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Lumber Association of Northern California executive vice president Les Sanders reports two dealers received visits from their county district attorney advising them they are engaging in false advertising and unfair business practices by selling 19/32" plywood siding advertised or tagged as s18".

He feels it prudent to change the description of various sheet goods until this controversy is resolved: l/4" sanded fir should be called ll4";318", lll32"; 112", 15| 32" ; 5 |8", 19 |32" ; 3 | 4", 23|32" ; | -| | 8,,, l-118"; ll4" oak or birch, 5mm. This includes all AC, AB, BB and P&TS, whether on grade or shop. Plywood siding: 3/8,,, lll32"; 112", 15132";5/8", l9l32". OSB desoiptions remainthe same with the addition of OSB.

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Lee Jordan, Jordan's Building Center, Wheat Ridge, Co., convention task force chairman, is planning the meeting to promote member to membr interaction with a focus on contemporary business issues.

Joseph B. Harley, J. D. Baldridge Lumber Co., Albuquerque, N.M., was recently elected to the MSLBMDA's Honorary Life Member Hall of Fame. In making the announcement, president Kent Brosh, Crissey Fowler Lumber Co., Colorado Springs, Co., commended him for "a lifetime of commitment to his industry, his community and his association."

Some 37 menand womenfrombuilding material centers in five states attended the yard foreman seminars conducted in Denver, Co., and Salt Lake City, Ut., by Norville Spearman. All attending received official MSLBMDA certificates of attendance.

The investigative report indicated a consumer and a competitorfiled the complaints. "While LMA assesses the seriousness of the issue, we wantyou tobe aware of what's happening. If you receive such a visit or hear ofone, please advise the office," Sanders said.

The nomenclature extends to all advertisements, signs, bin labels, estimates and tickets. Sales people must quit using nominal sizes and use only actual sizes. Ifsomeone asks for 5/8" siding, say, "We have 19132" , which is the standard size for this product." Change all bin labels to the actual sizes, Sanders recommends.

Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association has scheduled a convention and management retreat

National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Associationts convention, Oct. l-4, Phoenix, Az., will follow the theme "Dealers Helping Dealers To Win."

In addition to business sessions, a series of panels and seminars will cover subjects ranging from profiting from store promotions to just in time deliveries.

A mix of tours, programs, sightseeing and sports plus a post convention tour to Northern California and Nevada also have been planned by convention chairman Ray Nunn and his committee.

Plenty Of Western Lumber

That flurry of legal decisions by West Coast courts making constant headlines about shutting downharvests on western federal forests appears also to be scaring away some traditional customers for westem lumber across the U.S., reports Robert H. Hunt, president of the Western Wood Products Association.

And that is in spite of the fact there has been plenty of lumber available in the West. Enough logs are coming to most mills to meet more demand than they have been experiencing, Hunt reported.

"So far this year, western lumber producers have easily kept pace with demand," he said. "But obviously business is better for mills in Canada and the southern U.S. simply because the media plays heavily on environmental issues, and judgments on westem forestseven if temporaryare made big news everywhere."

Statistics compiled by WWPA through the first four months of 1992 (the latest period for which all data is available) show shipments of lumber from the l2-state Western Wood Region are upby .5Vo compared with the same 1991 period.

But imports from Canada are uP bY more than 227o for the same Period, Hunt said. Shipments from Southern mills are upby 15%

Hunt believes the constant furor over spotted owls and a spate of other environmental issueshassomebuyers looking to altemative producing regions for their supplies when it is not necessary to do so.

"They can't be blamed," he said. "All they hear is the negative side' Unfortunately, the result is an overreaction that is harmful to western operators. That is especially true since the mills had geared up to service traditional customers in meeting improved demand for 1992."

Hunt pointed out that there is still federal timber "in the pipeline," mostly from sales completed prior to the more recent waves of extremist-environmentalist interference. There is also a heavy contribution of logs from non-public landsboth industrial and other privatelv held forests.

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Ernst Sues Eagle Over Ads

Ernst Home Center Inc. has filed suit against Eagle Hardware & Garden Inc., Tukwila, Wa., charging misleading and deceptive advertising claims and asking for financial damages as well as an order to stop such practices.

Filed in King County Superior Court, the suit says Eagle made unfair price comparisons, inaccurately claimed certain services were available only at its stores and misrepresented the selection of products available at competitors.

Eagle replied to the suit by running an ad expressing its concems in Seattle, Bremerton and Spokane, Wa., papers. CEO David Heerensperger, who is traveling to promote Eagle's upcoming initial public stock offerinS, w?s unavailable for comment.

G-P's Hogan Takes Retirement

Ronald P. Hogan will take early retirement at Georgia-Pacific Corp., Atlanta, Ga., clearing the way for A. D. Correll to succeed T. Marshall Hahn Jr., who plans to retire as chairman and ceo next year.

The company said there are no plans to fill the vice chairman vacancy. Hogan, who joined G-P in 1965, had

CBS Folds, Servistar Moves ln

Faced with seemingly insurmountable credit and collection problems, buying group Central Builders Supply has decided to liquidate.

Competitor Servistar has signed a letter of intent to purchase certain operational assets of CBS and launched a new program, Servistar/CBS, to keep intact as much of the organization as possible. AboutT5%o of former CBS members have been signed up for the new program thus far, said Servistar ex- held the position since 1991. He was unavailable for comment.

Correll, who is president and c.o.o., served in the paper division prior to this appointment and is thought to have a better grasp of the paper industry than other top officers at G-P, an industry source said.

Gal-State In Business Week

Cal-State Lumber Sales, Inc., San Ysidro, Ca., zind owners Benjamin and ecutive vice president and chief op erating officer Paul Pentz.

Founded in1937 in Sturgis, Mi., the buying group grew to include more than 5(X) members with over $325 million in annual sales. Its houbles began to surface eadier this year as unpaid bills began mounting and members began leaving, forcing an overhaul of credit policies and senior management. Bret Pobanz, who became president when his father. Phil. died in late 1988. left CBS in June.

Victor Acevedo were recognized as immigrant entrepreneurs making big contributions to the U.S. export boom in a July 13 cover story of Business Week

The brothers, who moved with their parents to the San Diego area from Tijuana, Mexico, in 1960, employ 110 employees and had $147 million in sales last year. Their company has lOVo of the architectural mouldingmarket in the U S . and a booming export business to Mexico.

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Union Planing Mill Fire

Damage in excess of $l million was suffered by Union Planing Mill when a fire of suspicious origin destroyed half a block of their Stockton, Ca., facility. By dint of long hours and hard working crews, the company was back in full operation Monday morning following the early Saturday a.m. fire July 11.

Arson is suspected and an investigation is in progress, according to Union Planing Mill's George Little. Two flat bed trucks and a forklift were destroyed and two diesel delivery trucks were damaged. The paint shop was damaged and about $1O0,OOO of lumber lost. In the main warehouse, completed store fixtures for three Mervyn's stores were totally burned by the intense fire. No records or paperwork were lost as the fire was in the insulation of the roof structure allowing time for tarping of the office and lobby.

Yaeger & Kirk Glosures

Yaeger & Kirk, Santa Rosa, Ca., will permanently close its Healdsburg, Ca., truss plant and lumber sales facility September 30 due to poor market conditions. Only a handful of the 59 employees will be retained to facilitate the actual plant closure and sale of the property.

Profitable stores in Ukiah and Sonoma, Ca., rnay also be put up for sale over the next two years "to preserve the company during these recessionary times and to insure the future of Yeager & Kirk," said president D. S. Yaeger.

HomeBase Goes Drive Thru

In remodeling its San Bernardino, Ca., location, HomeBaseaddeda 36,50O sq. ft. drive thru lumberyard, the first in the 80-store chain.

The service allows contractors and other customers to load lumber in the yard directly onto their vehicles, with close by employees to help pick and load and lumberyard cash registers for fast checkout. Eliminated are putting the lumber on a cart and pushing it through the store to a cashier and then through the parking lot.

Drive thru may be added at other locations. "The response (in San Bernardino) has been terrific," said president Jim Halpin. "On a typical day we're getting more than 200 trucks through it."

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