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.., now that BAXCO-PYRESOTE fire retardant treated lumber and plywood have been approved bythe new Uniform Building Code and by FHA for many uses formerly restricted to non-combustible materials, Stock up to meet the growi ng demands as architects and bui lders turn to f re protected wood for wall studs, plates, roofing, etc, For the whole story on the new permissive uses-and what they mean to you in sales upturn-send for our Bulletin.

AFTEN ALL, YOUR CUSTOMERS VOULD RATHER USE WOOD

In 1964, Batliner won a Special Award for Excellence for his outstanding contributions in the sales field. His sales ability is well known in the industrv with one trade journal summing up "Bai as a lumberman's lumberman.t' He was honored at a retirement dinner September 30.

Obrecht will be responsible for sale of Long-Bell plywoods, lum,ber, pine doors, and interior decorative paneling in a territory that includes parts of southern California and all of Arizona. He will report to Harry E. Lyon, western zone sales manager.

Batliner is a top candidate for LongBell's all-time individual sales record with 47 years. The Kansas City native had a non-sales start with tfre former The InngBell Lumber Company in 1918, in Kansas City, Mo. He performed secretarial work there for a short time before he transfened to Los Angeles in 1922, working in sash and door promotion. In 1925 Batliner was appointed sales representative. He was promoted to head up the Los Angeles sales offiee in 1958.

Hollow Tree Kilns to Crqwford

Hollow Tree Lumber Company is selling its excess kiln drying equipment and huilding-s to neighboring F. M. Crawford Lumber Company for a reported price of $i100,000. Roy Backus. president of Oregon-Washington Plywood Company has announced.

The Oregon-Washington Plywood Company, which operates an extensive plywood plant at Garibaldi, Ore., owns the Hollow Tree plant, and has just <:onsummated a deal with Longview Fibre Company of Longview. Wash. wherein some 132,000 ar:res of t'utover land in Mendocino County, owned by Hollow Tree, has been exr:hanged and traded for land in Oregon containing 50,000,000 board feet of growing timber.

The Hollow Tree kiln drying equipment and some buildings are now salahle because since July of 1964 Hollow Tree has heen selling its retlwood lumher of all grades green and u'ithotrt kiln drying.

The Hollow Tree division of Oregon-Washington Plywood Company also manufactures large quantities o{ stud lum}rer at its mills in Point Arena, Philo and Athens, Ore. Hollow Tree is completing major plant improvements and production expansion in Point Arena at a r:urrent cash investment exceeding $250.000.

Evqns to Buy Retoil Choin

Evans Products Co. has announced an agreement to acquire Moore's Super Stores Inc., which operates a group of 20 East Coast "cash and carry" liuilding materials supermarkets. for a purchase pricc oI approximately $10 million.

Evans will acquire the assets and liabilities of Nfoore's in erchange for 100.000 shares of Evans' cumulative voting convertible pre{erred.

In the l2-month period ended Sept. 25, Moort:'s had sales o{ apprroximately $24 million and earnings of approximately $750,000. In the nine-month period ended Sept. 30, Evans had sales of approximately $157 million and earnings of approximately $5 million.

Paul flmbarger. president of Moore's, will trontinue as chief executive officer of the Moore's chain, reportine directly to G. P. Oldham" vice president in charge of the Evan's Building Materials Division.

BINEC Closes Down

Despite an optimistic beginning in 1962 at its foundinpJ, the Building Industry National Educational Ct'nter (BINEC) is closing shop.

Started with an impressive list of sponsors, BINEC r!-as seen by many as a method and a hope to provide a national training and clearing center. It was situated at Purdue t-niversity in Indiana.

The feeling of many was succinctly put by Purdue Dean C. H. Lawshe in a letter to NLBMDA's Tom Sneddon. "withdrawal is never a pleasant experience."

Oregon Mill Sole

American Forest Products Corporation has announced sale o{ its lumber manufacturing and related facilities in Lane County, Oregon to the Eastern Oregon Pine Company o{ Seattle, Wash' ington.

The sale includes the sawmill, planing mill, related equipment, a 100-acre plant site and approximately 1750 acres of timberlands in the vicinity. Logging equipment is not incltrded.

According to American Forest Products Corporation President Charles T. Gray, the sale in no way afiects the company's eleven other sawmill operations.

Newly-Formed Fir & Hemlock Door Associotion Holds Firsl Meeting

The first meeting of the newly-formed Fir & Hemlock Door Association was held in Seattle in late September at which time FHDA signed a management contract with W'estern Wood Products Association to perform certain services for the seven member companies,

FHDA was organized to develop standards for the fir and hemlock door manufacturing industry and to promote the products of its members. Charter members include: Buffelen Woodworking Co., Tacoma; Nicolai Door Manufacturing Co.; Portland; E. A. Nord

Everett, Wash.; St. Regis Paper Co., Tacoma; Simpson Timber Co., Seattle; and West Coast Door Co., Tacoma.