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Duane K. Bennett, 89, former coowner of Mead Clark Lumber Co., Santa Rosa. Ca.. died Nov. 24.

A native of Iowa, Mr. Bennett joined Mead Clark Lumber in 1935 and retired in 1983.

He served as president of the Lumber Merchants Association (now Lumber Association of California & Nevada) in the early 1960s.

Alfred Disdero, 90, owner of Disdero Lumber Co., Portland, Or., died Nov. 25.

A native of Portland, Mr. Disdero worked for Copeland Lumber, Weyerhaeuser Co., and Qualser Lumber before joining Disdero Lumber.

He was named a vice president of Builders Exchange in the 1950s, the

Portland Wholesale Lumbermen's Association Lumberman of the Year in 1990, and an honorary director of the World Forestry Center.

Shirley Henry, 73, chairman and c.e.o., Builders' Hardware and Supply Co., Seattle, Wa., died Nov. 29.

Ms. Henry founded the company in 1958 with her father, Tom Shannon. ln 1964 she became only the second women to be certified as a architectural hardware consultant.

She was a member of the Puget Sound chapter of the AHC, Door and Hardware Institute.

Theodore "Tedtt Amedeo Falasco, 81, co-founder, Los Banos Lumber and Sales Co.. Los Banos. Ca., died Nov. 30 in Stanford, Ca.

A native of Los Banos, Mr. Falasco was a veteran of the Army Corps of Engineers.

He founded the lumber company with his siblings, as well as Los ln 1941, he joined George Windler Lumber Co., San Francisco, Ca., as a salesman, working until 1960, when he joined Arcata Lumber Co., Arcata, Ca. ln 1972, he joined the sales staff of Ward Forest Products, working until his retirementin 1979.

Banos Gravel Group, Central Valley Concrete and Central Valley Trucking with partner Harold Neal.

Arthur Russell Wall. 92. retired sales representative with the old Ward Forest Products, Burlingame, Ca., died Oct. 18.

A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Wall joined Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg, Ca., in the 1930s as a sawdust sweeper.

Mr. Wall was a life-lons Hoo-Hoo Club member.

Loren Craig Keirnes, 51, salesman, QB Corp., Salmon, Id., died from cancer Nov. 26 in Salmon.

A native of Salmon, Mr. Keirnes also worked for Champion International and Independent Lumber, Salmon.

Ken Biggs, 66, who started his lumber career with the old American Forest Products, Fresno, Ca., died Dec. l0 in Tennessee.

A native of Sanger, Ca., Mr. Biggs, worked for American Forest Products from 1959 to 1969 before being transferred to the company's Houston, Tx., location.

He later worked for Masonite, Southern Lumber, Orgill and started Distribution America's forest products program.

George Asa Llewellyn, 88, owner, Kaneohe Hardware, Kaneohe, Hi., died Oct. 31.

Mr. Llewellyn was a native of Iowa.

Bush Proposes Thinning Plan

The Bush Administration is pushing a new national forest thinning plan that seeks to change how environmental oversight is handled by the U.S. Forest Service.

Areas designated for thinning will still have a mandatory initial environmental analysis, but it will not be as comprehensive as current Clinton-era regulations call for.

In addition, the plan seeks to narrow the timeframe for environmental impact statements, restrict administrative appeals to only those people or groups that raised objections at early hearings on thinning projects, and eliminate specific standards and procedures for maintaining and monitoring wildlife populations.

Bush Administration officials say the measures are necessary to counter groups who use the appeal process to delay timber projects they are opposed to.

Environmentalists contend the plan is an effort to "cut the public out of forest decisions," said the Wilderness Society's Mike Francis.

EPA Sued To Expand CCA Ban

Environmentalists have filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency to increase thi scope and speed of the wood treating chemical phase-out.

In the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C. suit, Beyond Pesticides and the Communication Workers of America claim that the EPA has sufficient evidence to ban the use of CCA, pentachlorophenol, and creosote.

Last February, the nation's largest wood preservative manufacturers agreed to discontinue selling CCA for nonindustrial wood products by the end of2003.

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No Salvaging At Cal Depot

A Home Depot employee and a local salvage business owner were arrested for allegedly stealing merchandise from a Rohnert Park. Ca.. Home Depot.

George Bataeff Sr., the 75-year-old owner of Bataeff Salvage Co., Santa Rosa, Ca., and Depot worker Ron Dodds are accused of loading $4,000 in stolen merchandise into Bataeff's flatbed truck Nov. 21.

Bataeff said the eight windows, patio door, pressure washer, wheelbarrow and other items were to be thrown out-and under a long-standing agreement with a former manager of the store-his company was to haul awaY the damaged items.

"The same thing goes on over and over," said Bataeff. "Whatever they've been saving, ready to go in the compactor, they throw on the truck."

The current Depot store mgr. said he had warned both men that only damaged racks were allowed to be given away.

Bataeff said he plans to sue the retail chain.

Treesource Sells Mill, Moves

As it negotiates the sale of Trask River Lumber Co., Tillamook, Or., Treesource Industries has relocated its offices from Portland, Or., to the site of its Tumwater, Wa., mill.

The sale to Stimson Lumber Co., Portland, expected to close early this month, will leave Treesource with two mills, Tumwater Lumber Co. and Glide Lumber Products Co.. Glide. Or.

"As a smaller company, we have to reduce our overhead," says president and c.e.o. Bob Lockwood. "With the Trask River sale, we'll be positioned to not have any debt."

Lockwood is the only staffer to transfer to Tumwater. The company's corporate attorney, Galen Bland, will remain in Portland, while purchasing manager Jeff Remington works out of the central saw shop in Philomath, Or.

Salesman Ron Liebelt will stay on through the Trask River sale and then join Exterior Wood, Washougal, Wa. Allan Hurd is looking for a new opportunity in the Portland area. Bill O'Banion, ex-Simpson Timber, has joined Treesource in Tumwater as sales manager.

In 1997, when it filed for Chapter I 1 bankruptcy, TreeSource operated seven facilities in Or. and Wa.