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Wheeler Manis. 79. retired owner and founder of Wheeler's, Inc., Rome, Ga., died Sept. 14.

A native of Cohutta. Ga.. Mr. Manis served as a lieutenant in the Army. He founded Manis Lumber Co. (now Wheeler's) after graduating from North Georgia College in 1949.

The company is now run by his sons, Mark and Jim Manis.

Arthur Heinrich, 87, former president of Travers Lumber Co.. Mobile. Al., died Oct.2O.

A Native of Yugoslavia, he settled in Mobile in 1952. He was one of the earliest exporters of southern pine to Europe. In 1979 Travers Lumber Co. was acquired by Weyerhaeuser Co.

Morris A. Vowell, 77, co-owner and managing partner, Vowell & Sons

Lumber Co., Martin, Tn., died Aug. 2l in Houston, Tx.

An Army Air Corps veteran of World War II, Major Vowell also served for 27 years as a Tennessee National Guard senior aviator. He was president of the Tennessee Building Material Association in 1981.

Jim Haney, 80, retired membership development mgr. for the Southern Forest Products Association. Kenner. La.. died Oct. l.

A long-time resident of the Atlanta area, Mr. Haney was a member of the Marine Corps for 27 years, serving in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He joined the SFPA in 1969 and retired in 1987.

Mr. Haney was buried with full military honors in Knoxville, Tn.

Lynn 6'Easy" Pickens, 81, retired lumberman, Zarsky Lumber Co., Corpus Christi, Tx., died Ocl 29 in San Antonio, Tx.

A native of Big Wells, Tx., Mr. Pickens served in the Navy during World War II. During his career he also worked for the now-defunct Corpus Christi Brick & Lumber.

Kenny Newman, 36, salesman at Hankins Lumber Co., Grenada, Ms., died of a heart attack Nov. 14 while at work.

NAWLA held its 7th annualTrader's Market Nov.7-9 in Dallas, Tx. (1) Tom Seely, John Millea. (2) Amy Curtis, Greg Caruso. (3) Teresa Botner, Jeff Stephens,MikeGiles,KellyRussell, Don Simon. (4) Terry Stigings, Konrad Tittler.(5) GreggSutlon, Sam McOrary, Dennis Downer. (6) Bill Reedy, CamCook, Dave Coleman, Ron Gorman. (7) Jeff Baumgartner. (8) DaveHoglund,Eric Reppermund, GerryGluscic.(9) Nestor & Janet Pimentel. (10)LorenJustice. (11) BillAnderson. (12)TeniAdair, Mark Dippel, P.J. Arling. (13) Jim Pappas, Dan VanAllmen. (14) Jim Hodge, Art Parker, Mark Susbayer, Jim Epperson Jr.(15) Don Mejia-Hernandez, T.J. Tomjack, Dave Worthington, Brian Smith, Frank Condon, Dave Mehl. (16) Don Dye, Dave Duncan. (17) Bob Fregia, Marty Hawkins. (18) Norm

Rowa, Barry Sullivan, Donnie Blankenship. (19) Mike Lyza, Jim Sargent. (20)Mike Moran,ChuckCasey. (21)MoniqueBauer,Alan Oakes. (22) Dan Cheny, Howie Anderson, Martha Verazain, Art Barker, Terry Jones. (23) T.J. LaRose, Jolene Dishion. (24) David Smith, Jim Enright, John Dimeling, Geolf Crandlemire. (25) Don Bratcher, Pam Mitchell. (26) Steven& Michele Tyahla. (27) Rod Lee, Sal Jiwa, Doug Ainsworth, Bart Bender. (28) Joe Briggs, HeatherVidrine, Paullfju,Julie Hogg, Denise Undenvood, Tim Olsen. (29) DekSpaulding.(30)DavidBagdy, Andres Bullinger, Heinrich Schiller Carsten Kullik. (31) Peter & TraciHanett. (32) Mike McKanna, Meg & Bill Malloy.

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M0RE TRADEBS at the North American Wholesale Lumber Association eveil (conttnued lrom theprevtous page)'.(1) Tom El is, Da e Montay. Dav d Jordan. (2) Jamie Twelen, Bob Kubinec. (3) Joe Albert. John Cooper. (4) Linda Bouford.Jack Palacio. Don Archer (5) Rick Hogue (6) Charl e Quarles. Mark Junkins. (7)Troy Turner. Nolan Schweikl. John Reger (8) Vince Mast. Dennis Reinwald. (9) Dean Sturz. (10)l'/att Taborsk BobShepherd (11)Bob Mitchell, Jean Drolet. (12) George Riley, John Haggerty lll (13) Randy Armond, Richard Gaiennie. (14) J F Rrghtnowar. Jack Butler, Sean Burch. (15) Kent Bond, Phil

WDodson. (16)Brad Bower, Kris England (17)Billy Gunn, Bob Bretz (18) Mrchae Johnson, Tim Elbers. (19)Josh Gibeau. Marcy Parish. Steve Killgore (20) John Stevenson Lou Chance (21) J T Taylor John Ferguson (22) Ron Fatzrnger. Dennis Downer,Sherman Leibow. (23) Jochen Moll. (24) David Slaughter, Lance Hubener. (25) Rosie & Charlie Brittain. (26) David Haynes (27) Art Andrews, Brad Campbe l. (28) Claudia & Tom Westbrook (29) Anthony Schepis. Mike McQuiston. Chris Petkau Joe Yurchak (30) John Barber, Tom Payne. lMore photos on next page) frCLr-s ttiIOBE NAWTA lr.tOefs co/rrrried front r pages il rEd L,s1 ltl chae Corse lo

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BigBuilder Show Targets Dealers

For the first time, dealers and distributors are being aggressively courted to attend the building products industry's biggest show of the year.

The International Builders Show expects to draw over 70,000 attendees from 100 countries and feature exhibits from more than 1,000 manufacturers and suppliers. The show floor will occupy more than 1.2 million sq. ft. of space---or nearly 30 acres.

Although the show has always been open to all building industry professionals, only recently has the National Association of Home Builders tarseted marketins efforts at dealers and distributors.

The move, says NAHB v.p. Wayne Stetson, is "to provide dealers and distributors the opportunity to network with builders and, more importantly, to preview the latest building products. Further, because the dealers in our industry play such an important part, our exhibitors have continually encouraged our marketing department to advertise more aggressively to dealers and distributors."

In addition to offering free admission to dealers and distributors, the show has expanded its marketing in dealerspecific magazines and is direct mailing more than 100,000 pieces of show literature. Dealers and distributors also have been assigned a special code and will receive a special show badge that alerts each exhibitor of the importance of the attendee approaching the exhibitor's booth.

Dealers can register for the show online at www.buildersshow.com/dealers for a free, four-day, exhibits-only pass.

Instead of the convention's traditional weekend dates, this year's show will take place Tuesday to Friday, January 2l-24 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The exhibitor list features a wide range of hardware manufacturers, building products producers (such as A&H Windows, Azek TrimBoards, HB&G, Nexwood, Owens Corning, Trex, Typar and USG), and wood products firms, such as Contact Lumber, Huber Engineered Woods, Nascor. Norbord. Pacific MDF Products. Potlatch. SierraPine, TrusJoist and Weyerhaeuser.

Since home builders are the show's primary target, several national dealers and distributors-such as Ace Contractor Centers, 84 Lumber, Home Depot, Lowe's, Stock Building Supply, PrimeSource and Universal Forest Products-also have booked exhibit space.

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American Forest & Paper Association t1021 .............. ...Cover II

APA............... ...................34

Anthony Forest Products [103]..............3

Arch Wood Protection ..........................20

Bean Lumber Co.. Curt........................24

Bowie Sims Prange I1051 ........................6

Breco Wood Products [12f ]..................58

Building Products Digest......................42

Business Card Ads.......-.-.--.--...........51

Capital Lumber Co. .............32

Cox Wood Preserving ...........................28

Crumpler Plastic Pipe, Inc. [119].........57

Custom Lumber Mfg. [1 15]..................52

Do it Best Corp. [107]..............................8

Elder Forest Products, Inc. [113].........50

Elder Wood Preserving [ll2]...............47

FasPac Inc. [109] ............15

FiberTech Polymers, Inc. [124]............55

Great Southern Wood [101]........Cover I

Greun-Wald Engineered Laminates t1061..-.--.-- ................7

Hoover Treated Wood Products t1081.............. ..............1s

International Paper Co.-Engineered Wood Division [123].............Cover IV

Krauter Storage Systems......... .,.....,....,26

LJB Lumber Sales [114].......................50

Martin Lumber Co., Roy O..................36

Matthews International ........................22

Merchant Magazine, The......................42

Montrose Reload U 171.............. ............47

Osmose 11221...............Cover I, Cover III

Product Sales Co....................................38

Redwood Empire...................................30

Siskiyou Forest Products ......................57

Snider Industries [ 1 1 1]..........................46

Southern Forest Products Association 11181.............. ..............s6

Swan Secure Products [116]...........46, 52

Weyerhaeuser Co.

Williams & Sons, Jerry G. U101..........45

Worldwide Wood Network...................40