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H. G. Kelsey Translerred to Eugene, Ore.

Transfer of Harry G. Kelsey, assistant vice president of The Long-Bell Lumber Co. from Longview, Washington, to Eugene, Oregon,. has been announced by J. M. White, Long-Bell president. The transfer took place on July 1.

Kelsey will acquaint himself with the operation of the Vaughn Division of the company prior to assuming the general managership on January l, 1952. at which time George S. Hays, present general manager will retire.

Hays, {vho has been with Long-Bell more than 50 years, has been mbnager of the Vaughn Division of the company since 1945 when Long-Bell acquired the Snellstrom Lumber Co. at Vaughn, 17 miles west of Eugene. A new sawmill, replacing one destroyed by fire, went into operation at Vaughn,late in June, and another sawmill is located at Austa, Oregon. Both mills are located on the Coos Bay branch of the Southern Pacific.

Kelsey became a member of the engineering staff of Long-Bell in 1946, and has collaborated on many of the engineering problems of the company. He is an engineering graduate of Oregon State College with the class of 1924. He has been in charge of the Real Estate Division of the company since 1948.

George F. Ruth, manager of the Longview Concrete Pipe Co., a Long-Bell subsidiary in Longview, has been named by White to succeed Kelsey as head of the Real Estate Diyision. Ruth has been a member of the Long- Bell orgqnization since 1925. Long-Bell,s real estate division in'cludes the Hotel Monticello, Longview public

Service Co., Longview Memorial Park, a real estate department and the concrete products company.

Chang€ of Ownership

T. F. Eckstrom has acquired the sole interest in the firm of Bessonette and Eckstrom. Inc. and announces a change in the name of the company to Eckstrom Plywood & Door Co. Business will continue at the present location. 2719 Compton Ave., Los Angeles 11, Calif.

R. A. (Bob) Cole, an old-timer in the Southern California plywood and door field, who for the past six years has been out of the active Los Angeles field has returned, and has been appointed sales manager. Mr. Cole,s first interest will be to.call upon his many friends and renew old acquaintances.

The present sales force consists of Ernie Nelson, A. J, (Red) Hetherington and Ray Benson.

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At S. F. Lumbermen's Club

The guest speaker at the meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club held in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, May 22, was Paul Speegle, program director for NBC in San Francisco.

Mr. Speegle's talk proved to be both amusing and interesting. President Francis Heron, Western pine Supply Co., Emeryville, presided.