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rnHE LUMBERMEN'S Associa|- tion of Texas returned to San Antonio recently for its 112th annual convention and buying show.

During the April 16-18 event at the San Antonio Convention Center, Adonn Slone, Slone Lumber & Millwork, Santa Fe, was installed as LAT president, succeeding Ray Sale, Builders & Homeowners Supply, Midland.

Other new officers included: lst v.p. Don DeGroot, R.E. Sweeney Co., Fort Worth; 2nd v.p. Bob Burns, West End, Houston; associate v.p. Ed Gray, PrimeSource, Houston; treas. Roy Deering, Fort Worth Lumber, Fort Worth; sec. Ronnie Spradlin, East Texas Lumber, Kilgore, and sgt.-atarms Don Smith Jr.. Bowman Lumber, Lubbock.

Ed Kennedy, Weyerhaeuser Co., was named Associate Member of the Year, while Bob McCarley, Paris Lumber & Building Center, Paris, was presented the 37th annual Lumberman of the Year Award.

Committee chairman: DeGroot and Burns, long range planning; Deering, budget & finance; Spradlin, bylaws; Sale, nominating committee; Slone, convention; Harlan Myers and Drew Sanders, member services and education; Burns and Brooks Kennemer, legislative; Chuck Pool and Betty Evans, membership; Tom Mace and Katherine Handran, safety & security; DeGroot and Burns, goodwill, and Rosie Franklin, Young Lumbermen's.

The 1999 convention and buying show will be held April 29-May I in San Antonio.