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ston, Nov' 14; Corpus Christi' Jan. 15; San Antonio, Jan. 16; Lubbock, Jan.30.

ment and SBI Review. He will lead the sessions for yard foremen and the recruiting, interviewing and employee selection program.

Jim Pence will lead managing for financiat results, the good idea conference and improving consumer selling skills sessions. He has a degree in economics and has spent over 20 years as a businessman with Indiana Cashways Systems, Inc. He has made over 500 presentations to dealers in the past several years including a previous session for L.A.T.

INVEST tn Yourself! is the theme of Ithe professional development seminars which we are sponsoring to provide practical business and management programs for the owners, managers, supervisory personel and employees of lumber and building material dealers beginning this month.

The programs range from four hour informational conferences on current topics to three day comprehensive seminars.

A wide range of programs and services will be available to you and your firm' If we have not provided the exact one you need, ptease let us know and we will develop it. For further information, or if you would like to have one of the following programs in your area, please call or write the L.A.T. office. ln many instances all we need is a minimum of l0 to 15 participants to conduct a session.

Programs will begin with basic estimating in San Antonio, Sept. 25-27. Arlington will be the location of a managing lor financial resutts program on Oct. 9 and a seminar on recruiting, interviewing and selecting the right employee on Oct. 17. Basic estimating will be the topic on Oct' 2931 in Dallas and on Jan. 10-12 in Houston. Half day retail lumber seminars will be held in Dallas on Nov. 13; Hou-

An all day program on supervisory skills for the yard foreman is scheduled for Nov. 15 in San Antonioi Jan. 24, Dallas; and Feb. Z/, Houston. A good idea conference will be held in Austin on Dec. 12. Improving consumer selling skills will be the subject on Feb. 5 in Houston.

Seminar leaders will include Dr. S.P. Johnson, who has degrees from Florida State University and is an accomplished speaker and writer. His articles appear in lhe Journal of Smoll Business Monoge'

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Dr. Bill Stewart. author of the L.A.T. Cuide to Material Estimating Book and a rural housing and energy conservation expert for Texas A&M University, will conduct the basic construction materials take-off workshop using his book as the basic text.

Registration for any of the seminars may be made by writing or calling the L.A.T. office. Enrollment in each seminar is limited and will be accepted on a first{ome basis. Enrollment status will be confirmed.

Timber Products

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INSPECTION AND QUALITY CONTROL SER. VICES FOR ALL WOOD PRODUCTS, AND ALL SPECIES, INCLUDING GRADEMARKING OF LUMBER UNDER THE ALSC PROGRAM, QUALITY MARKING OF TREATED LUMBER UNDER THE AWPB PROGRAM, AND QUAUTY CONTROL/. QUALITY MARKTNG PROGRAMS FOR FIRE RETARDANT TREATED WOOD,TRUSSES, AND BUTLDING LOGS. SERVICES INCLUDE INAINING, QUALI. TY MONTTORING. CERTIFICATION, SAMPLING, REINSPECTION, SPECIFICATION WRITING AND/OR CLARIFICATION AND CONSULTATION ON LUMBER

Convention Center in Oklahoma City. The event is expected to draw an attendance of approximately 3,000.

Convention chairman is Henry Bockus III, Gordon White Lumber Co. Co-chairman is Gerry Weltzheimer, Leonhardt Lumber Co. Current association president is Glen Haney of Coalgate. Jim McKellar, Jr. of Tulsa is the vice president.

All available exhibit space is under contract. Space sold out earlier this year than in any other time in the previous l0 years.

"Because of the early sell-out ofexhibit space, we expect buying and selling to be far more aggressive than in past years," said convention chairman Bockus. He said a total of 190 displays will offer dealers a variety of products and services related to the building, remodeling and doit-yourself industry.

The show is open only to retail lumber and building materials dealers from Oklahoma and dealers of other states who do business in cities near Oklahoma's borders.

Activities began at noon on SePt. 7 when officers, directors and past presi-

(Continuetl |rom previotts page ) dents and their spouses were honored at a leadership luncheon. A business meeting of the board of directors followed with a slate of new officers and directors presented by the nominating committee. Nominations chairman was Bud Blakley, the association's immediate past president.

Friday's events included an "All Industry Reception" sponsorcd by numerous exhibitors for all retail dealers registered for the convention and to personnel of all sponsoring exhibitor firms.

The materials exposition "kick-off" breakfast at 8 a.m. Saturday featured Carl Dill who built his family's single store operation into a large chain of strong independents. Dill, a notable in the industry, privately developed marketing and promotion concepts which enable small independent dealers to compete fairly against the tough compelition of the gianr corporare operations.

Exhibits opened at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, in the central exhibit hall of the Myriad Convention Center. Active trading was predicted throughout the two-day exposition with exhibitors offering special discounts on orders placed on the exhibit floor.

The dealer-exhibitor luncheon speaker on Saturday was Ray Stanish whose background is rich in science and engineering.Early in his life he demonstrated a talent for seeing the humorous side of deeply complicated scientific and technical developments. He provokes convulsive laughter as he pokes fun at computers which he labels as giant nincompoops.

At the close of exhibits on Saturday, dealers and exhibitors gathered for the "No Speech" banquet, floor show and dance in the lmperial Ballroom of the Skirvin Plaza Hotel.

Sunday's events began with a breakfast meeting where the speaker was Faye O'Dell, well-known Oklahoman and former Lt. colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps who is one of the state's leading figures in high school and collegiate athletics. Basically a humorisr, O'Dell is considered one of the nation's outstanding rnotivational and inspirational speakers.

The convention ended at l:30 p.m. Sunday with the closing oi exhibits.