SOME INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS

By Robin Wood

A NEW CONCEPT IN MILL CAPABILITIES AND HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU.

Our Klamath Falls, Oregon plant has been producing Ponderosa Pine lumber since 1928, with California, the Southwest and the Northwest taking a hefty portion of the production. The reason . . . the favorable shipping rates to these areas. A hardboard operation added in 1955 was the first product diversification at this mill.

Then, last year things began to happen, based on the concept that mills with favorable freight rates to specific geographic areas should serve these areas with a diversified product line. This concept is now being put into practice at Klamath Falls. You benefit and so do we.

WHAT TWENTY.FOUR MILLION DOLLARS WILL BUY THESE DAYS.

A plywood plant has just begun production with a threeshift annual capacity of 90 million square feet measured on a 3/8" basis. Production will be heavy to exterior sheathing. Also starting production is the Versabord particleboard operation. Used primarily as floor underlayment, a specific grade will also be manufactured for mobile home decking.

Timblend flakeboard, widely used for cabinetry, is also rolling off the production line. A cut-to-size operation in conjunction enables us to now better serve our customers.

WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU.

Now, most of you within the circulation of this magazine, can order a variety of products from the Klamath Falls mill with its extremely favorable freight rate - - Ponderosa Pine lumber, Fir .Dimension, conventional hardboard, hardboard siding, Muralwood grain print paneling, Versabord underlayment, mobile home decking, door core, Timblend flakeboard in panels or cut-to-size.

Our new mill capabilities at Klamath Falls have been made with you in mind. We hope you will take advantage of them.

HARRY MENDENHAI.I. executive vice president

Lumber Merchqnls Associotion of Northern Colifornio 4546 El Conlno Rcol, Suitc 0 lor Aflor, Cnllf, 91022 l1t51 91t-1617 fT is time once again when the - Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California is deeply involved in the planning of the 1972 Top Management Seminar. Again this seminar, as those of the past six years, will be held at the Asilomar, Pacific Grove, Calif., Jan. 16-18. If you have not made a note on your calendar to keep those dates open for attendance, take a few moments and do it now. d.

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The seminar for the coming year will be one to remember. In addition to having a representative of the Department of Housing and Urban Development diseuss their plans for the 70's and the use of modular homes consisting of less than 25/o wood for low cost housing, we will have a panel which will first present individual views on the use and future of wood products and the use of the nation's forests. On the panel will be a representative of the U.S. Forest Service, Department of Interior; George M. Craig, secretary-manager, Western Lumber Manufacturels, fnc,, who will represent industry, and a member of the Sierra CIub to present the citizen and environmentalist position.

A key feature of the seminar will be Mrs. Patricia Coleman, women's feature editor, Business Supply News. Pat will present the women's view of purchasing building materials for home improvement and how the lumber yard salesman should.sell to*the woman customer.

To wind up the seminar, Jack Frrost, Weyerhauser's management expert, will conduct a workshop on personnel management. Jack is oue of those rare iadividuals w.ith a vast knowledge of the personnel management field and a unique capability to *deliver his* messa8e.

The seminars are conducted for members of the Lumber Merchants Association, fowever, we we'lcome any dealer who is interested in staying abreast of the fluid building materials industry. We expect to see a great number of, owners, managers and key employees at the seminar. The usual exchange of ideas between the dealers during the free time of the seminar is well worth attending.

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