NEWLITERATURE

Outdoor Power Products

"llomelite & Jacobsen Ouldoor Power l:quipment Products" is free for a stamped. self-addressed envelope liom Textron. 14401 Carowinds lllvd., Charlotte. N.C. 28217.

Wood Sldlng Workbook

"(iuidelines lor lnstalling & t;inishing Wood Siding over Rigid ["oam Sheathing" is liee for the first l0 copies, 150 ea. thereafter from the Western Wood Products Association, Yeon tildg., 522 SW 5th Ave.. Portland, Or. 97204.

Good For The Pallet

"l:xtend the Life ol'Your Pallets" is free from the National Wooden Pallet & (-ontainer Association. 1625 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Ste. 200, Washington, t).('. 20016.

Lessons In Lattice

"How to Work with Lattice" is 750 liom the Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers Association, Box 25278, Portland, Or. 97225.

Panel Class

"The APA Panel Basics Correspondence Course," a 64-p. booklet, is $10 lrom the American Plywood Association, Box 11700. Tacoma. Wa. 9841l.

Tool Selector

An ll" x 17" Helpful Hints wall poster/folder to help customers select the right tool is available from Stanley Tools, Box 1800, New Britain, Ct. 06050.

SunRoom Service lnsulated Openings

A 40-p. solarium catalog is free from F'our Seasons, 5005 Veterans Memorial Hwy., Holbrook, N.Y. 11741.

A 32-p. insulated windows and doors catalog is available from Peachtree Doors, 4340 Peachtree Ind. Blvd., Norcross, Ga. 30091.

Outdoor Kltchen Pavlllon l)o-it-yourself building plans to construct an 8' x I 2' outdoor kitchen pavilion are $4 lrom the American Plywood Association. llox 11700, Tacoma. Wa. 9841 r.

Foil Producer Profile

A profile of international loil manulacturer Letron, lnc., is available from Letron, Rte. 2, Box 53A, Blythewood, s.c.290t6.

Road To Prune

The pocket-sized "llasic Pruning (iuide" is free fronr Ames Lawn & (iarden Tools, Box | 774, Parkersburg. w.v. 26102.

Stair Trek

Basic Stairbuilding is available as a I 28-p. soltcover book for $l 5.95 or a 60min. VHS or Beta videotape lor $29.95 from The Taunton Press. (800) 8888286.

Hoel Hoel Hoel

A 66-p. catalog o[ more than 600 lawn and gardening tools and products is liee liom Ames, llox 1774, Parkersburg, w.v. 2610t.

Clean Up Thelr Act

A "l)rug-l:ree Workplace" manual and videotape, aids to understanding the problcm, l'ederally required education and truck driver drug testinE,, and planning and implementing programs. are available from the Mid-America Lumbermens Association, 800 Westport Rd., Kansas City. Mo. 641 I |

Set Up Shop

The 164-p. Storc Planning & Displayis $-15 for National l)ecorating Products Association members. $52.50 for others from NI)PA, 1050 N. Lindbergh lllvd., St. Louis, Mo. 63 132.

New Redwood Siding

A 4-p. Premium Knotty tight knot redwood siding brochure is free from Simpson Timber Co., Box | 169, Arcata, ('a.95521.

Store & More

A 24-p. catalog of plastic and steel storage products and containers for the d-i-yer is lree from Akro-Mils, Box 739, Berea, Oh.44017.

Building Panels

A 4-p. brochure on a new nonasbestos fiber cement architectural building panel is lree: FibreCem Corp.,7 Woodlawn Green, Ste. 212, Charlotte, N.C. 282 | 7.

Lawn Mesh

For Prompt Service

on all New Literature stories write directly to the name and address shown in each item. Please mention that you saw it in Building Products Digest, Many thanks!

Information on all-purpose garden netting is free lrom Keystone, (800) 322-2632.

Cedar Deck Design

A cedar deck design brochure is 500 lrom the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association, Yeon Bldg., 522 SW 5th Ave.. Portland. Or. 97204.

Twenty-five (25) words for $21. Each additional word 700. Phone number counts as one word. Address counts as six words. Headlines and centered copy ea. line; $6. Box numbers and special borders: $6 ea. Col. inch rate: $45 camera ready, $55 ilwe set the type. Names of advertisers using a box number cannot be released. Address replies to box number shown in ad in care of Building Products Digest, 4500 Campus Dr., Suite 4E0, Newport Beach, Ca. 92660. Make checks payable to Cutler Publishing, Inc. Mail copy to above address or call (714) 852-1990. Deadline for copy is the l5th ofthe month. PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY COPY unless you have established credit with us.

Lumber Trader

We are Hardwood and Softwood loo and lumber wholesalers with otfices in Cbnada and the United States. We are seekino sincere. exoerienced lumber traders wh6 have a view towards the long term.

Work fiom vour oart of the countv, or from our offices-in the Toronto area. '

This is an excellenl opportunity with a well-established company.

We enjoy an outstanding financial and marketing reputation.

For complete details, please phone or write Bob Wilson in slrict confidence.

7-AOO-426-4772

205-987-7582

ITEMS?

For sidings call Doug Willis. For spa and sauna items contact Phil Heim or Doug Willis. Call Product Sales Co. (714) 9988680. Please see our ad on page 4.

Calling All Hoo-Hoo Clubs

Send in your club news and notice of upcoming events for free publicity.

4500 Campus Dr., Ste. 480, Newport Beach, Ca. 92660

Outdoor Star

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Floods, Tornados Hit Dealers

Tornados and floods ravaged Arkansas. Oklahoma. Texas and Louisiana, causing millions of dollars in damages and bracing local dealers for a surge in repair spending.

A mid-May tornado ripped through Stillwater, Ok., extensively damaging the northeast part of town. "We're selling a lot of roofing," reported Roy T. Hoke Lumber Co. "No yards were hit so supplies are pretty plentiful."

Racked by a 10:49 p.m. tornado April 24, Ellis County Building & Supply Co., Shattuck, Ok., was open for business the next day despite extensive damage. "We didn't close," said president Mike Williams. "The whole town was hit and we didn't want to miss out on a good opportunity."

Torrential rains throughout late April and May swelled lakes and rivers in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, flooding thousands of homes and causing at least l3 deaths.

Rodgers Lumber & Supply Co., Hot Springs, Ar., closed for two days to clean up after a May 19 storm pounded the city with 12 inches of rain in seven hours. Four feet of water submerged Rodgers' parking lot, while 15 inches filled the store.

"We had water marks 33 inches up the windows," said manager Larry White. "Fortunately the glass held up and the only water that got in is what seeped in around them."

The company sustained an estimated $150,000 in inventory and building damage. "Merchandise was just floating around the showroom," White said.

Down the street, Dyke Industries'yard was covered by 18 inches of water, while 3 inches filtered into the retail showroom. Water damaged a few displays, although the firm sidestepped catastrophe by having most of its merchandise stocked above the water level.

C.J. Horner Inc., Hot Springs, sustained about $150,000 in damages, mostly in lost inventory. "We've been going through hell," said R.J. Horner. "We had a couple feet of water in the warehouse. But we didn't close. We'll probably have a Flood Sale, with doors, moulding, paneling and whatever else was damaged."

Lowe's, Pine Bluff, Ar., readied supplies, waiting for flood levels to subside and insurance companies to make assessments so homeowners could begin repairs. "We had about 450 houses underwater near the river," said manager Duke Stanton.

Retailers List Lumber Needs

Retailers told southern pine manufacturers what they wanted from their products during a recent meeting of the Retailer Advisory Board of the Southern Pine Marketing Council.

Higher, consistent quality, better looking pressure treated wood, more technical information and education and bar coding were needs emphasized by the 16 managers participating.

Plans were made to conduct consumer research in the stores of several represented on the advisory board. "lf you know what the consumer wants, you'll know what the retailer wants," one panelist commented.

Wood Prcductg

With timber harvests in the northwest predicted to decline regardless of just how the northern spotted owl issue is resolved, sources for wood products are uncertain.

Many possible solutions exist. but each has serious flaws. Random Lengths, a forest products newsletter. has summarized some of the alternatives.

Increased production in the inland western regions is unlikely as these forests also are slated lor harvest reductions. E,ven without the spotted owl, Central Oregon's I)eschutes National lrorest projects a 50(h drop in timber sales by 1995.

Southern yellow pine production in the southern U.S. would need to increase by at least 8(Xr to offset western harvest declines. However. southern timber harvests are predicted to decline during the 1990s.

lncreased lumber imports are an unlikely solution with Canada also facing harvest declines due to growing environmentalist efforts. Tropical hardwoods and Radiata pine could not replace l)ouglas fir's structural properties. lmports of logs or lumber from Russia are a possibility with many unknowns.

Sources Cloudod

With recent advances in sawing and drying technologies, hardwood dimension lumber is commercially feasible. llowever. large scale production and code approval of poplar and alder studs are years away.

Engineered components such as wood l-beams are logical substitute products. but again start up time for large scale production would be a flactor. Strength tested top and bottom truss chords also require high quality lumber and veneer from old growth forests.

Non-wood substitutes such as steel, concrete, concrete block or even plastics would involve cost. availability and consumer preference factors. Establishing new non-wood materials in traditional wood dominated markets would be a complex process, involving more than just a switch of building materials.

Whatever the outcome, wider than normal price fluctuations in lumber and panel products are likely as supply and demand seek a new equilibrium. Prices will need to adjust with new competing products and align with higher stumpage costs as mills compete for fewer raw materials. the newsletter said.

Personals

(Continued Jrom page 2-S)

George 8,. Jones, Lowe's. Cookeville, Tn., has been selected as Store Manager of the Year in the south central region. In North Wilkesboro, N.C., Jimmy Benson is now senior sales promotions specialist, contractor sales promotion dept.t Sandra Cleary Church, replenisher, lighting dept.; Lois Jestes, customer relations specialist, and Jim Lyall has resigned as v.p.visual design to open his own graphics design firm.

Eric Shane Belville. Lowe's, Aiken, S.C., married llesha Ann Kirkland April 7, 1990.

David A. Walters has been promoted to v.p. of operations at Chesapeake Hardwood Products, Inc., Chesapeake, Va., reports pres. Eugene M. Myers.

Lynn Lamb and Mike Gurley are new to Steel City Lumber, Birmingham, Al.

Paul Johanningsmeier, American Plywood Association, has retired. Jim Gogolski replaces him as Ky. field reD.

Ronald P. Hogan, pres. and coo, (ieorgia-Pacific, Atlanta, (ia., has been named a director of' G-P and chairman of newly acquired Great Northern Nekoosa Corp., replacing William R. Laidig, who has resigned. James C. Van Meter is also a new G-P director.

Bonnie Neff Hoover, pres. and ceo, Neff Lumber Mills, Broadway, Va., has been elected pres. of the Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers.

Matt Kessler has joined Gulf South Forest Products. I'-ort Lauderdale, Fl., as director of purchasing.

Gay Juban, Juban-Watson Lumber Co., Baton Rouge, La., is recuperating after a heart attack and surgery.

Ted Boyce, Nu-Lines, Inc., Tyler, Tx., was one of 50 inventors selected by the U.S. patent olTice from 100,000 patent applicants to exhibit at the National Inventors Exposition in Washington, D.C. His firm produces a combination swing/rocker/bench, as well as a unique deck system.

Julie Davis, softwood sales, and Robert Bramlett, hardwood div., Potlatch Corp., Warren, Ar., have returned from a recent So. Ca. sales trip.

Lumber Salea For The Blrd3

Lumber sales to developers in the Austin, Tx.. area are being affected by an emergency ruling listing the golden cheeked warbler as an endangered species.

The tJ.S. ljish and Wildlife Service ruling in effect until l)ec. 31, 1990, is keeping builders from clearing lands with mature Ashe junipermixed oak stands which provide a bark needed by the warbler to construct nests.

Flood Rellef Effortg

The small town of l:lba, Al., ravaged by a severe flood, is receiving help from neighboring lumber and building supply companies.

Chuck llarris, Wholesale Wood Products, l)othan, Al., helped the local Rotarians raise money and three trailer loads full of paper goods, lumber, tools and cleaning supplies. (ireat Southern Plywood, Stone ('ontainer and Custom Lumber Manufacturing donated a trailer load of lumber and plywood.

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