THtr SOUTHLANE

By WAYNE GARDNER

oresident l-l OW many times have you heard Etne expression, "He's marching to a different drummer. He's not in step with the world. The industry is moving by him and he doesn't know it."

Maybe even you have felt that way at times. The birthday of two men very prominent in our history take place this month. It was undoubtedly said many times that each of them marched to the beat of a different drummer. Yet reflect on how they affected the course of our lives.

Each of us has the opportunity now to leave our footprints in the fresh cement of 1976. We are about to live days that no one has ever lived before. Every day is a new day reborn, but the impact of those days individually is not as great as the collective days that make up the remaining I I months of t97 6.

Are you and your business going to write history in 1976 as did Washington and Lincoln? Maybe few people will read the history you write. On the other hand, it may be quite well read. It just depends on you. Collectively we shall write the history of the lumber industry in Southern California. Will it be read, will it be meaningful? Will the footprints we leave in the fresh cement

US/Canada Marketlng Pact

H. S. Doman, president, Doman Timber Sales Ltd. of Duncan. British Columbia, and Gordon J. King, exec. v.p., Hampton Lumber Sales Co. of Portland, have a new sales agreement whereby All-Coast Forest Products of Whittier, Ca., (a division of Hampton) will market the forest products of Doman in California and adjacent states.

The initial shipment to All-Coast was by barge from Vancouver Island to San Pedro, Ca., with the first schedule of 5.800.000 board feet be deep enough for those who follow to see them and use them as a model for success? unloaded in early January.

The success of the industry, the history of the industry, will be the composite success of each member. Nothing more, nothing less.

Think about the footprints that you are going to leave in the fresh cement of all those days that lie ahead for men to read in the future.

Don't worry if you seem to be marching to the beat of a different drummer. A lot of successful people have. Strive for success, not mediocrity. Leave legible footprints in the fresh cement of all your tomorrows.

Doman Industries is a major Canadian forest product company with annual production in excess of onehalf billion board feet.

Hampton Lumber is a nationally known Portland-based forest products company involved in both production and marketing.