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CHUCK LINK executive director

f r vOu HAVE personnel set up I as exempt under Wage & Hour because of "executive-administrativeor professional" and pay them on a salary basis, you must be extremely careful about "temporary" military leave such as National Guard or Reserve Camp.

For military leave - up to 3 months he must be paid his full salary for any week in which he does any work. You can, however, offset this salary with any military pay he recieves.

If you fail to do so, you could lose the exemption and his time would be considered hourly. Should this happen, his so<alled weekly salary would be considered regular time and all houn over 40 would be owed at time and a half.

For leaves over 3 months you may pay forjust days worked.

Nothing in Wage & Hour prohibits an agreement between you and the employee to charge his military leave against vacation, whether it be for partial or full work weeks. We highly recommend this agreement be in writing, attested by both parties and a part of your payroll records.

June marked WBMA past president Ansel Hyland's 50th year in the retail lumber business with Eugene Planing Mill in Eugene, Or. We sincerely congratulate him for a very successful and rewarding career, and best wishes for the future.

Another past president, Homer Greer. of Home Lumber, Inc., SunnYside, Wa., has been naned "1977 Pro Mart Retailer of the Year" for Oregon, Washington and Idaho, encompassing 42 stores. He is among six finalists for the National award. Congratulations, Homer. We hope you go all the way. Boise Cascade has opened a new 8,000 sq. ft. Builder Service Center in Pasco. Wa. The store is designed to serve both consumers and contractors; Willis Kellie is gen. manager for the new Pasco and the Kennewick stores. Ms. Jan Corrieri is store manager at Kennewick and Russ Jardine is asst. manager at Pasco.

Hartnagel Building Supply Co., Port Angeles, Wa., has held a grand opening for their new store. We welcome this new member and its owners, Gerald Mills and Gordon Hall. and wish them much success in the future.

FRANK DAVIS executive vice president

THg Arizona Lumber and Builders f Supply Association will again be offering two Lumber Industry oriented courses at Phoenix College in the 1978 fall semester in the evening division.

Those to be offered are Building Materials Merchandising, MK 122 and Marketing, MK 123.

Ray Wells, education chairman, Norm Ricci, Loyd Bowerman, instructors and yours truly,recently met and redesigned the marketing course to what we felt would better train the employee in the marketing area.

The association office is preparing a course outline built around sales and marketing to be introduced in the fall of 1978 in Tucson.

This will be a six week employee training cou$e to be handled under association guidance, and will not be a part of any community college scheduled course.

August is vacation month for me. Maye and I will be enjoying the Oregon TallTrees and seeing old friends in the lumber industry of which we were a part for many yeius in the Northwest.

Wood Foundation Gains

The All Weather Wood Foundation system employing pressure treated lumber and plywood "could easily achieve a 7Vo penetration of the heretofore locked-in-concrete residential and light frame foundation construction market within the next five years," predicts the American Wood Preservers Institute.

"The home building industry will be producing more units annually by 1980 than in the entire first 10 years of the AWWF's existence," according to an AWPI spokesman. "There are by now about 20,000 units in the ground. This year and next should see a doubling of that figure producing something like 40-to-50,000 units, total, by 1980. After that, the curve should go sharply up."

Code problems are more or less taken cate of, says AWPI. Builders can now have major foundation components in the AWWF system prefabricated and delivered to the job site. Once there, only one trade, carpenters, is involved with erection of the foundation. Also, the foundation can, as its name implies, be erected in virtually any kind of weather.

"A wood foundation is a better insulator, is easy either for the builder or the do-it-yourself homeowner to finish, and provides a drier, more comfortable living environment below-grade," claims AWPI which also points out that the wood foundation is an entirely new market for the forest products industries.

According to estimates, |ust a lWo market penetration (about 180,000 homes) would require some 450 million board feet of lumber and 150 million square feet of plywood."

(916) 824-5427

EOR MOST of us, the past f- .three years have been outstanding as l-ar as sales and growth of our companies are concerned.

We have taken a great amount from our industry. What have we given back? Many have given a considerable amount of time and effort on the behalf of all of us while others have returned very little.

There is an opportunity for every one of us to demonstrate our support of an ildustry that has provided us with our livelihood. I encourage each of you to join with me in these coming activities.

During October I I - 14, our national association will host the annual meeting in Music City, USA, Nashville, Tn. This is a fantastic and unusual setting for a national meeting that will be well attended by dealers from across the nation. California attendance has always been sparse at our national annual meetings, even when they were held in San Diego and San Francisco. This year, we plan on a large California group to enjoy the activities in Nashville. The association will mail a program outline, registration form and hotel registration to members.

The next area of great concern is our lack of concem in legislative issues within our own state. Legislation being signed into law recently is attempting to set up private business along the same lines as the state welfare agencies. We are expected to donate our merchandise to the consumer and at the same time provide employees with high minimum wages, guaranteed wages, short work days and weeks, no overtime and on and on.

We plan to develop programs through the association that will make our voice heard in Sacramento. The first step we will take will be the programming of a State Legislative Day where California dealers wi-Il assemble in Sacramento for briefings from key persons on critical issues affecting our industry in the state. After the briefings dealers will visit their own State Senators and Assemblymen to further discuss these issues and make the legislators aware of the industry problems.

During the past two years there has been an increased awareness among members of our industry that they must take part in legislative activities at the state and federal levels. They are finding that they have a voice in government and that they can no longer sit on the sidelines while every other group applies the thumb screws to the legislators, leaving us with left overs.