Jack Ford named as new TW&J Chief

Jack L. Ford has been elected a vice president of American Forest Products Corporation and general sales manager of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, AFPC's division for marketing lumber and wood products. Positions are effective January l, according to President Charles T. Gray.

Jack Ford replaces Harold J. Ford who retires after 23 years active leadership at Tarter, Webster & Johnson. Jack Ford moves from assistant sales manager, a post he has filled since 1956. No replacement has yet been named.

According to Ford, the marketing practices of Tartero Webster & Johnson which had been developed under the guidance of the elder Ford will be continued, as will the key leadership which helped develop the policies.

While retiring from day-to-day activities, Harold Ford will remain a member of the board of AFPC as well as devote time to consulting and to special assignments both for TW & J and its parent company. He expects to move to Stockton where he will office at TW&J's headquarters for national sales of millwork and plywood products.

Jack Ford's lumber career has led him

Apple Volley Lumber Opens

The o'home show" has come to Apple Valley, California.

At least that's what the sigrr says at Glen and Katy McConnell's Apple Valley Lumber Company, Iocated in the village of that desert community. McConnell's new showroom, a good design in wood and glass, opened recently.

Apple Valley homeowners and residents of Victor Valley now have a large, wellstocked supply for their needs under one roof, say the McConnells. Everything from screen doors to paints is available.

Towle Brolhers Cloces

An early California lumber company will dissolve its Auburn operation alter more than 109 years in busineq according to stockholders at Towle Brothers Company.

Katherine A. Towle, a Berkeley resident and president of the company, and secretary Towl Bundschu of Sonoma County announced the decision to close down.

Towle Brothers was a forerunner of the Auburn Lumber Company, in Auburn, which remains in operation.

frorn working at sawmills during college (University of California) days, to retailing ' in Merced, to wholesale experience beginning when he joined TW&J in Stockton in 1950 and then as assistant sales manaser in San Francisco.

The 44-year-old younger Ford and wife Vera have two children, a l9-year-old son Gregory and a daughter, Vicky, 16. The family lives in Orinda.

The retiring Ford joined AFPC's wood products marketing division as sales manager in I94A, continuing a career in the

Joining Tarter, Webster & Johnson at a ff time when the organization had only a haE:.S dozen employees,-Harold Ford led TW&J to ff today's poriiior, of national stature in the'i:r* wood marketing field which it now enjoys,';i;$ AFPC's lumber division's sales now exceed *; $60 million annually, more than half of .jf the net sales anticipated for the parerrt' -f corporation during the current year.- t, rhe

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Industriol/long-Bell Soles Efiort

lndustrial Lumber Company of Portland, Oregon and the Long-Bell division of International Paper Co. have joined forces in a unique move to streamline western marketing efiorts for Long-Bell's line of pine doors.

Industrial Lumber, a national whole. saling firm, will handle pine door sales for Long-Bell in Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Colorado, Wash. ington, Oregon and California, on an exclusive basis. All jobber-distributor quotes, orders and shipments into these states will be processed by Industrial Lumber and coordinated with the Long.Bell plant.

The official announcement to the trade was made by Donald W. Fowler, Indus' trial Lumber Company's General Sales Manager, who stated that oowhile this is an unprecedented step for a national door producer the size of Long-Bell, it makes good sense from a marketing standpoint."

Business is Good ot G-P

Georgia-Pacific corporation in the first nine months oL 1966 again set new records in sales, earnings and cash flow on its way to another all-time peak year, O. R. Cheat. ham, chairman, and R.B. Pamplin. presi' dent, report.

G-P's Kelly to los Angeles

Douglas P. Kelly has been promoted to manager of the Georgia-Pacific Corp. distribution center in [,os Angeles, the company announced.

The facility in Pico Rivera supplies plywood, gypsum and other building products throughout the Los Angeles area.

Kelly formerly headed the G-P distribution center in Dallas. Tex. and most recently headed a similar Detroit, Mich.,, operation. No stranger to the West Coast, he is a 20-year man in the forest products industry and worked with several Pacific Northwest companies before joining G-P in 1962.