What Makes 0urSidinu Bemrb Simplo, lt's Simply Beffir Siding.

Whether it's our first new home, or a remodel, we allwant it built right the first time. And here's one of the ways to accomplish that: Spec better materials. And that's where James Hardie Sidins Products comes in.

Our siding has all the advantages of wood, including it's good lools, but none of the draw-backs. Hardiplank, and Hardipanelvertical siding are made of super durable, fiber-reinforced cement. They're tough, flexible and won't rot, or buckle; they're immune to water damage, snow, salt air. and termite attack.

The ultimabtest -Tmpical storms, hnid heat and typhoom.

While some manufacturers test their products in the lab, we took our siding to the ends of the eMh. James Hardie fiber-cement siding has withstood the sweltering heat and the pummeling typhoons of New Guinea,

Malaysia, Australia and Indonesia. This is where the winds can top 130 m.p.h., the humidity often reaches 90%, and the sun's damaging ultra-violet rays can cause lesser materials to buckle in a single season. Our reason? Extreme elements like these and freezinq cold can also be found riqht here at home.

And James Hadie Siding b non-combm

Who can overlook this incredible safety factor? The cementitious composition of Hardie Siding products make them the most firsresistant building materials money can buy

We're so confident that Hardiplank, and Hardipanel will last a long, long time, we back them with a 50 year limited, transferable, product warranty. Add the fact that James Hardie is over 100 years old and is the world leader in fiber-cernent technology, we are sure your confidence will be well reinforced too.

So, what are the best building products you can buy? That's simple, James Hardie Buildins Products.

Encircled by a whirlwind of unre- emission readings and for five years lated legal problems, Louisiana- fraudulently misrepresented products Pacific has begun an exclusive deal produced at the plant. with Home Depot to supply all the L-P will protest the charges. "We treated lumber and specialty redwood may not be a company of entirely perproducts for its Western Division fect people, but we believe in respect stores. for the law," said Harry Merlo, chair-

Products from previous suppliers man and president. reportedly were phased out of the

In an industry letter, Merlo said stores by June 1. that L-P initiated its own inquiry and

To meet this huge promise, L-P is commissioned an independent investibuilding a sawmill and treating plant gation as soon as it learned of the allein Ukiah, Ca., and a $9 million distri- gations. "While we are still determinbution center north of Ukiah in ing exactly what may have happened, Calpella, expected to open Oct. l. Its I want to assure you that you do not log-remanuficturing and chipping fa- need to worry about the quality of cifity at Calpella is in full operation OSB panels that we have sold," he and its Willits mill is running three wrote. "With regard to our current shifts a day. production, there is no question about

The pact reflects the trend of the APA sampling procedures we are Home Depot buying direct from using." manufacturers. L-P owns over At least nine class action lawsuits 500,000 acres of timberland and does have been filed against L-P since May not rely on state or federal lands. 25. Some were begun by home-

L-P temporarily shelved plans for a owners in Washington and Florida $50 million OSB plant in Ukiah, ex- with purportedly defective siding. plaining it could not guarantee a One action in Florida was tentatively iteady source ofraw materials. settled for "significantly less" than the

But the setback was the least of L- $150 million sought. Other suits were P's recent troubles: filed bv shareholders who saw stock . L-P and two former employees values plummet after reports that L-P were indicted by a federal grand jury expected to be indicted and to pay for alleged violations of the Clean Air significant claims over faulty siding. Act and fraud. The 56-count indict-

In January, L-P paid $2.9 million ment (see box below) charges that L- to settle a suit filed by homeowners P, the mill manager and mill superin- near the Colorado plant who comtendent tampered with air-monitoring plained that air pollutants emitted by devices at its Montrose (olathe), co., the facility made their homes OSB plant to give false low pollutant uninhabitable.

(Summary of the Grand Jury Indictment of lnuisiana'Pacif'c)

Count I ("Conspiracy to Commit an Offense Against the United States").

Counts 2-21 ("Tampering with a Monitoring Device & Method") contend the defendants "knowingly falsified, tampered with and rendered inaccurate a monitoring device and method required to be maintained under the Clean Air Act."

Counts 22-27 ("False Statements under the Clean Air Act") charge they submitted the allegedly falsified data to the Colorado Department of Health' Counts 28-31. ("False Statements re: Resin Consumption") claim the defendants reported inaccurate percantages of phenolic formaldehyde resin to meet the Clean Air Act.

Counts 32-55 ("Mail Fraud") contend they sold APA trad€mark stamped A grade OSB panels that did not meet APA standards and routinely submitted non-representative, speciallY manufactured samples of OSB ("superboard")'to the APA for testing.

Count 56 ("Wire Fraud") charges that the scheme was committed not only through the mail but also by means of wire communications.

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RESOURCE UTTL'ZArTON fim O'Connell has joined the sales force at Kayu Intemational, Inc., West Linn, Or.

FINGERJ0INIING ollows cny length of dud grcde lumber lo be used lo its fullesl. Enviromentclly responsible.

Randy Lambert has joined Columbia Forest Products, Glendora, Ca., as national accounts sales rep, covering the U.S. from Ms. to Hi.

Bob Nelson, mgr. of the Scappoose, Or., Tualatin Valley Business Supply, has retired. Rex Rickard, mgr. of the Portland, Or., store, will succeed him.

Dale Jerome is mgr. of the new Ernst Home and Nursery, Salem, Or. Other mgrs.: Ed Stepp, Oroville, Ca., and Chris Yanderway, Chico, Ca.

Don Dodt, previously with Western American Forest Products, Rialto, Ca., has joined Capital Lumber, Phoenix, Az., in industrial sales.

David Dahlen, formerly of All Coast Forest Products, Cloverdale, Ca., has joined Keene Industries, Ukiah, Ca., as sales mgr.

Bob Matthies has joined the sales staff of Foster Mantels Co., Hayward, Ca., which is introducing a new line of imported hardwood doors.

Lew MacDonald is now gen. mgr. of Taymac Industries, Sacramento, Ca.

Mark Pierson has joined Golden State Lumber, Vallejo, Ca., as an estimator for the company's new line of engineered wood products. Louie Yerato is new as yard foreman.

Dave Clibon is a new garden buyer at HomeBase, Irvine, Ca.

Brent Frederickson is now handling Brazilian pine block sales at Cascade Empire Corp., Portland, Or.

Jim R. Gaither, branch mgr., Western American Forest Products, Fresno, Ca., is retiring after 35 years in the industry. Roger I. Foreman, formerly with PMI, succeeds him.

Jim Walsh is the new mktg. mgr. for Rosboro Lumber Co., Springfield, Or.

Dennis Wachs, formerly of Western American Forest Products, is new to sales at Neiman-Reed Lumber. Van Nuys, Ca. Greg Mitchell is a sales trainee.

Bernard B. ttBerniett Barber, Jr., has retired as ceo of the Woodwork Institute of California, West Sacramento, Ca., after nearly 40 years. He remains c.f.o. and still operates 59-year-old Bernie Barber & Associates, a Fresno, Ca., market report publisher. Rob Gustafson succeeds him as WIC ceo.

Vic lladley, formerly of Welco Lumber, has been appointed sales mgr. at Sundance Lumber, Springfield, Or.

Jim Savageau, formerly with American Mill, is new to Martin Brothers Wholesale Lumber Co., El Cajon, Ca. Charley Bingham, v.p.-timberlands and corporate affairs, Weyerhaeuser Co., Tacoma, Wa., will retire this month after 35 years with the company.

Thomas Higgns, Portland, Or., has been named western regional sales mgr. for Stanley Creative Rivet.

Bob Berwick has been named Pacific Northwest sales mgr., covering Or., Wa., Id., Wy., Mt., Ak. and Hi., for James Hardie Building Products, Inc., Fontana, Ca. Sean Ryan is now Southwest region sales mgr., covering Ca., Nv., Ut., Co. and N.M.

Harley James is now mgr. at 84 Lumber, Salinas. Ca.

Rick Johnson is a new lumber trader at Schuck Component Systems, wholesale division, Glendale, Az.

Carl Johnson, sales, Capital Lumber Co., Phoenix, Az., has rctired after 35 years with the co.

Curt Shoup, former president of Jensen Industries, is the new president of Columbia Manufacturing, Gardena, Ca.

Randy Brown, ex-Central Forest Products, is new to Northwest Forest Products, T[alatin, Or.

Susan Morgan, C&D Lumber, Riddle, Or., and Lyn Herbert, Herbert Lumber Co., Riddle, spent three days in June lobbying legislators in Washington, D.C., regarding timber supply.

Mark Schuclard is a new market development specialist at APA-The Engineered Wood Association, Tacoma, Wa-

Jim Cascy is now westem regional lumber mgr. for Georgia-Pacific Corp., Pleasanton, Ca., replacing Jeff Maughan, now a field technical representative for G-P's engineered wood products div., Portland, Or.

Jack Taylor, Weyerhaeuser Co., Coos Bay, Or., was elected pres. of the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau, Bellewe, Wa. Jim Hallshom, ZP-o Mills, Inc,, Eugene, Or., was elected v.p., and George Thompson, sec.treas. Tim Managan, Willamette Industries, Inc., Lebanon, Or., was appointed to the board of directors. Re-elected directors include Phitip

Davidson, Davidson Industries, Mapleton, Or.; James ttJldt Manke, Manke Lumber Co., Tacoma Wa., and R.R. "Bob" Wsltz Ir., SeattleSnohomish Mill Co., Snohomish, Wa.

Marceil Coor-Pender, Vent Vue Products, Los Angeles, Ca., vacationed recently in Switzerland.

John Stephenson, mktg. mgr., Milgard Windows, Tacoma, Wa,, and his wife, Jeanette, are the proud parents of 7 lb., 5 oz. Halley Jane, born June 13.

Dick Lundgren, Weyerhaeuser Co., Federal Way, Wa,, is back from an Eastem business trip that included the Indy 500.

Jack Powell, Georgia-Pacific Corp., Portland, Or., vacationed recently in Oklahoma.

Randy Lambert, Columbia Forest Products, Glendora, Ca., is the new pres. of the Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club. Rick O'Shea, David R. \Vebb Co., lnc., Cerritos, is v.p.; Alan Bohnhoff, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., l,os Angeles, sec.-treat., Bill trltzgerald, Weyerhaeuser Corp., Anaheim, membership chairman; trled Brocklebank, Heritage Hardwood Co., Chino, social chairman; Fred Jones and Dan Jonec, Custom Mills, Inc., City of Industry, sgts.-at-arms; Kenneth Tlnckler, Tinckler Squires Lumber Co., Los Angeles, scribe.

Directors: Dick Lambert, Strata Forest Products, Santa Ana; Vllalter

Ralcton, Coastal Lumbcr C.o., Chino, and Joe Purcell, Toal Lumber Co., Whittier.

Donald R. Brenier has been appointed westcrn regonal sales mgr. for James Hardie Inigatioq Laguna Niguel, Ca. Barbara Mayglnner, ceo and board chairman of Penofin-Performance Coatings, Inc., Ukiah, Ca, was selected as a finalist for the 1995 Bntreprc neur of the Year Award.

Greg Keller, Keller Lumber Sales, Redding, Ca., has returned from a Scottsdale, Az., golfing vacation.

Steve Hutton, Meyer Moulding, Modesto, Ca., was honored as Vendor of the Year by Kelleher Corp., San Rafael, Ca.

John Aalders, sales mgr./metal sales mgr., Georgia-Pacific, Salt Lake City, Ut.; Gordon Locke, metal sales mgr., Eugene, Or.; JelI llammett, outside sales, Riverside, Ca., and BiIl Eamilton, outside sales/industrial products, Portland, Or., have been given the vice-president's round table award.

Ted Gilbert, Product Sales Co., Orange, Ca., and his wife, Roccmary, atlend€d the recent American Fence Assn. convention in Las Vegas, Nv.

Morrls Bedder has joined the financial staff at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners Eugh Mungur and Freddy Fungus.

A Southern Californiajunior college is now offering an 18-week, hands-on course in building a steel-frame home.

For "Construction 285: Steel Framing," Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, provides its own on-campus construction site. Last semester 55 students divided into smaller teams to build seven houses.

After completing the structures, they took them apart to leave the materials for the next class.

OCC instructor Henry Rees also teaches a five-dav steel framing class.

Sondra Jameson, Rosboro Lumber, Springfield, Or., was named National Lumberwoman of the Year during the recent National Hoo-Hoo-Ette Convention in Pasadena, Ca.

Hosted by Los Angeles Club #1, the group's 33rd annual convention May 5-7 included stopovers at the Rose Bowl, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the historic Gamble House.

Elected national president was Rita Jedrzynski, J.E. Higgins Lumber Co., Sacramento, Ca.; lst v.p. Jan Ford, Columbia Plywood, Klamath Falls, Or.; 2nd v.p. Gayle Denman, Palmer G. Lewis, Auburn, Wa.; sec. Carlene Pratt, Neely Nelson Lumber, Medford, Or.; statistical sec. Sondra Jameson; treas. Gina Rosecrans, Robert S. Johnson, CPA, Medford, and directors Bettie Miller, Roseburg, Or.; Linda McGinnis, Keller Lumber Co., Roseburg, and Margaret Bailey, Kelleher Corp., Mira Loma, Ca.