Good newslbad ne$r$ Texas convcntion

I T was a gpod news, bad news I scenario for members of the Lumbermen's Association of Texas as they held their l04th annual convention in the windy, south coast city of ColPus Chri$ti. ",""

'The good news is the meadily improving (but not totally recovdred) economy of the state. The bad news is the throat to timbr supply posed by radical envirorimentalists and preservationists.

The seriousngss of thp prsblern was outlined by the president of the National Lumber and Building Material Dcelo$ Association at the

Timbq srndy prcOems and the twMqg stab economy dofrninfr...Wdbr Foxrrcrtr effi lrsrv preeidant, Emmstt McCoy named llan of thO ,Year . ; '91' convention'wlll be in San Antonlo.

opening session April 19. William Morton described the opposition's use of the courts to cripple dealer suppliers. He said the ultimate aim of the so-called environmentalise was a complete bn on the harvesting of all trees in America. While crediting their effectivenes in hurting industry, he said industry could win this fight if lurnbermen commit their resour@s and money and get personally involved.

A similar note was voiced by

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0UTG0ll{G pres. {ll Don Smith and LAT mgr. Barbara 0ouglas. l2l Charlie Horton, Harris Kimball. l3l Ethel Biddle, Ron Ross. l4l Rick Dominguez, Rod Didier. [5] Grover Stewart, Don Bell, Karl Lovett, Ron Middleton. 16l Roy Warnecke, Jimmy Galbraith lll, Larry Toney. [7] Steve Boone, Mitch Boone, Rich Peshlakai. l8l Carl Thibodaux, Lee Plant. [91 Cynthia & John Cornell. ll0l Julie Davis, Joe ru*r.w:r rw

Henley. lllf Mike Smith, Bob Groves, Bill Sharp, Sherry & Bob Hixson. {l2l Bicky Escalante, Vic Riolo, Eruce Cordova. (l3l Al Cron, Vickie Wright, Bud Frey, Ron Schrock. {l 4l Richard Ledermann, Jack Moran, Marvin Fikac. (l5l Larry Bradley, Robbie Lindsey. ll6l Steve Brent, Harold Tate, Kerlin Drake, Harry Newsome, Sam Crowe. llTl Pam Kolb. llSl Jim Beerling.

FIRST C0UPtE of National dealers assn. (tl Betty & Bill Morton. [2] Tom & Ethyl Rice, l/ary & Melvin Follis. 13l Dottie Ktotz, Joe Sample, Ron Hilliard. l4l Lee Sanders, Lance Bridwell. [6] Joel Hamel, Ronny Fuchs, Lee Roy Jordan, Jim Tingle, Gil Sissons, Jr. l6f Bobbie Schiel, Frank Davis. (71 Melvyn Travis, Thomas Baker, Finn Hurley. l8l Bert Lindsey, Jim Golding. l9l Tim True, Jim &

Pat Sexton. tl0l Clift Shafer, Bill Patterson. llll Kathy Sandberg, Tom Talbot. ll2l Phil Rogers, Jeff Johnson, Pete Follett, Peter Griffith. Il3l Vernon Potter, Betty Evans, Byron Potter. ll4l Ken Bishop, Rich Breitenfeld, Johnny Coker. llSl Hal HuJf, Bill Buenning, Tim Franckowiak, llEl Ted Boyce, R. Dean Null, llTl Steve Guenther, Richard Youngblood, Ricardo Lima, Jetf Lee, Jan Moran.

Jorge Fu, Doyle Romans, Luis Valle, Ramon Rosa. ll9l Al Meier, Gary Knesek, George Steele, l20l Dave McCulloch, Walter I erry.

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