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ROBERT KIMBTE president of the Lumber Merchonts Associotion of Northern Coliforniq

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QOME of you, I am certain, are rv' aware of our affiliation with the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association in Washington, D. C. Perhaps many of you do not know how important this organization is to our industry.***

Our association is a federated association of national just as most other lumber and building material dealer associations at the state or regional level are in the United States. A portion of your dues to LMA are paid to our national organization (NLBMDA). These dues are applied to many programs that have both a direct and indirect effect on you.

Our national association carries the interest of the retail dealer and the manufacturer before the many committees on Capitol Hill studying legislation which will affect our industry. NLBMDA is deeply involved in marketing, research, transportation and many other areas in which you as a dealer have a keen interest.

The battle of the national association with the Bureau of Weights and Measures resulted in a softening of the model state regulation concerning the invoicing of softwood dimension lumber. We can now live with the regulation. Keeping updated on the wage-price controls has been a major task for national. Their interest in the Occupational Safety and Health Act has and will continue to cause some concern by the federal government. National has insisted that the health and safety regulations as set forth in the act be ones that the industry can reasonably accept and live with and avoid unnecessary expense on the part of the dealer.

As a dues paying member of LMA, one is a member of the national association. Your strength is counted when national states to congtessional committees that they represent thousands of building material dealers throughout the nation.

Redwood, pine, hemlock, cedar and fir* are right up our alley. One call to Hobbs Wall gets the bail rolling at once. lt puts you in touch with the output of over one hundred Western mills...for the right grades at the right prices, and the right

Austroliq Visits the West

The Aussies came East last month to the Western part of the U.S.A', visiting the International Hoo-Hoo blast in Honolulu first and then tripping on to Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Portland and Vancouver.

Bringing greetings from nine Down Under clubs, they were effective ambassadors for their country and the International Hoo-Hoo meeting next March that will be held in Sidney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Simpson Fixing Up Door Plont

Simpson Timber Company has begun extensive modernization of its stile and rail door plant in McCleary, Wash.

D. D. Leland, production manager for plywood and panel doors, said that lumber handling is being modernized by building an unloading and sorting shed, adding unstacking and length-sorting equipment, and paving a 200 sq. ft. lumber storage area. Other steps in the modern. ization will follow soon after this first phase is completed.

Ilarney Forsell has been elected president of the Western Wood Moulding and Millwork Producers Assn., Portland. He works for American Forest Product,s. Ray Cerghino, Wesiern Sash & Door, Oakland, Calif., fell and broke his ankle, according to headman Hollis Jones. In Eureka, Hal Whittet, resident mgr., is recovering from surgery following a heart attack.

Arthur Wharfield. former McDaniel Lumber Co. office mgr., near Eugene, Ore., is now the office mgr., Lane County branch office bldg,, Florence.

Robcrt A. Gates has been elected vp. and a member of the board of Yuba River Lumber Co.. near Sacramento.

Sam rilhitaker, has been transferred to the Copeland yard at Tulelake, Calif., as mgr., from Ashland, Ore,

Max Fisk and his entire staff have stayed on as Renton Cashway Lumber, Renton, Wash., became the fourth branch of Dunn Lumber Co.

William Stevenson, MacMillan Bloedel, Vancouver, is the new president of the Red Cedar Shingle and Handsplit Shake Bureau. New vp. is Ralph Willis, WRP Forest Products, Sedro Woolley, Wash.; Paul Smith was re-elected treasurer; Virg Peterson was re-elected sec.

Jim Adams has joined Twin Harbors' Aberdeen, Wash., sales force. He had been with Aloha Lumber.

Mickey Whiting is the new president of the Fedelal Timber Purchasers Assn. Elected vp. was R. J. DeArmond, Idaho Forest Products; sec., Bob Stermitz, Southwest Forest Industries; treasurer, Ira Liberman, Duke City Lumber; exec. vp., Nicholas J, Kirkmire. Denver.

Glenn Chasteen, Koppers Co., Wilmington, Calif., and wife Beryl recently attended the ICBO Conference in Hawaii.

Phil Gilbert, Coos Head Lumber and Plywood, San Pedro, Calif., and wife, Lois, took a month vacation in Europe, visiting their son, Phil, Jr., stationed with the Air Force.

Robert E. Howlett is now directormanufacturing planning for U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers. He had been with the company in Vancouver. Donald C. Chapman is the new director of management services; Ilichard Moore is now mgr, of the Shasta area and Ronald T. Bradley is manas-ing the newly - expanded nortlern atea,

George White and Ken Rasmussen are now with White Lumber Sales's Portland div. l,ew Kummero\tr, mgr. of Masonite's South Pacific region, has headed the firm's top salesmen of hardboard building products again. With him are Bill Barber, Roland Colt, Bill Bgan, Dick Fretz, Jim Gibson, Ed Kliem, Ken Moore, John Nunn, Douglas Oaks, Lee Porter. and Wil Wiederaenders.

Donald R. Vollmar is the SP RR's. new district traffic rep. in Sacramento.

Dino Ortega, son-in-law of Leon Durham, Treated PoIe Builders, Inc,, Ontario, and daughter, Kris, recently won "1st place produc- tion" with their Brown Swiss Cow at the L. A. County Fair.

Stephen W. Wade is now asst. to the director of corp. credit and property div. in Oakland for Kaiser Cement & Gypsum. Don Carpenter is the new cement sales rep. for Alameda and Contra Costa counties,

Joe Casella, Casella Transportation, San Leandro, Calif., has been stuck at home with a painful slipped disc in his back.

Chuck Lember, D.C. Essley and Son, L.A. and his wife, Audrey, combined celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary with attending the Hoo-Hoo convention in Hawaii,

Robert A. Tweed, president of Denver Harvey KoUi Koll Mill and Lumber,

Reserve Supply Co., was elected L.A., is recovering from a recent

"p, and treasurer of the nation- illness. Harvey is in the Baptist al, NARESCO, at their annual Hospital in Brea and would ap. meeting in Colorado Springs, preciate hearing from his friends.

Duane Wolfe, Portland, rilas Glen L. Butler is the new exec. vp' elected a director. and chief operating officer of

Wesley R. Luther has been appointed Carolina Pacific Plywood, Med-

I corporate controller for Pope & ford, according to B. D. Mitchell,

I Talbot, Inc., according to George chairman and president'

I Folquet, vp. Brownie Markstrom, Pine Ridge Lum-

I fom Williams now covers So. Calif., ber, City of Industry, Calif., and r, Ariz. and So. Nev. for Z-Brick. his bride Marilyn (nee Ross) sure do love tennis. They married Oct. 2, both wearing tennis attire, as were all the attendants and the minister. Bridal bouquet was attached to a racket; bridesmaids' nosegays had tennis ball centers. Ceremony was held on the center court of a tennis club and they left the altar under an arch of 20 tennis rackets. Tennis, anyone ? Herb Brown, Kimberly-Clark, Anderson, Calif., is back after an Eastern business trip.

Y;11 Qlsen, Dd Gavotto and Lysle Seibert, San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3, all made it to Hawaii for the International's 80th annual, John C. Kenefick has been elected president of Union Pacific RR Co., replacing Edd H. Bailey, who has retired.

LyIe Shafer is now sales mgr. at Santa Cruz Lumber, Santa Cruz, Calif. He had been with Mintons in Mt. View.

Richard C. Steteon has replaced retiring Dick Borst as sales mgr., Blanchard Lumber, Portland.

Randy Philips has joined the sales staff at Philips Lumber 'Sales, ' Thousand Oaks, Calif., and is now calling on the trade. He had retail lumber experience after graduating recently from Calif. Lutheran College.

G. Blair Macdonald is the new marketing mgr, of Bruce Paneling and Molding, Memphis, Tenn, Marvin R. Lehtman is now director of operations for the Angels-Bonanza stores in No. Calif.

Joe Levitt has joined Bel-Air Door Co., Alhambra, Calif., as an asst. to pres. Sam Fineman. Bill Feldhorn is also new to the sales staff,

Jerry Gustafson is the new vp., marketing for Honolulu Wood Treating, according to president Clint Hallsted. Other advances: Dr. Darrel Nicholas to vp,, R&D; Tadashi Ogi, treasurer, Harold Kon. asst. sec, Bob McBrien has been promoted to dealer sales mgr. for So. Calif, for U.S. Plywood.

.Iack L. Deja, L.A., and Bob Riggs, Anaheim, have won "Salesmen of the Quarter" awards in a G-P sales contest.

Brian Dutton and Joe Shopmeyer have started a new plywood firm, Dutton-Pacific, in Portland.

Grant Shaw has joined the forest products div., Anderson, Calif., of Kimberly-Clark. He had been with Seahurst Lumber, Seattle.

Jim Ross, Central Lumber, Hanford, Calif., is expanding to make room for some mass merchandising.

Hal Aaron, Egland Lumber, Bakersfield, plans to expand his operation by some 34,000 sq. ft. for more retail space.

Dick Nishikawa has retired from American Forest Products' international div. after some 38 years in the business.

Jim Frodsham, president of South Bay Redwood, Orange, Calif., and his Sylvia, recently vacationed in Mexico.

Dennis Skinner is now nt'I. sales mgr. for Dyna Mfg. Co., L.A., a div. of Familian Corp.

Roy A. Harrison is the mgr. of American Lumber Species' new Fresno, Calif., office, according to Les Neadeau. New to the Sacra' mento staff is Douglas Sloan, formerly of Sloan Wood Products.

Larry Whittaker has started his own firm. Western Woods, Inc., Chico, Calif. He had been with North Valley Lumber, Redding.

New Exec. Veep for AFP

John T. Guyol has joined American Forest Products Corp. as an exec. vp., according to president C.T. Gray.

He shares senior management responsibilities with Gray and other AFP ofrcers.

Guyol brings an expertise in forest product and related industries acquired initially with Koppers Company, Inc. and, since 1965, U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers, Inc.

His most recent assigrrment with the latter company was as vp. and general manager of the diversified products div. which entailed responsibilities for timberlands and the production of all plywood, paneling, lumber, board products, architectur- al specialties and doors in its various plants in the U.S. and overseas.

Worl,em Lumber ond Bulldlng lloteriqlr IIERCHANT club offices and currently serves as director of the jurisdiction that covers seven Western states, plus Hawaii.

Upon completing military service, Guyol attended Carnegie Institute of Technology, graduating in l9zl8 with a degree in chemistry. It was then he joined Koppers.

lumbermqn of the Yeor RoyDunbar

has been selected as the "Lumberman of the Year'o by the Redding, Calif., Trade Club and the local Shasta-Cascade HooHoo Club at their annual October meeting celebrating National Forest Products Week.

President and general manager of North Valley Lumber Sales in Redding, Dunbar has held the presidency of the local club as well as other hieh

Following Navy service he was employed in production by Hedlund Lumber Co. In 1954 he transferred to Mad River and held various positions. With others, he organized North Valley in 1964.

Firms Hold Annuol Picnic

Lane-Stanton, Vance Lumber Co. and Custom Mill, City of Industry, Calif., recently held their first annual combined family picnic, and according to Lloyd Webb, chairman of tlle event, "it was a huge succ€ss."

Along with the traditional events such as three leg race, sack race and volleyball, a baseball game between Custom Mills and Lane-Stanton ended with a reported score of 10-20 in favor of Custom Mills.

Westerners Top Hoo-Hoo Slote

Westerners again dominated the top offices following elections at the 80th annual HoeHoo International coh' ventidn in Honolulu.

Jack Cheshire, Sagebrush Sales Co., Albuquerque, N.M., was elected president, or snark, of the lumber industry business fraternity. He succeeds immediate past president Larry Owen, Simeone-National Co., Lafayette, Calif., who moves up to chairman of the board. [.en Putnam of Klamath Falls, Ore.n was elected vp. Ben Springer of Milwaukee was chosen secretary and Henry Hess, Minnesota. treasurer.

The convention was the most successful and was more highly attended, according to ex-snark Owen, than any in recent vears,

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New Plywood Trqining Progrqm

A new dealer training program from the American Plywood Assn., available Dec. I, includes a teaching seript and. 79 slideg plus instructions, on how to specify, work and finish plywood, especially for remodeling. It is free to dealers, or any level of the trade that works with dealers. The Dealer Staff Information Kit is set up as an intensive 3O-minute session and uses clear, easy to understand language. The program can be taught on request by APA fieldmen.

PACIFIC NORIfiWEST field test for new plywood program, conducted by APA's Dick Anderson, before 45 employees of Lumbermen's of Shelton and Lumbermen's of Lynnwood. That's owner Bob Slettedahl (front row rear). He was a member of the APAdealer advisory group that helped plan the progran. Meeting was at Western Bldg. Mtl. Assn. H0., 0lympia, Wash.

Good Fqith & Sofety Fines

Assistant Secretary of Labor George C. Guenther stated recently that the employer's good faith in omplying with the Occupational Safety and Health Act will have a direct efiect on the type and amount of penalty assessed for violations of the Act.

The OSHA administration says it is considering as much as a 75 percent reduction in the penalty for nonserious violations; a 2O percent reduction for evidence of the employer's good faith to reduce the hazard; a 20 percent reduction for a company's good history of safety.

In addition, a 50 percent reduction of the remaining balance of the proposed penalty may be awarded if the condition cited is corrected within the abatement period. These areo of coursg being considered for non.serious vio. lations.

Trucking Firm Moves

C-Q Trucking Co., one of the West's largest lumber haulers, has moved from Los Angeles to a 2y2 acre facility in nearby Lynwood. The new yard is hardsurfaced, fenced, with large storage sheds and increased area for truck repair and maintenance. "There are larger offices and increased space for the drivers," according to Fritz Quirn, a partner in the firm.

Starting in 196I, C-Q Trucking has grown to an operation of some 20 full size rigs and 4 "bobtails" hauling both local and line for the lumber industry.

to more and more California dealers and distributors. For year around supplies of dimension lumber and precision-trimmed studs, depend on D&R.

Hemlock Studs from Warrenton Lumber Co,. Warrenton, Oregon

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Westport Lumber Co., Westport, 0regon l{ow, orier 5,|Il0,000 feet of dimension lumber and studs monthly . manufactured especially for Southern Calitornia construction needs.

Fast regular ocean shipmenh by barga from Southern 0regon and fie Columbia Riyer direct to Southern California.

Ail lleti would ilprcciate an oppoilunity to tell you how you and your custom$s will bencfit from using dependable D & R dimension and studs. You can reach him by calling 872-1280 or 78$0544.

This is just part oI the huge stocks of Higgins hardwood mouldings in our Union City warehouse. We've a complete line oI Ash, Birch and Fhilippine Mahogany stock moulding patterns, precision-run by our skilled craftsmen in our own mill under rigid quality control. Look again at how carefully we store and handle our mouldings to assure accurate shipment, alone or with otler lumber productso when you phone your needs to (415) 824-8744 or write J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., main office 99 Bayshore Boulevard, San Francisco 94119. Branch sales offices and warehouses in Union City (als) 471-49@ and Sacramento (916) 927 -2727.

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