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Ron Larson and Steve Campbell are now with Rogue Forest Products, Medford, Ore.

Dave Corkill is the new product mgr., according to Glenn E. Wilson, v.p., gypsum div., Georgia-Pacific, Portland.

Stan Stephens is the new pres. and g/m of White Sands Forest Products, Alamogordo, N.M., following the retirement of W. Parker Arthur.

Don W. Jurgensen has joined E.L. Bruce Co. as directorofpersonnel.

Arnold C. Krueger is now -selling for Shakertown's Winlock, Wash., stain div.

Dennis J. Mullins is in the new slot of mgr. of business development for Boise Cascade.

Fred Cosper is now on White Lumber Sales' trading staff, .Portland.

Larry L. Funk is Marlite's new director of marketing, according to Dean D. Gould, v.p.lglm. William R. Maddox is a new sales rep in their Western region.

C. Glen Beattie, mgr., laminated products group, forest products div., Koppers Co., has been named to the board of the American Institute of Timber Construction.

Western Lumber and Bulldlng Materials MERCHANT

Bob Slettedahl, Lumbermens of Shelton, Wash.; Terry Mullin, Terry Bldg. Centers, Tarzana, Ca.; and King McKee, Forest Lumber Co., San Marino. Ca.. were all on the NLBMDA program at the annual meeting in historic Williamsburg, Va.

Murray L. Dorfman has been named v.p.-corp. relations and Thomas W. Simons as v.p.-sales/marketing for Familian Corp., the West's largest distributor of _plumbing products.

Richard J. Wilborn has been appointed Pac. Northwest area industrial relations director for Kaiser Cement.

Robert E. Myers has been named lumber coordinator for Willamette Industries, Albany, Ore.

Webb Maddux has been appointed v.p., marketing for Homelite.

Robert G. Monckton is now mgr., marketing services for Masonite's Marlite div.

William C. Kidd is now in sales for. Marlite's Western region (Ore. arrd No. Idaho).

Ernest T. Christison is now mill s/m with Hampton Lumber Sales Co., according to v. p. g/m Gordon J. King.

Albert A. Gulick has been named mgr., market planning, blde. mtls. div.. AFP, San Francisco.

Jesse R. Drake is the new directormarket development & sales for Evans Products' international operations, Dale E. Ogle reports.

John Preston Wolfe is the new merchandise mgr. in the Southwest for Certain-teed Products' shelter materials group.

Dave Disselbrett and Vic Hadlev have joined the trading stdff at Medford's Forestglen Lumber Co.

Gordon T. Levering is now marketing mgr., bldg. products sales for Armstrong Cork.

Ramsey P. Fendall is now selling indus- trials nationally for Hampton Lumber Sales Co.. Portland. according to co. pres. Gordon J. King.

Howard Van Dorn is American Wholesale Hardware's new San Diego rep.

Andrew M. Nygaard and Borden F. Beck, Jr., are new board members of Dant & Russell, Portland.

Ken Achterberg has joined Home Improvement Center, a div. of Home Lumber Yard, Inc., Turlock, Ca., according to g/m t eroy Ward. Ken had owned Kennv's Hardware. Ceres.

Richard E. Hug has been promoted to v.p. and g/m of the environmental group of Koppers Co.

Otto N. Miller has been elected a director of Weyerhaeuser Co. He is the head man of Standard Oil of California, which is also a fair sized enterprise.

Sam Fineman, president of Bel-Air Door Co., is back at his Alhambra. Ca.. desk after an extensive Orient business trip. Dennis S. Elia has been named Bel-Air marketing mgr.

Bruce W. Mallery is mgr. of Evans Products' new Beaverton. Ore.. wholesale distribution center, according to Ernest F. Warns, group v.p.

Kay Kahus, former WWPA field man based in Phoenix, has been Dromoted to central regional nigr., with hq. in Michigan. (You're gonna miss that Ariz. sun come about Feb., Kay.).

Kent Hobbs is now gen. mgr., Preston Lumber Co., Preston, Ida., according to R.J. McCaslin, president.

C. Thomas Richardson is now plywood sales mgr., Columbia Corridor div., for Louisiana-Pacific.

David A. Day is the new national retail marketing mgr. for DG Shelter Products' service centers div., according to div. pres. James W. Craig.

Terri Karcis is a trainee at AFP, Cerritos. Linda Unger is also a sales trainee at AFP, Van Nuys.

George Warmath has been named gen. sales mgr., Western div., for the Bruce Paneling div. of E.L. Bruce Co., according to Claude Taylor, director of sales and marketing.

Dennis Nelson and Edward Gale are now in sales at AFP, Stockton, Ca.. according to mgr. ,.Nifty,' Gay.

Homer C. Davenpori is the new gen. traffic mgr., Southwest Forest Industries. Phoenix.

Dennis L. Byerly and Thomas M. Richert are now on the sales staff at Oregon Pacific's new Fairfield, Ca., distribution center.

Art Reeves,office mgr., Fir and Pine Lumber Co., Burbank, Ca., is retiring after 26 years and is moving to Monterey.

James A. Ramsey is now mgr., redwood lumber sales for Georgia-Pacific, according to William W. Wells, gen. mgr., Western timber & bldg. products manufacturing, Portland, Duane M. Wetter, 37, is the new president of E. L. Bruce Co., a subsidiary of Cook Industries, Inc.

Chuck Taylor is now on the Glesby Building Materials Co. sales staff for San Diego, reports Dick Ferrell, v.p.

George J. Ritchie is the new v.p. operations for Pope & Talbot, Portland.

Al Boyce, Bruce Burns and Dale Bacon have begun their own firm in Orange, Ca., called National Softwood Sales. Thev had been with Southwest Foiest Industries.

Bob Fremb is now asst. sales mgr. for Portland's Medford Corp.

Kenneth D. O'Neil, 36, is the new pres. of Hearin Products, portland. a DG div., accordins to Robert C. McCracken, DiGiorgio president. Richard G. Reiten. Fiearin exec. v.p.. has been elected to the DiGiorgio board of directors.

S. A. "Stan" Merrick is now ensineering rep., Noise Engineering-. Inc.. S.F.. He's based in Redding.

Gene Courchaine. Amencan F'orest Products, Cerritos, Ca., recently trailer-toured Mexico and visited retiree Maynard Halladay, former owner of theold United Wholesale Lumber Co. (now owned bv Fruit Growers Supplv) at Aguis Caliente, north' of Guadalajara, Mexico.

Seth Potter, LASC's new v.p. (see page 16) celebrated his 27th wedding anniversary withhis bride "Jimmie" at the convention. He's also recently back from AFP business in Portland.

Harold Cole, MacBeath Hardwood, Salt Lake City, reports son Ross is in Ariz., in the final stages of earning his doctorate, major: education and Korean language and culture. He has been teaching at Cal State, Fullerton, at one time worked for Penberthv Lumber Co. and Angelus Hardwood.

George Halsted is the new sales mgr., Bestile Mfg. Co., Pomona, Ca., replacing Alex Rosa who has left the firm.

Glub Picks Kellv Gallev "Lumbetmanofthe Ydar"

Carroll W. "Kelly" Galley, whose career in lumber spans 46 years, from laborer to general sales manager, has been honored as "Lumberman of the Year" at a joint meeting of the Shasta Cascade Hoo-Hoo club and the Redding, Ca., Trade Club at an annual festivity celebrating National Forest Products Week, October 2L-27. Nearly 500 were present and approximately 100 lumber and other firms sponsored the meeting.

Born and raised in Minnesota, he attended State Teachers College at St. Cloud. He moved west in 1923 and immediately was employed by McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Ca.

Kelly followed a career in lumber from common laborer to general sales manager covering a span of 46 years. This included grading of lumber, shipping and then sales from 1944 to his retirement. He was named resident sales manager in 1948 and in 1950 was transferred to San Francisco as western district sales manager. In 1957 he was made v.p. and sales director covering the entire McCloud operation.

In 1963 McCloud was purchased by U.S. Plywood and he continued in the same sales capacity. In 1966 the San Francisco office was moved to Anderson. Ca.. and he continued to direct all lumber sales until his retirement in 1969.

This same year he was honored by the Western Wood Products Assn. for his decades ofcontribution to the industry. He was a director and later president of Ponderosa Pine Woodwork and isa director in the Shasta-Cascade club.

Kelly is an ardent fisherman and few, if any, have more success on Shasta Lake.

WH0'S WHO in Western forest products present at meeting included (1) Bob Stermitz, SFI and John Schibk, Louisiani-Pacific. (2) Jim Boyd, SFI and Kaibab's Jim Younq. (3) Al Baxter, NFPA Dresident. 14) Lowry Wyatt, (1,) Weyerhaeuser, in borner confeience. (5) George Wilhelm, B-C., Don Crews, Colo. State U. (0) Jim Turnbull and Virg Peterson. (7) Kenneth Walker, Paul Bunyan Lumber; Alan Goudy, Collins Pine. (8) Frank Gilchrist, Gilchrist Timber Co. (9) L.L. "Stub" Stewart, Bohemia, Inc. and R.L. Baker. (10) Ed Quirk, SFI and AFP's Jack Ford. (11) Bill Johnson of Hobbs Wall Lumber. (12) SFI's Gene Brewer and Bronson Lewis, APA. (13) Ken Ford, HoseDurg Lumber and Navalo l-orest Products' John Snyder. (14) Pete Niebling, Ernie L. Wales, Wales Lumber. (15) Medford Corp's. Bob Higgins, Joe Fitzgerald, Edward Hines Lumber.

'he energy crisis, timber supply, programs to stimulate home building, land use legislation and federal environmental regulations affecting forest management were among major topics discussed and acted upon at the fall meeting of the National Forest Products Assn.