Rocky Mountain dealers meet

I f wns 1893 and Grover Cleve- I land was the president of the United States when the Mountain States Lumber Dealers Association was formed. Fifteen men have been U.S. president since and both organizations are alive and well, as was amply demonstrated at the 85th annual meeting of the MSLDA, held recently in Denver.

Despite a record breaking heat wave of more than 50 days in a row of over 90 degree temPeratures, dealers from the association's five state area arrived some 450 strong and roaring to go.

Beginning the formal Program, former Secretary of Agriculture

Earl Butz keynoted the convention with a well received talk on the importance of profits as an incentive to maintain America's high standard of living.

Sprinkling one-liners and a number of well rehearsed jokes in with his more serious thoughts, Butz warned of the dangers of increasing government interference in our lives. "The government is your senior partner," he noted, when observing that 380/o of the Gross National Product goes to support government at all levels.

The first afternoon of the convention was devoted to a Product Show, in the ballroom of the Marriott. that featured several hundred

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Rocky Mountain dealers hold 85th annual conyen- tion, highlighted by speeches, motivational sessions, working seminars and a well-staged Product Show...Jerry Tracy elected president.

displays of lumber, building materials and building specialties of interest to the dealers. The show was held the second afternoon of the convention, September 8.

Next morning it was time for election of officers and new directors. The slate getting the nod was headed by Jerry Tracy of Jackson Lumber, Inc., Jackson, Wy. as president for 1978-79. The 86th annual, incidentally, will be held at the Teton Village Resort, just outside Tracy's home town, September 10-11, 1979.

Elected v.p.-Utah was Joe Poitevin, Anderson Lumber, Ogden; v.p.-New Mexico went to Dave Gibson IV, Gibson Lumber Co., Albuquerque; v.p.-Idaho, is Bob McHale, Anderson Lumber, Pocatello; and v.p.-Colorado is Kent Brosch of Crissey Fowler Lumber Co., Colorado Springs.

Two newly elected directors from Colorado are Ken Nelson, Everitt Lumber Co., Fort Collins and Larry Schutt, J. W. Metz Lumber, Aurora. A new director from New Mexico is Derrell Ballard of TBird Home Centers, Alamogordo. D. Reed Jacobsen. Utah Timber &

CllECl(llG Product Show were ll I Kent Moxey, assoc. exec. sec'y. and outgoing director Leonard Treft. lZf Bart Palmer, Clark Gittings. l3l Stan South, Dave Gibson lV, Harold C. Fay. lfl Mae Gotto, Chuck Di Manna. l5l Norman and Mary Johnson. 16l Levon M. Vjiie, Joe and Kay Harley. l7l Bill Haligas, Howard Schryver, John McCambridge. lEl Dick Tuchbreiter, Guy Eateman, Bob Douglass. 19l John Huss, Paul Short, Nick Vignovich, Dennis Keaney. ll0l Wil Wiederaenders, Lee Porter, Connie Smith, Clint Bowman, Jr., Kelly 0'Brien. llll Tom Eundrant, Steve Moses, Tim Ryan. ll2l Bill Earber, Paul Cusack. ll3l Ron Van Cleave, Ken Nelson. llfl Mike Lehan. Bill Grimm.

Coal. Provo. is also a new director.

Chosen national directors were Keith Ker, Max Ker & Son, Idaho Falls, Id., and Kent Moxey, who was reelected executive secretary in addition to being named a national director. Moxey also acts as treasurer of the MSLDA.

Following a breakfast meeting, Dan Green of Reed Planing Mill in Denver, gave a comprehensive rundown on the status of RARE II and urged all the dealers to actively promote the industry's viewpoint on the controversial measure.

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