THtr ARIZONA

By FRANK DA executive vice president

T HE Arizona Lumber and Builders

I Supply Association had one of our-most successful conventions in our history. And we also had a new record attendance.

The issues on our Program schedule were very timely, with Programs including a panel discussing Energy and How to Improve Sales Through Wood Merchandising. Our keynote address was on the Monongahela Issue.

The time and Place committee, chairmaned by Marty Wist, is looking over hotels as to where to hold the 197'7 Convention. Place and dates will appear in a later issue of The Merchant.

ALBSA had one of its most successful years. It included: MESH, our Maximum Energy Saver House; Employee Forklift Training programs to comply with OSHA; Conference with Congress sponsored bY NLBMDA with Charles Ray, Dean Drake, Larry Hamman. John Gaskin, Jack Sullivan, and yours truly representing Arizona at the Conference.

There are too many other Proglams to mention. but those were some of the important ones.

Charles Ray, president of RaY Lumber Company in Phoenix was elected association president for l9'161977

There appears in other pages of this issue of The Merchanl other elected officers and board members and other convention highlights.

We are looking forward to a Positive attitude preparing programs that will aid our members in the coming year.

NNONTANA NtrWS

By PETERSEN ex@utive secretary

foregoing statement, is strongly opDosed to Senate Bill 5.643' the Consumer Product Testing Act, because of its mandatory requirements for manufacturers and retailers to provide reams of consumer information' He feels it would require massive increases in the bureau's staff and expenditures.

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