PTRSONATS

Carl Gavotto, prominent San Diego lumberman, his wife Mary, son Eddie and his wife Judy, grandson Louis and pretty Mary Barton were weekend visitors in Los Angeles with Dick Gavotto, It was the first long trip for young Louis who is just two months old.

, Los Angeles' Ilarvey Koll, as Hoo-Hoo's Snark of the lJniverse, is one of the airlines' best customers these days. He jetted to Chicago on November 2 for next day's Supreme Nine meeting. In mid-November he goes down to Phoenix for the big Salt River Valley Hoo-Hoo Jurisdiction VI meet. Between times Harvey is hoping to get some pheasant shooting in, but it looks to us as though the pheasants just might get off lucky this year.

Harold Cole and Walt McKeen, popular Southern California lumbermen, are chasing deer across the state of Utah as we go to press. Should they bag a trophy on this hunting trip Harold has promised to furnish a photo as proof.

Kcn Conway of Georgia-Pacific, Pico Rivera, postcards from Nevada, while on a hunting trip, that he has been running into snow and rain. We don't yet know whether he bagged anything other than a heavy cold.

Regional sales representative of Shipstad Wood Products Ltd., Creston, Canada, Katherine E Faynor exhibited her firm's new line of wood by-products at a dealers' show in Chicago sponsored by the Gayley Building Corporation. Following the show, Gayley sales manager Bruce Bailey and regional publicity manager Mary Cooper treated their Canadian guest and those attending the exhibit to the 1962 Ice Follies then playing in that city.

F. L. Patrick has been named division controller for the Western Operations of International Paper Company's Long-Bell Division. At the same time, Leo E. LaBerge was promoted from chief accountant to chief clerk for the company's Longview and Chelatchie Branches. In his new position, Patrick will headquarter at Longview, He succeeds R. T. Frost who was named assistant to the comptroller of IP earlier this month.

Ted Deacy, general manager and vicepresident of California Pacific Sales Corp., announced the association of Bruce Bdl with the firm last month. Ball, who has been calling on dealer accounts in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley areas since 1948, will represent California Pacific in the same areas with headquarters in Fresno, according to Deacy.

Bill Kershaw, partner in Glenbrook Lumber Co., Sacramento, recently named Bob Hathaway manager of Glenbrook's new Fresno distribution yard at 1555 North Clark Avenue. Hathaway for many years had managed Hill & Morton's distribution yard in Fresno. Glenbrook's new yard stocks a complete line of oak flooring, sheetrock, shingles and wood lath in addition to Douglas and white fir, redwood, ponderosa and sugar pines. Sales are to dealers only in the San

Joaquin Valley area.

Jon Sligar recently joined the inside sales staff of Strable Lumber Company, according to general manager Jim Overcast. Sligar, a native of Spokane, attended college in Belgium and England before locating in the Bay Area two years ago. Since that time he was active in imported and domestic plywood sales in the East Bay region.

Roger Mackin was recently overheard wondering out loud whether brother Dave Mackin REALLY has to make all those recent trips to Portland on Hallinan Mackin biz-or whether he's giving a little extra "personal service" to a certain "account" there. Keep us posted, Roger. Maybe this'll develop into another "Personal" in the near future ?

Menlo Park wholesalesman, Carl Watts, recently canvassed the Redwood Highway on a mill trip.

Brice Stokes, who is now associated with Victor Wolf of Western Forest Products of S. F., visited mill connections in southern Oregon and Humboldt County recently.

Rolf Stolesen, sales manager of Durable Plywood Sales Co., and Peninsula pl)r'woodman, John Beckstrom, attended a DFPA President's Dinner at the Portland Colosseum on October 11. The banquet was held to commemorate the premier of the new weekly "David Brinkley's Journal," a new NBC show sponsored by the members of DFPA.

Lamon Lumber's Ralph Larnon spent the week of October 15 in Oregon on a rainy mill safari.