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Bob Goetze, well known in lumber sales, has joined Jewett Lumber Sales in Redondo Beach. He will work with Jack Campbell covering the southern counties while Don Jewett is minding the store up Arcata way. They are redwood specialists..

Norm Griesbach, head of Lampe Lumber Co.,7742 South K Street, Tulare, reports that he's busy working on plans to rebuild his store which was leveled by fire on March 20. His mill across the street, however, was undamaged and it's business as usual out of that site until the yard can be rebuilt.

Now that the baseball season is underway Harry H. White Long Beach wholesaler, and former second baseman, is back at the old stand-Dodger Stadium.

Dick Merritt until recently with Twin Harbors Lumber Co. at Menlo Park, is the proud owner of Merritt's Arts, Crafts & Hobbies at 155 Mill Street, Grass Valley.

Bob Halbert, president of South Bay Lumber ,Co. in Hawthorne, spent Easter vacation with his wife and children on a "motormants" holiday at Arcata. They were joined by Don and Betty Jewett, from Redondo Beach, along with their youngest offspring.

Ray Van Ide, southern California wholesaler, has new offices at 300 Elast Penn St. (suite 701) in Whittier. Ray has been in lumber sales since the close of World War II when he was a pilot.

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Our apologies to Harold Carriger whose name came out "Cartigan" after our printer got through n/ith it. Harold is Sa.nta Cruz Lumber Company's new retail division manager with offices at Sa,nta Cruz.

Hac Collins recently braved the winter elements and spent two weeks in the Midwest and East on Twin-City Lumber Co. business.

Mac McWhorter, well known West Coast lumberman now in the oil filter business, has been spending his time between the UCLA Medical Center and St. Judes Hospital in Fullerton. He is having an overhaul job done and all reports point to success.

Former lumberman Swen Gummer, now head of the MGM brake company in Cloverdale, recently returned home after 6 weeks in Europe where MGM is rapidly expanding its export business.

Mrs. Ken Conway, wife of the redwood salesman representing Arcata Redwood in the southern area, is heading for Europe on the 12th. She will be gone six weeks, soooo, Hoo-Hoo-Ettes take notice.

William H. Christopherbon has been named sales representative for the Sisalkraft Division of SL Regis Paper Co. in the San Francisco and northern California area selling reinforced paper and plastic film laminations.

Oscar Pittman, Shelton Hardwood veep, had a busy ten day tour of the Northwest attending the Hardwood Assn. convention, a state forester meeting and overseeing operations at the company mill.

Pat Bishop of Cal-Pacific Sales in Los Angeles, on vacation during the last weeks of April. John Lowe from San Francisco covered for him.

Bill Jackson, J. H. Baxter & Co. veep, returned to San Francisco April 29, after a month's vacation and restup in Mexico.

'Willits Redwood's Leo Ilulett recently made a sales safari through the Southwest and came home with a bag of goodies for the order file.

Charles D. Fratt, former general manager of Georgia-P,acific's distribution division, has joined with Portland businessman John S. Brandis to buy the Plywood Corp. of Orlando. Florida.

Bob Gaylord of Fir & Pine Lumber Co. and Bill Dunbar, representative of Rayonier Canada Sales, Ltd., in Vancouver, got in a little fishing in Ensenada.

New WMIA Officers Ch,osen

John R. Burns of Eugene has been elected 1965 president of the Western Lumber Marketing Association, an organization comprising lumber wholesalers and sawmills in northern California, the four Pacific Northwest states, and Canada's two western-most provinces. WLMA members ship east approximately 150,000 carloads of lumber a year.

Other oflicers chosen for the coming year are A. Ben Norris, United-Alpine Lumber Co., of Portland, first vice-president; Paul W. Gray, Paul W. Gray Company, of Seattle, second vice-president; E. R. Taylor, \f. H. Steele Lumber Co., Ltd., of Vancouver, 8.C., third vice-president; Roland M. Wirt. North Pacific Lumber Co.. of Portland, secretary, and Edward W. Moshofskp Whipple & Moshofsky Lumber Co., of Portland. treasurer.

Elected to the WLMA board of directors were Hershal M. Tanzer, Buckeye Pacific Corp., Portland; Simcoe Chapman, Chapman Lumber Co., Portland; James J. Heneghan, Pacific Forest Products, Inc., Seattle; Darrell L. Robinson, Oregon Pacific Forest Products Corp., Portland; I. Rosser, Clearwater Timber Products, Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta; Gus Giovanelli, Husky Lumber Co., Bellevue, Washington; Carl E. Wimberly, Jr., Western Lumber, Inc., Medford, and Emil G. Turner, Lignum Sales Ltd., Vancouver. B.C.

Honorary directors were named by president John Burns in Spokane-August V. Klaue, Northwest Lumber Sales, and T. R. Karlsten, Western Woods, Inc.and in Eugene--William Johnson, Eugene-Willamette Lumber Co.

Burns, who succeeds Hershel Tanzer in the top association post, is with the sales department of Eugene's Timberlane Lumber Company.

Yern Paquettc, Jamb Dandy Lumber Co. president, reports his firm lost a number of blank company checks which were alledgedly stolen by a teenager and passed in the Pico Rivera and Whittier area. But old John Law caught up with him and he is now in juvenile hall. Mor,al-watch those blank checks! Also stolen was $1870 in office equipment.

Ronold Armstrong, has been appointed a sales representative for Celotex in southern Arizona and a portion of Riverside county in Califomia.

Mr. and Mrs. Elie Destruel, Mead Clark Lumber Co., Santa Rosa, are currrently visiting relatives and vacationing in Spain and France. The popular lumber co,uple left April 12, and. plan to spend at least 2 months seeing the sights of Europe.

Don F. \ilhite, presitlent of White Brothers in Oakland, was a speaker at the Canadian Lumbermen's annual convention in Montreal ,and received a plaque comemorating the occasion.

Joe Petrash, well-known lumberman in bhe southern California area, joined the sales force of the Fir & Pine Lumber Co. April 1. Good luck, Joe.

Bruce Troyer has been named kitchen cabinet representative for northern California for the Long-Bell division of International Paper Cb., according to Harry Lyon Troyer was formerly with Lebbert Corporation in Oakland.

Bjorn Haugen of Fir & Pine Lumber Co., has taken a mill trip through Washington and Oregon.

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