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Executive Vice President

^ ,l EMBERS of The Lumber AssociI V lation of Southern California, will convene November 19th at the SPa Hotel in Palm Springs, for their 25th Annual Management Conference.

Built around the concePtion of "Back to Basics", this years conference will have sessions truly management oriented. Owners and managers will be exposed to material that is designed to enable them to evaluate individual operations for profit leaks.

John Weston, Far West Fir Sales and Jim Newquist, Eel River Lumber Sales, will act as chairmen and moder- ate a panel discussion among wholesale lumbermen, who will analyze the elements of a wholesale operation.

Bob Rodecker, Williams Lumber Yard,, Azuza, and Frank Purcell, Builders Supply, Palm Springs, will be the chairmen and moderate a panel of lumber and building material distributors, analyzing the traditional retail lumber yard. Traditional is used in the sense that it serves a broad customer range of consumers, contractors, small to medium size industrial accounts and others. This type of operator has also been called "the full service establishment". Whatever the name, these two knowledgeable lumbermen and their panel will fully explore and

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By KENT MOXEY executive secretary

VOUn National Lumber & BuildI ing Material Dealers Association is very active in seeking and implementing solutions to housing problems on a national basis.

NLBMDA President Bob Horton has appointed a hieh level study committee to start the ball rolling. They held a two day comprehensive program in Washington in July. Twelve guest participants from government age,ncies and other groups concerned with housing offered their view of the problems and possible solutions.

From this session, and from other input, the studY committee, chaired by Horace Pierce of New York, has drafted a proposed NLBMDA housing policy oriented to both the short and long term situation. if you wish a complete coPY of this proposed policy and a summary of the July conference, contact our association office in Littleton.

This will be a main topic of consideration at the meeting of the NLBMDA later this month.

All association members have been mailed information about the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association annual meeting in San Francisco. October 26-29.

The theme of the meeting is "To Form a More Perfect Union" to tie in with the Bicentennial celebration.

Top speakers are featured: Dr. Eugene Conatser, v.p. and chief economist, Bank of America; and Arch

The Merchant llrgazlne develop a check list that can be used by all similar type operators to evaluate their own business.

Frank Higgins, Sun Lumber Company and E. L. Newkirk, Chandler Lumber Company, will be chairmen and moderate a panel of other experts in the field of contractor sales. This panel will also develop a check list of the elements that make uP the costs of doing business. Through the use of such a list, any lumber merchant can effectively evaluate the elements of their operation and discover hidden costs that have been reducing the effectiveness of their profit picture.

Since some relaxation is such an important element of an effective executives activities, plans are to have a short session conducted on one daY by a well known golf professional for the golfers, ladies included naturally, and on the 2nd day a session bY an attractive, well known, highly talented female executive and tennis professional.

Add to the above the private cocktail parties, the cocktail party and dinner dance usually held, the presidents luncheon, the president & vice president's Wednesday evening cocktail party, the tennis tournament and golf tournament, and you have a schedule of activities for three days which will be not only valuable from a business standpoint, but equally rewarding from a social and recreational viewpoint'

Mark your calendar-November I 9ttt, 2oth,2lst and 22nd. - Palm SPrings.

Booth, retired President of U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Plus technical sessions on yard efficiency and economy, energy saving methods, profitable money management, etc.

Travel on to Hawaii after the meeting is another feature. A special deal has been arranged providing tremendous savings if you sign up on a short, or long Hawaii tour in conjunction with the San Francisco meeting. Contact our office in Littleton for details on this.

Welcome new dealer member of the association: Triangle Building Supply, Box 107, Eagle Nest, New Mexico 877 18 , Frank McCullough and George Erickson.

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By ROSS KINCAID executive director

f N our July column (p. 30)) we

I reported on the consultation services available to employers who wish to request a free OSHA inspection visit by fully trained state consultants.

Although we have not had reports from our area, other areas in the country have indicated that some onsite consultations have resulted in OSHA enforcement inspections a short time later.

This on-site consultation program is intended to assist smaller businessmen in interpreting OSHA's standards, rules and regulations, identifying haz-