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Show Cedar City Dealer Attends Furnishings Market H. B. Leigh of Leigh Furniture & Carpent Co. left today for San Francisco where he will visit the semi-annual home furnishings market and attend industry meetings to participate in discussions dis-cussions of how to better serve America's homemakers. Before leaving, Mr. Leigh said he expected to see more new-furniture new-furniture styles at this summer market than have ever been shown before. He added that advance ad-vance information from manufacturers manu-facturers indicates the new items will also represent greater values val-ues than ever before. "I can't buy all the new merchandise," mer-chandise," Mr. Leigh said, "but I am going to market to select what I believe will appeal to the folks in our community. The emphasis em-phasis will be on modern, contemporary con-temporary and provincial styles, in that order. The biggest change in the new furniture offerings, of-ferings, aside from more built-in built-in value, will be in wood coloring. color-ing. There will be painted finishes fin-ishes that cover the wood grain and other pigmented finishes which permit the wood graining to show through. I expect both to be popular." Purchases made at the San Francisco market will become available to homemakers here in the fall. Meanwhile, Mr. Leigh says his store will feaure special spe-cial sales of merchandise on hand to make space for the shipments of the colorful new-furniture, new-furniture, affording mid summer shoppers an opportunity to save money on needed home furnishings. furnish-ings. As a member of the National Retail Furniture Association, Mr. Leigh will participate in two breakfast meetings to discuss merchandising problems with leading furniture retailers from all parts of the country. The subject sub-ject of first importance on the agenda will be store service, more specifically how retailers can be of the greatest assistance to customers in helping them to plan their home furnishings to make more comfortable, more attractive at-tractive homes. |