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WELL ESTABLISHED Southern California wholesale distribution company is looking for a sales management trainee. Candidate must have a minimum of 5 years experience in wholesale distribution of lumber and panel products. Solid communication skills and product knowledge are a must. Salary is commensurate with experience. We also offer medical and 401/k retirement packages. If you are a salesperson who wants to make the move up to management, or are currently in management and want to make a change, contact us at Box 708, c/o The Merchant,4500 Campus Dr., #480, Newport Beach, Ca. 9266O ; dkoenig@building-products.com.

Lumbertrader

We are a wholesale lumber company looking for an experienced trader. Any species. No restrictions on mills or customers. No relocation.607o split for trader. Call John at Lakeside Lumber at (623) 566-1100 or email lakesidelumber@cox.net.

California Timberliner lnc.

CALIFORNIA TIMBERLINE. INC.. and HERITAGE HARDWOODS INC., are well established wholesale distributors of hardwoods, softwoods, plywood, and custom millwork. We have serviced California. Arizona and Mexico for over 30 years. We are pursuing experienced sales executives for Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, and San Diego. This is an opportunit! to have your own territory. Please contact Chris Skibba, (909) 591-48 I I Resume can be sent confidentiallv to cskibba@caltimberline.com.

TAKE OVER LEASE. Two lumber delivery trucks. Southern California area. 20O4 Peterbilt Model 385, 24' bed,80,000# c.V.W., 178000 miles. 2008 Freightliner Model#CLl20645T, 24' bed,80,000# c.V.M., 50 miles. For more details, contact Mario at (800) 660-8680.

set the type, $55 if ad is furnished "camera-ready" (advertiser sets type). Phone number counts as 1 word, address as 6 words. Headhne or cenrereo copy, $9 per line. Border, $9. Private box, $15. Send ad copy to 4500 Campus Dr., Ste.480, Newport Beach, Ca.92660, Fax 949-g52-0231, dkoenig@building-products.com, or call (949) 852-1990. Make checks payable to Cutler Publishing. Deadline: lSth ofprevious month.

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SACRAMENTO REMANUFACTURING facility for sale or sublease. Includes substantial machinery and equipment investment located on 5 acres with office and buildings. This could be inexpensive opportunity to start or expand your remanufacturing/distribution business! All offers will be seriously considered. Reply to: Reman Division, P.O. Box 80128. Portland. Or. 97223.

Kenneth William "Kent" Brosh, 67, head of Crissey Fowler Lumber, Colorado Springs, Co., died Dec. 4 after a three-year battle with cancer.

He was president of Crissey Fowler from 1985 until 2000, when he retired upon his family and the William Kunz family selling the l25-year-old business to Carolina Holdings.

He served as a director, national director, and 1991-1992 president of the Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association.

Eugene F. Burrill, 89, owner of Eugene F. Burrill Lumber Co., Medford. Or.. died Dec. 8 in Medford.

After graduating from high school, he labored for the Alaskan Railroad and then spent three years working for small owner-operated sawmills in the Columbia River region. In l94l, he bought and restored a cast-off portable mill. He relocated the facility to Prospect, Or., in 1942 to be closer to railroad tie customer Cheney Lumber.

After he was drafted into the service in 1944,he was assigned to an engineers unit and spent the rest of the war teaching soldiers how to run a sawmill in Washington. After the war, he returned to Prospect, bought another portable mill, and began working with Svinth Lumber.

During the 1950s, he owned a logging business and stud mill.In 1960, a national decline in lumber prices led Burrill to leave logging. The mill managed to survive well into the 1990s by pursuing new timber sources.

After the plant closed in 1998, he turned his attention to real estate development.

Port Trying To Buy Rail Line

After over a year of negotiations, a deal allowing the Port of Coos BaY, Or., to buy a closed I I l-mile line from Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad is set to close next month.

The port hopes to begin rail service on a 20-mile interior segment of the Coos Bay line soon after the deal closes. It is already reviewing bids by rail firms to operate the route, which runs between Eugene and Vaughn, Or.

"The port does not want to be in the railroad operating business," said spokesman Martin Callery. "That is not our area of expertise."

Exactly when the Port can reopen the rest of the line hinges on the cost to repair the damaged tunnels that prompted CORP to halt service in 2O07 . Callery said the earliest it could open is "late 2009, but more likelY in 2010." The timing "just depends on the extent of the rehabilitation that has to be done to the tunnels."

Closure of the line provoked heavY criticism from lumber shippers, who suddenly had to rely on costlier truck transportation. After legislators joined in, state transportation board ordered CORP to show why the closure was not an unauthorized service abandonment that could trigger penalties.

The company then moved to formally abandon the line and offer it for sale, for $16.6 million. The port has until Feb. l8 to arrange financing to complete the sale.