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Commission Sales Position

Are you a self'-motivated individual looking fbr high income potential combined with stability in the Southern California wood products industry? If so, Royal Plywood is what you have been searching tbr. We have added 40,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space and 2,000 sq. ft. in additional office space to accommodate our continued growth. No territories, no boundaries, no income limits. Your hard work and skill combined rvith our diverse inventory and commitment to service assures your success. Call Dana Linz at (562) 404-2989 or email dana@ royalplywood.com.

EXPERIENCED HARDWOOD LUMBER

Salesperson wanted. Progressive lumber company seeking outside salesperson. Generous commission schedule & medical benefits. Please send resumes to: Summit Hardwoods. Attn: Terie Lorentzen. l4l5 E. Grand Ave.. Pomona, Ca. 91766, Fax to 909-469-1659, or call Mark Michie. (310) 638-0468.

Experienced Lumber Trader Wanted

Great opportunity for experienced trader with steady accounts. 607o commission split for trader. Any product line. Relocation not necessary. Excellent office support, great credit, and financial strength. Call John at Lakeside Lumber Products, (623) 566-7100, fbr confi dential discussion.

SPECIALTY LUMBER YARD. Established or private box, g6 ea. Column inch rate: $45 camera-ready, $55 if rve set the type. Mail copy to the address below. Fax ro 949-1152-0231 or call (949) 8521990. Deadline for copy is the 25th of the monrh. PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY COPY unless you have established credir rvith us.

I9tl7. Family owned and operated.4600 sq. ft. buildings plus 1600 sq. ft. home on 4.8 acres. Western Washington between Mineral and Alder Lakes on Highway 7. $350,000. Manufacturing equipment optional. (360) 492-3560.

To reply to ads with private box numbers, send correspondence to box number shorvn, in care of The Merchant Magazine. .1500 Campus Dr., Ste. 480, Nervport Beach. Ca. 92660-ll]72. Narmes of advenisers using a box number cannot be released.

Victor M. Carter. 94. former owner of Builders Emporium, Van Nuys, Ca., died of natural causes April 3 in Los Angeles.

A native of Russia, at age 19 he acquired a fledgling lumber and hardware store in Van Nuys in 1949 and grew it into one of the nation's top home improvement chains. He sold the business in 1956, presumably to retire, but later owned and operated Republic Pictures for eight years.

As a philanthropist, he aided such organizations as the United Way, which created the Victor M. Carter Humanitarian Award, and the City of Hope cancer research center in Duarte, Ca., which he served as president and chairman.

Norris E. Peterson. 89. owner of United Lumber & Hardware, Brighton, Co., died March24 in Brighton.

A long-time member of the Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association for several years, he began operating United Lumber in 1946.

David "Dave" Norman Woolf. 53. a millwork salesman at Cascade Wood Products, White City, Or., died March l9 in Eagle Point, Or.

Mr. Woolf started his career in the lumber industry at Dee Lumber Co., Redding, Ca. After graduating from Chico State University in l9'74, he joined the sales team at American Forest Products, San Francisco, Ca., before transferring to their offices in Stockton, Ca., for 20 years, and later Prineville. Or.. in 1995 as sales manager. He joinedCascade in 1999.

John Rogers, 85, long-time Northern California lumberman. died March 20 in Fort Bragg, Ca.

Mr. Rogers began working in the lumber industry in 1938 at Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg. He also worked for Boise Cascade and, eventually Georgia-Pacific Corp., where he retired in 1983.

He was also a World War II veteran. serving in the U.S. Navy.

Robert "Skip" Bertram Audiss, 70, of American Lumber, Arvada, Co., died of cancer February 20 in Phoenix, Az.

He was a member of the Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association from 1957 until the late 1990s. Hope Lumber acquired American Lumber in 2000.

Pat Moore, 55, harvest and marketing manager for Potlatch Corp.'s hybrid poplar plantation in Boardman, Or., died from pancreatic cancer Feb. 19 in Richland, Or.

Mr. Moore entered the forest products industry in the early 1970s with Scott

Paper in the Seattle, Wa., market, and then spend about l0 years in logging equipment sales in the Eugene, Or., area before joining Potlatch in the mid-1990s.

At the time of his death. he was a member of Western Hardwood Association's board of directors.

Robert A. Junker, 79, a welder/fabricator for Georgia-Pacific, Fort Bragg, Ca., died March 28 in Fort Bragg.

Mr. Junker served on the destroyer U.S.S. Saterlee on D-Day in Normandy, France, while he was in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

In the mid-1940s, he joined Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg, working in several positions including woods operations. He later spent many years at G-P, where he worked until his retirement.

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