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Bob Dickinson, formerly in charge of Plywood Sales for Timber Products Co. at Mcdford, Oregor, is now with North Santiam Lumber Sales, Inc., of Salem, Oregon.

Fred "Fritz" Page has joined Hal Saltzman at American-International Forest Products. Portland, Ore. Fritz was formelly sales manager at Menasha Plywood Corp., who recently closed their No. Bend, Ore., plywood plant.

Norman B. Peterson will represent the Filer & Stowell Co. in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and California. Home base is Portland, Ore.

John A. Wood is now San Diego territory manager for Certain-Teed Products Corp., serving Arizona plus San Diego, Riverside and Imperial Counties in California'

Arcata Redwood's western sales chief, Paul Ward, has spent two weeks calling on customers in Colorado, Utah, Montana' Idaho and the Pacific northwest.

Warren Charlot recently resigned as lumber salesmanager of Publishers Paper Co. in Portland to open his own business.

C. C. "Smokey" Pittman, formerly with Bohemia Lumber Co. and Elkside Lumber Co., will fill the vacancy.

Congratulations to Jay O'Malley, John O'Malley, Jr., Ralph Heisser and Dean Drake, all of whom have gained promotions in the O'Malley Companies. Jay O'Malley has been named seniol vice-president, O'Malley Companies; John O'MaIleY, !':, president of O'Malley Companies; Ralph i{eisser, general manager of Mallco Distributors; and Dean Drake as general manager of O'Malley's retail division. AII men ar:e headquartered at Phoenix, Arizona.

Dick Osmundson has been named manager of Atkins, Kroll & Company's imported wood products division, according to Lon Ashman.

Popular Yic Roth, owner of Triangle Lumber Co., celebrated his 20th year of business Nov. 1. Vic was ol'iginally in Oakland, Calif., until buying his own building in Kensington, a small community in the nearby Berkeley Hills, where he also seles a dollar-a-year post as Mayor and Chief of Police. Vic is an active Hoo-Hoo, a past president of Oakland Hoo-Hoo CIub 39, a member of the N-AWLA and an energetic FPRS worker.

Stanley G. Kendall, formerly western regional manager, Rockwell Manufacturing Co., will be southwestern regional sales manager, power tool div' He'll serve eastern Arizona, southern Nevada and southern Calif.

Otto Arotik. has been hired to be the do-it-yourself expert at Hugh N. Cry's Edsel Lumber Co. in Climax, Nev.

Stan Ilulett recently returned to Willits Redwood Products after a business trip to Montreal and the East Coast just in time to trade desks with his dad, Leo, who then made his semi-annual sales pilgrimage through the deep South and Southeast. All this traveling is pretty much routine at

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Willits Redwood this year what with prexy Russell Ells jetting around the country in his important role as president of NFPA.

Phillis Fry, who started in the plywood business in 1959 when she was 20 years old, has been named sales manager of PIywood Marketing Associates, the sales arln for nine independent softwood manufacturers in Washington and Oregon.

Bud Groom leports business has been good at his newly opened Groom Building Supply in Snoqualmie, Wash. Assisting Bud are Jim Mitchell and Oliver Olson.

John E. Crandall has joined Michigan California Lumber Co. at Camino, Calif., as shipping coordinator and assistant salesmanager, according to general manager Bob Kohn. John was with Redding Pine Mills for nine years and later with EIk Lumber Co. at Medford, Oregon, as assistant salesmanager. He has many years experience in production, distribution and sales and has been a certified grader since 1938.

John Collinsworth, Portland, Oregon, has been named "Rep of the Year" by his company, Ekco Building Products, and given a loving cup and a check for 500 bucks.

J. R. "Jerry" Kohnke has been appointed assistant manager, building materials distribution centers, fcr Evans Products Company's building products division.

Griffin Forest Products, scarcely a month old, has started off on the right foot by joining the Lumber Merchants Association as an associate member. Jerry Griffin, formerly with California Sugar & Western Pine Agency, is owner of the San

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Mateo, Calif., firm. LMA has also welcomed another new regular dealer member - Mother Lode Lumber Co. of Mariposa, Calif. Vice-president Allan Smith will represent Mother Lode.

Gregg Barnette, 21-year-old member of the "Kids Next Door" singing group, opens December 22 at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. The group recently completed a tour with Ernie Ford and appeared on Don Knotts and Dean Martin TV specials. Gregg is the son of lumberman Max Barnette, sales manager at IBMC Redwood. Dominguez, Calif.

Sid Chattler, general manager at Globe International, Los Angeles, toured several Pacific Northwest mills, ineluding the Mouldings, Inc., plant in Harrisburg, bre.

Gene Burnett of Pacific-Madison Lumber Co., Downey, journeyed up to the redwood gountllr for a pow-wow with his partner Fay Madison and a look-see at theii Eureka mill.

John Kiner, former field man with the Lumber Association of Southern California. has been appointed administrative assis- tant to the congressman from the Tbth District, encompassing Riverside and Imperial counties.

Mahlon S. Munson has been made a member of the "Plywood Hall of Fame." for his lifetime of industry contributions. Bob Goodrich of Portland presented the award at the building mateiials distributor's annual convention,

Union Lumber Company's agency man supreme, Marty Salan, slipped away fronn the advertising mill for most of October and vacationed in England, Denmark, France, Germany and environs:

A. L. "Gus" Hoover, major domo at A. L. Hoover Lumber, San Marino, Calif., re- cently visited the Pacific Lumber Co. mill at Scotia and ventured on to San Francisco where he conferred with his son Bob Hoover, Palco's salesmanager.

Parley E. 'Bill, Cherry has joined the Pacifie marketing dept. of potlatch Forests, Inc. Bill will cover the intermountain region from Denver, Colo.

Art Ballou is back at Los-Cal Lumber, Los Angeles, where he had worked for five years before leaving to join Commercial Lumber. Art's minding the store for ailing Doug Gerard, who hopes to return soon.

Strait ,Door & Plywood's Charlie Strait is just back from a European business jaunt, He and the missus stopped off in Toronto to take in Expo ,6? beiore leaving for_Stockholm, Sweden, to tie-up a business deal.

John Osgood took a swing thru the Midwest and Southeast on a selling trip for Robert S. Osgood, fnc., Los Angelei importers.

Jerry Hyink and Chuck McKeon are back at their lVhisler Hardwood Co. desks in L.A. after visiting the company mill in Eugene. Both also got bucki while deer hunting during their travels.

Wedding bells for Marge Brooks and John Weston of Far West Fir Sales who were married November 25, at the Church of Religious Science. John is bossman and Marge is lumbergal-bookkeeper at the Glen- dale, Calif. wholesale firm. ,The newll'weds are now honeSrmooning in Hawaii for a couple of weeks before returning to their lumber chores. Our congratulations!

Congratulations to dealer Bob Dominick, owner of Mission City Lumber Co., Santa Clara, who recently exchanged "I Do's" with Martha "Muffy" Wall of Honolulu at a large Los Gatos wedding.

Duanne R. Duff has been named national sales rep for G-P's western lumber sales group at Portland, according to manager Thomas C. Houston. Duff had been woodwork division sales mgr. for Cal-Ida Lumber Co,

Some 75 friends and relatives attended a surprise parby for Jerry and Genevieve Bonnington at the Orinda Country Club,

October 18, to help the happy couple celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary. However, the biggest surprise came when Jerry and Genevieve discovered that all their "children', were therethree ,,boys,, and two "girls' to be exactas well as the "young" fella'who started Jerry on his lumber career, Wendling-Nathan's Duke Euphrat,9l years young and still enjoying a good party.

Jim and Fran Ramsey spent a week last month in San Francisco visiting friends and Union Lumber Co. headquarters for an annual sales meeting. Prior to joining Union at Chicago, Jim spent several years in the Bay Area with Weyerhaeuser and Cheim Lumber Co.

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