Home improvement at home outside

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Openings framed into the outdoor dividers can be used to display specimen plants or filled in with canvas or acrylic panels. They can even be changed to harmonize with the seasons or special outdoor events.

Large dimension lumber is effective in garden use, made attractive with the use of posts, caps and skirtboards.

Children's play equipment also can be constructed of large dimension material. Dramatic and appealing to the imagination, it can be dressed up with plants when not in use.

Tip sheets with working drawings and construction information are available from the California Redwood Association for designs such as these. Build a couple of models in your lawn and garden area or lumber yard and you'll find that the customers want them, too.

Story at a Glance

Home improvement not limited to the inside ...ways to sellyourcustomers on dressing up their yards...drawings and construction in. formation are free from Califomia Redwood Association.

Obituaries

Albert Sidney Boisfontaine, a leader in the southern pine industry for more than 50 years, died March Z, 1985, in New Orleans, La. He was 86.

Boisfontaine joined the staff of the Southern Pine Association (now Southern Forest Products Association) at l7 after graduation from high school in New Orleans. He served in the Marine Corps as a drill sergeant during World War I, later returning to the association. While working there, he attended Loyola University and received a law degree.

In the late l!X0s and early 1950s, he was chairman of the Lumber Stan-

Personals

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Howard Huckle has been named manager of builders hardware at Cox Lumber Co,, St. Petersburg, Fl.

George E. Haw III is the new pres. and chief administrative officer of Ruffin & Payne, Inc., Richmond, Va.; Joseph M. "Jody" Ruffin Jr., vice chairman; Julian M. Ruffin III, exec. v.p., treas., and chief financial officer, according to Craige Ruffin, chairman and c.e.o.

Greg Bridgeford has been named director of corporate development; Cliff Oxford, v.p. of corporate relations, and Henry Roemer, director of investor relations at Lowe's, North Wilkesboro, N.C.

Jon Fiese has been appointed v.p. of sales & marketing at Elk Corp., Dallas, Tx.

Harry R. Diz is the new pres. and c.e.o. of Roper Brothers Lumber Co., lnc.,

News Briefs

(Continuecl front page 16 ) dards Committee for the National Lumber Manufacturers Association (now National Forest Products Association) and played a key role in the revision and improvement of the national lumber standards for all softwood species. He participated in the negotiations of a federal court consent decree which transferred the responsibilities for industry standards from the Southern Pine Association to the newly created Southern Pine Inspection Bureau. He became executive director of SPIB, serving until his retirement. A native of New Orleans, he was honored in 1975 by the Louisiana Bar Association for 50 years of legal service. He is survived by two daughters and a son.

Housing starts in March surgd to their highest snnual rote in almost 12 months, bringrng hope to the housing industry...at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,895,000 units, the fig. was I1.590 above 1984...apt. construction starts accounted for much of the hike, climbing46.90/o from Feb. single family homes were up 2.390 to an adjusted annual rateof 1,149,000 units, highest since April '84...building w.ls up in every part of the country...permits rose l09t/0, highest since June '84...

Bclise Cascade Sheds Units

Within 18 months Boise Cascade Corp. will have withdrawn from the Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas markgs.

Building material centers in these states, which comprises their south central region, will be closed or sold, according to Steven Pearson, a Boise Cascade spokesman at Boise, Id., headquarters. Irwe's has already acquird 23 stores, two warehouse facilities and two door manufacturing plants from them in Texas and Oklahoma.

Petersburg, Va., M. Ronald Helms, senior v.p. and treas.; Lrwrcnce R. Eelcher, v.p., sales; Dennis A. Burrows, sec.; Barry McWilliams, v.p., purchasing; Patrick Welsh, v.p., home center operations, according to kRoy B. Roper, chairman of the board.

Steve Hazard is now co-mgr. of the &4 Lumber Co. store in Palmetto, Fl.

Danny R. Hayes is now sec.-treas. of Smith-Phillips Lumber Co., WinstonSalem, N.C.; Richard Y. IGy, vice pres., gen. management and purchasing; H. Gil Moore Jr., v.p., administration and store operations; Sharon Duggins, office mgr. and administrative assistant to the pres., and Rick Easter, assistant gen. mgr., according to Mickey W. Bohs, pres. B.B. Guhn has been named director of corporate security at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., by Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

Florida is working on proposed revisions to the state energy code which would benefit the use of masonry walls in residential construction; the National Forqt hoducts Assn. objects to the "blast" computer simulation program used to develop the revisions...

The House interior committee has approved HR 1088 setting a 2090 ceiling on the total amount of Canadian lumber used in the U.S.i a second bill under consideration would allow I year for negotiation between trade representatives and then a l09o import duty on Canadian lumber...

The company, according to Pearson, will focus on their Rocky Mountain and West C,oast regions where they operate 36 building material centers and l0 wholesale units. The plan is to consolidate the building materials distribution division to its most effective geographies.