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Paul Kent, popular Hollywood wholesale lumber distributor, and Val Gardner, general sales manager, Rosboro Lumber Co., Spring- field, Oregon, seen touring the sales territory in Southern California, which also included Santa Anita.

Carl Gavotto, Cal-Mex executive, San Diego, scouting south of the border last month looking for business. Roberto Estudillo entertained him over a Tecate beer.

Bo Ahrens and the missus celebrated their 34th wedding anni in Palm Springs last month with Dant & Warnock's Duke Warnock and Mrs. Warnock helping out with the celebration. After a week in palm Springs the foursome toured south to Borrego Springs where they met Timberlane,s Russ Fryburg and his wife for a little eolf and lazing in that booming desert resor].

Veteran San Francisco lumber merchant Ed Byard, vacationed in Palm Springs with the missus during February.

Island Timber Company's Verlon "Mac" McKinney made a soggy and wet sales safari through the Pacific Northwest last month.

U. S. Plywood Corp. transferred Dean Huckaba from the company's Phoenix warehouse .to its big Santa Clara operation last n-ronth. Dean will be active in outside sales in his new position.

Paramino Lumber's Jack Ferri is currently u'inding up a two week mill safari through C)regon and Northern California.

_ Mill Valley Lumber Company's John Castleman vacationed in Mexico last month.

Bob Blind, formerly associated with U. S. Plywood's Santa Clara branch, was Dromoted to manager of the company's Eugene, Oregon, warehouse last month.

Jack Crane and Ed French (a French Crane?) toured the Humboldt and Mendocino County mills the week of February 5.

Godard & Bell's Al Bell and Mrs. Belt spent February and early March vacationing in the West Indies.

Popular Phytlis Hawkins, well known Hoo-Hoo-Ette, has been named "Girl Friday" at James S. Linderman, Long Beach wholesale lumber lirm.

Don Jewett, ,prominent lumber wholesaler of Southern California, in a hurry-up trip to the hospital for an emergency appendec- tomy. As we go to press, he is now convalescing at the Little Company of Mary Hospital, Torrance.

Williom M. Ritter, ll New Veep Of Georgio-Pocifi c Corportion

William M. Ritter, II has been elected a Vice President of Georgia-Pacific corpora- tion, effective January 1, 1961, Owen R. Cheatham, Chairman of the Board, and R. B. Pamplin, President, has announced. Ritter will be in charge of the Southern Division, which includes over 300,000 acres of Georgia-Pacific timberlands in nine states: sixteen .manufacturing plants, coal reserves of approximately %0 million tons and substantial natural gas and silica reserves.

Mr. Ritter was President of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Cornpany, Roanoke, Virginia, when it merged with Georgia-Pacific in 1%0. Prior to election as head of the Ritter company in 1956, he had ;been president of ,the Red Jacket Coal Corp., Red Jacket, West Virginia, having been with that company since 1941. Ritter is a director of the National Lumrber Manu,facturers Assoc,iation and a member of American Institute of Mining and Me,tallurgical E,ngineers. lfe was born in Columb'us, Q,hio, and is a graduate of Princeton University.

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