A NEW ADDITION TO THE QUALITY SUN FAMILY OF BUILDING MATER'AI.S

UN STUDS, INC._SUN STUDS iS elebrating Thirty Five Years of production exellence. Sun Studs was the first comouterized awmill in the world. Production exceeds 90 rillion board feet annually of KD Western lemlock and Douglas Fir Studs graded under VCLIB grade rules.

SUN VENEER, tNC.-SUN VENEER leads the industry in computerized technology and fiber utilization. Production capacity exceeds 850 million square feet annually of 1/10 inch veneer. Sun employees are involved from logging to replanting to manufacturing for the benefit of vou-our customer.

ED ECENT actions bythe Federal Tiade II Commission and the Department of Justice appear to open the door for manufacturers to require retailers to comply with suggested retail prices. Guidelines issued by the Justice Department also clear the way for some manufacturers and distributors to enter into exclusivity arrangements without fear of antitrust prosecution.

In letters to the House and Senate appropriations committees, the FTC said a manufacturer may announce unilaterally that it will sell only to retailers who agree to comply with suggested prices. The Commission said a retailer may agree with the manufacturer's policy "in order to avoid termination." The policy represents a change lrom that of previous law if there was a "real" or "implied" agreement between manufacturers and retailers involving suggested retail prices.

The nonprice vertical restraint guidelines issued by Justice state that companies with less than l09o of the market can imoose venical restraints on retailers or wliolesalers. The restraints that are allowed under the guidelines are customer and territorv allocations, exclusive dealerships, dual distribution systems, and tie-in arrangements. Even if a company has more than a l09o market share, the department said, it will not be concerned unless the market is concentrated.

WE lT IS with much mixed emorion that the lmembership of the ALBSA responds to the retirement news of Dean Drake, senior vice president and general manager, retail division, of the O'Malley Companies.

Drake is completing 50 years of superb contributions to the lumber industry, 35 of which have been within Arizona and with the O'Malley organization. While his numerous friends and colleagues will undoubr edly miss his timely counsel and direction. we all wish him and his wife, Gene, every happiness and enjoyment in the years to come.

Drake's lumber career began in 1936 in Beaver, Ks., where, upon graduation from high school, he ran a one man yard for the A. C. Houston Lumber Co. He was subsequently transferred to operations in Alva, Ok., and then in 1938 to a Houston subsidiary, Home Lumber Co. in Boise. Id. His auditing and inventory responsibilities at that location covered 22 separate yards throughout ldaho, Oregon and Nevada. Shortly thereafter, he was promoted to assistant manager of the company's largest holding in Reno, Nv., and then to assist in an expansion progr.rm in Las Vegas.

Following a war time job and stint with the U.S. Army, Drake again returned to the lumber business in 1945 with Ellensburg Lumber Co. in Washington, a forerunner of Boise Cascade Corp. After five years as its chief accountant and manager of retail yard operations, he accepted his first position in Arizona with the O'Malley Companies.

As manager of their Tempe operations, he consistently achieved top production and in 1964 he was called upon to assist with a company wide reorganization as operations manager for all O'Malley yards. Drake was later named to the O'Malley board of directors, a position he has held since 1976.

Drake is a past president and 20 year board member of this association and has also served on the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association board for the past nine years. He was awarded the Lumberman of the Decade distinction at the ALBSA state convention in 1980.

We shall indeed miss Dean and his presence on our board with the value of his years of experience which he has shared with all of us. His avid interest in golf is well known and we wish him the enjoyment of countless "birdies" and even an "eagle" or two from time to time.

Thanks and best wishes, Dean and Gene.