'Conference Booths' New Feoture of 1959 N. B. m. D. A. Annuol

The annual Fall meeting of the National Building Material Distributors Association will be held at the Edgewater Beach hotel, Chicago, November 16-17-18. Plans are being made to handle an attendance of 600 wholesale distributors and manufacturer reDresentatives. The board of directors and committees wili meet on Sundav. November 15.

Monday morning, November 16, will be given over to the business meeting of the Association, together with several group seminars which will review current aspects of the lwholesale distributors operations. Monday afternoon will be devoted to a group meeting of all members and nonmember distributors-to review current industry problems. Reports will be heard from the following committees: Adverti.sing, Promotion and Merchandising; Budget; Marketing Trends Study; Tax Equality, and Trade Relations.

A Get-Acquainted party to which manufacturers and their representatives are invited will finalize the activities of the first day.

The Tuesday program will bring executives of national manufacturers together with the entire membership of NBMDA and the formal program will include talks by Walter Hoadley, treasurer of Armstrong Cork Company, and other industry leaders. The afternoon session will be devoted to a panel discussion-"The Next Ten Years," and several outstanding speakers are being engaged to review management and personnel subjects.

An innovation at this year's convention will be the initiation of Conference Booths which will permit the manufacturer to meet his distributors on a national . basis. These Conference Booths will be available for discussions on late afternoon of both days. The formal program will conclude with a reception and

Prefob Homes Move West

The big National Homes merger was bigger than most people realize. National executives have closed a deal with the big T. J. Bettes Co., Houston-based mortgage firm, for the Bettes-owned Western Pacific Homes, at Decoto, California. This marks National's entry into the West Coast. National's expected production this year (counting its merged and acquired companies) will be 45,000 units.

group dinner in the evening. Dr. Kenneth McFarland of Topeka, Kansas, will be the after-dinner speaker.

According to Don Knecht, president of Building Material Distributors, Rapid City, South Dakota, and current president of NBMDA, the Idea Trading Post session on Wednesday morning will be established as a regular part of the program and, while attendance is optional, he indicated that 200 distributors will remain over for the Wednesday morning program.

Mr. Knecht also stated that plans are being made to entertain 150 wives of members who will accompany their husbands to Chicago.

G'P lhqkes Worehouse Chonges

Two new appointments are announced 6y Georgia-Pacific Corporation with the transfer of William C. Holzer to Los Angeles as manager of that warehouse operation, and Leslie A. Peek as manager of the Spokane warehouse.

llolzer, who replaces R. E. Huisken, was formerly manager of the Spokane warehouse and has been with G-P for seven years. He will work with Virgil Oliver, supervisor of the Southern California group.

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