OKLAHOMA NOTES

Executlve Vlce Preeldent

EMBERS and guestsof OLAwill go to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the association's mid-winter meeting,/education conference, Jan. 29-Feb. 5, at the Rio Sheraton Hotel.

A full schedule of business meetings is being planned. Reservations will be limited to 100.

Gerry Weltzheimer, Expo '86 convention chairman, reports that more than lm exhibit spaces have already been requested by last year's exhibitors. The official mailing to all past and prospective members has just been sent out. "This is a very positive indication that our frst ever spring time convention and exposition will be sold out earlier than any previous conventions," he said, "and several changes will be introduced at Expo '86 which should make it the best convention ever for the Oklahoma lumber and building materials industry."

The 4{hh annual convention and building products exposition is scheduled for April 4{ at the International Trade Center Building on the Oklahoma City Fairgrounds.

A recent seminar sponsored in Oklahoma City in cooperation with the Western Wood Products Association was rated excellent. Those attending included "Skip" Blakley, Bud Blakley Lumber Co., Chandler; Steve Bryant, Vernon Lewis Lumber Co., Collinsville; Terr,, Chiles, Myers Lumber Company, Frederick; Dave Graham, M & M Lumber Co., Tulsa; Joseph Hurd, Pixley Lumber Co., Claremore; John Jones, Everitt Lumber Co., Claremore; Phil Kennedy, Comanche Lumber Co., Lafion; Mark Myers, Myers Lumber Co., Frederick; Bobby Sharp, Love County Lumber Co., Marietta; Pete Windiate, Perkins Builders Supply, Perkins; Larry Wirtz, Wirtz Lumber Co., Guymon; and Mike Yates, Western Lumber and Hardware, Elk City.