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Canby Builders Supply in Canby, Oregon has celebrated an anniversary for Cal Lewis and LeRoy Damm, both of whom have worked for Canby for 20 years. The firm was called the G. G. Makin Lumber Co. when they joined in 1945.

Joe Rogers has left the California scene for the Oregon scene to become manager of The lVliller Lumber Company. The company has 5 retail lumberyards in the Central Oregon area with the home office at Bend.

Dlaine McClellan is the new lumbergal at Oregon-Pacific's southern Calfornia office, where she assists Ralph Cardwell and Mac McAllister.

George Frederickson, manager of Master Coaters' Longview, Wash. plant, returned to his old stomping grounds in southera California recently for a meeting with bossman Dean Jones and sales manager Larry Koeneke.

Ilarold Logan of California Door Co., Los Angeles, is currently vacationing in Italy, France and Turkey, where he will visit his son Ronnie who is stationed there in the Air Force. Accompanying Logan is his daughter Jacqueline Kay and her friend Susan Armstrong.

Popnunting.

Brian Bonnington hit the Oregon Trail on a Bonnington Lumber Co. mill safari during late April.

Harold E. Worth, has been appointed a member of the technical services department of Western Wood Products Association by T. K. May, WWPA technical services director.

Milt Pernell, cutstock sales manager at Summit Lumber, Los Angeles, recently visited the northern California and Oregon mill country.

Don White. head of White Brothers and president of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, presided over the association's board of directors meeting in Chicago on April 28.

Charles M. Porro, of Home Owner Lumber of Sebastopol, has opened The l{ome Owners Lumber Co. of Cotati, with Ben Hyden as Cotati store manager. William A. McCurdy remains Sebastopol manag€r.

Bernard R, Kahn has been named to head western sales for the Minwax Co. of New Jersey, D. H. Henderson, the sales vp has affirmed. Kahn will work out of Burbank, Calif.

Los Angeles importman Jack Baser tooh time away from his Baser & Company desk for a trip to Scottsdale, Atiz. in April for the National Building Materials Distributors Association annual meet.

Edwin \M. Larson has joined Lodi-Fab as structural engineer, according to company president Fred Baybarz. Larson will team with Bill Eriksen, design and sales engineer for Lodi-Fab.

Don Freytag, manager of the Ferrell Lumber Co. in St. Helens, Oregon, reports their expansion remodeling project nearing completion. Doubling floor space and expanded product lines are the final goal.

Ed Ludwick, general manager of the Santa Barbara Mill and Lumber Co. is recovering nicely from a recent operation, according to Arcata Redwood's Ken Conway.

Max Baker is Weyerhaeuser's new area sales manager for the Southwest territory with offices in Los Angeles. He was formerly manager of Weyerhaeuser's distribution center in Charlotte, N.C.

Bill MacBeath returned to Berkeley during mid-May after a month trip to New York and London on lVlacBeath Hardwood business.

Jacqueline McKinney, head gal at McKinney Hardwood Company, spent the first week of May with friends in Sacramento and Lake Tahoe.

Stan Eznekier spent the flrst two weeks of last month in Hawaii on E. L. Bruce Co. business.

Don Dayen, genial manager of the Sun Handling Dock in Wilmington, Calif., is back at home in Manhattan Beach after a bout in the hospital.

Hobbs Wall's Mike Coonan, and his better half, Bufry, vacationed the first two weeks of May in.Mexico City and Acapulco.

Wayne Gardner, Lumber Ass'n of Southern Calif. manager, attended the lumber standards rneet in Washington, D.C. in early May and then was elected vice chairman of the advisory council of NLBMDA at their meeting a few days later. Also at the NLBMDA council were association officers King McKee (and his Veva) and Terry Mul- lin. Representing LMA were Bob McBrien and Frank Eurd. Ross Kincaid, Major Domo of WRLA was there as uras Joe llarley of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and J. M. Bettis of Caldwell, Idaho.

Twenty-year lumberman Bill Falls, most recently with Mullin Lumber and Anawalt Lumber's southern California operatiens, is now president of Chemstop Sales Corp., Burbank, Calif., distributors of Chemstop water?roof materials. Bill's partner is former insurance-man Carl Doria.

Charlie Schmitt, executive secretary of the Imported Hardwood Plywood Association, has returned to San Francisco after two weeks in the East and South conferring with IHPA and TIAA members.

Bobert J. Boyd, director of financial and administrative sereices for Calaveras Cement Company has been elected to the board of directors of the ,Credit Managers Association of Northern and Central California.

Hobbs Wall's Johnny Polach and Burt Tlheeler of Larkspur Lumber Co. enjoyed poor fishing, but excellent martinis during a four day expedition to Lewiston Lake with .their wives last month.

Hawaii was the scene of an early May Technical Services Program attended by many leading redwood executives including: Lloyd llecathorr! Arcata Redwood Company; John Jones and Potter Stafler, Union Lumber Co.; Bob Hoover, The Pacific Lumber Co.; Ford Conger, Georgia-Pacific Corp.; and Leo Hulett, Willits Redwood Products Co. Representing the California Redwood Association were Keith Lanning, Pete Johnson and Lee Rappleyea.

Bob Turner and Chub Durnell, of BrooksDodge Lumber Co. were seen trying to match the weather (108) on the golf course during the Riverside lIoo-Hoo's big event at Palm Springs. We understand they came close.

Larry King, Civic Center Lumber Co., Bakersfield, recently logged some time in a Santa Barbara Hospital to get in trim for a class reunion party back in Kansas.

Chick Ilanson and Earry Kenyon last month joined the sales staff at Hanson Wholesale Lumber, Encino, Calif. Chick, the brother of partner John Hansonn is a former Dallas, Texas lumber and hardware man, Harry, a 20-yeat lumberman, was formerly with Cal-Pacific.

Wally Fall, former sales manager at the now-defunct Trojan Lumber Co. retail yard in Anaheim, Calif., has joined the sales sta,fr at Mullin Lumber Co., North Hollywood, Calif. Wally was with Trojan for the past 12'years.

Ray Kellner of Kellner Lumber Company, Fresno, made the last issue of the National Geoga'aphic which featured E E resd on Ray's beautiful "Sky Ranch" home in an issue devoted to California living.

Phil Butterffeld has joined the sales team at Fir & Pine Lumber, Burbank, Calif. Phil was formerly with Tarter, Webster & Johnson's Newark, Calif. operation.

Frank Westlake, manager of Lincoln Avenue Lumber in Altadena, Calif., and his missus, Sylvia, spent the month of April in Hawaii. It was the couple's first trip to the Islands, according to Frank, who added "I put it off as long as I could."

Roy Engstrand and his wife Ruth are on a month-long trip to Europe, with scheduled stops in London, Switzerland, Rome, Nice, Paris and the Scandinavian countries. Roy retired two years ago from his post as vice president and bperating manager at the Wilmington Lumber retail operation in Norwalk, Calif.

Leo Seidner, bossman at Summit Lumber Co., Los Angeles, reports that his firm recently landed a big government contract to service military installations in southenr California.

Atlas Lumbet's Ed Bauer acted as host at the Terrible Twenty's 40th annual meeting and golf tourney held last month at the Los Angeles Country Club.

Bob Inglis, Associated Molding Co., Los Angeles, took in the Western Dry Kiln Clubs' annual meeting in Eureka last month.

Jack Young, formerly with HallinanMackin Lumber and Bohnof Lumber, Los Angeles, is now a salesman for Brush Industrial Lumber, Montebello, Calif. Jack will cover the Ventura-Santa Barbara terrircry.