PERS@NALS

Aaron Shane Richardson is the newlyborn son (Oct. 9, 1976) of Susan and Dennis Richardson, South Bay Redwood Co., Orange, Ca. The other two boys are 6 & 5.

Tom Nielsen, Evans Products' Hubbard & Johnson div., San Carlos, Ca., has been promoted to lumber buyer.

Stuart Robertson has been hired bY White Lumber Sales, Portland, concentrating in West Coast species.

Herb Brown, a long time sales executive for Kimberly-Clark, Anderson, Ca., has resigned from the company.

Jack Lehr is now in Western sales for Old Town Lumber & Millwork, Folsom. Ca.

T. J. Hedrick, a senior v.p. for Wickes Corp., is out of the hospital after recent surgery.

Skip Osborne has joined Inland Lumber's new office in Fremont, Ca., as a trader.

Thomas Sanford has joined the retail group of Peavey Co. as sales and merchandising mgr. for the building supply div. The Minneapolisbased firm has 54 retail centers in 4 Midwestern states and Montana.

Scott Havens is now with Intercontinental Trading Corp., Lake Oswego, Or., as a traffic coordinator.

Orville Youngs, inside sales, Seattle and Rick Robbins, outside sales, Portland, are westerns among the 100 chosen to receive GeorgiaPacific's "Sales Representative of the Quarter" awards.

Greg Chase and Larry Mead have joined Oregon-Pacific's Concord, Ca., office.

Jim Duart has left American Forest Products Corp., San Francisco, to become gen. sales mgr. for Crown Zellerbach.

Rick Kellso made a recent business trip to Medford, Or., from Seattle, on Raintree Lumber Co. business.

Gil Sissons has re-joined sales at Newport International Forest Products, Newport Beach, Ca. Ken Gagne is new to the sales force.

Larry Stephen, Floor Service Supply, San Jose, Ca., is back from freezing in Chicago on a recent business trip.

Pi Bliss, Neiman Reed Lumber, Van Nuys, Ca., is back from a week's vacation enjoying the Southern Ca. coast.

Mike Shafer is now selling for Rain Forest, Inc. in Hoquiam, Wa.

Bob Reid, Sr., Reid & Wright, Inc., Arcata, Ca., is back at the firm's Hawaii offices after spending the summer on the mainland.

Dave Weston is the new v.p. of the lumber dept. at Simon, Crabtree & Ryan, Lake Grove, Or. Dave's a 30 year (29?) veteran of the lumber business.

L. L. "Stub" Stewart is continuing on the board after his recent retirement after 30 years as Pres. of Bohemia, Inc., Eugene, Or.

Bill Hanrahan has been named to manage the Sacramento, Ca., sales office of Southwestern Sales, Albuquerque, N.M.

Sterling Wolfe, Marquart-Wolfe Lumber, Orange, Ca., plans a Puerto Vallarta. Mexico vacation at Thanksgiving; a tradition of some l0 Years standing.

Mike Bakula has been promoted to district sales rep. for Weyerhaeuser's Northern Ca. area, according to Jim Anderson, district mgr, Replacing Bakula in inside sales is Rory Cantando. Mac Jones has moved up in the Southern Ca. area to district sales rep., being replaced on the inside desk by Tom Baldwin, who transferred from Phoenix, reports Martyn Tem' ple, district mgr.

Lynn Dragoo has been named bY Willamette Industries as their new gen. mgr., Western mfg.

Elmer Lewis has joined All-Coast Forest Products, Whittier, Ca., maintaining a Grass Valley sales/ purchasiag office. He had been with Inland Lumber Co.

Kris Wales, Wales Lumber Co., Spokane, Wa., zipped over to Portland for the recent NAWLA regional meeting, see page I I for a story on the gathering.

Fence, Nursery and Garden Products

We also caffy split redwood and cedar products, plus a complete lino ol fence products shipments only tor t&t or carloads.

Daryl Bond, All-Coast Forest Products, Whittier, Ca., is making a remarkably quick recovery following a recent operation to repair an iajury to some discs in his neck, a cervical laminectomy, it's called.

Dave Miller is the new sales mgr. at the Eagle Lake Div., Sierra-Pacific Industries, Susanville, Ca.

"Brick" Stang has joined the sales force at Portland's Industrial Lumber Co.

Al Stoeger is the new traffic mgr. for Chandler Supply Co., Boise, Id.

Chuck Valentine has been named mgr. of Cut-Rite Lumber, Lynnwood, Wa.

Dan Butterfield is the new production mgr. at South Bay Redwood Co., Orange, Ca., handling moulding, cut up and processing of lumber. Kurt Gunderlock has been pro- moted to yard superintendent handling all yard activities. Jim Frodsham, pres., and Ron Lewman are back from a recent Seattle/ Eureka, Ca., swing and Harold M. Frodsham, the board chairman and traveller par excellence, was last reported between Tangiers and Gilbraltar, heading for the small principality of Andorra, on his way to Norway.

Tenas DeJong is the mgr. of sales and procurement for the new lrvine, Ca., office of Brazier Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wa., according to Roger O'Neal, marketing mgr.

Harl Crockett, Hexberg Lumber Sales, Long Beach, Ca., rounded up his l0 team mates, plus their 8l year old coach, for a reunion of the 1926 Varsity football team at Huntington Beach (Ca.) High. They were the acknowledged hit of the school's recent Homecoming festivities. Harl proudly notes they were league cochampions 50 years ago.

Denny Yauney is now sales coordinator for C. H. Tripp Co., La Jolla, Ca.

M. H. "Pete" Wallace is the new pres. of Southwest Machinery, Inc. a subsidiary of Southwest Forest Industries, according to William M. Riegel, exec. v.p.

William H. Ferry is now chief engineer for Pope & Talbot's U.S. and Canadian operations, according to Guy B. Pope, pres.

Robert J. Morin is the new mgr. of built-up roofing, Pacific Coast area, for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. George Neff, lumber operations mgr. for Champion International's U.S. Plywood operations in Montana, has retired after 34 years with the company. He is succeeded by Kenneth McMillan, according to area mgr. William R. Weiland. "Linc" Clark has moved up to gen. mgr. of American Forest Products' Larson Div., replacing Murray Studley, who has retired after 39 years.

Harold O. DeMar has retired as v.p. with Sakrete, Inc., after 27 years with the company.

Bob Riggs, Sequoia Supply, Fairfield, Ca.. is back at it after a brief vacation respite.

Peter N. Murphy has been named by American Forest Products, S.F., to be the new pres. of their Detroitbased Modern Materials div.

Phil Heim is new to the sales staff at Product Sales Co., Newport Beach, Ca., according to headman Ted Gilbert, back from a recent Fresno business trip.

K. E. MacBeath and Gage McKinney plan a coordinating stint at Mac Beath Hardwood's new Brush Industrial div., Los Angeles. Hq. is in San Francisco.

John Gaskin was recently at his new Capital Lumber yard, Orange, Ca., from Phoenix Hq. Richie Hughes transferred over from Phoenix to be new yard foreman.

Bemard Marcus, pres., Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers (incl. the Angels D-I-Y Centers) will be honored Dec. 12 in Beverly Hills, Ca. with a testimonial dinner benefiting the City of Hope national medical center.

John A. McKinney is the new pres. of Johns-Manville Corp., succeeding W. R. Goodwin, who departed after a recent dispute with the board of directors. He had been senior v.p., legal services.

Earl Williams and Bill Honey have joined Tumac Lumber, Temple, Tx., according to W.E. McPherson.

(Please turn to page 56)

Wood Foundation Saves $$

Ilorrcbuildcrs can siivc Lrp to S-i-3-5 bl usiru tlrc trcltcd woocl cnrrvl spacc fbltrtdltion lltlrcl titart tlrc eorrvorrtiortal slab on grutlc'.'l'lrat's th.'conelLrsion ot'a studl' by tlrc Natiortul .\ssrreiut ior of LIonrc Iluiltlcr.s Researclr Forrntlul ion.

Wlrrlc tlrr- suvirtgs rvould valy. dcpcrrding on locll lubor and nrltcriuls costs, thc slurly ulso lirund ccrtlin inellie iencics in botlr types of cortslr'rrction. Il'these alc e rrlrcclctl

\;\t Il-l Rcse arclt prcdicts rn additionul suvings ,i tlp t, ' S I(X) firr the 'nvood lirLrndrtion and S-15 lirr. thc slab-ongladc u nct gain 1or r"'rrorl o1' Sit)0.

,\lso rrncurthed r,,'us tlrc gllr ing Ire cd lirr irrlirrnrutiort irt dcsigning tlrc heatins urrtl coolntg systclus lirr thc Lrnderlloor l)lL'lrLlrn \AHB Rcscurclr pluns to rvork Lrp clitcr il lbr l dcsign nlurrrll that will blrck rrp a convirtcing prorttotionll r'fiirrt tirr tlrc systcm.

THE FINEST IN PLYWOOD AND PANELING FOR THE FINEST IN SERVICE CALL: GLOBE INTERNATIONAL OF CALIF., INC. Los Angeles, California 90034 (213) 870-6456, 839-1 18s

GLOBE INTERNATIONAL OF ABIZONA, INC. Phoenrx. Arizona 85009 (602) 258-4941, 252-5854

GLOBE INTERNATIONAL OF SAN JOSE, INC. San Jose, California 95112 (408) 998-3300

Plywood & MobileHomes

The mobile home industry should be a growing outlet for plywood in the future, according to a new American Plywood Assn. Market Research Report, R-36, "Plywood Usage and Potential in Mobile Homes - 1976."

It estimates 180 million sq. ft. of softwood plywood will be used in the construction of mobile homes during 1976. Nearly 9O% goes into production of double wide units, which are increasingly popular.

Significantly, average plywood usage per unit has increased 62% from 343 sq. ft. in 1972 to the current 554 sq. ft. This results from greater use of plywood ridge beams and the increasing popularity of plywood-sheathed shingle roofs in double wide units.

Roofs and ridge beams are the largest plywood market, accounting for approximately 72%. During 1976, roughly 70 million sq. ft. will be used for roof sheathing and 60 million for ridge beams. Consumer demand for mobile homes that look more like conventionally built houses should increase the use of plywood sheathing with shingle roofs.

Mobile home wall sheathing, siding and interior paneling will consume an estimated 12 million sq. ft. of plywood this year. Hardboards and aluminum siding are expected to continue giving plywood stiff competition for this segment of the market.

Floor applications will require approximately 25 million sq. ft. of plywood this year. Particleboard is expected to keep a good share of the decking market.

EMCEEIttIG recent distribtrtors'meeting in Seattle was Dick Lundgren, executive v.p., Palmer G. Lewis Co.

Distributors' Seattle Meet

A regional meeting of the National Building Material Distributors Association was held recently in Seattle at the Washington Athletic Club. Over 30 distributors from Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Colorado attended.

Chaired by Palmer G. Lewis Company's Dick Lundgren, the program included an address by Lynn Michaelis, chief economist for Weyerhaeuser and a presentation of the microfiche cataloging system by Michele Day of Xerox.

Comments were also given by Roger Hancock, present president of the NBMDA, S. M. VanKirk, the retiring executive v.p. and Frank O'Dowd, the new executive v.p. of the NBMDA.

Attending from PGL were Palmer Lewis, Bob Peterson, Dick Lundgren, Cutler Lewis, Phil Harris and Ron Pulliam.

wlNE c0UNTRY serting highlighted Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club's recent gathering at the ltalian Swiss Colony winery. Asti, Ca. Wine tasting and dinner under the grape arbor at The Villa drew 110 for the Ukiah, Ca., club's more-or-less annual event. Bill Gittings was program chairman. (1) Ted Schoen, Mr. and Mrs. Louie Loosely, Mrs. Ted Schoen. (2) Mrs. Maynard Stubberfield, Mike Edgar of Jet, Inc. (3) Arnold Lyly, Joe Mayfield, Alvin Lyly. (4) Roy Nielsen, Dan R udolph.

Cardwell Begins Own Firm

The new firm of Cardwell Forest Products has been opened in Fullerton, Ca., by Ralph Cardwell, a 25 year veteran in the lumber business.

The firm is selling lumber, plywood and particleboard, by truck and trailer and rail. Specializing in the booming Southern California market, the company also is serving the rest of the West.

From 1959 until just recently, Cardwell was the manager of the Southern California office of OregonPacific Industries. Prior to that he held sales jobs for Koppers Co., Dant & Russell and other industry firms. He is currently treasurer of the Lumber Association of Southern California.

Working with him is his son Scott, who recently completed a year with Oregon-Pacific Industries and before that worked for nearly three years with Steelcase, the big office furniture concern.

The office manager for Cardwell Forest Products is Peggy Mottola.

L-P's New Partlcleboard Plant

The new Louisiana-Pacific Coro. industrial particleboard plant, Ukiah, Ca., began initial production on September 15, according to Robert E. Johnson, plant manager.

The plant, with an annual production capacity of 100 million sq. ft. on a 314" basis, manufactures a premium quality mat-formed three-layer wood particle panel from 318"-1-3116* in a madmum press size of 5' x 18' for industrial markets.

L-P recently announced a leaseoption to purchase the plant from Georgia-Pacific, which had closed the olant June 25.