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F rances and Frl Bauer of Atlas Lumber Company, Los Angeles, got in some golf, sunshine and relaxation in Arizona for an early-JanuarSr week.

Rounds Lumber executives Hany Merlo and Frank Brown are attending the annual NAHB convention in Chicago, Jan. 29-Feb. 2, and then make sales calls in New York, Washington and other eastern areas till mid-F elruary.

Dlck Fenton, vice-president and manager of the Wholesale Lumbermen's Assn. of Southern California, was one of the thousands stranded in New York last month by the blizzard and transportation strikes but made it back to Wilshire boulevard by Jan.23.

O. D. Ruso. the veteran Stockton retailer who operates the Ruse Lumber Company with his son l)ale Buse, is now taking it easier at home on doctor's orders a^fter a recent heart attack.

Mrs. Carl (Mary) Gavotto, wife of the San Diego wholesaler (Cal-Mex Lumber Co.), took the jet route over the North Pole for Europe, Jan. 29, and will spend the balance of the Winter in Rome with her son Robert, studying for the priesthood. Carl will join her there in April for the flight home.

Hugh Pessner, wife Lu and the kids, plus the family dawg, traveled en masse to Palm Springs for some holiday sunshine and to tell Doc Whlte and his bride Florence how things were back at West Coast Timber Products in S.F, Doc recently bought a winter home in Desert Hot Springs and the former manager of Christenson Lumber Co. will be spending the first four months each year sunning there (far cry from Quint and Evans Sts., eh, Doc ? ).

TPL's western sales chief, Harry Hood, just barreled in from Hawaii, where he spent two weeks on company business and sat a spell with Pacific's former advertising and promotion director, illm Farley, who retired to Honolulu last August.

Lou Holla,nd, former Los Angeles and Yucca Valley lumber figure, is reported to be in the western-t54re clothing business now in Palm Springs.

Ttre well-known Peninsula wholesaler, Tlm Wood, was named salesmanager of the Al Thrasher Lumber Co. sawmill at Calpella last month, reports Owner Al Thrasher.

Jtm Knox, general salesmanager of Rounds Lumber CompaJxy, spent the second week of the new year drumming up redwood business in the Salt Lake, Denver and Phoenix areas (probably timed it that way to thaw out).

Barry Parkins, son of Art Parklns, manager of California Door Co. of Los Angeles' is recuperating from a broken leg incumed in a Whittier High basketball game last month, thus ending his season's play before Art ever g:ot to see his boy Barry in action.

Ilfax Rucker has been named manager of a newly established warehouse operation of the J. W. Wells Lumber Company at Milpitas, Calif. Headquarters of the hardwood lumber and flooring firrn is in Montgomery' Ala.

Jlm Forgte made a January swing through the north servicing some new accounts for Robert S. Osgood Co., Los Angeles.

Mrs. and Mlke Bemi spent the holidays vacationing in Portland, his home when he was witJr the Dtr'PA before he joined Western Pine Supply Co. in Elmeryville.

R. V. Pye, veteran Caldoor salesman in Los Angeles, was seen in Las Vegas last month helping to redistribute the wealth. itrsck Dollar of the Robert Dollar Company and South Pacific Airlines, and his wife spent the pre-holiday season thawing out at Palm Sgrings.

Bob Elilredge of the L. A. office of Tkin Harbors Lumber Co., and a sportsman, spent the January 21 weekend at Monterey attending tJ:e Bing Crosby golf tourney.

Bob Leonard, former manag'er of Bay Plywood, San Francisco, has taken on sales duties with CBS Plywood, Oakland, reports Manager Jack Favors.

Edward V. Bowen of Bowen-Duvall Company, New York City, was a recent visitor to southern California and the Robert S. Osgood Co., which his firm represents in the eastern states as well as handling doors, plywood and millwork.

Shlrley Anderson, secretary to Dlck McKannay at Mar-Mac Lurriber Co. and also the pretty publicity planter for S. F'. HooHoo-Eltte Club 3, has just returned from a holiday in Mexico complete with side trip to Acapulco.

Art Parklns, general manager of California Door Co. of Los Angeles, attended the board meeting of the firm's directors in San Francisco late in January.

U.S. PLYWOOD ADDS MACIIINED NOVOPLY OOUIVIER-TOP UNITS

A new Novoply service that makes its 137 branch warehouses throughout the nation virtually one-stop shopping centers for counter-top fabricators and contractors, has been introduced by United States Plywood Corporation. Consisting of sheets of precision-machined Novoply 3-ply resin-bonded flake board and correspondingly machined pine moldings, the new Novoply service provides all the necessary core components for high pressure laminate sink and counter tops for kitchens, bathrooms and other work surface areas.

Since the company's warehouses already stock Weldwood adhesives and Westinghouse Micarta, introduction of tlre new Novoply service will mark the flrst tlme contractors and fabricators will be able to acquire at one location all the necessary materials for counter-top installations.

T'he machined softwood moldings which complete the installation are available in standard backsplash, bullnose and corner forms, and are fully guaranteed by U. S. Plywood to fit the Novoply Panels.

A highly stable, smooth surfaced 3-ply panel eonsisting of two surface plies of resin-bonded wood flakes, heat and pressure bonded to a core of'specially-graded, resin-impregrrated wood chips,. Novoply does not split or splinter and Can trc easily worked with all conventional woodworking tools.

"Aye" Grqde, V-Rustic Redwood Poneling

The lefr wall shows how the sapwood slreaks in "Aye" grade Redwood may be inlerspersed with All-heart, to provide a striking, decoralive effect. Right wall: saw-lexlured, V.ruslic, random widths with "albino" slain.

Rondom Width, Verticol; Bevel Siding, Horizontol

Random width, saw-lexlured, V-ruslic in Clear and "Aye" grades, mixed grain; with bevel siding, smooth side oul, below.