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English Classes Help Workers

Recognizing that immigrant employees were having trouble with memos, invoices, company policies and other information written in English, Weathervane Window Co. offered classes to improve their language skills.

Working with the Equal Employment Opportunity Center, Bryan Kelley, personnel director for the Kirkland, Wa., company, set up an eight week schedule of twice weekly sessions. Weathervane and the students worked together, each contributing an hour per class.

Souphot Xayavong, a graduate of the course, commented, "Yes! Now I can speak with the other workers. I can learn about the equipment here to do my job. It has helped me study for my citizenship test and this is good."

A federal grant was recently approved to continue the language courses with approximately a dozen Seattle, Wa., area companies committed to the project.

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Hoo-Hoo's l(Xlh Birthday

Harry Merlo, chairman and president of Louisiana-Pacific Corp., will be keynote speaker at the HooHoo International centennial convention in Hot Springs, Ar., Sept. 1992.

In addition, Merlo's company will be a major corporate sponsor of the lumber fraternity's l00th anniversary celebration. Other sponsors to date include Dan Brown, Circle DE Lumber; Jimmy Jones, Foster Lumber Yards; Jack Jacobson, Jacobson-Phillips Forest Products; Larry Law, Lumber Supply; Stephen Kallberg, Manke Lumber; Thomas Peterson, McFarlandCascade: Al Meier. Al Meier's Building Centers; Robert Vandewall, Orepac Building Products; Hammie Ahlo, Osmose Pacific; Ted Fullmer, Fullmer Lumber; Dave Blasen, Blasen & Blasen Lumberl Bernie Barber, Bernie Barber & Associates, and Ted Mathews, Pacific Forest Products.

In addition to soliciting sponsorships from corporations and individuals, Hoo-Hoo will sell special centennial merchandise to raise the

$165.000 needed for the celebration. Jimmy Jones, convention chairman, has appointed Al Meier and Jack Jacobson co-chairmen of the fundraising committee. Committee members include Phil Cocks, Lyle Hoeck, Jeff Loth, Bernie Barber, Dave Jones, Chris Goff, Warren Biss, Kevin Kelly, Dave Blasen, Dan Brown and Dick Wilson.

Ronald McDonald House Gift Maple Brothers, Chino, Ca., Terry Sash & Door, Tarzana, Ca., a Terry Company, and Andersen Windows are working together to give the Los Angeles, Ca., Ronald McDonald House expansion the best possible deal on windows.

The joint commitment was arranged by Claire Taylor of Terry Sash & Door. Many building material suppliers and companies are cooperating in providing materials and services for the residence which cares for families of children being treated at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.

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Enviros Wrong On National Forests

Despite environmentalists promoting the belief that taxpayers are subsidizing the forest products industry with below cost timber sales, the U.S. Forest Service showed a profit for 1990.

Sales netted $630 million after expenses and supported 105,583 jobs, according to the Timber Sales Program lnformation Report, with 840/o of the harvested timber coming from lorests where revenue exceeded costs. In addition, $327 million was returned to the states for local road and school programs.

You Auto Shift Into Remodeling

A relationship between the kind of car a homeowner drives and the scale and quality of remodeling he will choose has been reported in a Fulton Research survey. Domestic sedan drivers show a strong interest in remodeling kitchens while sports car drivers want a fitness center and a bigger and better master bath. Traditional is the choice of van drivers. Station wagon drivers like sun rooms and imported sedan drivers are big on home offices.

And now Britt Lumber products are avaifable in cedar, too.

Engineered Products Growth

Sales of engineered lumber products are predicted to jump 16006 during the 1990s to 1.63 billion linear ieet by 2000.

An industry study by George Carter & Affiliates attributes the growth to greater acceptance in the nonresidential market and new applications in single lamily homes, especially those using long, clear spans to create large open spaces. Concurrently, sales ol wide dimension lumber (2x10.2x12) should fall 6.70/o due to the increased popularity of engineered products and the reduced availability of large diameter. old growth timber.

Demand for all engineered products is expected to more than doubfe, led by a 2340h surge by laminated veneer lumber. The study predicts it will become the top choice in replacing wide dimension lumber and manufacturing wood I-beams.

with their demand climbing 11906, parallel chord trusses will remain the sales leader, due to strong nonresidential construction and increasing acceptance ofthem for residential building.

Among all engineered lumber products, parallel chord trusses' market share will slip from 1990's 320/o ro 2000's 2J0/0, rhe study forecasts. Other 10-year changes in market share: laminated veneer lumber, 18% to230h'. glulam beams, 23%r to 21%, wood l-beams, 24oh to l9%; composite lumber, 2(il, to 6%l parallel strand lumber, l%r to 40h.

The study assumes new mills producing laminated veneer lumber will increasingly operate with a ccnterless lathe, to handlc small cliameter Iogs and pulp logs, the least expensive wood supply available.

Bosses' Salaries Mostly Up

Annual pay fbr some of'the top U.S. forcst proclucts companies' chiel- executives climbed 6.70i last year, though there were pay cuts as well as raises at the lumber-related giants, according to the Wall Street ,Journal.

Par'' (including salary, bonus and long-term compensation) in 1990: John B. Fery. Boise Cascade, 5693.000 (down 32ah from 1989); Andrew C. Sigler, Champion International, $1.24 million (+ 1ol,)l T. Marshall Hahn Jr., Georgia-Pacific, $1.5 million (-120D. John A. Georges, International Paper, S2.03 million (*10(lr); Harry A. Merlo, Louisiana-Pacif ic, $2.06 nrillion (*l3ol,); Roger W. Stone, Stone Container, $ l .36 million (n.a.); John A. Luke, Westvaco, $983,000 (f 4olt); George H. Weyerhaeuser, Weyerhaeuser, $1.105 million ( I 4(il')'. William Swindells, Willamette Industries, $554,200 (l7tl,).