Western Softwoods, Mouldings & Millwork

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Liberty Gift Hauled Cross Country

A huge abstract sculpture, Prairie Ship Liberfy, completed a three-month journey from Portland, Or. , to New York for the unveiling of the newly restored Statue of Liberty.

The 100-ft. high, 200-ft. wide environmental sculpture of brightly colored nylon sails suspended from eight masts by artist Naj Wikoff was the only land-based vessel to take part in the tallships regatta.

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Paul Anderson. Robert Glatt, division mgr., JimHaas.

Richard H. Mills (sacramento)

G.W. "Thck" Baker trtpaso)

Rosie Lopez

We are also pleased to be a West Coast area distributor for CF&I steel products as well.

BERGER & coMPAt{Y acn, (a conagra company) tAgfa IS AN INTERNATIONAL AIJ COMMODITIES TRADING ORGANIZATION WITH OFFICES IN: San Francisco, Ca. (headquarters); Chicago, Il.; Colfax, Wa.; Fargo. N.D.; Filer, Id.: Grand Cayman, British West Indies: Santiago, Chile: London, England; Geneva, Switzerland; Nicosia, Cyprus: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Moose Jaw, Canada: and Taipei, Taiwan.

AMERICA'S gift of artto France wastransported across the U.S. by a Utility Trailer 48' long, 102" wide dry freight van.The Prairie Ship Liberty was "docked" in NY to take part in the unveiling of the restored statue, then shipped to France.

After the festivities, it was shipped to France where it will be permanently erected near the Eiffel Tower as the official gift of America in exchange for the Statue of Liberty 100 years ago.

Thevan madethree-day stopsin SantaBarbara, Ca.; Salt Lake City, Ut.;Denver, Co.;Temple, Tx.;St. Louis, Mo.; Chicago, Il. ; Tampa, Fl., and Washington, D.C.

RealWood llanel Pusherc

A merchandising kit to help retailers promote sales of real wood interior paneling is now available from the Western Wood Products Association.

Items the retailer can use to build interest in real wood paneling as well as to help homeowners and do-it-yourselfers carry their paneling projects to completion, ad slicks, clip art for preparing newspaper ads and direct mail, and radio announcements are included in the comprehensive kit.

Three plan sheets provide do-it-yourself information in addition to a 2}-page book with easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations covering installation of paneling, styles of wood paneling, finishing work, and moulding and trim. A l6-page book covers the basic elements of design (color, texture and pattern) and provides information on finishes, including sealers, primers, pains and glazes, as well as transparent finishes such as lacqueq varnish, wax and oil. Another booklet shows outlines of the various paneling patterns available with actual dimensions.

The Real Wood Interiors Merchandising Kit is available from Dept. RWIK, Western Wood Products Association, 1500 Yeon Building, Portland, Or. 9204.

Sunshine. And a coolbreeze off the Pacific. Those are two of the tools Georgia-Pacific uses to S-dry Common and Rustic gades of redwood at our Ft. Bragg mill in northem Califomia.

But sometimes Mother Nature needs a little help. So we also use pre-dryers, dry kilns and other modem facilities to assure consistent qualiry in our certified, kiln-dried Bee, Clear and Clear all-heart gades.

PIus, we're members of the Glifomia Redwood tusociation and the Redwood Inspection Service. So ourgade stamp is your assurance of quality from the people who know redwood best.

Our Ft. Bragg facility is a full-service Douglas Fir mill, too. And that means one call can get you nvo of the best products Georgia-Pacific-and Mother Naturehave to offer.

Call today: 7 07I I 64 - 0281. For redwood quality you can build on.

Berger Handling MCG Sales

Berger & Co., Sacramento, Ca., and El Paso, Tx.. has been named the exclusive sales agent for MCG Picture Frames and Mouldings, Inc.

MCG, which has its headquarters in El Paso, is one of the largest moulding manufacturers in Mexico. It has a solid moulding and picture frame plant in hlo-

Palco To Double Redwood Cut

Maxxam Group Inc.'s newly acquired Pacific Lumber Co. will double its redwood harvest in northern California to ease the debt burden of the $870 million takeover by Maxxam Group Inc. last February.

Palco announced it has reorganized to shoulder $550 million of the debt, transferring its cutting and welding products business to other Maxxam subsidiaries and planning to sell is 100,000 sq. ft. San Francisco, Ca., headquarters building, 4000 acres of timberland in San Mateo County and 3,400 acres ofagricultural land in the Sacramento Valley.

The company ovns about 189,000 acres mas, Mexico, near the U.S. border and a sawmill in Culiacan. The firm does finger jointing and remanufacturing, makes moulding and operates a dry kiln at their Casas Grandes, Mexico, plant. The firm is 25 years old. of timber in Humboldt County, approximately three-quarters of which is redwood. It ranks fourth in U.S. redwood lumber production, but is the largest producer ofold growth redwood.

The former sales manager of MCG, Rosie Lopez, hasjoined the sales staffat Berser & Co.'s El Paso ofhce.

Environmentalists contend the increase will accelerate the destruction of some of the last great redwood forests, which Facif,rc Lumber had previously logged on a "continuous yield" basis, harvesting only as much timber as the forest grcnvs in a specified time period.

Maxxam, a New York investment partnership led by Charles Hurwitz of Houston. Tx.. declined to comment on environmentalists' criticisms that the timberlands would soon be exhausted.

LASC Exec Receives Top Honor

Wayne Gardner. executive vice president of the Lumber Association of Southern California, has received the Vic Hartley Association Executive of the Year award from the Southern California Society of Association Executives.

Gardner has headed the 300 member LASC for 23 years. In addition he serves as a retail member of the American Lumber Standards Committee and is on the board ofdirectors ofboth the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association and the Western Building Material Dealers Association.

He is a past president ofthe Southern California Society of Asociations and the Western Building Material Dealers Association. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Gardner has a degree in forestry and has done graduate work at USC and Southwestern School of Law.

This is the tenth year for the award which is given annually to an individual who the selection committee feels has done the most within the industry or profession they represent as well as contributing to the development of the profession of association management. Gardner received the award at the annual installation meeting, June 19, in Long Beach, Ca.