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T HOSE OF us who have derived I mediocre, modest, moderate or magnanimous incomes in the wood products field owe more than just a casual thank you, and a backward glance, to our nation's only replenishable natural resource.

In many cases it has been the one and only source of revenue since we first acquired a number on the Social Security roster.

Some of our constituents and contemporaries have no doubt tried to abort their association with the industry and have subsequently returned to their first love.

Timber is, above all, (no pun intended) the conglomerate of Cod's natural resources. To name all of the by-products of the tree would be a Herculean task.

The following might well do for starters: lumber, paneling, moldings. doors, windows, floors, ceilings, newsprint, packaging, particle board, hardboard, decorative bark, firewood, matches, toothpicks, baseball bats, rolling pins, ladders and bridges and vess.els and trestles. On and on. ad infinitum.

The world is, indeed, indebted to the forests and it would tax the imagination to name all the products produced from the raw pro- ducts, the bi-products and the residue of this most remarkable example of God's artistry.

And lest we forget, if we never took it from its natural habitat it would still glorify nature's landscape and serve as the symbol of our traditional Christmas holiday.

Those who have never visited the picturesque timber stands of the West, nor toured the mills that produce and manufacture the finished products, have truly been denied a spine-tingling treat.

Some of us, for that matter, have difficulty traversing the area without interrupting normal routine vacation schedules by stopping every time we see smoke curling from a stack. That kind of dedication surely doesn't encompass all in the industry but those who belong to the cult are legion in number.

It's terribly easy to overlook the number of people who derive all or part of their income from the forests but it isn't too difficult to assemble some awesome references.

For example (other than the producing sawmills, veneer and plywood plants and other producers of the bi-products). furniture manu-

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Floor Servlce SupplyCo. Honored

^ For outstanding_sales achievement, Floor Service Supply Co., San Jose, Ca., has been named Distributor of inl Year on the West Coast for Dura Seal floor finishing products.

_ The award was presented to Anthony Andries and Larry lFptr"n of Floor-service Supply Co., by Jack Ganeti, district manager of the Dura S-eal'div. of the Minwax Co.

IWAR0: Anthony^Andries, (center) president of Floor Service Supply Co., San Jose, Ca., accepts the Distributor of lhe year nward ioi Dura Seal floor finishing products. Jack Garrett, (left) district manager ol Dura Seal, made presentation to Andries and v.p. Larry Stephen, (at right).

lll[.0 STUllYlllG junior executives enrolled in the Western Building Material Assn. marketing class took a day for touring palmer Gl Lewis, Auburn, Wa., offices and distribuiion center-were Mike Bates, Seattle Lumber Co., Renton, Wa.; Rolland Brower, McDaniei Building Supply, Eugene, 0r.; George Csiki, Madison Lbi. & Hdwe., Ketchikan, .fk; J_!m Doit, Diamond Btdg. Suppty, Anchorage, Ak j Wanda Godkin, Eugene Planning Mill,-Eugene,'0r; Charle-s'Gurr, Pacific County Lum.ber, Raymond, Wa; Don Hall, Don Abel Bldg. Supplies, Juneau, Ak; Muriel Larson, Eugene planing Mill, Eugen6, 0r; Randy Macomber, Blakely & Hout, Chehalis, Wa; Wayne Uann, James Lumb_er, Poulsbo, Wa; Gene Mecham, Jolley Bld!. Supply, Shelley, ld; Robert Peterson, McDaniet Bldg. Supply, fJgene,'Oi; Larry Schaller, Ft. Jones Lumber yard, Ft.lone's, Ca; nanOait C. Schneckloth, Evergreen Lumber, port 0rchaid, Wa; Oonna Scrim_shire, Bldrs. Material, Longview, Wa; Douglas Shrock, Hubbard Bldg. Supplies, Hubbard,0r; Chuck Sylvestie, Don Abei Btdg. Supplies, Juneau, Ak; Steve Williams, Wiliiams Tiue Value Hom-e Center, Seattle, Wa. They were accompanied by Ross G. Kincaid, director, building material marketing course, 'and pGL'ers Ken Gohrick, Schell Harmon, and Jim Beniley.

Western Building Action

Western states are expected to account for 370/o of the predicted 929,000 new housing starts in the metropolitan areas of the United States this year, according to figures released by the National Association of Home Builders.

Los Angeles-Long Beach, Ca., and San Diego, Ca., each with 38,000 starts forecast; Seattle-Everett, Wa., 32,976', Riverside-San Bernardino, Ca., and Phoenix, Az., each with 32,000, and Anaheim-Santa AnaGarden Grove. Ca., 22.500, are listed as six of the ten potentially most active markets in the nation.

Others are Houston, Tx., 57,635; Dallas-Ft. Worth, Tx., 50,000; Chicago, Il., 43,000, and Detroit, Mi., 22,000.

Three other western areas are in the top 20: Denver, Co., l lth; Portland, Or., 17th, and San Francisco-Oakland. Ca.. l8th.

With 340,000 housing starts projected for the metropolitan areas of the western states, 600/o of these are expected to be single-family units.

Handle ComplaintsCourteously

The handling of employee complaints offers an opportunity to improve employee relations.

- Give each cbmplaint immediate, courteous attention. Make the worker feel that you have regard for him and his problems. Take notes, repeat the details to show the employee that you understand fully, thank the worker for bringing the problem to your attention. Set a date for meeting with the person to review the decision.

Investigate the-employee's record to find out if he is a chronic complainer. Check on his attendance, cooperation, job performance rating. Research prior decisions and higher management opinions. Take all factors into consideration.

If the decision is for change, make the employee feel that he is responsible for improved efficiency. If the decision is negative, explain why. If it is necessary to tell the worker tiat the coinplaint ii not justified, be cburteous and firm.

Home Genter Award Program

The Home Center of The Year Awards Program, created in 1974 to provide national recognition for outstanding home center retail operations, heads into its sixth year with a substantial record of annual growth behind it.

The number of awards presented rose from eight the first year to 33 for 1978.

In addition, the program has become international in scope, with Canadian, Puerto Rican and Japanese Home Ceriters taking honors along with entries from the U.S. Awards for a given year are presented during the annual National Home Center/Home Improvement Congress & Exposition held the following spring. Awards for 1979 will be presented at the 1980 show in Dallas, March 2-5.

Wood Pallet Record

For the l6th time in the last l9 years, the wooden pallet industry set a new production record in 1978. With an estimated 270 million wooden pallets produced, they consumed 6.7 billion board feet of lumber which was 170/o of total lumber production in the United States.