PERS@NALS

Chet Bratsch and his Gladys are in the midst of a two-month steamship tour to Australia, replete with stops at all the exotic islands en route. After visiting friends in Sydney, they'll return around Thanksgiving.

John Koerner, Jim Heron and Del Pugh have established a new wholesale lumber business, Pine Fir Sales West, Inc,, mailing address P.O. Box 214495, Sacramento. All three men were formerly associated with Boeggman Lumber Co. in Sacramento.

Harry Finney hustled up through the A1turas country on a mill trip for Earl Bleile Forest Products Co. of Sacramento last month.

I. S. Brown, president of Industrial Lumber and lrene Elliott were married in La Jolla September 4. Brownie has been in the lumber industry, both retail and wholesale, for nearly 40 years.

Ken Conway writes from Arcata where he was attending a sales meeting that he was able to take time out for another safari deer hunting in Humboldt County.

William B. Larsen, former Pittsburgh advertising executive, has been named by Weyerhaeuser Company to the newly created position of specifier promotions manager for wood products.