Annual Vall"y Frolic

nNE Ol' the older and more successful V Hoo-Hoo clulr events in the west is the Valley Frolic, staged this fall {or the 22nd year by the active San Joaquin Club, based in Fresno. Calif.

Installation of officers saw the following invested with their office: president. Hamilton Knott, Yosemite Lumber Co.; northern vp., Jean Hartsock, K-Y Lumber Co.; southern vp., Al Smith, Farmers Lumber; sec-treasurer. Bernie Barber, Jr., Bernie Barber & Assoc.; sgt. at arms, Ted Mathews. Pacific Forest Products.

Dircctors are Hugo Rath, Tarter, W'ebster & Johnson; Ted Felles; Rob Reid, Reid and W'right; Craig Gaffney, Bonnington Lumber; Bob Schlotthauer, I(/illard Lumber. Viceregent snark is George Haire, Riverdale Lumber. Harold Fuerst, the retiring president. was presented with a past-president's pin.

Nolionol's Good Meet in Phoenix

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'['lrarrk rou. Lorerr l)ormart und staff.

Chonges ot Hobbs Woll

Stt'P1.rirrg. tr1-r to lhairmtrrr ,,f lhe ltoard of Hohl,s \\'all l,rrmbcr (1o.. Irrr'. is Alfred D. Bell. Jr'. l a.sumirrg the pl'si<lt'rrcr'. \\.illiam C. Johnsorr.

'l'hat pt'renniallv happx' lurnlrt'rrnatt. Lewis A. (lodaltl. has resig. ne<l as a tliler'tor lrut is keepirru irr closc lout'h as hortoraLv tl-*si,"tant t hailrnan of thc l,oalrl. Ht' carr still lre reaclrcd must mornirrgs at the ( oml)irnv ollice at 2030 []nion St.. Satr l"r'rrrcisc'o.

Dwight Curran, American Forest Products, Tarter, Webster & Johnson Div., Newark, Calif., recently visited the Los Angeles area.

Jack Millikan, Lane Lumber Co., Los Angeles, who is also a Navy Reserve Capt., accepted for his unit the 2nd Meritorious Unit Commendation ever awarded a reserve unit.

Merl Tanner has joined the sales staff of L. M. Crawford Co., Ukiah, Calif. He formerly was with Coastal Wholesale in Hayward.

W. G. "Gary" Reed, Jr., has been ap- pointed exec. vp, of Simpson Timber Co. He is the 4th generation of family ownership in the flrm. He will succeed his father, W. G. Re€d, as co. chairman when the latter retires.

Ken Schmidtkg IBMC, No. Long Beach, Calif., shot two pars at the L.A. Harbor Shrine Club golf meet in Palm Springs.

PauI Lahmon and Bob Bohn, owners of R&C Building Products, Fairfield, Calif., report good fall business.

Val Gardner is now mgr. of lumber sales for J. H. Baxter & Co. He is working out of .their Eugene, Ore., office.

Ifarry West is a new salesman for Potlatch's Mico div. in southern Calif.

T[ayne Gardner, Lumber Assn. of So. Calif., and Bob Griesche, Wood Products Industry Fund, Oakland, were two of the nation's three lumber and bldg. mtls. trade assn. execs. at the American Society of Assn. Executives Nov. meet in Las Vegas.

Bruce Glanvillg Gardena Moulding, says they are only a few weeks away from moving into their new plant in So. El Monte, Calif.

Trudy Smith has joined the ofrce stafr of Mahogany Importing Div., Wood Products Group of Potlatch Forests, Inc., Compton, Calif.

Lee Weldin, Jr. is Marlite's new rep. for San Diego and east to the Ariz. border, Lloyd Webb of Vance Lumber Co., Commerce, Calif., has returned from a business trip to northern Calif. and Oregon.

A. M. Halladay, president of United Wholesale Lumber, Montebello, Calif., vacationed in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Dave Monley has joined the sales staff of Lancaster Glass Panel Products of Hawthorne, Calif.

Dick and Bob Hoover, A. L. Hoover & Sons, and Palco, respectively, have vacationed with their families in Sun Valley.

Walter Kuclq Wholesale Forest Products, Los Angeles, has retired. He was with the U.S. Plywood div. for 6 years.

Hal Sharp, Inland Lumber Co., Colton, Calif., is back at it after a bout with the flu.

UYr:tcm Lumbcr t lulldlng llotoriok IERCIIANT

Sten Pion, South Bay Redwood Co., Eawthorne, Calif., recently spent a few days in Arizona on business.

Dric llexberg, Hexberg Lumber Sales Inc., Long Beach, Calif., and his wife have returned from a Caribbean cruise.

Pat Young of Potlatch's Mico div. was in eastern Canada on a business safari. Mico's Bill Howe attended the hardwood convention in Miami.

Ilob Pieper now handles northern as well as southern Calif. sales for Sta-Lube.

Robert E. Oldendorph is Abitibi's new manufacturing mgr.

Bobby Knoop, second baseman for the Angels, is keeping in shape working in the yard at Arthur A, Pozzi & Co., Orange, Calif.

Yvonne Branch has joined the office staf of South Bay Redwood Co. She was a former black jack dealer at Lake Tahoe's Nevada Lodge.

Dd Fountain, Sr., Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, rec€ntly attended the American Institute of Timber Construction convention in Denver. He also managed to get a few days of duck hunting in Mexico.

Frank Richards has joined the sales staf of Ajax Hardware, Industry, Calif.

Sterling Wolfg Jr., Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Newport Beach, Calif.' went to the big UCLA/USC game in style in a "well-equipped" bus with a load of his friends.

OECENIBEI, I969

Seth Potter, AFPC's Tarter, Webster & Johnson div., is back in Cerritos, Calif,, after a quick tour of company facilities.

Jim Bolte, Southwest Forest Industries and his u'ife have returned from a trip to the Orient.

John Weston, Fal West Fir Sales, Glendale, Calif., is anticipating becoming a grandfather this month.

Gil Reel, Reel Lumber Co., Los Angeles, recently attended the National Hardwood Lumber Cotvention in Miami.

John W. Pryor is the new Los Angelesnorth dist. rep. for Celotex.

Ralph Hill, BMDCA, Los Angeles, has been nursing a sore hand lately; keeps say- ing a cat bit it.

George Richhart, owner of G&T Enterprises Orange, Calif., recently returned from a sales trip to the Pacific Northwest.

Carol Ann Young has joined the office staff of Academy Door, Los Angeles, Calif.

Art llaldwin, is the new inside sales coordinator at Tree Wax Co., Culver City, Calif.

Gail Gregg, daughter of Skip Gregg, Lane Lumber Co., L.A., has joined the Lane o{fice stafr.

Gil Ward, Ward & Harrington, was a recent visitor in the Palm Springs an:ea, attending LASC's successful management conference,

Glen Chasteen, Koppers Co., L,A,, spent Thanksgiving at his hideaway home in Palm Desert. Calif.

Harold M. Frodsham, South Bay Redwood Co., Hawthorne, Calif., is visiting London, Rome, Athens, Bombay, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Guam and Hawaii. He'll be back in time for Christmas Eve.

Ililmar Hauge, Sacramento lumbcrman, is out of the hospital aftet a minor body repair job.

Orrie Hamilton, retired managing officer of the Lumber Association of Souther"n Calif., was feted by his children with a 50th wedding anniversary celebration. All our best to you, Onie.

Ted Tillman of Borg Warner, Torrance, Calif., visited the Pacific Northwest on business. Ken Sullivan of the same company has returned from a business trip to San Diego.

Clarence Hines, Port Orford, Ore., has closed his Port Orford Bldg. Supply permanently.

Ildward L. Kimball, G-P, and William Lehrburger, U.S. Plywood, were elected to the board at the S.F. annual meeting of the Producer's Council.

George Gaudet and Ken Hart concentrate much of the efrorts of their Dublin Lumber & Fence, Dublin, Calif., on fence and patio jobs.

Ron Nedry is the new sales mgl. for the West Coast div. of Vanply, Inc.

Howard Seim, Seim Builders & Supply, Ritzville, Wash., hopes to have that new 50'x100' building completed before Jan. 1.

Joe LaPaglia has been named trafhc mgr. at American International Forest Products, Portland, by Ilarold Saltzm,an, president of AIFP.

Harry Bleile and John Nelson, KimberlyClark, Anderson, Calif., were in attendance at N-AWLA's recent Medford, Ore., regional.

Ilogel Powers, paneling buyer at Bill Cooper's Cooper Lumber Co., L.A., reports good luck with their sound/firm pro- jector package on pre-finishing paneling.

Bob Crockshank, regional sales mgr. of Nutone, Commerce, Calif., has returned from a recent Eastern business trip.

Bill Dugal, Beam Industries, Industry, Calif., recently played host to William Cordaoni, pres. of parent co., Hewnrite, Long Island, N.Y.

Hugo and Phyllis Miller, Rounds Lumber Co., Pico Rivera, Calif., took in the recent Can-Am race at Riverside.

Jerry Hickey, ex-Merchant Magazine stafrer, checked in recently and said to wish all his friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Jerry now work*. for Day & Night Mfg. as PR dir.

Art Post, owner, Delano Building Materials, Delano, Calif., received the Delano Chamber of Commerce award for thc. outstandine business of 1969.