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Management Soltware Pack

A newly developed combination software and education package to teach lumber and building material dealer presidents how to do business planning and how to use a personal computer will be unveiled at the 1982 National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association meeting in Orlando, Fl., Nov. 17 and 18.

According to Raymon H. Harrell, v.p. of the association, "This is a major breakthrough for the small businessman and we will do everything we can to bring it to the attention of all of our members."

The package has been developed by Management Blueprint Software under the auspices of NLBMDA to use Tandy Radio Shack microcomputers, Model II and Model 15. It will augment the estimating and price book programs offered currently by the association, according to Harrell, as well as the inventory control program which will be introduced in November. All will operate on the same equipment.

The system was developed over a nine month period under the direction of a committee of NLBMDA members and the business manage- ment committee chaired by James Lucas of Hurst Lumber Co., Hurst, Tx.

A series of workshops for company presidents will be conducted in major cities starting in January, 1983. All members of the association will be invited to send up to three persons to the workshops for a nominal cost. A blueprint detailing business performance of individual companies for the next 12 months will be worked out for presidents attending the workshops.

Merlo Named "Top Exec"

Harry A. Merlo, chairman and president of Louisiana-Pacific Corp., Portland, Or., has been named top chief executive in the forest products industry by The Woll Street Transcript. The award, which recognizes performance over the past year, was made by the Transcript's editors based on interviews with key security analysts and forest products industry executives.

Merlo, who has headed L-P since the company was founded in 1973, said he was honored by the award and felt that each L-P employee deserved to share in it.

The Wall Street Transcript selected George H. Weyerhaeuser, president and chief executive officer of Weyerhaeuser Co., as runner up for the forest products industry's top chiefexecutive. John B. Fery, chairman and chief executive officer of Boise Cascade Corp., received the third place award.