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Coverlng the states of Alabama. Florlda, Georgla, Kenlucky, Loulelana, Mleelaolppl, North Carollna, South Carollna, Tenneeeee and Vlrglnla.

A trade misslon to Europe will be sponsored by the Lumber Dealer Association - Southeastern U.S.A., also known as the Solid South, next year.

Departure will be June 30 from Atlanta, Ga. The trip will include visits to lumber dealers and related businesses in Europe as well as sightseeing.

Tennessee Building Material Association's Young Executives are sponsoring a brick and concrele seminar on Oct. l0-ll

Tours of Brown's Concrete and Block Co., Dickson, Tn., and Laird Brick Co., Puryear, are scheduled. Speakers will include Charles Curtis, field engineer with the Portland

Cement Association; Johnny Brown, vice president and general manager, Brown's Concrete & Block Co., and Tim Pedigo, architectural sales executive, Brown's Concrete and Block Co. Participation is limited to 84.

Kentucky Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association members are completing plans for their 80th annual meeting, Nov. 14-16, at the Executive Inn, One Executive Blvd., Owensboro, Ky.

Table top displays will be part of the format for the first time. "Response has been good," according to William Thompson, executive vice president, "with our goal of 20 to 25 participating firms met."

John Martin, executive director,

National Lumbcr & Building Material Dealers Association, and Don Wolfe, HWI, have been invited to speak. Theme of the meeting will be "lndependent Survival."

Prtssure trested Southern plne semlnan sponsored by the Southern Forest Products Association and the Building Material Merchants Association were presented by Jim Haney, SFPA regional marketing manager, for retail lumber dealers in Georgia and Alabama last month. The dinner meetings were held in Augusta, Atlant8, Macon, Savannah, Waycross, Rome, Cainesville and Albany, Ga., and Dothan, Al.

Applications are now being accepted for the 86th National Hardwood Lumber Association Inspection Tlaining School scheduled to begin Jan. 3, at NHLAclassrooms in Memphis, Th. The 85th session convened last

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