PERSONAIS

Bob Pallow, Belco, Tustin. Ca.. is back after a visit to the home office. Bellingham Lumber Co., Bellingham, Wa.

Tom Catlow is now with Knollwood Corp. at their Healdsburg, Ca., Hq, according to Art Bond, pres. Denny Currtn, Bendix Forest Products, Cerritos, Ca.. is back from a Hawaiian vacation.

Frank Penberthy, Northern Lumber Sales, Corona Del Mar, Ca., got in a Coeur d'Alene, Id., business and pleasure trip.

Gary Stewert has recently joined Wilco Wood Products in Santa Clara, Ca., according to Chuck Williams.

Charles E. Guise is now mgr. of the Champion Building Products plywood prefinish and custom plant, Lebanon, Or., according to Rod Bradley, Cascades area mgr. Peter O'Toole is new operations mgr. at the plywood veneer plant, Idanha, Or.

Gary Hanson, Compass Lumber Products, Danville. Ca.. vacationed recently in the Seattle area.

R.J. "Pete" Peterson has transferred from Burns Lumber Co.'s Tacoma. Wa., office to Encino, Ca., Hq. working in sales and as specialty products mgr.

Dennis Byerley, North Star Forest Products, Danville, Ca., vacationed in Oregon. Bred Howell got in some vacation at Lake Tahoe. Ca.

Chuck Higglns has joined Burnaby Lumber Co., Compton, Ca., working in sales, reports proud papa Frank Higgins.

Don Stobaugh has been named mgr. of Terry Building Centers' new wholesale div.. The Blanchard Co.. No. Hollywood, Ca., selling specialty lumber items and hardboard to retail firms.

John J. McDermott is the newly appointed president and c.o.o. of Nical. Inc.. as announced bv John K. Whittaker, chairman bf tne board.

Ted Matthews is back at Pacific Forest Products, Fresno, Ca., after a Santa Cruz, Ca., coastal respite.

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Frenklln Dougles "Doug" Ketchum is new district mgr. for the Western Wood Products Assn. in the San Francisco area, based in Santa Rosa, according to Frrnk Stewert, a So. Ca. district mgr.

Arthur W. Schuette is new mgr. of raw materials for the Western Wood Products Division, Forest Products Group, Koppers Co., Inc., Portland, Or.

Dick Voelzke is now on the sales force at Belco, Tustin, Ca., according to Bob Pellow, mgr. of the Bellingham Lumber Co. div.

John F. Tsentes is the new group v.p., security products groups, Scovill Inc., Monroe, N.C., according to Malcolm Brldrige, chairman and c.e.o. He will report to exec v.p. Jrmes A. Rankin.

Robert L. Grant is now senior personnel recruiter for Wickes Lumber. Saginaw, Mi., according to F. Richard Mdracken, v.p. of personnel. He reports to Don E. Taylor, mgr.

Con Hermsted is new to trading at Gill Forest Products. Bellevue. Wa.

Bob Kimble is back at work at his Sequoia Lumber Co., Visalia, Ca., after some summer vacation.

Weldo Tinsley, Builders Emporium, Irvine, Ca., plans a Hawaiian trip to see his son, Waldo, Jr., a naval lieutenant stationed on Oahu.

Dave Schaller is back at Schaller Forest Products, Redding, Ca., after vacationing at Lake Almanor, Ca.

September, 1979

Dick Mrurer has joined the trading staff of Rogue Forest Products, Medford, Or.

Russell L. Bean is new advertising and mktg administrator, fence div., Allied Tube and Conduit Corp., Harvey, Il., according to Gerald Stein, v.p. Layton Johnson is the new director of systems.

Tom Moon is now v.p. and controller for Publishers Paper Co., Oregon City, Or.

Donald Fisher, Bohemia, Inc., is new chairman of the Federal Timber Purchasers Committee. He succeeds John Davis.

John Georges is new exec. v.p. for international and wood products businesses of International Paper Co.

Charles H. Bishop, Jr. is new lumber mgr. for Standard Structures Inc., Santa Rosa, Ca. Richard "Rick" Ruthnick is new operations mgr., according to Richard C. Caletti, pres.

Michael A. Rawlins is the new assistant district mgr. for the San Francisco, Ca., sales district, JohnsManville residential products division.

Marion Hanna is now administrative assistant to the president at Nicolai Co.. Portland. Or.

Roy Doe and Phil Shugart have formed Suncrest Forest Industries, White City, Or.

E.G. "Bud" Gouge is new to the wholesale department of Pope & Talbot. Inc., Portland, Or.

Nick Elardo, sales mgr., KimberlyClark,' Anderson, Ca., has completed a back packing trip on Mt. Lassen, followed by a stop off at Jackson Lake, Ca.

Paul Gaboury, Golden Gate Lumber Co., Alamo, Ca., got in a recent British Columbia, Canada, sawmill trip.

Robert Williams, wood products mgr.. Weyerhaeuser Co., Springfi eld, Or.. is one of a group of nine forming a local savings and loan association.

Stephen Wendell, controller for Bohemia, Inc., Eugene, Or., was honored by the National Assn. of Accountants at their annual meeting in Boston.

Gerald Orem, gen. mgr., Jerry's Building Material Center, Eugene, Or., and Dave Shawver, merchandise mgr., received special recognition when their firm was named Ace Hardware Dealer of the Year.

Mike Walsh is new to sales at Northern Lumber Sales, Corona Del Mar, Ca., reports Frank Penberthy.

Sterling Wolfe, Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Orange, Ca., and his wife, Loraine, are visiting South Africa belore touring in East Africa.

Ken Thompson, Southwest Forest Industries, City of Industry, Ca., vacationed in No. Ca. recentlv.

Mike Gay has joined the trading staff of Michigan-California Forest Products, Sacramento, Ca.

Gordy Martin is new to trading at J.H. Blevins Lumber Co., Napa, Ca.

Pete Nevins is now with Fremont Forest Products, Whittier, Ca.

Carole Rourke, Georgia-Pacific, San Leandro, Ca., regional lumber office, is back from a Redding, Ca., area mill trip.

Hank Neely is now mgr. of MichiganCalifornia Forest Products Co., wholesale trading operation, Sacramento, Ca., established by Michigan-California Lumber Co., Camino, Ca.

Jim Harries is new to the sales staff of Kellogg Lumber Co., Lake Oswego, Or.

John Morrison has joined sales at Sunset Moulding Co., Yuba City, Ca.

Vern Bartunek is in charge of the Coast Manufacturing Co. plant at Jasper, Or.

Lloyd Hickok is new head of Timber Export, Portland, Or., a new div. of Kuzman Forest Products.

Personals

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David Ponts, Two Ox Traders, married Nency Prlumbo in Burbank, Ca., Aug. 25. After a honeymoon in Peru, they're now living in Arcata, Ca., where the firm has its main office.

Gery Hrrt is the new sales mgr. of Sequoia Supply, Fairfield, Ca., according to Bob Vandewall, mgr. Larry Stevens was salesman of the quarter for the first quarter and Ralph Kieler, for the second quarter.

Ted Thomson is Ernst Home Centers' mgr. at their new Bellingham, Wa., store. Kathy Pryde is asst. mgr.

Barbara Collett has moved up to personnel director at Pay'n Pak, Kent, Wa.

Richard Miller, Burns Lumber Co., Encino, Ca., and his bride of 10 years, Robin, celebrated with a Caribbean cruise. Bill Perkins is back from a week in Hawaii.

Jay O'Malley, The O'Malley Companies, Phoenix, and his wife, Martha, are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary, with l7 family members in tow, at a house they've rented on Caragh Lake, County Kerry, in lreland. Included in the family group are brother John O'Malley, son, Mike, and son-inlaw Paul Conley.

Jack Henry is now with the sales staff of Wood Traders, Inc., Eugene, Or.

Ken Tinckler. Stahl Lumber Co.. Los Angeles, Ca., has been on an upper Middle West business and vacation trip. Mrrk Michie, who joined Stahl in May, has been working in sales and collections.

D.G. McQuilkin is new mgr. of communications, Masonite Corp.'s hardboard group, Chicago, Il., according to W.F. Strelow, v.p.mktg.

Vern Sumner is now trading at United Lumber Sales, Eugene, Or.

Jim Thompson and Dick Basick are new to sales at the Portland, Or.. office of MacMillan-Bloedel Building Materials. Lorne Whiskin is now there from the trading staff in Atlanta, Ga.

Rita Poe is new to plywood sales at Willamette Industries, Albany, Or.

Bill Morgan is new to Tree Products Co., Lake Oswego, Or.

Willine Brashears, longtime executive secretary to retired lumberman Al Bell (and for more than a decade The Merchant Mapazine's comptroller) has just iompleted an extensive Mediterranean cruise aboard the Golden Odvssev.

John R. Enrlght, v.p. sales, J.E. Higgins Lumber Co., Walnut Creek, Ca., vacationed on the Monterey Peninsula, Ca. Herry Anthony, pres., and Jeck C. Coltes, v.p., marketing, spent a week on business in Tn., Ky., and Ar.

Clerk Hlggtns is the new director of sales and marketing of the T.M. Cobb Co., Irvine, Ca. He was fcrmerly director of sales and marketing of Ajax Hardware Corp.

Judy West is new to the lumber sales staff, California Sugar and Western Pine Agency, San Mateo, Ca., according to Knute Weldman., lumber div.

Ken Wells, AA Plywood and Doors, Santa Maria, Ca., is on the mend from a recent heart attack.

Dick Hicks is new to trading at Ensworth Forest Products, Auburn, Ca.

Jemes Clerk is now with Merrill Lynch Wood Markets, Portland, Or. Williem Kimmer is the new boss at Copeland Lumber Co.'s wholesale division, Portland, Or.

Jack Allen, State Lumber Co., Paso Robles, is recovering from a recent heart attack.

Smith IS saleS

Justinstin smith rs new sales mgr. at Wholesale Industries. Portland. Or.

He was with Del Daley Forest Products.

Jim Duart has been appointed v.p. at Inland Lumber Co., Colton. Ca.. according to Gary Thomson, pres. of the major wholesale firm.

Howard Rader is new president and gen. mgr. of Jewett-Cameron Lumber Corp., Portland, Or.

Pete Speek, Fremont Forest Products, Whittier, Ca., is back from a British Columbia, Canada, mill tnip.

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Wholesale Lumber Products

Furniture Market Ghanges

The 1980s will be a golden era for the specialists who feature all apartment, was a key point covered during the Western Furniture Market in San Francisco.

It typifies the trend to service the consumer wishing to refurbish a single room at a time, according to Dave McCullam, v.p. sales for Northwest Hardwoods, Inc., which conducts in-depth studies of all table styles and woods used at primarry markets around the country.

Another study shows a change toward close pore woods in the Part three markets.

While the close-grain share of the total table market is still small, the steady growth for the past 18 months indicates an imPortant change may be on the way.

Maple and alder made the biggest gain with cherry off somewhat, and birch up slightly from last January. Walnut continued to show some resurgence up to 5.60/o compared to 5.20/o a year ago. Burls remained important at 5.50/o and 6.1% of the tables featured, other lesser known woods making the medium textured woods 20.50/o of the showroom areas.

With oak leading the way with 250/o of the table lines, the open pore and contrasty woods such as pine make up 37.30/o of the market presentations. Pecan was tabulated at 3.20/o which is the same as last January. With wicker and bamboo now commanding 6.50/o of the table lines, the total of genuine wood or natural forest materials now make up 7 60/o of the total tables offered at the western furniture market.

Obviously, most of the printed grain or overlay and the enameled or painted tables are made of wood or wood fiber materials, but the natural wood look is a much larger ratio of the market than previous years. This is in spite of the wide use of metal, glass, marble, slate, leather, and some elegant wear- resistant fabrics. These were tabulated at 12.30/o of the market spaces while the all plastic was 2.10/0, and the printed overlay held at 5.50/0.

While more painted table lines, partly Oriental, were shown than last January, the total was 4.10/0, which is lower than a year ago. Painted units are much higher'

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Composite Saves Trees

A new type of plywood that virtually will double the number of panels which can be made from a tree will start rolling off a new Georgia-Pacific Corp. production line by early 1980.

It will be the first "composite" plywood produced commercially in the Southern pine region. The product will have an oriented fiber flakeboard core replacing conventional veneers and will compete with conventional plywood, according to H.S. Mersereau, southern division senior v.p., who added that the panels also have advantages over conventional plywood.

The oriented fiber cores. made of special wood flakes with their grain running across the panel like conventional veneer cores, will be made in a new flakeboard plant being built adjacent to a conventional plywood plant under construction at Dudley, NC.

The new highly stable exterior panel will go to market under the name of Stable-X.

Composite panels are formed like a sandwich with wood veneer faces and backs bonded with phenolic resin to the flakeboard core ol specially cut wood flakes, bonded under heat and pressure with the exterior-grade phenolic resin. An automated layup line will glue and assemble the new panels.

The result is a panel for exterior as well as interior uses for which conventional sanded and sheathing grades ol Southern pine plywood are now specified, Mersereau said.

Pilot production of the new panels has been market tested, approved by the American Plywood Assn. for quality standards, and meets all requirements for roof sheathing, floor panels and other construction applications in competition with conventional Southern pine plywood, according to Mersereau.

C0ilP0S|TE PIYU000 has rigid core (at pencil point) of oriented-tiber wood flakes r/instead of traditional laminated veneers in I development that virtually will double the number ol construction panels which can be made from a tree. Wood flakes in core are oriented in opposite direction of veneer face and back lor strength. Flakeboard core and veneers are lormed like sandwich and bonded under heat and pressure with exterior-grade phenolic resin.

Advantages over traditional allveneer plywood are said to be more rigidity and absence of voids or knots in the cores. Good wood unusable as veneer for conventional plywood cores can be used for the special flakeboard, substantially increasing utilization of the forest resource.

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Selling Energy

(Continued from page I I ) ing systems now account for some l2o/o of all heating systems shipments in the U.S., comPared to onlv 4olo in 1974. The market is skewed toward the South, the studY notes.

In the case of insulation, moreover. the market is "bY no means monolithic for other reasons as well." "Products based on different materials have differing physical properties and costs, leading to striking disparities in payback periods and cost efficieniies," says the study, which incorporates the co-efficients and other tables used to make the comParative calculations.

Some sample conclusions: Cellulose as an insulation material will lose market share; fiberglass, on the other hand, will gain market share.

The study delves into energY loss and gain via windows, and finds this to be "the most vulnerable area," but adds, "fortunately a large number of relatively inexpensive products can be used to minimize these losses." These include solar screens, special glass films, insulated glass windows and inside storm windows, among other items.

Still other potential energy saving products are reviewed, even the seidom-thought-of electric blanket. This item, alone, the studY concludes, can contribute significantly to energy reduction.

New Hardwood Firm

Just-Woods Forest Products Co.. is a new firm formed bY Reg Justus in Portland, Or.

He was formerly with North Pacific Lumber Co. as sales manaeer of hardwoods. The comPanY w'ill specialize in oak, ash, maple.walnut and Pacific Coast species of alder and maple.

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