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Whether you need a square, rectangular or L.shaped building, San Antonio can provide it.

This building for Joslin Lumber Co. in Torrance, Ca., is a sturdy L-shaped pole shed 50' x 110' x ?l'. Half is open with a 50'x50' area enclosed for use as a hardware store. The open part is used for storing lumber, plywood and mouldings.

When completed it featured a hot mopped roof and attractive board and batten siding. Joslin Lumber is a retail firm specializing in sales to contractors.

The practical and functional buildings erected by San Antonio Pole Construction Company can be custom tailored to fit the characteristics of the property as precisely as the business needs of the company.

Call today and let San Antonio solve your build. ing problems.

Mike Esposito, mg3.

1280 Unit F-1

West Lrrrnbelt l(cl.

I3r'eer, Ca. 92627

(2r3) 694-8s6r

(774) 529-7790

P.O. Box 129

Grirnes, Ca. 95950

(916) 137-2303

First Bar Goded Moulding

As forecast, bar coded building products are beginning to make an appearance in the trade.

Maple Bros. Inc., a Brea, Ca., distributor of mouldings, has begun to bar code up to half of the Products handled by the company. TheY are believed to be the first moulding distributor in the U.S. to apply bar code labels.

cating, for example, whether a Piece is casing or base. When scanned at point of sales, this information plus information in a store's computer provides a price as well as data to track the merchandise and sale.

Maple Bros. has been working on the bar coding program for more than a year, according to Lew MacDonald, v.p., marketing.

In the south, Brown Moulding C'o., Montevallo, Al., is in the development stage of apPlYing a UPC bar code to moulding. They also will apply stickers with a hand held printer. They expect to be on line by Jan. I with one customer and be coding about 400/o of the customer base within two years.

Billy Burch, v.p. of sales & marketing, is coordinating the project with customers; Blake Austin, v.P., finance. internal develoPment.

sentenced to 14 months in Prison plus three years probation, according to the U.S. attorney's oflice in Seattle, Wa.

The sentence handed down in the United States District Court, Western District of Washington at Seattle, also requires that he participate in a substance abuse treatment program and Gambler's Anonymous as well as paying restitution of $52,633.41.

A former employee of Matheus Lumber Co.. Inc.. Kirkland, Wa., he pleaded guilty to ordering lumber products ostensibly for that company with the purchases billed to them' However, Knievel, according to the court, sold the purchases to an out of state company which paid him the proceeds from the sale. The fraud began September, 1988, and continued through January, 1989.

Using the UPC bar code shown here, adhesive stickers are applied with a handheld labeler to each piece of wood in a bundle of moulding.

The bar code identifies the manufacturer and moulding pattern, indi-

Lumber Salesman Jailed

Pleading guilty to mail fraud involving lumber sales, former lumber salesman Nicolas I. Knievel has been

Knievel, who claims to be a nephew of famed daredevil Evel Knievel, was arrested Feb. 3, 1989, by special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Sacramento, Ca. Sentencing took Place July 14, 1989, in Seattle.

Fremont specializes in a large inventory of high quality Douglas fir boards, dimension, long Iengths and timbers shipped from select mills in British Columbia, Or"go. and California. We are constantly adding to our selection of western red cedar, pine, hemlock and white fir. Other species and specialty items are inventoried and included in our weekl y flyer sent to all Fremont customers'

David Jones has been named pres. and gen. mgr. ol Foster Lumber Yards, Vallejo and Fairfield, Ca., succeeding Jimmy Jbnes, who has retired after 43 years with the co.

Brent Mullen, Southwest Hardwood, Phoenix,, Az., enjoyed a recent elk hunting trip to Colorado in the wilderness area outside Durango.

Doug Fraser has been promoted to v.p.treas. at All American Home Center, Downey, Ca. Lenn Rosenfield is now v.p.-advertising; Tom Farrell, v.p.mktg., and Ray Wolfe, v.p.-operations.

John Robinson has joined the sales team at Blasen & Blasen Lumber Corp., Portland, Or., according to pres. Lisa Blasen.

James F. Murk, v.p.-mktg.. Kelleher Corp., Sacramento, Ca., is back after a sales trip through Kansas City, Mo.

Lew MacDonald, v.p. of mktg., Maple Bros., Inc., Brea., Ca., is lecturing on interior design at various California State University campuses, beginning with Chico and Fullerton.

Cap Strano, Suverkrup Lumber, San Bernardino, Ca., has been elected pres. of the Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo Club. Also elected: v.p. Chip Roepke, All-Coast F'orest Products. Chino, Ca.; sec. Mike Nicholson, All-Coast; treas. Ron Robbins. Robbins Lumber, Fontana, Ca., and directors Patric Taylor, Cal State Forest Products, Anaheim, Ca.; Don Gregson, Capital Lumber Co., Chinol Phil Abraham, Riverside County Lumber, Riverside, Ca.; Armondo Chavez, Bear Forest Products. Rialto, Ca.; Rick Deen, Nichols Lumber, Baldwin Park, Ca.. and Ross Callaway, C&E Lumber, Pomona.

Fred Passmore is new to Haley Bros., Sacramento, Ca., as a lumber buyer and lumber and moulding trader, according to gen. mgr. Walter Tharp. Dave Goetz, Jeff Barnes and Harry Lyon, Kelleher Corp., Sacramento, Ca., recently took 25 customers salmon fishing aboard the Wacky Jackie out of San Francisco, Ca. Everyone took home the limit.

Dan Nabors is new to redwood sales at Louisiana-Pacific, Samoa, Ca.

Ron Pinchin has joined Cherry Point Forest Products, Ferndale, Wa.. in purchasing.

Tony Macedo is now co-mgr. of 84 Lumber Co., Stockton, Ca.

Tom Flynn and John Osgood, Tradewest Hardwood Co., Long Beach, Ca., are back from a Southeast Asia sales trip.

Charles R. Jones III has been appointed mgr. of engineering at WTD Industries, Portland, Or.

Craig Woods, western region product mgr. for l)iamond Lumber. Sacramento, C'a., has left the co.

Joe Garofalo is new to Universal Far West, Huntington Beach, Ca., as regional mktg. mgr. Phil Rogers is regional mktg. mgr. for Universal Southwest, Greeley, Co.

Craig Adair has been appointed market research mgr. for the American Plywood Association Marketing Group, Tacoma, Wa., according to David L. Rogoway, v.p. of mktg.

John Buchanan and Jim Summerlin, Sumwood, Inc., Palos Verdes Peninsula, Ca., have returned from a trip to Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.

Mike Wall, owner/mgr., Power Townsend Co., Helena, Mt., has been elected to represent his region on the Our Own Hardware board of directors.

Teresa Swick, pres., Teresa Swick & Associates, Federal Way, Wa., was presented the Albert E. Barnes Award for distinguished service to the area's Construction Specifications Institute.