PDRSONATS

Harvey Koll, member of the Supreme Nine, acompanied by Mrs. Koll, departed by train for the International Hoo-Hoo Convention in Miami on September 12th. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Dee Essley, who intend to stop over for a short stay in New Orleans, where they plan to sample that famous French Creole "cuisine."

Horace Wolfe, and grandson Johnny, touring the mill country last month on a buying trip. John will become a lumberman when he finishes school. it was said. and is gaining his training from the "Top Banana."

Ray Van Ide, of the Pasadena wholesale

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lumber concern, completed a swing through the mill country in the Pacific Nortl-rruest last month. Kind of a "busman's" holiday, combining business with pleasure, so to speak.

Roy Stanton, Jr., Fred Losch and Lloyd Webb of E. J. Stanton & Son, Inc., Los Angeles wholesale distributing firm, made their annual safari to Crawford's Eden Valley Ranch in Mendocino County last month. This year Roy and Lloyd got their deerFred, he just went along for the ride. Better luck next time, Freddie.

Las Vegas rocked and rolled last month when Dee Essley, Jerry Essley, Lee Anderson and Lloyd Webb, together with their wives, spent a week-end "doing the town." It is reported they lost their shirts at the tables but made up for everything at "showtime" and elbow bending at cocktail time.

Bill and Marie Pumfrey of San Diego plan to attend the Hoo-Hoo Annual Convention at Miami Beach, in late September. Bill is with Tarter, Webster & Johnson.

Mr. and Mrs. George Kelly of Los Angeles were in the Paradise Islands (Hawaii, natch) during the early part of August. George is the sales manager of the Sun Lumber Company of Southern California. One of the highlights of their visit was being hosted by the William Stuarts at the Mochizuki Tea House where they dined in an atmosphere of authentic and exquisite Oriental atmosphere.

Hiroshi Shimaoka, lumber buyer for American Factors, Ltd., Honolulu, spent five weeks on the West Coast during.mid-summer calling on various suppliers.

San Diego's defending champion, Al Frost, Jr., sailed to an early lead in the 1961 Inter-

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national 110 world championship regatta, held at Bay City, Michigan in August. Al took a comfortable first place in the first of 6ve daily races scheduled for the week. (Sorry, we don't yet have the final rundown.)

Al Frost is assistant to his brother, Gordy Frost, general manager of Frost Hardwood Company of San Diego. The Frosts are one of the pioneer hardwood lumber concerns in the area, and have been identified with the lumber industry for many, many years.

Ed Karst and John Hanson, Gulf Pacific Land & Lumber Company executives, Tarzana, California, spent part of the week of August l4th in Flagstaff, Arizona, conferring with Kaibab officials regarding a fall and winter sales campaign directed to the west coast dealers.

Judy and Eddie Gavotto, prominent San Diego Lumber couple, are the proud parents of a brand new baby boy. Louis Gavotto arrived at 4:30 on the morning of August lSth weighing in at six and one half pounds and everybody is doing fine, including Carl and Mary Gavotto who are grandparents of the young lad.

Frederick H. Kranz, general manager of Golden State Lumber Company, Santa Monica, California, has been ordered to report for active duty with the Air Force on October 1, 1961.

'When contacted, Mr. Kranz stated: "I am a member of the 146th Air Transport Wing (H), California Air National Guard. I have been a member of this Van Nuys-based wing since 1946. As a member of this strong, operationally ready unit, I knew that, if an emergency occurred, we would be on active duty again. I hope to be stationed at Van Nuys Air Force Base, and to be able to keep in touch with the dynamic events now chang- ing the lumber industry. I may be able to keep active in some work in the industry."

Mr. Kranz served in the Army Air Corps as a meteorologist in World War II and as a climatologist in the Air Force in the Korean Conflict. He will be management analyst for the l46th Air Transport Wing while on active duty..

Kranz is Commander of the General Thomas Squadron of the Air Force Association, past president of Santa Monica Bay Management Club and active in the Southern California Retail Lumber Association. He is on the board of directors of five corporations.

Plucky Anderson dealer, Mac McMillan, owner of McMillan Building Supply, is back on the job in a wheel chair after suffering paralysis in an accident a year ago. With business reported as "good and improving," McMillan Building Supply is currently undergoing an expansion program.

Diamond National Corporation recently appointed Del Chapman as manager of the company's Winters branch operation.

Art Parkins, Jr,, son of Art, Sr., general manager of The California Door Companv of Los Angeles, entered the University "t Or"gon at Eugene this month; Art plans to point his studies toward a medical degree. Art, Sr., drove his son up there, and combined the trip with a visit to the mills in Oregon and Northern California, in the interests of CalDoor.

Jack Fairhurst, president of Fairhurst Lumber Co. of California, took over the operation of the big Hanson Pacific mill at Fortuna last month. While logging was begun last month, the sawmill is just getting into operation after a 6-months shutdown. Harold Bratton will be general salesmanager of the operation, the same position he held when the mill was operated by Bob }fanson.

JFK has ordered "Crash" Macfie back into the ol' cockpit for a two weeks refresher course on carrier landings (and cross wind takeoffs) down San Diego way. Unless JFK changes his mind in the meantime. Macfie'll be back selling wood with Bob Kilgore in San Rafael later this month.

Ziel & Co. imported lumber products manager Bob Reid treated the family to two early August weeks at Tahoe where they swam, sunned and donated to the upkeep of Harrah's Club.

Jim Hall left partner Henry Barbe at the reins of James L. Hall Co. during early August while Jim and the family toured the southern Oregon coast on vacation.

George Silbernagel returned to his San Francisco omces on August 28, after vacationing at his Great Lakes retreat with the missus and friends for the past six weeks. During his absence the affairs of George J. Silbernagel, Inc. were managed by Howard Mecum.

Charlie Schmitt and his wife basked in the sun at beautiful Carmel Valley the week of August 21, while Chas. recovered from a strenous six weeks trip through the Far East on Atkins, Kroll & Co. business.

Obituariis

Norman Davidson, 71, Pasadena, California, died August 27.

Mr. Davidson was a furniture designer and manufacturer in Tennessee and Chicago, and later came to Los Angeles where he founded a plywood manufacturing business.

He is survived by his widow, Julia Green Davidson; two sons, Norman, Jr., Pasadena, and John G., Rolling Hills, who are owners of Pacific Wood Products; a sister, Willie Ruth Davidson of Nashville, Tenn.; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Mae B. Russell. 'fhe lumber fraternity joins A. J. "Gus" Russell in his sorrow at the death of his wife and companion of more than 50 years, Mae B. Russell. Mrs. Russell, who had been in ill health for some time. died at their Piedmont home on August 19.

Funeral services were held at the Albert Brown Mortuary in Oakland, Monday, August 21.

A native of San Jose, Mrs. Russell leaves her husband. known as "Gus" to his hundreds of friends in the industry and who for 53 years has headed Santa Fe Lumber Company; a brother, Holt W. Bradford of San Diego; and a sister, Mrs. Richard Wilder of Sacramento.

Marc Leonard Fleishel, 85, one of the nation's leading lumbermen, died August 18 in Jacksonville, Florida.

He was one of the founders of the Southern Pine Association in 1914 and became active in NLMA in 1924 when he started his 37 year service as a member of its Board of Directors, the longest record achieved in the history of NLMA.

He served four consecutive terms, 19391943, as president of NLMA and during World War 1I was chairman of the Lumber and Timber Products War Committee. In 1950 he was elected treasurer of NLMA, which office he held at the time of his death.

Mr. Fleishel was quite active also in the Southern Pine Association as a director and as treasurer, as well as the Southern Cypress Manufacturers Association of which he was an honorary director at the time of his death. He was also chairman of the Board of the U.S. Epperson Underwriting Company of Kansas City, Missouri, which has long specialized in insurance coverage of the lumber industry.

Joseph E. Fifer, 73, died in San Francisco, California, on August 22.

Mr. Fifer has been associated with the lumber industry in California and Oregon for nearly fifty years.

Prior to his illness thirteen years ago, he worked as a salesman for Rounds Lumber Company.

Mr. Fifer leaves his wife, Ellie, living at the family home at 1932 Judah Street, San Francisco.

l96l Clork Essoy Contest offers $s0(Xt in Prizes

"Cost Reduction Through Materials Handling" will be the theme of the ninth annual essay contest sponsored by the Industrial Truck Division of Clark Equipment Company.

Bert E. Phillips, vice president and general manager, said the 1961 contest, sponsored by Clark and conducted by the American Material Handling Society, will have a first prize of $2@0 and nine other prizes totaling $3000 for the best papers submitted on the subject.

The contest which closes April l, 1962, is open to anyone associated with materials handling except Clark employees and dealers. Papers will be judged on analysis of subject, value in the field, originality, organization of material and use of visual aids.

The 1961 theme was selected to highlight efforts by industry to reduce handling costs and increase efficiency in materials handling operations. In their papers, contestants should discuss one or more unsolved materials handling problems within industry or government, and propose one or more solutions for cost reduction. Problems anticipated in the future or existing problems yet unsolved may be discussed.

Complete details and rules of the contest may be obtained from local chapters of the American Material Handling Society or by writing to: Industrial Truck Division, Clark Equipment Company, Battle Creek, Mich.

Weyerhceuser Execs in Shift

Weyerhaeuser Company has announced the appointment of two new market managers in its wood products division.

They are Carroll K. O'Rourke, formerly manager of merchandising, who becomes consumer market manager, and David E. Stalter, formerly director of marketing for The Boeing Company's industrial products division, who was named industrial market manager.

Both will report to J. P. Weyerhaeuser, nanager of marketing research and merchandising, who made the announcement. He said that the newly created positions are part of the company's intensified emphasis on meeting the requirements of end-user markets.

Gordon Daline, assistant merchandising manager, succeeds O'Rourke as manager of merchandising.

4-Unir Sofety Rozor Plqne llorkefed

H & R Enterprizes will market a revolutionary 4-unit safety razor plane. Designed for either the professional or amateur carpenter, it converts any double.edged safety razor blade into 4 different types of planes -a curved plane, a short-armed plane, a short-nosed plane, and a regular plane. Although it does not replace the standard carpenter planer, in many instances it is simpler and more efficient to use than the larger tools. It is expected to be of great help to the hobbyist and homeowner who needs a small plane for simple tasks such as planing a sticking door. Even the professional woodworker will find it helpful because of the sharpness, availability, and inexpensiveness of the blade.

Available from H & R Enterprizes, 18105 Landseer Road, Cleveland 19, Ohio, for $2.00 post paid.

WBIE Exposirion

(Continueil from Page 7) ing and Heating Contractors of Idaho, Inc. ; Associated P_lumbinq & Heating Contractors of Washington, Inc.; National Building Material Distributors Assn.; Remodeling Contractors Assn., and Wholesale Lumbermen's Assn. <t-i So. Calif. Organized as the Western Building Industries Council, the group's principal objective is to bring to the West a major industrial exposition that will serve the business and professional needs of all the western construction markets.

Attendance

Attendance at WBIE will be open to all levels of the building industry-builders, contractors and sub-contractors,, engineers_ and architects, manufacturers, jobbers, wholesalers and dealers, real estate developers, and building finance interests. 15,000 to 25,000 people are expected to view the exhibits during the four days of this initial Los Angeles show. WBIE sponsors indicate that future editions of the annual event may reach into such maior western market centers as San Frincisco, Portland, Seatile, Phoenix, Boise, Salt Lake City, Denver, and other western cities.

Complimentary fnvitations Available

Complimentary invitations to the 1961 show are available through all of the ten sponsor associations and from exhibiting firms as well as the WBItr home office at 2216 South Hill Street, Los Angeles. (Phone Rlchmond 9-5071). The show is under the management of A. Byron Perkins & Associates of Los Angeles.

423rd T.T.T.

San Gabriel Country Club was the location lor the 423rd Terrible Twenty Tournament, Friday, August 18, with George Gartz, Bob Field and Frank King aiting as hosts

Frank King won the lower bracket with a 77-&69 and two strokes penalty 7I. "Pick" Maule won the higher handicap bracket 89-14-75.

^$s Qlff Simpson .was on his annual trek to his Chicago office, H. M. Alling handled the meeting, in a most efficient manner.

The fqlto_*i."g schedule of events has been set: Septem- ber 22, Bel Air, with brunch at 10:30 a.m.-hosts. Bob Pierce, Frank Berger and Harry Kissel; the October tournament will be played on the two Monterey peninsula Country C_lub courses, Wednesday, the 18th, anh Thursday, the 19th; November 7, South Hills.