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(Continued from page 10) averaged during the past decade. Building material retailers and distributors with a strong dealer policy will be the continued beneficiaries of this type of business. I also feel that commercial and industrial construction will continue at a relatively strong pace in 1980. Our own company has now been in existence for 40 years, and we've maintained a pretty good growth rate right through those past four decades. We've had at least three or four times, during those 40 years, when things got just as tough, or perhaps even worse, than they're going to be in the months ahead. We've always gotten through those periods by paying attention to the basics and doing what good common sense told us to do. We've usually emerged a better company than ever. That's the way we're going to set our course in 1980.

None of us should ever forset all of the goorl news!

Let's not forget that the underly- ing demand for housing and construction of all kinds is still very high throughout this narion. Any temporary dip in construction activity is going to result in some significant pent up demand that will spell extremely good business conditions for all of us in the future. I'm confident that these favorable demand factors are going to continue all during the 80s. For the entire decade!

Let's not forget that all of those post-war babies are now grown up. The 25-34 age group is srill on the increase. and this favorable demographic trend is going to pick up even more momentum in the next 5-10 years than recorded during the 60s and 70s. I've read where housing starts must average a little over 2.0 million during rhe next decade just to keep up with the demand. Years where the starts dip below that figure must raise the demand above that figure in the future.

As a result, the decade of the 80 s will be extremely good years for the entire building material industry. As bad as things are in this country, we're still the greatest nation on earth!

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t0ll, llEI was won by Dave Schott in the Shasta Lumbermen's 1 6th annual golf tournament at Redding, Ca. with Steve Shudma low gross and Ken Wright, low net Callaway. Over 200 lumbermen and railroaders from five western states attended, including (ll Dutch Wiseman, Don Cherovsky, master of ceremonies, Karl Dryfhout, chairman, Bob McKean, sec.-treas., Gene Sjostrand. l2l Sam Baskins,.Karl Dryfhout, J6e Scalzo, Sam Witzel. l3l Ken Rainey, Dan Burdette, Tony Gallagher, John Crane. l4l Paul Gaboury, Ray Jensen, Don Michaelson, Bill Bonnell, (51 Ken Caylor, llSl C. D. McConville, Bob Park, Don Kingman, Bud Olsen. ll6l Bill Hanrahan,.Larry Wood. Phil Barnett, Tom 0sborne. llTl Mike Webster, Larry Fuller, Mike Cotheran, Jim Brovles. llSl Orin Burgess, Dennis Byerly, Brad Howell. Jim Harris. ll9l Jim Leonard, Ralph Lamon, Ed Nave, Charles Mickelson. l20i Keith Smith, Willard Spees, Paul Tavlor, Paul Mundinger. l2ll George Kavooras. Robin Lisk, Franz Miller, Frank Mclean. l22l Jim Paisley, John Robbins, Ken Wright, Jim Ponte. (231 Tim Mclndoo, Rick McKenzie, Ron Hoppe, Jack Hawley. l24l Fred Passmore, Wayne Murphy, Bill Novak, John Picot. 125l Jack McKenzie, Woody Ames, Del Lehr, Jim Hawkins, Rod Black. 126l Dick Morrison, Mike West, Dave Brewer, Hap Hasty. l27l Don Porter, Craig Gilbert, Dave Woolf, Allan Baker. l28f Joe Bambino, John King, Bob McKean, Bill Main. l29l Neal Dietz, Herb Brown, Ben Leamy, George Winter.

Rex Zeiger, Dutch Wiseman, Ed Burton. l0l Paul Trueb, Jay Robbins, George Darling, Bill Ingram. l7l Larry Keller, Wes- Caudill, Greq keller, Scott Jorgensen. l8l Fred Gariner, Dick Johnson, Jim Baskins, Bob Hansen. l9l Carl Dietz, Lee Eroyles, Knute Weidman, Pinky Dwyer, ll0l Jim Garrett, Ken Walker, Dave Schaller, Gene Siostrand. ll ll Bill Dorris, Dave Maxwell, Bill Hendricks. Ted Zennie. (l2l Marion Snead, Dick Dunbar, Al Ryan, Chet Concezeruk. ll3l Joe Hattrup, Lorenze 0lson, Angelo Benato, Earl Moore. llll Art Semans, Bill Anderson, Nels Sandstrom, Ron Knecht.

An Industry Leader

It is a delight to sec how Your t)ublication has beconre such an industry leader, and keeps getting bigger with every issue.

Best personal regltrds.

Harold Mendelsohn

Koppers Co., Inc.

1401 I Ventura Blvd.. Suite 202 Sherman Oaks. Ca. 91423

Time To Ponder

Being one who has now spent 60 years in the "work world" and yet not ready-or able-to retire, the following bit of whinrsy made me ponder a bit:

Standing belbre a group ot' villagers deep in the Bolivian jungle, the Peace Corps volunteer asked one of thenr to desc:ribe a typical day in the lif'e ol' the conrmunitv.

Finally, an elder responded: "Well. we pretty ntuch sleep late in the morning. hlve r lersurely breakfast. go fishing oihunting. erlt iln early aliernoon lunch. take a nap, do a little woodworking and tirlking lnd purtake in the evening feast rntl musical concert."

Shocked at this indolence, the Peace Corrrsman exhorted the people to change theii liltstyle. "You should rtpprecirtte thc villuc ol working. the sensc ol' acconrplishnrent that conles with labor," he railed. "Then, atier 20 or 30 years ol' liuitl'ul work, you can retire!"

Fronr the l'ront row canre a sofi voice: "What's retire'1"

"Well, you can sleeP late in the nrorning, have a leisurely breakfast' go fishinc rnd hunting. ." '

Front Roilbot Mlrgazine

Possibly we may not be justified in being as smug as we are in judging o-ur culture and life styles to be so far superior.

George Clough

Inland Lumber Co. 21900 Main St. Colton. Ca. 92324

WATERBED (Cont.)

The Mercha nt Magazine's circulation knows no limits.

After your "slanderous" article concerning my alleged water bed experience in the October issue, I received a rubber repair kit from Dia- mond International in Wakefield, Massach usetts.

The sender was Don Wilson, who worked for the Lumber Merchants' Association of Northern California in the 1950s with Jack Pomeroy. He later ioined Diamond National as merchandising manager out of Sacramento, Ca', and eventually was Promoted to the East Coast. Al Bell and many of that era will definitely remember Don.

The Merchant is well and widely read.

Bill Niesen

Niesen-Ward Forest Products, Inc. P.O. Box 1261 Fort Bragg, Ca.95437

(Continued from page 22) members wanted designated as wilderNESS.

A trussed-framed PrototYPe house has been built by the Forest Products Laboratory of the U.S. DePt. ol Aericulture's Forest Service with the he-lp of the University of Wisconsin. The new trussed frame system was invenled by a Forest Products Laboratory engineer and is patented for public use. According to the Forest Service, the trussed lrame uses at least 3001, less structural lraming lumber than would be needed in an identical conventionally-built house. The frame is stronger, which nreans builders can use less lumber without sacrificing safety.