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Other principals in the new firm are M. F. O'Sullivan, former executive vice president and 35-year employee of Rossman, and Charles E. Riemann, who joined Rossman in 1966 as vice president, finance.

Barnett, who was a pre-med student at Texas A & M and later played trumpet with a dance band, entered the lumber business as a counter salesman with Rossman at the close of World War II. He subsequently was outside salesman, sales manager, director of sales and in 1964 was promoted to president of the firm.

O'sullivan, a native Californian, attended school in Wilmington and joined the Rossman firm in 1932. IIe served several years as credit manager and as manager of the Long Beach and San Pedro yards before being promoted to executive vice president in 1964.

Riemann joined Rossman in 1966, replacing the late Ivan Hart as vice president, finance. He had formerly been comptroller at California Production Service, an oil production company.

Other stockholders in the new Barnett company include credit manager James J. Kahler, who held a similar position at Rossman; salesmen William E. Bekendorfer and Robert W'. Boice, former sales staffers at Rossman, and purchasing agent L. Harvey Terry, who was formerly yard superintendent at Rossmanos Long Beach yard.

Russ Morgan, former partner at Morgan-Davidson Lumber, will take an extended vacation and plans to return to the lumber business at a later date. Ed Davidson will manage his business interests in the Seattle, Wash. area.

Helpful New Census Dqto

New help in determining what the consumer plans to buy during the next few months will be coming soon from the U.S. Census Bureau. Officials are devising a new quarterly survey o{ con' sumer buying plans.

The essential change is that consumers now are being asked how likely, on a scale ranging from zero to 100, they are to buy one of several items. Formerly, they were asked to specify yes, no, or maybe. The Census Bureau says most purchases are made by o'non-intenders," and the new system will be much more accurate.

The revised survey will gather data on more kinds of expected purchases and there will be more extensive information on household savings and on total planned purchases.

Remodeling Business Increqsing

Vestern remodeling accounted for 30.5 percent of a total $99 million expenditures for the first two months of 1967, according to figures released by the Department of Commerce. In 1966 Western remodeling accounted for 27.9 percent of the national total.