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Bob Rupp has retired from TreeSource, Portland, Or., after 37 years in the business. He also worked for Crown Zellerbach and Union Lumber Co., which was later absorbed by GeorgiaPacific.

Mark Brothers is new to sales at KellyWright Hardwoods, Placentia, Ca.

John Spencer, product development mgr., Idaho Timber Corp., Boise, Id., has been promoted to gen. mgr. of mktg. Gary Sutton is now gen. mgr. of manufacturing div. Idaho Timber Manufacturers of Boise, Id., and Mike Jacobs is gen. mgr. of Idaho Cedar Sales, Troy, Id.

Phil Freebern has joined outside sales at Chemco, Ferndale, Wa., covering Westem Wa.

Dan Colborn is new to sales at Redwood Empire, Temecula, Ca., according to Gary Bowen.

Will Mathwig is mgr. at the new Home Depot in Encinitas, Ca.

Jerry Morey, CPA, is the new c.f.o. ot' Sure-Wood Forest Products, Orange, Ca., according to Robin Thomas.

Jim Sparks is new to sales at All-Coast Forest Products, Cloverdale, Ca., according to Kent Bond.

Wayne Oulette has joined the sales team at Penofin-Performance Coatings Inc., Ukiah. Ca.

Bob Denman is new to hardwood sales at Landmark Forest Products, San Bemardino, Ca., reports Lance Duke.

Rich Stratton is new to sales at Herbert Lumber Co., Riddle, Or.

Monte Mickel has been named plant mgr. for Pacific Rim Manufacturing, Jasper, Or. Mike Perkins has been promoted to marketing/sales.

Bobby Cranford has been named mgr. of 84 Lumber Co., Rock Springs, Wy.

Alec Beck is now v.p. operations-South for BMC West Corp., covering Tx., Az., N.M., Ca. and Nv.

Al Gedroez, formerly with Pope & Talbot, has opened a sales office in Portland, Or., for Skana Forest Products.

R.J. DeArmond. chairman. and R.L. DeArmond, senior v.p., have retired from Idaho Forest Industries, Coeur D'Alene, Id. They founded DeArmond Joyner Lumber Co. in 1958, which merged with Atlas Tie Co. in 1969 to form IFL

Kyle Morrison is now owner of Cascade Pine Specialties, Redmond, Or., replacing Richard Andyke, who has retired.

Jerry Grimes, formerly of Fremont Forest Products, is the new lumber purchasing mgr. for Ondo & Co., Kirkland, Wa.

Dennis Wolfe, ex-Trus Joist MacMillan, has been named district mgr. of engineered lumber products for GeorgiaPacific, Boise, Id., covering the Western region, except Southern Ca., Az., and Las Vegas, Nv.

Al Eby is the new membership director for the Lumber Merchants Association, Sacramento. Ca.

Woody Toal, Toal Lumber Co., Whittier, Ca., is recovering in Newport Beach, Ca., after being struck by a car while crossing a street.

Patrick Malloy, pres., Ceda-Pine Veneer, Inc., Samuel, Id., has been elected pres. of the Timber Products Manufacturers Association, replacing John Cheney, v.p., SDS Lumber Co., Bingen, Wa. Other officers: Glen Kartheiser, pres., Ureco, Inc., Columbia Falls, Mt., lst v.p.; Wayne King, pres. of Filler King Co., Homedale, Id., 2nd v.p., and Peter Ellingson, Ellingson Lumber Co., Baker, Or.; treas.

Larry Tonks, Sales Northwest, Inc., West Linn, Or., is now handling Mill-Rose' product line in the Northwest.

Steve Compton, Compton Lumber & Hardware, Seattle, Wa.; Jeff Swan, Evergreen Lumber, Port Orchard, Wa.; John Western, Valley Building Materials, El Toro, Ca., and Jill Fischer, H&F Windows, Lafayette, Co., are serving on the newly formed CSD User Advisory Council.

Gary Island, I&E Lath, Philo, Ca., and his wife, Virginia, vacationed in Hawaii in late June.

Jack Porbeck, Masonite Corp., was elected pres. of the American Fiberboard Association.

Bob Robert, Sunnyvale Lumber Co., Sunnyvale, Ca., and his wife, Bess, vacationed in Hawaii for two weeks.

Catherine Pantaleo is the new ecologist for the Western Hardwood Association, Camas, Wa.

Darren Harris. former editor of Construction Data, has joined APA-The Engineered Wood Association, Tacoma, Wa., as their senior writer. Paul Frank, Jr., pallet industry executive, has been retained as a consultant on the APA-sponsored Pallet Action Team.

Tom Williams, Foster Lumber, Lodi, Ca., vacationed recently in Tuckerman, Ar.

Jack Taylor, Weyerhaeuser Co., Coos Bay, Or., has been elected president of the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau, Bellevue, Wa.

Mike Hull, v.p., Bridger Forest Products, Belgrade, Mt., has returned from a three-day fishing trip at Fort Peck Lake, Mt. Other fishermen: Brad Partyka, mgr., Cody Lumber, Cody, Wy.; Brad Tucker, co-owner, Grand Lumber, Billings, Mt.; Keith Winkler, sales at Johnson-Madison Lumber. Great Falls, Mt., and Steve Kunnary, sales at Intermountain Lumber, Helena, Mt. The fish caught ranged from 4-lb. small mouth bass to 9-ll4 lb. walleye.

John Bishop, Young & Morgan, will represent District Three for the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau and Dan Winkle, Taylor Lumber & Treating, will represent District Five. Duane Charter, Siskiyou Forest Products, Woodland, Ca., went on a camping trip with his family in Carmel, Ca.

Mark Huff, Huff Lumber Co., Santa Fe Springs, Ca.; and Dan Green, Red Hill Forest Products, Coeur d' Alene, Id.; George Davis, Davis Brothers Construction Co., Rancho Cucamonga, Ca., and Gene Jacobs have returned from a Canadian fishing trip near the Alaska border.

Dennis Snow, Hardwoods Unlimited, Corona, Ca., is back from a Far East business trip.

June Snowden and Gary Malfatti, Morgan Creek Forest Products, Santa Rosa, Ca., returned from a business/ vacation trip to London, England, where they attended the Voodoo Lounge concert at Wembley Stadium as special V.I.P. guests of the Rolling Stones. Concert attendance: 100,000.

Curt Wood, Eel River Sawmills, Fortuna, Ca.. was in Southem California visiting business accounts during July.

Haskel Causey, Sacramento Pacific Corp., West Sacramento, Ca., is on a l0-day family vacation to Trinity Lake, Ca.

Del Cole, Bowman Lumber Sales, Cloverdale, Ca., recently vacationed in Washington State.

Hap E. Myles is a new truck driver at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

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Home Depot Enters Golorado

Home Depot has opened a new store in Aurora, Co., its first in the state.

Locations will be opened in Colorado Springs, Co., Aug. 24 andin Thornton, Co., Sept. 14.

Other upcoming Western Division openings:

Aug. 17, Tucson, Az.; Aug. 3l Bitterlake, Wa.; Sept. 28, Lakewood, Ca., and its second in Colma, Ca.

Personals

( C ontinue d from prev ious p ag e ) Mark Lofland, Capital Lumber Co., Chino, Ca., is back at work after a mild heart attack.

Frank Velez, Hampton Lumber Sales, Newport Beach, Ca., is back from a Northem California trip.

J. Duncan "Jack" Brock, J. Duncan Brock Builder, Inc., Phoenix, Az., has been named president of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry. Dick Ilallberg, Hallberg Remodeling Co., Portland, Or., and Mike Trafton, Trafton Builders, Fresno, Ca., have been appointed regional v.p.s.

David Bullard is the new v.p.-merchandising for Amerock Corp.

Bobby O'Neal has been promoted to gen. mgr. and Tom Tarango to store operations mgr. at Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co., Yuma, Az. Dean Alexander is a new management trainee at the Arizona district office.

Terry Griffith, Contact International, is back in Portland, Or., after a business trip to Florida.

Duthie Welsford, Welco Lumber Corp., Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and a North American Wholesale Lumber Association director, was named Lumberman of the Year by the British Columbia Wholesale Lumber Association.

Stu Heath, California Cascade Industries, Sacramento, Ca., vacationed recently in Lake Tahoe, Ca.

Dan Bohannon, Bohannon Lumber Co., Orange, Ca., recently teamed with his brother, Dave Bohannon, to win the National Hardcourt Tennis Championships in the 45 and over division in Westlake, Ca.

Dominic Truniger is now Crestline brand sales & mktg. mgr. and Karl Beese, Vetter brand sales & mktg. mgr. for SNE Enterprises, a div. of Ply Gem Industries. Ilans J. Vetter is director of sales & mktg. Additional sales and management responsibilities were also given to F. John Long.

Til Johnson has joined Westem Woods, Inc., Chico, Ca., buying white woods and coordinating the firm's new reman activities.

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Pacific Rim Purchases Site

Pacific Rim Manufacturing, Eugene, Or., has expanded its operations with the purchase of a Z3-acre lot in Jasper, Or.

Ken Bronson, v.p. and general mgr., said the purchase of the land, which has been leased to Pacific Rim since 1982, enables the company to combine its Eugene and Jasper plants into one facility.

He added that the majority of the company's employees will transfer to the Jasper site, but did not say what operations would remain in Eugene.

Eagle Revamps Signage

Eagle Hardware & Garden has launched a remerchandising and signage program designed to give customers quick access to merchandise.

In the program, which debuted in Orem, Ut., and Issaquah and Lynnwood, Wa., customers are directed by color-coded signs toward the various departments.

The new format will be rolled out to all stores by the end of the year.

WWPA Celebrates Remodeling

Western Wood Products Association, in conjunction with the Home Builders Association of Metro Portland and Home magazine, have launched a project to demonstrate the advantages of remodeling versus new construction.

The project, dubbed Heritage House, includes remodeling a ranchstyle home constructed in the 1950s, retaining SOVo of the existing structure. The remodel will encompass western lumber and environmentally sensitive building materials.

Heritage House is modeled after

WWPA's 1994 Harmony House project.

Distributors' Profits Drop

Building material distributors earned a 7.4Vo return on assets in 1994, according to the North American Building Material Distribution Association operational performance report,

Based upon a total sales volume of more than $4.7 billion, the average return on assets was slightly below the cost of capital for the year.

A typical retail firm generated $16.1 million in sales and produced a pre-tax profit of $338,295 by committing $4.02 million in assets to the business. In contrast, high profit firms produced a profit of $676,590 and a return on assets of 19.1Vo.

Laminate Association Merger

Effective Jan. l, 1996, the Decorative Laminate Products Association will dissolve and merge into the

Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association as the KCMA Laminate Council.

Composed of fabricator and supplier manufacturers of decorative laminate, solid surface and related products. DLPA was founded in 1956 as the National Association of Plastic Fabricators and renamed in 1984.

WWPA Estimates On Target

Final western lumber figures for 1994 showed that the Western Wood Products Association estimates for orders, shipments and production were less than lVo shy of actual totals.

According to WWPA's annual western mill survey, orders totaled 17.15 billion bd. ft. and shipments 17.32 billion bd. ft. for the year, just .85% below WWPA reports. Lumber production totaled 17.47 billion bd. ft.. 24 million bd. ft. more than WWPA estimates.

The survey concluded inventories ended the year at 2.12 billion bd. ft., instead of the preliminary estimate of 1.95 billion bd. ft.

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Structural Rounds On

Today's homeowners are looking for structural alternatives, and many buyers are turning to a more natural approach: solid structural rounds.

Made of raw tree trunks. SSRs are usually debarked, kiln dried and treated with stains or water repellents for interior use, or pressure treated for exterior use.

The species used for SSRs vary from southern and lodge pole pine to juniper, cedar and fir.

"We are seeing an increase in excitement about the product...and a resurgence in the 'new' use of a very old product," said William Plant, pres., American Pole & Timber Co., Houston. Tx.