"The Quiet Giant"

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Giant in LongevityA major West Coast forest products wholesaler since 1926.

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Giant in IntegrifyContinuing a tradition of solid ethics.

Giant in ExperienceAn efficient, courteous staff-alwavs reliable.

Giant in ServiceCargo, rail, truck and L.A. Harbor inventory to fit your needs.

Burns Lumber ComPatry ...Doing the job for 63 years and still stand.ing tall.

PGL Cites Top Sales People

PGL Building Products, Auburn, Wa., recently held a special recognition weekend for top sales performers from the West Coast and Alaska,

Top corporate winners for 198990 are first place, Rick Richardson, PGL Yakima; second place, John Collinsworth, PGL Tigard, and third place,Greg Creswell, WAFP Phoenix.

The Presidents Club Recognition Weekend, which took place at Lake Tahoe. Nv.. included an awards banquet honoring 22 salespeople from PGL Building Products division and Western American Forest Products.

National Acts Quickly

Aggressive changes continue at National Lumber & Supply, Fountain Valley, Ca., following the 15store chain's filing for Chapter I I bankruptcy protection.

Marty Shaeffer has joined the company as executive vice president and chief operating officer, second in line to president and chief executive oflicer Mel Jaffee.

Additionally, National Lumber has begun an extensive staff training program, incentive program and a new ad campaign and reorganized product lines. Merchandise flow to the stores has resumed, with five new lines being introduced: miniblinds and vertical blinds, throw rugs and area rugs, closet and shelving storage systems, mirrors and kitchen cabinets and countertops.

Opening in nine locations and planned for the other six are "Kitchen Cabinet Rooms," remodeling centers featuring specially trained employees, computer designing and displays of I I different cabinet styles.

Telling Kids Our Story

The industry's side of the environmental controversy was presented to ten students from Santa Rosa, Ca., schools in a two day tour co-sponsored by Louisiana-Pacific and Capital Lumber Co.

Five elementary students and their teacher and five high school students and two teachers were briefed by L-P's Gil Sissons, Jr. and Capital's Marty Olhiser. They visited

L-P's Samoa. Ca.. sawmill and the L-P particleboard plant in Arcata, Ca., as well as touring a tree nursery, fish hatchery and an active logging site. The group spent one night at LP's Samoa Guest House.

The feedback from the students to industry's story was very positive, according to Capital's Olhiser. "The kids are aware of our cutting, but not that we replant billions of trees annually. Once they knew the real story, they viewed our actions favorably."

Snow To Hardwoods Unlimited

Dennis Snow, an experienced hardwood executive and former president of Robert S. Osgood, Inc., the venerable import firm, has joined Hardwoods Unlimited.

He is based at company headquarters in Orange, Ca. The firm has yard facilities at Rancho Dominguez (Long Beach), Ca., and specializes in imported hardwoods from around the world. Snow is working with Kathy Beckman, Daryl Lopez and Ceorge Beckman.