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Heritage in the Balance: 500+ Pacific Lumbers Against the MAXXAM Takeover

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  • Heritage in the Balance: 500+ Pacific Lumbers Against the MAXXAM Takeover
By thatgreenunionguy | 11:03 PM UTC, Sat November 15, 2025

Advertisement featured in the Eureka Times-Standard - Sunday, November 17, 1985

Some people are comfortable with the efforts of Charles Hurwitz and his Maxxam group to establish ownership of the Pacific Lumber Company. Most of us certainly are not! We, the employees who have signed this, do not feel that this impending takeover would be in the best interest of ourselves, the share­holders, and the communities in which our company serves. Most of us are the hardworking individuals who feel that PALCO was an honorable, well-serving company, with a heritage that we could be proud of—not only a secure place to work, but one which dealt conscien­tiously with the preservation ad proper man­agement of our vital resources:  our people and the redwoods.

In all earnestness, we do not feel that a company of real estate investors from the east coast can man­age resources such as ours with the consideration that has been shown all these years by the Murphy Family. We wish to protect the integrity of our company, which has served our community so well. The fight is not over. Maxxam has not yet been allowed to ac­tually purchase any tendered shares, and those which have been tendered will become withdraw­able if they haven’t been purchased by Maxxam and Hurwitz by November 30, 1985, or if a competing tender offer is made. It is our sincere belief that if the company’s leadership were back in the hands of the Murphy Family, the company’s business, our environ­ment, and the communities in which we all live will con­tinue to prosper. There may be some changes in our company in the days to follow, but we collectively support, with confidence, the Murphy’s efforts to save the Pacific Lumber Company.

The cost of this expression of our opinion has been paid by us.

Web Editor's Note: Italicized names indicate memebrs and/or supporters of Earth First! - IWW Local #1.

Gary Fritz
Arian Franklin
John Setzer
Luis Urbina
Gouyado Sanchez

Alfredo Erbina
Rafeal Avila
Cesor B Guerrerz
Arturo Urbina
Ronald G Victorine

Mark L Rigney
Thomas F Webb
James J Rocha
Steven K Payne
Jeffery L Brazil

John Broadstock
Buzz Sarvinski
Darron D Dunlap
Gary W Davis
Ray Elliot

Terry Prior
Cecil G Page
Brad D Jones
Dave Victorine 
Pat Bartlett

John Oliveira
Jerrold G Bartlett
Lawrence E Crnkovich
Dale C Welch
Cecil K Williams

Arther A Petrey
Richard Vetter
Larry E Griffith
Ted Annibel, Sr.
Tim A Cartwright

Jerry Wright
David McCoy
John Jeffers
Fred P DePucci
James M Hinrichs

Chris Raven
Thomas J Walsh
Frank C Fraser
Ken Hollifield
Darrel P Palmer

Marvin C Harwood
Floyd Smith
Dick Robertson
Robert Poli
Jack Steeves 

John D Hay
Don Wilkins
Samuel J Bartlett
Bradley D Harden
Ronald C Drummond

Fred W Elliot
Marvin Holmes
Lester C Phelps
Randolph N Jeffers
Alfred Brunner

Max Borges
Chris E Christianson
Ron Bergenske
Joe Rogers
F Dale Laloli

Jan F Stout
Gary H Brown
Micheal G Fuller
Richard W Jarman
Charles J Bettiga

Edward Cordiero
Raymond Ghilarducci
Don Viggers
Walter L Tucker
Aldan Barrotte

Dave Silva
Gene Reback
Paul Hutcherson
Clarence Oliveira
Oscar J Fregoso

Jack C Reback
Mike McClendon
Rodney Sanderson
James A Bragg
Charles H Ogle 
 
George Brazil
Jim Elliot
Bill Cross
Carol Dollarhide
Andy Erickson Lars Burnside

Winston Wood
Anthony S Pulver
David O Houseworth
Rick Franklin
Jimmy H Brown

Ronald A Davis
Stanley W Houseworth, Jr.
Wade E Bartlett, Jr.
Terry Longcake
Reed D Spiers

Tim Whitchurch
Brad Bartleson
Greg Coleman
Charles Fuentes
Kevin Waters

Arnold Kemp
Micheal B Schager
Jim Senestraro
Jim Elliot, Jr.
Curtis Parks

Micheal D Wilcox
Ricky McDough
Kenneth W Taylor
Joe Timmerman
Kenneth L Land

Ruben M Urbina
C Kurt Adams
Gurld J Daniel
Daniel W Bartlett
N Dale Zumwalt

Ned M Morrow
Jody Victorine
Tom Cooper
David Eicholtz
Jeffery James Pearce

Tim Coppini
Larry R Reich
Floyd Wescott
Alan Estrada
Jerry Ireland

Peter J Hansen
John L Weber
Elmer Carson
Randy Stone
Larry R Nichols

Joseph Bresnan, Jr. Esq.
Alan Valencia
Jesus Torres
Walter R Ingham, Jr.
Peter C Austrus

Guybo C Lamb
Jack Thompson
Clifford Sturdevant
Darrel Sallady
Wilbur Freeman

Idella Kent
Mike Cook
Jay Parrish
Tom Moore
Kenneth Criswel

Max Kuhnt
Sandra Woodhurst
Janice E Astor
Harold R Wallan
Micheal E Davis

Theodore Silva
John Waddell
Paul C Primofiore
Billy Jordan
Richard Fritz

Thomas A Fraser, Jr.
Ted C Annibel II
Harry R Dibble
Chris E Sission
Raymond C Davis

Robert Benoit
Grady Morrow
James Thomas
Harry G Webster
David C Iverson
Glenn Whitehead
Daniel Goodner
Ken Rigby
Joe Matthews
Richard T Alton

Dale Cathey
Billy J Long, Sr. 
David Hayes
William L Bartelson
Tony DePucci

Robert Overholt
Thomas R Pollard
Frank A Hough
Hershal L Smith
Jack Snell

Micheal J Campbell
Scott L Peterson
George Bearden
Rolland Kanen
Dennis Newell

Alan D Hoffmann
John L Doyle
Ken Houseworth
Janet C Baird
Manuel R Bailey

Larry D Malcomb
Mike Mahn
Carol LaTorre
Dario Primofiore
Doyle Shamblin

Daniel T Ferguson
Gary L Hoalton
Albert K Thomspon
James E Griffith, Sr.
William F Hatton

Frederick Thomas
Danny Frietas
Forrest Johnson
Dave Samblin
Keith Smith

Tom Austrus
Steve Anaya
Robert Martella
Lauritz C Feddersen
Donnie M Purcell

Greg Bartlett
Frank Krause
Charles M Smith
Stephen J Hill
Richard E Peterson

Vernon W Belisle
Vernon Broyes
Stanley Turner
Mark D Johnson
Terry T Matthews

Leon W Dokweiler
Pete Kayes
Ernest DeCarli
Tim Cook
Don C Luther

Charles V Shoop
Frank A Luz
James E Dyer
Dennis W Qualls
Gary A Cook

Oscar Dillard
John T Varnado
William A Kent
Charlie O Phillips
John R Redd

Jack Curlee
Francis E Kennedy
George Poli
John Lutsch
George Patmore

Robert Hatten
James B Price
John R Maurer
Peter G Austrus
Richard F Lowrey

Les Reynolds
Kevin Morris
Terry Edgman
Micheal J Bettiga
Ronnie L Posey 
 
Eugene Sousa
James Card, Jr.
Frank C Sanderson
Carl N Ringer
John L King

Mike Smith
Loran R Jordan
Frances I Bagley
Micheal S Clark
Eric P Johansen, Sr.

Richard Kessler
Cesar Viegas
Eric Anderson
Tom King
Gary Crowl

James L Robertson, Sr.
Matthew Kyle Bettiga
Perry Timmerman
Ron Stockwell
Eugene Sousa

Kevin Primofiore
Jim Barnes
James A Ober
Roland H Stone
Joaquin B Viegas

Kerry L Neff
Dennis D Smith
Terry L Iverson
Dennis C Barnes
Paul T James

William R Miller
E Clifton Dodson
Dale Smith
Paul Newmaker
Charles Douthitt

Dale L Hoffmann
Lonnie Dollarhide
David J Griffs
Grant Bishop
Micheal Bonnikson

Tim Silva
Johnny C Kennon, Jr.
Jeffrey E Jorgensen
Bobby McGee
Joseph Olson

Richard McKnight
Leo Waters
Steve Bishop 
Tony Barcelos, Jr.
Guy McCullough

Thomas J Nowak
James N Barsanti
Arlington E Ammons
Larry A Barrote
Bill Belmont

Angelo M Micheli
Herschall L Moore
William L Perry
Gary C Vides
Larry C Burgh

Cris J Rocha
Alan Cady
Norman Cushing
Gino Ravai
Franc B Cook

Wally Coppini
Bill McLaughlin
Ronald E Smith
Kelly Mcnaughton
Dan McLaughlin

Dennis E Jones
Harvey Holt, Jr.
William Chism
Thomas Graham
Rich Adams

Thomas R Wipf
Kenneth A Nelson
Van A Crimson
Larry Grunert








 

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