WESTIERN ASSOC[ATI[ON NEWS

Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association will have cash gifts at its annual buying show March 16-17 for members who participated in the Mountain States Safety Group. For its first year, the program will pay an 8Vo cash dividend to policyholders of record as of Nov. 30. Program co-sponsor Lumber Insurance Companies will distribute dividend checks at its show booth. Members not attending the show will receive their check from their account reDresentative or agent.

Other activities during the 1995 Expo & Building Materials Buying Show at t'he Holiday Inn/J.Q. Hammons Trade Center, Denver, Co., include a plant tour of Century Supply and Howard Hofmann, APA-The Engineered Wood Association, addressing "Market Outlook: Panel Production Forecast & New Opportunities."

Two sets of estimating courses conducted by Bill Darling in Phoenix, Az., and Denver attracted over 60 participants.

Residential framing/lumber estimating seminar graduates: Gary Leitch, Roswell Lumber; Jason Schmidt and David Ashford, Rocky Mount Forest Products; Cheryl Close, Linda Butler, Mike Wells, Chris Brumley, Eric Groom, David Esquibel and Terry Birch, BMC West; Paul Lopez, Juan Fernandez and Ernie Trujillo, Rio Grande Ace Hardware; Gene Miller and Tim Rodecape, Crissey Fowler; Curtis Pugh and Chuck Wilhelm, Jordan's Building Center; Sean Paxson and Chuck Quenon, Summit Lumber; Toby Terecero and Greg Catanzch, L&P of Santa Fe; Evie Eads, Ric Zimmerman and Mike Donahue, Bisbee Lumber; Nick Fowler, Paul Geppert, Gary Hammond and John Collins, Alpine Lumber; Dan Clauson, B&H Building Supply; F.D. Richardson, Hutchison Lumber; Jerry Moody and Wayne Heller, Home Lumber; Sam Titterington, Painted Valley Lumber; Ken Owens, Chicago Lumber; Rodd Cottingim, Taylor Building Supply;

Phillip Olvera, Gallup Lumber and Supply; Tim Perfect, Cave Creek Buildine Supply; Richard Rodriquez and JoI Kephart, Carr-Trumbull; Aaron Dietzen. Keymark Enterprises; Tim Banton, American Lumber; Gale Schroeder, J&J Building Supply; Pam Cherry, Colorado Forest Industries; Ernest Paiz, Trinidad Builders Supply; Rich Rule and Bill Puskas, Moore Lumber & Hardware; Gary Walters, Steamboat Lumber: Tom Henderson, Big John's Building Center, and Mark McMichael, Roland Rupp and Bill Bolduc, Trus Joist MacMillan. Speed estimating classmen: Steve Olson, Build Rite Lumber; Jerry Talboth, Kellogg Lumber; Stephen Killham, Hutchison Lumber; Louis Raimondo and Ken Hall, Denver Lumber: Norman Duncan, Painted Valley Lumber; Schroeder, J&J Building Supply; Rule and puskas, Moore Lumber & Hardware: Chris McComas and Gary McElwee, Big John's Building Center.

Lumber Merchants Association has slated its first Legislative Day in Sacramento, Ca., for March 28. The day begins with an executive committee meeting at the Sacramento Club, followed bv a board of directors meeting. LMA's ljgislative advocate Ron Barrow will then brief the group on legislative visits and the hearings scheduled for that afternoon. Federal legislative advocate Allynn Howe has been invited. Also slated are a short tour of the

Capitol, lunch at the Sacramento Club and a tentative evening legislative reception. Cost is $25 each, including lunch and the reception.

Association members have until March 31 to hit a "home run" in the Grand Slam member recruitment campaign. Participants receive a prize and "advance a base" for each new member they sign up. Members crossing home plate (four recruits) are eligible for the Grand Slam prize: two tickets to an Oakland A's game and two nights' stay in San Francisco. Second place wins two A's tickets and a cooler.

Western Building Material Association reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the llth Circuit has struck down the controversial rule requiring an operator to drive a forklift in reverse if its load obstructs his view. The case concerned a Talladega, Al., lumber manufacturer cited by OSHA after a forklift carrying a load of plywood struck and killed a worker.

The court ruled OSHA's regulations led to "several illogical and unreasonable results." According to the court, most Ioads obstruct a forklift operator's forward view to some degree and often it is safer to travel forward with a load than in reverse, since forklifts are designed primarily for forward operation. The regulations, broadly interpreted, would "for all practical purposes ban the use of forklifts."

In a related development, a House subcommittee approved a resolution requiring OSHA to complete its long-delayed standard for training forklift and industrialtruck operators. The resolution calls for OSHA to issue a rule specifying training measures and allowing only trained workers to operate industrial trucks.

Western Washington's area code has been split. WBMA's telephone and FAX area codes have changed to 360, while Everett, Seattle, Tacoma and some surrounding areas remain 206.

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Taylor Millworker Strike Ends

Taylor Lumber & Treating, Sheridan, Or., has resolved its l8-month labor dispute with its sawmill workers.

Down since August 1993, the mill restarted with a single shift March 6, according to sales mgr. Scott Daley.

The non-union treating plant was unaffected by the walkout.

Retailer Parr Relocates Hq.

Eleven-unit retailer Parr Lumber Co. has been run out of its Aloha. Or.. headquarters by a rail.

Plans for expanding light rail service into Portland's western suburbs include turning Parr's home base into a park-and-ride site. So, Parr has moved its headquarters near its Hillsboro, Or., store and is relocating the adjacent yard elsewhere in Aloha. The new store is set to open March 20 under same staff and managment.

Advertising manager Josh Wolf thinks "builders and contractors will be excited about the store's new design. It's a different style for us, a different type of building, upgradedlooking displays inside."

Beware Of Lumber Scams

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After compiling a database that helped curtail two years of lumber and truck robberies, the Lumber Association of Southern California is now asking members for information on lumber scams. LASC will circulate the anonymously-furnished details to help members guard against future cons. "Just be extremely leery of a new customer who comes in really anxious to do business," warned LASC's Wayne Gardner.

Fortunately, some lumber swindlers have been caught. According to the San Francisco Daily Journal, right before Marshall Mikels filed for bankruptcy protection, the construction contractor placed several large orders for lumber on credit for a nonexistent job. After the lumber was delivered to the supposed job site, he sold it to his partner, Michael Counts, who stored it at his lumber yard and planned to use the lumber to build fences.

One of the lumber suppliers discovered the theft and called the police. Authorities charged Counts with three counts of receiving stolen property and Mikels with four counts of grand theft by false pretenses and three counts of making a false financial statement. Following a jury trial, Counts was convicted on all charges and Mikels was convicted as charged, except one theft charge was reduced to attempted theft. They were placed on probation.

Counts tried to escape on a loophole and appealed the decision. He argued that a supplier had retained a security interest in the lumber, preventing passage of title, and thereby invalidating one of the grand theft counts. Instead the appellate court ruled that it was still an unlawful take: the retained security interest merely converted the crime from theft by means of false pretenses to theft on a theory of larceny by trick.

The best way to avoid such ripoffs, according to Kent, is to "remember the standard advice your mom and pop told you: 'There's no such thing as a free lunch."'

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