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By KENT MOXEY executive vice president

Highlight of our recent board meeting was acceptance of a Property and Casualty Insurance Program for Lumber dealers. It provides a simplified, one policy package in conjunction with a group loss contro^l program resulting in lower premiums for participants.

All dealers. Iarge and small. can benefit. Each company will be written individually, with the coverage tailored to its needs.

Included in the basic package are: property, blanket coverage; general comprehensive liability and p.d.; automobile comprehensive liability and p.d.: automobile physical damage, on 3elected units; crime -insurance, b-ianket bond; umbrella excess liability. Extensive optional coverages are also available.

The board has approved Sept. 24-26. 1975 for the 82nd drinual convention of the MSLDA at the Hilton Inn in Albuquerque. Nino Trujillo assures all that this will be a great convention.

Nearly 800 people attended the National Lumber & Buildins Material Dealers Assn. convention in Scottsdale. Joe Harley was there, also Ken Brosh, Howard & Roy Anderson, Jim Beardall, Chet Nortz and your truly.

News around the Reeion:

Traveled in Southea-stern Colorado recently Pat Gergen and wife, Candy Sue, Esch Lumber Co., Burlington are expanding their facility with a classy "decoiators loft". Candy Sue has i degree in interior decorating; this is an interesting way for a lumber dealer to diversify ... two yards out there have closed since my last trip, Wiley Supply at Wiley, and Pickerill Lumber, Ordway Russ Reich, manager of Snell Lumber Co., Salida for many years. is retiring. Elmo Warnaca, no stranger to the territory is the new manager welcome new associate member, Newman Redwood, Inc.

Obituaries: Albert Bish. 70. Bish Bros. Co., Rocky Ford, started the company there in 1941, son Bill carries ori ttri: business. Clarence Hotovec. 56. senior salesman of Wholesale Building Supply,

Grand Junction, died from iniuries in an auto accident. Louis Scaplo, 57, salesman of Wholesale Building Supply Co., lived in Pueblo and traveieil southern Colorado for years. Loren Henderson of Hendeison Sales, Roswell, long time wholesaler of lumber and brick in southeastern New Mexico. John E. Roberts, 85, former president of Sterling Lumber & Investment Co. He had been with Sterling since 1936.

Hardwood Floors for DlYers

Hardwood flooring continues to gain popularity with homE handymen (ha'ndy persons?) and the Sept. issue of Budget Decorating and Remodelulg carries a lengthy and well-illustrated story on how to lay hardwood flooring.

Included in the story is how to install a parquet floor, tools needed, planning the floor, preparing the subfloor, laying it, and clean up and maintenance.

The story concludes with the information that installation advice comes with the product and that "your dealer can help with any problems that may arise."

The story reflects the continued push by the manufacturers and distributors of hardwood flooring to promote their products both to the public and to the trade. There is considerable momentum behind the promotion and hardwood flooring is gain-ing appreciably in popularity.

Insulation Industry Problems

Problems of severe material shortages, increased costs, and delayed deliveries are plaguing insulation contractors throughout the nation. As a result, they are finding it extremely difficult to meet the increased demands for insulation installation that have developed since the energy crisis.

These were the findings of a confidential survey of material availability commissioned by the National Insulation Contractors Association and conducted bv Price-Waterhouse.