SOUTHEASTERN SCENE

cou"ring Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, louisiana, Mississippi, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Mrginia.

Florida Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association is considering relocation of the association headquarters to a site near the Orlando Intemational Airport and the BeeLine Expressway. According to Charles Nicholson, president, the board ofdirectors has retained a real estate attorney to prepare a contract for submission to the owner of the property, anticipating that the process will take at least a year.

Southern Forest Products Association's annual meeting, Oct. 1517 at Innisbrook, Fl., will follow the theme "Hats Off to Quality." The quality focus will include an economic outlook on future markets for southern pine lumber to the year 2000.

Leslie-locke Buys General Steel

The assets of General Steel Co., Los Angeles, Ca., have been purchased by Leslie-Locke, Atlanta, Ga., making the steel firm a division of the latter company.

General Steel Co. president Carlos Siderman said, "They had accounts but no physical presence on the West Coast, and we had accounts but no physical presence on the East Coast. We'll both now be better able to service each other's customers."

The merger results in the frrms manufacturing and distributing each other's products in their own facilities. There were no personnel changes.

Louisiana Building Material Dealers Association is updating its members on the accomplishments of the 1986 Regular Lrgislative Session. Among the more than 1,4O0 bills and resolutions passed was one to end the ban on the sale of many items on Sunday. This repeal will go into effect Dec. 1, allcnving local voters time to decide if they want local ordinances restricting Sunday sales.

Central Kentucky area lumber dealen held their annual frsh fry 6n Aug. D in trxington, Ky. John Burk, Smith-Haggard Lumber Co., was chairman.

Tennessee Building Material Association's Young Executives have elected Greg Davis, Crosslin Supply Co., Franklin, as president for 1986-87.

Other officers are Pat Welsh, Builders Supply Co., Tullahoma, vice president; Gene McKinney, Tindell's Inc., Knoxville, treasurer, and Garey Keltner, Lumberman's Wholesale. Nashville. trustee.