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SACBAMEtIT0 (Ca.) area wholesaler's 15th annual Christmas luncheon oictured on these pages (plus related party on next page) drew more than 325 guests, December 5, 1986. A list ol lunch s00ns0rs concludes this column. lll Bob Shepherd, Bob Glatt, Joe Bowman. l2l Ron Knight, Bill Sullivan, Don Cherovsky, Robert Golding. l3l Bud Perkins, Ken Rainey, Gil Barton. l4l Chris Cornett, Vic Hadley. l5l Karl Drexel, Til Johnson, John Souza, Tom

Knippen. (61 Doug Heryford, Nancy Haws, Bill Gaittens. l7l Ben Cassinerio. l8l Karl Drexel, Betty Foster, Michael Gerry. (91 Jack McKenzie, Jim Hawkins, Craig Edwards. Il0l Claude Scott, Josh Tyler. Illl Ann White, Kim Silva, George & Betty Kavooras. (l2l Will Riegel, Ed Bayless. [l3l Jody Sanders. [l4l Steve Little. ll5l Robert West, Dan Mathes, Dick Smallridge. ll6l Jim Murray, Marshall Schmidt, Myrtle Wilcox. llTl Ken Hopper,

Ken Wertz, Jim Earnard. llSl Enita Nordeck, Til Johnson. ll9l Lou 0uiring, Steve Bertsch. l20l Rebekah & Rod Gasser, Mark Muro. Lunch sponsors included: Berger & Co., J. H. Blevins Co., Calif. Cascade Industries, Calif. Lumber & Millwork, Canfor U.S.A., Continental Pacific, Dier Lumber Co., Ensworth Forest Products, Far West Fir Sales, Forest Products Marketing, Gabbert Lbr. Sales, Georgia Pacific, Hedlund Lumber Sales, (Continued on next page)

CELEBRATI0II 0f their handsome new suite 0f offices has been held by Waldron Forest Products, which recently moved from Sacramento, Ca. to nearby Carmichael. The six olfice suite includes sales areas, conference room, kitchen and storage. In front of Christmas tree: Ill Pat Hunter, Jon

Main, El Louise Waldron. l2l Finn Hurley, Jim Hunter. (31 Jennifer & Holmes Pooser. laf Tim DeCoito, Hoss Salters. l5l Ruthe Finch, Linda Weber. (61 Steve Crane, John Maple, Wayne Baisdon, John Deisher. l7l Tim Tanner, Jim Johnson. l8l Casey Curry, Bob Dirham.

COUNTY LUMBER: ALIVE & WELL

We read, as have a number of our friends and suppliers, of our recent demise in your magazine arlicle of December 1986, page 18.

Please be advised that this comDanv is very much alive, is very well, and ii very much a part of the Santa Barbara area we serve.

We shall expect to read of our resurrection in your next edition.

Ron Barker

The County Lumber Co. P.O. Box 4176 Santa Barbara, Ca. 93140

The County Lumber Co. is indeed alive and well. What closed was a subsidiary, the County Lumber Home & Garden Shop, due to a lost lease. The other two units of County Lumber continue to operate successfully. -ed

BLDG. MATERIALS "R'' US

We wish to thank you for publishing a story about C.B.S. in the December '86 Special Issue of The Merchant Magazine. The story was favorable and appreciated.

However, I have one comment. C.B.S. is not a "fast growing hardware buying cooperative." We are well known as a fast growing leader of the building material buying groups. Being tagged as a "hardware group" may be misleading to some prospective independent retail building material dealers.

Phil Pobanz CEO & Treasurer

Central Builders Supplies Co. 215 Broadus St. Sturgis, Mi. 49091

(Continued from previous page) Jenkins Forest Products, Kelleher Moulding, Lausmann Lumber, Louisiana Pacific, Martin Forest Industries, Maywood Anderson Co., Mid-Pacific Trading Co., Mouldings & Millwork Inc., Nikkel Corp., North Bay Forest Products, North Star Forest Products, 0regon Pacific, Pooser Lumber Co., Biver City Moulding, Rocklin Forest Products, Sacto. Pac. Redwood Whsle., Schaller Forest Products, Select Lumber, Sequoia Supply, Setzer Forest Products, Siskiyou Forest Products, Stockton Wholesale, Sun River [umber Co., J.M. Thomas Foresl Products, Thunderbolt Sales, Union Planing Mill, Waldron Forest Products, Western Woods. Inc.. Western W00d Treating and Whittaker Forest Products.

NHLA Elects Fields President

Walter M. Fields, Jr., Walter M. Fields Lumber Co., Inc., Memphis, Tn., was elected the 45th president of the National Hardwood Lumber Association at its 89th annual convention, held in Montreal, Canada.

Fields has long been deeply involved in the National Hardwood Lumber Association. He was first elected director in l9'7 4 and served until 1980 when he entered vicepresidential succession. His name was closely connected with the association's inspection school in Memphis. When the decision was made to move the NHLA offices from Chicago to Memphis in 1977, Fields was chdirman of the building committee which supervised the design and construction of the new office and educational facilities.

Vice-presidents elected for similar two-year terms, are John G. Thomson, Peter Thomson & Sons Ltd., Alliston, Ontario; Henry C. Fulcher, Jr., Sitco Lumber Co., Wilmer, Tx., and Jim C. Hamer, Jim C. Hamer Co., Kenova, W.V.

Two directors were elected to fill unexpired terms: John O. Schaffhauser, Anderson-Tully Co., Memphis, .and John C. Sirianni, Sirianni Hardwoods, Inc., Painted Post, N.Y. Newly elected directors are: Wallace A. Buchanan, Buchanan Hardwoods. Inc.. Selma. Al.; Joe W. Mathias, Frank Miller Lumber Co., Inc., Union City, In.l James T. Powell. Jr.. Canton Hardwood Co., Inc., Canton, N.C.; Gerald Slavney, Thompson-Katz Lumber Co., Inc., Memphis, and Emmett P. Vaughn, Jr., Emmet Vaughn Lumber Co., Knoxville, Tn.

The 1300 registrants attending the opening session heard the Honorable Daniel Johnson, minister of industry and commerce for the Government of Quebec, discuss opportunities for doing business in Canada. Troy Stinson, Noranda Inc., analyzed the Canadian/U.S. situation concerning softwood imports to the U.S. John D. Abernathy, chairman and c.e.o. of Seidman and Seidman, forecast a furniture industry shipments growth to $14.5 billion. The convention was held October 20-22.

The second general session, essentially a business meeting, heard reports from the active committees and acted on matters of concern to the association and the industry. A proposal to alter the definition of a clear-face cutting in the association's hardwood lumber grading rules failed for lack of support.

Meetings of the Hardwood Distributors Association, the American Walnut Manufacturers Association, International Hardwood Products Association. National Lumber Exporters Association and the Hardwood Export Trade Council were held in conjunction with the NHLA meeting. Milton Cole, John I. Shafer Lumber Co., Logansport, In., was elected president of the HDA.

The 1987 NHLA convention will be held in Washington D.C.

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LASC CONFERENCE

(Continued from page 50) problems into manageable parts was helpful. "Our enthusiasm helps us cope with stress," he said. "Recognize fear and address it," he suggested.

John Allen, Capital Lumber, said that management and employees need to team together to addressjobrelated stress problems. lf a problem can be identified, analyzed and coped with, a great deal ofjob stress can be lessened. Stress, to varying degrees, is a problem for all, he said.

Russ Mullin, Terry Lumber Co., noting that 500/o of all doctor visits are stress related, said that people can make stress work for them if they can control and direct it positively. Learning time management is a good antidote to job stress, Mullin observed.

The business sessions concluded. the next gathering was for the President's Dinner Dance before the Saturday golf and tennis activities that topped out another successful convention for the Lumber Association of Southern California.