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W. B. Burkett, Chief Engineer for the Los Angeles Division of McCulloch Corporation, manufacturer of power chain saws, outboard motors. boats and kart errgines, has been promoted to the position of Vice president and General Manager for the Los Angeles Division.

Promotion of Charles E. Enyart to merchandise manager, dealer insulation board products, has been announced bv Marvin Greenwood, Celotex Corporation uice president and director of nrerchandising. Enyart will be responsible for the developmenl of merchandising programs and techniques and will assist in recommending and developing new insulation board products.

Byran Arbuckle and Len Oliver have been appointed to new responsibilities in the plv- wood division of Oregon-Pacific Foiest Products Corporation. Arbuckle has been named assistant to M. I. Douglas, vice president of Oregon-Pacific and manaser of the plywood division..A,rlruckle's chief responsibility will be managenrent of eastern carload sales. Oliver has been named manager of the hardwood plywood department which involves buying and inrporting exotic plywoods trom many countries and their sale throughout the United States.

Chas. Myers Industrial Trucks, 1210 Delevan Drive, San Diego, California, has been appointed to sell and service fork trucks and other materials handling equipment produced by the Industrial Truck Division of Clark Equipment Company. The new dealership, headed by Charles W. Myers, will serve San Diego and Imperial counties.

Five Califomia lumber dealers were recognized for their successful merchandising techniques at a recent convention of Armstrong Cork Company wholesale distributors in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The five were Harry Walker, W. E. Cooper Company, West Los Angeles; John Cook, Ana- walt Lumber Company, Los Angeles; Murray Gelleri, Goodman Lumber Company, San Francisco; Wendell Scott, Merner Lumber Company, Palo Alto; and Wayne Hull, Hull Brothers Lumber Company, Beverly Hills.

Four regional sales offices have been established by Vancouver Plywood as a part of a broad plan to strengthen its national sales and marketing programs and improve customer service. Virgil Ryland heads the new Omaha field offrce; Scott Wiscomb in charge at Chicago; Robert Dickson and T. C. Manous at Charlotte, North Carolina: and Jack Brawner at Richmond, Virginia.

Norman P. Weeden, supervisor of the Coronado National Forest with headquarters at Tucson, Arizona, has been named Director of the Smokey Bear F'orest Fire Prevention Campaign. lf e succeeded William W. Huber, transferred to Atlanta, Georgia as Assistant Regional Forester to head Forest Service information and education work in the 11 states extending from North Carolina through Texas.

Robert E. Johnson has been appointed manager of Weyerhaeuser Company's Ar- cata, California branch. He replaces Kirk R. Cooper, who was recently named manager of softwood plywood products at Tacoma. Johnson had been serving as branch timber manager since the former Roddiscraft operation was acquired by Weyerhaeuser in 1960.

A. W. Teichmeier has beerr appointed director of merchandising for United States Plywood Corporation, and will supervise merchandising plans and programs for the company's wide range of products.

William H. Moberger fills the newly created position of marketing specialist for Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company. He will specialize in the over-all marketing of Insulite tileboard and related interior products.

Don L. Gilchrist new Area Product Manager, Plastering Materials, for United States Gypsum Company's Southern Region.

Directors of The Flintkote Company in May declared quarterly dividends of .30 cents per share on the common stock; $l per share on the $4 cun-rulative preferred stock; $l.lZr7, per share on the $4.50 Series A convertible second preferred stock; and, 56r/+ cents per share on the $2.25 Series B convertible second preferred stock, all payable June 15, 1961.

New district sales manager for United States Gypsum Company at Albany, N.y., is George E. Murphy.

International' Paper Company's national advertising program, "Send Me A Man Who Reads," has been awarded a tie for first place by the Saturday Review in its Ninth Annual Advertising Awards Competition.

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