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Lumber Merchants u,n carirornia_ Jan. ll-13, management seminar, Pacific Grove, Ca.

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Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association - Jan. l4-16, residential framing lumber estimating seminar, Albuquerque, N.M.

Seattle Hoo-Hoo ClubJan. 15, grading school (lst of 7 weekly classes), University of Washington, Seattle, Wa.

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North Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan. 16, beer & crab feed, Elks Club, Mount Vernon, Wa.

Maui Hoo-Hoo ClubJan. 17, meeting, Maui, Hi.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo ClubJan. 17, initiation meeting, Spokane, Wa.

Western Building Material AssociationJan. 17-20, Young Westerners conference, Greenwood Inn. Beaverton, Or.

Dub's Ltd.Jan. 18, golf tournament, Canyon Lakes Golf Course, San Ramon, Ca.

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo ClubJan. 21, initiation meeting, Sacramento, Ca.

Oakland Hoo-Hoo Ctub - Jan,22, initiation meeting, Oakland, Ca.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo ClubJan. 23, Industry Night, Ukiah, Ca.

Humbofdt Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan.24, crab feed, Eureka Inn, Eureka, Ca.

Portland Hoo-Hoo Club - Jan.24, meeting, portland, Or.

Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo ClubJan. 25, initiation meeting, Indian Hills Country Club, Riverside. Ca.

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Shasta Cascade Hoo-Hoo ClubJan. 25, initiation meeting, Redding, Ca.

World of ConcreteJan. 28-Feb. 1, Las Vegas, Nv.

Ace Hardware Corp. - Jan. 30-31, lumber & building materials show, Bally's, Reno, Nv.

February

Our Own HardwareFeb. l-3, building materials expo, Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, Ca.

Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association - Feb. 1-2, board meeting; Feb. 3-S, western lumbermen's council meeting, San Marcos Hotel. Chandler, Az.

American Wholesale Hardware Co.Feb. 3, show, Long Beach Sports Arena, Long Beach, Ca.

Tacoma Olympia Hoo-Hoo CtubFeb. 5, Casino Night, Huntsman, Tacoma, Wa.

Central Builders Supplies Co.Feb. 5-6, annual buying show, Orlando, Fl.

California Sentry Hardware - Feb. 9-10, market, Los Angeles Fair & Exposition Complex, pomona, Ca.

Spokane Hoo-Hoo ClubFeb. 14, Valentine's party, Spokane, Wa.

Forest History SocietyFeb. l7-22,Latin American forest & conservation history conference, San Jose, Costa Rica.

Dub's Ltd. - Feb. 18, golf tournament, Claremont Countrv Club. Oakland. Ca.

Domotechnica'91 - Feb. 19-22, international fair, Cologne, Germany.

Preservationists Busted

A drawing by Citizens for Balanced Growth to decide the winners in a fund raiser among those donating to an initiative camPaign for November's election was halted by a force of Washington State Gambling Commission agents in what a special agent called an investigation of "a crime of professional gambling," according to the American Forest Resource Alliance.

Washington Taxpayers for Livable Communities, the opposition to Initiative 547, which did not Pass, admitted tipping authorities off to the raffle at the Washington Environmental Council oflices, an AFRA spokesman added.

G-P Helps Gulf Troops

Georgia-Pacific's Mail-Well Envelope subsidiary has manufactured one million envelopes to be sent to U.S. troops in the Middle East using paper donated by G-P.

Similar to postal service mailgrams, the envelope opens so that a letter can be written on it, then folds and seals for mailing. Each bears the line "Thanks to our trooPs from Mail-Well Envelope and GeorgiaPacific."

Safer Truck Backing

A sensory measuring device has been developed to keep truck drivers from hitting loading docks as they back into position.

Utilizing a range-finder developed by Polaroid Corp., the distance measurer bounces ultrasonic signals off the truck's bumper and monitors the changing distance by measuring the echo's return time.

The device, which is mounted on the loading dock, has a large digital display that flashes the distance changes in reverse so that the driver can read it with his mirrors. Developed by Portec Inc., Oak Brook, Il., the device is expected to be available this year.

Seniors Are Good Customers

Over the next decade the 45-54 age group will grow 450/o from 25 million to 37 million. The 55-64 years group will increase 730/o lo 24 million with the 75-84 Year old increasing 210/0. The 65-74 group will drop about 2%.

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Matt Moulder

Whatever happened to Proposition 130, the anti-logging initiative on.the California ballot last November? Whereas the proposal was supposed to pass by a wide margin, it was soundly defeated. Had it passed, timber supply in Caliiornia would-have been greatly reduced.

While the immediate threat-of new, restrictive rules and regulations has died down with this defeat, the problem has not Sone away. We can rest assured that the preservationists will be hammering away at public opinion in an endeavor to get their way. Many lumber manutacturers, remanutacturers, mill supply touses and others associated with the lumber industry donated monby to defeat Prop.130. The effort should not stop here, but continue to avoid future pitfills. The best defense, they say, is a good offense.

We are acquainted with a local lady airplane pilot who works with the California Dividion of Forestry during the fiie season spotting fires from the air. She says she used to be sympaihetic.with the philosophy of the Siena Club, but lbst enthusiasm when their ideals began to conflict with her good common sense. The turning point was seeing how much devastation in remote areas could have be"eri avoided with aload system. She points out that in many cases if a fire crew and equipment could have driven to the scene at the outset, the fire could have been controlled and the beauty and value of the forest preserved.

A videotaped interview with this pilot as part of a tv short would be very effective. A clearcut area after replanting would be something a lot of peoole have not seen. Wouldn't this be novel? Our local public tv station showed two f ilms put out by the Audubon Society this past year and in both there were plenty'of shots'of clearcuts right after logging, but little.said.or shown on replanting. lt miSht be a revelation for the.public to see that the industry does not "iut ouiand get out" as is implied by the opposition.

OwlDropplngs

There is an argument for waiting to ask for donations to f ight the anti-logeinq movement intil the economii stall that our industry finds itself in subiiais. uo* bad is business right now? | am reminded of a saying I first heard many vears ago, attributed to the late Bill Burford (Plumas Lumber Co.), "Business ii so bad that even the people who don't pay their bills aren't calling." We do eet a few letters arid calls from readers. After the article on Placerville's Wesifamily a few issues back, we received a letter to the effect that the Wests' influence locally was greater than we thought. The reader oointed out that even the highway through town was named after Harvey West. We checked this out and, sure enough, the signs say "Highway 50 West".

Manufacturers:

Mountain States Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association will be headed by Mark Swager in the coming year.

Manager of Anderson Lumber Co. in Idaho Falls, ld., he succeeds Gary Woodward, president of G&W Buildins Supply, Anthony, N.M.

Other MSLBMDA officers include Kent Brosh, president of Crissey Fowler Lumber, Colorado Springs, Co., 1990-

BCEC & AWC Program Merger

The National Forest Products Association Building Codes and Engineering Council and the American Wood Council expected to merge effective Jan. 1, combining the AWC consumer/builder communication program with the NFPA code and engineering programs.

9l president-elect, and Dave Runyan, general manager of Babbitts Home Center, Flagstaff, Az., secretary/treasurer.

These officers will be in charge of activities during MSLBMDA's l00th anniversary year. More than 25 lumber dealers in the area have contributed funds for the celebration which began with the western jamboree celebration at the NLBMDA convention in Colorado Springs.

Approved by the AWC and NFPA boards at their November meetings, the merger must be confirmed by the AWC membership.

Depot Sets Up Western Div.

Home Depot has consolidated its stores west of Texas into a new unit, Home Depot Western Division, based at existing regional offices in Fullerton. Ca.

Heading the division are Bill Hamlin, president and c.o.o.; Kurt Plouff, v.p.-merchandising, and Bryant Scott, v.p.-store operations.

Home Depot chairman and c.e.o. Bernard Marcus expects the "organizational experiment" to eventually be applied to other areas of the company. "The move is in keeping with our philosophy of decentralized decision making which has enabled us to grow successfully while avoiding a chain store mentality," he said.

The chain currently operates 136 stores in l2 states, of which 49 are in the new division. Plans are for 355 stores nationwide including 126 in the West within four years.

Last Hammond Yard Sold

Once among the greatest lumber companies in the world, Hammond Lumber Co. is no more, with the sale of the last remaining yard, in

Bellflower, Ca., to Barr Lumber, Los Alamitos, Ca.

Founded by A.B. Hammond in 1905, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, Ca., would grow to include sales olfices across the country, steamships, timberlands, tree farms, manufacturing facilities, an international export business and retail yards throughout California.

In the 1920s, its main yard in Los Angeles, Ca., was considered the largest retail lumberyard on earth, covering 27 acres, stocking l5 million bf. of softwood lumber and 2,000 ft. of hardwood flooring, selling more than 500,000 bf of lumber every day, employing 200 people in the office and I,000 in the yard and mill, and keeping 40 trucks in constant motion and 50 horses and mules in the yard.

In 1956 Georgia-Pacific, eying Hammond's valuable redwood lands and operations supplemented by a l93l merger with Little River Redwood Co., Ltd., paid $75 million for the entire Hammond Lumber conglomerate. Within a year, G-P sold off all 32 retail yards.

The Bellflower yard, acquired by Hammond in 1924. was sold in 1957 to Johnson Cashway of Omaha. Dick Bailey went to work in Bellflower in 1968 and bought the company in 1979. He will stay on through March 1991 as interim manager and then retire.

U.K. Giant Buys Cavenham

British-American industrial management corporation Hanson plc has purchased General Oriental Securities Ltd.'s 85% stake in Cavenham Forest Industries, Portland, Or., for $ l.l I I billion and plans to buy Hornwood Barbados Ltd.'s l5o/o share for $189 million by August.

Cavenham, the sixth largest private owner of U.S. timberlands and 12th largest lumber producer, owns or controls about 1.7 million acres in Oregon, Washington, Mississippi and Louisiana. Sawmills are in Warrenton, Or.; Bogalusa and Holden, La., and McComb and Silver Creek, Ms.

Among Hanson's many operations are Jacuzzi, Ames Tools, Kaiser Cement, Hanson Lighting, and Every Ready Batteries.