National meets in Seattle

['tOR the second year in a row, The l' West has been the setting for the annual meeting of the National Lumber and Building Materials Dealers Assn.

But there the resemblance ends. Last year's meeting in San Diego followed years of discord and wag a peacemaking session as well as being the watershed gathering that saw the entire NLBMDA set.up restructured to bring abqut the changes demanded by dissident dealer groups. This year's Seattle confab was marked by unity, confidence and the sense of a successful year, in which the new re. structuring had proven its value dur. ing a difficult year for the industry and the association.

Attendance this year was more than 600; last year it was little more than 225. It is the biggest gathering since the old days when the group had a trade show with displays during their convention. The numbers were backed up with enthusiasm, too. When they finally counted heads for llEW MAl{ at the reins, national's new president Terry Mullin, Terry Building Centers, Tar. zana, Ca., (top left) speaks to group at annual meeting. Code and building products standads the mill and woods tour to Weyerhaeuser's Snoqualmie Falls' opera. tion. there were more than 5@ that showed for the event.

'oCooperalinn, Participatian and Progress" was the theme and it ceemed apt. With good attitude almost universal, it seems the national has finally turned the corner after its troubled rec€nt vears.

Sfory o] d Glqnce

Westerner Terry Mullin elected new NLBMDA president as group has large, well-received, uncontroversial annual . .next yea/s meet will be in Williamsburg, Va.

Lumberman Terry Mullin was chosen the new president. He is the head of Terry Building Centers, Tarzana, Ca. Other officers are lst vp., J. Hu. bert Walker, A. B. Clark Lumber committee meeting ftop right) was chaired by Art Muschler. Research committee chairman Homer Hayward, Hayward Lumber, Salinas, Ca"

Co., New Orleans; 2nd vp.o Robert Horton, Standard Lumber Co.o Winona, Minn.; 3rd vp., Coemo Guido, Guido Lumber Co., San Antoniq

'Tex.; treasurer, George Burton, Bur. ton Lumber Corp., Chesapenake, Va.; secretary, George Russell, Millard Lumber, Inc., Millard, Neb. Richard Snyder, the newly-chosen exec. vp.? retaiirs that position'for the coming year.

A budget of $280,000 was set for the new association year. Next year's meeting will be held in Williamsburg Va., in October.

The dealer roundtables were popu. lar features. The EDP session. mod. erated by King McKee, Forest Lumber Coo San Marino, Ca., heard and saw presentations by King, and his EDP man Harry Dotsoh, as they explained and demonstrated the IBM Systems/3. A full in-house system that had years of teething problems for Forest Lumber, it is now producing the information desired.

Chet Nortz, mgr. of the Mountain S'ates' association, showed the Burroughs L 5m0 system and explained that it has advantages for smaller dealers primarily, despite not having all the features of the IBM model.

(lower left) in a thoughtful presentation. NLBMDA's new exec. vp. Dick Snyder, 0ower right) acquitting himself well at his first an. nual for the group.

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