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Gone Fishin'

After 29years withBel-Air Door Co., Charles "Charley" Phillips has retired. He had been the chief maintenance man for the Alhambra, Ca., firm.

The average length of employment at the major West coast door company is a remarkable 25 years.

The retirement ceremony included a factory Iuncheon for all 95 employees, presents from fellow employees and the Bel-Air Door

Co. Phillips begins his retirement with the profit-sharing that the firm has for staff employees.

Plne Newsletter Closes

Jackson Press, Inc. has announced that they ceased publishing PINE ONLY September 7, r979.

Rick Kellso, publisher and editor. stated that lack of interest and poor sales were the primary reasons for the closing of the pine market newsletter that began in MaY of 1979.

Kellso also said that all subscribers would be promptly reimbersed, in full, for services not rendered.

Import Hardwood Prices

(Continued from page 8) a balancing. For example, from 1963 through 1973 the cost of Appalachian red oak doubled, while during the same period the costs of meranti and Philippine mahoganY hardly changed. Now the imports are catching up. the fact that many imported species are no longer inexpensive substitutes for U.S. domestic woods, but desirable products for the world market, wanted for their own Particular characteristics, not as alternates.

Thesedramatic price increases for Southeast Asian hardwoods are sure to drive U.S. customers toward South and Central American hardwoods. Banak will probably PlaY a bigger role in the U.S. market in the near future, until its price will also balance with like species. And Honduras mahogany, one of the world's finest hardwoods, has suddenly become the best buy on the import market, where a couple of years ago it was one of the most expensive.

GI|(E-GUTTII|B time at retirement ceremony for Bel-Air Door's "Charley" Phillips. With him is Bayla Tyre Fineman, whose lather Morris Tyre, who founded Bel-Air Door Co., hired Phillips 29 years ago. At right, company presidenl Sam Fineman.

Although the price increases have been shocking, they also rePresent

In time. the vast timber resources of some of the African countries such as Liberia and Gaboon will (hopefully) become more available to the world market, along with Papua, New Guinea, Indonesia and others.

Still, it seems unlikelY that import prices will return to last year's levels at any time in the foreseeable future, but maybe, that is the way it is supposed to be in order to help preserve this wonderful natural resource that we are privileged to have.