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Sol Jafiee of National Lumber and Supply has recently opened a new store in the Dominguez area of Los Angeles. A family run business, Sol is helped by sons Mel, Steve and Eugene.

Bob Evju, president of Evju Products in San Refael, has just returned home after a month and a half in Europe on business, but that would have to be a pleasure, too, wouldn't it?

Stan Dick, former purchasing agent and manager of Island Lumber Company's two fards in Hawaii, got homesick and rehrrned to his old San Francisco haunts last month. Welcome horne, Stan.

Roy Stillwell, Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co., Downey, on a combined business and vacation trip to New York, the Middle West and Deep South.

Roy C. Smith, manager of Zamboni Lumber in Redding, has appointed Don Michaelaon as sales manager. Ife will continue es lumber buyer for Vance Lumber Co. in Los Angeles.

Clark A. Johnson is the new director of sales for the building materials division of Evans Products Company according to G. P. (Pete) Oldham, division vice president and general manag:er.

LMA executive veep Bob McBrien recently traveled to Chicago to attend the organization meeting of the Managing Ofrcer Advisory Council to NLBMDA. This group of trade association leaders will b€ looked to for adviee on programs and policies to be established nationally by NLBMDA Washington, D.C. headquarters.

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Timber Wolf Joe Tardy was a recent visitor in Los Angeles. Joe is from the great state of Texas and now makes Arizona his home. Ife has been in the biz for more than 50 years,

Art Evans, former CBS manager in San Mateo, spent a week vacationing: in Arizona last month following the closing of his store outlet on May 14.

Helen Kesner, owner of Mt. Scott Retail reports great success with an open house party held last month celebrating complete remodeling of her Sutherlin, Oregon store.

Union Pacific Railroad has selected a Miss Patricia 'Pat" Wood as one of their ag:ents in the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel downtown office to handle reservation for lumbermen. The name is just right-Wood for the wood industry.

Bob Macffe ldt his sidekick Bob Kilgore lending the store in May while he toured the Oregon Trail calling on Kilgore Lumber suppliers.

George Cameron, for many years in lumber distribution in southern California, a^nd his wife Mickey, have bought the Vista Del Sol Motor Hotel in Palm Springs. lbey extend the hand of welcome to all lumbermen and their families.

Donald L. Rothenberg has been appointed manager of marketing and commercial research for the building materials d,ivision of Evans Products Company. He will direct studies of market conditions, new product testing, advertising research, and other consumer-oriented research.

John Osgood, of Robert S. Osgood Co., Los Angeles, with wife and family on a tour of Europe. They will return late this month.

Jessie Alford succeeded Joe Gallacci as owner of Gualala Lumber Company on May 1, following the closing of G&A Lumber Company, also located at Gualala.

Seen lazing in the Arizona sun was the retired president of E. J. Stanton & Son, Roy Stanton, Sr. His long time pal was with him-none other than Joe Tardyhelping him carry on this heavy duty loafing.

Well known Feninsula lumberman Bill Bower has established his own wholesale business in Los Altos. Bower Lumber Company will operate as a g'eneral wholesale firm and the mailing address is P.O. Box 369, phone 948-969?, Los Altos. Jim McKillop, formerly in the commission b,usiness on his own, will be associated with Bower.

Dick Brown, of Getz Bros. & Co., San Francisco, spent two weeks recently calling on customers in the Midwest and East.

Kamaaina Horace Wolfe, and wife Nona, have left on their 10th annual trip to the land of Mano and Poi. They will spend two weeks at Maui, then on to the Kona Coast on the Island of llawaii. Then a week at Coco Palms at Lihue and another in Ifonolulu before returning in late June,

Marley Brown of Brown's Lumber Service in Portland has reopened for business in ,a new building following a fire that desttoyed the old quarters in August.

Sallye Bissell and husband Gil are going to Tucson, Arizona for graduation of their son Michael from high school and then on to visit relatives and friends in Minnesota.

Milt Cook's many friends will be happy to know that he's making fine progless after nearly being KO'd by a recent heart attack. The Eastshore Mill & Lumber exec was striken during late March and after a month and a haif in the hospital is now up and around at home and able to take calls and have visitors. So, if you've got a little industry gossip you want to pass along, give Milt a call at Elgin 7-1001. He'd love to hear from you.

C. D. LeMaster, long a leader in the industry is at home in Sacramento successfully recovering from ,a throat oper.ation he had last month.

Larry Owen, head of the Dyken Lumber. Co. offices in San Francisco, visited sup- pliers in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana last month.

Paul Ward, Arcata Redwood's u'estern sales manager, visited customels in Salt Lake City and Denver duling the week of May 17.

Frank Rawolle and Bill Howe, of Mahogany Importing Company in Compton, have been recognized as long-time members of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. Mico has been an active member for the past 50 years. This firm has made a fine contribution to industry progress. The Fifty Year Plaque is on display in their. new offices.

Sterling Wolfe, Long Beach wholesale executive, and wife Loraine, vacationing in May by visiting Central America and the Caribbean.

Les Doddington, of Bernie Barber & Associates, touched down early this month aftel three weeks in A'rizona and New Mexico on business.

Hans Rainer recently r.eturned to San Francisco following a 5-week tour of the Orient on East Asiatic business.

Lynn Harrsen of Hansen Wholesale Lumber Co., is on a business trip to Allington, Texas, making final an.angements to set-up a redwood distribution yard in that ar.ea.

Pacific Lumbel Company's Harry Hootl spent the last trvo u'eeks of May calling on TPL accounts in Hawaii. Now ther.e's the territory to have, right gang?

Franklin D. Reed is the new Celotex sales representative for dealers in San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial, San Diego and Los Angeles.

Alvina Boyle of Mullin Lumber Comnanv is recuperating fr"om surgery in Denver, Colorado. Get well soon, Alvina.

John L. Rea has been appointed Celotex sales representative to building materials wholesalers and dealers in Monterey, San Benito, San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties.

Evelyn Watters, owner of the Builders Mart in Vallejo, has sold the business to Pat McBride who renamed the firm Cashway Lumber Company.

Bert Hasselberg, mor.e recently with Crane Redwood in Walnut Creek, is now with Construction Supply Corp. in GreenDfae.

Dick Dickens of Floyd's Sav-On Lumber in Garden Grove, Calif., reports fencing sales have shown much improvement this spring.

Ann Hickey, daughter of Canadian lumberman John Hickey, who just completed his term as Hoo-Hoo's Snark of the Universe, has returned home to Toronto after an apprenticeship learning the lumber bizwestern style-with the big Hammond Lumbel chain in southern California.

Wendell Scott of Lumbermen's Merchantile reports that things are right on schedule at the new retail store L-M is building in Tustin, right in the middle of booming Orange county. Scotty predicts a July 1b blast-off day for the new store, rvhich will be southern California's largest.

Bovard Shibley, Union Lumber,s speci,al products man, spent a I'ecent week in Los Angeles calling on accounts.