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Frank Davis is the new manager of the Eamman-McFarland Lumber Co. yard in Scottsdalg Arizona. Frank hails from Hillsboro, Oregon, where he was formerly in the retail lumber business.

Gordon Eowell, long-time marrager of Woodland Lumber Company, has taken over Dixon Lumber Company in a purchase from its parent company, Auburn Lumber Company. Gordon plans to expand his farm and retail trade, operating under the new name of Dixon llardware & Lumber Co., 155 North Jefterson St., Dixon.

Som Mor-ton has opened Morton Builders in Monroe,.Wash. It's his first bwiness venture.,.GoodLuck,Sam!

Ed Dursteler has been select€d Los Angeles area sales representative for Hedlund Lumber Sales of Sacramento. Ed will continue !o maintain offices in Van Nuys for his many customers.

Bob Dickerson has been named manager .gf J. W. Copeland's Patterson, Calif. yard, -'one of the old Santa !'e chain.

Jerry Yiau has joined the Georgia Pacific team in San Diego. He will be the "other half" of San Diego's inside sales desk with Floyd Adkins.

Mike Madison has been named manager of the imported hardwood lumber and plywood department of Ziel & Co., Inc., in San Francisco. A native of the Emerald Isle, Mike spent several years in West Africa for a large European lumber firm and later came to this country and became assistant to Bill Baugh at Baugh Bros. Lumber Company in Los. Angeles. IIe left Baugh Bros. two years ago to join Ziel & Co.

Dick Freeman, chief executive So-Cal Building Materials in Los Angeles and his family spent their vacation last month on the beach at Honolulu. Their trip included the other islands as side trips.

Ed Omerick, Edo Lumber Company, San Carlos, opened his new truss plant in Dublin last month. Ed plans to manage the plant and cater to the retail dealer trade"

Lloyd Bowerman, former assistant to A. C. Mason at O'Malley's Scottsdale, is now manager of O'Malley's Yuma, Arizona yard.

LMA's Jack Pomeroy flew to Washington, D. C., for a director's meeting of the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Assn. the week of May 11.

Iferb Franke, manag:er of Garrigus Lumber in Forest Grove, Ore., has credited new buildings as allowing the firm to expand during his 10 years a^s manag'er.

Jack Finnegan, Wholesale Forest Products sales executive, back on the job following major surgery last month.

Fred Robertson is changing the name of his newly purctrased Riclcman Bldg. Materials in Port Orford, Ore. to lVestern Building S;upply. Eugene "Red" Brown will move down from Coquill to manage.

Bill and Dori Stuart celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary in May at Big Bear lake where they have a summer home. Bill admits that Dori was a ehild bride and he was an "old lumberjack' back in 1929 when they started their family.

Hal Price, 'Wholesale Building Supply' Oakland, and his family, enjoyed the last two weeks of June vacationing in Idaho.

Ernie Mead, Maple Bros. distribution warehouse manager in San Diego, and his wife, have returned from a two-month world cruise and is wondering what happened to Ken Conway while he was away.

O. L. "Lee" Tlithers, who ope'ned Mt. Axgel Lumber 33 years ago is celebrating that birthday at his newly remodeled quarters. Carl Mucken manages the store in Mt' Angel plus the branch in nearby Woodburn' Ooe,

IIolIis Jonee, president of Western Door & Sash Co., has named Ed Hall to the newly created position of operations manag:er in charge of Western's mills, warehouses and tnrck fleeL Ed was fornrerly assista,nt ea$ager and sales manager of Lakeview Manufacturing Co., Lakeview, Oregon.

Bob Fasel has been appointed sales manager of the new Eagle Lake Lumber Co. sawmill at Susanville, California.

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Jerold Guinn, fipton Lumbe4 bought Stebbins lumber and will combine it into his Tulare, Calif. retail operation.

Bill Oberholger, tnarager of Kelley-Moore Eome fmprovement Center, P.O. Box 192, San Luis Obispo, vacationed in the Santa Cruz area during mid June, subject golf.

A. G. Watter bas purchased the Builders Mart yard at 365? Broadway, Vallejo. Watter had formerly been with Shell Oil Co. at Martinez for many years.

Al Kelley, looking fft as a ffddle after a lengthy bout of illness over the first of the year, was out stumping the northern California and Oregon mill country last month.

McCormick Lumber & Mill held a su@ess- ful open house this spring at its expanded .retail store. William McCormick has had the Salem, Ore. store since December.

Bernard Roth, representing the Edgar Roth firm of Strasbourg, Fbnce, visited the ofrces of Hobbs \Mall Lumber Co. last month while on a one-month tour of our 'West Coast and Southern producing regions.

Jack Tweedy, Inglewood wholesaler, celehis first enniversary by moving to more spacious ofrces at 307 East Regent St Jack is assisted by his wife, Doris, who hendles the ofrce. lbis is the 15th year of wholesale selling in southern California for Jack, who came from Ohio where he started as a retailer in Akron.

Freeman Campbell, general sales manager, California-Pacific Corp., Los Angeles, spent the last week of May and first week of June touring the Redwood highway picking up prime products for company clients.

Ron Earris and his wife a^re taking over Dea,nts Srrpply in Wallowa, Ore., arrd will run the store w"ith his uncle Elwyn Johns.

Ike Zafrani, president of Harbor Lumber Co., has named Malcolm Bunker to head a new cedar division with emphasis on western red cedar lumber, shingles and shakes. Bunker comes to San Francisco from Connecticut where he specialized in the wholesale cedar business for over 15.years.

Forrest Wilson, cedar specialist of Pasadena, has spent a week visiting executives of B. C. Forest Products in Vancouver, B.C. He also called on other northwest mill operators.

Bulldog Pallet Co., recently razed by fire at Newark, has set up shop at,222Napolean Street in San Francisco, Gordon Dennis at the reins of the long established pallet manufacturing: concern.

Bert Thierolf, Big Pines Lumber Co., P.O. Box 6, Medford, Oregon, is opening a scpanrte distribution yerd eomplete wlth a 196' long warehouse for his contractor sales.

Harry Medo returned to his Cloverdale ofrces last month after a srtring through the

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Stewart Orr, Three C's Lumber Co., Grants Pass, spent a mid June week in Boise, Idaho, on lVestern Retail Lumber Assn. business. Orr was electd president of WRLA at its 61st annual convention in Portla,nd, tranuary 24-26.

Lloyd Webb, E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., on a buying trip to the northern mills.

Ifarry Vfhittemore, retired lumberman, is back in circulation following several months living south of the border. Harry likes Mexico but prefers the good old U.S.A.

Pat Tynan is currently on a long awaited vacation trip which will take him thmugh most of Western Europe and the Mediterranean, checking the "action" and seeing the sights. We for one will be sure to call Pat when he returns to his Lamon Lumber Co. offices later this month for a complete and. comprehensive report on that "aqtion" parl.

Harold Eastman, former assistant to G. L. Cavitt at J. W. Copeland's Multnomah, Oregon branch, has been promoted to manager of the company's yard at 222 Sottth Second St., Hillsboro, Oregon.

Bob Erlbert headman *t South BaY Lumber in Hawthorne, reports he has in' creased the area cf his home to ta&e care of a new arrival in the family. Congratulations. Bob.

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