IMPORTED HARDWOOD LUMBER SPECIALISTS

Jeff Squlres and Doug Gendron have joined the sales force at Siskiyou Forest Products, Woodland, Ca., reports Rlck Houk.

Wllllam Galdamer, fomrerly of Builders Emporium, has joined Anawalt Lumber Co., W. Hollywood, Ca., in inside sales. Other former BE employees: Arturo Salazar, new to nursery sales at Anawalt's Hollywood store, and at W. tns Angeles, Anne Sweeny, inside sales; Solon Dlla, paint sales; Jose Dhemlng, lumber sales, and Ionle Harrls and Claudla LnWz, cashiers.

Tom Rogers, Weyerhaeuser Co., Tacom4 Wa., is the new Machine Shess Rated Lumber Producers Council pres.

Dan Larson is now plant mgr. of Spokane Moulding Corp., Spokane, Wa.

Dave Buf6, Mesa Forest Products, Costa Mesa, Ca.; Jerry Hlgman, Reliable Wholesale Lumber, Huntington Beach, Ca., and John Hagle, Hagle Lumber Co., Somis, Ca., finished third in Class 10 in the unual Baja 1(X)0 race.

Chrlstlne Grupp is now director of California Women in Timber's statewide forestry education pnc gram.

Rod Wolfe is the new operations mgr. at Ganahl Lumber, Corona, Ca.

James tr'. Kelley has been named senior v.p.-law and general counsel for Georgia-Pacific Corp, Atlanta, Ga. Roger C. Sherwood is now western region environmental mgr.

Wllllam R.'Blll'Baugh, Jr., was elected pres. & gen. mgr. of Snavely Forest Products Co., Denver, Co. Thomas M. Laplnski is now pres. of Snavely International, San Francisco, Ca.

Jerry Ensworth, RFP Lumber Co., Inc., Chico, Ca., spent late Nov. in Mexico, then Belize deep sea diving.

John Gottwald, Inland Wood Specialties; Debble Marle Marker and Ann McReynolds Romelke, Dellen Wood Products: John Falcano, Pro Cut Saw & Tool, and Steve Magulre, Valley Bestway Building Supply, have joined the Spokane, Wa., Hoo-Hoo Club.

Raynor Shlne is new to tbe mailroom at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., report owners Hugh Mungus and trteddy F\ngus.

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Lean Champion Consolidates

Champion International is closing its Tacoma, Wa., Forest Products Business headquarters, moving western regional sales to new offices in hryallup, Wa.

The pared-down Puyallup staff, selling southern yellow pine panels, will consist of regional sales manager Steve Williams, fteld sales reps Carol Braun and Leroy Corning, and secretary Jean Hanis.

Champion sold its Libby and Bonner, Mt., plywood/stud mills last month to Stimson LumberCo. Its sole remaining western manufacturing facility is a Klickitat, Wa., sawmill, where Ken Miller is now product sales nanagef.

Forest products sales/marketing will now be headquartered at Champion's Jacksonville, Fl., southeastgrn regional sales office. Walt Wehrmann will serve as general manager-forest products, Russ Swanson, marketing manager, and Jim Clark, Stamford, Ct., vice president-sales & marketing, replacing Jon Marshall, who has started his own import company, Pacific Coast Veneers, Inc., Federal Way, Wa

Jim DiStefano, Tacoma-based mar- keting manager, is leaving Champion in January after 27 years of service to pursue other interests.

The Palatine, Il., Midwest regional sales office will also be closed.

Dixieline Buys Western Unit

Dixieline Lumber Co., San Diego, Ca., has purchased the Western Lumber Co. conmctor division in a cash deal, according to Bill Cowling, II, Dixieline president. No price was revealed.

Part of the ransaction involves 16 acres in National City, Ca., consisting of a 51,000 square foot building housing a high tech mill and 11,000 sq. ft. of offices. Dixieline's present mill will be closed and its russ plant moved from its South Bay yard onto eight of the newly acquired 12 acres, The additional four acres across the street will house their laminated wood division, which sells Trus Joist MacMillan products. The deal also includes six trucks and six forklifts. In an additional transaction, Dixieline is selling 32 acres straddling National City and Chula Vista to two developers. The property is bounded (Please turn to page 54)