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THe RACER'S Edge will theme our f 1983 housing and building products show, Feb. 10-12, at the Radisson Plaza Hotel and Charlotte Civic Center, Charlotte, N.C.

The show and convention have been well planned to meet your needs and allow you to get the "racer's edge" on the competition: seminars to increase vour industry knowledge and awareness and, of course, great exhibitois will provide you with new products and many money-saving specials.

On Saturday Cox Wood Preserving and Andersen Corp. will sponsor do-ityourself clinics. People from Cox, who are deck specialists, will show how to build a deck, answer your questions and give you a free deck building brochure to take home. A stepby-step demonstration by an Andersen representative will show how to replace windows, install windows, gliding doors and triple glazing. Hutting Sash & Door, Charlotte, Kernersville and Rocky Mount, N.C.; C.E. Morgan, Columbia, S.C., and Portsmouth, Va.; Holston Builders Supply, Kingsport, Tn., and Addison Corp., Greenville, S.C. and Augusta, Ga., are sponsors for the window clinic.

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These clinics will offer the opportuniry to see how our suppliers can help us pro- mote and scll our producs. Make plans to come and bring both your inside and outside salespeople. Don't miss this opportunity to expos€ them to a proven method of increasing sales.

The 1983 show also offers you the opportunity to win many great prizes including a truck load of building materid delivered free by Georgia Pacific.

Arkansasa Oklahoma

EIELIEVE it or not, but after almost tsthree years of our current housing recession we are getting reports of new houses being estimated and even some being started.

One Tulsa area dealer said he was furnishing more new houses in the last two months than he had for the past several months. Another said his truss plant was busy in December and even in good market times December was traditionally a slow month. Even some of the smaller communities are indicating there's a house or two being built in their market.

Many dealers we have talked to recently are starting to feel that there really is a