PERSONALS MBEBS

Mike Nicholson, All-Coast Forest Products, Chino, Ca., has been elected pres. of the tnland Empire Hoo-Hoo Club. Ron Robbins, Robbins Lumber, Fontana, is the new v.p.; Don Gregson, Capital Lumber Co., Chino, sec., and Rick Deen, Nichols Lumber, Baldwin Park, treas. Board members: Mondo Chavez, Bear Forest Products, Rialto: Mike McClaury, Suverkrup Lumber, San Bernardino; Mike Monaco, AllCoast; David Tait, Nichols Lumber, and Pat McCumber. Rim Forest Lumber, Rim Forest, Ca.

Bill Laipple, Evergreen Lumber & Molding, Orange, Ca., rccently vacationed in Hawaii.

Casey Voorhees has joined Western Building Material Association, assisting with membership and dealer services. He had most recently worked for his father, Sld Voorhees, at Eugene Planing Mill, Eugene, Or.

Jim Sanders, Boise Cascade, Seattle, Wa., is opening a new engineered wood prrducts office in Atlanta, Ga.

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Randy Jackson has joined the wholesale div. of Fremont Forest Products, Whittier, Ca., according to Pete Speek. Chris Dennis is new to the industrial div.

Dennis Finnie is the new gen. mgr. of Adobe Lumber, Petaluma, Ca. Dave Swellow is asst. mgr.

Dale Blomberg is new to Lumbermen's Buying Service, Eugene, Or.

Cary Holaday is new to Canfor USA, Meridian, Id.

Dick Black has joined the sales force at Sundance Lumber, Springfield, Or.

Gery Celder is new to Ace Hardware Lumber & Building Materials, Beaverton, Or., specializing in building material sales to So. Ca., Az. and N.M.

Mike Wardlow has joined plywood sales at Boise Cascade. Boise. Id. Heidi Sabin is a new administrative specialist. The plywood sales dept. is now divided ino two: a western team, led by Maty Jo Nyblad with Chris Cramer, Sherry Gorrell, Denise Keyser, Wardlow and Sabin, and a southern team, led by Lowell Mannering, with Jennifer Mondada, Pattie Ring, Rolend Smith and Cara Ashlock.

Wendell B. Hammond has been named v.p. of Willamette Industries' paper group, Albany, Or.

Dan Bonnlngton, Bonnington Lumber Co., Walnut Creek, Ca., has returned from a golfing vacation at Kiawah Bay, s.c.

Gary De Young has johed Corning Lumber Co., Corning, Ca., as comptroller. Bob Eden, mgr. since 1982" has retired after 26 years in the indrstry. His son, Monty, succeeds him.

Mlchael Baslnger is a new sales rep with the western plywood sales div. of Willamette Indusries, Albany, Or., responsible for sales for Willamette's Sweet Home, Or., plywood mill. Darlene Mclntyre is now handling westernplywood sales to Portland and Seattle and coordinating sales for the Springfield, Or., plywood mill.

Jlm Ramscy, Georgia-Pacific, Fort Bragg, Ca., has retired after a lengthy lumber career. Jim started with Weyerhaeuser m l947,larer working for Bob and L€o Chelm. San Jose, Ca., then Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg, now owned by G-P.

James P. Donohue has joined Fibrebord Corp., Concod Ca., as senior v.p.-finance & administration and c.f.o. Garold E. Swan is now v.p. and connoller.

Scott Whlte, Potlatch Corp., Lewiston, Id., is leaving the co. after 12 years to pwsue other interests in Portlan4 Or. Sandy Rehm, industrial lumber sales rep and lumber buyer for the specialties dept., has retired after 35 years. Gunnar J. Brlnck has been named mktg. mgr. for the western wood products div., and Robert Hlll, western region sales rep.

Nell Elshlre, former Minnesota Viking defensive end, and Bert Charles and Glenn lTheatley are new to Cascade Empire Co'rp., Portlm4 Or.

June Orr, Idaho Forest Industies, Coeur d'Alene, Id", has retired after 30 years withthefirm.

Ken Tennefoss has opened a Forest Grove, Or., office of Ketcham Forest Products, Seaclg Wa., specializing in green fir.

Denny Hell is heading a new Eugene, Or., b'ranch office for Cheshire Sales, Albuquerque, N,M.

Bob Mmby, louisiana-Pacific sales mgr., Samoa, Ca", is retiring 1m"31,1992.

Bob Hudson, mgr., Builder Marts of America Rancho Cordova" Ca., and his wife, Lilie, are the proud parents of Lilie Jane bom Oct. 7. l9EL.

Mlchele Alexander has rejoined Reliable Wholesale, Huntington Beach" Ca., in prchasing.

Sherrl Nlcol is new to the wood fiber div. of Menasha Corp., Olympia, Wa., as a customer service rep.

Gary Tragesser has been named sales mgr. for Bennett Lumber Products, Princeoq Id.

Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus, Mungus Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., are sponsoring a tv expose' progftrm on KRUD-T\' that dares ask: Does Chevy Chase? Is Glenn Close? Does Tom Cruise?

Tlmber Confllcts Gontlnue

The California Forestry Association is negotiating with the California Board of Forestry to soften emergency measures put in place after Gov. Pete Wilson vetoed compromise timber reform legislation last month.

Due to expire in four months, the measures ban clearcuts in old growth forests and protect sensitive watershed, domestic water supplies and wildlife. While environmentalists have attacked the measures as inadequate, logging companies feel they are too stringent and threaten possible litigation.

The bill vetoed by Wilson had been forged as a compromise between environmental goups and several of the state's timber companies. Simpson Timber Co., Louisiana-Pacific Corp. and Pacific Lumber Co., who opposed the bill, reportedly encouraged Wilson to veto iL

Wilson has promised to introduce new timber reform in January when the new legislative session begins. The California Forestry Association also plans to present legislation in the spring.

AFRA Deadllne Approachlng

Activities of the American Forest Resource Alliance (AFRA) will be assigned to committ€es in the National Forest Products Association and the American Forest Council by June 1991, the date on which its proposed three year existence ends.

Originally an arm of NFPA, the alliance was established in June 1989 as an independent, industry sponsored special project with a maximum lifespan of three years. It was charged with taking emergency action against escalating preservationist pressures on timber harvesting.

'AFRA has accomplished more than I dreamed it would have," said AFRA chairman David Hancock, pres. and ceo of M. S. tlancock [nc., Me. "That's far from saying the war is over, b@ause it will go on for many y@rs."

Many of the alliance's programs, including task groups on communication, legislative, legal and technical affairs and coalitions building, will be continued by NFPA and the American Forest Council.

L-P ls Top Panel Producer

Louisiana-Pacific was the U.S's largest producer of nonveneered structural panels in 1990 with 2.5 billion square feet. Weyerhaeuser came in second at l.l7 billion, then GeorgiaPacific, 969 million, Noranda, 902 million, and Potlatch, 789 million. These five companies produced 75Vo of the North American output or 6.4 billion sq. ft. L-P with 13 plants was responsible for 30Vo of the total, according to Random lzngths.

Depot Opens Test Lab Store

Home Depot has opened Home Depot Expo, its 105,000 sq. ft. laboratory store to test new ideas for other units, in Kearny Mesa (San Diego), Ca. (See The Merchanr, March 1991, p.40)

Featured are 30,000 sq. ft. of designer showrooms providing customers with design ideas, personal consultation from certified designers, picture framing center, full service interior landscaping and flower shop, customized countertop fabrication center and an expanded selection of merchandise though no basic building materials.

Each of the 150 Expo employees will specialize in a different area of home improvement and design.

Expo is targeting interior designers, subcontractors, apartment and hotel owners, architects and do-ityourself homeowners.

In-Grade Vldeo

An In-Grade video program to help lumber manufacturers, shippers, wholesalers, buyers, retailers, specifiers, engineers, users and code officials better understand In-Grade developments and their effects on the use of westem lumber has been developed by the Westem Wood Products Association.

Complementing WWPA's "Western Lumber Product Use Manual" and "In-Grade: What tt Means" publications, the 20-minute VHS video "Westem Lumber Design Values: Results of the In-Grade Testing Program" is $10 fiom WWPA, (503)22+

3930. Association members can receive the first video free.

Cltlzens Seek Balance

More than 370 citizens from 25 states converged on Capitol Hill Sept. 2l-26 to win support for laws balancing the needs of nature and the economic and social needs ofpeople.

The Fly-tn For Freedom national grassroots lobby campaign included activities and small group meetings with members of Congress, congressional aides, key cornmittee staff, federal agency directors, Cabinet members and White House advisors.

"We are conservationists looking for common ground," said Valerie Johnson of the Oregon Lands Coalition, one of 122 resource groups endorsing the event.

Slowdowns And Shut Downs For Western Mills

Mills throughout the West are bracing for an especially harsh winter economically by slowing down production and, in a number of cases, shutting down completely.

Blaming a shortage of logs and depressed lumber prices, Harwood Products, Branscomb, Ca., has trimmed production for the winter to 2l hours from the usual 80 to 100 hours a week. Hours will increase Feb. I if market conditions are "tolerable," said general manager Art Harwood, Jr.

Redwood Empire shuttered its Soledad, Ca., mill and auctioned it off. The Cloverdale, Ca., plant will pick up the balance of demand, with enhancements, such as a $200,000 air quality system, to improve capacity and capabilities.

"The consolidation is due to timber concerns," said president Roger Burch. "Neither plant was running to capacity."

Schmidbauer Lumber Co., Eureka, Ca., has indefinitely shut down its big