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Grade Stamp Fraud Punished

The recent sentencing of an Oregon man who allegedly altered official grade marks on lumber should warn others seeking to defraud their customers in this way, according to the Western Wood Products Association. WWPA is the world's largest trade association that writes and polices lumber grading rules.

The defendant was Michael Momb, M&W Lumber Co., Canby, Or. Most of the lumber involved in the suit is believed to have been used in barns and other farm building applications, according to attorneys involved in the case.

"WWPA and every other grading agency authorized under the American Lumber Standard to issue grade stamps will seek prosecution of anyone who misuses official stamps," WWPA executive vice president H.A. Roberts said.

"Grade stamps are the exclusive property of each grading agency approved through the ALS," he said. "The symbols on those stamps are registered in the U.S: Patent and Trademark Office.

" Building code authorities throughout the U.S. rely on the integrity of the official grade stamp to assure buildings are constructed according to code," he said.

In the Oregon incident, the defendant pleaded "no contest" to eight second-degree theft charges. With that plea, the prosecution dropped an additional eight second-degree fraud counts.

On Jan. 31, the defendant was sentenced in Clackamas County District Court to one year of bench probation, 80 hours of community service and fined. He also made restitution to the victims who had purchased the officially gradestamped lumber, which had the numeral "3" replaced with a "2"-indicating a higher grade than each piece deserved.

"Fortunately, this was an exception to the way billions of board feet of lumber is sold each year, " Roberts said. Such occurrences are rare because manufacturers, users and regulatory agencies are alert to counterfeiting stamps.

WWPA officials had participated in the investigation and had provided the Oregon State Police and

Clackamas County District Attorney with evidence.

Roberts asked that any lumber dealer or customer who knows of similar altering or misusing of official stamps, or suspects that they have purchased lumber that has had the official gradestamp altered, contact WWPA chief lumber inspector William R. Spannaus, 1500 Yeon Building, Portland, Or., 97204. Telephone: (5031 2U-3930.

H ardware Associations M erge

The California Retail Hardware Association and the Pacific Southwest Hardware Association will merge June 30, if members approve when ballots are counted on April ll.

Upon finalization of the merger, the new California-Pacific Southwest Hardware Association will become the second largest association within the National Retail Hardware Association membership, including California, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii, according to Otto Grigg, managing director of the Pacific Southwest Hardware Association.

Known as the California Pacific Southwest Hardware Association, Cal-Pac for short, the organization will be headquartered in San Francisco with William R. Maze, currently managing director of the California association, as executive director.

Grigg will retire on June 30, accepting two years of special assignments for the association in the So. Ca. and Arizona areas. He has been with PSHA since 1953.

Arizona Readies 62nd Annual

Doubletree Inn, Tucson, Az., will be headquarters for the 62nd annual convention of the Arizona Lumber and Builders Supply Association May 5-7.

"New Directions" will theme the meetings kicked off with an earlY morning talk by Peter Herder, president of Herder Construction Co., Tucson, and first v.p. of the National Association of Home Builders. Second speaker of the morning session will be Ronald P. Hogan, v.p., distribution div., Georgia-Pacific Corp', Atlanta, Ga., discussing "A Year of Transition. "

Other speakers will include Sid Voorhees, a partner in the Eugene Planing Mill, Eugene, Or., with the topic "If It's Going to Be, It's Up to Me;" John McCain, who rePresents Arizona in the U.S. House of RePresentatives, and Bud Howe, Pres., National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association.

A wood promotion Program will feature experts from different levels of the industry viewing the subject from their particular vantage point.

Business sessions and Programs will be interspersed with the annual golf and tennis tournaments, special activities for the ladies, a Western night and the annual banquet.

Lumberman Sets Air Record

Bill Randall, B.W. Randall Lumber Co., Huntington Beach, Ca., believes he has achieved an aviation first by piloting his Super King Air model200 nonstop from California to Lake Clear, N.Y., in 7 hours and29 minutes.

The turbo prop, twin-engine Plane made the 2,524 mile trip with Randall's wife, daughter and grandson as passengers.