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Whether your job is as ornate as the famed Carson Mansion in Eureka, Ca., or as plain as a do$ house, we have the experience and facilities to provide you with the unusual and uncommon in lumber, moulding and millwork items, as well as the ordinary, in any quantity you need. If we don't have it, we can make it. ) lust ask. A In Redwood, Union Forest Prodr-rcts has S4S and pattern lumber, architectural patterns; mouldings, mixed loads and units available LTL, TGpT and rail. A Also please inc[uire on clear Douglas Fir and Hardrvoods.
Bob Reid, Reid and Wright, Inc., has departed their Hawaiian offices to spend Christmas in Denver, Co., with son Richard, who heads the Reid & Wright office there, and his wife, Janice. Bob Jr., who heads up the Arcata, Ca., facility, and his wife, Kathie, are spending the holidays visiting family in Omaha, Ne. Bill Jacobson is back from a Hawaiian sales trip.
Steven P. Christie is now So. Ca. district mgr. of Rain Bird Sales Inc., according to Ed Sboemaker, director of sales and marketing.
Bob Bonner, California Sugar and Western Pine Agency, Sacramento, Ca., is currently celebrating 47 years in the lumber business.
Jim Twining is the new Ca. field sales mgr. for Builder Marts of America.
Gwen Roberts Torgler, for 25 yrs. an assistant to former Georgia-Pacific Corp. chairman of the board Robert B. Pamplin and presently corp. sec. and member of the board of the R.B. Pamplin Corp., has been elected to the board of directors of LouisianaPacific Corp., according to Harry A. Merlo, L-P chairman and pres.

J. Ken Porter has advanced to general sales mgr. , lumber, of Georgia-Pacific Corp., according to Ronald P. Hogan, vice pres. , distribution div.
Scott Woodward is now mgr. of Champion International Corp.'s Morton, Wa., plywood veneer and lumber operations, according to Al C. Smith, gen. mgr. of western softwood mfg.
William A. Hensler has rejoined Wickes lumber as senior vice pres., operations, according to Ieslie L. Hagen, senior vice pres. of the Wickes Corp. and gen. mgr. of Wickes Lumber.
Donald R. Deardorff, pres. and gen. mgr., Fourply, Inc., Grants Pass, Or., has been elected pres. of the National Forest Products Association for 1983, replacing William H. Stimpson, who will become chairman of the board; Robert F. Higgins, pres., Medford Corp., Medford, Or. is the new 2nd v.p. and treas.; John R. Forrest, senior v,p,, timber and wood products groups, Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Id., was elected lst v.p. to succeed L.C. Heist, executive v.p., Champion International Corp., who is resigning at the end of 1982.
Dick Winkler, Laminated Timber Services, Ontario, Ca., has recovered nicely from a minor kidney problem suffered while in Brea. Ca.
Clint Ludeman, Davidson Panel Co., Anaheim, Ca., is the new chairman of the board of the Hardwood Plywood Manufacturers Association; Diane Montoya, States Industries, Inc., Eugene, Or., new director at largghas been appointed by HUD to the National Manufactured Housing Advisory Council.
Gustav Grube, Architectural Plywood, Inc., North Hollywood, Ca., has been elected chairman of the Hardwood Plywood Foundation; Diane Montoya, States Industries, Inc., Eugene, Or., is secretary.
Fred Pueringer has joined the sales team at DMK-Pacific Corp., Fremont, Ca., according to pres. Dwight Curran.
Pete Christensen has been appointed gen. mgr. of Wickes Forest Industries, Dinuba, Ca., reporting to Larry Grill, senior v.p., special projects; James H. Anthony is the new director of lumber manufacturing at Dinuba.
Wayne Wigle is new to sales at North Side Lumber Co., Philomath, Or.
Bob McBride, J.H. Baxter&Co., is back in Eugene, Or. , after an extensive sales swing through the Middle West, Southeast and Southwest.
Ron Knowles is the new mgr. of Scharpf's Twin Oaks Builders Supply Co., Eugene, Or., replacing Eldon Smith who is retiring after 35 years with the firm.
James A. Brandstetter has been named gen. mgr. of the Id. division of Chandler Corp., Boise, with John L. Hodgins promoted to sales mgr. and R. Bruce Robertson outside sales rep in eastern Id.
Cutler Lewis, Palmer G. Lewis Co., Auburn, Wa., vacationed recently in Palm Springs, Ca.
Jack Chamberlin, sales mgr., Eel River Lumber Co., Fortuna, Ca., is recovering from a recent heart attack.
Mike Phillips has been promoted to gen. sales mgr.-Portland office by Hampton Lumber Sales Co., Portland, Or., according to Gordon J. King, pres.
Paul Stanley, Harbor Pallet Co., Anaheim, Ca. , is the new chairman of the board of the Western Pallet Association; John E. Knepp, Cutter Lumber Products, Oakland, Ca., is pres.
Frank Regier is now in sales at Burns Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wa.
Raymond P. Elder has been elected v.p. and treas. by the Southwest Forest Industries board of directors who also named George E. Howison, controller, and Jene P. Lau, assistant treas.
Rudy Gonzales has joined Andersonia Forest Products as operations mgr. of the Chino, Ca., distribution div., according to G.E. Anderson, pres. Susan Sterton is now sales coordinator at the Phoenix, Or., sales office.
Paula Pedersen is now in sales at Oregon Moulding & Lumber, Lake Oswego.
John Osgood, Robert S. Osgood, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca., married Suzanne Flanden Nov. 13. The happy couple is living in Pacific Palisades, Ca.
Tim Fogarty, Osborne Lumber Co., Newark, Ca., attended a reunion of his World War II flight squadron in Florida.
Bruce Norlie, Norfield Manufacturing Co., Chico, Ca., has been in Canada on co. business.
Steve Ahl, All-Heart LumberCo., is back at Ukiah, Ca., hq. after a sales trip to the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
John O'Connor is heading DoughertyHanna Resources Co., Reno, Nv,; Ilfike Stilwell is in charge of sales; Laurie Mellinger is office mgr.
Harold S. Olson, Littleton, Co., has been named top residential ceiling salesman by Armstrong World lndustries.
John Whittier, Boise Cascade Wholesale Building Material Center, Grand Junction, Co.; Daryll Wulff, Gittings Lumber, Denver, Co.; Jeff Phelan, Weyerhaeuser Co., Salt Lake City, Ut.; Ivan Bakke, Chandler Corp., Boise, Id,; Terry Freeze, Thunderbird Steel Co., Albuquerque, N.M.; Harold Crow, Weiser Lock Co., Albuquerque, N.M.; Dave Fackrell, Champion Building Products, Midvale, Ut.; Sam Falsone, Weiser Lock Co., Centerville, Ut.; Don Foxhoven, Gittings Lumber Co., Cheyenne, Wy., and Cliff Willis, Boise Cascade Building Material Center, Cody, Wy., were named outstanding supplier,/ sales representatives for 1982 by the Mountain States Lumber and Building Material Dealers.
L.D. "Hote" Houghton is now with Wilson Lumber Co., Medford, Or.
Don Baldwin has joined P & M Cedar Products, Stockton, Ca., as national distribution mgr.; Bill Parks is new as national sales mgr.
Lance Duke, So. Ca.; John Blauser, Northwest; and Bob Jeffrey, Phoenix, Az., received Most Valuable Performer Awards from Champion International's building products div.
R. Brent Burdick is now asst. mgr. of Anderson Lumber's building material center in Salt Lake City, Ut.
Alice E. Hennessey is now senior v.p., corporate relations, for Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Id.
Jim Rash is now pres. of Simpson Extruded Plastics Co., Eugene, Or. and a director of the company; Gil Oswald has become vice chairman while continuing as pres. of Simpson Timber Co., Seattle, Wa.
Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus, Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, have donated their 3-wheel, low-rider DeLorean lumber truck to the Bricklin wing at the Climax, Nv., auto museum.
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