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Kentucky Lumber & Building Material Dealers

Association installed Ralph Jones, Jones Do it Center, Upton, as chairman at its annual convention in Lexington.

Jeff Perkins, Mid-South Lumber & Supply. Bowling Green, is now president; Terry Congleton, Congleton Brtts.. Beattyville, v.p.; Patrick Bieschke, Palumbo Lumber Co., Lexington, secretary/treasurer, and Steve Kelly, Kelly Bros. Lumber Co., Covington, national director.

Directors include Kevin Brooks, Future Designs Ace Hardware Home center, Leitchfield; Bill Singleton, Lumber King, Whitley City; Bill Bucher, Square Deal Lumber Co. Park City; Ken Lawson, Thriftyway, Owensboro; Freddie McWhorter, CBS Do it Center, London; Bruce Humphrey, Quinn Lumber Co., Sturgis; Ronnie Goode, Cole Lumber Co., Paducah; Harold Bratton, Barnett Lumber Co., Campbellsburg: Bill Kronauer, Falls City Lumber Co., Louisville; Susan Elmore, Buzick Lumber & Home Center. Bardstown; Don Basham, Don's Lumber, Vine Grove; Terry Hart, Murray Lumber Co., Murray; Wesley Bacon, Bell Concrete Industries, Middlesboro; Tim Hicks, Kentucky Wholesale Building Products, Lexington, and Ray Armstrong, Great Southern Wood Preserving, Muscle Shoals, Al.

A board meeting is set tbr April l6 at Days Inn, Bardstown.

Southern Building Material Association will hold its annual membership meeting April25-28 at Savannah's Mulberry Inn.

Frank McNair will lead a half-day seminar on "It's OK to Ask 'em to Work," and Edward McMillan will speak on "Avoiding & Handling an IRS Audit" and "Fraud & Embezzlements in the Lumber Yard: How It Happens & How to Avoid It."

Mississippi Building Material Dealers Association named Andy Breland, Breland Building Supply, Philadelphia, president at its annual convention in Biloxi.

Jewel Dunaway, Phillips Home Center, McComb, is lst v.p., and Barry Meek, Scarborough Building Supply, Kosciusko, 2nd v.p. The executive committee includes Meek; Ken Morris, Barnett Phillips Lumber Co., Canton; Steve and Kenneth Breland, Breland Building Supply; Lany Broadhead, Broadhead Building Supply, Mendenhall, and John Cloy, Port Gibson Hardware & Lumber. Port Gibson.

Directors include Cloy; Jerry Yeazy, Veazy Lumber Co., Senatobia; Frank Thomas and Lee Nabors, Houston Building Supply, Houston; Jerry Cook, Lackey Home Center, Forest; Dale Powers, Lexington Lumber & Home Center, Lexington; Rusty Long, Long's Building Material, Union; Jerry Black, Frierson Building Supply, Jackson; Louis King, King Lumber & Materials, Bassfield, and Dee Simmons, Oliver Building Supply, Summit.

James Coghlan, Hardware Distribution Warehouse, Shreveport, La.; Carl Frusha, Buffington Corp., Monroe, La., and Sam Fant, Huttig Building Products, Jackson, are on the advisory board.

Mid-America Lumbermens Association is co-sponsoring a plumbing and electrical training seminar with the Western Association May 6-7 in Little Rock, Ar.

Florida Building Material Association is staging its South Florida golf outing May 2 at the PGA Club, Port St. Lucie.

Kentucky Forest Industries Association welcomed Alan Richardson, Wayne Lumber, Monticello, as new president at its recent annual meeting in Louisville.

New v.p. is David Feldman, Feldman Lumber, Lancaster; secretary/treasurer Dean Carter, Morehead, and directors Crant Curry, Trus Joist; Turner Martin, Turner & Conyer Lumber Co.; David Jones, Jones Logging; George Crawford, Somerset Wood Products, and Ray White, Harold White Lumber.