THE N/ATION/AL HOME GENTER

Idore than 1,4{}0 ;fmrcasing thousands of t0 your do-il-yourself and i4ome Center, i+ome Center of.the Year nwards Disday and the Ail ing Display Center. Relax and enjoy the company of professional customers. No buying group, association or wholesaler show offers the COMPT-ETE range of home improvemenl products you'll find al the 1987.National Horne Cenfer Show.

Exciling seminars and workshops geared to your specific needs and interests. Here's your opporlunity to listen to and interact with experts who understand and can offer solutions to the challenges and opportunilies you face on a daily basis as a building malerials dealer. You'll fellow dealers after Show hours at ow FREE social hour. Plus. you can hold the line on lravel expenses by taking advanlage of our special hotel rates and rock-boftom airline fares. save $lo by pre-registering TODAY for The National Home Cenler Show. Fill oul the registration form below and return it to us by February 6, 1987. You'll receive a FREE Show badge by return mail and avoid the Slo at-Show regis{ration fee. Mail yours TODAY!

Free Pre-Registration I nstructions

1 . Must be received in the show olfice by February 6, l98Z Confirmation of pre-registration and hotel reseryation forms will be mailed within threeweeks. Free badges will be mailed atterJanuaryS, 1987.

2. Late mail registrations will not be processed. Register again at Show. (At-show registration lee $10.00)

3. REGISTRATION COMPUTERIZED. ALL INFORMATION MUST BE FILLED IN.

4, NO ONE UNDER 16 YEARS OLD ADMITTEDIMPORTANI Please leave soace between first name or initials and last name

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IMPORifANT In order to process your registration, your company's business activity must be indicated below:

(l) n Retailer/Dealer

(J) n Wholesaler/Distributor

(P) r-l Other (please describe)

Maillo: National Hom€ Canter Show 600&lcaltRoad Park Rldge, lL 60068 U.S.A. Hotel lorms wrll be sent on receipt of pre-registralion forms should not use this form. Please use form provided in Exhibitor Kit. I

Serving 13 Western States

Fditor-Publisher David Cutler

Senior Editor Juanita Lovret

Assistant Fditor David Koenie

Contributing Editors Dwight-Curran. Gage McKinney, Ken Thim

Art Dirtctor Martha Emery

Stalf Artist Carole Shinn

Circulation Louanna Muell

The Merchant Magazine (USPS 79656000) is published monthly at 4500 Campus Dr.. Suite 480, Netport Beactr. Ca. 92.660, phone (n4) 852-1990. by The Merchant Magazine, Inc. Second-class postage rates paid at Newport Beach, Ca., and additional offices, POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Merchant Magazine, 4500 Campus Dr., Suite 480, Newport Beach, Ca. 92660.

Advertising Offices

Advertising rates upon request.

From all slates easl of the Rocky Mountains: Contact Jean Waggoner, national sales manager. From Arizona, Nevada and California: Contact David Cutler. Both may be reached al (714) 852-1990 or by writing 4500 Campus Dr.. Suite 480. Newp6rt Beac[, Ca. 92660.

From Washington State, Oregon, ldaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Colorado and Canada: Contact Carol Holm at (206) 340-0680 or l0l8 Lloyd Building, Seatrle, Wa.98l0l.

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Change of Address-Send subscription orders and address chanses to Circulation

Dept., The Merchant Magazine, 4500 Campus Dr, Suite 480, Newport Beach, Ca. 92660. Include address label from recent issue ifpossible, new address and zip code.

Subscription Rates-U.S.: $9-one year; $l5two years; $20+hree years. Foreign: one year payable in advance in U.S. fundsCanada or Mexico: air-$35; surface-$30; South America: air-$55; surface-$30; Asia: air-$68; surface-$3O; Europe: air-$98; surface-$3O. Single copies-$2; back copies-$3 when available plus shipping & handling.

The Merchant Magazine is an independently owned publication for the retail, wholesale and distribution levels ofthe lumber and home center markets in 13 western states.

Ouality products, quality service, you'll find them both at All-Coast. Plus experience and knowledge, you'll find plenty

0f each, too. That's what it takes to be a g00d supplier

We're here to supply the retail lumber dealer and we do it right. Our customers expect fast service and we make sure they get it.

From your very first phone call you'll know we're not new in the business. With our vast inventory and experienced stafi you can count on delivery when needed.

All-Coast has personalized service, there's a salesman assigned to your area. He'll get you quality materials at a very fair price that you can sell at a profit.

We specialize in timbers, No. 1 and better Saw-sized or surfaced, like those shown in the photo.

When you order from All-Coast you get quality prooucts, uepenoaore servrce, compelrlrve pnces ptus products, dependable service, competitive prices plus something eise you can't get any oiher place - our name.

DAVID CUTLER editor- publ

The growing threat from substance abuse

E OUR YEARS ago Indiana Senator Dan f Quale wrote that less than 2% of our leading business executives believed that substance abuse was a serious problem in their organization.

No more. Alert leaders now recognize that substance abuse is a serious situation, sometimes described as the nation's number one health problem. If you still think that the problem is confined to a few of the yard crew smoking a joint for lunch you better wake up.

While only about l0lo of the American population regularly uses marijuana, that still amounts to 22 million people. And millions more use it occasionally. The Institute on Alcohol Abuse recognizes about 15 million active alcoholics in the workplace. Many suspect the problem is far greater. Workers with substance abuse problems use one-third more sick leave than the average worker; their absenteeism is described as l6 times higher than that of other workers. Workers compensation claims for sub- stance abusers run five times more than average. Their productivity is 250lo lower.

Make no mistake about substance abuse. It is every bit as prevalent in the boardroom as it is in the plant. The problem cuts across all social and economic lines. In the past five years, there has been a 1000/o increase in the number of "executive addicts" going to treatment centers. Whether it's booze, pills, tranquilizers, coke, crank or other street drugs, no group is immune. Identifying the substance abuser through testing and other methods has raised serious questions about civil rights, individual and community freedoms and a host of thorny questions.

Yet this sickening problem must be addressed and a reasonable measure of control achieved. The losses caused to businesses, individuals and families are appalling. If your company doesn't have an ongoing substance abuse program, it will cost you money and injuries just as surely as you are reading these words.