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It can be tough moving lumber and plywood profitably, especially in todays business world.

Thats why, while others may work directly with your dealers, we at Willamette continue to devote our efforts to you, our wholesaler.

For over 80 years now, we've helped get you competitively to market with the best in lumber and plywood products, backed by non-stop service. Real servrce.

You get personal, immediate attention from your Willamette sales professional who works nght from our mills. Using our computer network and warehouse resources, we take Your order, track it through our system and get you the products you need, on time. Every time.

To put Willamette teamwork to work for you, give us a call-in the

West at (503) 926-777I, in the South at (318) 255-6258.

Together, we'll steer a steady course to market. Profitably.

GARY L. SMITH executive vice president

half the California Insurance Commission has approved workers compensation insurance increases in excess of300/o for the most common job classifications in the retail lumber and building materials industry. Another 120/o average increase (much higher percentages in lumberyard classifications) has been requested for July 1, 1987.

You can't help having noticed, but you may also wish to take some action to deter further increases.

Fl ef-n Winslow of pacific Home Y Improvement Center, Atascadero, was elected president of LMA at our annual meeting May l7-19, 1987.

He is joined by Neil Keefer, Hayward Lumber Co., Pacific Grove, hrst vice president, and Bob Rossi, Rossi's Building Supply, Ft. Bragg, second vice president. Newly elected to the board of directors are Jerry Plamondon, Chap's Lumber; Ken Walsh, Meeks Lumberl

Jay De Cou, De Cou Lumber; Chuck Erne, Sequoia Lumber; Mike Yeager, Yeager and Kirk; Gene Lively, Valley Distributors, and Bob Roberts, Sunnyvale Lumber. Added to the insurance trust committee were Tom Richert, Richert Lumber; Jeff Hogan, Ashby Lumber, and Brian Bock, Dixon Lumber. Breezie Cross of Truckee-Tahoe Lumber assumed the easier chair of immediate past president.

While (and before) we were in convention, our state government was laying for us again. In less than a year and a

At LMA's last trust meeting it was recommended that we prepare a sample letter for members to reproduce on their own stationery and send to their elected senators and assemblypeople.

Obviously you are invited to write your own, if you wish, but p/ease write. The response from our members has been excellent. The help of other California employers couldn't hurt. Please take a moment right now to write your elected representatives.

(l) You cannot refuse to grant employees time off to meet their weekly or annual training obligations if such time off is properly requested in advance.

CHUCK LINK executive director

THe FEDERAL Trade Commission r has announced a modification of its ll-year-old rule requiring retailers to make product warranty information available to customers prior to a sale. Under the revisions, retailers must make the warranty text available for review by customers by either (1) displaying the warranty itself in "close proximity" to the covered product, or (2) placing a sign or signs in "prominent locations in the store or department" advising customers of the availabilty of product warranties upon request.

The new rules stress that retailers do not actually have to give consumers copies of warranties, only the opportunity to review them prior to the sale. These rules apply to all products retailing for $15 or more.

Summel training for guardsmen and reservists can pose special problems for employers. Here are some reminders of certain provisions of the Veterans Readjustment Act of 1974 to keep in mind:

(2) You cannot require a reservist to use his or her vacation time off for the leave, but if both employer and employee voluntarily agree, the employee may take the vacation to be absent for military leave.

(3) You are not required to pay employees anything for time spent on military leave.

(4) You are entitled to expect the employee to return promptly to his job upon completion of his military training. When returning, the employee is entitled to the seniority status and rate of pay that he would have had if the military had not intervened.

Panel Nail Specs Change

Spacing and nailing recommendations for sheathing, Sturd-I-Floor and siding structural panels have been changed by the American Plywood Association to help cut callbacks linked to improper spacing and nailing.

A review of field experience has resulted in a recommendation that all panel end and edge joints be spaced l/8" unless otherwise advised by the panel manufacturer. This recommendation supercedes the 1/8" space at the ends and l/4" along the edges recommendation which has been in effect for many years.

Dealers may obtain flyers suitable for explaining the changes to their contractor customers from the APA.

Oregon Panel Output Rises

Strong resurgence in the Oregon structural panel manufacture industry has increased production by 430/o since 1982 and 9olo since 1985.

Production from 57 Oregon plywood mills in 1986 was 7.3 billion feet compared to just over 5 billion square feet 3/8" basis produced by 53 Oregon mills in 1982.

In pointing out the increase in products, William Robison, American Plywood Association president, said, "Also significant is the industry's consistent support for the APA promotion program and its steady investment in capital improvement and reforestation since 1981." Nearly $237 million has been spent on improvements in the plywood industry in the past six years with $46 million in the past year.

Reconstituted Panel Growth

Reconstituted panel products such as waferboard and oriented strand board are gaining economically and environmentally because they can use the less desirable species and less valuable portions of logs.

Waferwood, a Louisiana-Pacific product, is a good example of pioneering the production of affordable produc[5. "\{s'vs done our homework in countries that don't have vast timber resources," Harry A. Merlo, president, said, "since manufacturers in those countries have learned through necessity to get the most from each log."

In l986Waferwood accounted for ll% of L-P's sales and 2lolo of its operating profit. "Since the day we opened our first Waferwood plant seven years ago, we've been the leading U.S. manufacturer. And we've increased that lead year after year," Merlo said.

By the end of 1987 LouisianaPacific will have 13 Waferwood plants and more than two billion square feet of capacity. The company has just opened a new Waferwood plant in New Waverly, Tx., and is about to open a plant in Dawson Creek, 8.C., that will serve the West Coast by both water and rail.

L-P's range of products has given them a quality advantage over many of its competitors, Merlo said. "When we harvest timber. we have the flexibility to reserve the soundest, best quality logs for lumber and plywood and use the tops and smaller logs for reconstituted panels," he explained.

Trce Spike Iniurcs MillWod<er

A mill worker at Louisiana-Pacific, Cloverdale, Ca., was seriously injured by a saw blade which shattered upon striking a spike investigators say was intentionally placed in the tree.

The accident is thought to be the first to result from the growing problem of "tree-spiking," in which antilogging activists drive spikes into trees to keep lumber companies from cutting them down.

The saw blade struck one of two 11" nails buried in the log, sending a three foot section of the blade flying off, cutting through mill worker George Axelrod's cheek and jawbone and knocking out several teeth. He was hospitalized six days and will require extensive reconstructive surgery.

Louisiana-Pacific is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person who placed the spike.

WOOD lnc. Scholarship

W.O.O.D., Inc.'s newly formed WOOD Foundation will present its first E.W. Wotring Scholarship this summer to a graduating high school senior. The grant is made possible by a gift from Dorothy Wotring, sister of long-time Denver lumberman Wes Wotring.

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