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Six men have been added to the field promotion staff of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, according to W. E. Difford, managing director. Difford also announces several changes among regional field promotion managers.

Members of the DFPA Field Promotion department, which is headed by Stanley A. Taylor, work with plywood producers, iellers, specifiers, and users to orovide information and advice on the product and its applications. Regional headquarters are maintained in ten cities. The latest additions bring the staff to 58.

The six new members of the field promotion staff will be based in the following cities: James E. Fox, Chicago ; Paul J. Marsh, Seattle (regional headquarters, Tacoma); Harlow T. Richardson, Los Angeles; Curtis W. Solly, Minneapolis; Harold J. Tejes, Sacramento (regior-ral headquarters, San Francisco) : and Hampton W. Wagner, Detroit.

Transfers of Regional Managers

Among the regional field promotion managers, Darwin C. Boblet, formerly Cleveland manager, has been transferred to New York City. Vern Haskell, formerly senior field representative in Detroit, is now the Detroit regional manager. W. D. Page, who had been regional manager in Chicago, has been named executive vice-president of the Plywood Fabricators Service, Inc., and Don Lockridge, who was senior field representative in the Detroit area, has assumed the Chicago managership.

Plywood AssociqtionSets Up Form Promotion Service

W. E. Difford, managing director of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, announces the establishment of a national agricultural field promotion service. Difford says the step is occasioned by the rapid growth in the farm market for fir plywood, and underscores the growing emphasis DFPA is placing on service to consumers in this category.

Richardson comes to DFPA from a general contracting firm in Costa Mesa, California. where he was estimator and office manager. He was graduated from Long Beach State College with a B.A. in Industrial Education.

The new service is organized within the association's existing Field Promotion department, headed by Stanley A. Taylor..Headquarters are in Tacoma, and agricultural representatives are located in seven major farm areas throughout the country. Like the regular field promotion representatives, farm representatives will assist plywoocl users and specifiers with information on the product arrcl its best application.

W. L. Griebeler will direct the new agricultural promotion group. He was a DFPA field promotion representative in San Francisco from 1951 to 1956. He then joined Harbor Plywood Corporation in Aberdeen as assistant sal's manager, returning to the association in 1958. Griebeler is a graduate of Oregon State College, where he obtained his B.S. in Agricultural Engineering in 1941. He has taught in the college's Department of Agricultural Engineering and Architecture, specializing in farm structures and light frame constructl0n.

Regional agricultural promotion representatives include Floyd Smith, stationed in Santa Clara, California, and Ray Mitzner, Tacoma. Smith, a Cornell graduate, will be concerned with farm use of fir plywood in the Soutl.rwest. Mitzner was previously with Rilco Laminated Products, Inc., in St. Paul. His principal assignment is engineering work on agricultural plan development.

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A new redwood sawmill, operating as Holmes & Hannegan Lumber Co., was opened last morrth in Santa Cruz. Utilizing a modernized heaclrig and gang saw, the new mill will cut uo to 75MBM oer S-hour shift.'it rvas announced. Mill offices are located it 666 N{t. Hernron Rd.. Sarrta Cruz.

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