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"Environmentalists don't give a (expletive) about the planet You know what they're interested in? Their own habitat ... Narrow, unenlightened self-intsest doesn't impress me."

- Cottudian George Corlin ment ruling that Canadian softwood lumber was unfairly subsidized. Two of the three Canadian lawyers on the panel allegedly did not disclose their ftrms worked for the forest products industry and Canadian government. If it stands, the decision will eliminate a6.5Vo duty.

U.S. Justice Department lawyer Jeanne Davidson said, "It is undisputed that one of tbe pmelists waE r€ceiving compensation from tbe major party (in the dispute)." She added that if conflict of interest allegations are dismissed, Canadians picked for future trade panels may face background investigations by the FBI.

The Canadian government countered that the ties alleged by the U.S. are trivial or old.

Tagging Gun Safety Alert

Employees who use tagging guns to mark merchandise can experience skin punctures and lacerations as well as potential exposure to serious illness.

If a tagging gun needle breaks the skin resulting in blood on the needle, others using the sane needle would be exposed to blood-bome pa.thogens, CalOsha warns. They reoommend the following controls to eliminate employee exposue and meet Title 8 prorcctive standard 55193.

O Issue personal tagging guns.

O Establish procedures to ensue tagging guns are not interchanged among users.

O Establish procedures for cleaning needles periodically and after each skin punc0re or laceration.

O If it isn't practical to issue pefsonal guns, clean needles when cbanging users.

o Provide training in safe use of tagging guns and proper me0ods of cleaning and disposing ofneedles.

84 Lumber CEO Meets With California Workers

Employees of 84 Lumber locations in Southern California attended a town meeting in Ontario called by ceo Joseph Hardy.

Hardy visited all400 stores in the 84 lumber chain during May to conduct meetings at which each worker had an opporumity to review company objectives and give suggestions to improve operations. "I love to travel to the stores and see ordinary people achieve in the business," he explained at the May 18 session.

Hardy attributes the success of the company to "people development." Most of 84 Lumber's 5,000 workers across the country start on the bottom rung and work up tbe co'rporate ladder, he said. "We develop our people and promote from within. It only takes six months as an associate to become a rnanager Eainee."

To encourage sales, the company has developed team incentives. Workers fomr teams with each member sharing sales commissions with other team members. Developing customer satisfaction is another factor in the success of the company, Hardy said. "We give our customefs one-onone service. Sales associates take a personal interest in each customer's project, from rcdecorating a kitchen to constructing a dog house."

To compete with giants like Home Depot, 84 Lumber focuses on a different segment of the industry, Hardy said. "Our products are the raw commodities and we sell to professional builders and remodelers."

M Lumber recorded $1.5 billion in sales last year.

FOR DOMESTIC SAES CAL: Jeny Long, Michael Parrella, Lynn Bethurum, Janet Parrella, Pete Ulloa. Bruce Keith, Matt Petersen.

FOR INTERNATIONA SAES CAL: Nestor Pimentel. Abel Flores.

Hayden Davls is now store supervisor at Lumbermen's Building Center, Vancouver, Wa.

Debora Selter has left Ganahl Lumber Co., Anaheim, Ca,, after nine years to move to Utah. Tlna Durazzo replaces her as Peter Ganahl's adminishative asst. and Wood.stock editor. Kay Foutty bas retired after nine years in the accounting dep.

Glen Magnuson has been promoted to sales mgr.-industrial & manufactured housing and Rlch Wlson to lumber dealer sales mgr. at Weyerhaeuser, Portland, Or. They replace Mark Botsford, now gen. mgr. of tle new Boise, Id., DC.

Gary Hayden, formerly of Universal Forest hoducts, is new to Morgan Creek Forcst Products, Inc., Santa Rosa, Ca., as inventory contol mgr.

Larry Petree is now in sales at Welco Lumber Co., Arlington, Wa.

Steve Thurgood, formerly of Jones Wholesale Lumber Co., has joined Bear Forest Products, Rialto, Ca. Brad Schnelder, son of pres. Barry Schnelder, is also new to the co. Emle Glanvllle is now assl sales mgr.industrials for Pope & Talbot, Inc., Portland, Or. Al Gedmcz is asst. sales mgr.-Boundary sawmills.

Rlck Re is the new gen. mgr. of Kinzua Resources, Heppner, Or.

Bob Davlds is new to sales at Pacific Forest hoducts, Fresno, Ca., according to Blll Barr.

Denny Houston, fomrerly of Roberts & Dybdahl, has joined IntermountainOrient Inc., Boise, Id., according to Dennls l)owner.

Erlc Ples is new to outside sales at Reid & Wright's Bend, Or., DC.

Henry Voorhees, J. H. Baxter & Co., Long Beach, Ca., has retired to Kalispell, ML

Gary Jackson is now lumber buyer-So, Ca. region for HomeBase, kvine, Ca.

Jon Mdn has opened a new rcmanufacturing plant, Intermountain \Yood hoducts, Nubieber, Ca.

Clark Taylor has been promoted to v.p.purchasing for Las Plumas Lumber Corp.'s Oroville, Bakersfield, Riverside, Dublin, Ca., and Las Vegas, Nv., lumber and truss operations. Bob Klrcher, corporate controller, assumes Taylor's duties as Riverside gen. mgr. Doug Crawford is now gen. mgr., Bakersfield; Rlck Beckwlth, sales mgr., Bakersfield, Dubtn, Las Vegas; Greg Martln, buyer and inventory mgr., Bakersfield, Dublin and Vegas.

Joseph DuChene has joined Furman Lumber, Portland, Or.

George Llttle, Union Planing Mill, Stockton, Ca,, is on a month-long European vacation.

Mark Degerstedt is new to Carroll Moulding Co., Huntington Beach, Ca., as window div. sales mgr. Scott Perlnger is new to outside sales, specializing in windows and millwork products. In June, pres. Roy Carroll and his wife, Dorothy, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

Mlck Wlnakur, Universal Southwest Co., Cbandler, Az., has transferred to the Windsor, Co., facility. Jeff Davls, mgr.-corporate communications, Universal Forest Products, has retired to a new home in Durango, Co.

Paul McKay, pres., Contact International, has assumed the additional duties of senior v.p.-mfg. & sales of Contact Lumber, Portland, Or. Mark Donnelly was promoted to v.p.-mktg.; Blll Schnelder, v.p.-distribution sales; Peter McKlbbln, sales mgr.-industrial sales; Steve Wilson, gen. mgr.-Contact International.

C. Brtan Cunnlngham has retired after 35 years as a driver with California Builders Supply, Sacramento, Ca. It is the only job held in his entire working life.

Dan Dlllman, asst. operations mgr., Boise, Id., was honored as a lremranent member of Georgia-Pacific's Vice President's Round Table after receiving the award for a third time.

Gordon Locke, metal sales mgr., Eugene, Or., received the award for a second time. Other Round Table Award winners: Erol l)eren. lumber sales mgr., Sacramento, Ca.; Bruce Cummlng, industrial sales rep, Albuquerque, N.M.; Mtchael O'Connell, sales mgr., Oakland, Ca., and Chet Flowers, regional sales mgr., Pleasanton, Ca.

Tlm Menees has joined Quik Drive USA Inc., as advertising & promotions mgr. Dennls Orem, Jerry's Home Improvement Center, Eugene, Or., will serve as a seminar panelist at next month's National Building ltoducts Expo.

Barbara Mayglnnes, chairman of the board and ceo, Penofin-Performance Coatings Inc., Ukiah, Ca., was named a finalist fot Inc. Magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Sgt. Brad Rlchardson, USMC, son of Dennls Rlchardson, Oregon-Canadian Forest Prcducts, Orange, Ca., is in Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Va.

Wayne Gardner, Lumber Association of Southern California was appointed by the t-a Quinta City Council to a threeyear term on the city planning commission and to the board of appeals for the building dept.

Dave Buf6, Mesa Forest Products, Costa Mesa, Ca., and Jerry Hlgman, Reliable Wholesale Lumber, Huntington Beach, Ca., competed last month in the Baja 500.

Bud Flller, Filler King Co., Homedale, Id., has been named pres. of the American Institute of Timber Construction.

Randy Lambert, Lane Stanton Vance, City of Industry, Ca., has been elected pres. of the Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club, replacing Btll Fltzgerald. New v.p. is Rlck O'Shea; sec./treas. Alan Bohnholft directors Fitzgerald, Fred Brocklebank, Fred Jones, Dan Jones and Ken Tlnckler, and directors-at-large Dlck Lambert, Walter Ralston and Joe Purcell.

John Defore is a new trader at Ace Hardware's Beaverton, Or., LBM office.

Terry Lamp is new to the American Plywood Association as market develop ment specialist for Id., No. Wa. and British Colunbia. E. J. Lamulle, Jr., APA market development specialist was elected to the Structural Insulated Panel Association board of directors.

Dan A. Meyer has been appointed director of technical services for National Hardwood Lumber Association.

James L. Powell is now plant controller at Celotex's Tracy, Ca., foam plastics plant.

Corby Biddle, Foxworth4albraith Lumber, Phoenix, Az., was elected pres. of the Phoenix Hoo-Hoo Club. Pat Craghead, Mallco Lumber & Building Materials, is 1st v.p.; Dan Roads, Georgia-Pacific, 2nd v.p.; Larry Tostenson, Boise Cascade, sec.; Chuck Penslnger, Penco Sales, treas., and Blll Swaney, Boise Cascade, vicegerent snark.

Clyde Jennlngs, v.p., CJ Redwood Inc., Escondido, Ca., and his wife, Lynette, are the proud parents of 6 lb., 7 oz. Rozalynn Marle, bom May 23,1994.

Hugo Furst has devised the new incentive program at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., report owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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Personals

Dlxon V[alker has been named senior v.p.-building insulation & roofing systems at Schuller Internationel, Denver, Co., replacing Ron Mathewson, now witb MagneTek, Inc. Bartley Roggensack is v.p. & gen. urgr.-roofing systoms; Lrrry Blanford, v.p.-mktg., insulation; Jared Ingwalson, director of sales, insulation; Don Fortg dircctor of technology & process development, insulation; Harvey Perry v.p. & gen. mgr.-filtration & mfg.; Wayne Jackson, v.p. & gen. mgr.-U.S. mats & reinforcements; Mary Rhlnehart, v.p. & gen.mgr.-OEM Insulations.

Mark Denner, sales mgr., SwansonSuperior Forest Products, Inc., Noti, Or., has been elected pres. of the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau board of directors. Joe Kochls. Hanel Lumber Co., is v.p., and Don Snlth, Sun Studs, Inc., sec.-treas.

Alan J. Campbell, CAE, has been naned pres. and chief staff executive of the National Wood Window & Door Association, succeeding John W. Shoemaker, who will continue on association projects until his forthcoming retiremenL

Brad Cannon is now mgr. of BMC West, Lewiston, Id., replacing retiring 51year industry vet Lortn Papworth.

Jane Tennyson Lee has been named chairman of the board of Red Devil, succeeding her father, George L. I.er, Jr., now chairman emeritus.

Dennls Brealey, Woodtape, Kirkland, Wa., has been elected a director of the Decorative Laminate hoducts Association. Bernle Coalson, Sani-Top, Gardena, Ca., is immediate pastpres.

Jerry Haney, Whittier Wood Products, Eugene, Or., has been elected pres. of the Western Hardwood Association. V.p. is Jlm Harrlson, Diamond Wood Products; treas. Jerry Nlzlch, and directors Guy Hall, Cal Oak Products; Dave McCullam, Northwest Hardwoods; Blll Morrlson, International Hardwoods; Doug Prlncehouse, Cascade Hardwood, and Don Allen, Goodyear-Nelson Hardwood Lumber. Ken McCoun, Nortb Pacific Lumber Co., was voted Man of the Year.

Ken and Jo Tlnckler, Tinckler-Squire Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Ca", recent- ly visited family and friends in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Mlke Sather, United Building Center, Helena, Mt., was honored as among the co.'s Top l0 managers, along with Don Anderson, Plentywood, Mt.; Arlen Kenslnger, Fort Collins, Co., and Ken Lehmann, Cody, Wy.

Wood Flooring Styles Change

To meet customer demands for more and better options, versatility and durability, retailers must keep abreast with unprecedented changes in the wood flooing narket.

Advanced technology in the past decade has developed different and inproved products and installation techniques. Six wood tone colors were available in wood flooring in 1986. Today, more lhan26 different colors are available, ranging from white to the darkest walnut, and including pastels, geys and deep reds.

Four wood species dominated the wood flooring market 10 years ago. Today there are at least 20 including exotic species. More than 15 styles of flooring are available today, as opposed to five less than 10 years ago.

OFF-ROAD IYARRIORS: Steve Bruner and Mike Thieman, Tali-Pak Lumber Milling, Hopland, Ca., won first placa in lhe Valley CIf Road Racing Associdion Virginia Crty, N., 200 race for chss 4 &wheeldrive. The team was esponsored by Noilh Cal Wood Produds, Ukiah, Ca

4r4 - 8' firu 20' Sil. & Btr.

4x6 - 4x12,8' fhru 24' #2 &BX.

4x6 - 4x12,8' thru 24' #l & Blr.

24' #l

HONORED as one of Trus Joist Madrlillan's two Western Oparations Padner of lhe Year Award winners, Sequoia Supply/Pdmesource, FairfBH, Ca., wostem ngion v.p. Bob Riggs is flanked by TJM regionalsales mgm. Kds Spiclder (lefl) and Hady Wenlzel. Weyefiaeuser C.S.C., Beavelbn, Or., was also recognized.

NAWLA's Timber Resolution North American Wholesale

Lrmber Association adopted a resolution supporting multiple use and sustained yield from federal forests with a sensible balance between environmental, social and economic values.

The resolution labels Option 9 "unnecessarily biased toward preservation at the expense of other values" and calls on the administration to abandon the Forest Plan and collaborate with the Northwest Congressional delegation in legislating a three-year timber sale relief package to be in effect while a sustainable and balanced long-t€nn plan is developed.

Teachers Sent To The Woods Industry members are sponsoring teachers ftom across North America to attend a Nortlern California Teachers'Camp to study the region's forest eco-system as it relates to the politically sensitive coast redwoods.

HOMEBASE, which recently announced increased emphasis on cuslomer service, opened its newesl location in Foothill Ranch, Ca., wilh a log cutting by local officials and HomeBase executives. Letl lo riqht: Munav Wachenheim, executiw v.p. openiions; Vincir tsranlley, urang€ lerce. t Budoloh. Lake

Branlley, Orange County Chamber of Commerce & lndustry; Gaddi H. Vasquez. Oranqe

County supervlsor; Marcia Butolph, La[e Forest mayor; Kirk vonBerge, gendral mgr.;

Tim Link. Lake Forcst council roresr AtrK vonuerge, generat Link, Lake Forcst niember: Allan Sherman, HomeBase presidenl.

Teachers will visit park reserves, tree fanns, seedling nurseries, rnnufacturing facilities and demonstration forests. Classroom presentations will cover forest bio-diversity, global re- source usage and the energy consumed to tum natural resources into products.

The July 13-17 canP in Arcata, Ca., is guided by the TemPerate Forest Foundation and the Redwood Region Conservation Council.

North American Wholesale Lumber Association members are sponsoring teachers by paying for their air transportation, while California Redwood Association members are covering the costs of lodging and local transportation.

Weyerhaeuser Adds L.A. DC

Weyerhaeuser's Building Materials Distribution Business is building a disribution center due to open March l,1995, in Santa Clarita Ca.

Located on l0-ll2 acres, the new Customer Service Center (CSC) will replace an existing SePulveda, Ca., operation. Current Sepulveda general manager Nathan Dickens will be in charge.

"Our business is committed to growth and being a toP industrY Performer," said David Still, Building Materials Distribution Business vice president and general manager. "This new CSC will helP us to continue our sales and earning growth since we will be able to service customers better, faster and with an improved operation."

Former Sepulveda CSC general manager Ron Camp is on-site construction manager.

Safety Award For Finish Mfr.

Performance Coatings Inc., Ukiah, Ca., manufacturer and distributor of Penofin wood finishing products, has been recognized by the National Paint & Coatings Association for outstanding achievement in plant safety.

In addition !o receiving the NPCA safety award, the comPany was commended by its insurance carrier for its attention to safety and effort in identifying rnjury exposure and implementing controls to prevent injuries, Performance Coatings spokesperson Dor6 Ripley said.

Lumber Lesson For Mexico

To help improve Mexic'o's understanding about American lumber, Western Wood Products Association and Southern Forest Products Association recently conducted a basic lumber grading and construction uses class for important Mexican officials.