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Seqttle Retoiler Soys Volume ls There lf You Go After lr

Those who sell common lumber in the marketplace well know that the business is competitive and the margin is low.

But the volume is there, according to retail lumberman Sam Hale o{ Seattle, particularly when you go after jobs armed with the right products.

A case in point is the new $3.3 million, 136-unit Sheraton Motor Inn in Seattle. The upper two stories of the three-story structure use 200,000 sq. ft. of kiln-dried dimension lumber for the project. Hale successfully bid with Weyerhaeuser engineered 4-square kiln-dried dimension.

Commenting on this and other sa.les, Hale said, o'These days you have to mer' chandise lumber, not just buy aud sell. "Keep on top of the market," he advises. "with a sharp eye toward new product developments and be able to furnish hardto-get items. Figured right and serviced right," he pointed out, "specified lengths can save the contractor money."

Among the special hard-to-get items retail lumberman Hale supplied were shadow-box laminated window and door framings and rough sawn channeled cedar siding as exterior wall covering. The shadowbox framings on the windows and doors were laminar.T ,o 3r/rx\2r, size and beveled to a2l/Zt, outer edge.

The cedar siding is I x -inch ror:gh sawn {ace tongue and groove cedar machined to leave a Y+ x r/a-inch shadow groove at the joints. Laid vertically, the 4-inch space grooving, the rough sawn face texture, and the laminated window and door frame shadow boxin! present an attractive exterior surface.

Timber Industry Profits

A report on "Profits in the Western Timber Industries" has been released by the Forest Service. It was assembled by Sen. W'ayne Morse (D-Ore.) by the Internal Revenue Service for 1962 federal tax returns and details profits of lumber, ply- wood, pulp and paper and diversified industries.

The report states that (l) corporations represent the dominant form of enterprise; (2) 1962 profits were close to the postwar low; (3) profits were lowest for plywood companies and highest for pulp and paper companies; (4) no consistent relationships were shown between profits and dependence upon public timber; (5) corporations were more profitable than other forms of enterprise; (6) earnings were not closely correlated with the size of the enterprise, and (7) substantial capital gains were reflected in relatively low efiective tax rates compared with tax rates for all manufacturing corporations.

Cedor Siding Survey

A recent Western Red Cedar Lumber Association survey shows clear cedar to be the favorite siding material, with aluminum, hardboard and brick following behind in that order. Regional preferences indicated that builders in the West leaned heavily in favor of clear cedar. In the Northeast, as in the Midwest, there was a rather even distribution of preferences.

The builder has the most influence in deciding which siding will be used, according to 76 percent of the builders interviewed.

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Don Andrews Resigns NAWTA

Don Andrews, for the past elwen years western manager of the National-American Wholesale Lumbermens Association office in Portland, has resigrred to join the Fruit Growers Supply Co., according to Roy Utke, Fruit Grower's assistant general manager, with whom he will work.

Don worked for NAWLA for eleven years and before that had worked in his father's wholesale lumber business.

He will be at FGSC's mill operation at Hilt, Calif., the timber operation at Burney, Calif. and the fiberboard manufacturing plant in The City of Industry near Los Angeles during his first year with the company. He and his wife Jean will live in Ashland, Oregon.

Andrews recently graduated from Lewis and Clark law school and passed his Oregon bar exams.

The NWLA presidents under whom Don served, in a letter of appreciation to him, said in part, oowe would like to express our appreciation of the manner in which you have carried out your duties and the extreme loyalty and dedication which you have evidenced."

Signing the letter were this year's president A. D. Bell, Jr. and past-presidents J. Philip Boyd, Martin T. Wiegand, J. Ward Allen, J. Alex McMillan, Mace Tobin, Lawrence J. Fitzpatrick, Walter J. Arling, and Bruce F. Harris.