SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION

Kentucky Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association will be under the leadership of chairman Ken Lawson, Thriftway, Inc., Owensborol president Bill Bucher, Square Deal Lumber Co., Park City; vice president Gerry Boland, Boland-Maloney Lumber Co., Louisville, and secretary/treasurer Mac McCormick, McCormick Lumber Co., Mt. Sterling.

Other board members for 1990: Ed Anthony, Anthony-Barnes Lumber Co., Paducah: Bill Baker. Stratton Lumber Co., Nicholasville; Terry Barnes, [ndependence Lumber Co., Independence; Leroy Chewning, Ambrose Home Depot, Hopkinsville; Jack Congleton, Congleton Lumber Co., Lexington; Mitch Cornelius, Beattyville Lumber & Supply, Beattyville; Larry Ethington, Ethington Lumber Co., Shelbyville; Robert Hunt, Rogers Lumber Co., Bowling Green; Dan Jeffries, Green River Builders Supply, Liberty; Charles McWhorter, Clay County Builders Supply, Manchester; Gerald Scott, Fugate Lumber Co., Madisonville, and Jewell Vice, Reid & Vice, Carlisle.

National director is Don Hellmann, Hellman Lumber Co., Covington. Associate directors: Joe Ballard, Falls City Lumber Co., Louisville, and Farris Dills, Bell Concrete, Middlesboro.

Mississippi Building Material Dealers Association. Inc. has 35 exhibitors signed for the 1990 convention and building products trade show in Jackson, March 22-24.

Pre-registration packets have been sent to 260 dealers, suppliers and manufacturers for the event at the Coliseum Ramada Inn. Eleven firms have pledged sponsorships.

Virginia Building Material Association is completing final registrations for the 64th annual convention, April l-4 at the Williamsburg Lodge, Williamsburg. "Navigating the '90s" is the theme.

Oklahoma Lumbermen's Association will be headed by president Jay McKissick, Overlees-Woods Lumber Co., Bartlesville, this year.

Others installed by Harold Merrill, Owasso Lumber Co., Owasso, outgoing president, are vice president Jim Lovell, Consolidated Lumber, Enid, and treas- urer Mike Nix, Nix Lumber Co, Oklahoma City.

District representatives presented during the luncheon at The Marriott Hotel, Oklahoma City, are Mike Crowl,

Mill Creek Lumber, Tulsa; Charles Bussey, Maxie Lumber Co., Maxie; Tim Frame, Frame Lumber Co., Checotah; Bob Waltz, Hennessey Lumber Co., Hennessey; Rusty Field, Economy Lumber, Jones; Randy Smith, MidAmerica Lumber Co., Lawton.

Tommy Davis, Tom L. Davis Lumber Co., Oklahoma City, and Scott Waller, Mohawk Rock and Sand, Sand Springs, are associate directors.

Prizes of $1500 in cash and a 1990 Chevy pickup truck will be awarded at the SpringMart '90, March 23-25, in Oklahoma City.