CENTRAL IDEA FOR

SP Absorbs D&RGW

The merging of the Southern Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande Western railroads should make it more affordable for western producers to ship further east.

By linking the Portland, Or.-toTexas and the Ogden, Ut.-to-St. Louis, Mo., lines, the single rail network now covers l5 states. connecting at Ogden and Kansas City. Possible results include quicker shipments, less expensive freight rates, access to new markets, more single-line routing, expanded piggyback service, and elimination of reciprocal switching charges.

The combined railroad will operate as the Southern Pacific.

Whitehouse-Grawford Closes

Whitehouse-Crawford Lumber Co., Walla Walla, Wa., has closed and is liquidating its inventory after 84 years at the same location.

The relocation of the Army Corps of Engineers to the lumber company's site would have forced Whitehouse-Crawford to move. The business decided that closing would be a smarter move.

Since 1932 Central Builders Supplies Company has served independent dealers by helping them remain competitive with large corporation chains.

We're a dealer-owned, non-profit buying corporation that serves as your central source for lumber, general building materials, hardware, tools, building specialties and more.

An experienced staff is trained to handle your needs,

Industry Education Foundation

The National Building Material Distributors Association has established an Education Foundation, seeking to attract young professionals to the industry and provide the industry with continuing education and training resources.

The non-profit, tax exempt organization's initial efforts will include developing an audio/visual training program, a building material distribution management institute, sales and marketing seminars, grant scholarships and research studies.

Waldron Wins Maior Award

El Louise Waldron, owner of Waldron Forest Products, Sacramento, Ca., was presented the Governor's Outstanding Business Woman Award at the 4th annual Governor's Conference on Women in Bus- ery. Despite being forced to relearn basic activities such as walking and eating, Waldron was back at the job full time three months later.

Lumber Dealer Internship

Applications are being accepted by the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association for its summer internship program. The 1989 intern, who will spend six weeks in Washington, D.C., June l2 to Aug. 18, working with NLBMDA, will have an opportunity to visit government agencies, observe Congress and meet with officials of other associations. A stipend of $2,000 is provided.

Eligibility is based upon being a high school graduate between the age of 17 and 24 who is the son, grandson, daughter or granddaughter of a retail building material owner or employee. The company represented must be a member of NLBMDA.

Waldron was one of four winners, selected from 1600 nominees. More than 800 women attended the conference Oct. 12 in Los Angeles, Ca., including Cloria Deukmejian, wife of California's governor, who made the presentation.

Waldron founded her own wholesale firm in 1978, after working at Firco Studs, Hollow Tree Redwood Co., Masonite Corp., Marion Ward Wholesale Lumber Co., Al Thrasher Lumber Co. and R.F. Nikkel Lumber Co., and helping to start PSF, Inc., Fair Oaks, Ca.

In June 1987, she had brain surg-

Manufacturers of High Quality

Herb Winward is now v.p., international sales & marketing, for Weyerhaeuser Co.. Tacoma. Wa.

Joe Bowman, Bowman Lumber Sales, Cloverdale, Ca., and his son, David Bowman, Ridgeco Truss, Inc., Cloverdale, won the world's champion grape stomping contest at the Sonoma County Harvest Fair. They each won a trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Floyd Brown has been promoted to sales mgr. of Idaho Timber Corp., Boise, Id.

Janetta Cardoza has joined Hesperia Wholesale Lumber, Hesperia, Ca., in salds and as office mgr., according to Ron Pugh, gen. mgr. Dwight King is the new yard mgr.

Gary A. Tharp has been promoted to plant mgr. of Haley Bros.' new Sacramento. Ca.. flush door cut stock plant.

Bob Kerr, Kerr Ace Hardware & Building Materials, Brookings, Or., has been appointed to the Land Conservation and Development Commission by Gov. Neil Goldschmidt.

Tony Orlandini is the new mgr. of Northern Yards, Inc., Tigard, Or.

Carl Snelling, Snelling Wood Specialties, Escondido, Ca., and William Bartoo, Western Millwork, Phoenix, Az., have been elected to the board of directors of the Architectural Woodwork Institute. Merle Reece, Bradbury & Stamm, Albuquerque, N.M., has been re-elected to another three-year term.

Bill and Dave Lentes, Dellen Wood Products, Spokane, Wa., represented their local Hoo-Hoo Club at the international convention in Orlando, Fl., along with Gene Zanck, their wives and Randy Lentes.

Rich Copeland, C.A. Co., Spokane, Wa., recently took a fishing and hunting float trip on the Snake River.

Jack Curran, Plywood Marketing Associates, Vancouver, Wa., has retired after 41 years in the industry.

Danny Dickson has joined the sales force at A.C. Dutton Lumber, Portland, Or.

The Merchant Magazlne

Don Witulski is new to ldaho Forest Industries, Coeur d'Alene, Id.

Charlie Schweitzer, Sierra Pacific, Redding, Ca., has been elected pres. of the Shasta Cascade Hoo-Hoo Club. New v.p. is Greg Moss, Moss Lumber, Redding; sec./treas. Joe Derrah, Western Woods, Redding, and sec. Tom Von Moos, Western Woods, Chino, Ca.

William Carruthers has been appointed director ofprogram and key accounts at Southwest Sentry Hardware Co., Phoenix, Az.

Ben Johnson has been named sales and marketing mgr. of Weyerhaeuser, Fontana, Ca. Lloyd Blake is now business finance mgr.; Ernie Rocha, hardwood lumber program mgr. Dorrie Robinson is a new sales rep.

William P. Farrell has been elected pres. and c.e.o. of the American Hardware Manufacturers Association.

Edward Amaya has been promoted to foreman at the newly relocated Foothill Builders Home Improvement Co., Pasadena, Ca. Project mgrs. are Gregory A. Palm and Doug Akins. Jim Wallace has been named v.p. of Henderson Corp., Boise, ld.

Three of the world's top producers of coostol, 1 growth, fine groined Western Red Cedor ore nowcombined underthe new nome INTERFOI the nome to remember for o consistent supply

November 1988

Jerry Walker has resigned as staff v.p. of National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association, to join the Gypsum Association as exec. director, according to Harlan Hummel, NLBMDA exec. v.p.

Jack Butler, Capital Lumber Co., Chino, Ca., is the new pres. of the Inland Empire Hoo-Hoo Club. "Cap" Strano, John Suverkrup Lumber, San Bernardino, is v.p.; Chip Roepke, All Coast Forest Products, Chino, treas., and Mike Nicholson, All Coast, sec. Board members include Ron Robbins, Robbins Lumber, Fontana; Patric Taylor, Cal State Forest Products, Anaheim; Larry Stainbrook, Rialto Lumber Co., Rialto; Don Gregson, Capital Lumber, and Phil Abraham, Riverside County Lumber, Riverside.

Craig Word has joined Schaller Forest Products, Redding, Ca., specializing in industrial pine sales to the moulding and millwork industry.

Thomas R. Ingham Jr., pres., Simpson Timber Co., Arcata, Ca., has been elected chairman of the American Plywood Association's board of trustees. John N. Galloway is vice chairman.

Bill Gittings, Bowman Lumber Sales, Cloverdale, Ca., and his wife, Patricia, have been on a three-week vacation in England.

Alan Arbiso is the new distribution yard mgr. in Pomona, Ca., for Cal State Forest Products, Anaheim, Ca. Leonard Newman has joined Cal State's sales force, according to Patric Taylor.

John Bottini has joined the sales staffof Union Planing Mill and Union Forest Products, Stockton, Ca., according to George Little, sales mgr.

John Coker, The Ridge Co., Creswell, Or., has been elected chairman of the board of the Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau. Bellevue, Wa. Marty Coker received the bureau's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Philip L. Hayden has been promoted to v.p. of Team MDF (Montana De Fibra), Albuquerque, N.M., according to pres. William R. Black.

Jim Hawkins is now sales mgr. of Westpac Mouldings of Oregon, White City, Or.

Michael Drorbaugh has been appointed mgr., special services, for the field services div. of the American PIYwood Association, Tacoma, Wa.

Phil Cocks has been elected pres. of Hoo-Hoo International, succeeding Australian Dick Campbell. Lyle Hoeck is lst v.p.; Brent Crosby, Domtar Gypsum, Walnut Creek, Ca., 2nd v.p., and Bernie Barber Jr., sec./treas. Directors include David Jones, Foster Lumber Yard, Fairfield, Ca., and Jeff Loth, Loth Lumber. Gold Bar. Wa.

Larry Hopkins is the new gen. mgr. of Spokane Moulding Corp., Spokane, Wa., succeeding John Dean, who will retire Dec. I after 40 years in the business.

Richard C. Clark has been named gen. mgr. and v.p. of Down River's White City, Or., laminating plant.

Doug Willis, Product Sales Co., Orange, Ca., recently enjoyed a Fiji Islands vacation.

John D.C. Roach has been appointed exec. v.p. of Manville Corp., Denver, Co.

Sterling Wolfe, Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Costa Mesa, Ca., and his wife, Loraine, spent two weeks at Lahina on the island of Maui in Hi.

(Please turn to page 54) of o wide ronge of the highest quolity Conodion cedor products, innovolive ideos ond personol morketing ossistonce. Our monufocturing plonts feoture stote-of-the-ort equipmenl plus on old foshioned commitment to our customers through o decentrolized morkeling opprooch. Contoct your leoding cedor distributor for your INTERFOR Weslern Red Cedor requ irements.