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John Barret! director of lumber sales & mktg., Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta' Ga.' plans to retirc luly I after 37 years in tbe business. Wllllrm Klng is new to inside sales in Pearl, Ms. In G-P's metal products business unit, Lee Carpenter is now logistics mgr., and Ketly Buchansn and Mark TeYlor' branch coordinators for tbe Soutbem & Midwest regions.

Jan Barnes is new to inside sales at Columbia Forest Products, Truman' Ar., covering MemPbis. Tn., and Northeast Ar.

Terry Barncs, former director and offrcer of tbe KentuckY Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association, has joined Kruse Hardware Co. as building product mgr.

Joe Taylor has joined Orgill Bros.' Memphis, Tn., as retail Program mgr. Myron Bosewell has been Promoted to special products mgr.

Cherlle Harnden, Alpine Engineered Products, PomPano Beach, Fl.' received the 1992 Automated Builder Achievement in Housing Award from Automated BuiWcn

John A. Pltcher, director, Hardwood Research Council, MemPbis' Tn., and Ernest J. Stebblns, exec. mgr., National Hardwood l,umber Association' Memphis, are participating in seminars during next month's ExPo '93 in Atlanta, Ga.

Jeson Herrb is the new mgr. of [-owe's, Tullahoma, Tn., rePlacing Rlck Mlller. Rlck Cook is mgr- in Meridian. Ms.

Mlke Dodson, Foxworth4albraith Lumber Co.. has been transferred from Greenville. Tx., to Rowlett, Tx.' as gen. mgr. Tom Schleuter is now gen. mgr., Carrollton, Tx.; Rhett Klng' gen. mgr., Sulpbur Springs, Tx.; Gwen Gentry, paint dept. and Mervln Fltc and Jlmmy Summerlln, outside salqs' ML Pleasant Tx.; Mlcheel McElnoY' Focus point-of-sale system mgr.' Dallas. Tx., and Ken Vessels' Focus mgr., W.Tx. New to the Dallas general office: Dete Henneford' director of information systems: Jce Montrlvo, human resources director, and Dor' rcen Bestt mgr.'communications.

Bud Blekley, Bud Blakley Lumber Co" Chandler, Ok-, is recuperating at bome following bY-Pass hert surgerY.

Made from the highest quality southern pine timber, preservative treat€d tap€r-saum shakes are more affordable than cedar shakes and shingies. Greater uniformity means installation requires less time, lowlring labor costs. Waste is less than 5%. And tap€r-sawn shakes can be installed directly over existing shingles, eliminating costly, messy removal and disposal of the old roof'

Energy Efficient

The extraordinary beauty of wood matched with the energy saving insulative value of SYP can reduce attic temp€rature 20 degrees during the summer. SYP R-values are 3(X)% better than asphah shingles, 400% above buih-up roofing.

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Service life is 35-50 years for treated pine taper'saum shakes; 8'15 years for urestem red cedar shingles. Treated pine shakes can cam/ u S0 V".t warranty against insects and decay. Cedar roofing ofiers no warrantY. . Trealted

Ronald M. Brlll, c.f.o. and treas., Home Depot, Atlanta, Ga., has also been named exec. v.p. Controller Preston R. Klrby is also a v.p., and Marshall L. Day, senior v.p.-finance; Bryan J. Flelds, v.p.-real estate, and Kerrle R. Flanagan, v.p.-merchandise payables. Arthur Blank, pres., was profiled in a recent cover story of Georgia Trend magazine.

Lawrence Hall, Robbins Manufacturing Co., Tampa, Fl., has been elected chaimran of the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau, Pensacola, Fl. Mlke Jones, Balfour Lumber Co., Thomasville, Ga., is vice chairman, and Blll Turllngton, F.L. Turlington Lumber Co., Clinton, N.C., and James are now on the board of governors.

Bob IntVeldt has been promoted to v.p.sales & mktg. at Hitachi Power Tools USA, Norrross, Ga.

Randy Beck has joined Select Wholesale Lumber, Dallas, Tx., as gen. mgr.

Thomas Orr, v.p., WNC Pallet & Forest Products. Candler, N'C., has been named pres. of the National Wooden Pallet & Container Association.

Mlchael D. Ragan is now gen. mgr' for Grace MasonrY Products.

Edward T. Walters has been named pres. of Tucker Housewares.

Wllllam C. Corey has joined The Flood Co. as cost accountant.

Howard Soled is the new pres. of Allway Tools, succeeding Donald Grlnger, now c@.

Toby Klrkland has joined Atlantic Trading Co. as an outside sales rep in in Knoxville, Tn., rePorts Lawrence Newton.

D. M. "Davett Cole is now director-industrial sales at kwin.

Bonnle Hlckman, Weyerhaeuser Co., Hot Springs, Ar., is back from vacation.

Henry W. Jones, Sr., who celebrated his 9lst birthday Apil29, was honored at a recent "Henry W. Jones, Sr., Day" meeting of the Lumbermen's Club of Mempbis. He has been a club member for 60 years.

Dennls Bodzlony is the new Pres' of Tempo Products Co.

Bob Eddy has been promoted to v.P.mktg. for VSI Fasteners. Douglas Copley, Llndsay Carter and LarrY Swlngholm are new sales directors.

Kenneth Scott \tralters, Jr., Lowe's, North Wilkesboro, Tn., is engaged to wed Evelyn Yvonne Campbell in the fall. Kenneth Ray Greene, Lenoir, N.C., married Jaml Lelgh Watklns Feb. 6. 1993.

Elvis Presley has been sighted building loads in the Yard at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., Partners Hugh Mungus and tr'reddY tr'ungus revealed.

Structural Panel ExPorts High

U.S. structural wood Panel industry exports topped 1.55 billion squar€ feet (3/8 inch basis) last year,9lo above 1991, but less than the 1.6 billion foot record set in 1990.

Most of the total volume and all of the increase was represented by plywood, according to U.S. DePartment of Agriculture and American Plywood Association statistics. Oriented strand board shipments totaled 50 million sq. ft., about 3Vo of the total figue.

The value of all U.S. softwood PIYwood exports was $318 million, uP 23Vo from $258 million in 1991. Exports represented 6Vo of the U.S. industry's total production of approximately 26 billion sq. ft. of structural wood panels.

European Community markets accounted for two-thirds of the exports, Mexico and Canada,23Vo. ToP 10 markets by counay: u.K.,362 million ft.; Mexico, 220 million; The Netherlands, 201 million; Belgium/Luxembourg, 167 million; Germany, 138 million; Canada, 127 million; Denmark, 60 million; Republic of lrelan4 29 million; ltaly,29 million, and the Dominican Republic, 19 million.