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Cypress

Select &2 & Btr. Grades 44 - 514 - 814,3'-12'width

Surfaced to S4S or patterns - Bevel siding - Fresh Resaw Face

Southern Yellow Pine

5l4l{D in3",4",5",6", L0",12" - 4' thru 16' lengths

Specialize in Nosed Edged Stepping and 5/4x10"

Stringer material - cut-to-length Stair TYead

Stock Width Hardwood

Specializing in Stock or Fixed Width Lumber 3",4"r5",6",7"rg"rg", L0",rr' & 12" &w in Ygllow Poplar, Red Oak and White Oak, FAS and 1 Common NHLA Grades

All lumber can be Gang Ripped 1" thru 12" - Straight Line Ripped

Surfaced S2S or S4S

Please call for exact specification.

The Sawmill For AII Your Quality Lumber Needs

Brian Hayson is the new president and general mgr. at Cox Wood Preserving, Orangeburg, S.C.

Chris Pierce, ex-Universal Forest Products, has joined Conner Industries, Inc., Fort Worth, Tx., as assistant purchasing director.

Mike Gulledge, formerly with LP has joined Deltic Timber Corp., El Dorado, Ar. as sales manager. Jim Krestensen, formerly with Willamette Industries, also is an addition to the sales staff.

Dean Johnson has been named c.e.o. of Intercontinental Forest Products, Smyrna, Ga. Nate Sewall is the new v.p.-sales in Peachtree City, Ga., and Gary Jones has been appointed v.p.-operations in St. Petersburg, Fl.

Bobby Webb will retire at the end of the month as mgr. of Guardian Building Products, Tyler, Tx. He will be succeeded by Greg Jessup.

Patrick Amey is a new mgr. trainee at 84 Lumber, Raleigh, N.C.

Joseph J. Haggerty, Jr., Williams Lumber Co. of North Carolina, Rocky Mount, N.C., has been elected president of the Southern Cypress Manufacturers Association. Bill Conwell, Griffis Lumber Co., Gainesville, Fl., has been elected v.p.

Joan Lipps has retired as accountant/bookkeeper for the Southern Forest Products Association, Kenner, La., after 30 years with the association.

Micheala Moriarty has been named the new Jacksonville, Fl., area sales rep for Louisiana Pacific's SmartSide siding and exterior trim products.

Steven Corless and Yuichi Hayashi will head up the Southern Pine Council's new American Softwoods Japan Office in Tokyo.

Selects * #2 Common x Pecky * Dimension :o Rough ,r Resawn * S4S x SIS2E x Siding * T&G & V-Joint x Bevel Siding * Fencing x Paneling x Moulding x Timbers

Custom orders in quantities, sizes & patterns... Fax or E-mail your specifications

Mixed orders of CYPRESS & HARDWOODS Surfaced, Rough or Straight-line ripped lf you have been shuffled around, it's time to deal with Wllson Lumber Company. You cut the cards and we willdealyou a winning hand.

Tom Kinney and Jonathan Whitley, both ex-McEwen Lumber, are new to Dixie Plywood's sales staff in Charlotte, N.C.

Watty Strader, Home Supply Co., Louisville, Ky., has retired after 44 years in the lumber business.

Cliff Sink, president/owner, Discount Building Materials, Oxford, Ms.; Hal Hudgens, president/owner, Hill Country Hardware & Lumber, Eureka Springs, Ar., and v.p., Hanby Lumber Co., Berryville, Ar., and Zac Groom, purchasing mgr., Groom & Sons' Hardware & Lumber, Mabank, Tx., were recently named 2003 Young Retailers of the Year by the National Retail Hardware Association.

Shannon MacGregor has joined the Construction Specifications Institute, Alexandria, Va., as director of finance.

Dan Biggerstaff has been named president of Emmet Vaughn Lumber Co.. Vestal. Tn.

April James has been named executive director of the American Wood Preservers Institute. She will be assisted by Melissa White.

Scott C. Conklin, Universal Forest Products, has been elected 2nd v.p. of the American Wood-Preservers' Association. Wayne P. Ryland, International-Paper, is treasurer. Randy Deweese, Thomasson Lumber Co., Philadelphia, Ms., has been elected to the executive committee along with G. Paul Merrick, Trus Joist.

Damian Pataluna, FischerSlPs, Inc., Louisville, Ky., has been elected president of the Structural Insulated Panel Association. Tom Williamson. APA. was elected to the board.

Bill Lazor, Simonton Windows, Parkersburg, W.V., was named a Certified Graduate Remodeler Associate by the Certified Graduate Remodeler board.

Berle Wood is new to the hardwood dept. at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., report Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus.

Co-op Gets Members Online

With92%o of members already connected, Do it Best Corp. is on track to reach its goal of having 1007o of its dealers electronically linked by July 1.

To get connected, members need a computer, an Internet connection at their stores via a local Internet Service Provider or through Do it Best's Spacenet Satellite Network, and access to mydoitbest.com, the co-op's member-exclusive Web site.

The co-op sees mydoitbest.com as its long-term vision of how it will communicate with its entire membership-4,300 retailers around the globe.

The site features:

. an online catalog that provides live inventory checks, the ability to place orders for products, and "real time" information on all of the more than 68,000 products carried by the co-op; the ability to view market bulletins online and register for co-op events;

. an online version of the plan-ogramming Power Aisle Book, and . access to information on all of the co-op's programs and services.

So far, 350 members are participating in Do it Best's Spacenet telecommunication system, which connects the co-op to individual stores and reportedly makes data transmission and other communications faster, more reliable and more efficient.

Home Projects Get Pricier

A new survey of more than 160 contractors who specialize in home improvement shows the cost of 10 popular projects increased by I0.27o from 2002 to 2003. three times the government's inflation rate of 3.4Vo for the year.

Explaining the rise in prices, 507o ofthe contractors cited increased labor costs, while 35Vo were unhappy with the cost of materials, 247o mentioned higher health and liability insurance rates, and 5Vo cited costs of fuel and specialized subconffactors.

Despite the rising prices, 59Vo of contractors are predicting an increase in sales for the rest of the year, as interest rates remain low and the demand for larger homes rises.

Analysts say that home improvement projects offer a high return on the dollar when a home is sold.