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By KENT MOXEY executive vice oresident

HE National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Assn. annual

meeting will be held at the Camelback Inn, Scottsdale, Az., Oct. 20-24. Members of MSLDA are automatically members of the National, and are welcome and encouraged to attend this meetins.

Bein! as the meeting is so close to our Mountain States area this year, we hope for a good representation from our membership. A delegation of 25-30 lumber dealers from Australia will be in attendance as a reciprocal visit to a group of U.S. lumber dealers who visited Australia last February. If you have ever wondered about the lumber business in Australia, and who hasn't, this will be your chance to get the inside story from the horse's mouth.

Sen. Barry Goldwater will be the main speaker. The program isn't complete yet, but we should have some more details in next month's bulletin. Scottsdale in Oc-

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tober is beautiful, mark your calendar and plan to attend. There will be dealers ther6 from all over the country.

Your national association, through its Industrial Development Division, carries on an extensive research program in the retail lumber and building materials industry and prepares reports which are available to lumber dealerssome of these are listed below: Model company policy manual, $15.00; Material handling equipment guide, $ I .001 Profitable money management report ll inventory control and purchasing, $20.00; Taking inventory of your management orocedures. $2.50.

To order these, send your check to: National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Assn., 1990 M St., N.W., Suite 350, Washington, D.C. 20036.

National also organizes and promotes the "Home Improvement Time" Drosram in cooperation wilh House 'Beiutifut Magazine. There will be an ad in the September issue of the magazine.

The whole purpose ol this pr6gram is to bring community attention to the lumber and buildine material dealers as the central source Ior materials for the "do-it-yoursel fer".

Klrkebo to Lead WBMA

Arnold Kirkebo has been named executive director of Western Building Material Assn. headquartered in Olympia, Wa., effective August 1. He succeeds Ross G. Kincaid, exec. v.p., since 1955.

Since joining the WBMA staff in June 1960, Kirkebo has served in several capacities including field representative, regional manager and administrative assistant.

He attended the University of Washington and was a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corp during World War II. After his discharge from the service, Kirkebo worked for Lundgren Dealers Supply, a building material distributor in Tacoma and Yakima, \ila., and in 1950 became a sales representative for Certain-teed Products Corp. He was also partowner and manager of a specialty redwood lumber business in Seattle prior to joining Western.

Both he and his wife. Emilie. are natives of Tacoma. They have one married daughter and one granddaughter, and now live in Olympia.