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James R. Hilsabeck has been appointed resident sales representative for United States Plywood Corporation and rvill personally service accounts in New Mexico and the El Paso area of western Texas. Hilsabeck has a thorough background and knowledge in the many products manufactured and distributed by USP. He has worked for many years in the great Southwest, a veteran with U.S. Plywood, and has served an extensive area in Northern California for the past nine years.

Hilsabeck is known to his friends as "Jim" and will be happy to be of any assistance wherever possible, reports Irl Matheny of the Sales Promotion Dept., United States Plywood Corporation, Los Angeles.

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The Blanchard Lumber Co. led ofi the list of suppliers credited in the recent full-page cooperative newspaper advertisement announcing the opening of the swank new Queens Arms Medieval Inn at Encino, Calif.

Some 20 carloads of Malarkey plywoods and about 750 Malarkey doors, all produced in Oregon, were used in construction of Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, which completed its first season last Fall, built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at a cost of $6 million.

Sixteen employes of the Arcadia (California) Lumber Company are presently enrolled in the Retail Lumber Training Institute of the Southern California Retail Lum- ber Assn. and Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2. The yard's employes are attending the nearest classes, at Pasadena. The yard's enrollment is the largest from any lumber firm in the San Gabriel Valley, according to Andy Beckstrom, Jr., co-owner of the yard.

Madera, Calif., city police reported Dec. 3 that Neely's Lumber Yard was burglarized, with entry made by prying the lock from the back door. Loot included cash and postage stamps.

George M. Durfee has been appointed manager of the San Francisco sales office of Red Devil Tools, in charge of sales activities in Northern California, Oregon and Washington. The office is located in Mountain View, Calif. Red Devil Tools is currently undertaking an expansion and modernization program.

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Dorothy Woodtrcad Brown, wife of Hal Brown of the Woodhead Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and long a pillar of the SCRLA, won a much-coveted honor when she was named one of the Women of the Year in the annual Los Angeles Times awards for 1956. Her honor came in the fields of art. Mrs. Brown, at 40, began to search for her creative medium, the newspaper reported, and enrolled as an art stu.dent at UCLA. This was in 1939, the newspaper continued, and up to that time she hacl been a homemaker, the wife of Harold Austin Brown since, as a student at Stanford, she fell in love with Hal and married him before she received her diploma. In her 1l years of painting, Mrs. Brown has mastered her avocation and, in 1956, had a one-man exhibit at La Jolla Art Center and a display of her work at Pasadena Art Galleries. She paints in a redwoodwalled studio upstairs at her home and spends about four days a week teaching two classes at UCLA. "The art students from UCLA rvho occasionally come for morning coffee at the comfortable brick ( ?) house of Dorothy Woodhead Brown in preparation for an early-morning class under her direction on the campus just a few blocks away know they are sharing a rich experience," wrote The Times. "Not only is the coffee delicious but the woman who serves it has a warmth and depth that transfers itself as does the flavor of life to a canvas."

Frank M. Kelly, formerly with Dant & Russell, Los Angeles, has joined the sales staff of Koppers Co., Inc., and rvill cover the SoCal territory.

"Shed a tear for Lumberman Big Bill Jones, who is confined to his couch with the pesky virus," said the f,. A. Examiner recently. "His wife, Bonnie, just flew in from Pittsburg, Calif., where their boat is still moored. Soon as he gets around he's going to bring home the 93-ft. K'Thanga, gone since last August."