SOUTHEASTERN SCENE

cou",inn Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi' the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia.

Tbnnessee Building Material Association is sponsoring a l0 lesson correspondence course on sales basics for its members.

Designed to aid a supervisor in helping a new emplcryee to imprwe his skills, it includes a check list for keeping track ofthe lessons and homework as the student completes them. Produced by Lumber Tech l, the course is arailable from the TBMA offtce.

Plans for the 6lst annual convention, Sept. 21-25, in Dorado, Puerto fuco, are being finalized. Cerromar Beach Hotel has been selected as the site for the program which will include business sessions and a board of directors meeting as well as sports events and sightseelng.

Virginia Building Material Association with the Southem Forest Products Association is sponsoring a series of seminan on southern yellow pine.

Dave Mason and Frank lrsniewski will be seminar speakers, discussing the SFPA and southern pine including the manufacturing process from log to finished lumber, wood moisture relationships including drying, handling and storage, grades, marking, lumber sizes and quality assurance as well as strength properties and span table usage. Pressure treated wood, Permanent Wood Foundations, the Plenwood System and the merits of southern pine as a building material also will be covered.

The halfday seminars are scheduled for 8 a.m. at the Howard Johnson in Richmond, May 6; the Holiday Inn' Manassas' May 7, and the Holiday Inn Tangleuood, Roanoke' May 8. Reservations arebeing takenat the VBMA office in Richmond. Cost is $45 per person including materials, coffee' tea and snacks.

Florida Lumber and BuiHing lvlatcrid Dealers Associations's convention committee is organizing activities for the 66th annual convention and buying show to be held Sept.