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Al J. Schneider, 86, owner, Home Supply Co., Louisville, Ky., died of a heart attack May 27.

In addition to operating 54-year-old Home Supply, he owned the four largest hotels in Louisville, as well as a construction company.

Jack Caine, 61, plywood financial and planning manager, Weyerhaeuser Cos., Hot Springs, Ar., died of a heart attack June 3. He worked for the firm for over 30 years.

Carl A. Detering, Sr., retired founder, The Detering Co., Houston, Tx., died May 9.

Check-Out Depot's New ldea

Home Depot is introducing new wireless scanners in over 700 stores nationwide that are said to reduce the time customers spend in check-out Iines.

"It's a tool being used to complement existing cashiers," said Don Harrison, a company spokesman. "We use it when lines are long and customers are stressed."

An extension of a wireless scanner already used for keeping inventory, the "Unleashed" system enables employees to scan and record purchases while customers wait in line. Once patrons get to the check-out counter, the cashier electronically retrieves the sales record and the customer pays for their items.

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION: To commemorate the opening of its 100th Texas store, Home Depot unfurled a 25'x30'orange apron on the fronl of the new 130,000-sq. ft. unit in The Colony, Tx., just north of Dallas.

The system reportedly should be in all 1,340 Home Depot stores nationwide by year's end.

Site Checks Certified Status

Primary and secondary forest products firms can apply online for Sustainable Forestry Initiative labeling.

Using sfi.vcompro.com, SFI participants and label licensees are able to quickly and easily demonstrate they meet SFI program requirements of the on-product label by answering questions regarding the source of raw materials they use in manufacturing.

Once an independent audit has been submitted, the program determines if their product earns the label. The program even calculates whether the percentage of raw material on a product-by-product basis meets acceptable sustainability standards to qualify for the SFI program label.

"If you want to save the tropical rainforests, boycott tropical fruits and vegetables and buy tropical woods instead, because then people will grow trees."

- Patrick Moore, Greenpeace co-founder

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Anthony Forest Products Co. [116]....36

Arch Wood Protection [5]..nxpo 6,Expo7

Boise Cascade Corporation U031..........5

Bowie Sims Prange U04l .......................6

Brackett Brothers [105] ...........7

Britt Lumber U141.................................7

Cox Wood Preserving Co. [1061......8,37

Crumpler Plastic Pipe, Inc. t1091........25

CSI U171....... ......Cover III

Desticon 11241...........,.................Cover II

Elder Forest Products [121]......Cover II

EnviroSafe [105].....................................7

Epperson Lumber Sales [110] ....,..,.....26

GRK Canada Limited [102]..................3

Hankins, Inc. [120] ....-............Cover III

Hoover Treated Wood [115]................34

International Paper Co. [22]..Cover IV

LifePine Roofing & Siding Products t1011.............. ...Cover I

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Lumber Tag Specialties [07]..............27

Nascor, Inc. [119]......................Cover III

New South, Inc. [123].......-....-............31

Northstar Vinyl Products [118]...........33

Osmose t1011................-..............Cover I

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