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Experienced Lumber Trader Wanted

Great opportunity for experienced trader with steady accounts. 6070 commission split for trader. Any product line. Relocation not necessary. Excellent office support, great credit, and financial strength. Call John at (623\ 566-7100, Lakeside Lumber Products, for confidential discussion.

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We are a wholesale building materials distributor/remanufacturer looking for experienced self-starters with Central California (Nevada) customers. We are growing rapidly, aggressive and provide all benefits. Many in our organization earn substantial six-figure incomes. If you have customers in this area or have remanufacturing/distribution experience, we're offering opportunities with advancement potential to the right individual(s). Please mail your resume to: President, Shamrock Materials, P.O. Box 80128. Portland. Or.9728O. or Fax to 503-2919358.

FFI CAREERS: Functional Fenestration Inc. distributes quality architectural hardware. FFI is growing every year, and has great benefits. If you're experienced in customer service. inside/outside sales, or purchasing/inventory management of door, window or skylight products. email resume to HR@fenestration.net.

Personals

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Mark Loeper has been promoted to v.p. and general mgr. of Moen's Creative Specialties Interna-tional division. David Thomas is the new mgr. of emerging markets at Hanson Roof Tile.

Mark Ziegler, director of engineering, Powers Fasteners, has been appointed president of the Concrete Anchor Manufacturers Association.

Jerry Volas was named group president of plumbing & heating products at Masco, to succeed John Wills, who resigned, but will continue as a consultant. Kathleen Vokes is now director of corporate communications.

Obituaries

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He retired in the late 1980s and sold several businesses to some of his children and other partners.

Lloyd Edward Ziebert, 53, longtime co-owner of MidWillamette Lumber, Scio, Or., died Dec. 26 in Stayton, Or. He joined Mid-Willamette Pre Cut afrer graduating from high school tn 1912, and also became part-owner of Diamond Forest Products, Scio, Or.. and Shaniko Forest Products, Lyons, Or. A parent company for the mills, Sun Valley Lumber, Inc., Scio, was formed in 1993.

Mr. Ziebert sold his interest in the businesses to his partners and retired in 2005.

Harry Louis 6'Butch" Lake, Jr., 65, former owner of Garden Grove Lumber & Cement Co., Garden Grove, Ca.. died Jan. 18 in Orange, Ca.

After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963, he joined the family lumberyard. He became the third-generation owner in 1914,later closing the business and in 19ll donating the yard's original 72year-old building to the city. He rerired in20O4.

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Michael Eamon Walsh, J6, a retired lumber salesman. died Jan. l9 in Atascadero, Ca.

After an early career making fine furniture, Mr. Walsh worked as vice president of sales at Fairhurst Lumber Co. and Greene's Ready Mix Concrete Co.

He retired at age 71 from the Redwood Empire Lumber Co., Temecula, Ca.

Richard Eugene Carter, 59, a timber cruiser and log buyer for DR Johnson Lumber, Riddle, Ca., died Jan. 8 in Camas Valley, Ca.

Mr. Carter graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in business administration. He then joined the Army and served as a helicopter crew chief in Vietnam. Afterwards, he worked in land management and timber operations in Alaska, Oregon and Washington.

Odeil Evelyn Griess, 84, longtime office manager for Plains Lumber, Costa Mesa, Ca., died Jan. 3 in Portland, Or.

Cfyde Laverne Schurman,92, founder of Schurman Machine Works Inc., Woodland. Wa.. died Dec. l0 in Woodland.

While still in school in La Center, Wa., Mr. Schurman started a workshop to sharpen the plowshares of local farmers. He moved his shop to Woodland in 1939, so he could also help loggers and sawmills.

After the war, he specialized in sawmill equipment, especially new technology like thin-kerf saws. He sold the business in 1975 to USNR, a manufacturer of sawmill equipment, and pursued his interest in steam engines.