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ash white, ash black, fruitwood, limed oak and teak.

New Rust Prevenlive

Arnett Associates announces Manganesed Phospholene ff7, a ehemical process for dissolving and preventing rust and corrosion on both ferrous and non-ferrous metals. It combines chemically with iron, steel or zine to form a moisture and water-proof coating.

This coating is suitable for either rust-free storage, plating or painting. The material is not harmful to Your skin, and conforms with APCD rule 66' It will chemically clean aluminum, and when used on galvanized steel, prepares the surface for painting without a primer coat.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 412W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Suspended Ceilings

Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation's fiberglass suspended ceiling system has been expanded by the addition of 2' x 8' Fiberglas Sonocor ceiling panels installed w'ith 8' cross tees. They are available in several patterrrs with washable vinyl film surface.

This ceiling concept gets the job done with fewer panels, main tees, and cross tees. The reduction in the number of panels and. grid allows for faster installation.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 412 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Four-Fool Floor Disploy

A colorful floor display merchandiser has been introduced by Barnes Manufacturing Co.

The display occupies four sq. ft. Its steel base and frame can display products weighing over 50 pounds.

The merchandiser has a pegboard back panel for product arrangements and features a plastic sign with electric outlet. A light kit, an adjustable steel product shelf, 1A' by 24", and two 10" diameter feature shelves with bracketd are available.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 472 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Tool Offer

P & C Tool Co. is having a wingding. And they're ofering a free gift.

During P & C's Wall-ette wingding a free Wall-ette display complete with tools is given with each ten Wall-ettes purchased at regular dealer prices. Dealers can choose from any of seven different free units rang- ing from those displaying flat wrenches to snips or hole saws.

Dealers can see 44 different Wall-ettes from P & C.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 412 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Wood lighting Devices

Lamar Lighting Co. now ofrers oil wood finished florescent lighting devices.

The Glomaster, features even distribution of low brightness lens lighting in a shallow unit. The unit is available in walnut, ash white, ash black, fruitwood, limed oak and teak, in 2 and, 4 lamp 40 watt, 4.6, and 8 lamp 20 watt, 6 and 8 lamp 30 watt sizes.

Deeorlume has a tapered natural wood frame. The Plasticube version offers a selfilluminating plastic cube louvre.

Blendwood combines crossed V splines of black ebony together with a diamond shaped prism lens inlaid in wood, Domewood Series provides a milk-white acrylic lens with a prism lens ofrering low brightness illumination.

Walnut book shelf has a birch shoji front panel in walnut. In 1 lamp 30 and 40 watt, 2 lamp 30 and 40 watt sizes. Comes in 38 and 50 inch lengths.

WRITD: The Merchant Magazine, 412 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Fissured Minerql Ponels

Fissured acoustiform mineral fiber lay-in panels have been added to the line of ceiling products by Celotex.

Tapered Paravex provides a non-luminous shielding combined with controlled downlight. It's available in copper, aluminum or gold louwes and frame finishes of walnut,

New Light Weight Panel

The medium density panels feature light- ly fissured, finely perforated travertine-like painted surfaces. Available in 2'x2' and, 2'x4', tt,e 7s-in. thick panels are rated Class A (incombustible) and weigh approximately .60Jb. per sq. ft.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 4I2 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Plostic Lominote Edging

Conolite announces the addition of ConoBand, an edging accessory.

Cono-Band is a t6/e" wide (by 12 lineal feet) roll of plastic laminate. It is in a variety of popular colors and patterns, including woodgrain.

Each roll of Cono-Band is skin packed in clear plastic on attractively printed cardboard. Simple instructions are on reverse side.

The card is punehed for pegboard hooks. Cono-Band is available in cartons of 24 rolls.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 4L2 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

A display board has been announced by Philstone Nail Corp. The l4t' x 20t' board shows actual samples of over 20 different sizes and types of annular and spiral thread nails included as a part of the Philstone Line. It's available free.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 412 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Fencing Soles Aids

Noyo Redwood Fencing gets a sales promotion boost in two sales aids from Union Lumber Co.

in with the new color folder.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 4L2 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

New Bi-Fold Door line

Herets the recently introduced. full size working model of the new Tenneco Chemicals bi-folding door line. Within a floor space of only Lt x 2,, display contains a full size model, full color room setting, illustra- tions of 3 additional decorator inspired bifolding door designs and literature pocket with illustrated fact folders. All furnished f ree to dealers with nominal sampling order from the company, TilRITE: The Merchant Maga"zine, 412 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Exposed Grid Ceiling System

Pre-Stressed Metal Systems is ofrering an exposed grid ceiling system.

"Fire-Flext' employs a torsional locking feature that permits cross tee installation without tools and eliminates any passthrough element at the main tee.

"Fire-Flex" tee sections are produced fyom .025" cold rolled steel. Both standard and heavy duty construction are available.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 412 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

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4' x 8' panels. Both sizes are finished with P12 and carry a lifetime guarantee.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 412 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Fostener Chort

Fastway Fasteners' new wall chart is a handy guide for pipe straps and clamps.

Redwood Fencing Promotion

A full color folder illustrates Noyo Fencing in the preassembled weave style. The folder is "bill stuffer" size.

Union produced a newspaper mat to tie

Cooted Decorotor Wd lboqrd

Jardin, a new pattern, has been introduced to the Panelboard line of permanent finish wallboard. It is coated with melamine.

The pattern is available on 4' x 4' and

Shown in full size on this 1812" x 24" chart are the 31 different sizes of pipe straps and clamps and conduit hangers designed to fit 1/2" to 2" electncal mechanical tubing and Yt" to 2" rigid pipe, tubing or conduit. Illustrated across the bottom is their line of construction and suspension fasteners, Ham-R-Tools and powder-actuated fastening guns.

Copies of this wall chart are being distributed to Fastway stocking wholesalers and contractors.

TffRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 412 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Ceromic Bothtub Edging

The Decro-wall Corporation has introduced a bathtub edging and seal made of specially molded sections of ceramic tile.

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Included in each kit of bathtub edging and seal is a tube of Silastic@, caulking made by Dow Corning.

Bathtub edging and seal is available in seven standard ceramic tile colors. List price is $9.98.

WRITD: The Merchant Magazine, 4\2 \M. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Textured Ook Poneling

Marlite has added an oak grain in two tones to its textured paneling.

T}lris Yx" thick plastic-finished hardboard paneling which is available in light or dark tones, comes in 16"x8' random grooved planks, and 4'x8' ungrooved panels. Tongue-and-grooved edges conceal the joints.

New Lighting Fixture 7,1_'

Grid Suspension Lighting

"Gridlumertt an economy-priced recessed lighting fixture for installation on any exposed-grid suspended ceiling system, has been added to the Celotex line.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 412 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Dome Skylighr Model

Designated Model t'AT," meaning "acrylic tiara," the skylight units feature an acrylic outer dome and fiber glass inner dome permanently set in an extruded aluminum.

Available in white only, the new Plasteco "AT' Skylight Model comes in sizes from !4" x 14" to 30" x 30" in the square shaPe; and from !4" x 30" lo 22" x 46" in the rectangular shape.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 412 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

Woodgroin Trim Extrusions

Silvatrim Mouldings has introduced a new trim design.

Made by extruding butyrate over foil, while simultaneously overlaying 7-mil photographic, woodgrain vinyl, the finished mouldings look close to real wood. Since printing is on the underside, the scratbhand chemical-resistant plastic protects the trim.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazino, 412 W. Sixth St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90014.

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Dear Mr. Cutler:

The National Home fmprovement Council sincerely appreciates your use of our industry service ad in your.publication this year. We have called your assistance to the attention of the industry via announcements at our National Board of Directors meetings, in our newsletter and in the enclosed report of Council activities.

We want to advise you that a resolution will be introduced at our fall directors meeting authorizing a special award to the Merchant Magazine for your assistande this year.

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UTAH HUNTING

Hello, Dave!

Here at Henefer, Utah, with rancher friend and having a good deer hunt. Good weather Saturday and SundaY. Then rain, hail and snow on MondaY. 18 degrees yesterday a.m. UP to 30 degrees today and cloudY.

I got lucky first day with a nice four pointer.

Ken Conway

Arcata Redwood Co.

HOUSING TRENDS

I was particularlY interested in Milton Hudson's article on Trends and Problems in Housing in your September and October issues.

It occured to me that this type of thing could be useful to all of our members in gaining an understanding of the real outlook in what is so widelY publicized as a market potential that implies assured prosPeritY.

I have no quarrel with the estimates of an ever-growing market but I do fear that lumbermen generally are apt to be caught napping because they anticipate automatic prosperitY to result.

I am interested in having them aware of a realistic viewpoint of this situation and I wish I had the means of getting through to the manufacturers to impress upon them the need for first rate promotion and sellilg to insure that we get our share of this wonderful market. I haven't missed any opportunities to do so, and I hope these articles will help me.

Sincerely yours,

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Homebuilding's Shorp Recovery

A sharp recovery of home building in the west has been predicted by the lournal ol llomebuild,ing, a magazine published by the National Association of Home Builders.

Forecast are 1968 increases of 26 per cent in apartment construction to 71,460 units and 8.5 percent in single family homes to almost 93,000.

In addition to the general survery of regional prospects llomebuilding estimates starts for this year and next in both types of housing in 28 western cities and summarizes the outlook in reports on each of the ll states covered.

Leading city in the forecast for 1968 is Seattle. There the outlook is for single family starts of 10,500 homes and 13,000 apartment units.

Following closely with starts predicted at 10,000 houses each are three California cities: Anaheim, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The same California cities are expected to be very active in construction of apartments. The number of units predicted is 5,000, 12,000 and 13,000 respectively.

Other metropolitan centers where major production is predicted by "Homebuilding" include:

Phoenix. Ariz.. 6,000 homes and 3.000 apartmenrs; San Diego, Calif., 5,000 and 3,500. and San Jose, Calif., 8,000 and 2.500.

Just as its slump was more severe than those in other western cities, so Los Angeles is expected to pace the recovery, and the magazine quotes Ben Deane, a southern Calilornia builder, as source of several reasons for its optimistic view:

Early in 1965 more than 22,000 ncw homes were vacant in Los Angeles and Orange County. For the comparable 1966 period the figure dropped to 12,000 and is currently estimated at 9,000.

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