Club sips in a new year

LAUNCHING a new club year with installation of officers, Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club, Ukiah, Ca., hosted the ladies at a dinner and wine tasting at ltalian Swiss Colony, Asti, Ca. (Top left) Betty & Ted Schoen. Diane Mayfield, Jean Gamble. (L0w0r lott) Roy Nielsen, new pres., Dave Damon, retiring pres. and chairman lor the evening. Elmer & Jan McDade.

Colo. Firm Region Winner

Gitting Lumber Co., Denver, Co., has been named West Region winner in the l98l competition for the Van Kirk Award as Wholesaler of the Year in the program sponsored annually by the National Building Material Distributors Association.

Gitting and five other regional winners will be considered by a special panel of NBMDA manufacturer members. Announcement of the winner will be made Nov. 10.

Higlt Quality

FL0ATING ARTIFACT, Lightship No. 604, the Columbia, serves as a oermanent exhibit at the Columbia River Maritime Museum. Astoria. 0r. Last active lightship on the West Coast, the vessel stood vigil olf the lour-mile-wide mouth ol the Columbia River for 30 vears before being retired. The museum's exterior walls are sheath-ed in handsplit red cedar shakes, pressure treated by J. H. Baxter & Co., Portland, 0r., with NCX lire-retardant formulation f rom Koppers Co., Inc. The 339 piles ranging lrom 45 to 60 ft. in length came from the Danl & Russell, Inc., plant at Norlh Plains, 0r.

Lee Altman has been named mgr. of the 84 Lumber Co. store in Ventura, Ca.

Rick llores rs now handung plywood exports at the international sales div. of Boise Cascade, Portland, Or.

Robert Vought and Bob VonBargen are staffing the Fair Oaks, Ca., office of Shuksan Lumber Mfg., Inc., Arlington, Wa.

Bob Dunlap, pres., Dunlap Forest Products, Inc., Scottsdale, Az., is back in the office after a two week mill trip throughout N.M., Co. and Ut.

Dale Eichar, sawmill superintendent, Miller Redwood Co., Crescent City, Ca., is the newly elected pres. of the Redwood Inspection Service, San Francisco, Ca.,; Jack Razzeto, Rounds Distribution and Cloverdale Remanufacturing, Louisiana Pacific Corp., Cloverdale, Ca., v.p.; Peter Johnson, Jr., gen. mgr.-sec. treas. Warren D. Flinchpaugh, exec. v.p.-operations, the Pacific Lumber Co., Scotia, Ca., is the retiring pres.

Frank Wean has been named sales rep for the Nicolai Co., Portland, Or., according to John W. Lindsey, v.p. of marketing, in So. Ca. and Az., reporting to Bob Beckstrom, Southwest Area sales mgr.

Vivian Field, Lane-Stanton-Vance Lumber Co. , City of Industry, Ca., received a trip to Hawaii in recognition of her 25 years with the company.

Bob & Beverly Greenwell, A & G Lumber Co., Culver City, Ca., enjoyed a Caribbean cruise including Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and Virgin Islands.

Robert K. Close has been appointed district sales mgr. for the West Coast by AFCO Industries, Diboll, Tx., according to David G. Bancroft.

Don Renwick has joined Hampton Industrial Forest Products, Portland, Or., as a trader, according to Dennis Miller, general mgr.

Arden Dunker is now mgr. of plants and equipment for Idaho Timber Corp., Boise, Id. Retha Hull has been named sales mgr. of Idaho Timber Corp. of Texas with Rick Reeves, sales rep, according to Larry Williams, pres.

Dick Goos and Craig Rohlfing, formerly of Buckeye-Pacific, are heading the dimension lumber dept. at Arthur A. Pozzi Co., Portland, Or., according to Bob Borghont, mgr.

Clint Bower, Mariner's Forest Products, Santa Ana, Ca., has been on a buying trip to Indiana and North Carolina.

Marshall Lauch is heading Crestwood Industries lnternational Ltd.'s, Vancouver, B.C., newly opened office in Bellevue. Wa.

Bard Brown is new at Pacific Basin Forest Products, Portland, Or.

James Eisses has been named corporate director of engineered products for Louisiana-Pacific Corp., Portland, Or., according to Harry A. Merlo, chairman and pres.

Kevin O'Reilly is managing the new Kelleher Moulding Co., Inc. distribution center at Rancho Cucamonga, Ca., according to John S. Ahlers, mgr. of the San Rafael, Ca., firm.

William Buettner, United Wholesale Lumber Co., Montebello, Ca., is now celebrating his 5fth year in the lumber biz.

Rich Wilson has joined California Builders Supply as a product mgr. Roger Hensell is new in sales for the Sacramento, Ca., based firm.

"Hap" Hasty, Schmidbauer Lumber Co., Eureka, Ca., has been in So. Ca. on business.

Bud Perkins, Setzer Forest Products, Sacramento, Ca., is back from a two week fishing float trip in Alaska.

November, 1981

Skip Cheak, Norfield Sales & Service, Chico, Ca., was recently in Ft. Worth, Tx., on business, just in time to be caught by the heavy rains and flooding.

David Anawalt will be v.p. and gen. mgr. of the new Anawalt Lumber Co. yard in Hollywood, Ca.; Dennis Poor, mgr.; M. "Chuck" Holden, hardware; Mits Nishizawa, nursery.

Ed Fountain, Sr., pres., Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Ca,, spent ten successful hunting days in Colorado recently.

Dwight Hayes is the new pres. of Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo Club, West Covina, Ca.; Terry Patrick, v.p.; Walter Smith, sec.; Ron Mason, treas.; Steve Gabbert, Harold Schuh, Bill Morris, Mark Blakeslee, directors.

Eric Sullwold, owner/mgr., and Louis Sanchez, hardware mgr., Carpinteria Valley Lumber Co., recently visited Simpson Building Supply Co. production facilities in Shelton, Wa.

Willism T. Creson, pres., Crown Zellerbach Corp., San Francisco, Ca., is filling the position of chairman and c.e.o. vacated by the resignation of C. Raymond Dahl. Charles S. LaFollette, exec. v.p., also has left the company to join CBS, Inc.

Stu Robertson is staffing the new Agwood Mill & Lumber Inc. office at Seaside, Or.

George Little, Union Forest Products, Stockton, Ca., was recently scuba diving for lobsters off So. Ca.'s Channel Islands.

Frank Langfitt, senior v.p., wood products sales, has retired from GeorgiaPacific after 35 years.

John Nero is new to industrial sales at Tree Products Co., Lake Oswego. Or. ke Durham. Treated Pole Builders, Ontario, Ca., and his wife, Juanita, are back from a 6,000 mile vacation through Tenn., Louisiana and Tx.

Ted Mathews and Chuck Wills are back from some steelhead fishing on the McKenzie River, Eugene, Or., courtesy of Bohemia, Inc.

Myron DuBain, chairman of the board, pres. and c.e.o. of Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies, San Francisco, Ca., has been elected to the board of the San Francisco based Potlatch Corp.

Jerry Williams, past pres. of the Western Building Materials Association, has just returned from Japan and the People's Republic of China where he was delegation leader for a People-to-People Wood Products and Building Materials project.

Ralph, Rick and John Hagle were at the wheel of the Hagle Lumber Co., Inc. sponsored car in the recent Barstow (Ca.) 350 race. With the help of Joe "Too Hip" Ferreira and Steve "Hike for Help" Hill as co-drivers, they finished l2th in the 2/1600 class despite a breakdown after 225 miles, according to Steven D. Hill, v.p. of the Somis, Ca., firm.

Jim Murray, Louisiana-Pacific's Sonora Div., Standard, Ca., was recently in So. Ca. on company business.

Jerry McGuire, Cal-Forest Lumber Co., Gardena, Ca., has been in Hawaii on vacation.

Scott Gates, South Bay Forest Products, is back at his Phoenix, Az., office after a trip to Hq. at Orange, Ca.

Dennis Richardson, John Hollstein, Roger Braniger, & Doug Willis, South Bay Forest Products, Orange, Ca., were recently at Lake Mojave, Ca., on a long weekend sabbatical.

Genevieve Hussey and Lynne McKinney, senior secretaries at Simpson Timber, Seattle, Wa. have retired.

Gary Hartman, Forest Products Transportation, Ukiah, Ca., was recently in So. Ca. on business.

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Warren Haskins, All Coast Lumber Co., Chino, Ca., is at home recuping from cardiac arrest.

John A. Georges, vice chairman, wood products and paper, is the new pres. of International Paper Co.; Donald P. Brennan was named senior v.p. for land, timber, wood products, minerals, and diversified business.

Steve Snavely has moved his wife, Peggy, and son, Patrick, to Tempe, Az., where he assumed duties as pres. and gen. mgr. of the Western div. of Snavely Forest Products. He will headquarter in the Phoenix, Az., office with Chris Lueck continuing as mgr. of the Phoenix distribution yard, and Keith Gordon as mgr. of the Medford, Or., office.

Bud Baker, Baker Hardwood, San Diego, Ca., has returned from a tour of eastern U.S. and Canadian mills plus a touch of vacation.

Frank Stanek is now sales mgr. at D.G. Shelter Products, Klamath Falls, Or.

Rich Stoltz has joined sales at Rounds Distribution, Cloverdale, Ca.

Xen Tinckler, Stahl Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Ca., and his wife, Jo, have returned from the National Hardwood Lumber Association meeting in New York, where he completed a six year stint on the board of directors.

Dana M. Gibbons has been promoted to personnel mgr. at Georgia Pacific, Portland, Or., succeeding Walter B. Cheatham who transferred to the Southern Div., Augusta, Ga. Donna E. Lathrop has been promoted to personnel mgr. of the Distribution Div.

John Rysdorp has been promoted to mgr., marketing services/product development at Simpson Timber Co., Seattle, Wa., according to Tom Ingham, v.p. marketing. He replaces E.D. "Pit" Reiten. director of marketing services and research, who is retiring after 29 years with the company.

Bob Walzer is the new sales mgr. at Arden Lumber Co., Colville, Wa.

Harold Fay, Contact Lumber Co., Portland, Or., and his wife, Nadine,' are parents of a daughter, Anu Marie, born Oct. 19, 1981, weighing 8 lbs. 8 ozs.

John Lindsay is the new director of marketing at Nicolai Co., Portland, Or.

Paul McKay and Mike Ploghoft have joined the import div. of Contact Lumber Co.. Portland. Or.

UP Increases Capacity

Union Pacific Railroad has opened a $9.3 million switching yard at Yermo, Ca. The l2O acre,2O track freight car classification facility lies 160 miles northeast of Los Angeles. It is a major item in a $22 million construction program undertaken this year to increase capacity on their main line in Ut., So. Nv. and So. Ca.

Other improYements on the high desert, at UP's Los Angeles terminal and on the connecting line to the harbor area at Long Beach and San Pedro bring the total cost in Southern California to $12.2 million. New sidings and extensions in Nevadawill cost S8.4 million.

With track room for more than 1,000 freight cars and run-through tracks for coal and grain trains, the new Yermo yard will speed train handling at the Salt Lake City and Los Angeles terminals. Four new receiving/departure tracks have room for another 450 cars.

Incoming westbound freight cars will be classified here into Southern California destination "blocks" to relieve pressure that has been growing at the Los Angeles terminal. Similar work will classify eastbound cars for the Las Vegas terminal and points as distant as Pocatello, Id., and North Platte, Ne.

Terminal and yard trackage will be expanded and modified at Provo where Union Pacific picks up trains from connecting railroads. Tracks also will be extended and rearranged tat Milford, Ut., and Caliente, Nv' Extensive track work in the Las Vegas area will expedite trains in and ouf of that Southern Nevada terminal.