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Dave Sinjem is operating an office in Riverbank, Ca., for Bums Lumber Co., Medford, Or., reports Bill Perkins.

Wendy Maciel, Bob Tilton, Kevin Ilillier and Kimo Delohn are new to sales at Pan Pacific Forest Products. Bend. Or.

Karen Isaacs-Ilolloway has joined international mktg. for the Western Wood Products Association. Portland. Or.

Michael Ace has been promoted to v.p.merchandising for HomeBase, Irvine, Ca. Roger Pepin is the new housewares-storage buyer.

Scott trletcher is new to sales at Paxport Mills, Inc., Tacoma, Wa.

Dan McDonald, Novato, Ca.; Travis Sims, Kaneohe, Hi, and Michael Warner, Puyallup, Wa., are new sales reps for James Hardie Building Products.

Travis Smith has been promoted to sales mgr. for HomCo Ace Home Center, Flagstaff, Az., according to Mike Brackin.

Gillis llannigan has retired from Modoc Lumber Co., Klamath Falls, Or., after 40 years in the industry.

Gene S. Bartlow is now pres./ceo of the American Wood Preservers Institute. replacing Victor Lindenheim.

Sherry Gaylor is new to OSB and panel sales at Timber Products, Springfield, Or.

Holly Reeves, Greenwood Forest Products. is new to H.E.R. Sales & Associates. Corvallis. Or.

Jeff Buck is now mgr. of the new Home Depot in Commerce, Ca.

Steve Lovett has been named v.p.-forest resources for the American Forest & Paper Association, replacing Mark Rey, who is joining the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Brad Bradford is the new mgr. of Georgia-Pacific, Denver, Co., replacing Ed Cogbill, who has resigned.

W.L. Blasingame has retired as pres./gen. mgr. of Construction Supply Co., Farmington, N.M., after 40 years with the company.

Tom Arlint. Willamette Industries. Albany, Or., has been promoted to gen. mgr., westem manufacturing, replacing Lyle Dragoo, who is retiring.

Pete McElroy and Roger Wyman are retiring with the close of their business, McElroy Lumber, Los Altos, Ca.

Rick Hovick has been named territory sales mgr., No. Ca. and Az., for Landmark Forest Products, Perris, Ca. Cap Strano will cover No. Ca. sales.

Edward McGrath is the new pres./ceo of Marine Lumber Co., Sherwood, Or. replacing Stan McGrath, who retired after 43 years with the firm.

Vint Jones has joined Pacific Western Lumber, Tacoma, Wa.

Carl Liliequist, regional v.p., Huttig Sash and Door, Auburn, Wa.. is the new senior v.p. of the westem U.S. Tom Horstmann, mgr., PGL Building Products, Tigard, Or., was promoted to Pacific regional mgr. Gerald Grider, branch mgr., PGL, Sacramento, Ca., is now Midwest regional mgr. for Huttig.

Bob Elliott has retired as Eugene, Or., regional mgr., APA quality services div. after more than 30 years with the association.

Colin Moseley has been named chairman of Simpson Paper Co., succeeding Furman Moseley, who remains pres. of Simpson Investment Co. until his retirement at the end of 1995, reports T.R. Ingham, Jr., pres., Simpson Timber Co., Shelton, Wa. Moseley is now also exec. v.p., Simpson Investment, and will eventually replace Gary Reed as chairman. Ray Tennison replaces Moseley as paper co. pres. Jason Schultz is filling in as mgr. of Copeland Lumber Yard, Arlington, Wa., until a permanent replacement is named for llenry Nyland, who has left the co.

Joe Bowman, Bowman Lumber Sales, Cloverdale, Ca., got in a Kauai, Hi., vacation.

Dales Ragel, Vancouver, Wa., is the new U.S. representative for B&L Lumber, Calga.y, Alberta Canada.

Claude "Scotty" Scott, sales mgr., Wisconsin California Forest Products, Redding, Ca., and his wife, Janet, spent a week sightseeing in Fl. and attended the Super Bowl as a guest of their son Lonnie, athletic trainer for the San Diego Chargen.

Ted Gilbert, Product Sales Co., Orange, Ca., and his wife, Rosemary, vacationed recently in Hawaii.

William Gaittens is now heading up the domestic and imported moulding & millwork sales dept. at Berdex International, Sacramento, Ca., reports Jim Haas, exec. v.p.

Mike Griflin is the new sales mgr. for Fields Corp., Tacoma" Wa.

Chue} Porro, Homeowners l,umber Co., Petaluma, Ca., recently vacationed in Az. and Nv.

Turner Luce has joined security at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to Hugh Mungus and trteddy Fbngus.

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55-gallon drums at the body shop next door."

The contaminated water also infected small scratches and cuts on two employees. "We had to use a bleach and water solution to disinfect the yard," Blanchard said.

He added that incomins work will be delayed at least a month because saturation of the ground is preventing any new grading of sites. "We got a double whammy on this one, but luckily we can stay busy on smaller stuff," he said.

The yards are storing sandbags, building shields and installing more water pumps to prepare for future storms. "I think we were one of the few lucky ones because we had flood insurance," Blanchard said.

Next door at Home Improvement Center, Santa Barbara, they weren't so lucky. With losses estimated in the thousands, the store was submerged in 15 inches of water, thigh-deep in low areas. "One of our biggest losses was our computer system, which will cost approximately $9,000 to replace," according to Mike Owens, operations manager. "We are still in the process of tallying up the expenses."

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"We had sandbags in place, but I was really surprised it flooded like it did," he said. "I've heard that they are calling it the 500-year flood."

One employee was caught by surprise early January 10 as a wall of mud slammed into his car, forcing him to abandon his vehicle and swim to higher ground. "He didn't see it coming. Suddenly, he found himself in neck-deep water and it took him five minutes to swim to safety," Owens said.

The store is taking precautions against further flooding. "All managers have been given gauges to check rainfall in future storms. We are on call to sandbag," he said.

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Seattle Scanner Cops Temporarily Gease Fire

Seattle, Wa., inspectors have consented to temporarily stop random price checks on scanners at home centers until at least mid-February.

The city and attorneys for five retailers that were cited for scanner errors (Home Depot, Fred Meyer, Payless, Kmart and Office Max) agreed to the moratorium, while the retailers seek continuances on their citations.

Late last year, some retailers expressed interest in voluntary compliance after they were cited for scanner errors (see The Merchant Magazine, Dec.1994, p. 54).

Under city ordinance, weights-andmeasures code inspectors may check scanners and other devices with permission from store owners. In return for code compliance and written permission for inspectors to perform unannounced checks, the city might agree to dismiss the current citations, according to the Seattle Times.

The retailers asked the city to review and criticize their systems for ensuring compliance, said Mike McKay, an attorney for Home Depot. He said he doesn't see this as a cease fire, but rather as the city focusing on the retailers' compliance programs for a mutually beneficial solution.

Weights-and-measures inspectors routinely perform random, unannounced checks Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. to ensure that advertised prices, shelf prices and scanner prices are synchronized. In scanning 100 items, if two have price errors against the consumer, a store receives a warning. If four errors are found against the consumer, a store may be cited for a violation. A store is not penalized for errors against itself.

The tolerance level is actually more lenient than that proposed by the National Conference on Weights and Measures, which determined that a single error against the consumer should merit a warning or citation.

Inspectors have been checking grocery stores' scanners since the early 1980s. Other stores which later added scanning equipment began receiving inspections last year.

Outside Seattle, weights-and-measures inspectors are fewer and have less authority. In most places citations for inaccurate prices are a civil issue. not a criminal one. as in Seattle.

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At Pacifrc Timber, Santa Barbara, Ca. two feet of water filled the yard and destroyed the showroom, causing $25,000-$30,0(X) damage.

Manager Jim Schrodek waded into the yard through two to three feet of water. "It was like a science fiction film. There were only a few people around trying to save whatever they could find, including our customers' orders," he said.

Damaged orders were given away to customers for free. "People can use the wood for the end of a desktop or they can use it where they don't need perfect wood," he said.

The yard continued finding problems a week after the storm. "We just tried to start a flatbed truck and move it, but the brakes and transmission were full of water," Schrodek said.

"Several customers have been unable to pick up orders because their cars were destroyed. Business has slowed to a crawl."

J&W Redwood, San Diego, incurred a $100,000 loss as six feet of water from a nearby reconstructed road moved racks of lumber. The racks were damaged and approximately half a truck and trailer load of lumber floated down the creek into the ocean.

"It was devastating, like losing a kid," said Charmaine Robinson Jennings. "It looked like a tornado had hit the place."

The company closed one day and had everything "power washed."