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By R.V. PETERSEN executve secrelary

I IOW OFTEN have we heard a f]lt..n-ug".. support his wishes or whims with ''everybody's doing it" (or "has one" or "is going"). The reference may actually encompass only two or three individuals, but the impact is profound upon the teenager. And so - the all-inclusive "everybody."

As adults we might well emulate the teen-ager. We might well adopt the attitude that "everybody" is concerned with proliferating bureaucracy, big-brotherism, federal control and regulation, and so on ad infinitum. And that "everybody" is doing something about it. Then we would join the movement toward self-expression to our elected delegates in Washington or in the Legislature or City Hall. For these indivudals need to know our feelings, our attitudes, our beliefs, our needs and requirements.

There's only one way these representatives of the general public can know the will of their constituency; the personal, individual expression.

Harry Mendenhali of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California circulated a bulletin to his membershio entitled "Your Small Action Wfll Mean a Lot", in which he recommended the person-to-person contact between dealers and dealer employees and their congressional delegates.

Louisiana Congressman Dave Treen addressed the NLBMDA membershio for construction. But we're far from ready to draw any conclusions. There is a government information center established. If you wish to get on their mailing list, write: National Solar Heating & Cooling Information Center, P.O. Box 1607, Rockville, Md. 20850. at the recent annual convention in New Orleans. His message was simply that our responsibilities to Congress are centered in the need for personal contact with our congressional delegates. He assigned priority for effectiveness first to personal visitation, secondly to correspondence, and third to telephone calls. But the prime essential is to make the contact; without that your congressman cannot know your needs and your wishes. And Harold Sugarman of the Building Supply News suggests it is time to put all such efforts on a do-it-yourself basis; not to assume that "the other guy is going to do something about" our problems. ato by'zndad/p dn ottgart. an/ Vnn/znta /odnz

George Smith, of Roseburg, Or., has purchased the Linn County Lumber Yard and Bargain Barn, both in Lebanon. Or.. from Wilson and Rachel Johnson. Burl Bicknell is manager of the Lumber Yard and Don Johnson manages the Bargain Barn.

Wenatchee Lumber Co. discontinued business September 30. This marks the end of a long established retail lumber and building material firm in Wenatchee. Wa.. Frank Scheble managed the yard until his death in July, 1974 and his wife, Jane, has been operating it since then with the capable assistance of Dorothy Mvers.

Proof that our voices, individually and collectively, have tremendous impact and influence on Congressional action can be seen in numerous situations: The Monongahela Issue and Common-Situs Picketing, to mention only a couple. But it shouldn't take a Monongahela crisis to jar us from lethargy into the expedience of letting Congress, and our Legislature, know our will. And we might well reinforce the "do-it-ourselves" dictum with the stioulation to "do it now."