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Our annual Southern Pine Special IS. We'll be talking about its uses characteristics, marketing, grading, current market conditions, and how retailers and wholesalers can profitably buy and sell Southern Pine.

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Editor Juanita Lowct

Assi*enr Edftor David Koenig

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National Dealers' Meeting

Affiliates of the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association throughout the south will travel to Seattle, Wa., for the 1985 annual meeting, Nov. 16-19.

Meeting in conjunction with the Western Building Materials Association convention and trade show is a first for the national group. This also will be the first time in many years that the national meeting has had access to building materials exhibits.

Tom Champoux, vice president of the Effectiveness Institute. will be the keynote speaker. The annual awards luncheon will feature Troy D. Bussey as a speaker. "How to Determine the Value of a Lumber,/Building Material Business" will be the topic of a workshop by the Geneva Corp. Dean K. Leaman of Rosenberg, Tk., is the retiring president of NLBMDA.

Many members of southern associations will participate in the pre-convention Canadian tour co-sponsored by the Building Material Merchanrs of Georgia and Alabama and the Tennessee Building Material Association. A post-convention tour will visit the Canadian Rockies.

D-l-Y Home Repair TV Series

Retailers as well as consumers should benefit from a nationally syndicated television series on do-it-yourself home repair slated to run for 26 weeks in the 1986 season.

Al Carrell, the super handyman who appears in television ads for Home Depot Inc. and writes a syndicated home improvement newspaper column. will be show host. Production is already underway on the series which will be unusual in that although products from sponsoring companies will be used in the repairs with no attempt to hide the labels, no product pitches will be made.

Almost 20 companies providing products to the d-i-y market are involved in the project spearheaded by Georgia-Pacific Corp. Co-sponsors include Armstrong World Industries Inc., Amana Refrigeration Inc., U.S. Brick Inc., General Electric Co. and The Stanley Works.

Using the title "Great Possibilities," the show will be shown in 30 minute segments.