PERS NALS

Thomas M. Stevenson has joined the Longhorn Cement Div. of Kaiser Cement Corp. as a sale rep in Houston, Tx., according to Wallece E. McG€e, Tx. regional sales mgr.

Gary V. Merkel who recently transferred to Charlotte, N.C., from Ar. has been named Lumber Fieldman of the Year for Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Co., according to R.L. Harrison, pres.

Michael Caldwell, National Forest Products Association southern district mgr., has been named code changes committee chairman for the No. Tx. chapter of the International Conference of Building Officials.

G. Robert Claypool, v.p. and controller, building material distribution group, CertainTeed Corp., Waco, Tx., recently conducted a cash flow wrrrkshop for the Carolina Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association.

Charles Yignal, Canadian Millwork, Inc., Canadian, Tx., is a continuing board member for the Wood Moulding and Millwork Producers.

Thomas C. Cosper, Jr. has been appointed regional sales mgr., South, by the Homelite Div. of Textron Inc., Charlotte, N.C., according to William G. Granl, executive director, sales.

Fred W. Burgess, v.p. in charge of lumber sales, has retired after 28 years with T.R. Miller Mill Co., Inc., Brewton, Al., according to John R. Miller, Jr., pres. He was a director of the Southern Forest Products Association for many years.

R. Hunter Morin, v.p.,/director of marketing and assistant to the pres. at General Products Co., Inc. Fredericksburg, Va., has been elected lst v.p. of the Insulated Steel Door Systems Institute.

Rick Prophit is managing the new Scotty's outlet in Port Orange, Fl., with the assistance of Frank Berger.

Keith W. John is the new customer service mgr. at Odell Sentry Hardware, Greensboro, N.C.

T. E. Addison Jr., The Addison Corp., Atlanta, Ga., is the new chairman of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors.

O.E."Bud" Stoner III, Builder Marts of America, Greenville, S.C., is back from a So. Ca. business trip.

Bob Pierce, Town& Country HomeCenter, Denton, Tx., Fred Herbert, Herbert Bros. Lumber, Lake Charles, La., and Claude Henley, Henley Supply, Decherd, Tn., are new members of the Hardware Wholesalers Inc. board.

Juan Cortez, Handy Dan Home Improvement centers, san Antonio, Tx., is now director of stores; Rrul Jimenez is regional mgr., San Antonio; Ursulr King, Waco, Austin and San Antonio, Tx.

Steve Elliott is the new director of marketing at Hughes Lumber, Tulsa, Ok.

Jim Stroupc and Rey trlynn, Windsor Mill, Windsor, Ca., have been in La., Al., Ms. and Fl. on a sales trip.

Greg Smith has been appointed district mgr. for Mannington Mills, lnc. in Dallas, Tx., covering Ar., No. La., No. Tx. and Ok., according to Fnnt D. Hestlst, general sales mgr.

Milton Dyer is the new mgr. of the North Malvern Lumber and Supply, Malvern, Ar, Adr Mills, former co-operator with her husband Joe of Ozark Hardwood Lumber Co., Clarksville, Ar., has been appointed to the State Forestry Commission by Gov. Frrnk lYhite. John and Gordone Snow are looking forward to the first anniversary of their ownership of Smith's Lumber and Supply Co., Dover, Ok.

Joe Harwell has joined Leader Lumber, Inc., Dallas, Tx., as a p:utner.

Sen. Lloyd B€nts€n (D-Tx.) who owns a tree farm in Clarke County, Va., is now a member of the American Tree Farm System conducted by the American Forest Institute: Richrrd Lewis, director; C-harles F. trinley, Jr., exec. director of the Virginia Forestry Association, and Devid Denhrm, chairman of the Virginia Tree Farm committee, conducted the ceremony in his Capital Hill office.

Robert T. Renfro, Weyerhaeuser Co., Chesapeake, Va., is heading the newly formed paneling group incorporating operations in Chesapeake, Hancock, Vt., and Cucamonga, Ca.

Lanny Moore, immediate past pres. of the Carolina Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association and pres. of Frank Ulmer Lumber Co., Greenville, S.C., was a recent visitor to Phoenix, Az., and LosAngeles, Ca.

Bulldlng Producls Dlgoal

Clark Cossc. Southern Forest Products Association, New Orleans, ta., attended a meeting of the Nationd Housing Crisis Council in Chicago, Il.

Bob Peine is the new resident mill sales mgr. for MacMillan Bloedel Inc.'s building materials div. in Atlanta,Ga.

Drryl L. hndsdrh is the new pres. and c.e.o. at Handy City Home Centers, Atlanta, Ga.; Thomes J. Klinbeck is the new chief lnancial officer.

Joe and Xrthy Troutner, Edgewater Hardware, Edgewater, Fl., sponsored a hardware beauty queen page.rnt in their community.

Winston Menn was honored by Cook & Sons Ace Hardware, Albertville, Al., at dinner for being the Mid-South Hardware Association's outstanding advanced course graduate, hvid S. Arlhurs, Inverness, Fl., has been re-elected to the board of directors of Blish-Mize Co.

Cerl J. Hollidry is the new markaine/advertising mgr. at Ode[ Hardware Co., Greensboro, N.C.; f,eith W. Join is the new customer service mgr.

Jerry Witt has been named "oustanding salesman" by AFCO lndustries, lnc., Diboll, Tx.

Jerry Yessberg, Vassberg lmplement Inc., Lyford, Tx., was elected pres. of the Southwest Hardware & Implement Association at the convention in New Orleans, La.; Lloyd Cox, Cox Hardware, Houston, Tx., pres.-elect; Calvin Jordrn, Cal Jordan Implement, Clovis, N.M., v.p.; EdwinCox, Fry and Cox, Inc., Muleshoe, Tx., Jeck Jrckson, Jackson's Hardware, Livingston, Tx., Herold Mrhrnry, Mahanay International, McKinney, Tx., and Chrrlie Howerd, Oil City Tractors, Inc., Beaumont, Tx., directors. Yrnce Peyne, Payne & Payne Hardware, Center, Tx., retiring pres.

Jim Galletly is now sales mgr. for Diamond Hill Plywood Co. at the Charlotte, N.C., branch; Denton Bcnfield Jr. is new in sales there; Johnny Smith is a new sales rep at the Nashville, Tn., branch.

Truman Phifer, Southern Forest Products Association fieldman, spoke at the Forestry and Harvesting Training Center workshop held in Long Beach, Ms.; Jim Heney, senior fieldman, is back from the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Haiti where he arranged for export seminars in late summer; Chuck Gehring has had a paper, "Why Jamaica Likes Southern Pine," published in the proceedings of the forestry seminar held in Kingston, Jamaica.

Jerry Huber has joined PIP Wholesale in Goldsboro, N.C.

Tom Berd is the new gen. mgr. of the Florida Div. of Chandler Corp., Leeburg, Fl., according to Dick Frazier.

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New Dimension, Old Name

Winton Lumber Co. has long been a firm with an eye on the future, pioneering innovations in the lumber industry. Now it is a leader again with a mill, the Pas Lumber Co., Ltd., producing structural grade finger- jointed long length dimension lumber.

In the early '50s, when the Winton family did finger-jointing of white fir and pine moulding, they hoped that one day they could use the surplus short length lumber from the spruce mill in a higher dollar return product. Twenty five years later technology developed by Dr. Suezone Chow of the Western Forest Products Laboratory, Vancouver, 8.C., made this possible.

They opened the Pas mill in Prince George, B.C., in 1979to produce2x4 through 2x12,22 ft. through 40 ft., structural #l and #2 SPF. Built at a cost of over $2 % million, the plant is said to be the most modern finger- joint facility in the world.

The process starts with 6 to l0 ft. lengths of spruce, pine and fir. This raw material is sized in the planning mill to an oversize of l/8" over in thickness and Vr" over in the width before entering the finger-joint plant where it is trimmed and visually graded before fingers are cut in each end.

After the cutting, the material flowsthrough ahugeovenT3 ft. long where a l75o temperature is maintained. As the raw material leaves the oven, phenol resorcinol exterior marine glue is applied to the fingers at both ends. They are then jointed together with approximately 400 p.s.i. of pressure. The heat stored in the fingers helps to cure the glue.

A continuous ribbon of lumber is the result of this process. As it feeds out, a flying cut-off saw automatically cuts it to pre-determined lengths. After traveling on a series of carefullytimed belts to allow additional curing, the lumber goes to the planer where it is surfaced to standard, structural dimension sizes.

Each piece of lumber produced is passed through a 40 ft. Metriguard Tension tester which clamps the lumber at each end and applies a load in tension to 1.3 times the Ft. values for #l SPF grade. Results show 390 or less of the pieces fail. In addition, 9990 of those that do fail break not at the joint, but in the lumber.

Uses for long dimension lumber include rafters and joists in residential, commercial, and agricultural construction. According to those who use it, its straightness makes it unnecessary to sight in the crowns. The availability of long lengths for floor joists, plates, ceiling joists and rafters is said to make it possible to build with approximately 4090 fewer pieces of lumber, eliminating butt joints, spliced joints and overlap joints.

In addition to long dimension lumber, the Prince George plant can run 2 in. decking to lengths up to 40 ft. with precision trim to exact length and rough faced sidings in Dolly Varden, Channel and carsiding patterns.

All Winton longdimension lumber is sold through the Winton Sales Co., Minneapolis, Mn., with Lou Huettl, sales manager, and a staff including Paul Williams, assistant sales manager, and Steven From.