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Carl Mucken, manager of the Mt. Angel Lumber Co. of Salem, Oregon won a gold trophy and the status of champion baseball expert in a recent Dexter Lock competition, rrYalter Jennison, former vice president of Pacific Wood Products Compiny, has joined the executive staff of Evans Products Company's Plywall Division.

Bill Messer, manager of the pine department at Commercial Lumber Co. in Downey, recuperated at home during December recovering from a heart attack. He'll be returning to work soon.

Jerry Griffin recently returned from a trip to Springfield, Oregon, where he inspected the laminated beam division of Rosboro Lumber Co. California Sugar & Western Pine Agency has been appointed exclusive distributor for Rosboro's beams in northern California. Cal Sugar, etc. also has the northern California exclusive for Boise Cascade's laminated beam division.

Art Parkinq Caldoor manager ir Los Angeles, attended business meetings in San Francisco recently.

Don Crane, Crane Mills in Corning, Calif. vacationed at La Jolla and Disneyland with the family during the last week of December.

Abel II. "Abe" Jackson, for 42 yearc a Union Lumber Co. stalwart, reports all is well after finishing up his first year with Jim Richardson Lumber Co. in Santa AnaAbe was Union's sales manager before his "retirement" about a year ago.

Milt Pernell has joined the industrial sales stafr of Summit Lumber Co., covering the L.A. area pushing specialty items, according to Leo Seidner.

Roy Dunbar spent the first two weeks of December in the Michigan-Ohio area on North Valley Lumber Sales business.

Bill Novak, former salesmanager of Ostrom Lumber Co. until its sale to AxeI Erickson" has joined Brunswick Timber Froducts in Nevada City as salesmanager. Brunswick is owned by Frank Amaral and Bill Pendola, Amaral being the general manager.

Bob French, ad manager.of Potlatch Forests, Inc., San Francisco, spent the first two weeks ol Ilecember in the Chicago area where he took in the annual convention of the National Association of Home Builders.

Hazel Upton Anderson, IBMC president, and her husband Wayne Anderson have returned from a trip to Florida and New York. Ken Schmidke, sales manager, and his wife were also aboard the company plane for the nationwide tour.

Hudson Lee, owner of Lee Lumber Company in Reno and former owner-oDerator of the fabled Lee's Drive-in, has been named to the board of directors of the Lumber Merchants Association representing LMA's Nevada membership.

Phil Gilbert, Coos Head boss at Wilming- ton and his Lois have spent 18 days vacationing in New Mexico visiting their brand new grandson Steven A. Storms.

LMA president Charlie Dart, head of K-Y Lumber Co, in Fresno, is recovering nicely from a November 16 heart attack. Charlie had been in Florida the week before his attack where he was representing LMA at the NLBMDA annual board of directors meeting.

Dee Essley and Roy Stanton spent the holiday weekend last month at their desert homes south of Palm Springs. They got in a little golf and loafing in the sun.

PauI McCracken, head of Tumac Lumber Co. in Portland, spent the second week of December visiting cedar accounts in the Bay Area with Merv Kjer of K/D Cedar Supply.

JANUARY, I966

Leo Ilubbard celebrated his 47th anniversary with the Hayward Lumber & Investment chain in California and Arizona on December 19. Leo signed-on with Hayward a week after getting out of the Army following World War I, and has been there ever since. "Plan to stick around another 47 years," quipped Leo.

Earle Johnson of Watsonville Lumber Company has sponsored O'lsen Lumber Company in San Jose, as an associate member in LMA. Bud Olsen is head of the San Jose based wholesale firm.

Wayne Gardner of the Lumber Association of Southern Calif,, Ross Kincaid of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Ass'n., Frank Davis of the Arizona association, Bob McBrien of Lumber Merchants Assn., Chet Nortz of the Intermountain group and Agnes Zipperian of the Montana association all met again in Reno in the latest of a series of fact-finding meetings.

Robert AlIerU president of California Lumber Co., Los Angeles, flew to San Francisco last month to attend the graduation of his son Allen from Coast Guard boot camp at the installation in Alameda.

Ilans Rainer, not wishing to move to Los Angeles as of January 1, with the East Asiatic Company's plywood and lumber trading department, announced his resignation and the formation of H. Rainer Company, 465 California Street, San Francisco. Mogens Silleman has been selected to head the East Asiatic departments now located at 615 South Flower Street, Los Angeles.

Jack Meiners and his family took in the sights at Carlsbad Caverns, N.M., last month. Jack is manager of Hayward Lumber & Investment Company's yard at Delano, Calif.

BiIl Openshaw, president of Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181, extended the hand of welcome to four new membets following a recent Concat. The new Black Bart Cats are: Russ McDonell, Mendocino Builders Supply; Jack Harwood, Branscomb Ehterprises; Paul Dalerio, Dalerio's Pallet Shook Co., and Floyd Holstin, Cutter Lumber Products.

Truckee-Tahoe Lumberrs Charlie Cross, Sr. has been named to fill the late Joe Kirk's place on the executive committee of LMA.

Weyco Sells Arcofs Operotion

Weyerhaeuser Co. has sold its Arcata, Cali{., operations to a group of northern businessmen for a price described as several million dollars. C. E. Goll, W'eyerhaeuser's Arcata manager, said the properties were sold,because of a lack of an adequate source of raw materials.

W'eyerhaeuser sold 36,000 acres of timberland in three northern California counties to four private individuals and its particleboard plant, plywood mill and logging equipment at Arcata to Humboldt Flakeboard, a tr"* asrnrpany.

Among those who gathered in Los Angeles recently to represent redwood interests at a California State Park Commission hearing were Simpson Timber's Dave James and Harry Trobitz; Arcata Redwood's Eugene Hofsted; Redwood Region Conservation Council's Cork Shafer and the American Forest Products Industries'Loren Good.

Chuck Dickinson of California Redwood Association was a recent visitor to southern California where he called on various firms to promote new uses of redwood products.

Jack Fairfield, superintendent of yards and purchasing agent for the seven-yard Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., and his wife Dolly, flew east last month to spend Christmas with their daughter in Mclean, Virginia.

Henry Uhlinger, Ione Lumber Company, suffered a stroke during early November, but is making good progress at last report.

Rod Buchan, NFPA's code building consultant in southern Calif., and John Fies, the western regional manager, attended the staff-wide meeting in December in Washington, D.C,

Dean Jones, head of Master Coaters with plants at Downey and Longview, Washington, has announced the appointment of Charles Howard as plant manager at Longview.

Tioga Lumber Company's Don Hutchings earned a week's pass from Merced and used it up on a Nevada deer hunting junket, ability, lumber pressure-treated with CCA salt is being recom' mended and used by an increasing number of architects, builders.

Wood treated with Chromated Copper Arsenate lasts from two to ten times as long as ordinary wood. Odorless and clean, CCA salt' treated lumber is perfect for mudsills, posts, joists, framing members, patios, porches and many other applications, where permanence is desired.

Union Prcmotes John Jones

C. Russell Johnson, the president of the Union Lumber Company, has announced the appointment of John L. Jones as general sales manager headquartering in San Francisco, as of March l. The appointment is made in contemplation of the retirement , late this year of Sherman A. Bishop, vice president, sales, who will continue in that capacity until he retires.

Jones has been district sales manager of the company's Atlantic seaboard teiritory with offices in New York. John C. Bailey, former assistant to Jones, will assume management of the New York territory. C. Markham Langham o{ the San Francisco office will move to New York as assistant to

Bailey. These appointments are also effective March l.

Other sales offices are in Chicago, Santa Ana, San Francisco, and Fort Bragg and will continue under the present managers.

Von Brelon Memoriql Fund

A memorial fund has been established at Stanford University by the family of Hamilton von Breton, former Santa Barbara, Calif. lumberman. who was killed in a United Airlines crash in November.

Von Breton was founder and president of The Islands Timber Co., and had other lurntrer interests in South America.

Friends wishing to donate to the memorial fund should address: Hamilton von Breton Memorial Fund, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., attention Office of the General Secretary.

Fronk Ketly to Dont

Frank Morrisette, the executive vicepresident of Dant Forest Products, has revealed that Frank Kelly has joined Dant's big sales force. Kelly will be active in southern California sales but will work out of Dant's new office building and headquarters in Menlo Park.

A native of southern California. started with W. E. Cooper Lumber pany and later Dant & Russell, Inc. in the Southland. Prior to moving to northern California a year ago, Kelly had gained additional experience with Koppers Co., Cascade Pacific at Long Beach, and Consolidated Lumber Company.

Last year he was active in Hubbard & Johnson's cargo operation at the Port of Redwood City.

Dant's three northern California mills produce over 120 million feet of lumber a year and in addition the company controls another 100 million feet produced by Washington and Idaho mills. The company currently operates 14 trucks servicing the southern California area. Kelly Com-