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Oscar Witt, manager of stock and prices for Weyerhaeuser Company's Marshfield Wisconsin and Vermont mills has been elected a director ol the Hardwood Plywood Institute. The Institute is the national trade association of hardwood plywood manufacturers. Witt is presently on the standing committee for the commercial standards of hardwood plywood and also hardwood doors.

Ali J. Sandoz has been named manager of Woodlands for the Long-Bell Division of International Paper Company, it has been announced by Richard C. Doane, chairman of the board. Doane said that Sandoz will be responsible for all of the company's woodIands operations in the Pacific Northwest, including forest management and harvesting operations on the company's own land, and the procurement of timber and logs.

John W. Brown, senior vice-president, National Gypsum Co., Buffalo, N.Y., was reelected presiden.t of the Insulation Board Institute during a late-October meeting in Chicago, Charles M. Gray, IBI manager, has announced.

National Gypsum Co. has announced the establishment of a dealer sales district with headquarters in San Francisco, the creation of a western commercial trade sales district with headquarters in Los Angeles and the transfer of Rexford P. Oleson as manager of the company's Los Angeles dealer sales district.

President Fred A. Manske also announced the promotion of Mace T. Coleman as manager of the new San Francisco district and the transfer of George H. Emmitt as manager of the new commercial trade sales district.

Fred L. Dill, Sr., was elected president of the Lumber Dealers Research Council at the Council's annual meeting in Chicago, November 7th. He succeeds Sam B. Slaugh'ter, Jr, New Richmond, Wisconsin who has been president of L.D.R.C. since 1960. He has been an Executive Committeeman of L.D.R.C. since its inception in 7954 and has served previously as first vice president.

J. DeForest Venter was elected to the Board of Directors of the Lumber Dealers Research Council at the Council's annual meeting. Venter is a vice president of the Connecticut Lumber Dealers Association.

Election of Irving E. Holls as vice president, manufacturing of the The Upson Co., Lockport, N. Y., has been announced by president James J. Upson. Holls succeeds the late Hcnry W. Schmidt who died October 23.

L. A. DePolis, president of FWD Corporation, Clintonville, Wis., has been elected a director of FWD Wagner, Inc., it was recently announced by Maurice E. Ash, president of the Portland, Oregon firm. FWD Wagner, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of FWD Corporation and manufactures heavy duty equi,pment, including the "Lumber Jack" for log and materials handling and a specialized line of tractors.

Glen J. Christner, vice president of The Eagle-Picher Company, was elected presi- dent of the National Mineral Wool Insulation Association at its annual meeting in Point Clear. Ala. Christner succeeds F. E. Dutcher, vice president of Johns-Manville Corporation, of New York.

Samuel Trask Dana of Ann Arbor, Mich., dean emeritus of the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and one of the nation's most distinguished foresters, today received an award from American Forest Products Industries for "distinguished service to American forestrv and the forest industries." AFPI is nationil sponsor of the multiple use tree farm program of growing trees as a crop on private lands.

"Jefi" Dillon, wholesale sales rnanager of Blue Diamond Division of The Flintkote Company, has announced that Bob Hammond is now representing B'lue Diamond throughout Orange County. His territory stretches frotn Seal Beach to San Juan Capistrano, including Santa Ana, Fullerton, Anaheim and surrounding communities.

Promotions of Ren6 Merlander to marketing director and Robert S. Levinson to advertising and publicity manager were announced recently by Filon Plastics Corpo- ration, Hawthorue, California. Merlander: will continue to supervise the general advertising and promotional programs of the company, while Levinson will coordinate these programs. Levinson retains responSibility as public relations director.

Board of Directors of United States Gypsum Companl' has elected Mr. C. O. Futterer a vice president of the company. He rvill be in charge of Sales, replacing R. D. Stephan, n'ho continues with the company as a vice president and rvill handle special assignments. Futteler l.ras served the company as a salesman, clistrict, division and regional sales manager', arrd for several years u.'as director of United States Gypsum's Market Research Department.

Appointment of Herbert W. Morse as director of public relations of the Diamond National Corporation, manufacturers of creative packaging, paperboard, rnolded-pulp and lumber proclucgs and printed advertising materials, was anndunced todal' by William H. Walters, chiirman of the board and president. Morse will supervise the firm's financial-stockholdef, institutional, community, emplol'ee and.product communications.

Ted A. Carlson, Land and Timber manager for The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia, California, has accepted appointment as chairman of the 10th annual Junior Logging Conference. Carlson's appointment was announced today in Santa Rosa by Roy G. \lVagner, president of the Redwood Region Conservation Council, sponsors of the youth educational program. Carlson has been associated with The Pacific Lumber Company as an engineer; forester and land manager since 7922.

S. L. Richmond, sales manager, Tools & Equipment Division, Owatonna Tool Company, Owatonna, Minnesota, announces the appointment of M. Donald Garrison as district manager for the Detroit, Ilfichigan and Northern Ohio territory.

In that same firm, R. F, Schuster, advertising-sales promotion manager, announced the appointment of Harvey W. West, Jr., to the OTC advertising department. He will assist in the national advertising program, prepare catalog material, sales promotion

Richard S. Kennedy has joined Bestwall Certain-teed Sales Corporation as a sales representative for the organization's San Francisco Sales District. The announcement was made by Carl E. Berzelius, vice president of Bestwall Certain-teed Sales Corporation. As a representative for the company, Kennedy is responsible for servicing architects, builders and lumber dealers in the Oakland area.

William B, Courtney has been appointed Executive Vice President of the SpeedWay Manufacturing division of Thor Power Tool Company, it was announced by W..B, Scace, president of the SpeedWay division.

Sidney Sterne, 970 Menlo Ave., Los Angeles, has been appointed West Coast sales manager for Kennatrack Corp., according to a recent announcement by Bruce A. Littman, general sales manager. Previously Sterne had served the company as national field sales manager and in variods district manager posts.

Floyd Vike has joined Willamette Valley Lumber Company of Dallas, Oregon, as sales representative, according to general sales manager Ward 'E. Moore. His duties rvill involve lumber and plywood sales.

Selection of California business executive, Walter S, Johnson, as one of 25 national leaders in business, the professions and international affairs who will serve on the Board of Trustees of the Center for International Economic Growth during the coming year was announced by the CIEG. Mr. Johnson is Chairman of the Board of American Forest Products, San Francisco, and of Frieden. Inc.. San Leandro. of which he is also president.

Georgia-Pacific has announced the promotion of Frank V. Langfitt, Jr. to the newly-created position of marketing manager, Western Plywood. Langfitt, who has guided western plywood sales for the giant firm for the past ten years, has appointed another G-P veteran, james E. Ilande, as sales manager in his place.

In revealing the management revision, G-P vice president William H. Ilunt, comrrented that "the move makes official the increased responsibilities outside the sales area which Mr. Langfitt has been performing for some time."

Lester L. Barton has joined the. Duraflake Company of Albany, Oregon, as a sales engineer, according to W. W. Afrolter, general sales manager for the firm which produces Duraflake, the new wood-formed board. In his new capacity, Barton will maintain contact with Duraflake distributors and users, offering technical assistance and advice in the uses and applications of the new product.

Appointment of California Electric Works, San Diego, California, as exclusive distributors of Onan Products is announced by Roy E. Mullin, vice president of marketing, Onan Division of Studebaker-Packard Corpora- tion, Minnesota. Effective immediately, California Electric Works will represent Onan, builder of gasoline and Diesel electric plants, in an area covering San Diego and Imperial Counties in Southern California.

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