IMPORTED HARDWOOD LUMBER SPECIALISTS

Weyerhaeuser Management Changes

Weyerhaeuser Co. will institute a new management structure Jan. I with president Jack Creighton and chairman George Weyerhaeuser sharing lhe office of ceo.

A team of six senior managers including a wood products executive vice president to be named earlY next year will report to Creighton.

Bob Schuyler, executive vice president, and Fred Fosmire, senior vice president, will counsel the office of ceo until their retirement in I 991

Termed refocusing, the change, according to Creighton, will focus on several goals. The first is narrowing the company's portfolio by divesting

Moulding 2OutOfl

After 38 years in business, Oakley's Lumber Mill& Moulding Inc., Gardena, Ca., is winding down oPerations with the retirement of Ray Oakley.

Though the Gardena site is uP for sale, two new companies are growing out from Oakley's. Oakley's vice president/controller Jeff Meyer will own and operate Meyer Moulding & Millwork, Modesto, Ca., and Oakley's purchasing agent Ronald C. Oakley is opening Oakley Forest Products, Rancho Dominguez, Ca.

The moves are planned to be completed by year's end.

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some businesses. The second goal is to improve the businesses retained. The third to align the staff Paying closer attention to customers, standardization and a drive to become a top-quartile forest products company within five years were stressed by Creighton.

Charley Bingham, executive vice president, will continue to have responsibility for timberlands, forestrv. raw materials and Westwood shipping with the addition of corporate communications, environmental affairs and energy, government affairs and law departments. The tobe-appointed team member will be responsible for the product division of the Forest Products Company including lumber, plywood, panels, doors, hardwoods and distribution. In the interim, the product business vice presidents will report to Creighton with existing forest product staff leaders supporting both the product division businesses and timberlands and raw materials.

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Grading Scam Hits Washington State

Several million board feet of low grade Canadian lumber with the correct gradestamp sanded off and a structural rating printed over it has been discovered in Washington's Puget Sound area.

Building inspectors halted constructiofr on dozens of large scale projects, searching for bogus marks. In many cases, lumber used as loadbearing floor joists and roof supports had to be replaced or reinforced.

Building officials said the suspect shipments, dating back to at least August, were sold by wholesaler B.B.M. Lakeview Ltd., Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, which paid a $100,000 fine two years ago after pleading guilty to fraud for shipping mislabeled lumber to Canadian builders.

The misgraded wood bears a MacDonald Inspection Services, B.C., grademark, with mill numbers from A.P. Timber Co. Ltd. and Moga Timber Mill Ltd., small Surrey remanufacturers which share the same phone number.

The investigation began Oct. 23 when a B.B.M. competitor alerted MacDonald Inspection Services that B.B.M. had been selling lumber at suspiciously low prices. Structural materials are worth up to five times the price of lesser grades.

B.B.M.'s curiously low rates have stymied one customer, Henry Bacon Building Material Inc.. Bellevue. Wa.. since February. "l remember wondering how a middleman could always be cheaper than a mill," said owner Jack Curran.

MacDonald investigated, found obviously mismarked lumber, and seized A.P. and Moga's grade stamps. Moga then issued a Nov. 6 letter to customers, accepting full responsibility for any mislabeling, said The Seattle Times.

Yet both Moga and A.p. have spotless inspection records. "lt's curious, to say the least," said MacDonald's Greg Clarke. "lf the mill was doing it, we couldn't have gone in there for years in unannounced, surprise inspections and found only good grades."

In all past cases of gradestamp