LMA NEWS

GARY L. SMITH executive vice oresident

I 've LEARNED a great deal the last I few years by watching the warehouses and mass-merchandisers play their corporate power games, and I've come to a decision. Since the concept works everywhere else, why not in the association business. I'm going to form the Cheapest Lumber Association of the World (CLAW) and live happily ever after. Let me give you a sample of our company policy.

Cheapest Lumber Association in the World "Statement of Mission and Purposes"

It is the mission of CLAW to provide the cheapest, most transitory services available, to the largest group of lumber dealers possible, while fully satisfying our own lust for wealth and power. The purposes of CLAW shall further be: o Base all goods and services we ofler on price alone, because that's what people want. o Make our members beg for service. o Build a cold, drafty building so they won't stay long. o Make everyone wait in long lines. o lnsist on cash. o Establish limits or run out of items members want too much of. o Hire the cheapest help we can get because we can always get more like them. o Provide inferior products and services and mis-represent them. o Grind every bit of his livelihood out of our supplier's price and pay him slow. o Run out ofother people's cash and

. Promise a lot and always give less.

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NOM'I{EAST

GEORGE MCQUESTEN CO, Ir,on Horse Park

Norrh Billerica, MA 01862 (617) 663-3435

MID.STAIE LUMBER CO. 200 Indusrial Pa*way Bmnchburg, NJ 08876 (20r) 7254e0O

SOUTHEAST

FTJRMAN IUMBER CO. 8191 Annapolts Junction Rd. Annapolts Junciion, MD 2O7Ol (3Or) 7e2-2234

EARL RAtrORD LUMBER CO. P.O. Box 5498 Asheville, NC 28813 (704) 253-s667

EFPERSON LUMBER SALEs, INC, PO. Box 1559 Statewille, NC2ffi77 (704) 8734321

L&L LUMBER CO, PO. Box 3267 Huntsvlllq AL 35810 (20s) 533.e220

L&L LUMBER CO. 2613 Chimnery Drive Marietia. GA 30062

WOODFORD PLlruVOOD P.O. Box 1731

Albany, GA 31703 (912) 8834900

Branches ln Alabama Creo4la & Florida

LAXE STAIES

Eh,lPtRE WHOLESALE PO. Box 249 Akron, OH zM3O9 (2t6) 4y4v5

NOXTHWEST HUMPHREY LUMBER CO. PO. Box 99943 Ibcoma, WA 98499 (206) 584€263

I'PPER UID WEST CANION TUMBER CO. PO. Box 9328 Minneapolis, MN 5544G9328 (6t2) 42s-t4w

WEST ALL.COASf FOREST PRODUCIS, INC PO. Box M Chinq CA 91708 o14) 627€ss1

HEDLUND LUMBER & MACHTNE STAINING PO. Box 6O038

Sacramento. CA 95860 {916) 331€611

IMPERIAL WHOLESALE PO. Box 256O5 Salt Lake City, UT 85t25 (8O1) 972-5656

CEDAR WEST CORP PO. Box 5224 Deover, CO 80217 (3O3)294&77