and Employee Recognition Spell Success for Santa Barbara Mill & Lumber

by DON DICK

The firm is a member of the \\roodn'ork Institute of California with Mr. N{osher serving on their Board of Directors.

from mouldings clear through to llardrvood lumber, from Astragals tc: Zebta Wood."

The firm employs over 40 Persol1s, and we found Ed Ludwick's remarks about the company's personnel policies highly interesting. They are policies which llo cloubt coutribtrte irr good measure to the successfttl ()peration.

E. G. TUDWICK Vice President-Gen. Mgr.

The company offers a highly diversified and provell service. States General Nlanager Ed Ludwick, "\\ie are experienced in, ancl equipped to service ancl supply any type of construction job from a sand box to multi-story school jobs. \\'e participate in tract development, generally on jobs of up to 100 homes.

"There is still a brisk added, "in cnstom homes COO class."

Santa Barbara \'Iill & Lumber u'orks closely with contractors on remoderling jobs. It was stated that abont 75 to 80/o of this work is done tl.rrough contractors.

The firm is located on three acres itr the heart of the city. A storage yard on a sDur track adds another acre. Usual inventory erlcompasses about 3,000,000 board feet"in anything

Loyalty ancl euthusiastic participation in the firm's progress characterize the employees' attitudes. Enrployee trlrn-over is lorv, and the a\-erage length of service is approximatelv sis vears.Such attitudes stern, of cotlrsc. irom the progressir-e managenr€nt r rf t-he hrnr.'Thire is a profit-sharing plan for' key personnel. -\ll emplol'ees are co\-".ed-by g'enerotls fringe benefits: the conrDany pays the premitturs oll qrollp life, ^accidini and frealth plan.. 'fhere are standard r,acation and sick leave policies. - "As yet tlre compall\'ltas ttever dedtrcted ' pay for illiresi." r 'b serverl Lrrdwick.

Santa Barbara X'Iill & Lunrber believes in seeking and keeping emolovees who wani to make a career itl iumber. It encottrages them to take special courses o{ educatiorl' All salesmen aud countermen l-rave taken the Dale Camegie courses in "Salesmatlship" and -Hutt-tat-t Relations"-pa-id for- by the comllarly-as 'rvell as the "Smait Busirresi 1\[anagemerrt" seminars through U.C.L.A. College. SAFETY gets caPital emPhasis. with Ed Ludrt'ick leading the caurpaign for 24-hour obserl'atrce of all iulEs. Posters attd ttelvs itenrs tacked

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Merl Tonner Monoges

T W & J's Newqrk Yqrd

Ilalph Prouty, sales manager of Tarter, Webster & Johnson's 10 California distribution yarcls, has announced the promotion of Nlerl Tanner to manag'er oi tt-te distribution yard at 5526 Central Avenue, Newark.

X{r. Tanner has been with Tarter, Webster & Johnson for 12 years, during which time he has been active irr both the accounting ancl selling departments of the concern. During the past 8 years he has been at the Nelvark distribution yard on outside sales ancl L.C.L. yard sales. Two years ago he was made assistant manag'er and now he steps into the managersl-rip of one of the principal remanufacturing plants and distribution yards in the Bay area. Under the direction of Mr. Tanner, the policy of Tarter, Webster & Jol-mson in Nervark will remain the same, that is, quality controlled lumber ancl the best service available anywhere.

The Tarter, Webster & JohnsonNewark yard features complete remanufacturing facilities and can make any pattern of moulding, siding and

Merl Tonner, mdnoger of Torter, Websler & Johnson's Newcrk, Colifornio, wholsqle distriburion yord, lumber. They bring in lumber from T\\'&J's own mills, resaw, kiln dry and remanufacture right on the location. Although remanufacturing is the specialty o{ the Newark yard, they handle an ellormous volume of Pine and Fir either in direct mill shipments or yard stock. yord of ffi. ond Mrs. Clork, who live ol Point Lomo. hove two children, o morried doughter ond o son who otfends Son Diego Srote.

The sales staff of the Newark yar<l consists of 8 top salestnen covering the Bay area from Carmel to Sarr Rafael, including San Francisco aucl the entire East Bay rnetropolitan area.

Attending the recent lmporled Hordwood Plywood Associclion (IHPA) four-doy convenfion in Polm Springs, Colifornic, ot rhe Indiqn Wells Hotel, ore left Wdrd Kerkmonn, genercl monoger of AI/ISCAN Inc, of los Angeles qnd Sten Forssio generol soles mdnoger of Swanbocrd, Gothenburg. Sweden' Sten Forssio will relurn lo Sweden vio Chiccgo ond N. Y.

The 20.ocre Nework, Colifornio, wholesole di3tribution feolures complefe dry kiln ond re-monufoclu:ing focilities Adjocent to q mdin orleriol freewoy, TW&J oul-of-yord fhe entire Son Fronclsco Boy metropolilon oreo.

D. R. "Don" Clork, Territory represeniolive for Mosonite Gorporotion. wos honored recently on KSDO Rodio, rhrough the Gordon group under the direction of Peter Anthony McMohon, os Son Diego's "Busi' nes3mon of rhe Doy."

Mr. Clork wos feqlured throughout KSDO's broodcosting doy, afler being selected by leoding businessmen qnd community leoders of the Ciry of Son Diego. Don, o nolive of Colorodo, hos been in rhe building moleriols qnd retoil lumber business since groduoling from school; he hos been wilh Mosonire for l0 yeors.