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Tracey Fountain is the new office mgr. at Bowlings Home Center, King George, Va.

Ted Carlson has been named v.p. of sales and marketing for DixiePaci fic Manufacturing Co., Gadsden, Al.

Scott Schaefer has been appointed pres. of Schaefer Sash & Door Co., Cordova, Tn. Dudley Schaefer, Sr. is ceo; David Schaefer, v.p., and Tommy Thompson, sales mgr.

Barry Garcia was named plant superintendent of Willamette Industries, Inc.'s plywood plant and sawmill, Zwolle, La., succeeding David West, who was promoted to plant mgr. in Dodson, La. Bobby Rivers is plant mgr. in Zwolle. Scott Elston has been promoted to general sales mgr. of the Southern Building Materials Group, Bennettsville, S.C.

Edward H. Mosher, Jr. has been elected executive v.p. and gen. mgr. of Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance, Boca Raton, Fl.

Jim Arthurs has been named engineered wood products segment leader for Weyerhaeuser Building Materials, Federal Way, Wa. Also previously with MacMillan Bloedel, Chip Register is now commodity trading group leader; Kevin Seward, cedar products segment leader; Jim Warnke, U.S. operations leader; Carlos Guilherme, Canadian operations leader; Ron Herrin, Customer Service Center gen. mgr., Gulfport, Ms.; Mark Niewerth, CSC gen. mgr., Dallas, Tx.; Scott Shee, CSC gen. mgr., Pompano Beach, Fl.; Robert Taylor, CSC lead gen. mgr., Jacksonville, Fl., and Vic Viorde, CSC gen. mgr., Houston, Tx.

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Judd S. Johnson, The Hardwood Report, Memphis, Tn., was elected president of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, succeeding Dan Mayhew, Jimmy Whittington Lumber Co., Memphis. Others elected: Paul J. Miller, Jr., National Hardwood Magazine, Memphis, lst v.p.; Terry Wilson, Wilson Lumber Co., Memphis, 2nd v.p.; Elsie Starr, secretary/ treasurer. Named directors: Dan Meyer, National Hardwood Lumber Association, Memphis; Jolene Jordan, J&J Lumber Co., Memphis, and William "Bill" Turner, Frank A. Conkling, Brunswick, Tn. Returning directors: Paul Houghland, Jr., National Hardwood Lumber Association; J.R. Johns, Bruce Hardwood Floors, Jackson, Tn., and Robert "Bob" Jorgensen, Jorgensen-Bennett Manufacturing Co.

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John DeMeter has been named sales mgr. of Anthony Forest Products' Anthony Log Homes division in Arden, N.C. Ed McGinnis is new to sales in Arden, and Jason Arrington is in sales in El Dorado, Ar. Clay Evans, plant mgr., Atlanta, Tx., has been appointed to Gov. George W. Bush's Career & Technology Advisory Committee. Charlotte Humphries is the new environmental, health and safety coordinator in Troup, Tx.

Malinda Weir and Don Smallwood have been named co-mgrs. of the new Home Depot in Alpharetta, Ga. Kraig Kowalski is store mgr. of the new Myrtle Beach, S.C., home center.

John Collie, Causeway Lumber, Fort Lauderdale, Fl., has been promoted to roof truss director for the East Coast Operations. Mike White is new as director for West Coast Roof Truss Operations. Mike Gilbert is now asst. roof truss director at the Bonita Springs, Fl., facility.

Dennis Bliss has been appointed comgr. of 84 Lumber, Manchester, Tn.

Howard McClure has been named v.p. of Loxcreen Co., Brooklet, Ga.

Len Kuhr has been named chief financial officer of TruServ Corp., succeeding Kerry Kirby, who has retired. Ed Detrich and Tom Capalbo have been promoted to, respectively, national sales mgr. and general mgr. of the rental division; Thomas J. Filipski was named chairman of the board of Member Insurance Ltd., and Robert Ostrov was elected to the board.

Larry Lucas has been promoted to inside sales/customer service mgr. for Streuli Sales, Colfax, N.C.

Bob Nixon has been appointed a partner of Gemroi Co., Fredericksburg, Va.

Richard L. and Judy Nunley, Better Living, Inc., Charlottesville, Va., received the Paul Goodloe McIntire Citizenship Award from the regional Chamber of Commerce.

Bruce H. Cowgill, president-Insulation Group, CertainTeed Corp., was re-elected chairman of the board of the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association, Alexandria, Va. Thomas L. Caltrider, Johns Manville, was elected vice chairmau Kenneth D. Mentzer, president and ceo, and Angus Crane, v.p. and general counsel.

Arthur Blank, president and ceo, Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga., was named one of Basiness Week'sTop 25 Executives for 1999.

Sue M. Dailey has been retained as general counsel to Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

U.S. Lumber lmports Soaring

Quota restraints on Canadian exports have caused European and Southern Hemisphere lumber exports to displace North American suppliers, according to Wood Markets Quarter/y, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The publication reported that market shares of U.S. West Coast lumber exports have plummeted because other exporters have invaded their turf.

"Now, domestic U.S. producers find these same producers right at their back door, aggressively competing in the U.S. market." said publisher Russell Taylor. "As a result, U.S.

"The beeping of the trucks reversing gets really bad. If (the noise doesn't go away), I guess we'll start looking at the real estate ads."

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Costq Mesa, Ca., homeowner on a Home Depot opening next door imports of softwood lumber from Europe and the Southern Hemisphere are forecast to reach over 2 billion M. ft. in 2005."

Taylor noted that while production rates for six selected European countries and three Southern Hemisphere countries have collectively increased by almost 4OVo during the 1990s, the growth of their exports is a resounding9OVo during the same period.

"It is evident that European producers, especially the large integrated firms, have developed a strategy to position themselves in all three of the major lumber markets in the world," he said. "(However), the most efficient Scandinavian and Austrian mills can be cost competitive in the U.S. market with domestic North American production."

Predictions for 2005 of U.S. imports of European softwood lumber range from 400 million bd. ft. to I billion, mainly as dimension lumber.

Pine lumber exports to the U.S. from New 7-ealand, Chile, Brazil and Argentina rose from 12 million bd. ft. in l99l to about 625 million last year, according to the report.