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Appoint ed General Manager

E. T. F. Wohlenberg of Portland, Ore., has been appointed general manager of Masonite Corporation's newly acquired properties in Mendocino County, Calif., where a hard,board plant is to be built, Eugene Holland, president, announced. The company recently purchased a mill site near Ukiah, Calif., and more than 50,000 acres of timber in the adjacent redwood district.

Mr. Wohlenberg has had wide industrial and forestry experience. For several years prior to L945 he was general manager of the Edward Hines Lumber Company's mill at Burns, Ore., and was also with the U.S. Forestry Service for several years. He became forest counsel in 1945 for the Western Forestry and Conservation Association, which position he resigned to join Masonite Corporation. Mr. Wohlenberg will arrive in Ukiah about May 1, and his temporary office will be in the Maple Cafe building.

Apprentice Brick Mcrsons

More than 10,000 veterans and other young men are now registered and receiving training as apprentice brick masons, according to an announcement by Roy A. Shipley, president of the Structural Clay Products fnstitute, Washington, D. C. The number of apprentice masons has increased 32 per cent in the last year. Apprenticeship committees for the training of brick masons have been formed in more than 390 communities by approximately 4780 employers and 42O local unions.

New Paraffine Appointments

San Francisco, April 23-At a meeting of the board of directors of The Paraffine Companies, Inc., held today at the company's home office, 475 Brannan Street, San Francisco, the following appointments were made:

Horace J. Lilleston was appointed a vice president.

Mr. Lilleston is sales manager of Pabco's Floor Covering Division, maintaining offices in New York City as well as San Francisco.

Mr. Lilleston has been with the company lor ?5 years. He previously served as advertising manager and then manager of the Eastern Division until his advancement in 1944, when he was put in charge of Pabco's floor covering sales activities throughout the nation.

Mrs. Philomene Hall Negley rvas appointed assistant secretary of the corporation. She has been with The Paraffine Companies, Inc., 26 years,.serving in the secretary's office Tor the past several years.

Paraffine, manufacturer of Pabco linoleum, felt base floor covering, and mastipave industrial flooring, is one of the nation's three largest manufacturers of smooth-surfaced floor coverings.

Narned Assistcrnt Mcncger

Stanley W. Plummer, owner and manager of the San Dimas Lumber Company, San Dimas, announces that Ira Jeffers, formerly manager of the E. K. Wood Lurnber Company at La Verne, has accepted a position as assistant manager with his company.