SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES

8 Northern California Manufacturing Centers

MOULDINGS: Chico Division. Ron Hoppe, Dave Miller (916) 343-4451

LUMBER: Redding Sales Division. (916) 275-8812

Sawmills located at Arcata, Hayfork, Loyalton, Quincy, Redding,Sloat and Susanville, Ca.

Producing in excess of 400 million feet yearly: Douglas Fir, Incense Cedar, Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, and White Fir. Green & Kiln Dried.

SALES: Perry Adcox, George Rogers, George Sharp, Paul Trueb. Bill Wessner and Sam Witzel.

Lumber Yard Trucks Loaded Without Delay

OAK, BEECH, and MAPLE FLOORING

Chickasaw Prefinished Planking, Flooring & Parquet

Peace and Sykes Pref inished and Unfinished Parquet, Oak Plank Flooring Oak Threshold and Sill Truck Body Lumber and Stakes

Closet Lining

AMONG 50 or so friends and co-worken at a private dinner in lrvine, Ca., honoring Bob Wells, who recently left American Forest Products Corp. as a top executive atter 27 years, were these friends and former co-workers: (1) Harold Haldeman, Jr., Joe Contestabile, Jim Thompson, Elmar Brock, Hugo Rath. (2) Lew Bay- singer, Jack Ford, guest of honor Bob Wells, Eric Hexberg, and Seth Potter, an old friend and co-worker who is now pres. of Dant & Russell. (3) Dury Cords, Augie Silvera, Tom Viscounty, Dick Lambert, Rick Cunningham. (4) Dana Foster, Elmar Brock, Gene Courchaine, Bill Conroy,

Wendell Lawson, Nifty Gay. (5) George Steele, and Frank Ouattrocchi. (6) Leo Lofchie, Lew Baysinger and Bob Parks. (7) Jim Forbes, and again, Bob Wells, who now will be an active partner in Hexberg Lumber Sales, a Southern California wholesale firm.

Arizona Convention

(Continued from page 36 ) but what are you doing about it?," he challenged.

He said the lumber and building materials industry had been slow to organize, but that "we can muster the strength, if we will." Mendenhall described how a retailer can help and encourage his employees to communicate with their government on industry affairs, many of which have a direct effect on their personal welfare.

Summarizing, moderator Frank

Insulation Standards Inlo

The National Home Improvement Council has adopted a set of standards recommended by the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc., for the advertising and sale of thermal insulation for residential use.

The standards, intended for insulation manufacturers, contractors, appli cators, retailers, their advertising agencies and the media, are contained in a booklet published by the BBB.

Davis asked for everyone's help in doing the job of telling industry's story to government. Lien laws are an especially critical area that needs correction. he said.

The final business portion of the convention included an association status report by outgoing president Jim Barlow, who received a standing ovation for the job he performed for the group.

The convention next year will be at the new Raddison Hotel at Scotts' dale, May 3-5.

HEtIC0PTER logging expert Burt Lillis, Louisiana-Pacific Corp.. (right) spoke recently to Shasta Cascade Hoo-Hoo club, at a Red Bluff, Ca., meeting. With him here is Maury Walker.

Helicopter Logging Talk

The staggering costs of logging with a helicopter were set out for Shasta Cascade Hoo-Hoo members at their recent meeting in Red Bluff, Ca., by Burt Lillis of Louisiana-Pacific Corp.

The average cost ofthe "sky cranes" is $6 million, about the same as a modern sawmill. The average cost of operation runs $60 per minute and the machine must be stopped every 50 minutes for refueling and maintenance.

Only lumber operations with heli- copters bid on standing timber for sale on steep and remote areas as truck operations are impractical. Generally, stumpage prices are about a third of those in areas that can be logged using conventional tractor operations.

VISIT from the international president highlighted the annual initiation of HooHoo Club # 31, held in Fresno, Ca. 16 Central California lumbermen became members that night. Doing the honon were the "Degree Team,"suitably attired, in the back row (l-r) Don Johnson, Jim Acton, Bert LeBeck, Laurn Champ (the international prez.) Bob Schlotthauer,

Gordon Knott, Ted Mathews, Jimmy Jones, Dick Fledderman and Ed Cagle. Following are the new members, middle row: Buz Nielsen, Brad Pusey, Eill Eisenbeis, John Morgan, Gary Hodges, Jerry Schuyler, Mike Riley, Mike Bamirez, Jr., William Hoffman. front row: Don Clark,JackTharp, Tom Brutsche, John Boss, Hugh Service, John de la Montanya and Bill Klomhaus.