Hardwood distributors meet in Hawaii

PACIFIC INTERLU0E took Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association members to the lsland of Maui. In the group (lefl t0 right by heads) Fred B. Smales, Bill Mac8eath, Gordon Frost. 8ud Baker, K.E. MacBeath, Don Reel, Tim Spellman, Pat Kearns, John Fahs, Gil Reel, John Mullen, Don Moreland, Bruce Frost, Ed Bauer, Lyall Bell, Jack Milliken, Fred Fuller, Al Frost, Dick Gray.

T. FROST, Frost Hardwood r Lumber Co., San Diego, Ca., was elected president of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association at their 59th annual convention in Maui, Hi.

selected as lst v.p.; Dick Gray, Honolulu, 2nd v.p.; Werner Richen, sec/treas. and Don Moreland, sec,/ treas. elect.

Directors are Don Moreland, Lane Stanton Vance Lumber Co., City of Industry, Ca.; Bill Lightfoot, Brady International Hardwood, Kent, o Pressure Treated Forest Products o Fencing

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Wa.; Brent Mullen, Southwest Hardwoods Co., Phoenix, Az.; Gil Reel, Reel Lumber Co., Anaheim, Ca.; Don White, Jr., White Bros., Oakland, Ca., and Bruce Frost, Frost Hardwood Lumber Co., San Diego, Ca., membership chairman.

Changing hardwood supply in Far East... need forfirms to be flexible .. G.T. Frost elected pres.

Tom Hitch, senior v.p. and economist with the First Hawaiian Bank, addressed the April 4-7 meeting, stressing the economy and outlook for housing. Craig Kincaid, Robert S. Osgood, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca., discussed the changing pattern of supply in the Far East. Malaysia and Indonesia are building their own manufacturing plants and limiting export of logs to Taiwan, Korea and Japan, according to Kincaid.

Other speakers were H.J. Kearns, chief engineer, Park Water Co., Ca., speaking on "California's Liquid Assets" and Fred B. Smales, pres., Cyprus Hawaiian Cement Co. A former lumberman who is an honorary member of the association, he emphasized the changes in the industry and the need for firms to be flexible and adapt to new products and methods of doing business. He pointed out the desirability of small firms having outside directors and monthly board meetings with a review of operations.

In addition to business sessions, the group heard sectional reports from Lyall Bell, Canada, Utah, Denver; Bill Lightfoot, Washington; Bill MacBeath, Northern California; Tim Spellman, Arizona; Don Moreland, Los Angeles; Jack Havens, Orange/Riverside Counties, and Dick Gray, Hawaii.

Next annual meeting will be at Silverado Country Club and Resort, Napa, Ca., in May, 1983.

(Continued from page 12) tion, A.B. Hammond, Charlie Dant and Jack Dionne knew what it took to build a future, and we sure need people like that now. chant Magazine with ever-increasing success and vigor is the wish of all of us at Penberthy Lumber Company.

Over the years, The Merchant has lived up to the promise seen by Jack, and under the leadership of its present publisher and personnel, it is carrying out this tradition. Maybe we are seeing a re-birth of the kind of people we need to get our industry and country back on the track.

Paul and Lillie Penberthy

Penberthy Lumber Company

Los Angeles, Ca.

The Penberthy Lumber Company heartily congratulates The Merchant upon its 6Oth Anniversary! We wish for you an equally successful continuance.

Your former editor, Jack Dionne, was our good friend and it was he who first established our rapport with The Merchant. His encouraging and perceptive editorials, stories, and comments helped to cement our interest in your fine periodical. A well remembered remark by Jack was made to us when we started our business 5l years ago. He expressed encouragement and amazement at our entry into the lumber business during the Great Recession. We weathered it! So encourage your readers; they can survive the current recession, which is hurting in many places.

You have fine writers now. Your Gage McKinney is a fine example.

May you continue with your fine Mer-

The personals item in your April issue, page 36, bottom righthand column, drew much interest in this office. Our office manager, Ms. Vinyl Clad once worked for M-F Forest Products. She says that all Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus are trying to do is dress up their reputation by hiring Ms. Polly Esther, who would never have gone all the way to Climax, in Nevada, if she had known she would end up in such a compromising position with Mungus, and especially ending up with Fungus.

The reason for bringing this item to your attention is that this office hates to see Polly Esther treated as scantly Clad.

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Gary Hoormann is replacing Doug Ross, who has resigned, as NAWLA assistant.

W.E. "Wilf" Livermoore, Nicholson & Cates Ltd., Burlington, Ontario, Canada, was elected president; E.R. "Al" Slaughter, board chairman and c.e.o. of Slaughter Brothers, Inc., Dallas, Tx., lst v.p.; Gordon J. King, Hampton Lumber Sales Co., Portland, Or., 2nd v.p.

Western directors include Larry Humphrey, Humphrey Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wa.; Darrell Robinson, Sunrise Forest Products, Portland; Daryl Bond, All-Coast Forest Products, Chino, Ca.; James Frodsham, South Bay Forest Products, Orange, Ca.; Paul Mackie, III, Wood Traders Inc., Eugene, Or.

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