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John Lee Anthony, 60, president, c.e.o. and director, Anthony Forest Products, El Dorado, Ar., died of cancer Oct. 5 in Tilden, Tx.

A native of El Dorado, Anthony was a past director of the American Forest & Paper Association and also a two-time president of the American Institute of Timber Construction.

John Choate Burke,75, retired president and c.e.o. ofthe now defunct Smith-Haggard Lumber Co., Lexington, Ky., died Aug. 16.

A native of Lexington, Burke was the president of the Kentucky Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association in 1966.

He was also a past president of the Central Kentucky Retail Lumber Dealers Association and the bluegrass chapter of the Association of General Contractors of America.

Lowe's Energy Efficiency 101

Lowe's hosted a series of nationwide clinics last month designed to instruct do-it-yourselfers on how to cut energy costs and keep houses warm during the winter.

The clinics were held Saturdays in October on topics such as storm door installation, home insulation, and weather stripping windows and doors. The classes were part of a consumer education campaign that included the distribution of a l2-p. magazine on energy efficiency in the home and weekend d-i-y projects.

Beetles Killing S.C. Pines

So far this year the southern pine beetle has killed three million pine trees in western South Carolina as authorities warn of further infestation across the state next year.

The infestation, which is the worst since the late 1970s, has forced state forester Bob Schowalter to declare a state forest disaster. Native to South Carolina, southern pine beetles are about the size of a rice grain and eat away at the moisture rich layers within the trees, making them less marketable to sawmills.

To date, $46 million worth of trees have been killed in South Carolina alone. Schowalter has urged timber producers to process infested trees if at all possible. "On the industry side,

Boise Gascade To Be "Boise"

Boise Cascade will re-brand itself next year, going by the name of "Boise" alone.

The decision is expected to take place in the spring of 2002, with the name change appearing on most products and marketing materials.

For legal and financial trading, the corporation will keeps its full name.

"The overriding reason for the change is to have a visual presentation that does a better job of telling what the company is," said company spokesman Mike Moser.

Moser added that most employees and customers already refer to the company as "Boise."

Some industry analysts have suggested the name change is an attempt to distance the company from its forest products image, which recently has been under increasing scrutiny by environmental activists.

Moser denied the decision was a reaction to environmentalists. "We're very proud of our heritage. We're not

I'd like to see them take a higher percentage of beetle-damaged wood than they've been taking," he said. The state forestry commission has reported that only 5Vo of infested wood has been salvaged.

Norbord, which has a pressed board mill in Laurens County, S.C., has been "buying (bugged wood) all along, but this is all starting to pick up now," says woodlands mgr. Virgil Wall.

Other southern states, such as Kentucky and Tennessee, are also struggling with pine beetle outbreaks.

Man Falls lnto Lumber Barn

A 43-year-old intruder fell through a skylight at Smith Lumber Co., Brownsville, Tn., dropping 25 feet onto a parked flatbed truck.

Employees reporting to work at 7 a.m. found Brian Curtis Pinson unconscious and bleeding inside the company's locked lumber barn.

Police believe Pinson made a ramp of lumber and climbed onto the roof Aug. 9. He told officers he was attempting to get out of the rain after being abandoned by friends.

Owner Fox Smith said there was a blood trail that ran 50 ft. through the barn. It is believed Pinson hit his head on a forklift during the fall.

After being hospitalized, Pinson was arrested on charges of vandalism, burglary and possessing a crack pipe.

trying to get away from anything we do today," he said.

The company was founded in 1957 when the Boise Payette Lumber Co., Boise. Id.. and the Cascade Lumber Co., Yakima, Wa., merged.

Flooring Group Ups Training

The National Oak Flooring Manufacturer's Association has established an education committee designed to educate and train member mill employees.

The committee, chaired by Beth Maxwell, Maxwell Hardwood Flooring, Monticello, Ar., and John Jackson, Cumberland Lumber and Manufacturing, McMinnville, Tn., will provide training in production techniques and grading regulations.

They will seek to improve on current grader training with the use of multi-media technologies and new bilingual resources.

NOFMA's grader training manual has been translated into Spanish and a video accompaniment is in production.

"We've established this new committee to ensure our member mills have access to necessary training," said NOFMA executive director Stan Elberg.

All NoFMA-sponsored programs are for member personnel only.

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You Must Be Kidding

Please tell me the last entry on page 44 of the September Personals ("Skip Eaton is the new fitness advisor at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products") was a joke. I read that followed by a fire chief named "Dennis Duty" (p. 44), the botched G-P robbery (p. 45), and Home Depot being evacuated because of vibrating pagers (p. 45)! This is better than the comics.

A Reader Smithfield, R.I.

Every month, we conclude the Personals with news from the mythical Mungus-Fungus Forest Products. Unfortunately, the other events are all too true' - Editor

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