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IIal Wagner has replaced Paul Snell as manager of Fortuna Builders Supply. Wagner was formerly manager of Copeland's Medford yard.

Burnett Miller, Burnett & Sons, and his wife Mimi have just returned to Sacramento after three weeks of seeing the sights and doing the towns in England and the European countries.

Harold Gee was recently promoted to manager of Copeland Lumber's Modesto, Calif. branch operation.

Ed Westcott, general manager of the McCready Lumber Co. line operation, is reported quite ill with pneumonia, but hopefully recovering as we go to press,

Don Muller, Hobbs WalI Lumber's man in southern Calif., has moved to new offices in Santa Ana from the old stand on T'elegraph Rd. in L.A. North Tustin Ave. to be exact about it.

Former Sacramento wholesaler Ken Bowes has joined Mead Kibbey's Black Diamond Lumber Co,

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Ham Miller. of Miller Lumber Co. at Bend, Oregon, has named Gary Rose manager of the company's Prinevalle yard. Rose was formerly the backup man at the Bend operation.

Gene Courchaine of Jamb Dandy Lumber Co.,Whittier,Calif., is planning abighomecoming celebration for his son, Marine Corporal Pat Courchaine, who is completing a 13-month combat tour in Vietnam. Pat, a 20-year-old rifle squad leader stationed at DaNang air base, is taking part in the "Operation Double Eagle" roundup of Viet Cong guerrilas.

Hyman Cheim, Union Lumber Co., Marysville, and his wife Kay may have missed an additional 1965 deduction by a few days, but they're sure proud as punch of their fourth child, a baby daughter.

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Jerry Cibelli has replaced John Nelson in the S. F. sales territory for the Long-Bell division of International Paper Co. Nelson moves to Long-Bell's kitchen cabinet division in the East Bay. Cibelli is a recent graduate of the company's training program at New York City.

Bob Shepard, formerly with Lumbermen's Merchantile in Fremont and Diamond National Corp., has joined Tartar, Webster & Johnson at Newark in sales.

Ken Strawser is back at his California Pacific Sales Corp. Arcata desk doing business as usual with his good digit finger and a head set. Ken took a bad spill ofr a ladder in the midst of a do-it-yourself project at his home in late January and wound up with two broken wrists.

Bay City Lumber's Len Edelman is reported on the mend, but with orders to take it real slow, after hospitalization on February 11.

Rolf Stolesen made a "quickie" (not be confused with "slow boat") trip Hawaii on business last month' rililliam E. "Bill' Locke, nationally known credit management consultant, has been retained by CBS Plywood to supervise the company's wholesale and retail credit department. Bill's duties will be supervision of the credit merchandising program for CBS in the home office at Oakland and at the firm's various branches.

Ben Gardiner has joined the sales staff at South Bay Lumber in Hawthorne. Ben will push redwood in the southern Calif. area under manager Bob Halbert.

Fergus Poole, formerly with Dant Forest Products and Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., has joined John Helm's Cascade Pacific Lumber Co. Portland sales staff.

Mike Walsh has left Harry H. White Lumber to go to work for McCormick's Mortuary in Inglewood. Mike, who had been in wholesale lumber sales for 16 years, will be a funeral director and also do public relations work for the firm.

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Diann Contestabile, pretty blonde wife of TWJ's Joe Contestabile, is the new teacher on television Channel 11's kiddies show, Romper Room, in Los Angeles. Seems she was painting the living room one morning, hear the request for applications, tried, and beat out nearly 100 other gals for the job. Knock 'em dead, Miss Diann!

Les Ley, general manager of Santa Cruz Lumber Company, is currently sporting a splendid cast on his leg, the momento of a recent ski excursion to Badger Pass.

D. Gates has been manager of Copeland Lumber's Prosser, Washington yard.

Dick Curd, general salesmanager of Kimberly Clark Corporation, returned to his Anderson ofrice during late January aftet a business safari to Europe.

Martin Kenfield is back rnaking like an old flrehorse for Gilchrist Lumber Company after undergoing recent surgery.

Roy Misfeldt, of Burnett & Sons in Sacramento, is flying on one wing temporarily after dislocating his elbow in a forced landing while skiing at Heavenly Valley.

Lloyd Hecathorn snow-shoveled his way through those terrific late January snow storms in New England on Arcata Redwood Company business.

Bob Shannon is back at his desk in sunny Santa Ana after a trip to Denver on Union Lumber business. Local weatherman treated him to snow and 15" below zero weather.

Lloyd Reed, manager of Copeland's Arcata yard, was hospitalized last month, but is expected to return to the stand any day.

Larry Fresh, master steelhead fisherman from Dallas Lumber & Supply, is reported to have out-fished lferschell Greenwade of Independence Lumber on a guided trip down the Nestucca River prior to the WRLA convention.

Don Swartzendruber, Rossman Mill & Lumber, left the Southland recently for a fast tour through the Oregon mill country.

Merv and Doris Kjer, who put in a 24 hour seven day-a-week shift at their VD Cedar operation in Hayward, finally escaped last month for a two week vacation trip through Florida, Jamaica, Bermuda and back home via New Orleans.

Ralph Lamon visited Lamon Lumber Co. mill connections in Oregon and took in the WRLA annual at Portland, Feb.4-b.

When Eddie Allender reeently retired from Union Lumber Co. at Marysville, the management was a little stumped about how long Eddie had been with tiem. Then they remembered his habit of nailing up the old license plates of the company trucks in the lumber shed (pre-license tab era, of course). So they checked and found a collector's item minted at Folsom Prison in 1924, which gives Eddie 42 yearc of faithful service to the pioneer north Sacramento Valley yard.

Jim Fraser, the Twin Harbors Sales Co, rep in Palo Alto, is back at his desk after a trip to Arcata.

Veteran Bay Area lumberman Kermit Nobel joined the sales staff of Comet Lumber Co. in Dublin last month.

Bob Ryan has named Mario Tigli manager of Boulevard Lumbey's Vancouver Blvd. yard in Portland.

Jack Little, head of Union Planing MiU at Stockton, boarded a cruise ship with the missus during mid-February for a 45 day cruise through the South Seas including stopovers at Tahiti, Bora Bora, New Zealand and Australia.

Tom lfandley, head of Ht&H Supply in Seaside, and Mark Byan, of G-P in Salinas, recently spent a couple of weeks terrorizing the natives in Hawaii. Well done men!

Northern California dealers were very much in evidence at the Western Retail Lumbermen's Assn. convention in Portland, February 4-5. Bob McBrierl LMA,s executive veep, was there, of course, as was Frank Heard, Motroni-Heard; Lyle Schafer from Minton's; Jim \il'eber of Hubbard & Johnson; Chal Croes and Yal Dittberner, Truckee-Tahoe Lumber; Mike Symons and Don Mark from llales&Symons; Homer,Hayward, Homer T. Ha5rward Lumber; Art Masters, The King Lumber Company; and E H. Ilaunschild of Chas. C- i Meek Lumber Co.

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Simpson Executive Chonges

Major realignment of manufacturing and marketing responsibilities has been made by Simpson Timber Company.

John L. Robins, formerly vice presidentmarketing, has been assigned two portfolios as vice president-specialty products group and vice president'corporate development. Robins will be responsible for both manufacturing and sales of Simpson insulating and acoustical products, doors, engineered wood products, and for the supervision of Simpson Building Supply Com' pany, market development, industrial sales and traffic and sales services.

Gilbert L. Oswald, formerly vice president-manufacturing, has become vice president-lumber and plywood group, with responsibility for both manufacturing and sales from Simpson's West Coast Iumber and plywood plants.

Hill Nomed U.S. Ply Monoger

U. S. Plywood Corporation has an' nounced the appointment of Albert M. "Bert" Hill, 44, to Pacific south division manager, in Los Angeles. He replaces Don Braley, who died Jantary 22.

Hill, director of West Coast Purchasing, Eugene, Ore., since 1964, assumed his new responsibilities February l.

Assistant director Conrad R. "Ray" Kel' ley has been appointed to Hill's former post in Eugene.

Hill joined U. S. Plywood in 1949 at High Point, N. C., and was named man' ager of the company's Columbia, S. C. sales branch in 1953.

New Building Supply Firm

A grand opening was held last month at the new Pumalite Building Supply Co., 408 W. Pacific Blvd., Albany, Oregon, according to manager Curt B. Prosa.

He said that the firm will deal in basic hard material lines, such as fireplace supplies, lath and plaster supplies, wallboard, concrete and building specialties.

Evons Appoints Delono

Don W. Delano has been appointed West Coast district salesman {or the Fiber Prod' ucts Division of Evans Products Company, Corvallis, Oregon.

Delano will be responsible for sales of all hardboard and particleboard products in the six southwestern states, making his headquarters in Los Altos, California.

He is a graduate of Pomona College and was formerly associated with The Flintkote Company.

TW&J in [.A. Promotes Two

Tarter, Webster & Johnson's Bandini yard chie{ Seth Potter, has announced the promotion of two of his staff.

Joe Contestabile has been advanced to manager of the fir division and George Steele has moved on from an extensive sales training course to a forthcoming slot in outside sales.

Contestabile is a graduate in marketing from the University of California and was a star quarterback until a knee injury sidelined him in his junior year. Steele joined TW&J in October full time after graduating from Texas Tech. He had worked summer vacations for TW&J at the Bandini yard.