Forest Products

DouglasFir - HemFir

Redwood-Cedar Spruce

serving the west since 1950. We invite you to utilize our automatic lumber stacker.

300,000' kiln capacity

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For your additional convenience we are rail served.

"OUR BAG is lumber and hardware" promotion won a Home Center of the Year award for Buena Park Lumber and Hardware, Buena Park, Ca. Distribution of 100,000 bags with that printed slogan and an offer ol 25h off regular prices for anything that could be carried in the bag resulted in a tremendous response, according to James G. Nelson, advertising mgr., (right) who received the award from Marlene Lewis, during the sixth annual Home Center of the Year Awards program sponsored by Vance Publishing Co. Buena Park store is a three time winner in this comoetition.

Floor Installation School

The fourth session of the Hardwood Flooring Installation School will be held in Memphis, Tn., Sept. 15-18, according to the joint sponsors, American Parquet Assn. and the National Oak Flooring Mfrs. Assn.

Only 55 students can be accommodated, according to Claude Taylor, director of sales for Memphis Hardwood Flooring Co. and school committee chairman. Subjects covered include manufacture of hardwood flooring, types of sub-floors and preparation for laying a finished floor, methods of installing strip and parquet flooring, sanding, fi nishing, trouble-shooting and related topics.

Instruction involves lectures, demonstrations and actual installation by the students. Applicants must be sponsored by a producing member of APA or NOFMA.

Questions You Shouldn't Ask

When interviewing a prospective employee, be careful to steer away from questions which can be considered discriminatory.

These five questions and others of this nature should be avoided. (1) What is your religion? (2) Do you have school-age children? (3) How long have you been living at your current address? (4) Are you manied? (0 Were you ever arrested?

Instead, ask this type of question. (l) Will there be any problems if you have to work on a weekend? (2) Are there any reasons why you might not be able to make an overnight business trip? (3) What is your address?

Questions on marital status and dependents should not be asked until after a person is hired. Then, if asked in connection with insurance or payroll deduction forms, they are allowed. If job-related, you can ask if the person has ever been convicted of a felony.

Hiring Guidelines

Keeping good employees can maintain continuity and strengthen a business. These nine suidelines may be helpful.

(l) Analyze the experience and characteristics needed for the job, then recruit the best, not the most available, person.

(2) Test skills, check references, interview thoroughly and thoughtfully to make a careful selection.

(3) Keep in mind that long train- ing programs can be frustrating and make the first job both a challenge and an opportunity for recognition and achievement.

(4) Provide a satisfying working situation with good conditions.

(5) Stimulate performance with rewards, notonly raises and bonuses, but opportunities such as visits to company branches, presentations to top management, trips to meetings. and new equipment.

(6) Recognize and make records of managers with an ability to develop those they supervise.

(7) Review promotability as well as performance in evaluations.

(8) Make promotions available to all employees. Establish an open door policy with management available to talk with any employee without going through channels.

(9) When good people leave, part on good terms, leaving the door open for rehiring, a practice on the upswing.

Custom Reman U Factu Ring

Prompt service, quality, and a desire to please is our business. Call us for your custom milling requirements.

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