SOUTHERN ASSOCTATION

Florldr Lumber & Bulldlq Mrterhl Derlers Assoclrtlon is sponsoring a credit managers roundtable March 5 at headquarters in Orlando.

Ten companies will send employees to the session moderated by Dale Fullon, chairman, credit management committee.

The annual legislative conference will be held at the Radisson Hotel, Tallahassee, April l0-l l. Those attending will visit legislators and attend board, goverilment relations and PAC meetings as well as dine with legislators.

Bill Carson, executive vice president, Bob Secrist, I,overnment relalions committee chairman, and Steve Metz, FLBMDA lobbyist, are in charge.

The last week of March has been designated Give Kids The World Hour Week. This is an annual drive for employees oi FLBMDA members to contribute an hour's pay to Give Kids The World. Bob Allen is chairman.

Louisiana Building Malerial Dealers Associalion's keynote speaker at their March 7-10 annual convention will be Gary Donnelly, executive vice president of the National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association, Washington, D.C.

Sixteen companies have signed up to have table top exhibits on Saturday during the meeting at the Hilton & Towers in Lafayette. Fourteen firms will be sponsors for convention functions.

Business meetings and education sessions conrplete the program.

Kentucky Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association has installed Gerald Boland, Boland-Maloney Lumber Co., Louisville, as president.

Retiring president Bill Bucher, Square Deal Lumber Co., Park City, became chairman of the boardt Mac McCormick, McCormick Lumber Co., Mt. Sterling, vice president, and Terry Barnes, Independence Lumber & Supply Co., Independence, secretary/treasurer.

Board members are Boland. Bucher. Barnes, McCormick, Ed Anthony, Dennis Bratcher, Harold Bratton, Jack Congleton, Mitch Cornelius, Larry Ethington, Bob Hunt, Ken Lawson Jr., Wesley McCoun, Freddie McWhorter, Gerald Scott, Jewel Vice. Associate directors: Joe Ballard, Farris Dills, Wayne Jones, Cene Mueller. National director: Don Hellman.

Spring board meeting will be held in Shakertown Aprll 24-25 and fall board meeting Oct. l7 at Galt House, Louisville.

KLBMDA will sponsor a building material auction June I and 2 at the Kentucky Fair and Eiposition Center in Louisville. Peak Auctioneering will conduct a sale of excess inventory on consignment from dealer and associate members. The sale will be open to the public.

Check out our Calendar on page I8 lbr inlbrmation on upcoming conventions, meetings and trade shows in your region.

Mid-America Lumbermens Association, which has members in Oklahoma and Arkansas, won a top award for the "Mid-America Buyers' Guide and Dealer Directory" in an annual publications contest conducted among professional and trade associations by Association Trends, a national weekly newspaper for association executives and suppliers.

More than 500 entries were evaluated with 50 in the final judging. MLA received the award at the annual Association Trends lunchon in Washington, D.C. Lana Leitner edits the directorv.

Building Material Merchants Association (Georgia and Alabama) has initiated a Compliance Assistance Progranr (CAP) for dealers under the direction of Larry Marler.

For an annual fee, Marler will perfornr a complete audit on a dealer's compliance status. After the audit, the association will provide hands-on assistance in updating compliance files including driver, maintenance, accidents and records. The association will give instruction on underground storage tank regulations, drug testing laws and OSHA inspection rules as part of the program. Wage and hour regulations and EEOC laws also will be reviewed.

The program is designed to provide an initial session of one to one and half days on site followed with three to four quarterly visits as needed.

In addition to heading up the CAP, Marler, the association's government regulation specialist, will keep all members informed on regulations with regulatory bulletins and a column in the "The Building Material Advisor." Teresa Ann Willis, recently hire( as a communications specialist, is editor.

Carolinas-Tennessee Building Material Association will hold its l99l summer conference at Ponte Vedra lnn & Club, Ponte Vedra, Fl., June 20-23.

"Growing your Business in Today's Economic Environment" will be discussed in a half day seminar by Bill Lee. A second seminar led by Al Walker will consider "The Power of Teamwork." The annual open board of directors meeting and the Ladies Auxiliary's annual summer meeting are also scheduled.

A humorous anecdotal presentation of life in the 21st Century by Al Walker will follow dinner on Saturdav.

Free Seminars For Dealers

Free seminars, "Pricing for Profit," will teach softwood lumber wholesalers and retailers how to manage prices with recently revised lumber futures and options contracts.

Used as a hedging instrument, these are said to provide profitable pricing and extended marketing periods and act as a hedge against price volatility.

Reservations for seminars in Austin, Tx., March 26, and Atlanta, Ga., March 27. can be made with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, (800) 33 I -3332.

Wolmanized Wood Air Blitz

Hickson Corp. has contracted to run 60 second spots promoting Wolmanized pressure-treated wood products nationally on 138 radio stations over a l3 week spring schedule. Advertisements will be broadcast on syndicated shows such as "America Remodels" and "The Super Handyman" as well as on independent shows such as "Around the House" in Portland, Or.

REIAILERS had encounters with a number of troubling characters.

A woman sued the Hollywood, Fl., store, saying she was hit on the head by a falling board, which caused her to lose her psychic powers.

Penny Pellito, 52, said she had been able to shut off her senses to the point of undergoing surgery without anesthesia. "l would pipe in on a daily basis to find out how the hell my health was," she said.

But after the incident she said she was in constant pain and had lost her psychic gift. On Feb. 8 she was found 800/o negligent and awarded $1,000 for head injuries. "The jury didn't buy any of that psychic stuff. They concluded she used self-hypnosis rather than some power," said Dexter Filkins, Miami Herqld.

NAWLA Marketing Seminarc

North American Wholesale Lumber Association wood marketing seminars will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. B.C., July l4-20 and the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., Sept. 29Oct. 5.

Planned for the wholesale lumber salesperson with less than three years' experience, the week-long program of lectures, telemarketing demonstrations and field trips is taught by lumber professionals. Steve Snavely, Snavely Forest Products, is education chairman.

Lowe's New Prototype Store

A 65,760 sq. ft. prototype Lowe's store is nearing completion in Johnson City, Tn., for a late spring opening.

Nearly six times the size of the current Johnson City Lowe's, it will feature a self-service layout for some 20,000 products, three times the number in the current store.

The store is one of 47 expected to be built this year.

Odd Visitors To Florida Depots

Broward County, Fl., Home Depot stores in recent weeks have

On Jan. ll a man shot a Wells Fargo guard as he walked through the crowded Deerfield Beach Home Depot, grabbing his money bag, which contained $56,000 in cash and checks. The robber fired three more shots at the wounded man before running out a side entrance to a getaway car, police said.

A $20,000 reward offered by Home Depot and Wells Fargo led to the arrest on robbery and attempted murder charges of three young men. Friends fingered the trio who, though unemployed, were suddenly paying cash for a Cadillac, fancy new clothes and gold jewelry, said police.

Deia Vu: Thief Nabbed Again

Two days after admitting to burglarizing Scotty's, Delray Beach, Fl., a man decided to repeat the identical crime, police said. And again the suspect was caught.

Leon Ellis, 37, was first spotted by police at 3:45 a.m. April 29 pushing boxes containing $1,245 worth of weed trimmers, insect killers and other merchandise out of a hole cut in the fence behind the store, said police.

On Jan. 4, he plead guilty to the crime and an August landscaping firm burglary, agreeing to a one year jail sentence. At 5:18 a.m. Jan. 6, an ofllcer noticed a new hole in the fence, $800 worth of goods set outside it and Ellis' truck broken down nearby, police said. Police said they located Ellis and a second suspect walking a few blocks away.