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Cedar Mill Forgery Exposed

( Continued from page 28 ) for mail fraud and sentenced to four months in prison followed by four months of home detention.

In 1992, he and his employees at Western Pacific Forest Products, Inc. obtained and used counterfeit Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau labels on cedar shakes sold by the company. Falsely representing the quality and brand of the shake material permitted the firm to make a larger profit on the materials.

The bureau discovered the bosus Certi labels and, after obtaining ihe necessary information, notified the FBI. With assistance from bureau members and independent quality control agency Warnock Hersey, the investigation uncovered the extent of the label fraud and tracked them to Western Pacific.

Sierra Club Out On A Limb

Most Americans do not support the Sierra Club's push for a total logging ban on all public lands.

Responding to a recent Oregonian editorial by two Sierra Club members contending a majority favor the ban, Bob Moore wrote that his 15 years of polling reveal citizens want balance in the forest. According to the pollster, in May 1995,82V0 of Oregonians said they believe the "national forests should continue to be managed for a variety of uses including timber harvest activities." National 1995 data showed 6OVo of Americans asree that environmental leaders typicafy "push for solutions which are too extreme for me."

New Lumber Grading Firm

Ron Stanley, former quality assurance mgr. and 38-year-employee of Weyerhaeuser Co, Springfield, Or., has opened Stanley Quality Grading Services, Springfield, specializing in grading all species of western lumber. The new firm grades lumber for mills, remanufacturers and wholesalers in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Northern California and will issue its own certification.

Although rare for an individual lumber grader to be certified by the three major western lumber inspection agencies, Stanley is certified with all three (West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau, Western Wood Products Association and Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau).

Murder Suspect Blames HomeBase

An unemployed ex-convict confessed to slaying a customer service manager at HomeBase, Santa Ana, Ca., but blamed company officials for not training the victim to hand over money to robbers without question, reports The Orange County Register.

Scott H. Wilson, 30, was shot once at close range in the right temple about 5 p.m. June 13 and died approximately six hours later.

Twenty-four hours later, police arrested Daniel Carl Frederickson, 33, who has a long criminal record and admitted he wanted to return to prison for the rest of his life.

Frederickson said he waited near the front of the store for an hour before Wilson opened the safe to change a $50 bill, then aPProached him and demanded all the money inside.

"I told him to put it in a box and he refused. He closed the safe and walked away, looking at me," Frederickson said. He said he then shot Wilson out of frustration because he walked away.

The suspect reportedlY then fled without taking any money and soon after called the store from a pay phone to find out what happened. He said he asked for a store manager but a police officer answered, pretending to be a company offrcial.

"I don't like life on the outside," Frederickson said. "I was raised in institutions, and I like that. I've made my desires and goals known to everybody. It's more comfortable for me to be in prison for the rest of my life. They chose to ignore those warning signs."

Wilson transferred to the store in April after three years at HomeBase in Vista. Ca.