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"Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow to do it."

- Artemus Ward Ir834-]8671

through its next phase of development from its present base of four lumber mills in Oregon, one in Texas and two in Alabama, scheduled to produce 600 million bd. ft. in 1995. The company also includes Hampton Lumber Sales Co., which will market about one billion feet this year, and Hampton Resources, Inc., with 87,000 acres of timberland in Oregon and Washington.

Their five year goal is to increase production to one billion feet, broker one billion feet of outside lumber and plywood sales, and increase sales to $1 billion.

A new c.f.o. will be recruited in the next several months.

NBMDA Roofing Segment

The North American Building Material Distribution Association has formed a second product-focused membership segment, the Roofing Distribution Coalition.

Bob Wimsatt, exec. v.p., Wimsatt Brothers, Inc., Louisville, Ky., and Tim Dunlap, v.p.-commodity products, Dallas Wholesale Builders Supply, Dallas, Tx., co-chair the RDC steering committee.

More than 80 of NBMDA's distributor members and a dozen member manufacturers currently carry products relevant to I{DC.

The Kitchen/Bath Distribution Alliance was launched earlier this vear.

Huge Paris Expo ln Nov.

Batimat. the Nov. 6-11 20th annual international construction industry show, will occupy two major sites, the Paris Exhibition Cenfe at downtown Porte de Versailles and Paris-Nord Exhibition Cente, a site just north of the city.

The 1993 Batimat show featured 4,243 exhibitors and 618,000 attendees, including 64,500 international visitors from I l7 countries.