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Mike Boone, ex-Jasper Wood Products, is new to Forest Grove Lumber, McMinnville, Or., overseeing market develoPment for wholesale distribution.

Richard Flores has been named division mgr. for Capital Lumber, Salt Lake City, Ut. Kerry Jones was promoted to assistant division mgr. Chris Opie is now sales mgr.

Dan Byrne is now a timber sales sPecialist at Mason CountY Forest Products, Shelton, Wa.

John Tumino has joined the sales staff of Sierra-Pacific Industries, Anderson, Ca.

Jerry Short has joined TMI Forest Products, Morton, Wa., as v.p.sales & marketing.

Eric Kelly has been appointed v.p.real estate & store Planning for Orchard Supply Hardware, San Jose, Ca. Roger Smith is now chief leeal counsel.

Rex Burns has returned to CooleY Forest Products, Phoenix, Az., in the purchasing and sales dePartment.

Duane Engard, ex-Cedar ValleY, has joined Teal Jones Group, SurreY, B.C., as western sales mgr. He is based in Paso Robles, Ca. Terri Littlefield. ex-Riley Creek. is new to J.D. Lumber, Priest River, Id.

Wiltiam T. "Bill" Hull has joined PCS VacDry USA, LP, Ridgefield, Wa.. as mgr. of marketing.

Mike Hodges, ex-BonaKemi, is now product mgr. of UFloor SYstems' new machine service and distribution center in Denver, Co. Brad Henske, Hellman & Friedman, San Francisco, Ca., has been elected chairman of the board of Activant Solutions, Livermore, Ca. He replaces David Turnell, who remains a director.

Murray Johnston was named c.f.o. and v.p.-finance for Western Forest Products, Duncan, B.C.

Elizabeth Whalen, director of corporate sustainability, Columbia Forest Products, Portland, Or., was elected to the U.S. Green Building Council board. Paul Davis, Columbia's environmental programs mgr., was named to the Forest StewardshiP Council board.

Mark Jamieson has been named senior v.p. and chief financial officer of HD Supply. TomLazzaro, president of HD's interiors business, has assumed leadership of its construction supPlY business, HD Supply White Cap. He rePlaces Brian Etter, who has resigned.

Reid Goode is head of the literacY program at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to co-owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

PopTal Moves To Auction

Pope & Talbot's two primary lenders have agreed to provide $89 million more in credit lines, to keep the company's nine mills operating through the holidays. In exchange, the company must sell all its assets by Feb. 15 to repay the lenders.

In late October, Portland, Or.-based P&T filed a Chapter l ltype bankruptcy in Canada because seven of its nine mills are in British Columbia. On Nov. 19, it filed for U.S. Chapter l1 bankruptcy in Delaware, Md.

P&T also reached a preliminary deal to sell its mills in Castlegar and Grand Forks, B.C., and Spearfish, S.D., along with related timber tenures, for $69 million to International Forest Products. Vancouver. B.C. Interfor also agreed to buy an additional $20 million worth of assets if certain inventory conditions are met.

The sale will be handled through a court-supervised auction of its wood business on Dec. 19, with Interfor's offer as an opening bid. P&T must consider other bids in an effort to obtain a higher price for its creditors. The company's pulp business will be auctioned by Jan.22.

"It will be a court-structured and supervised reorganization," said Michael Vermette, senior v.p. for court-appointed monitor PricewaterhouseCoopers. "There will clearly be some assets that will be sold, that is the plan. The methods and mechanics around that will be presented to the court and approved by the court over the next few weeks."

Oregon Mills Cut Back More

As the housing slowdown continues, mills thoughout southern Oregon are paring back operations.

"We're seeing lumber at or below prices we've seen at any time in 50 years, when you factor in inflation," said David Schott, executive director for the Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association. "It's the most ugly pricing I've seen since 1980-81."

Last month Swanson Group, Glendale, indefinitely eliminated shifts at its sawmills and planers in Roseburg, Glendale and Noti, putting 150 employees out of work. Swanson also shut down the boiler and kilns at its former sawmill in Glide.

Timber Products, Springfield, will discontinue a softwood plywood line at its Grants Pass plant-laying off 40

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