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Lumbermen At Earth Day Proiect

The Los Angeles/Orange County Hoo-Hoo Club, part of the international fraternal order of lumbermen, recently provided treats, trees and teaching to Serrano Elementary School children, Villa Park, Ca., to support [:arth t)ay activities.

When the children decided to collect money to buy trees to plant around the school and at Fullerton Arboretum, student council faculty adviser Kathy Buss contacted [)ennis Richardson, Hoo-Hoo media chairman, asking support in providing a treat for the children should they reach their goal. The club offered to buy ice cream and provide seedlings.

On Earth Day, red plastic collection buckets filled with pennies the children had saved and money earned from various recycling efforts contained almost $1,300. In addition, 210 Douglas fir nursery seedlings were sent from Northern California by Claudia Jennings of Redwood Forest Products, Ukiah, Ca.

Hoo-Hoo members were thanked at a student body assembly June 6. Richardson, Oregon-Canadian Forest Products, and Rod Kautz, South Bay F'orest Products, club president, represented the club and gave a forestry presentation to the fifth grade class.

New Great ldeas Contest

Sister publications The Merchanl Magazine and Building Produt'ts Diges/ have begun a national search for lumber dealers and home centers' most original attention getters. Wholesalers and distributors are also encouraged to enter the contest.

The Great ldeas Contest covers anything that gets your customers to

Blue Lake/Hoopa Agreement

lllue Lake lrorest Products and Hoopa Valley l)evelopment Enterprise, a Hoopa Tribal Government (lhartered Corporation, and its subsidiary, Hoopa Forest Industries, have signed a joint venture agreement committing the tribe's annual allowable sustained yield timber harvest to lllue Lake for five years.

In turn. Blue Lake has committed employment opportunities, donations of land, unused sawmill equipment for use on the reservation and a substantial share of profits to Hoopa l;orest Industries, Bruce M. Taylor, president of the Arcata, Ca., look twicewhether it is an innovative display inside the store, a clever traffic stopper out front, a billboard, truck paint job, you name it.

Photos of the best ideas will appear in the magazines' December 1990 annual Business Forecast issues.

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Roseburg For Sale

Reports that Roseburg lrorest Products, Roseburg, Or., is for sale are correct, a company spokesman confirmed as this issue went to press.

No sale price has been set on the deal, according to H.C. Bowen Smith oi l)illon Read & Co., Inc., the New York-based financial house that is handling the transaction for Roseburg. He indicated that the rumored price of $1.2 billion was higher than the anticipated sale price.

company, said. Since Blue Lake's startup in 1986, Hoopa F-orest Industries has become its largest supplier. The tribe is the largest private timber owner in eastern Humboldt County.

l]lue Lake is completing a computerization and modernization program that will increase the eflciency of the mill and allow it to utilize all types of lumber. The company has grown into a state of the art cutting mill with the latest scanning and computer technology and thin kerf sawing. securing the maximum yield out of resource, Taylor commented.

The contpany is privately held and it is believed that founder Kenneth l;ord, 82, and his heirs own most or all of the shares of Roseburg Forest I)roducts.

lncluded in the sale are 740,000 acres of tintberland plus plywood, particleboard and luntber mills in ('alifornia and Oregon. llowen Smith said that they expect to sell the company to a single buyer, but he did not rule out the possibility of several purchasers buying various parts of the firm.

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Bill Sullivan, Golding Sullivan Lumber Sales, Tustin, Ca., and his wife, Nancy, are the proud parents of Anna Victoria Sullivan, born July 7, I 990.

Julie Hogg is handling panel sales to the western U.S. for International Paper.

John Ferguson, Michigan-California Lumber Co., Camino, Ca., is the new chairman of the Western Wood Products Association's export committee, according to WWPA chairman Tom Richards. John Kerns, Weyerhaeuser, is chairman of the committee on machine stress rating.

Alberta Perez is now in-house sales coordinator flor Mariners Forest Products, Santa Ana, Ca., according to pres. Clint Bower. Bob Horne is new to the will call dept.

Garry Brown has joined Builders Emporium, Irvine, Ca., as exec. v.p.merchandising.

Gary D. Dennis, former mgr., Western Lumber Co., Solana lleach, Ca., is a new sales associate for The Jelley Co., Encinitas, Ca.

Mark Gallant, legislative director, National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association, Washington, D.C., has resigned to join the Chlorine Institute, also D.C.-based.

Cheryl Maser has joined the Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association as a publication specialist. She will be doing certain work formerly done by Kathryn E. Smith, who has returned to school.

David Higi has joined Diablo Timber Co., Napa, Ca., after I I years with Georgia-Pacific, Santa Rosa, Ca. Glen Jantzer, v.p. - special projects, P&M Cedar Products. Stockton, Ca.. has retired after 28 years in the industry, the last 2l with P&M. He continues as a consultant.

Pat Hunter, Waldron Forest Products, Carmichael, Ca., enjoyed a Maui, Hi., vacation.

Dick Kidder, Capitol Plywood, Sacramento, Ca., plans to retire at the end ol October.

Gene Pietila, Fontana Wholesale Lumber, Inc., Fontana, Ca., and his wife, Kathy, celebrated their third wedding anniversary in Lake Tahoe, Nv., as the guests of Ben and Patty Leany, Western Wood, Inc., Chico, Ca.

Randy Collins has joined the sales force at Mokelumne River Forest Products, Lodi, Ca., report John Diederich and Gordon Roby.

Ginny Daniels is new to sales at Louisiana-Pacilic's treating plant in Ukiah, Ca., according to Tom Gardiner.

J. Dale Fleshman is now selling a wide range ol lumber products at Waldron Forest Products, Carmichael, Ca., according to El Louise Waldron.

Mike Henderson has joined the international div. of Tunrac Lunrber Co., Portland, Or., handling sales of secondary nranulactured lunrber products fronr Southeast Asia.

Craig Kincaid and Keith Schleichardt were low net winners at a J0-teanr golf match at (larson Valley Country Club sponsored by Copeland Luntber Co., Minden, Nv., Randy Smith, n-lgr.

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Len Adamo is the new nrktg. nrgr. for Redwood Empire, Inc., (lloverdale, Ca.

Fred R. Brotherton will remain c.f.o. ol Pay 'N Pak, Kent, Wa., having stepped in lor Doug Southern, who continues as a financial consultant.

Jim Golding and John Lewin are new to Rain F-orest Lumber, Lake Oswego, Or., according to Mark Ingles.

Roy Crow is now with Pacific llreeze Lumber Co., E,ugene, Or.

Don Swenson has joined the sales teanr at Louisiana-Pacific, Hayden Lake, ld., according to sales mgr. Dick Flugel. Jim Alexander has left L-P to join Home Depot, and Mike Durk has been transferred to the div. front the Chino, Ca., DC.

Dave Yeazell is now with GuitteauNewland Lumber Co., Eugene, Or.

Jim Moss, Gemini I'-orest Products, Los Alamitos, Ca., is back following a Co. and ld. business/pleasure trip.

Ray Cooper is new to industrial sales at Precision Mill & Lumber Co.. llurbank, Ca. Bill and Connie Hoglund and the lamily returned fronr a trip to the mountains of Kamas, Ut. Anne Markey is taking a leave of absence to have her first child.

Ron Dybas, RLD Trading, Inc., Oakley, Ca., and his wife, Lorrie, are the proud parents ol 7 lb. 5 oz. Richard Gary Dybas, born June 28, 1990.

Al Shufelberger, Redding Lunrber Transport, Redding, Ca., and his wife, Tammy, are the proud parents ofCaitlin Lee, born June 13, 1990.

Carl Liliequist, v.p., sales & nrktg., PGL Building Products, Auburn, Wa., is back from a Texas vacation.

Jeff Summers has been pronroted to comgr. at 84 Lumber, I)ublin, (la.

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Hoo-Hoo-Ette Lumber Woman

Linda Reed, a wholesale lumber trader for Maks Wood Products, Eugene, Or., was named National HooHoo-Ette Lumber Woman of the Year at the recent national convention.

The award, based on contributions to the industry and the community, is given annually to a woman in the wood products industry.

Reed served for six years on the national board and is currently president of the Eugene, Or., club. She is also secretary of the Yellow Ribbon Coalition, a grassroots consortium committed to preserving a balance between resource production in the wood products industry and resource protection.

An 18 year veteran in the wood products industry, Reed worked for I. P. Miller Lumber, Inc., Monroe, Or., for 13 years before going to work at Maks Wood Products.

National Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club is a non-profit organization established to assist women with career advancements and to provide a network for women employed in all phases of the wood products industry. There are currently 16 active chapters from Tacoma, Wa., to San Diego, Ca.

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Hoo-Hoo Internatbnal Meeting

The 98th annual Hoo-Hoo International Lumbermen's fraternity and Forest Products Industry convention will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Oakland, Ca., Sept. 9-13.

The Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club will host the event being held in Jurisdiction IV. Over 12,000 people attended the last West Coast convention in 1954. At least this many including delegates from Canada, Australia and New Zealand are expected to attend the 1990 convention.

Dan Bonnington, Bonnington Lumber Co., Walnut Creek, Ca., is chairman. Others on the committee are Len Adamo, Bernie Barber. Dave Casella, Joe Casella, Brent Crosby, Dwight Curran, Scott Fossum, Kevin Hill, David Jones, Jimmy Jones, Frank Kinney, Dick Madsen, Larry Markham, Greg Moss and Charlie Schweitzer. Northern California Hoo-Hoo clubs including Black Bart, Sacramento, F-resno, Monterey and Redding are assisting the host club.

Fetes being held include a San Francisco Bay cruise, a wine tour in

Napa and Sonoma Valleys, a golf tournament, and a tour of San lrrancisco for the ladies.

Pacific Lumber Co. will sponsor the opening night ice breaker party on Sept. 9 at the convention hotel. Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club is co-sponsoring a dinner cruise. Sponsors are being sought for other activities and guest speakers.

Reservation materials have been sent to Hoo-Hoo members.

I)eadline for returning them is August 10.

Manville Overhaul Ordered

Manville Corp., Denver, Co., has been ordered by a federal judge to completely overhaul its cash dry trust fund set up to compensate asbestos victims.

The judge demanded the trust, created in 1988 as part of Manville's bankruptcy reorganization, be restructured and refinanced by Aug. 6 to permit quicker payment to the neediest victims of asbestos-related disease. As is, the fund reportedly could not pay new claimants until well into the next centurY.

Manville has thus lar paid out $974 million settling only about 22.300 of the estimated 130,000 claims filed since the 1940s. The company had originally planned to annually contribute $75 million plus 200/o of annual net income to the fund until all claims were paid.

Diamond Consolidates Yard

Diamond Lumber has consolidated its California yards and is preparing to move ahead following termination of sales negotiations with BMC Holdings, Inc., Boise, Id.

Although the remaining units are still for sale, the company plans to move ahead with a reorganization, according to Eric Peterson, western regional vice president, in Sacramento. These stores are the "cream of the crop," he commented.

Diamond's Dallas. Tx.. headquarters will be closed with offices relocated to Sacramento by September. The only Diamond yards still operating are Red Bluff, Chico,

North Highland, Stockton, Ca., and Reno, Nv. A door shop in Lodi, Ca., also continues in operation. Redding, Oroville, Woodland, Lodi. Manteca. Oakdale and Lake Tahoe, Ca., units have been closed and consolidated into the remaining units closest to them. Yards in ldaho, Colorado, Kansas, Florida and the east coast have been closed or sold.

Growing PanelMarkets in 1990

Despite soft home building demand, panel suppliers can expect increases in nonhousing markets in 1990, predicts the American Plywood Association.

Domestic nonhousing markets are forecast to provide diversified opportunity, with nonresidential building bottoming out and heavy construction and industrial markets rising.

Exports should jump by one-sixth this year to 1.75 billion sq. ft., while overall domestic structural production is expected to climb 2%.

L-P's First Soviet Logs Here

The first container of logs imported from the Soviet Union bY Louisiana-Pacific cleared agriculture inspection in San Francisco, Ca., and are now at Samoa, Ca.

Commenting on the experimental program, L-P's western division manager Joe W. Wheeler Jr. said, "We have a lot of home work to do before we know if the logs will be economically feasible to import and mill. However, we believe with their logs and our expertise in sawmills, a wonderful partnership could develop. Simply getting a look at the logs will be an interesting experience for our forestry and sawmill crews. We have to study the tree species and then see how they fit into our domestic lumber grades."

Louisiana-Pacific's other global operations include a pulp mill in British Columbia, a fiber gypsum wallboard plant in Nova Scotia and a remanufacturing facility under construction in Mexico.

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