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By FRANK DAVIS executive vice president

HE "lmage" that a lumber and building materials dealer creates in his community is imporrant.

If he has altractivb and well-oainted buildings: if he trains his employees, he has them dress neatly and teach'es them to be courteous as this impresses his customers; if he keeps his vafd neat and clean, this also impiesses his customers. Especially in this modern age of merchandising and where a large part of consumer trade is women, the above points help bring back customers.

"lmage" is also important to our association.

The Arizona Lumber and Builders Sgpply Assn. is, fortunate in having two who do a terrific job in publicizing our association. They are:

Dave Cutler, editor of The Merchant Magazine and John S. Turner ofJohn S. Turner Public Relations, Phoenix. Both of these men cover our convention both before and during the event. Numerous articles and pictures appear in The Merchant all during the year about Arizona. We had three live television appearances during our convention. All this goes a long way in building up our assoclatlon.

At our annual banquet at our annual convention, ALBSA awarded the "Public Relations Award" to Dave and John in appreciation of service to the ALBSA.

Gentlemen, you deserved an award and we from Arizona are proud to have you on our team.

New Section 3. Added to chapter 15, Laws of l96l and to chapter 84.40 RCW: Commencing with assessment as of January I, 1983, for taxes due in 1984, business inventories shall be fully exempt under chapter 84.36 RCW Commencine with January I, 1984. assessmeits for taxes due in 1985, taxpayers shall not be required to report, or assessors to Iist, the business inventories covered by this phase out exemption.

New Section 5. Added to chapter 15. Laws of l96l and to chaprei 82.04 RCW:

(l) Each taxpayer requesting business and occupation tax credit under section 2 of this 1974 act shall verify, by completing and signing a fbrm prepared and made available by the department of revenue, payment of business inventory taxes on which such credit is baseil.

(2) Any person signing a false claim with the intent to defraud or evade the payment of any tax shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. The above sections are only a part of H.B. l30l and are not intended to represent the enacted bill in its ent.lrety.

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