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Oklahoma Lumberments Association will hold its spring meeting March l3-14 in Oklahoma City.

Kentucky Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association installed Steve Kelly, Kelly Bros. Lumber Co., Covington, as its new pres. during its annual convention Ian.26-27 in Fort Mitchell. He succeeds Charlie McWhorter, Clay Building Supply, Manchester, now chairman ofthe board.

Other new officers: Susan Elmore, Buzick Lumber & Home Center, Bardstown, v.p.; Ron Goode, Cole Lumber Co., Paducah, sec./treas., and Gerald Boland, Boland-Maloney Lumber Co., Louisville, national director.

New directors: McWhorter; Bill Baker, Stratton Lumber & Hardware Co., Nicholasville; Elvin Bryant, W.D. Bryant & Son, Williamsburg; Bruce HumPhreY, Charlie Quinn Lumber Co., Snrrgis; Ken Lawson, Jr., Thriftway, Owensboro; Louis Moore, Kinner Lumber Co., Greenup; Phil Myers, Myers Lumber Co., Mayfield; Jeff Perkins, Mid-South Lumber & Supply, Bowling Green, and associates Dennis Rhea, Bishop-Roney Lumber Co', Louisville, and Brad Strosahl, PrimeSource, Erlanger.

The llovo Award went to outgoing board member Mac McCormick, McCormick Lumber Co., Mt. Sterling, while Charles Green, Sylvania Wood Products Co., accepted the Associate of the Year Award.

Florida Building Material Association has launched the EmPloYment Referral Network to help members locate qualified job applicants. A confidential synopsis of each applicant's skills and experience is kept in a 'Job bank" update which can be accessed by calling the association or accessing its Web site.

The program will maintain resumes for inside and outside sales people, sales managers, purchasing agents, operations managers, comptrollers, human resource managers, yard foremen, truss plant managers, truss plant engineering technicians, door plant managers, millwork managers and branch managers.

For information, contact Allison Thompson, who recently joined FBMA in membership promotion and marketing.

Virginia Building Material

Association has selected the theme

"Networking 2000" for its annual convention April 2-5 at the Fort Magruder Inn, Williamsburg. Among the speakers are economist Dr. Ed Seifried, Lafayette College, and Internet lecturer Tripp Lofl in, Inacom Information Systems.

Lumbermen's Association of Texas is compiling an LAT Cookbook of members' recipes as a PAC fundraiser. It should be available for sale at the association's annual convention and buying market April 16-18 in San Antonio.

Carolinas-Tennessee Building Material Association's annual convention is covered on the next two pages,

Burning Trees For Electricity

High-tech power plants that generate clean, renewable electricity by burning timber are being researched by Shell and other firms.

Over the next five years, Royal Dutch/Shell Group will invest $500 million in renewable energy, including plantations that supply timber-or "biomass"-to burn as an electricity source. Long-range, Shell predicts that by the year 2050, the world's energy consumption of biomass for electricity generation will equal that of gas and oil today.

Energy use of biomass, which now accounts for l2%o of the world's primary energy, is rising l1%o annually on a pace to reach 250 megawatts installed by the year 2000, says Shell.

-Anonymous industry executive