PERSONALS

Ted Mathews, Pacific Forest Products, Fresno, Ca.; Paul Ward, Ward Forest Products, Morgan Hill, Ca.; Jerry Foster, Foster Lumber, Medford, Or., and Pete Kepon, retired, Arcata Redwood, Arcata, Ca., were recently on a Victoria Island, B.C., fishing trip.

Dan Bohannon. Bohannon Lumber Co.. Orange, Ca., and his brother, Dave, recently won the U.S. Grasscourt Tennis Championship in the 40 and over div., their second national championship in 1992.

Carl Poyner has joined San Diego Wholesale Building Materials, San Diego, Ca., as a lumber trader, according to sales mgr. Gary Bowen.

Walt Shriver, Orepac Building Products, Wilsonville, Or., is back from a vacation in the Alaskan wilderness.

Scott Swanson is now handling all lumber sales inquiries at Friesen Lumber, St. Helens. Or.

Holton Quinn, pres., QB Corp., Salmon, Id., has been elected pres. of the American Institute of Timber Construction. Mike St. John has been promoted to senior v.p. of operations for all of Norco Windows, Boise, Id. Penny Goodpaster is now mgr.-customer service in Twin Falls. Id.

Mike Clemente is the new sales rep for Simpson Strong-Tie fot Az., N.M. and El Paso, Tx., based out ofPhoenix, Az., reports Bill Walker.

Ken Hoffman, pres., Coast to Coast, Denver, Co., plans to retire July l, 1993, after 45 years in the industry, the last 33 with Coast to Coast. Ray Griffith, now exec. v.p. and c.o.o., will succeed him. Myron Kirkpatrick has joined Eagle Hardware & Garden, Tukwila, Wa., as v.p.- finance and cfo.

Charles Nagely, Forestex Co., Forest Grove, Ot., has been elected v.p. of the American Hardboard Association.

Len Cavall has joined Bruce Hardwood Floors as district sales mgr. for So. Ca., Az., and Las Vegas, Nv. New divisional sales mgrs.: Chris Thompson, Pacific Northwest and Mid Central, and Melvin Burkhardt, Southwest and West Coast.

Gaylon Bean, owner, Western Wholesale, Idaho Falls, Id., wasrecently honored as theDowntownldahoFallsRotary Club's 1992 Outstanding Person with a Disability.

Tom Williamson has joined the American Plywood Association's technical services div. as gen. mgr. of American Wood Systems.

Don Hendrickson, pres. and gen. mgr., BMC West Corp., Boise, Id., was named to the board oftrustees ofJoe Albertson College, Caldwell, Id.

Norm Kruckenberg, pres. and gen. mgr., O. K. Lumber, Inc., Fairbanks, Ak., was one of six Alaska businessmen invited to Russia as a consultant.

Bill Hoel is now mgr.-sales & mktg. for CraftMaster Door Products at Masonite.

Shawn Sinclair, Dellen Wood Products, Spokane, Wa., and his wife, Jamie, have a new daughter, Shelby Lynn. Sinclair was also elected pres. of the Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club. Elzya Jordan is lst v.p.; Mike Sheehan, 2nd v.p.; Ernie Wales, sec., and Walt Adams, John Greeley, Randy and Rick Lentes, Norm Mikalson, Gene Zanck, Kris Wales, Jack Eskeberg and Bill Wales, directors.

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Harry A. Merlo, chairman and pres., Louisiana-Pacific Corp., Portland, Or., recently joined a work crew to help build a Habitat for Humanity house in Washington, D.C.

John Thorlakson, Tolko Industries Ltd., has been elected pres. ofPacific Lumber lnspection Bureau. lst v.p. is James Manke, Manke Lumber Co.; 2nd v.p. Phil Dobson, MacMillan Bloedel; sec.mgr./treas. George Thompson. New directors: J. Barrie Shineton, International Forest Products Ltd., and Clare Stoney, Fletcher Challenge Canada. Reelectedtotheboard: PhilipDavidson, Davidson Industries; James Davis, Canadian Pacific; Jim Hallstrom, Zip-O Lumber; J. W. Latimer, Willamette Industries; J. F. Newman, Weldwood of Canada; Robert Spence, Packwood Lumber; Jack Taylor, Weyerhaeuser; R. R. Waltz Jr., Seattle-Snohomish Mill Co.. and Jake Whitehead, Canadian Forest Products.

Mike Murray is new at Hood River Supply, Hood River, Or.

Mark Sabre, formerly of Learned Lumber, Hermosa Beach, Ca., has joined Santa Barbara Mill & Lumber, Santa Barbara, Ca., as gen. mgr.

Jean Hamburghas joined Capital Lumber Co., Healdsburg, Ca.

Dave Seegar, River City Moulding, Sacramento, Ca., recently returned from a Caribbean sailing vacation.

Mike Hessler is the new operations mgr. for Canfor USA, Meridian, Id.

Joe Stolzoffand Elia Sallas are new international traders at Wood International, Portland. Or.

Daniel J. Jansing is now western regional sales mgr. for The Flood Co.

Don Meucci has been promoted to media relations & mktg. director at the Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau, replacing Mark Rutledge, who has left the bureau to join the Clarke Group.

Richard "Dick'Poppe has been named plywood salesman for the western regional sales office of Willamette Industries, Albany, Or.

Dan Henningerhasbeen promoted to sales mgr. at Louisiana-Pacific's Chino, Ca., DC. Steve Black is new to the co., purchasing all plywood products.

Dayton L. VanSlyke has formed Search By Design, Vancouver, Wa., a building products industry executive search firm.

Jeff Piercy is new to Wesco Cedar, Eugene, Or.

Don Reel, Reel Lumber Service, Anaheim, Ca., andhis wife, Dorothy, trekkedfrom San lose, Ca., to Salt Lake City, Ut., on a restored steam train.

Tracy Torres is new to sales at Burns Lumber Co., Van Nuys, Ca., according to Bill Perkins.

Jim George is now with IntermountainOrient, Albuquerque, N.M.

Linda Weber, Waldron Forest Products, FairOaks, Ca., married Eric Steele May 16. 1992. El Louise Waldron is back from a trip to Kauai, Hi.

Bob Barnes is now gen. mgr. of Fort Vancouver Plywood, Fort Vancouver, Wa., succeeding Jim White, who has retired after 4l years in the business.

John E.'Jack" Rowan, Lake Oswego, Or., has been promoted to senior v.p.product management at Furman Lumber.

Rich Fahrner has been transferred to Kelleher Corp.'s new Auburn, Wa., DC as mgr. Glen Dutton replaces him as mgr. in Sacramento, Ca. Pat Wheeler was moved from Mira Loma, Ca., to Seattle, Wa., in sales.

Dave Lentes, Dellen Wood Products, Spokane, Wa., and KrisWales, WalesLumber Co., Spokane, are representing the Spokane Hoo-Hoo Club as voting delegates at the national fraternity's centennial convention next month. Bill Lenles and Tony Perry are alternates.

Gunner Brink hasbeen named sales mgr. of the Lock-Deck products line for Potlatch Corp., Lewiston, Id.

Kurt Enkoll is now stage mgr. for all upcoming shows at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., report owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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Pay'N Pak Ghain Liquidates

Pay 'N Pak's stores in 12 states are nearing the end of what is being called "the West's biggest-ever home improvement store liquidation sale."

"I don't know anything that was ever bigger," said John Markley, company ceo. "The biggest liquidation sale onthe West Coast that I know of (among home improvement outlets) was 20 stores. We have something like $130 million of retail goods in 68 stores."

Prices will be lowered as stocks drop. The sale whichbegan June 1 is slated to last 12 weeks.

Four of the stores have been purchased by Thurman Industries, an electrical, plumbing, kitchen, bath and lighting supplier.

Located in Kennewick, Moses Lake and Billings, Mt., and Bend, Or., the stores will retain the Pay 'N Pak name, according to Ken Thurman, president and ceo, and be operated as a separate division of Thurman Industries. Kirkland, Wa.

L-PTo Build Nevada EWP Plant

Louisiana-Pacific Corp. will build a laminated veneer lumber and engineered wood I-joist plant in Fernley, Nv.

Construction will begin immediately with operations due to start in eady 1993.

"The development of affordable building products that don't rely on large trees has become a hallmark of Louisiana-Pacific," said Harry A. Medo, L-P chairman and president. "The best part is that these new products perform better than the traditional ones they replace."

Pope & Talbot Gloses Reload

The reload center that Pope & Talbot, the large Portland, Or.-based lumber manufacturer, maintained for five years at the Port of Redwood City, Ca., has closed.

Lower sales volumes in the South San Francisco to San Jose, Ca., market served by the center as well as logistical problems in that market were cited as reasons for the closure by Robert Courtney, vice president, lumber sales.

Pope & Talbot is not abandoning the market, Courtney stressed, saying that possible locations for future reloads were Pittsburg,C?., and Stockton, Ca.

Building Supply Gonference

Wood products and building supply manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers will be the focus of a two day conference and exposition on bar coding, electronic data interchange, justin-time and quick response inventory management, whole systems design, buyer/supplier alliances and marketing, Dec. 8-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Bellevue, Wa.

Additional information and registration forms are available from the Forest Industries Exposition Group, 600 Harrison St., San Francisco,Ca. 94107, telephone (415) 905 -2323.

O'Malley Lumber Blown Away

Arizona's venerable O'Malley Lumber Co. and itschainof O'Malley Building Material Centers ended its slide into oblivion with the implosion of the company's headquarters building in Phoenix July 5.

Crowds gathered to watch the demolition of the nine story building built in the early 1960s as one of the first highrises on Central Avenue. It took only about three seconds for 75 pounds of dynamite distributed in 194 charges to reduce the building to rubble.

Hard hit by warehouse operations such as HomeBase and Home Depot, the O'Malley Co. fought desperately, but was unable to maintain its momentum as a thriving lumber and home center operation. Implosion of the outmoded building cost $40,000.

AFRA Merges With NFPA

The American Forest Resource Alliance has merged with the National Forest Products Association as planned when it was formed in 1989.

Alliance programs will continue with the exception of "National Update," which will be replaced by a new NFPA "Forest Resource Newsletter."

Fratemity's Gentennial Meeting

More than 500 delegates from around the world will attend the International Order of Hoo-Hoo centennial convention, Sept. 9-I2,atthe Ailington Hotel, Hot Springs, Ar.

Business sessions and seminars are scheduled for the first and second days. Buses will take the group to lntemational Headquarters in Gurdon on the third day to visit the Hoo-Hoo Museum and monument where deceased presidents will be eulogized. Lunch will be served with local residents providing entertainmmt and arts and crafts booths. Harry Medo, president, LouisianaPacific, will speak at lunch on the final day. lnstallation of officers and the presentation of the 1993 convention committee will follow, concluded by a Gay '90s Gala banquet.

The lumbermen's fraternity was founded in Gurdon 100 years ago.

NBMDA Under New Management

National Building Material Distributors Association has relocated to 401 N. MichiganAve., Chicago, Il., wherethey will be under the management of Smith,

Bucklin & Associates, the nation's largest trade association management firm.

James M. Weir of SBA has been named NBMDA executive vice president. Other staff members transferred from the Deerfield, Il., office.

"With Smith, Bucklin I feel we have a framework that guarantees efficiency and, by joining our staff with theirs, we will gain effectiveness needed for success inthe 1990s," NBMDApresident Gary McKillican said. "Finally Jim Weir's leadership will be the element to bring everything together to satisfy our objectives."

HQher Residential Siding Use In The'90s

Residential siding use will increase during the decade along with the number and sizes of single family homes built and all-time high repair and remodeling expenditures.

Siding Usage

ALL CONSTRUCTION

(Percent Market Share)

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George Carter & Affiliates n a 1992 update to a 1978 residential siding survey predicts every year between 1992 and 2001, except 1994 and 1998, will exceed the 3.58 billion sq. ft. benchmark of high use in 1986. Siding demand for room additions, full residings, garage additions and other R&R uses will range between 2.5 BSF and 2.8 BSF. Wood sidings will decline in new construction. Hardboard will los e 5 %, f allingto about I 4 /o ; c edar and plywood,

2Vo-3Vo by 2001. OSB siding, on the other hand, will likely double its market share by 2001, rising as high as 19%,the study reveals.

Vinyl sidings volume use will double, but its share of the new construction will increase only 4%. For repair and remodeling, vinyl use will grow to 57%. Hardboard, cedar and plywood will each lose R&R market shareinthe3%-4% range. Aluminum will have lessthan2% of the market by the end of the decade. OSB siding will have the fastest growth rate among repair and remodeling products, probably quadrupling.