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By ROSS KINCAID executive director

f,/lev 18-20 are the dates of MWBMA's I lth Annual All Industry Marketing Conference and the location is the outstanding Salishan Lodge on the Oregon coast.

Robert Mullen, manager Western region, building products div., of Armstrong Cork Co. will be keynote speaker.

His subject, "A Positive View of the Business Environment." Right on for a conference with the theme: "Business is Good!" There will be three excellent panels with topnotch participants: (l) Young Westerners, (2) manufacturers and distributors,

(3) retafl dealers.

Each will, by case history, illustrate how they maintain good business and profitability during these times in a shaky economy. Three roundtable ideaexchanges will follow.

Tuesday will present something new...it will be a fun-day with many options: golf, tennis, bottom fishing, touring, swimming, bridge or loafing. The conference will wind up with a dinner and "Strike It Rich"-an opportunity to share in many fine prizes.

The NLBMDA marketing and merchandising committee meet in Seattle during March. Following are comments taken from the meeting report by E. Gordon Seiler, marketing manager, retail group, Georgia-Pacific : "Inflation, environmental controls, and energy problems will dramati-