Great ldeas

Three California retailers' suggestions to better merchandise and display inventory: (clockwise from right) Home Depot, Huntington Beach, greets lawn and garden customers with a "Customer Want List;" ABC Lumber, Costa Mesh, stocks discount buys in a boat; Rancho Lumber, Midway City, catches the eyes of passers-by with a three-in-one shed and a fence of d-i-y plugs, from "Cement at concrete prices" to "Free! All the sawdust you can eat;" a Home Depot brickwork display with attached tools, is plastered to the end of a steel rack.

(Continuetl Jrorn page 28) to the older generation forest. Correspondingly, Dave Kaney, Simpson general manager, and his staff covered the harvesting and milling of new generation redwood.

Glenn Lehar explained the latest silvicultuie techniques at Simpson's Korbel nursery, the largest privately owned tree nursery in Northern California. Dick Rice, Arcata redwood quality control supervisor, and Tom Circe, Simpson yard and quality control supervisor, selected redwood for hands on grading exercises. Promotion programs and technical standards were covered by Christopher Grover, vice president, promotion and advertising, and Charles Jourdain, vice president, technical services, California Redwood Association.

Although Arcata participated as a co-sponsor for the first time, this was the 2lst Simpson redwood seminar. More than 480 wholesale distributors have attended.

Universal Forest Products has completed phase I of an improvement program at their Arcata, Ca., redwood remanufacturing and distribution facility.

Fencing, a new dust collection system and a trim line have been added along with expanding the office. Certain office/clerical operations are now being handled by an IBM mainframe computer at Grand Rapids, Mi., headquarters.

Mike Roach has joined the Arcata facility as plant manager.

Lumber, plywood, round stocK stokes, poles, & pilings

Agency stomped, ground contoct fire retordont pressure-treoted wood oroducts

Just a brief note to praise those who contributed to the battle against the environmentalist-backed propositions on the ballot in the recent California election.