Arizonq's golden 50th

THE Arizona r propriately

Golden Age for association is apenough enjoying a its 50th golden anniversary.

At this year's milestone convention in Scottsdale, the Arizona Lumber & Builders Supply Association drew more than 400 registrants, a record number. Membership is also at an all-time peak. From its modest beginning in 1921, the association continued to build and grow, surviving both wars and depressions. A few years ago it really took hold and in the space of a relatively short time grew to its present strength and level of accomplishments.

Elected new president for '7I-'72 is Dean Drake" Phoenix; lst vp., Ray Lopp, Flagstaff; 2nd vp., Ray Spelts, Yuma; treasurer, Mike Ray, Phoenix. Re-elected as exec. vp. was Frank Davis.

Newly elected additions to the tlEW PRESIDEI{T and lst vp. fi) Dean Drake, Ray Lopp. (21 NLBMDA's Loren Dorman, SFI's Gene Erewer, Armand Rotonda. (3) Ace Mason, Gene York, Roberto Sanchez. (4) Frank See, Ed Quirk. (5) Howard McDaniel, Foy Taylor. (6) Don Lue, Larry Hamman. 0) Armand Rotonda, John Ward. (8) Storey Sheppard, John and Dick Brecheisen. (9) Frank Davis, Doue Bovle. (101 Jim Stewart, Clayton Kiewel, Sam-Hau-ert. (11) Walt Brooks, Tohy Padilla. il2) Bill Belt, Larry Gregory. board of directors are Cam Smith, Sam Hauert, Glenn Bell, Charles Mann and Storey Sheppard. Bob Kenyon and Earl Grabe have resigned from the board.

Keynote speaker Gene Brewer, president of Southwest Forest Industries. Phoenix. counseled that rapid marketing changes can best be

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Dean Drake elected new presi- dent 50th anniversary convention is biggest in their history . two excellent pan- els discussed new safety regulations and new housing concepts.

coped with by determining alternate courses of action and lookine at every problem as an opportuniiy.

He congratulated ALBSA for their effective wood promotion to local builders when builders had cost problems with masqnry construction.

Brewer felt the forest products industry as a whole must somehow convince planners in Washington, D.C., that conventional housing channels can be an important part in supplying the 2.6 million annual housing starts the U.S. needs to ade. quately shelter its people.

Weighing the efiects the new Oc. cupational Safety and Health Act will have, a panel composed of dealer Jack Sullivan, and insurance industry members Evan Stallcup, Jack Gray and Leon Kakitin anticipated that enforcement by federal agents on the spot will be intense and that generally evaluation of claims will tend to {avor the claimant.

The need for safety programs and instruction are best illustrated on the financial side by the fact that for every dollar of direct loss, there is four dollars of indirect loss.

The law lets the employer specify the doctor for the initial exam onlv. so employers were advised to huv" the required slips around and made out with the recommendation that the injured employee see the doctor the company uses. Most employees will follow the suggestion without further consideration, thus assuring the employer that the doctor the employee sees is someone in whom the company has confidence.

The panel noted that fines for failure to comply can be as severe

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