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Ferguson (Newport News, Va.) appointed Ray Collins president/general manager, Salem, Ore.

Newport News, Va.-based Ferguson purchased Linwood Pipe and Supply Co., based in Detroit, and Hanco Plumbing Supply of Ashland, Ky. Both companies were acquired through asset transactions.

A convention that billed itself as "Celebrating 75 Years of Tradition" spent most of its substantive time trying to divine the future.

Tony Taschler, 56, Regional Sales Manager for Sharpe Valves (Elmhurst, IL) died April 17 in St. Louis of a heart attack.

Red-White Valve Corp. has sold the majority of its existing shares to the Italian valve manufacturer Valvoindustria Ing.

Goulds Pumps, ITT Industries, will be the title sponsor of the NASCAR Busch Series race at "The World's Fastest Mile," beginning with the Goulds Pumps, ITT Industries 200 on May 17-18, 2003.

Hercules Chemical Co.'s Chairman of the Board, Jay Fidler, retired after 57 years with the company.

A fundraiser has been scheduled for Brad Sell, a 33-year veteran of the plumbing, heating, cooling and piping distribution industry, who is battling prostate cancer that was diagnosed about two years ago.

Lee Martin, former president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of NIBCO INC., died March 26 at the age of 83, in Naples, Fla.

Hughes Supply opened a location at 300 W. 23rd Ave. in North Kansas City, Mo., on March 3.