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436 14th St,, suite 404 Oailand, Ca. 94612 (415) 465-2658

John Wilton

Specializing in SHAKEFETT and REDWOOD, including gfeen dimension, KD uppers, pattern stock, DECKING, FENCING, lath, benderboard and redwood logs.

September

Hoo-Hoo International-Sept. 12-15, convention, Houston Oaks, Houston, Tx.

Western Wood Products Association-Sept. 12-15, fall meeting, MGM Grand Hotel, Reno, Nv.

Yakima Hardwsre Co.-Sept. 13, dealer market, Yakima Convention Center, Yakima, Wa.

California Retail Hardware Association-Sept. 13-15, management conference, Harrah's South Lake Tahoe, Nv.

Nationd Association of Wholesalers-Sept. 13-19, wholesale executive management course, Stanford University, Stanford. Ca.

Energr 'tl-Sept. 17-20, Orange County Fairgrounds, Costa Mesa, Ca.

Shasta Lumbermen's Golf Tournament-Sept. lE, Riverview Golf and Country Club, Redding, Ca.

Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club-Sept. lE, summer party, 7 p.m. Regency Room, R.M.S. Queen Mary, Long Beach. Ca.

Palmer G. Lewis Company-Sept. 20, 9th Annual Customer Buying Show. Distribution Center Warehouse, Auburn, Wa

Jensen-Byrd Co.-Sept. 20-21, fall merchandising market, company headquarters, Spokane, Wa.

Mountain States Lumber Dealers Association-Sept. 20-22, annual convention, Four Seasons Motor Lodge, Albuquerque, N.M.

Forest Products Research Society-Sept. 22-24, Design and Performance of Light Frame Structures-Wall and Floor Systems symposium, Plaza Cosmopolitan Hotel, Denver.

Morse Hardware Co.-Sept. 2E, annual hardware show, Holiday Inn, Bellingham, Wa.

October

Los Angeles Hardwood Lumberman's Club-(kt. 1, lunch meeting, Stevens Steak House, City of Commerce, Ca.

Arizona Hardware Co.-Oct. 4-5, fall dealer market, Mesa Community Center, Mesa, Az.

Montana Hardware & Implement Association-Oct. 7-9, convention, Sheraton Hotel, Great Falls, Mt.

Hardwood Plywood Manufacturers Association-Oct. 7-9, fall convention, Bay Shore, Vancouver, B.C.

San Joaquin Valley Hoo-Hoo Club-Oct. 9, Valley Frolic, Tropicana Lodge, Fresno, Ca.

American Hardwsre Manufacturers Association and National Wholesale Hardware Association-Oct. 11-14. convention, Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, Ca.

American Plywood Association-Ocl. 12-13' fall meeting, Broadwater Beach Hotel, Biloxi, Ms.

Humboldt Hoo-Hoo Club-Oct. 15, election, Eureka, Ca.

National Forest Products Week-Oct. lE-24 n n[-n n fTrD INII F\V/\V/SUULS LJLJ \:-/ CHUCK LINK # executive director

National Association of Wholesalers-Oct. 19-22, purchasing & inventory control seminar, Phoenix, Az.

Nationaf Sash & Door Jobbers Association-Oct, A-N, l7th annual meeting, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. Northwest Hardwood Association-Oct. 29-31, fall meeting, Harrah's, Reno, Nv.

National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association -Oct. 31, board of directors meeting, The Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs Co.

INFORMING the 142 people auending

Ithe all industry management conference at Agate Beach, Newport, Or,, Michael Harrington, Boise Cascade Corp., presented useful ideas for recruiting training, and union prevention. Wallace Roberts, Eisen & Blum, Inc., Chicago, Il., explained how the future market can be used in our industry.

Others contributing to the theme "Management for the Times" included Al Gustafson, Boise Cascade, discussing

MOUNTAIN STATES FRED CARUSO executive secretary

Tgg 88TH annual Mountain Srares I Lumber Dealers Association convention is focusing on "Building Futures" through fellowship, the sharing of ideas, the development of opportunities, and the strengthening of our businesses and our trade association through improved management practices.

Association members and families from all over the area are gathering at the Four Seasons Resort Hotel in Albuquerque, N.M., for the meeting the 20th through 22nd of this month. Industry suppliers also are joining in the activities as well as exhibiting in the Building Products Show. The exhibit hall is divided into two theme-integrated areas, The Market Plaza and The Street of the Little Shops. This has been planned to allow for larger displays and table top exhibits

within the same area and theme. Drawings, food functions and traffic patterns are designed to promote circulation to all areas. Gary Disco of Disco Display House is decorating and coordinating the show.

A dealer only session is scheduled to present a variety of straight-talking, dealer-to-dealer programs dealing with marketing ideas and planning for survival in the 1980s. Computers in the lumber industry is the topic for a second educational session.

A special President's reception and banquet is being arranged to celebrate the 90th birthday ofthe association.

In addition, tours of the Isleta Indian Pueblo, Old Town Albuquerque, the New Mexico State Fair, and the Sandia Testing Labs, Wooden Trestle Testing Bridge, and Atomic Museum at Kirtland Air Force Base are available for delegates and their families.

The annual golf tournament is being held at the Rio Rancho Colf and Tennis Club on Sunday before the official opening of the convention.

credit management and Charles Lauber, Palmer G. Lewis Co., and Jim Fox, Lumbermen's of Washington, with a presentation on advertising and promotion.

Summer training for guardsmen and reservists can pose special problems and questions for employers. Here are some reminders of certain provisions of the Veterans Readjustment Act of 1974 that you should review and keep in mind:

(l) You cannot refuseto grant employees time off to meet their weekly or annual training obligations if such time off is properly requested in advance.

(2) You cannot require a reservist to use his or her vacation time off for the annual military leave, but if both the employer and employee voluntarily. agree, the employee may take the vacation to be absent for military training.

(3) You are not required to pay employees anything for time spent on military leave.

(4) You are entitled to expect the employee to return promptly to his job upon completion of his military training. When returning, the employee is entitled to the seniority status and rate of pay that he would have had if the military had not intervened.

To control the practice of reducing payroll taxes by classifying certain employees as "independent contractors," IRS is said to be matching 1979-81 contractor returns with the returns of the contractors' employers. Such investigations have previously resulted in massive reclassifications of sales, insurance and real estate agents, franchisees, electricians, construction workers and trades people. If the IRS does reclassify someone from "independent contractor" to "employee" and

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Lumber dealers. furniture and cabinet manufacturers throughout theWest know the Higgins name stands tall for service and on-time delivery of the finest grades of hardwoods, softwoods, and ply'woods. This service is provided from our 5 centrally located distribution centers. From around the horn, or around the block, when you require the best, call:

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Cascade, Idaho, off 25 million with production of only 29 million feet.

In spite of the I 8 9o drop in production Boise had, the firm is well thought of and itschairman, John B. Fery, is well regarded in the financial markets of the nation.

International Paper Co. is in 5th place this year with production of 640 million feet, up 44 million from the 596 million feet of 1979. This was a 7 .40/o ingease over 1979. lt was one of only two producers among the top ten to have increased production in 1980.

Along the canyons of Wall Street, some financial analysts have felt that IP Co. failed to do an adequate job of managing its timber assets. But this appears to be changing. Thus, its increase in output in no accident. The firm is becoming more aggressive by acquiring additional timberlands, by building new sawmills, and revitalizing older mills as the timber mix changes.

Its production at its Weed, Ca., plant was almost unchanged from 1979 when it sawed 77 million feet.