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By KENT MOXEY executive vice president

f f is our very great pleasure to begin I this first column for The Merchanr Magazine in what we hope will be the beginning of a long communication between MSLDA and the readers of this 'line magazine.

For those of you among the more than 5000 readers of the mas.azine scattered across the l3 Western States who aren't familiar with our orsanization, briefly, MSLDA covers U"tah, Colorado, Eastern Nevada, Wyoming, New Mexico as well as Southeastern ldaho. The association has an office at the above address, which is my base of operations, and another to serve our members at 254 South Sixth East in Salt Lake City.

As an association devoted to the welfare of our lumber and buildins materials dealers, we have a widE program of activities and association features to benefit our members.

These include schools, financial management and accounting, estimating, selling, merchandising, dealer product manuals, guides to lederal hous-

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ing programs, EDP systems, district meetings, group insurance and hospitalization programs, workmen's compensation programs, business forms, bulletins on a wide range of laws and regulations, a dealer directory, assistance for our members on state and federal leeislation, public relations and a collecti-on servlce.

An additional feature MSLDA provides is our annual convention, which this year was held at Vail, Colorado at The Lodee.

Our 8lst annual convention, it featured a wide ranging program of experts including Somers H. White, the nationally-known management and financial consultant; Harold Sugarman, publisher ol Building Supply ly'ews,'John A. Love, ex-governor of Colorado, who spoke on the energy crisis; Paul Abell of the Mountain States Emolovers Council who talked on the work i:thic, Dick Gittings, Gittings Lumber Co., Denver, who gave his excellent presentation on clear cutting and wilderness and an address by Bill Daniels on the business man in politics.

We had a well attended and excellent convention and we'll be telling you more about it in the next issue.

Meantime, it is nice to get acquainted and we look forward to hearing your comments and to telling you about MSLDA and what is happening in our dynamic Mountain States area.

Storage Racks

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For Angel's, the storage rack system has resulted in an extremely flexible storage-merchandising setup, at a relatively low cost per cubic foot of storage area.

Combining standard pallet rack frames with short-length load beams and horizontal row-spacers, the rack firm constructed a system equivalent to three or more frames deep, while using only two sections (width-wise) of standard frames.

To get extra depth at lower cost, single uprights were placed between the standard pallet frames, tying them to the frames with horizontal row-spacers. This eliminates the need for two standard frame uprights.

Width-wise, the rack units are connected by short-length load beams, which are tied in at various levels to provide narrow, odd-sized openings for storing numerous widths and lengths of lumber.

Produclion

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Exclusive soles ogcnls for: M & J Lumber Co., Inc. (Myers Flat, Calif.) Englewood Lumbcr Co. (Redcrest, Calif.)

SATELLITE pictures of how the earth looks trom 500 miles straighl up illustrated speaker Phillip Langley's talk to a recent Black Bart Hoo-Hoo club meeting, Ukiah, Ca. Brother to club prez. Cordes Langley, Phillip Langley is with Earth Satellite Corp. and spoke on how application of remote sensing and computer technology relates to forest management. (1) Chris Jepsen, Bill Gittings, Chris Sissons, Rick Curb; background: Fred Gummerson. (2) Maynard Stubberfield, Cordes Langley, Phillip Langley, Keene Kirksey. (3) Del Cole, Jack Koepf. (4) Chris Jepsen, Roy Nielsen, Joe Bowman.