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RKANSAS and Oklahoma lumber and building material dealen and sup plien are urged to attend the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association's 70th annual convention, to be held Oct. 9 through 12 at Kansas City Westin Crown Center.

All Arkansas and Oktahoma dealers anending will be invited to a special MLA hospitality room. The room will be open to any dealers from MLA s five state area so that everyone attending can have an opportunity to meet others from the area and hopefully make new business and personal friends.

The event will feature exhibits and demonstrations of the latest computer technology for the building material industry. Some 20 companies will display and demonstrate their systems.

Among the guest speakers will be author Roger Dawson; Ken Bode, NBC national correspondent and political analyst, and Bill Sharp, a nationally known trainer for lumber yard employees.

The hotel, rated as outsanding by the Mobil Travel Guide. offers an air conditioned room with telephone and color television. There is a heated swimming pool, poolside service. coffee shop, dining room. bar with entertainment and dancing, barber and beauty shops. drugstore, ice on each floor.

Also, the hotel offen tennis. a puttlng green. lawn games. health club, sauna, and otversize beds. It's elegant and displays a waterhll in the lob[.

The convention program will begin on Thunday. Oct. 9, with a Wood Pnoducs Promotion Council meeting. which will deal with the latest programs and projects of other industry-related associations. That evening. participants may attend a welcome reception aboand a riverboat cruise sponsored by MLA.

The folloving day. Friday, Oct. lO Dawson will give some tips on horv to stnrcture a "winwin" situation. Moming sessions that run concurrently are: "The Insurance Crisis:" "Hov You Will Use Your Computer in the '9Os:" "How to Establish an Employee Incentive Program." and a dealer roundtable. Each session will be repeated on Friday aftemoon.

Other highlighs that day are a noon auards luncheon, the trade show opening at l:30 p.m., and an informal tennis tournament. A local yard tour is optional.

Bode will begin the program on Saturday, Oct. 11, with a presentation on what an "insider" thinks about the upcoming national

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elections. Folloving Bode. a dealer services session featuring Sharp will be held. The trade show will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 P.m. Saturday evening will feature the president's reception follortd by a banquet.

Members either leave for home or for the post-convention trip to cancun on sunday. Oct. 12.

A spouses' program will take visitors to nearby lndependence to see the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. It contains a reproduction of the White House office. a United Nations charter table. and a Thomas Hart Benton mural, among many other exhibis. Truman's grave is in the courtyard. Also on the premises are ttre Harry S. Truman courtrrom and office. the restored complex used by Truman during his career as judge of the Jackson County Coun.

Registration flyers for the convention are available from MLA. Call our office at 816931-2102.

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