Moulding Manufacturers convention

A LIBERAL mix of business and frl pleasure marked the Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers Association's recent summer meeting at the Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, Ca.

Among the highlights was a round table discussion, in which all attending exchanged ideas, philosophies and methods on a variety of topics, such as health insurance, employee training, production scheduling, yield, offshore insurance and leasing vs. owning trucks.

Speaker Richard L. Sabby, a

Story at a Glance

Wood Moulding & Miilwork Producers Association's summer meet in San Diego, Ca. strong attendance marks weekend of business and pleasure. . . 1988: San Diego, Feb. 10-13.

WMMPA associate member, addressed "Your Company & Personal Investment Strategies," covering stock market cycles, mutual funds and his company, Investment Strategies, Inc.

The Educational Entertainer, Richard Flint, spoke on "How Do You Spell Sell?" He explained successful management strategies, stressing "the need to let people know that they matter."

Association president Johnny

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Hoo-Hoo- Ettes Back Project

National Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club board members voted for the organization to become an associate sponsor for Project Learning Tree at the fall board meeting in Eugene, Or.

(Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club members were included among volunteers Jighting forest Jires in southern Oregon and northern California from mid-August to mid-September. Linda Reed, Hoo-Hoo-Ette publicity chairman, Maks Wood Products. Eugene, Or., describes their work in the following article-ed).

The past few weeks have found many of our members in southern Oregon and nothern California involved in putting out some 1250 fires started by lightning. Many of

Meeting at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Aug. 2l-22, the group heard a presentation of PLT given by Janell Renoud of the American Forest Council. The immediate goal of the Hoo-Hoo-

Lumber Women Aid Fire Effort

our members were involved in dispatching 24 hours a day.

When it became apparent that many of the firefighters were not being fed, members quickly got on CB radios and with the help of the Red Cross and local residents prepared dinners for 200 plus in school cafeterias. Members on the home front also prepared box lunches and sent packages to husbands whose no. I priority was clean underwear.

One of our members stated that the area looked like a war zone. Jeeps were traveling towards the fires with uniformed firefighters while residents were evacuating in their pickups filled with furniture and personal possessions.

Ettes is to attend regional workshops sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service as preparation for working in the environmental education program for educators and other adult leaders working with young people.

R ural fire departments from miles around, Civil Air Patrol, National Guardsmen, firefighters from Boston and North Carolina, as well as local millworkers, loggers and private contractors put forth a I 100/o coordinated effort to combat this natural disaster.

It will be 100 years before some of these forests will reach their pre-fire state.

WlilEnY T0UR was popular part 0f the National Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club fall meeting. (front row, left to right) Syma Gapski, Kathy Belisle, Cathy Miller, Ramona Miller, Marj Reffstrup, Ken Rellstrup, Rose Miller, Bob Miller, Yolanda Waters, Barbara Hickey. (second row) Genee Heinz, Connie Miller, Carlene Pratt, Carlene Belisle, Norma Delagardelle, Rita Jedrzynski, Becky Solomon, Carol Gray. (third row) Virginia Brown, Carla Robertson, Doris Hassman, Peggy Cope, Lillian Lee, Betty Jones. (back row) Zella Akers, Dennis Koffler, Brenda Sidwell, Norma Morris, Cle Frederick, lva May Van Noy, Gina Rosecrans, Ray Morrissey, Loretta Morrissey, Nancy Jodoin, Mike Jodoin, Lissa Voorhees, Dirk Voorhees, Teresa Williams, Bruce Carrol, Dean Williams, Jerry Solomon.

Annual LASC Conference

"Making Waves" is the theme of the Lumber Association of Southern California's 37th annual management conference, Nov. 5-7,1987, at the Marquis Hotel, Palm Springs, Ca.

"Wave makers" on the program include Dr. Iben Browning, climatologist, speaking on "Climate and the Affairs of Man;" Wayne Quasha on "How To Increase Profits Through the Traditional System," and attorney Bruce Givner, on "The Tax and Legal Aspects of Passing the F-amily Business to the New Generation."

Hall of Famers for the annual meet will be Clint Rygel, Irrank Purcell, Ed Fountain, Sr., and William Cowling, II.

Also featured will be the Second Growth Panel on "Making Waves," in addition to special lunches, cocktail parties, dinner dance, golf and tennis.

Doug Fir Veteran Retires

Ray Lizotte, a 37 year veteran of the forest products industry, has retired from Gregory Forest Products, Glendale, Or.

"The best green Douglas fir man on the West Coast" is the way John Cole, marketing director for Gregory, summed up Lizotte's career.

After leaving Yakima, Wa., with his wife. Minnie, in the early 1950s, he started in the lumber business at the bottom - sorting lumber and grading for Baugh Bros., Los Angeles. Ca. In 1955. he went to Tarter Webster and Johnson, Los Angeles, as a lift truck driver. His first opportunity in sales came when he went to Rialto. Ca., to work for Frank Hasey at Tarter Webster and Johnson.

ln 1962 he moved to Inland Lumber Co. as a lumber trader, later becoming vice president in charge of purchasing. In 1975, Lizotte started his own wholesale company, R & L Wood Products, in Rialto. He later moved this operation to Grass Valley, Ca. In 1984 Lizotte joined Gregory Forest Products, Glendale, Or., as lumber sales manager, working there until his recent retirement.

"Ray's understanding of values, lumber and the market place will be missed by the mill and his many customersn" said Cole in extending the company's best wishes for the couple's retirement in Grants Pass, Oregon.

f SSOCIATION investments rn frl the do-it-vourself and remodeling markets in the past few years are paying off, Western Wood Products Association chairman Dick Parrish told members at their recent fall meeting.

The Boise Cascade executive said, "Our marketing drive has Placed strong emphasis on do-it-yourself and remodeling contractor Promotions. all encouraging more wood use. And what are we seeing? A continued and vigorous upward trend in our woods used in rePair and remodeling. We justifiably can accept credit for pushing some of that demand along. This in turn indicates we have here a program which is paying for itself."

In other business. WWPA President H. A. "Bob" Roberts forecast that the U.S. will use a record volume of softwood lumber in 1987, the fourth consecutive year lumber consumption records have been broken.

More than 50 billion feet of lumber should be used in the country, 5.3Vr more than in 1986the Previous record vear. Roberts added.