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Unique P&M Cut Stock Plant

P&M Cedar Products, Stockton, Ca., has slated a mid-August opening for its cut stock plant in Anderson, Ca.

The facility will initially produce incense cedar, fingerjoint block, cut stock and moulding blanks with a maximum, three-shift capacity of 40 million feet annually, according to Mark Jantzer, national sales manager, millwork and retail products.

Although P&M is currently manufacturing cut stock on a smaller scale in McCloud, Ca., the Anderson operation is unique in its design for consumption of shop materials from P&M's five existing sawmills.

"We will feed it out of our own mills," said Jantzer. "This guarantees raw materials consistent in quality and supply year-round."

Group Buys Fontana Wood

Jack O'Bannon and Harry Holmes, both formerly of Far West Fir Sales,

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Huntington Beach, Ca., have purchased Fontana Wood Products, Fontana, Ca., from Armando Castro, who founded the company in l98l.

O'Bannon, Far West general manager from 1975 to 1987, will serve as Fontana president; Holmes, vice president, and Bob Porter, secretary/treasurer.

Other stockholders include Porter, sec./treas., California Timberline, Chino, Ca.; Bill Gunnell, pres., California Timberline; Pete Skibba, v.p., California Timberline, and Fred Brocklebank, Heritage Hardwoods, Inc., Chino.

Holmes said, "The major emphasis will change from unloading rail cars and custom milling to include a great amount of equipment, three lumber sheds and lumber remanufacturing. The emphasis will now be heavy to industrial accounts and the mobile home industrv."

Miller Buys Northcrest Assets

Miller Redwood, Crescent City, Ca., has purchased major assets including logs, mill machinery and equipment from Northcrest, Inc., also in Crescent City.

Northcrest will retain all land, lumber, hauling equipment and company name, although the operations will change drastically, said Roy Tower, secretary/treasurer.

Japanese Buy Wa. Firm

The largest home builder in Japan has signed a preliminary agreement to purchase West Coast Forest Products Inc., Arlington, Wa.

Sekisui House Ltd., the housing division of Sekisui Chemical Co. with $3.5 billion in gro.ss sales in 1986 and $165 million in profits, would acquire all shares of the company, making West Coast a wholly owned subsidiary of Sekisui, according to West Coast president Brian Jones.

West Coast takes raw green lumber, processes it into doors, mouldings and other building components, and sells them primarily domestically. Sekisui is seeking a source of raw materials for home construction, although Jones foresees the company keeping domestic customers work directly with your dealers, we at Willamette continue to devote our get you competitively to market with the best in lumber and plywood products, backed by non-stop service. Real servrce.

The company will also retain its current employees, management and operations, Jones said.

It can be tough moving lumber and plywood profitably, especially in today's business world.

That's why, while others may For over 80 years now, we've helped efforts to you, our wholesaler.

You get personal, immediate attention from your Willamette sales professional who works nght from our mills. Using our computer network and warehouse resources, we take your order, track it through our system and get you the products you need, on time. Every time.

To put Willamette teamwork to work for you, give us a call-in the

West at (503) 926-7771, in the South at (318) 255-6258.

Together, we'll steer a steady course to market. Profitably.

Tom Lapinski has joined Duke City Lumber Co., Albuqerque, N.M., as asst. to the pres., according to Frank C. See Jr., v.p. of marketing., who will be succeeded by Lapinski when he retires in early 1988.

John A. Emery has been appointed sec. of the American Plywood Association, Tacoma, Wa., according to pres. Bill Robison.

Michael R. O'Halloran, asst. director, American Plywood Association technical services div., has been named pres. of the Forest Products Research Society.

Ron Stevens, Sierra Pacific Industries, Redding, Ca., will hold his fourth annual Gin Rummy Seminar in Hawaii in November. Reluctant participants include Jack Davies, Sierra Pacific; Cliff Piazza, Timber Operator's Council, and Jerry Bruce, Green Forest Lumber Co., according to Bruce.

Bill Gray is the new sales mgr. at Cascade Lumber, Cottage Grove, Or.

Mark Warren has returned to The Flecto Co., Oakland, Ca., as Northwest regional sales mgr.

J.F. "Jack" Newman, Weldwood ol Canada Ltd.. Vancouver. B.C.. has been elected pres. of the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau. New oflicers are v.p. Ron Dersham, Weyerhaeuser Co., North Bend, Or.; sec.-mgr./ treas. George Thompson, Bellevue, Wa., and directors R.M. "Bob" Sitter, Whonnock Industries Ltd.; R.L. Spence, Packwood Lumber Co., and John Thorlakson, Tolko Industries Ltd. Other directors include W.G. Crooks, Don-Lee Davidson, Don Dowsley, R.A. Drake, William G. Hallstrom, Brian Jones, J.E. Kennedy, J.W. Latimer, James Manke, James Robinson and R.R. Waltz, Jr.

Jim Salyers is gen. mgr. of Grayhawk West Inc., Union Gap, Wa.

Terry Simpson and Dennis Dixon, Tricon Forest Products, Bellevue, Wa., and Dean Fox, Rough & Ready Lumber Co., Cave Junction, Or., were among the 7500 runners in the lOth Annual 15K Cascade Run-Offin Portland, Or.

Dean Fox, Rough & Ready Lumber Co., Cave Junction, Or., and his wife, Donna, treated their l6-year-old granddaughter, Tanya, to a vacation in Hawaii in July.

Roderick Steele, pres., Potlatch Corp., San Francisco. Ca.. has retired after 24 years with the firm.

Bob Edwards is now market development mgr. for Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, ld. Other new mgrs. include Jim Sterrett, plywood sales and marketingt M ary Jo Nyblad, western plywood sales; Tom Lovlien, lumber sales and marketing; Tom Shew, lumber sales; Dean Short, beams and decking sales; Rick Flores, national accounts marketing; Max Buxton, international marketing; Comer Brown, particleboard sales, and Jim Flores, industrial lumber sales.

Frank Jason has been elected senior v.p. of Hirt & Wood Lumber Co., Inc., Eugene, Or., according to R.E. Hirt.

Joseph Norton is now western regional sales mgr. for Price Pfister, Pacoima, Ca., according to Rod Yamin, sales v.p.

John King has joined Mallco Lumber & Building Materials, Phoenix, Az., as industrial products mgr., according to Duncan R. Hossack, v.p./gen. mgr. Kim Dahlgren has joined Weyerhaeuser's customer service center, Sepulveda, Ca,, as an account rep. Mark Edward Wyatt, Boise Casade, Golden, Co., married Donna Jean Tucker on June 20, 1987.

August 1987

Clint Bower, Mariners Forest Products, Santa Ana, Ca., reports his co. softball team beat Don Weber's, Weber Plywood, Tustin, Ca., 15 to 9, a victory Bower modestly describes as "a watershed event for Western Civilization."

El Louise Waldron, Waldron Forest Products, Carmichael, Ca., has just returned to work after a successful surgery.

George Wood is the new sales mgr./CB cedar at Caffall Bros. Forest Products, Coos Bay, Or.

Joe Shipman has been promoted to marketing director of Navajo Forest Products Industries, Navajo, NM. Mitch Boone succeeds him as gen. sales mgr.

Leonard Newman has joined the sales team at Product Sales Co., Orange, Ca., according to Ted Gilbert.

Del Orren has been named gen. mgr. of Simpson Timber Co.'s panel door operations, McCleary, Wa., according to Jess Drake, NW v.p. and gen. mgr.

Charlie Barnes, Jones Wholesale Lumber Co., Lynwood, Ca., married Annette Golibart on Aug. l, 1987, followed by their honeymoon in Cancun, Mexico.

John Kerr has been promoted to branch mgr. of Weyerhaeuser's Anaheim, Ca., customer service center.

Sterling Wolfe, Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Tustin, Ca., recently attended the 5Oth anniversary class reunion of his alma mater, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Oh.. before a Florida visit.

Mike Ketterling is new to sales with White Bros., Sacramento, Ca., according to Craig Kincaid, gen. mgr.

Scott Gates, Atko Building Materials, Scottsdale. Az.. and his wife. Lani. are the parents of 8 lb.,2 oz. Clark Douglas Gates, born June 25,1987.

Carl Dupray, Dupray Redwood Sales, La Palma, Ca., has returned after a couple of weeks in Spain.

Lanny Owens is new to sales at Michigan-California Lumber Co., Camino, Ca.

Bob Reynolds is a new trader at Northwest Crating, Inc., Portland, Or. Don Treece is now in sales.

William Graham has retired from the Red Cedar Shingle & Handsplit Shake Bureau after 40 years in the business.

Stan Cochran has joined the sales force at Cal State Forest Products, Anaheim, Ca., according to pres. John Turner, Patrick Hunter, Waldron Forest Products. Carmichael. Ca.. and his wife. Jennifer, are the proud parents of 8 lb., l3 oz. Nicholas Patrick Hunter, born June 18, 1987.

Rei Olsen, Western Turnings & Stair Co., Commerce City, Co., and his wife, Leila, are entertaining a Norwegian friend, Finn Gudim of Norema, a large Scandi navian kitchen equipment firm, who is here with his family visiting the West.

Leslie Click Cleveland, v.p., board member and gen. counsel, Click & Geddes Lumber Co., Denver, Co., has joined the management staff fulltime, according to L.D. "Pete" Click. Jerry C. Ellefson is new to sales.

Marie Wood is now the payable/credit back up at Ganahl Lumber Co., Garden Grove, Ca. Additions include Noah Clark, Jeffrey Finch and Robert Navarro. New to the Corona, Ca., store are Robert Behnke, Carlos Casillas, Michael Harris, Jaime Valdivia, James Vikupitz, and Debra Anderson (transfer from Anaheim).

George Clough, mgr., Anfinson Lumber Sales Inc., Arcadia, Ca., has retired after 66 years in the business. At 85 years old, he may have been the oldest active member in the industry, according to Creighton Anfinson, Dres.

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Ronald M. Brill, c.f.o., Home Depot, and William G. Kelley, exec. v.p., have been named to the board of directors.

Jon Wolfe, Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Tustin, Ca., was joined in drift boat fishing on the McKenzie River by Charley Willet, Oregon Cedar Products, Springfield, Or.; Jon Friesen, F-riesen Lumber, St. Helens. Or.; Scott Daley, Alder Creek Lumber Co., Portland, Or.; Mitch Swanson, Superior Lumber, Glendale. Or.: and Dave Bartel, Random Lengths.

Maryin Howell and Jim Nall, Lumbermen's, Redmond, Wa., have been elected July Employees of the Month by their co-workers.

Tommie Jimenez has been transferred to contractor invoice processing at Ganahl Lumber Co., Anaheim, Ca. Promotions include Allison Bradley, Claudette Kirk, Jody Calcaterra, Scott Genovese and Jack Quinn. Additions include Trevor Hargrave, Walter Hall, Jason Tabb, Robert Birgen, Calvin Ford, Thomas Kantor, Ronald Skorich, John Murphy, Joe Lopez, John Robillard, Marco Vargas, Elizabeth Faunce and Erin Balden. Mark Loeffler is new to the architectural mill, where Paul Dyer is a new management trainee.

Ken Sears, Ganahl Lumber Co. architectural mill, Anaheim, Ca., and his wife, Debbie, are the parents of 7 lb. l4 oz. Mark Christopher Sears, born July 5, 1987. Roger McGill is celebrating his 30th anniversary with Ganahl.

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David Andersen has joined Hampton Lumber Sales, Portland, Or., specializing in inland species sales.

Paul Reash is new to Enterprise Wallcoverings, Inc., Carson, Ca., as operations mgr.

Stan Cochran has joined the sales team at Cal State Forest Products, Anaheim, Ca., according to John Turner, pres.

Al Franzke Jr. is a new wholesale sales rep for Fallow Forest Products, Lake Oswego, Or.

Steve Baugh, v.p., Industrial Forest Products, Inc., Diamond Bar. Ca.. and his wife, Patricia, are the proud parents of 7 lb., 13 oz. Warren Clayton Baugh, born July l, 1987.

Dave Wertz is now in sales at Broadview Lumber Co., Albuquerque, N.M.

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"Hap" Hasty has joined the lumber sales dept. at Sierra Pacific Industries, Redding, Ca., according to Ron Hoppe, sales mgr.

Doug Wiltis has joined the expanding sales team at Product Sales Co.' Orange, Ca., according to Pres. Ted Gilbert.

Larry Crabtree, Pacific Lumber Terminal, Wilmington, Ca., is back from an Oregon vacation.

Monty Mclaughlin is a new sales reP at Builders Hardware & SuPPIY Co., Pasco, Wa.

Ramsey Fendall, RSG Forest Products, Kalama, Wa., has vacationed in the Washington, D.C., and Virginia areas.

Greg W6rner is now with the domestic wholesale staff of Perry H. Koplik & Sons. Portland, Or.

Lance Duke and Greg Doan are initial staffers at a new branch sales oflice specializing in plywood, oPened bY Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Tustin. Ca., in Corona, Ca., according to Sterling Wolfe.

Bradford W. Morgan has been named v.p. and director of marketing and sales at GAF Building Materials Corp.

Mick Winakur has joined Broadview Lumber Co., Phoenix, Az., as a salesman.

Bob Dewald is now at Rivendell Forest Products, Englewood, Co., as a buyer.

Allan Warman is a new trader at Arthur A.Pozzi Co., Portland, Or.

Patrick G. Farrah, co-founder of Home Depot, has been named Pres. and coo of the All American SPortsClub chain.

Mark Wysong is the new exec' v.p. and ceo at The CamPbell Group, Portland, Or.

Kim Dahlgren has joined Weyerhaeuser's customer service center, Sepulveda, Ca., as an account rep.

Mark Edward Wyatt, Boise Casade, Golden. Co.. married Donna Jean Tucker on June 20, 1987.

Robert H. Waterman Jr. has been named a director of Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, ld. He is the co-author ofthe best selling book "ln Search of Excellence."

William S. Ripley, pres., marketing' Pfaltzgraff Co., has been elected chairman o[ the National Housewares Manufacturers Associaton, according to Jay Spaulding, Pres. and c.o'o.

Anita Job is now in the emPloYment dept. at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products. Climax, Nv. according to Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

50th tlrE0lltl{G anniversary was celebrated recentlv bv veteran lumberman Frank Curran (tower iight) and his wife, Nan. Rear: sons Dwioht, DMK-Pacif ic, Fremont, Ca., and Deniy, South Bay Forest Products, Orange, Ca. The elder Curran operated the Frank Curran Lumber Co., which at one time had four yards in Orange County, Ca., from 1935 until he retired in 1968. A graduate ol Loyola University, Curran began his career with the old Homer Burnaby Lumber Co. in West Los Anoeles. The lamed Mitchell Boys Choir, which oerlormed at the Curran's marriage as a brand new musical organization at that time, returned, with founder Bob Mitchell, to perform again at the Curran's 50th wedding anniversary.

It's important to our customers to havelhe highest quality of sawn surfaces. At p&M we combine years of tooling experience with state-of-the-art techniques to assure you of accutale sizes and outstanding surface quality of our CedarPro products.

But machines are only part of the story. A mill still requires expert understanding to fit the right saw to the right job for excellent machinability, sharp clean edges. It's cost efficientto cut cleanly and precisely.

Precision cuts for quality Cedarpro products. That's what we take pride in.

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