DISTRIBUTION IS OUR GAME

But, we do much moret

In addition to providing the normal distribution functions of salesmen service calls, warehousing, trucking, credit and cataloging, PGL goes a few steps lurtherin the area of providing the following: o ADVERTTSTNG TABLoTDS

CO-OP ADVERTISING

I PRODUCT MEETINGS

SPECIAL SALE PROMOTIONS o IN-STORE PRODUCT

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, DEMONSTRATIONS

William J. Monahan, David H. Rollason, and Christine Youngman have joined the trading staff of Merrill Lynch Wood Markets, Inc., Portland, Or.

George Foster is the new mgr of corp. communications for the Potlatch Corp.

Dennis Betts has been promoted to senior buyer lor Bendix Forest Products Corp.'s distribution div. buying office in Stockton, Ca.

Jim Summerlin, Sumwood, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca., is back from a buying trip to the Orient.

Dave Baskins, the son of Sam Baskins, sales mgr. for LouisianaPacific, Red Bluff, Ca., recently won $24,000 on the tv game show "High Rollers." He plans to use the money to get on the pro golf tour.

Robert Spry is the new exec. v.p. and gen. mgr. of Parr Lumber, Chino, Ca., according to Pete Parrella, pres.

Gene Courchaine, Bendix Forest Products, Cerritos, Ca., is back from a Caribbean cruise.

C.R. "Charley" Batten has resigned from the California Forest Protective Assn. to do freelance writing.

Gene Dunbar is Bendix Forest Products'new redwood and cedar product mgr. and Bruce Kenney is moulding and millwork product mgr. for the distribution div.

Art Gutzeit is now in millwork sales lor The Nikkel Coro.. Sacramento.

Sally Jean Hasty, 5 lbs, 14 oz., was born Sept. 26, 1918 to Mary and Hap Hasty, Schmidbauer Lumber Co., Eureka, Ca.

Clint Bower, Mariners Forest Products, Santa Ana, Ca., is back from a Chicago sales safari.

Ted Russell is the new gen. mgr. olthe Tustin, Ca. yard for Inland Lumber Co. John Lowe is the new gen mgr. of Inland's Woodland, Ca., facility.

Frank V. Langfitt, Jr. has been named senior v.p. for GeorgiaPacific's bldg. products div. and Stanley S. Dennison, senior v.p. for the bldg. mtls. distribution div. "Woody" Anderson, who recently sold his Woody's Olympia Lumber Center, Olympia, Wa., is newly elected as the County Commissioner of Thurston County.

Clyde Dickinson and Richard Wilber, both long-time members of the American Plywood Assn.'s quality services div.. have retired.

Alfred M. Sperry has been named senior v.p.-administration for Lone Star Industries, and F. Eugene Purcell is the new senior v.p.-public affairs, according to James E. Stewart, chairman, pres. and chief exec. officer.

Vaughan Justus, Justus Lumber Sales, Albuquerque, N.M., was recently in San Francisco as a national delegate to an Easter Seal meeting. He's a past N.M. state pres.

Cordes Langley, Redwood Coast Lumber Co.. Ukiah, Ca.. is back f,rom a business trip to Guam, Manilla (complete with typhoon), Taiwan (another typhoon) Hong Kong, Tokyo and Honolulu.

Ed Fountain, Jr., Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been chosen chairman of the Lumber Employers Council. George Ryan, Delaney Sash and Door, and Miles Butterfield, United Wholesale Lumber have also been named to the council.

John Enright, Union City, Ca., div. mgr. of J.E. Higgins Lumber, is back from an 18 day Ireland vacation to the land of his ancestors.

"Mac" Mclnelly is back at Manke Lumber, Tacoma, Wa., after a So. Ca. business trip.

Rick Kellso, Medford Corp., Medford, Or., got in a recent North Carolina business trip.

Don Philips, Philips Lumber Sales, Thousand Oaks, Ca., & his wife, Florence, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary, Dec. 7, by spend- ing two weeks at Hana, Maui, Hawaii.

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Arthur C. Hall has been named to Wickes's newly created job of v.p.operations, San Diego.

William G. Frohnmayer js now in charge of Pope & Talbot's new fibre resource management position.

Gilbert Emory, Welco Lumber, Marysville, Wa., is the new pres. of the Western Red Cedar Lumber Assn. Other new officers: v.p., K.D. Bradley, McDonald Cedar Products, Ft. Langley, B.C.; treas., James Ingram, E.C. Miller Cedar Lumber Co.. Aberdeen. Wa. Robert Hunt was re-elected sec.-mgr.

"Bud" Baker, Baker Hardwood, San Diego, was recently in S.F. for the American Parquet Assn. meet.

Bruce E. Lyons is now director, quality services for the American Plywood Assn.; John D. Rose replaces him as mgr. of the technical services division's applied research dept.

Gordon D. Wilson is the new pres. of the Federal Timber Purchasers Assn.; v.p. is James S. Whitney; sec., Gary I'. Tucker; treas., C.D. Oughl and exec. v.p., James R. Craine.

Ron Hodges has joined Bendix Forest Products, Albuquerque.

Doug Brown is a new buyer for the Oregon-McKenzie Lumber Co., Eugene, Or.

Neal Heflin is now director of marketing lbr the Wood Moulding and Millwork Producers, Portland.

Charles Reynolds is new to sales at Cariboo Pacific's h,ugene, Or.loffice.

Don Mitchell is now sales mgr.-manufacturing for Bendix Forest Products, Stockton, Ca. A new panel products dept. is headed by Charles Compton.

Richard Snyder has resigned as exec. v.p. from the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Assn. to manage the Asphalt Roofing Mfgrs. Assn.

Rick Wilson is now in sales for Portland's Penn Paci{lc Lumber.

Stuart Robertson and "Red" Davison are new traders at National Forest Products Co., Vancouver, Wa.

Bob Reid, Sr., Reid & Wright, Inc., Arcata, Ca., is back at the Maui, Hawaii office till June. He and Bob Jr., also took in the NAWLA Seminar at Seattle.

John Hodge is the new operations mgr. lor South Bay Redwood, Orange, Ca. He had been with KimberlyClark, Anderson, Ca. Harold M. Frodsham, chairman of the board, is back frclm a recent South America trip.

Paul Cloud is new to domestic and import trading at W.C. Stripp Lumber, Seattle.

Jerrl R. Burke has been appointed resources director for Southwest Forest lndustries'Az. & N.M. oDerations.

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HARDWOOD (Continued from page 30) properties chart, manufacturing information and illustrations of beautiful wood products.

First printed in 1955, the $5 book incorporates many new marketable species which have come onto the scene in recent years and eliminates a number of pre- viously listed species no longer available.

Addition of the mobile exhibit to the special promotion program conducted by Charles H. "Chuck" White also represents a big forward stride. The exhibit derives its name, Selectorama Showroom, from the book described above. Housed in a 30' x 8' custom-built trailer, the traveling showroom demonstrates the unique beauty and appeal of character marked hardwoods. It is an all-weather unit, being equipped with heating for cold weather showings and air-conditioning for summer displays.

The showroom made a highly successful debut at the International Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Supply Fair at Louisville, Ky., in late September, then scored high marks again a few days later at a seminar for the Grand Rapids (Mi.) Furniture Designers Association.

White, based in High Point, plans to take the showroom on the road frequently in 1979. Audiences to be reached include furniture and finish manufacturers, design centers, home shows and buyers employed by large retail furniture dealers.

Through October White also had called on 124 furniture manufacturers, veneer manufacturers, face and plywood manufacturers and chemical coating producers, spreading the wood message for lumber and veneer producers.

As usual. the Association conducted the semi-annual surveys of offerings at the Southern Furniture Market as a service to the entire furniture industry.

A third survey completed should be of considerable interest to gunstock manufacturers and the entire firearms industry. It was a poll of preferences and opinions among the nation's 5,000 retail gun dealers. A report on this study is under preparation at this writing and will be available to interested persons on request without charge.

For the twelfth consecutive year the Association's forestry program carried the hardwood forestry story to private landowners. Highlights of the program were television and radio messages, a newsletter to a mailing list of 8,000, special presentations and distribution of more than 40,000 pieces of literature on forest management.

The Association's seed collection program, now in its 47th year, registered a near-record performance.

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Rr Tunnel Being Repaired

Heavy equipment is being moved into a remote area of California's Trinity County for use in rebuilding a Northwestern Pacific Railroad tunnel damaged by fire three months ago.

A contract has been signed with MorrisonKnudsen, an international construction and engineering firm, for the multi-million dollar repair job, the NWP said.

"Considering the logistics of moving large equipment to the area," according to D. K. McNear, president of the NWP and its parent company, Southern Pacific Transportation Co., "work could begin at the tunnel by mid-December."

M-K estimates it will take three months, with two 10-hour shifts working six days a week from each end of the tunnel, to repair the damaged sections of the 4,314-foot structure.

Caved-in rock and timber have blocked about 1,400 feet and fire has damaged an additional 700 feet of the south end of Tunnel 27 , located in the Eel River Canyon just north of Island Mountain and about 90 miles south of Eureka.

The blaze was first reported shortly after noon on September 6, by an NWP mechanic who was working nearby. Cause of the fire is unknown. NWP spent approximately $1.2 million fighting the fire.

Last month railroad representatives advised NWP customers in Humboldt County that it would be several months before the line can be reopened and they suggested alternate plans be adopted for moving freight.

McNear said NWP and Southern Pacific petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission on September 8, to provide reduced freight rates for shippers affected by the tunnel fire.

Under the petition, an allowance is deducted from applicable freight charges for shippers and receivers who must send freight by truck to load or unload on the railroad at either NWP stations from Willits south, or on the SP at Anderson, Girvan, Kett or Redding.

The Arcata & Mad River Railroad, a short line carrier connecting with the NWP at Korblex (near Arcata), concurred in the rate reduction request. The ICC approved the request September 14.