sUNRI 5E

Jack Millikan, Lane-Stanton Lumber Co., City of Industry, Ca., got in an Alaska vacation this past summer.

Kenneth L. Hoevet is Andersen Corp.'s new Western regional sales mgr., Portland.

Jimmy Jones, Supreme Nine member for Hoo-Hoo's jurisdiction VI, is recovering nicely from a heart attack.

Larry Chisnall has joined the staff at Far West Fir Sales, Huntington Beach, Ca.

Russ Sturdyvin has moved to a new position with American Forest Products, Redding, Ca.

Jim Fife, Pacific Grove Builders Supply, Pacific Grove, Ca., is taking it easy after a recent heart attack.

C. Glen Beattie is the new mgr. of Koppers' hardwood lumber group.

Ron Barrow is the new exec. v.p. (read lobbyist) of the Western Building Material Dealers Assn., Sacramento, Ca.

Vince Besinque, Lane-Stanton Vance Lumber Co. (the firm's new name), City of Industry, Ca., has returned from a vacation fortnight.

John Nugent is the new warehouse services mgr. (lumber) for U. S. Plywood, Eugene, Or.

Craig Phelps, Bob Borghorst and Larry Allison are new to industrial sales, Arthur A. Pozzi Co.. Portland.

Kenneth P. Clark is the new pres. of the Western Red Cedar Lumber Assn. Gilbert Emory is v.p.; Ken Bradley, treas.; and Bob Hunt was re-elected sec.-mgr.

Jim Murphy is the new mgr. of Coast Wood Preserving, Inc., Ukiah, Ca. He was with Coastal Forest Products, Cloverdale.

Jim Oakley, Oakley Plywood, Morgan Hill, Ca., spent a quiet vacation at home.

Pete Middlekauf has joined Noyo Forest Products, San Jose, Ca., according to Aubie Harness.

Harold Fuerst is the new sales mgr. at Selma Pressure Treating Co., Selma, Ca.

Al Caldwell is now with Preston Lumber Co., Cloverdale.

John Turner has joined the sales force at Products Sales Co., Newport Beach, Ca., according to headman Ted Gilbert.

Bob Herbst and Bob Hunt, Western Wood Products Assn.. are back in Portland after a wood promotion trip to the United Kingdom.

Ken Bowlin, a regional sales mgr. for Westmark & Assoc., was recently at Newport Beach HQ. for a sales planning session.

Gordon King has been named new president of Hampton Lumber Sales Co., Portland. He will also manage their All-Coast Forest Products div., Whittier, Ca.; Jack Zalaha, former Hampton pres., remains a consultant and will concentrate on the firm's Gear Reducer Sales Co. and Hampton Power Products, Lloyd Lewis is now acting mgr. at Willamina Lumber, replacing Jerry Buck, who resigned.

Bill Honey and Earl Williams are new to sales at Portland's Tumac Lumber.

Doug Lashmett is a new man in sales at Louisiana-Pacific, Whittier, Ca., according to Bob Heberle, who is glad to be over a recent bout with the flu.

"Nibs" White is back at White Brothers, Oakland, Ca., looking tan after a Hawaiian get-away.

Dwight Curran has joined Oregon Pacific at their new Concord, Ca., offices as a trader. Larry Mead and Doug Gregg are also new to the staff, according to director of sales Ron Robbins.

David D. Leland is now senior v.p., operations, bldg. products group, Southwest Forest Industries. Phoe- nix, according to Ray Baker, chairman.

Seth PotterJhe new president of Dant & Russell, (see story elsewhere in this issue) is back at it in Portland after vacationing in Carmel and California's Central Valley.

Bob Roberts is the new mgr. at Hubbard and Johnson's Mountain View, Ca., store, replacing Jim Webber, who has left the company after more than 25 years.

Richard Simpson of L-P's millwork div., Ukiah, Ca., is the new pres. of the Western Wood Moulding and Millwork Producers, Portland, replacing past prez Sterling Mentink, Challenge Lumber Products, Marysville. Ca.

Clyde Herring has moved to outside sales for Lumber Products, Portland, according to Werner Richen.

John A. McKinney has been named new president of Johns-Manville, Denver, following the sudden resignation of former pres. William Richard Goodwin. Policy differences between Goodwin and the board of directors apparently triggered the change.

Kathy Hill, Harold Henderlong's "pride & joy" at Rolando Lumber Co., Cloverdale, Ca., has returned from two weeks vacation.

Gil Sissons, Jr., Louisiana-Pacific, Ukiah, Ca., vacationed for a week in Canada.

Dave Yeazell is now selling redwood for Beaver Lumber, Santa Clara, Ca.

Jerry Spurgeon is now in sales at Rolando Lumber. San Francisco. He had been at Zenith Lumber.

Nick Elardo is the new sales mgr. at Kimberly-Clark, Anderson, Ca. He was formerly with GeorgiaPacific, San Leandro, Ca.

Russell W. Evitt has been promoted mgr. of American Forest Products' primary wood products group, Amador-Calaveras div., according to exec. v.p. Jack Ford, W.B. Lantsberger has suceeded Evitt as div. gen. mgr. W. H. Kuphaldt moves up to gen mgr. of the South Sierra div.

Len Kenyon is now business mgr. at Champion's U.S. Plywood Shasta operations according to op. mgx. Ed Shaw.

Jeff James and Hal White have joined Hirt & Wood Lumber Co., Eugene, Or.

Gerald K. Riemer is now asst. directortransportation for the American Plywood Assn.

Lyn Rabun has joined ColumbiaCalifornia in sales at their Sacramento, Ca., office.

Tom Flynn has joined Robert S. Osgood, Inc., Los Angeles, on a full time basis following his recent university graduation.

Dave Lebec, Rounds Lumber, Cloverdale, Ca., used some "Yes l|/e Can" and got his Santa Rosa Little League team into the All-Star playoffs. Congrats, Dave.

Ray Jensen, Fremont Forest Products, Whittier, Ca., vacationed for three weeks with his daughter in Europe; Ed Evans and his family vacationed with a Caribbean cruise; Ted Pollard got in a respite at the Black Butte Resort in Eastern Oregon; Tim Gaffney has joined Fremont in sales after a stint with Weyerhaeuser.

Ivan Katter is now selling for Wickiup Forest Products in Bend, Or.

D.F. "Don" Lefevre is the new mgr. of Georgia-Pacific's distribution center in Tucson, Az., according to v.p. Stanley S. Dennison.

Five Year Forecast

A new five-year F. W. Dodge forecast for the construction industry predicts continued recovery over the next two years, followed by sluggish growth beyond 1978. Energy, environmental and transportation projects will offer above average opportunity in this otherwise "slow-growth" market; and among the nation's major regions, the South is expected to outperform the others.

As long as inflation and energy scarcity continue to be serious threats, economic policies of restraint will severely handicap the industry, according to George A. Christie, v.p.-chief economist for the F. W. Dodge Div. of McGrawHill Information Systems Co.

"lf construction costs can be held to an average increase of 5% a year, total contract value will be in the vicinity of $150 billion in 1981, roughly 5O% higher than the 1973 peak, but physical volume will be only slightly ahead of where it was back in 1973," he added. "Most of what will be called expansion during the next five years will be recovery from the severe recession of l9J4-75."

"Once the housing cycle begins to flatten out, probably in 1978, the annual rate ofexpansion oftotal construction will slow appreciably," he predicted. "It is highly probable that as much as 3/4s of all the expansion in the dollar value of new construction taking place over the next five years will have been realized by the end of 1978."

Plywood Growth Area

A new study of plywood used in nonresidential construction concludes that while plywood has made modest gains in this sector of the total construction market since 1968, there is real potential for more rapid future growth.

The study, titled Market Research Report R 32: Softwood Plywood Used in Nonresidential Construction, was prepared by Michael J. Carney of the American Plywood Association's marketing group.

Approximately 1.8 billion sq. ft. of plywood went into nonresidential construction in l9l4 for commercial and institutional building, concrete forming and auxiliary ap- million world headquarters, nestled majestically against the foothills of the Rockies on the company's 10.000 acre Ken-Caryl Ranch, near Denver, was recently dedicated. Construction started in 1973. Slope of the mountain givesillusion of building tipping upward. Approximately 1600 will eventually be in building. new plications. This is about 1I% of the overall plywood market.

Out of 790 million sq. ft. used in nonresidential buildings last year, the largest portion,420 million sq. ft., was in roof decks. Plywood's share of the total roof deck market is estimated to be between l5%-20Vo.

Most of this penetration is concentrated in low to medium-rise commercial and industrial buildinssinWestern states.