LOUISIAT{A OUTLOOK

llOSf aealers indicate sales and actUltivity are increasing slightly. Not too much to brag about, but let's hope the trend continues.

Commodity prices in most instances are firm, particularly lumber and

GEORGIA/ALABAMA VIEWS

Ervin Goodroe

Complete details of the elections will follow in a later issue of Building Products Digest.

Plans for the upcoming summer management conference in Savannah on June 2-5 also will be forthcomine.

plywood. If that situation continues we could face much higher prices when demand peaks and it could bring price controls again. Old timen still say the most profitable yqars were during the O.P.A. (Office of Price Authority) days in the early'{$s.

The Conference with C-ongress will be held March 1617, Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C. lt looks as though the MRA (Mortgage Retirement Account) will bc our key issue.

You know, whaher we like it or not, LBMDA and the national association repres€rt all building material dealers in Louisiana as well as the nuion. We only receive membenhip dues from 6090 of eligible firms hcre; yet, the total industry reaps the hnefits of our efforts. This is a fact and we emphasizc thu point whenwer the opportunity arises.

I am sure that you will appreciate the following as much as I did. Just before Christmas, 16 memb€rs of Wood Unlimited (New Orl€ans association) trcated l6 orphan boys from the Waldo Burton Home for Boys in New Orleans to dinner out and a Tulane basketball game. Who said everything is bad?