WOULDYOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE PINE MARKET?

Reporting the pine market is our only business. Knowing all about it is important to your business and for $4 a week you can.

That's right! It's your business to stay abreast of the markets that you deal in. Sound market decisions are the result of good information put into action. The more you know, the better you will function; and if you buy or sell pine, then PINE ONLY is your best source for market information. We're specialists. We have to do a better job and we do it.

Weekly we report and comment on more pine lumber products than any other publication. In fact, we report on over 507o more pine products than any other market reporter.

You'll see it all, from the commodity items such as studs, dimension, and boards to the specialty shop and select grade products.

But we don't stop there, we also report on the secondary pine products which are a big part of the market. Products such as stained shop and moulding, low grade dimension, boards, and shop are reported, too.

We want to send you a free copy of PINE ONLY so you can see for yourself. Fill out and mail the coupon, and we'll send you your complimentary copy. It will be your first step to really knowing the pine market.

Rick Kellso, the editor of PINE ONLY, hos o background that combines the best of journolistic skills ond industry experience.

A third generation lumberman, Kellso began working part-time at 75 in on Oregon plywood mill. Continuing port-time and summer work, he graduated from the Uniuersity of Oregon, where he studied Journalism, and subsequently worked for Fremont Forest Products, Raintree Lumber Co. ond u,os most recently lumber sales manager for The Medford Corporation.

His 15 yeors of industry inuolvement, coupled with Rick's reporting skills, meons PINE ONty weekly brings its readers the information they need to do o better, more profitable job.

Seruing the lumber, building materials and home improvement

Publisher Emeritus A.D. Bell, Jr.

Editor-Publisher David Cutler

Associate Editor

Juanita Lovret

Contributing Editors

Dwight Curran

Gage McKinney

Al Kerper

Art Director Martha Emery

Staff Artist Terry Wilson

Circulation Linda Romanowski

The Merchant Magazine (USPS 796-560) is published monthly at 4500 Campus Dr., Suite 480, Newport Beach, Ca. 92660, phone 17l4l 549-8393, by The Merchant Magazine, Inc. Second-class postage rates paid at Newport Beach, Ca., and additional offices. Advertising rates upon request.

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THE MERCHANT MAGAZINE is an independently-owned publication.fbr the retail, rpholesale and distribution levels ql the lumber, building materials and home improvement business in the I3 Weslern states: concentwting on merchandising plus industry news and interpretalion.