SOUTHEASTERN SCENE

co.,",i,,g Alabama, Frorida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia.

Mississippi Building Material Dealers Association will hold its 6lst annual convention and building products trade show, Feb. l9-21 at the Royal D'lberville Hotel, Biloxi.

Since the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association will be holding its 1987 officer's meeting at the Broadwater Beach Hotel in Biloxi at the same time, they are being invited to attend the president's reception and dinner on Feb. l9 and the all industry luncheon on Feb. 20.

Gerald A. Jewett Jr., NLBMDA president, and Harlan Hummel, NLBMDA executive vice president, Washington D.C., will be keynote speakers at the all industry luncheon. Jewett is vice chairman and ceo of Gilcrest-Jewett Lumber Co., Des Moines, la.

A sellout of booths for the building products trade show is expected, according to the MBMDA office in Jackson.

Saturday morning's business session will be a tax investment seminar to answer questions concerning the new tax laws and how they affect business and investments. This seminar will be conducted by Anthony Gregorio, Pete, Warwick & Mitchell & Co., and Bob Welch, A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.

Saturday afternoon will be set aside for suite visitation.

The President's Reception and Banquet will be held Saturday night. Sunday morning brunch will precede delegates leaving for home.

Tennessee Building Material Assocation is offering its members two correspondence courses.

One, an architectural drafting course, is designed to teach house plans drawing. lt also doubles as a residential blueprint reading course.

The other is an estimating course for those who want to learn to take off building materials. Both courses have l0 lessons.

Building Material Merchants' Association of Georgia and Alabama will hold its annual buying show Jan. 30-31 at the Georgia International Trade Center in College Park.

More than 300 firms will be exhibiting in the 40,000 sq. ft. exhibition hall, occupying 187 booths.

A membership meeting which will include the election of new officers is scheduled for the morning of Jan. 31. A banquet will be held that night. The Holiday Inn Crown Plaza is the official convention hotel.

Louisiana Building Mrterial Dealers Association has its annual convention planned for Feb. 5-8 at the Hilton Hotel in Lafayette.

Delegates will be welcomed on Thursday night with a cocktail party. Friday will begin business sessions with seminars on the lien law and bankruptcy. This will be a continuation of an earlier seminar held in Baton Rouge. On Friday night a Crawfish Boil & Dance, plus all the trimmings with music provided by Rocky Dopsie and the Cajun Twisters is scheduled.