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T. J. Hedrick has been appointed w.gen. mgr. of the Wickes Forest Industries division in Dinuba, Ca., succeeding the late Grant Potter. Hedrick had managed Wickes' Continental Moulding div.

Joe Aknen, RaYberg Lum'ber, San Carlos, Ca., vacationed in Mexico for a week.'Ilerb Grossman, PrexY of Rayberg, spent 11 daYs in the Orient during December.

Jerry Fernandez reports he has ex. panded office facilities at his Belmont Plywood in Belmont, Ca.

Carl Yerrips Permaneer CorP., and his wife, flew to Canada recentlY for her brother's marriage.

John Phillips, Half Moon BaY Lumber, is taking long week-ends uP in the Willows area. John rePorts he finds the lure of duck and dove irresistible.

Ray Ward G-P, San Jose, Ca., is keeping busy as Prexy of a square dance club in SunnYvale.

Gary Stewart, AFP, Newark, Ca,, vaeationed during December.

Bob Brazleton, G-P, San Jose, vacationed with his wife at Lake Tahoe when it was 24" below a giant DeeP-freeze,t' according to Bob.

R. W. Yan Ilouten is now directing nation-wide sales for Abitibi to the mass merchandisers.

Rick Terry is AFP's new credit & office mgr., National City, Ca. Replacing Terry at Cerritos is Ken Lobue. Adrian A. Skipper is now cr.edit mgr., bldg. mtls. div., Rialto.

Mike Fery is new to the lumber sales staff at Pope & Talbot, Portland, accordirig to Sy Rodakowski, lum' ber div. vp.

Stewart White, president of the Plywood Pioneers Assn. is Pushing for funds for a perma^nent W. E. Difrord memorial at the Western Forestry Center, Portland.

Donald C. Powell is the new senior vp.-administration, for ChamPion International. He had been presi' dent of their timberlands div.

Bud Bayard is the new area sales mgr.-Rocky Mountains, working out of Denver, for SimPson fimber Co. He had been in San Jose.

Felix Sanchez has been Promoted to regional supervisor, N.M.-CoIo.' for Payless CashwaYs. He had been gen. mgr., Barcelona Cash Lumber Store, Albuqueryue.

Duane A. Wolfe has been named president of Northern Yards, Inc., Portland. R. L. "Bob" Witherg is new chairman of the board. The firm sells dealers in Ore. and S.W. Wash.

Bob Ilumphrey, Sun Handling Dock, San Pedro, Ca., is still smiling over all those birthdaY greetings he received during Dec.

Edwin J. Noyes, Jr., is the new Product mgr., round stock sales, for Koppers.

Bob Diikinson, Gold Rey Forest Products, Beaverton, Ore., took the family over to Eug'ene, to sPend Christmas with his mom.

Hanold Hess, AFP, Newark, Ca' is recovering from a recent bout with pneumonia.

Jim Duart, AFP marketing director' announces the following: TonY Ksidakis as mgr,, industrial cut stock sales, Stockton, Ca^; Bernie Sloop, new to Stockton moulding/ millwork sales; Roger Pett to sales mgT., consumer Products, reporting to Duart. Bill Moore has joined sales, reporting to Pett.

Alan T. Smith n-as been named vP., operations for Weyerhaeuser Co.

G. Addison Appleby, Appleby Lumber' Spokane, Wash., has been electcd to the board of trustees of The Bishop's Schools.

John Bolzell is heading up the newlyformed paint dePt. at Edwards Building SupPlY, Beaverton, Ore. Loren Krebs is asst' mgr', rePorts Walt Shriver, g:en. mgr.

Carl Backstrom, Backstrom Building Center, Bend, Ore., recentlY gath' ercd up the familY and went to New Zealand to visit his daughter.

Long Dimension

Wqdell Barnes, ex-exec. vp, of the WWPA, is now with AutEx, Inc., a Massachusetts data processing firm that hopes to sell its services to Western wholesalers.

Mort Doyle is now president and chief exec, officer of the Interaational Snowmobile Industry Assn. He had been with Southwest tr'o.rest Industries and is a former exec. vp. of NFPA.

Wayne Gardner, exec. vp., Lumber Assn. of Southern California, has been installed as the new Master of Inglewood Lodge No. 421, Free and Accepted Masons, Congratulations, Wayne.

Fritz Quirin and his wife, Olga, and his partner John Cameron, recently wrapped up 5-day business trips up and down the coast for their C-Q Trucking firm. FYitz went south from Coos Bay, John north from L.A.

Sterling and Lorraine Wolfe are back from a Puerta Vallarta, Mexico vacation. In getting back to Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co. business, Sterling left 89o Mexican weather for 39o in L.A.

Lloyd Webb, Lane-Stamton Lumber, City of Industry, Ca., kindly informs us his wife's name is not Margarita, as we had it, but Sue. Can we buy you two a couple of Margaritas to make up for our goof, Lloyd? Sorry'bout that.

Don Philips, Sr., Don Philipe, Jr. and Randy Philipa, Philips Lumber Sales, Thousand Oaks, Ca.,3 generations of So. Calif. Iumbermen, attended the Dec. nuptials of Tom Philips, Jr. son of Tom Philips, Sr., Eel River Lurnber Sales, to Mary Jo LaFerr. Also attending: John, Wayne and Rex Oxford and Larry Philips, Rex Oxford Lumber Co. Howrs that for a lumber family!

Jack Boeworth, gen. mgr., D. D. MacCallum Co., L.A., is at home recovering from a recent illness.

Mike McCarthy is the new inventory control and truck dispatching man at Elotr Hansson, Inc., Compton, Ca. according to s,ales mgr. Gene Ganard.

Boyd Ccnoy has been promoted to head West Coast Lumber fnspec- tion Bureau's new PR, dept., according to exec. vp, Paul lfollenbeck. He is being replaced by Dale Tuchardt, also of the Eugene, Ore, office.

Kirsh Kolp has joined the American Institute of fimber Construction as a field rep.

Hal McClary, Simpson fimber's vp- international in Seattle, has retired a.fter more than 4 decades in the industry.

Clyde Proctor, retired from Weyerhaeuser, and his wife Berniece, are just back from an XmasNew Year's visit to familv in Monterrey, Mexico. Now it,s ofr to Hawaii for a bit.

Gil Bissell, plant mgr., Danskin Enterprises, Sebastopol, Ca., and wife Sallye, recently visited fam- ily in the Mid-West, including Gil's aunt who is a 102 years young.

Mel Howard is Amow Lock's new rep. for most of the West.

Kent Schuck is the president of the new Schuck Component Systems Inc., Glendale, Lnz. Dick McPherson is gen mgr., Tom Ford controller and asst. mgr.-p.a. is Joe Rumble.

Jim Frodsham and Max Overton, South Bay Redwood, Orange, Ca. are back from a Paciffc Northwest buying trip.

August Klaue and Lee Erwert, Northwest Lumber Sales, Spokane, and Dick and BiIl Brauner and Roger Davis of Brauner Lumber Co., Kettle Falls, Wash. are new members of -Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club 16.

John S. Harper has been promoted to vp.-lumber and woodlands for Masonite.

Garland Hill is the new mg'r. of Evans Products' Missoul.a, Mont., parbicleboard plant, according to Don B. Loyd, group vp.-gen. mgr., fiber products div. Clinton L. Andavall is the new product mgr., industrial products, bldg. materials group.

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Deolers Urge Pricing Chonge

Responding to Price Commission criticism oI t}e lumber industry, a spokesman lor 12,000 retail lumber dealers has charged that current regulations are driving up the price of lumber.

In a letter to Price Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson, Jr., the exec vp. oI the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Assn. called for immediate federal actions to increase lumber supply.

This could be accomplished, said Richard D. Snyder, by increasing federal timber cut, restricting or eliminating entirely the export of lumber and logs during this critical period.

He asked for ceiling prices on an item-by-item basis at the manufacturers' level, balanced production requirements and modification of profit margin regulations to increase pro. duction.

Pointing out that continued pursuit of current Price Commission ttcostpush" inflation controls on the lum' ber industry will dry up supply and create a wholly chaotic situation in both price and supply in the lumber market, Snyder emphasized that only production will cure "demand-pull" inflation.

He said for the Commission to publicly blame an entire industry for the spiraling prices is unjust, particularly when the current regulations contribute substantially to the lum' ber price and supply problem.

He stated that small retail lumber dealers, more than 54/o having fewer than 10 employees, canno! know how much net profit they have made un' til after a year-end physical inven' tory. This causes dismay, uncertainty and frustration in adhering to profit margin regulations.

Severe penalties can be levied if year-end profits are excessive.

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Lumber Town lies Dieing

Hilt, the venerable northern California company-owned lumber town that Fruit Growers Supply Co. decided to shut down in October for lack of an adequate, continuing supply of timber, expects to finish its economic life in September or October of this year.

Following personal notification by president James Nickell, the shutdown began with the loggers being laid off in November. The logs on hand will be processed thru the mill until May or Juie, with sale or disposal of the lumber expected to be completed by September or October.

The town consisted of the $5 million mill, 85 frame houses and nearly 300 employees. While the company made a valiant efiort to find employees other jobs, the death of their town has been a severe blow to manv of the familieso some of whom have lived for senerations in the small valley. Some will take jobs "t otli", Fruit Growers Supply operations, some will move to other towns and other states, victims of an ever changing economy and an ecologically.aware industry that clearly sees the folly of cutting itself out of timber for short term gains.

The point had been reached where the firm would have to cut faster than the forest grew to make opera. tion of the mill profitableo hence the decision to cloee the mill and sell the stumpage from their 70,000 acres to other manufacturers.

Noder on Nqtionol Forests

While less and less timber is harvested in the National Forests, Ralph Nader has charged that the U.S. Forest Service "is turning the National Forests into timber factorieg."

In a foreword to a report on the Forest Service by Daniel L. Barney, a University of Texas law student, Nader3lleged that "abusive management threatens the country's largest playground and wealthiest store of natu1sl rcsonlsss-the National Forests."

The report, from Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive [,aw, is tit]ed, "The Last Stand," fu quoted by United Press International, the report says that "clearcutting, careless roadbuilding and reforestation delays are eating'away the productive lands and fouling the pure waters of the National Forests."

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Log Export Prctesl

Darrell L. Robinson, president of Oregon-Pacific Industries, Pordand, has called on President Nixon to, at least temporarily, halt all log exports from federal lands.

Said Robinson: ooWe're past the 'point for alarm'. The wood supply situation in the United States is now critical. The scarcity of domestic lumber has driven prices up yet log prices are totally uncontrolled.

"Soon, sawmills will begin to shut down. Already their log inventories on hand are one-half to one-fifth of normal for winter.

"Meanwhile*and cornpletely oontrary to their assurances at the beginning of this year-the Japanese have takeri most of the 2.3 billion feet of softwosd shipped out of just Oregon, Washington, northern California and Alaska in the first ten months of 1972; compared with only 1.4 billion feet exported during the comparable period of 1971.

Nqr Bel-Air Door Soles Mgr.

W. H. "Skip" Face ha.s been named the new sales manager of Bel-Air Door Co. by company president Sam Fineman. Face will be responsible for all sales for Bel-Air and Alhambra Metal Products; both are located in Alhambra, Ca.

'oJapanese traderg according to a ree,ent wire service story, are planning to pay even more Ior our logs in the coming months because of their own shortages."

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