeles, Ca., vacationed recently in Hawaii.

Wallace Williams is now selling for Atkins Kroll & Co.'s industrial sales dept., San Francisco.

Jerry Gowan is now lumber marketing mgr. and Mick Foy plywood marketing mgr. for Boise Cascade, Portland, following a sales force realignment. Jim Flores is now product mgr., lumber; Bill Ford industrial sales mgr.; and John Eklund, sales mgr. Lowell Mannering is the plywood product mgr. and Dean Short sales mgr.

Ken Tinckler, Stahl Lumber, Los Angeles, was kept busy at the recent concunent meetings of the National Hardwood Lumber Assn. and the National Wholesale Lumber Distributing Yard Assn. at their meetings in Louisville, Ky. Ken's on the board of directors of both.

Eldon Claycomb now is gen. sales mgr. for Imperial Wood Products. Pete Pollard, who has served as mgr. of their plants in Spokane, Wa., and Flagstaff, Az., is now gen. mgr.

Jim Spangler and Fred Johnson are now handling lumber sales for Northwest Pine Sales. Portland.

Ruth Foxton has joined MacBeath Hardwood's Brush Industrial Lumber Div., Montebello, Ca. Ruth had been with Southwest Machinery Co., Santa Fe Springs, Ca.

Bob Bretz is the new sales mgr. for Sequoia Forest Industries, Dinuba, Ca., John Montanya remains sales mgr. for Kings River Pine, Bert Dennis as director of sales for Wickes Forest Industries, Dinuba.

Dennis Richardson, South Bay Redwood, Orange, Ca., is back after a vacation drive thru the Rockies to Aurora, I11., to visit family, then on home via the Southern route.

Pete Clough, who recently joined the sales staff at Inland Lumber Co., Colton, Ca., became a papa Sept. 28 of Matthew Hayes Clough, 7 lbs 8-3/4 oz. Wife Linda doing fine. Pete had been with South Bay Redwood Co.

Mike Dode and Richard Miller have joined Burns Lumber Co., Encino, Ca., as lumber traders.

Wayne Gardner, exec. v.p., Lumber Association of Southern California, L.A., has been designated a Certified Association Executive by the American Society of Association Executives.

James H. Anthony is the new wood products and timberland operations mgr. for Pope & Talbot's Oakridge, Or., div., according to Guy B. Pope, pres.

Dave Walton, Simpson Building Sup- ply, Santa Clara, Ca., is the proud father of a son, Michael John, 9 lbs., born October 15.

Pat Millhorn is the new particleboard sales mgr. for Wickes Forest Industries, Dinuba, Ca., according to Bert Dennis. director of sales. Pat is at the Chowchilla office and remains office mgr.

Sterling Wolfe, Marquart-Wolfe Lumber, Orange, Ca., was a recent Lake Tahoe house guest of Bob West, Placerville Lumber, Placerville. Ca.

Peter Van Oosting, 80, semi-retired from Glendale Plywood, Glendale, Ca., recently took his family, incl. grandchildren, to Holland for four weeks to visit the familv he left there in 1908 when he came to America. They spent another four weeks in England.

Leonard S. Guy is the new asst. traffic mgr. for Union Pacific's southwestern sales territory, L.A., succeeding James J. Johnson, promoted to Portland traffic mgr.

Kerry N. Aldrich is the new shipping mgr. for Plastmo, Inc., Springfield. Or.

Jere Goodrich is the new direct sales mgr, for Goodrich Forest Products, Portland, which is now handling direct sales for Vancouver, B.C.based Evergreen Forest Products. Bob Goodrich is forest products consultant, Harry Nelson, Jerry Extra and Jack Moore sale reps.

John Grace is now manning National Forest Products Co.'s new Tacoma. Wa.. office.

Terry Crabtree is now in sales for Simon, Crabtree & Ryan, Lake Oswego, Or.

Dick Lambert is glad to be back at American Forest Products, Cerritos, Ca.. after an extensive East Coast sales safari. It was just one of those trips when everything went wrong.

Mike Freeman is a new Seattle-based rep for the American Plywood Assn.

Ron Lewman, Sonoma Wood Products, Healdsberg, Ca., a div. of South Bay Redwood Co., Orange, Ca., got in a recent business trip to Vancouver, B.C.

Robert E. Scifres, 59, has been named chairman and chief exec. officer of National Gypsum Co., succeeding William M. North 65, who has retired.

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