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"CedarPly is a'special' specialty pl)'wood siding. That's why you'll find it at Diamond Hill3'
"We stock Peninsula Plywood's CedarPly'* Western Red Cedar specialty exterior siding at most of our l0 distributor warehouses throughout the Southeastern United States. Our distribution managers and their dealers like to sell CedarPly because it offers higher profits than commodity plywood and because ofthe excellent sales tools Peninsula Plywood offers them to help sell CedarPly.
Another big advantage in stocking CedarPly is not having to tie up a lot of money in inventory. Our branches can order CedarPly in either railcars or pig vans mixed with other top quality products made by Peninsula Plywood like WeatherPly'u medium density overlay plywood; WeatherForm'i a moderate reuse MDO concrete forming panel, and Interior Cedar brushed paneling.
The bottom line is quality products by a quality manufacturer that increase our gross profit at Diamond Hill."
For the name of your local CedarPty Distributor or information on how to become a PenPly Distributor please call our toll free number: (800\ 426:7017.
ing the Department ol Transportation (DOT) from implementing the mandatory controlled substance testing regulation for interstate commercial truck drivers issued Nov. 21.
The court based its decision on the random selection and post-accident testing provisions and DOT's lailure to demonstrate the need for the testing. The ruling doesn't affect employers who establish voluntary drug testing programs.
At this writing, the court was awaiting comment from DOT before deciding whether to issue a permanent injunction.
Enforcement of the lmmigration Reform & Control Act is in full swing and fines are being assessed by the Immigration & Naturalization Service. An Oregon firm (a restaurant) was recently fined $5,000 for not being in compliance.
Regardless of the size of their firms, employers must have on file INS Form I-9 for any new employees hired after Nov.6, 1988. Even ifyou know they are not alien, you musthave the form on file within three days of their hire date.
About 115 Young Westerners Club members participated in an intensive, energetic weekend Jan.26-29 at the Tacoma Sheraton. The outstanding programs were directed toward "Preparing Today to Meet the Challenge of Tomorrow."
Betsi Powers completed her year as YWC president at the conference. Newly elected officers: pres. Kyle Kincaid, Knoll Lumber & Hardware, Kenmore, Wa.; v.p. Steve Henna, Volco, Inc., Twin Falls, Id.t sec.-treas. Terry Willey, Knoll Lumber, and new trustees Pat Bates, Seattle Lumber Co., Renton, Wa.. and Bert Fisher. MacMillan Bloedel Building Materials, Tacoma, Wa.
WAYN E GARDNER executive vice president
ll nNV years ago there was a song lll entitled "lf I Had The Wings ol An Angel." The words were coming lrom one who was incarcerated in a penitentiary. The singer went on to say that "over these prison walls I would fly."
We all dream of escaping our "prison." Sometimes it is real. Most ol the time it is sell imposed.
We have safety and security as a basic need. We use or allow the safety and security we have or think we have in a certain set of circumstances to hold us back. The walls of "self doubt" create a prison for us, though everyday we are singing that same song"lf I llad The Wings of An Angel."
As the years go on, we not only think about having wings, but we start the old "lf I would have" routine. lf I would have just made the move to Pittsburgh or if I would have done so and so.
There is in all of us that hesitation to make a move, to pay the price, if you will, for freedom. The cage of self doubt holds us in, even though the door may be open. ln the next few years, associations are going to be more and more important to the existence of business. They will be in the forefront educationally. They will lead the movement toward more and more awareness of what's happening legislatively. They will be more and more necessary for the modern business, as that business has to learn how to comply with new laws that are put into effect.
We find ourselves having a narrowness of vision that is extremely limiting.
Only 3%r of the population will really achieve their goals. The other 9l0h will have partial success or relatively little success. We all know people who will have no success. They just plod along, never doing much and loudly exclaiming to all that will listen, "ljust can't do anything because I have to take care of.. ." or "l couldn't ask the kids to move to a new school" or "lf l'd ." Their prison is self doubt, a narrowness of visions. a reluctance to take life on as a pilgrimage.
Now is the time for you, as an enterprising business person in the lumber and building materials business, to take an active part in your association. The association can give you laith, add lift to your "wings," help dispel the selldoubt, reduce the uncertainty of the future and eliminate that limiting narrowness of vision, to put you and your firm up in the -.1(1, category. You won't be singing the song "lf I IJad The Wings of An Angel," but "Oh What a Wonderful I;eeling. "
(iet involved. Do it now.