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Thrifty Retoilers Pick Up ot Corlood Prices From Our Worehouse Looded With Hardboard, Porticle Boord qnd Lumber

Solber to Centrql, Norfhern Colif., Wheeler to Southwest Scrles for Georgio-Pqcific Hordboqrd Division

Georgia-Pacific's hardboard division announces the appointment of two sales representatives for the California, Nevada and Arizona area.

The Norther:n and Central California marketing area will be handled by Joseph P. Salber (right), a 20-year veteran in the hardboard industry. Southern California, southern Nevada and Arizona markets will be past four years. under the direction of John R. Wheeler (left). With 11 years in the building materials business, Wheeler has been active in the Los Angeles area for the

Both men will call on accounts established through the Georgia-Pacific distribution warehouse system. G-P markets a broad line of building materials through a number of wholesale outlets in this area.

Steadily growing markets for G-P hardboards. both industrial and building'trades, are reported by the big forest-products firm. The sales addition in the California and Southwest areas is part of a general expansion program in G-P hardboard distribution.

-National Foresf Products Week October 16-22-

Frqn Heron Joins Twin-City

Twin-City Lumber partners, Hac Collins and Bill Ram;ay, welcomed Fran Heron into the organization on July 18. For the past two years Fran had be& buying and ielfing for Trinity River Lumber Sales Co. in San-Francisco and will continue in the same capacity for Twin-City.

Heron's lumber experience datei back to the "depre'ssion,' days when he put_in a two-year stint with Hales 8rSymons, Inc., in Sonora, after receiving invaluable "family triining,t under his dad,_ then general manager of Pickering Lumber Company. _He later spent seven yeirs buying and ielling for Standard Lumber Company in Inglewbod" and, after" the war, spe.nt several years with Western Pine Supply Co. in Emeryville. Fran started his own wholesale 6usiness in P,an Fral,qisco during 1951, which he operated until joining I rlnltv l(tver.

FPL Technicol Advisory Gouncil Sets Fulure Gools ot Spring Meer

Byrne Manson, director of engineering and research for Simpson Redwood Company at Arcata, was elected presidenf of. the Technical Advisory Council to the University of California's Forest Products Laboratory, during its spring meeting at the Richmond Field Station, May 13. Other officerJchosen were Dr. Howard S. Gardner, director of research and development for Fibreboard Paper Ptoducts Corporation at Antioch, California, vice-president, gnd Wairen A. Carleton, assistant manag'er of Winton Lumber Company at Martell, California, secretary'

Manson succeeded A. Bristow Hood, vice-president and general manager of Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company at Anderson, California, who is retiring from the Council. Also leaving the Council after serving a three-year term is R^ussell Johnson, president of Union Lumber Company at San Francisco.

The Council was given a review of the research achievements o{ the Forest Products Laboratory during the past five vears bv Director Fred E. Dickinson. He recommended that the FPL initiate studies of wood product oathology and bacteriology within the next five years. Dickinson also expressed appieciation for the great growth in the financial "ufport of the Laboratory by the lumber and wood prod-