SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION

Kentucky Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association will precede its Nov. 13 board of directors meeting in Bowling Green with a yard foreman seminar Nov. 12 conducted by Norville Spearman and an open house at Hill-Motley Lumber Co.

Carolinas-Tennessee Building Material Association's recent Leaders Summer Idea Exchange in Myrtle Beach, S.C., was a big success. Roundtable topics included contractor service, commercial and industrial markets, and "Building Material

MDF Now A Trademark

No longer a generic acronym, MDF is now a registered trademark, according to furniture manufacturer/ retailer Ikea of Sweden.

Quality control director Magnus Bjork said a French government agency contacted the company regarding its use of a registered trademark without a permit.

Ikea discovered a registered trademark for MDF was listed as a trademark Feb. 22, 1995, in the building materials and furniture sectors of France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Holland.

Ikea is now preparing a defense for its use of the term.

Glinton Strikes Timber Deal

Fifteen timber companies have agreed with the Clinton Adminstration not to log on certain old growth national forests but instead on substitute groves less critical to fish and wildlife.

The pact was a partial settlement to a suit filed last year by the timber industry after the companies were prevented from logging in Northwest forests they had bought the rights to harvest from the Forest Service in 1989 and 1990.

Lumber companies involved in the deal include Willamette Industries and Boise Cascade.

Retailing: Past, Present, Future," led by Bob Swinnie, Swinnie Supply, Andrews, S.C.; Joe Hollinshed, Cape Fear Supply, Fayetteville, N.C., and Bill Stewart, Stewart Lumber, Brentwood, Tn.

Next year's idea exchange will be held July 17-20,1997 at an undetermined coastal location.

residential estimating Oct. tOltt in Richmond; supervisors' employment law Nov. 6 in Charlottesville and Nov. 7 in Williamsburg; advanced selling and sales management Nov. 19, credit & collections management Dec. l l, accounts payable Dec. 12 and installed sales Jan. 7, all in Richmond; alternative methods of financing Jan. 23 in Charlottesville, and marketing plans Feb. 6 and acquisitions, mergers and ownership changes Feb. l8 in Richmond.

Lumbermen's Association of Texas is sponsoring basic/intermediate estimating seminars Oct. lzl-15 in Waco and Oct. 17-18 in San Antonio conducted by Keith Kluis.

Virginia

Building Material Association has set its fall/winter schedule of seminars. Planned are classes on residential framing lumber estimating Oct. 7-9 and computerized

Florida Dealers Hold

Florida Building Material Association attracted approximately 3,000 attendees and over 200 exhibitors in 250 booths for its 76th annual convention and buying show Sept. 4-8 in Orlando.

Judge Nottingham, Carolina Lumber Co., Jacksonville, was installed as president, succeeding Sam Dunn, Dunn Lumber & Hardware, Daytona Beach. Other new officers: president-elect/treasurer Jack Monroe, Jr., J.M. Lumber, Inc., Port St. Lucie; I st v.p. Ken Kuester, Lumber Unlimited, Jacksonville; sec. Tom Crowe, Allstar Building Materials Ltd., Ormond Beach; v.p. Dan Waters, Dataline Corp., Longwood; v.p.-elect Carl Holland, Sunbelt Forest Products Co., Bartow; truss division chairman Mark Casp, Casmin, Inc., Tavares, and millwork division chairman Phil Cocks. Delta Millwork, Inc., Orlando.

Regional directors: Tim Callum, Gator Door East, Inc., St. Augustine; Mike McKenzie. Ro-Mac Lumber & Supply Co., Tallahassee; Pat Loftus, Gator Lumber Do-it Center, Sebastian; Richard Ungerbuehler, Federal Millwork Corp., Fort Lauderdale, and Steve Toth, American Buying & Retirements, Inc., Miami; associate directors Dale Dahlin, Booker & Co., Tampa; Pete Edlin. Locklando Door & Millwork.

Oklahoma Lumbermen's Association will hold a tailgate party and trip to the Oklahoma Sooners vs. Oklahoma State Cowboys football game Nov. 9 in Stillwater.

Annual Convention

Tavares, and Dave Pleasant, Weyerhaeuser Co., Plymouth, and dealer members-at-large Richard Dugger, Haven Building Products, Winter Haven; Don Smyth, Jr., Smyth Lumber Co., Orlando, and Scott Whiddon, Causeway Lumber Co., Fort Lauderdale.

Next year's convention returns to Marriott's World Center, Orlando, Oct. l-4.

ATTENDING Florida Building Malerial Association's recenl annual convenlion: (1) Michael Curda, Jackie Robinson. (2) Tom Davis, Joe Taylor, Ted Pecot. (3) Paul Tumer, Bubba Thompson. (4) Kim Duvall. (5) Jeff Park, Brent Helliotl, Scott Schilsky, Scott McNamara. (6) Betty Stone, Denise Brown, Ann Simmons. (4 Jim & Nan Mills, Don Strausser. (8) Dennis Chambers, Woody Clark. (9) Keith Matthews, Brad Bradley, Jimi lppolito, Steve Danzigen. (10) Lisa Marie Howell, Chuck Rendleman, Trace Latimer, Kristin Wagnel. (11) Loretta Hardey, Scott Gramling. (12) Pete Peterson, Dennis Chappell. (13) Jetl Cabral, Jim Gleisle. (14) Rick Ellyson, Joe DiFrancesco. (ls)Dolg Fenwid<. (16) Duffy Waters, Lorvell Cay'or. (17)Tim Gillis, Steve Bums. (18) Larry Jordan, Noel Way, Cecil Skinner, Mandi Sano, Charles lrvine. (19) Danell Smith, C.J. Ryals, Mike Creely. (20) Troy Parker, Mel Stowerc. (21) Pele Sdritfers, Geary Sharber, Joe Walsh. (22) EriX & Haleh Krauter. (23) Jean Clark, Bill Gadd. (2{) Teresa Nightingale, Sheni Green. (25) Frank Vignieri, Andy Lee. (26) Curt Burlingame, Randy Yost.

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