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Seitz, Chichester, Worren Figure in Blue Diomond Co. Monogement Chonges

Recent management changes in the wholesale division of Blue Diamond Company, a division of the Flintkote Company, are announced by Leonard W. Ross, vicepresident, sales.

William L. Seitz has been appointed products promotion manag:er. Seitz has been closely associated with the building material trades in his area since 1931. He joined the Blue Diamond sales force in 1951 and has progressively assumed greater responsibilities in the company's merchandising program.

William E. Chichester has been appointed Southern district sales manager. Chichester has been with Blue Diamond since 1938 and opened the company's Northern district sales office in 1953. Since that time he has remained in the San Francisco area in the capacity of Northern district sales man- ager.

James W. Warren will assume Chichester's duties in the Bay area. Warren started with the company in 1950. He was transferred to the Northern office in 1953 and has been assistant sales manager of the Northern district since 1958.

The business and private careers of the three men are strikingly parallel. Each is a university graduate, all have service rec' ords in the armed forces of World War II, and each boasts a family consisting of one son and one daug'hter.

Harold S. "Jeff" Dillon, sales manager, wholesale division, stated that the appointments reflect the company's continued expansion and will materially beneflt the maintenance of Blue Diamond's growing position in market coverage, new product lines and customer services.

Depicting the manuJacture and utilization of hardboard, this display is now a Dermanent feature of the famed Gallery of Trees exhibit in Portland, oregon. Sponsored by the American Hardboard Association, the display will have been viewed by an estimated 150,000 visitors this year, according to Thorton T. Munger, exhibit committee chai rman.

The display, in addition to listing the ten member companies of the Association, depicts a typical hardboard manufacturing process noting, in particular, the detailed attention devoted to quality control. In recent years, through expanded research programs, member companies of the Association have developed many new hardboard Droducts. Small panels of the new surface textures are handsomely mounted in the center of the display.

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Single Unit Retoil Stores RePort

Single-unit retail establishments of the United States accounted for $132.4 billion, or 66/o, of the nation's $200 billion retail sales total in 1958, according to the Census of Business advance sunmary report, Retell Trade, BC58 (Z)-RS 3' Xlm Slze, issued November 18, 1960, by the Bureau of the Census, IJ.S. Department of Commerce. The annual payroll of the 1,605'590 single-unit retail establishments enumerated in 1958 approximated $13.4 billion' and paid employes numbered 4,977,797 in the workweek ended nearest November 15 of that year.

Multiunit retail establishments numbered L82,735 in 1958 and recorded sales of $67.2 billion, or 347o of the national retail total' The payroll of these establishments for the entire year amounted to $8.2 billion, and paid employes during the workweek ended nearest November 15 numbered 2,933,284. Of the multiunit establishments enumerated in 1958, 50,228 were operated by flrms having 101 or more establishment multiunits.

Among the various kinds of businesses covered by the advance summary report, the single-unit establishments accounted for the major portion of sales in lumber yards and gasoline service stations. Single-unit establishments in lumber yards accounted for sales of 94.1 biilion of the total sales of $5.5 billion, or 747o of the total sales.

Homer T. Hoyword Lumber Co. Opens New Morro Boy Showroom-Wqrehouse

The Homer T, Hayrvard Lumber Co. previewed its brand-new Morro Bay showroom and yard with a mid-November grand opening. The new installation, which replaces Hayward Lumber's old Morro Bay operation, was planned from the ground-up by Homer M. Hayward a^rrd Morro Bay manager Jim Froggatt, both of whom visited practically all the leading retail yards in California gathering merchandising ideas and planning details for the new operation,

Located on a 5.8-acre tract of land, the 8,000-sq.-ft. showroom is of post-and-beam construction and serves as both showroom and warehouse,

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Slmpson Consolidates Operations

Consolidation and reorganization of Simpson Timber Company operations throughout Washington, Oregon and California is announced by Thos. F. Gleed, president. Under the new arrange- ment, operating companies formerly known as Simpson Redwood Company, Simpson Logging Company and Simpson Engineered Wood Products Company all will be known as Simpson Timber Company. Manufacturing, marketing and timber management op- erations will be classifled by departments administered in Seatile and by product divisions administered in the operating areas. personnel realig'nment includes the appointment of Gilbert L. Oswald, Arcata, California, to the new position of vice-president, manufacturing; John L. Robins, general mamager of the marketing department, and Starr W. Reed as g'eneral manager of the timberland department. H. W. McClary assumes new responsibilities as vicepresident in charge of plywood and door manufacturing with offices in Shelton, Washington. Other division personnel announcements include Woodrow Johnson as m:rnag:er of the insulating board division and H. A. Ahlskog'as manager of the flr and hemlock sawmills division in Shelton; James Perry as manager of the redwood manufacturing division and Byrne Manson as director of the engineering' division, Arcata; and W. A. McKenzie as manager of the engineered wood products division in Portland, Oregon. Central offices were recently moved to the 20th floor of Seatfle's new Washington Building.

George Long Retiring From Weyerha,euser

Tacoma, Wash.-Robert W. Boyd, controller for Weyerhaeuser Company, was elected corporate secretary at a meeting of the company's board of directors, November 17, announces Norton Clapp, president. He will continue as controller with the title secretary-controller. He replaces George S. Long, Jr., secretary since 1945, who will retire December 31.

Long, the retiring secretary, is the son of George S. Long, Weyerhaeuser's first general manager. A native of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, he began his career with Weyerhaeuser in the woods where he worked as a packer for a cruising party and later as a fire warden and compassman. IIe joined the Tacoma office stafr in 1919, following World War I duty in France, and was elected assistant secretary in 1928. Since last June he has served as president of Weyerhaeuser Company F oundation. He is also a director of the Chehalis Western Railroad Company, Mountain Development Company, and Weyerhaeuser Ilawaiian Company, and has served as an ofrcer of numerous civic, industry, and forestry associations.

Commerclal Steel And Supply Adds Salesmen

In line with its recently inaugurated expansion program, Commercial Steel And Supply amnounces the appointment of three new members to its sales sta"ff. Al Lewis, formerly with pioneer Flintkote, will cover the Orange County territory. Joe Ney, Jr., formerly with Blue Diamond Company, will cover the beach cities. Hy Ogulnick, formerly with Clonick Steel Co. of Chicago, w.ill cover the Long Beach and central Los Ang'eles territory, Al Winters will remain in the Valley Territory which he has covered for twelve years. Earl Robinson, well-known in the Pasadena area, will cover the northeast district. Commercial Steel And Supply, in addition to its large stock inventories of nails, wire products, and allied steel products, now carries a complete inventory of Kaiser insulation materials and Gering polyethylene sheeting materials. Immediate plans of the f,rm are to broaden and diversify its line of building material items.

Tom Palmer Retires From

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New Britain, Conn.-Thomas H. Palmer, AHC, widely known in builders' hardware marketing, has retired at the age of 72. His entire career, spanning' more than half-a-century, was spent with The American l{ardware Corporation's Russell & Errvin division. In 1903, Palmer began work as a g3-a-week office boy in the firm's Brooklyn office. During the next 57 years he covered every state in the country as a sales executive. He plans to return to California, where for many years he headed Russwin's San Francisco office. He will live in Glendale. Mr. Palmer has two sons and three grandchildren, also living in California.

Crovr'n Zellerbach Starts New Sawmill

Portland, Oregon (Special)-Crown Zellerbach Corporation Nov. 17 took another step in its program to increase the scope and variety of its Pacific Northwest forest products lines with the startup of the company's modern new Columbia City, Oregon, sawmill, located 30 miles north of Portland. It has a daily cutting capacity of 220,000 board feet of Douglas flr dimension lumber on a two-shift basis.

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