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Dick McKannay, the present owner of Mar-Mac Lumber Co.. San Francisco, is celebrating his 30th year with the company.
Dorman Dane, Far West Fir Sales, Huntington Beach, Ca., is hobbling about on a cast covering\he ankle he broke in the yard.
Sam Fineman, Bel-Air Door Co., is back in Alhambra, Ca., after a Chicago business trip.
Tom Horstmann is the new mgr. of the U.S. Plywood branches in Portland and Eugene, Or., according to H.S. "Hank" Richards, western region sales and distribution v.p.
Lloyd Hickok is now on the trading staff at Tree Products Co,, Lake Oswego, Or.
Gordon Woolard, Burns Lumber Co., Encino, Ca., and his wife Min, got in a brief vacation recently in Phoenix.
Loren Smith is the new mgr. of the Salem, Or., operation of Lumber Products, per Len Hall, pres. of the Portland-headquartered firm. Herb Hart is the new Portland area salesman.
Mel Blais has retired from the Western Wood Products Assn.. Portland.
William A. Ames is the new director of field services for the Hardwood Plywood Mfgrs. Assn.
Dick Gittings, Gittings Lumber Co., is back at his Denver desk after a ski trip.
El Louise Muth, PSF,Inc., Sacramento, Ca., got in some skiing recently at Bear Valley in the High Sierras.
Scott E. Gregg has joined West Coast Forest Industries, Beaverton, Or., according to Wayne Holm.
Gordon B. Bonfield is the new pres. of the American Forest Institute; lst v.p. is John A. Ball, U.S. Plywood headman; 2nd v.p. is Alfred X. Baxter, pres. of J.H. Baxter & Co. Ben Cancell was re-elected sec.-treas.
Jack Fairhurst and Jim Showalter have joined the sales staff at PhelpsBarton Lumber Sales, North Highlands, Ca.
Ted Gilbert, Product Sales Co., is back in Newport Beach, Ca., after some recent geese and duck hunting.
Rick Rosa is a new lumber buyer and trader at Sequoia Supply, Fairfield, Ca.; Dick Smallridge replaces Rick in sales (Santa Rosa territory) according to Bob Riggs. Bob, Rick, Al Weller and Paul Anderson were recently Lake Tahoe weekend guests of Quik Brik Corp.
John Casey, owner and sales mgr. of Sierra Mountain Mills. North San Juan, Ca., and his wife, Claire, recently spent two weeks on vacation in La Paz, Mexico, a trip John won in a church raffle.
Mike West is the new sales mgr. at Erickson Lumber Co., Marysville, Ca. He had been with Crown Z.
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John Diedrich is now in inside sales at American Forest Products, Stockton, Ca., according to N.F. "Nifty" Gay. Ed Gale has moved up to product mgr., LCL dept.; Alan Marcum and Bill Satterfield are new salesmen. Dick LeClair has been promoted to product mgr.-mldgs., millwork. And sales mgr. Les Doddington is still complhining about his golf game.
Leonard S. Guy is the new gen. traffic agent for the Union Pacific RR at Los Angeles, succeeding Frank M. Young, who moves to the Richmond, Va., office.
Rob Stewart is the new mgr. of Ward & Harrington's Orange, Ca., store.
Stephen Gwaltney is a new counterman at Sun Lumber's E.K. Wood operation, San Pedro, Ca., replacing Fred Blenkarn, retiring after 45 years in the industry, according to Doug Maple, mgr.
Hugo Miller is now a partner in a (new) firm Glenfair Realco, real estate development firm - Arcadia, Ca.
John E. Elam has joined the sales staff at Wisconsin-California Forest Products, Redding, Ca., according to Peter F. Lane, pres.
Ray Trujillo has joined Sequoia Supply, Fairfield, Ca. as outside salesman for the Sacramento/llerced area. He had been with G-P. Sacramento. Tom Catlow, ex-G-P, Santa Rosa, is now in inside sales for the Sac./Redding stretch, according to Bob Riggs, mgr.
Bud Frank is moving his office from Sacramento to Redding, Ca, Word we get is that the whole move is so he "can get his golf game back," but you'll have to check with Bud on that one.
Kingsli Davis, the daughter of Arizona Lumber & Builders Supply Assn. exec. v.p. Frank Davis, was married April 12, in Phoenix to Kelvin Hamman, the son of Larry Hamman, pres. of Larry M. Hamman Lumber, Phoenix. Frank Davis, Jr., a good track man like his father, graduates from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wa., May 19, with a major in biology.
Gale Ellingson has moved to G-P's Fort Bragg sales office. Phil Dubaldi, mgr. of M&J Lumber, continues with some sales direct from the mill, according to Alan L. Homes, sales mgr.
Waldo Tinsley was one of about a half dozen from Two Guys (Vornado) that visited the Home Center Show in Chicago. John Carroll and Bill Horn, Carroll Moulding, Carson, Ca., also attended.
C. James Hackett, Tacoma, has been elected sec. of the American Plywood Assn., succeeding John D. Ritchie, who has retired after 40 years with APA.
Greg Mokler has joined Fremont Forest Products, Whittier, Ca., concentrating on Arizona sales, according to Pete Speek, president. He had been lumber mgr. for Boise Cascade. Phoenix. Blaine Smith is back from a vacation respite at Lake Tahoe.
Johnny Cummins has joined the sales staff at R&L Wood Products, Whittier, Ca., according to headman Ray Lizotte. Cummins had been with J&H Wholesale, Anaheim, Ca.
Mike Parli has moved to West Range Corp., Cloverdale, Ca., to assume the gen. managership; he is succeeded as sales mgr. at Cal-Pacific Mfg., Arcata, Ca., by Mike Roach.
Greg Baker has joined the sales force at PSF, Inc., Sacramento, Ca., according to Bob Bonner. Greg had been with Feather River Moulding, Oroville. Ca.
Bill MacBeath is back at MacBeath Hardwood, San Francisco, after a South American trip.
Bob Howard and Jack Davidson, Davidson Plywood & Lumber Co., Carson, Ca., were recently in Chicago.
Gene Courchaine, American Forest Products, Cerritos, Ca,, and his bride, Cecelia, spent their 31st wedding anniversary aboard the ship Sun Viking, on a two week cruise out of Miami. Vince Cunningham became a father March 4: Michael Patrick. 8 lbs. 3 oz. Jerry Charles has joined the marketing team at National Plywood, Inc., Long Beach, Ca., according to Robert R. McCormick. sales v.o.
Ron Wiggins is now regional sales mgr. -Los Angeles for Westmark & Associates, Newport Beach, Ca. He had been in Portland. Brad Bower. ex-Simpson Timber and the son of Jerry Bower, a principal of Chandler Supply, Boise, Id,, is Westmark's new regional sales mgr.-Pacific Northwest.
Dave Rogoway has been promoted to director of APA information services div. and Herrnan Robison has been named asst. director.
Ronald E. Perdew is now adv. and sales promotion mgr. for G-P's bldg. products group, according to Mel C. Carpenter, v.p.
Carmen Tucker and Rick Flores are now with the Boise Cascade sales force in Portland.
Doug Mekkers is now on the plywood trading staff of Seattle's Pacific Forest Products.
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W}IAT'S D&R DOING in WARREI{TON, ORE.?
Producing Doug Fir and Hemlock in a modern complex
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WHAT'S D&R DOING in MARYSVILLE, WASI{.?
Manufacluring sidings and Western Red Cedar specialties
D & R's Marysville plant produces rough bevel siding in select tight knot grades and ships by rail and truck to all markets. Look to D & R for quality cedar sidings and specialties. Contact our Cedar Dept.
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WHAT'S D&R DOING
Pressure-treating poles, piling and timber
Supplying poles and piling to an increasing number of utilities and construction projects. Here's why: we pick the best logs from timber weharvest...largeinventory . hard-to-get sizes . . . quick delivery by truck or rail. Call D&R's Wood Preserving
Arizona Annual Set
Wood: Energy's Best Friend, is the theme for the 55th Annual Convention of the Arizona Lumber & Builders Supply Assn. set for May 6-8. It will be held again this year at the Double Tree Inn, Tucson.
The entire afternoon of Friday, May 7 , will be devoted to a panel of experts who will explore ways to improve sales through energy related wood merchandising. Moderated by Ray Harrell of the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Assn., panelists include:
Walter Stroud, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. John Guenther, Tucson Gas & Electric. Lee Michaels, Arizona State University. Peter D. Herder, Herder Construction Co. Ross Kincaid, Western Building Material Assn.
Others on the high powered program include the Hon. John Conlan, U.S. Representative from the State of Arizona: Cosmo Guido, president of the NLBMDA; and Dean Drake of the O'Malley Companies on the NLBMDA story.
The convention keynoter is Robert Stermitz, v.p., Southwest Forest Industries, who will speak on "Paul Bunyan Today."
Fun and games times at the always well-attended convention include a golf tourney May 6, with a cocktail party that night and a dinner dance at Old Tuscon: a dinner dance the following evening with speaker and the annual banquet the final night that features inspirational speaker Ray Montsalvatase.
Roadblock to Recovery
The rapid increase in government regulations with their high cost to the general public, plus a federal money policy causing unstable high interest rates, are jeopardizing current recovery and future U.S. economic health, R.B. Pamplin, chairman and chief executive officer of Georgia-Pacific told tl.re recent Mississippi Governor's Conference on Economic Development.
He urged state and local action nationwide "to combat these major causes of higher consumer prices, rising taxes, unemployment and the siphoning of money away from new capital investments to create local iobs and payrolls."
Stable short-term interest rates rangingfrom 5-6%and long-term rates from 6/z to no more than 7/z% are essential to provide needed housing, job-creating new industry, power plants and consumer goods and services at reasonable cost, he explained, but even some home buyers now must pay as much as l0%, he said.
He also recommended that steps be taken to prevent a federal fiasco like that of New York City, and keep the growing bureaucracy within bounds, by moving toward a balanced federal budget in an orderly manner.
"The latter will rapidly grow more difficult," he warned, "because the people now on government payrolls, welfare and other tax-paid assistance already outnumber those who work in the private sector to produce the nation's goods, services, tax revenues and capital needs."
WHAT'S D&R DOING in KLAMATH FALLS ?
Providing Ponderosa Pine millwork and mouldings
From the heart of thepinecountry,D&R's millwork department ships mouldings, inside door lambs-finger joint and solidexterior door frames, all kinds of mi llwork. Quotations? Call our Millwork Depr.
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WHAT'S D&R DOT]IG in NORT}I PORTLAND?
Fabricating precision furniture parls and components
Drawer sides, T-guides, a wide range of f urniture parts are milled from domestic hardwoods. Consistent pattern and moisture control, on-time delivery... that's what furniture manuf acturers expect and get from D&R Lumber Products ! Need helo? Ask D&R's Millwork Dept.
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WHAT'S D&R DOING in IMPORTED PRODUCTS ?
Bringing in doorskins, hardwood plywood and hardboard panels
D&Rfurnisheshardwood doorskins in many species, hardwood plywood in all thicknesses and pine hardboard panels from Sweden, Finland, Portugal. Compare our prices, service, integrity. Ask our lmport Dept.
