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12131 870-6456

Globe Inr'l of N. cqlif.

Son Jose, Colif. 951l2

(4081 998-3300

Butler-Johnson Corp.

F-resno, Collf. 93721 t2091 233-4567

Butler-Johnson Corp. Socromento, Colif.

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Pqlco's Murphy Deqd qt 53

Stanwood A. Murphy, 53, chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of The Pacific Lumber Co., died August 8. He suffered a massive coronary attack shortly after his company executive airplane landed at Roh. nerville Airport, north of the company's forest products manufacturing complex at Scotia, Calif.

His death came as a sudden shock to his many friends in and out of the forest products industry. Stan was widely respected for his industry leadership. He was held in particular affection by the people in California's Humboldt County, where he lived for many years and contributed so much to the development and prosperity of the area, not onlv through his company but also his personal influenee and activities.

Ifurphy's career with Pacific spanned more than a quarter of a century. During this period the company grew in size, in prestige and in its contribution to the wel{are of its employees and the users of its products. In recent years he directed modernization of the company's mills, led the company into the plywood field, and into major diversification through acquisitions.

He was a past president and director of the California Redwood Assn. He rvas a director-of the National Forest Products Assn. and a member of its executive committee, and a director of The Bank o{ California and the Penobscot lron Ore Co.

Murphy is survived by his widow, Suzanne S. Mur' phy; two sons, Stanwood A. Murphy, Jr., and Warren i,. Murphr'; a daughter, Suzanne B. Murphy: and his stepmother, Mrs. A. S. N'Iurphy.

NAWIA Sqles Up l00oh, 1967-71

Annual sales survey data just released by North American Wrolesale Lumber Assn. shows that their members doubled their yearly sales volume in five years. 1971 sales of 330 wholesale member companies amounted to $2 billion, B1() million, as compared to $1 billion, 4 million in 1967.

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A. J. Johnson & Co. Tocomo, Wosh.9840l

12061 627-4186

Oregon-Pocific lnduslries Porllond, Oregon 97207 ts03l 224-4s2s

Tri-County Wholesole Co. Venturo, Colif. 93023

18051642-6724

Butler-Johnson Corp.

Son Jose, Cqlif. 95133

(4081 259-l 800

Part of this dramatic growth comes from the iucrease in member firms. 1967 sales totals were derived from 282 wholesale member-" while in 1971 membership had reached 330. Thus, an almost 20/o g,ain in members was a factor in the I97l sales record.

NAWLA wholesaler accounts receivable on a daily basis clearly reflect the importance of the wholesaler's investment in the {orest products industry. In 1971, NAWLA members provided over $240 million in accounts receivable on a day-to-day basis.

While softwood lumber remains the primary product distributed, plywood sales accounted for abot 8.3/o oI total sales, about $243 million last year. Five percent of total sales were in millwork and mouldings, $I40 million worth. $89 million dollars of hardwoods were sold and $ll million of non-wood products.

Court Rules for Sierro Club

A Federal judge in San Francisco has issued a preliminary injunction requested by the Sierra Club prohibiting the Forest Service from allowing any new con. tracts for timber cutting, road construction for logging or change in the wilderrress character of some 40 to 50 million acres of National Forest lands classi{ied as "inventoried roadless areas," unless an environrnental impact statement is prepared. The prohibition is effective until the Court determines, after full argument on the issue, whether an environmental impact statement must be filed by the Forest Service prior to bid offerings. The order will affect at least one billion board feet of the Forest Service's 1973 timber sale program.

Industry and the government have argued that an impact statement is not required at this point because only recommendations have been made of areas requiring further study for possible inclusion in the Wilderness System. Exempted from the iniunction are any timber sale or road constructiorr contracts entered into before July l, I972, and logging of fire-killed timber.

Trial on the issues tentatively has been set for Nov. 6. When requested by defendants that he require bond of the Sierra Club, Judge Samuel Conti set bond at $I00. The U.S. Ski Association has been allowed to enter the case as an interyenor.

Hqrdwood'Price Dispute

The National I{ardwood Lumber Assn. has strongly objected to the inclusion of hardwoods with softwoods in recent Cost of Living Council rulings regarding prices.

They correetly point out that the hardwood and softwood lumber industries are completely separate and dif' ferent and that it is erroneous and meaningless to lump the two together in one set of statistics or report.

Also transmitted to CLC was a tabulation of prices taken from the "Hardwood Market Report" for sixty'nine major species and grades of hardwoods to substantiate that the original control order of August 15, l97L caught hardwood lumber prices at an extremely low ebb and that increases in hardwood prices have been very modest indeed in comparison to t}ose of softwoods.

The letter requests that hardwoods be eliminated from Price Commission Order No. 8 and offers to send a delegation of hardwood officials to Washington to Present any additional data required.

New Shqstq Cqsccrde Officers

New officers and firectors of Shasta-Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club 133 have been chosen for the 1972-73 clurb year. New president for the Redding, Calif,, club is Dave Shaller; vp., Pete Lanel sec., W. G. Enderson; treas., Gene Sjoetrand.

Directors named to the board are Harry Bleile, Brad Broyles, Roy Dunbar, Al Forward, Glen Forney, Kelly Galley, Earl Nordtvedt, Mike Webster and Larry Whittaker. Directors at large are: Earl Brandeberry, Joe Derraho Glen Dietz, Al Kerper and Ed O'Kelley.

Manvioclurers of QuolilY ' Foresf Products

kngths up tr Fine grainedgrowth tir glowf n !tmDer from out Yolla Boll,a Tree Farm.

Douglas Fir, White Fir, Incense Gedar, Sugar Pine, Ponderosa Pine lnterstate 5 Freeway comes practically to our door. FAST shipment is made easy by our location.

Why take a chance on a transit car from Brand X or Brand ?

Next time ask your favorite wholesaler to try Crane Mills first.

FGS Chonges qt United Whsle.

James T. Nickell, president of the Fruit Growers Supply Co., has reappointed David H. Steinmetz as president and William Gunnell and William Buettner as vp.s of FGS' United Wholesale Lumber Co. and its subsidiaries. W. J. Lynn, former president of W. B. Jones Lumber Sales, has been named vp. of United, and in that capacity will lnanage the industrial and pallet div. All other key employees will remain in their positions, Nickell said.

r Two years agq FGS acquired Standard Lumber C,o., Inc. of Montebello. Calif. and its subsidiaries: Ilnited Wholesale Lumber Co.. trdines Avenue Warehouse Co.. and Mines Aveirue Trucking Service. Six months later, in January of I97I, FGS acquired W. B. Jones Lumber Sales, primarily a pallet manufactur. ing operation, located in the Los Angeles industrial area.

Earlier this year, the Jones operation was moved to Montebello. to a site next to the Standard complex. Then, in separate actions by FGS directors. Standard Lumber Co. was merged into FGS on June l, and W. Il. Jones Lumber Sales was merged

July 1, into United Wholesale Lumber Co.

Nickell said all Standard employees and all of its direct sale btisiness were transferred to United, which now has a softwood division handling its previous business and that of Standard, and an industrial and pallet division handling the business of the former W. B. Jones Lumber Sales.

The "Ultimole Mixed Cor"

In another step towards what Neil Hagen calls the ooultimate mixed-car," Nikkel Lumber, shelter products div., DiGiorgio Corp., recently announced they are adding a complete line of prefinished wood grained mouldings to their mixed car shipments.

The new moulding line will include printed, vinyl-wrapped and tigrd plastic in standard profiles in today's most popular wood grain textures and colors.

With this addition of prefinished mouldings, it now becomes possible to order any combination of the following items . all in the same car: solid Ponderooa pine mouldings -random or cut-to-length, Ponderosa pine mouldings finger-jointed to any length, interior door framee-finger. jointed or solid, exterior door frarnes in solid, finger-jointed or paint primed, plywood, particleboard, shelving and dimension lumber.

"Straight cars," according to Hagen, Nikkel's millwork sales manager, "will continue to be available as al. ways."

New NAWIA'Directory

The' new L972.I973 Distribution Directory of North American Wholesale Lumber Assoeiation is out.

It lists 424 members, their products, services, basic geographical distribution patterns and key personnel. Over 5,000 copies of the directory are disseminated each year.

This year's directory is four pages larger than last year's, reflecting the continued increase in member. ship in the wholesale trade organization.

The 1972-73 directory devotes the opening 12 pages to a progres,s report on overall association activities. Another feature is that the middle section of the membership directory is on colored paper for easy reference by users.

Marv Compton, Pacifica Lumber, Pacifica, Calif., vacstioned at a Feather River resort.

Mort Robinson, Rayberg Lumber, San Carlos, took a "fishing and golfingt' vacation, Al Serrano took his family vacationing at Taltoe.

John Baco& South City Lumber, vacationed at Pinecrest with his family for two weeks.

Don Emery has joined San Bruno Lumber as an inside salesman,

Wcstorn Lumber ond Building lloleriqtr ilEICHANI

according to Al Stockton, owner. Richard Gill vacationed in Canada.

Ralph Bishop, Oakley Plywood, Morgan Hill, Calif., has been featured in the Son Jose MercuryNeas. Ralph played on the first basketball team in the 1936 Olympies. In the final game, the U.S. beat Cbnada 19-8! Game was played on a dirt court in a driving rain.

Harry Nilson, G-P, San Jose, got away frorn the office for a recent week.

Carl Yerrips, Permaneer Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., took his wife to Europe for three weeks,

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I Bill Me I gitt My Compony n MV poyment is enclosed tsob Byrd is managing Golden State Forest Products in Ukiah. He was formerly with Brightwood Lumber, Eureka, for 17 years. Denny Cunan, AFP, Cerritos, vacationed with his wife and family in No. Cali,f. during August, visiting both his brother and sister.

Roger Plath, webtern sls. div. mgr., North Pacific Lumber, is manag- ing the Ifomasote Co. acct. in Oregon and Idaho.

Chuck Lember, D.C. Essley & Son, L,A,, and his wife Audrey are just back from a Hawaiian vacation.

Ken Coleman, Eckstrorn Plpvood, L.A., vacationed with his Dolores in Ore. and Wash.

John Gaskin, State Wholesale, Phoenix, was a recent No, Calif., mill visitor.

Jack Cheshire and Bob Moore have been hustling to get the new Sagebrush Sale s' distribution yard in Albuquerque ready to open this month.

John Copeland has joined sales at AFP, Newark, according to Elmar Brock, mgr. John is soliciting business in S.F. and Marin; he lr'as with Evans Products, S.F. Jim Tlebber, Hubbard and Johnson, Mountain View, vacashed in Oregon. Find any surplus lumber, Jim?

Dick Ogami, Rayberg. Menlo Park, vacationed recently at Tahoe. Sarn Eggers, Allstate, Sunnyvale, vacationed for two x'eeks at Tahoe.

Cliff Smoot and Jack Powell. Masonite Corp., Ukiah, Calif., travelled to San Francisco on business in August.

Jim Fraser, T\rin Harbors Lumber Co,, Palo Alto, and his wife. celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in the Islands. Congrats to you both.

Ted Little, J.H. Baxter Co., San Mateo, Calif., spent 3 weeks vacationing in Oregon and Canada, Don Brangon, Branson-Cross Lumber, vacationed with his family in Sand Pond. wherever that is.

Pat O'Donnell has joined AFP in Newark as a hardwood salesman, according to Gary Stewart, Paul Olsen, AFP, Newark, reports his wife is doing well after a major operation.

Charlie Cox, Southern Lumber, San Jose, has returned to work, rested and relaxed, after a pleasant vacash.

Ken Tinckler, Stahl Lumber, L.A., has visited his parents in England; Milan Michie and his wife have business tripped and fished in the N.W. and Yi Neal totrred the Western U.S. and Canada.

'{Yendell Scott, L&M. Fremont, Calif., is recooping fro,rn a recent heart attack.

Wayne Gardner, Lumber Assn. of So, Calif. exec. vp., hes been named to represent tlre distribution segment of the industry on the Nt'I. Grading Rules Committee.

Mrs. Vicki Webb has joined the Kimberly-Clark forest products div. at Anderson, Calif., as a sales asst., according to marketing mgr. Harry Bleile.

Douglas A. Westenhaver, Jr. is Georgia-Pacific's new Western Ore. & Western Wash. lumber operations mgr.

Larry Phillips has joined the Calif. Redwood Assn. His father. Bill Phillips, is director of West Coast planning for Champion International, formerly U.S. PlywoodChampion Papers.

Nate Youmans has been promoted to outside sales for South Bay Redwood Co., Orange, Calif. Jerry Black has joined the firm handling inventory controll J i m Frodsham and Mark Lof land were recent Eureka, Calif., visitors.

Donald "Sully" Sullivan, South Bay Redwood's demon salesman and recent winner of the L.A. HooHoo Club drawing for a color tv., was wed Sept. 2, to Erma Viser. The two lovebirds honeymooned at 29 Palms.

Dave Schwartz has been promoted to s/m of Pope & Talbot industrial hardboard, according to Robert E. Brooks,

Al Newkirk has been promoted to the presidency of Ctrandler Lumber Co., Van Nuys, Calif., according to board chairman Stan Brown.

Johnny Lipani, Weyerhaeuser, L,A., is back after a recent Europe and Middle East vacation with his wife Norma; daughters Lynn and Gail.

Bill Gittings has joined Rounds Lumber Co., Cloverdale, Calif., as a salesman, according: to s/m Del Cole.

Randy Philips, Philips Lumber Sales, 1M. Oaks, Ca., recently called on mills in the Santa Cruz alea, Phil Patterson is new on the sales staff of Portland's Kuzman Forest Products.

Morris L. Samuelson has been appointed superintendent of Union Pacific R.R.'s Calif. div.. succeeding Leo B. Maskill, who transfers as super. of the Idaho div.

Brownie Markstrom has joined International Forest Products, Pomona, Calif., covering the L.A. territory; Jim Winibald is their new man for the Sacramento district, according to Phil Butterfield.

Dick Baltimore, Phoenix; Hal O'Neal, San Diego; and Dick Belcher, L.A., have won special recogrli- tion from their firm, Formica, for their work for The Producers' Council.

Allan Bufkin, Oregon-Pacific Industries, Fullerton, Calif., flew his wife and family on a 6M mile visiting and fishing tour of Lake Powell, Ariz.; Eagle River, Wisc;

Calgary; Banff; and Jackson Hole, Wyo. He says "it's nice to know an old man can still hang in there."

F. O. Marion" after 36 years with Masonite, has retired due to illness. He has held top administrative positions with the firm for more than two decades.

Carl Allison's Rocky Mountain lumber sales office for U.,S. Plywood is now in Eugene, Or,e.

F. J. Sammann is now area mgr., forest products sales, for J. H. Baxter & Co,

Richard W. Maley, K. Peter Norrie and Vernon R. Yeron, all of Portland, have been promoted vps, of Boise Cascade.

William J. McAuley is mgr. of Marlite's new Western region. Larry Thacker has been named L.A, district sales mgr.

Don Cook is Bostitch's new western s/m with offices in L.A.

Leo Seidner is back at his Summit Lumber Co. desk, Long Beach, after an African and European business trip.

Jerry McMaken is the new vp.-sales for Masonite's bldg. products dept.

James Hoehn, Jr. has joined the Pacific Southwest Hardware Assn. in their store engineering dept, Sam Fineman, Bel-Air Door Co., Alhambra, Calif., announces that Steve Hemela has joined outside sales at Bel-Air Door Co,

Chompion Internotionol lo Stort Monlono Operolions

The U.S. Plywood division of Champion International will start operation of its Bonner, Mont., lumber mill and company logging operations on or before Oct. l, E. Roger Montgomery, exec. v.p., has announced. Initially, the company facility will employ 4O0.

Montgomery said: "When we announced the purchase of Anaconda timberlands in May, we said our company would build the largest plywood plant in North America and a major particleboard manufacturing facility on the mill site. The cost of these projects is expected to be about $30 million.

When production facilities ere completed and fully operational, the Bonner-based workforce should exceed 850 employees." Demolition work to make way for the new plywood plant has begun. Once this phase of the project is completed and site clearance is accomplished, concrete foundations will be poured and construction of new buildings will begin. The plywood plant is scheduled to begin operation in the fourth guarter of 1973.

Champion International purchased the site along with 670,500 acres of timberland and other assets from the Anaconda Co. Presently, the com. pany has lumber production facilities in Montana at Silver City, near Helena, and in Browning located on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

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Builders Ask Frice Commission

To Investigote Lumber Prices

The continued rise of lumber and plywood prices despite price controls is "intolerable and bafiling" and calls for a thorough investigation, the National Assn. of Home Builders has complained to the Price Commission.

In a formal statement, Stanley Waranch, president of NAHB, pointed out that although virtually the entire lumber industry had been brought under control by July 17, lumber and plywood prices have oontinued to rise since then.

From mid-August l97l to mid.August 1972, Waranch claimed, mill prices rose in a range of 14 percent to about 48 percent, with the average increase for the framing lumber and plywood generally used in housing construction to be 25.9 perc€nt. In the month since recontrols were put on the industry prices have risen an average of I.6 percent.

"Consider what these increases have meant to the builder and the buyer," Waranch asked.

In one year the cost of lumber and plywood used in a median priced house of $26,535 had risen by $883, he said. In the past month the eost rose $63.

Reports are circulating of "gimmicks" and subterfuges being used to manipulate the market and evade price control regulations, Waranch wrote.

Lqtest Lumber Production

Lumber production in June was at a seasonally ad. justed annual rate oI 39.5 billion board feet, an increase of 0.9 percent from the May rate, and 3.6 percent above June, 1971, the National Forest Products Assn. reports.

Softwood lumber output for June was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 33.2 billion b.f., an increase of 1.7 percent over May and 5.1 percent above June, 1921. Hardwood production, at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.3 billion b.f., showed a decrease of 2.9 percent from May and was 3.8 percent below the year.ago level.

Total lumber shipments in June were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 40.7 billion b.f., down 0.3 percent from the previous month, but 3 percent above June, 1971.

Softwood shipments, at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 33.8 billion b.f., showed no change from May but werc 2.7 percent above June, 1971. The rate of hardwood shipments was 6.9 billion b.f., dowri 1.7 percent from the previous month but 4.4 percent above June of last year.

WWPA Updotes Buyers' Mqnuol

A new WWPA Buyers' Manual, most complete and up-to-date mill and products directory compiled by the l2-state western ]umber industry, is available free from Western V'ood Products Assn., Dept. BMP; Yeon Bldg., Portland, OR. 97204.

The 44-page directory lists member plants, with their lumber products, facilities and eapacities, species processedo shipping services, addresses and telephones.

The Buyers' IVlanual also lists WWPA's wholesaler associates, and firms belonging to Western Red Cedar Lumber and Fir & Hemlock f)oor Associations.