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aesoctatton ne*,c In Alabama, Florlda, Georgla, Kentucky, Loulclana, Mleeleelppl, the Carollnae, Tenness€e and Vlrglnla.

Mlsslsslppl Bulldlng Mrterlrl Deders Assoclrtlon has elected Bill Reynolds, president of Waynesboro Hardware and F'urniture Co., Waynesboro, as president.

Janette Breedlove, Breedlove Lumber Co., Charleston, is ltrst vice presidenti Charles Patterson, Discount Pan' eling Center, Kosciusko, second vice president; Dwight Long, Union. and Will H. Alexander, Bay Springs, executive commitlee.

Directors are Truman Aldridge, Col' umbust Julia Box, Greenwood, and Ken Puryear, Senatobia, district l; Nancy lrby, Durant; William Lee Russell, Carthage; Bill Kimbrell, Meridian, and Walter Bennett, Louisville, district 2l Bennie Malone, Hattiesburg: Dee Sim' mons. Summit. and Ken Cavin, Natchez, district 3.

Dave Glenn, Jackson Wholesale Building Supply, Jackson; Frank Bridges, Georgia-Pacific Corp., Pearl, and Harry Carter, Henderson & Baird Hardware Co., Greenwood, were elected to the board of directors as associate members.

Janette Breedlove will chair the 1989 convention committee. Jackson has been selected for the March 22-25 meeting.

Virginia Building Material Association's membership committee has sent out a membership pin to the principal of each member company.

Additional pins are available for employees of member firms for $3 each. Orders are being handled by the association office.

Building Material Merchants' Association (Georgia and Alabama) has announced the program lor its summer conference, May 14-17 at Grove Park lnn. Asheville. N.C.

ln addition to a board of directors meeting and meetings of the insurance trustees, education, business management and executive committees, a full day employee relations seminar is scheduled, according to Romeo Adams, convention chairman. Topics to be discussed under the direction of the Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman law firm include wage and hour, employee handbooks, drug testing, equal employment, posting regulations, material safety data sheets, COBRA employment contracts and worker's compensation claims.

Golf and tennis tournaments, a Pi8, pickin' (barbecue), a reception and dinner dance also are planned.

Florlda Lumber & Bulldlng Mrterlal Dealers Assoclrtlon has scheduled Academy Award winner Patricia Neal and Harry Reasoner ofCBS as luncheon speakers for the 68th annual convention and buying show at the Marriott Orlando World Center, Sept. l3-17.

Hoo-Hoo International will hold its 96th annual convention in coqiunction with The Main Event. Activities for the 250 international delegates expected to attend will include a reception, business sessions. luncheon, luau and several social events.

More than 258 exhibitors from 35 states will be involved in the buying show.

Hoo-Hoo Internatlonel members were hosts to a group of Japanese homebuilders visiting the southern states to study 2x4 construction methods.

Pat Story, Cofer Brothers Lumber & Supply, a past president of the Atlanta, Ga., Hoo-Hoo Club, was the Atlanta host, escorting the group through Cofer Brothers and on a tour ofresidential construction projects. Phil Cocks, owner of Delta Millwork, Orlando, Fl., lst international vice president of the lumbermen's fraternity, guided the visitors on a tour of large apartment construction projects in Central Florida.

Kentucky Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association has been invited to join the Indiana Lumber & Builders' Supply Association on a mill trip to the California redwoods, July 610.

Information about the trip, which will include flying to California, is available from Richard Finch, executive vice president, at the lndiana association office in Indianapolis.

The association will sponsor a golf tournament combined with a family outing at the Marriott Inn in Lexington on July 20.

Dlrtrlbuton

NORT}TEAST lron Horsc Park

GEORGE MCQUESTEN CO.

North Btllcrlca, MA 01862 (617) 663-343s

MID.STATE LUMBER CO. 20O Industrlal Parkway Branchbrug, NJ 08876 (zot) 725-4W

SOUTHEAST FURMAN LUMBER CO. 89@ Henkels Ln. Annapolls Junction, MD 20701 (3Ot) 792-2234

EARL RAIFORD LUMBER CO. PO. Box 5498 Asheville, NC 28813 (704)2s3-567

EPPERSON LUMBER SALES. INC PO. Box 1559 Statesville. NC28677 (7O4) 873-4321

WOODFORD PLYWOOD PO. Box l73l

Albany, GA 31703 (912) 883-4900

Branches in Alabama, Georgia & Florida

LAKE STATES EMPIRE WHOLESALE PO. Box 249 Akron, OH 44309 (216) 434-4s4s

DETROIT FOREST PRODUCI5 35135 Glendale Livonia, Ml 48150 (313) s22-0610

NORTHWEST

HUMPHREY LUMBER CO. PO. Box 99943 Tacoma, WA 98499 (206) s84-6263

UPPER IIID WEST CANION LUMBER CO. PO. Box 9328

Minneapolis, MN 5il4G9328 (612) 42s-t4OO

WEST AIL-COAST FOREST PRODUCTS, INC. PO. Box M Chino. CA 91708 (7t4) 627-8551

HEDLUND LUMBER & MACHINE STAINING

PO. Box 6@38

Sacramento. CA 95860 (916) 331-66il

CEDAR WEST CORP PO. Box 5224

Denver, CO 80217 (3O3) 294-9rol