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Dick Norman has moved to the inside sales force with Evans Produsts Company in LA, according to ma.nager Clifi Rauch. Dick joined EVans in '57 and has been a truck driver for the last six years.

Charlie Schmitt recently spent a week in the Northwest on Jack London Trading Co. business.

Bob Kluth has been named manager of the newly reopened R.ogue River Lumber Company on highway 101 north, P.O. Box 635, Gold Beach, Oregon. Kluth was formerly with Basin Building Materials Co., Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Al Vleitz, head of Shasta-National in Los Angeles, followed up an eastern buying trip by flying his own plane over into Mexico for several daye of varation.

Lee Kramer, E-Z Glide "Top Banana," and his wife Jerene, covered business jn Las Vegas and Apple Valley last month. Ihey go,t caught in the 100 m.p.h winds in Las Vegas which did extensive damage in that area.

It was reported that Seth Potter, sales manager for TW&J, Los Angeles lost his car while calling on lfarold Cole at Bohnhofr Lumber Co. Following a 36 hour sea,rch the car v/as recovered and it made Frank Quattrochi very happy because the new can happened to be his.

Jack and Norman Davidson, LA importers and distributors seen in Chicago at the NLBMDA convention as Pacific \Mood Products is active nationally.

Yolney Spalding was a recent visitor in Los Angeles. Sinee retiring from the wholesale lumber distribution business in southern California the retired U. S. Marine has been mal<ing his home in the state of Washington.

Gertrude and C. D. LeMaster, former publisher of Western Building Review, Sacramento, have returned home after tooling their Caddy to Florida and back via the South, stopover at New Orleans, natch.

Sallye Bissell is back in southern California from Sebastopol where husband Gil was with Fluor Colp. for several months. Sallye is the publicity chairman for HooHoo-Ette Club #1. The Bissels are making their home in Downey.

Dave Michel and Tom Bell have remodeled Big Ttee Lrrmber Co. in Colma into a one-stop builder's center. The yard is on the former site of the Big Bear Lumber Co.

Alice Rogers, 1Yz yeat Cal-Pacific Sales Cory. veteran has transfened to the company's Los Angeles headquarters from the Lreg,ta office. She will be an assistant to general manager Pat Benson.

Art Dvans escaped last month from his 6-day a week plywood & lumber operation in San Mateo and treated the missus and himself to a week's vacation in Arizona.

Carvel Brown, and wife Aileen, returned last month from a six week trip through the Orient, including southeast Asia. Canel is general manager of the Orban Lumber Co., Pasadena, Calif., one of the city's pioneer retail dealers. The trip was made by plane and ship in order to cover all points of interest.

We remember reading about the pilot who went down in the Paciffc while fenrying a plane from Oakland to Manila a couple of months ago, but the paper only identified him as an airplane broker. Last month we had the pleasure of meeting Blaine Gardner in the offices of M. S. Cowen Po. in San Franeisco, and we find that aircra,ft sales is only a subsidiar5r of his Republlc Foreet Products producing firm in Manila. Blaine, if you'll remember the front page spread, spent ? long hours paddling around lhe Pacific with only a fragment of a life jacket after he erash landed his plane which in his words "floated like a stone". What's he do' ing back in the Bay Area? TVhy pickilS uq uttithe" plane to ferry back to Malila, of course!

Ken Coleman, Phil Keltv and Ed Difani were L.A. Hoo-Ho'o's who attended t'he Salt River Hoo--Hoo week-end golf tournament June 19,20 and 21 at Phoenix.

The Essley clan has moved their recreation activity to their Laguna Beaeh house for the summer months ahead.

Robert Kellso has moved over to Evans Products Roseburg operation after 15 years with Southern Oregon PlYwood.

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