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suppliers around Gold Beach during the week of February 4.

Bill S,!nith, general manager of SmithRobbins Lumber Co., completed a northern survey trip and is back at his Los Angeles desk keeping the supply moving.

Ken Walls has joined the Santa Maria Lumber Co. in an executive capacity, according to Pacific Coast Company officials.

San Francisco importman Gunter Silmar, head of Scarburgh Company's imported plywood and lumber division, called on accounts and visited his Los Angeles office early last month.

W. J. Robertson of British Colurnbia Forest Products Ltd.. and Al Munro of Macmillan & Bloedel, Vancouver, were in California the last two weeks of February calling on the trade with the local representa-. tive, Forrest W. Wilson of San Marino headquarters. The trio plans to conclude the goodwill junket in 'Oaklancl and Sacramento early in March.

Bob Ahrens, son of Burlingame lumberman A. C. n'Bo" Ahrens, has chosen lumber for his career' (seeing as how it's treated "Bo" pretty well for more than half-a-century) and signed on with Red Blufi Moulding Co., Feb. 8. He will be working in and on the company's new finger joint moulding plant now under construction.

John F. Hanson of Gulf Pacific Land & Lum'ber Con-rpany's California office, at 'Iarzana, attended the Memphis, Tenn., meeting of the National Assn. of Lumber Salesmen. Inc.. Feb. 25-27. Hanson is a di- rector of the association, representing the West Coast.

Ralph Meyer of Strable Lumber Co. and USPlywood's Bill Bureermann and their wives took the long but enjoyable way around to the Olympics-via beautiful (and Olympic crowdless) Sun Valley, Idaho.

Bill Stuart (above), "Mr. Moulding" in the Southland for the past 30 years, has resigned his sales position rqith L. lL Eubank in Inglewood and established residence in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he plans to raise chickens (not dickensl) in volume with his son-in-law, Keith Poehlmann.

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Two new sandpaper assortments, selfservice cabinets offering faster grit and price identification, and greater dealer profit margins are features of a new series of sandpaper deals offerecl by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., St. Paul, Minn.

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