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Herbert A. Templeton, of the Herbert A. Templeton Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon, sales agents for Cobbs & Mitchell Co., Valsetz, Ore., recently spent a few days in Los Angeles on business.

Hales & Symons, Inc., are opening a new office building at their yard in Sonora. The new structure adjoins their present ofhce.

Herbert Berry recently resigned his position with the Oakland Lumber Company, Oakland to go with San Leandro Mill & Lumber Company, Oakland, as city salesman.

Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Company, Irasadena, is on a trirp to Skowhegan, Maine. He plans to visit New York, Boston and other eastern cities. He will return about the middle of June.

H. R. Chapman, Chapnran Lumber Company, Los Angeles has returned from a trip to Boulder Dam.

Charles Bonestel, general manager of the Peoples Lumber Company, Ventura, celebrating his fortieth anniversary of service with the company, entertained the directors, managers and assistant manager at a barbecue held at his N{einers Oaks home. Mondav, May 17.

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Carl Bougere, manager of the Western Fir Lumber Corporation, New Orleans, La., is on a business trip to the Pacific Coast, calling on Pine, Redwood and Fir mills.

Roy Meyers, formerly manager of the Peoples Lumber Company at Ventura, has been transferred to the company's yard at Oxnard as manager. Harry Riley is assistant manager.

Jack Mulcahey, Mulcahey Lumber Company, Tucson, Ariz., spent a few weeks in Los Angeles during the month of May.

Central Lumber Company, Hanford, are ren-rodeling their office and will have a large room for displaying many of the items carried in stock.

Madera Lumber Company, IIadera, are building a new office building to house their offices and display room.

Frank Beaver, Graves Company, Los Angeles, was a delegate to the Spanish-American War Veterans convention recently held at Eureka, tr{r. Beaver is commander of the Los Angeles Post, which has a membership of 3,000.

Acme Spring Sash Balance Co. has moved its factory and office to larger quarters at 1625 Long Beach Avenue, Los Angeles.

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Horry Comp Appointed Chief Of Forest Economics Reseqrch

Harry W. Camp, research forester, has been appointed Chief of Forest Economics Research at the U. S. Forest Service experiment station in Berkeley, Dr. Keith Arnold, director of the station has announced.

Camp will direct surveys of forest resources in California and Hawaii, studies of the economic and social need for forest products, and studies of specific economic problems in various forest land uses.

"These studies play an important part in the development of California," Dr. Arnold said. "The results influence plans for industrial development, adoption of marketing and production rpractices, choice of lands for conversion uses, expenditures for protection of timber and other resources, and many other decisions faced by wildland managers and public policy makers."

Camp has been with the U. S. Forest Service since his graduation from the University of California in 1933. He served in administrative positions in half a dozen National Forests in California from 1933 to 1946. He has done forest economics research in California and Pennsylvania and was in charge of forest economics research at Forest Service experiment stations in Missoula, Montana, and Ogden, Utah. In 1955 he spent four months in Iran as a technical adviser to that country on forestry matters.

Since 1957, Camp has been in the Washington office of the Forest Service, first as a staff assistant in development of National Forest programs and policies, and for the past two years responsible for nationwide planning and coordination of recreation research.

Plywoll Announces Executive Appointments for Mqnuf ocluring, Morketing, Purchosing

Four key ,personnel appointments involving executive staff posts in manufacturing, marketing and purchasing, have been announced by Plywall Products Company, Inc., Fort Wayne, Indiana-Corona, California. The appointments, made public by Plywall President Larry M. Flahive, are effective immediately.

B. A. Cruse has been appointed manufacturing manager, and will direct operations of Plywall's plant at Corona and Fort Wayne, while continu'ing as resident manager of the Plywall-Corona manufacturing facility. Cruse joined the Plywall organization in 1953, and was instrumental in setting up the company's first plant. In 1957 he was appointed to set up a second plant at Corona. Since that time he has been resident manager of Plywall's western operation.

Paul Warkentien has been appointed Fort Wayne resident manager. He assumes the position vacated by E. H. Keppler.

W. R. Davis has been appointed m,arketing manag'er, and will coordinate sales, advertising and promotional activities for both divisions from company headquarters at Corona, California. He joined Plywall in 1957 and that same year v/as assigned to the company's California plant, and tater became 'Western Sales Manager. In 196O, he was named assistant to the president.

William Suiter has been appointed director of purchases, and will be responsible for the acquisition of all wood and raw materials. Formerly associated with H. Zwart & Company, Los Angeles imrport firm, he has been active in purchasing circles for the past 15 years.

Plywall Products Company, Inc., is a subsidiary of Evans Products Company, Plymouth, Michigan.

Consfruction Stqrts on New Tovqrt Plqnt

Ground has been brokeen for construction of a 25,AAO square foo,t headquarters bu,ilding and manufacturing plant for the Tavart Company, Paramount, Calif., rnanufacturer of garage door hardware and fiberglass screening.

The building, in t.he new Garfield Industrial Center at Garfield Ave. and Alondra Blvd. in Paramount, is scheduled for completion by June 1.

General contractor for the concrete, tilt-up s,tructure is John A. Alexander Company, Hu,ntington Park, and the architect is ShellyMontierth and Zamboni, Long Beach.

The plant is being built by Garfield Industr,ial Center Co. to Tavart's specificatrions and the company w,ill lease i,t wi,th an option to buy, according to S. Glenn Varley, Tavart presi.den.t.

Varley said the company will dispose of the two locations now producing garage door hardware and consolidate the operations in the new plant.

California Woveen Products, Inc., Orange, Calif., a w,holly owned ,subsidiary which is the sole manufacturer of fiberglass screening on the West Coast, will not be affected by he move.