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With The Touch Of A Switch

Fiber optic switches that can be placed in any location without the risk of electrical shock are new from Wireless Control Systems.

vide simultaneous alarm signals.

A warning alarm will sound first if elevated levels of carbon monoxide are present, followed by a full alarm if levels persist or rise. A test/reset button quiets the alarm. If dangerous carbon monoxide levels exist, the device cannot be silenced.

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Big Rig

A heavy duty tool belt has been introduced by Portable Products. The Builder's Rig nylon belt reportedly offers more abrasion resistance than leather.

Featuring a foam-padded belt with integral spine that retains shape and prevents crushing under load, it is riveted, bartacked at stress points, and has reinforced pocket rims.

Light As A Brick

Lightweight brick veneer panels have been introduced by Omni Building Systems. Inc.

Reportedly easy to install, Kwik Brik has modular panel construction and is fastened with screws.

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Warmed By The Sun

State-of-the-art solar liehts from Alpan, Inc. reportedly offeitwice the running time of ordinary solar light-

FiberSwitch is reportedly easy to install and uses light instead of electricity to switch any electrical device on or off.

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Garbon Monoxide Sensor

A carbon monoxide detector is now available from BRK Electronics. The single- or multiple-station, battery-operated COI l20B detector features a two-stage 85 decibel alarm, mounts to any standard electrical box up to 4", and interconnects with up to 1 I additional identical units to pro-

Complete with 18 pockets, the rig features dual metal hammer loops; back wall speed square pocket; tape measure pouch; pleated nail pockets; multiple smaller pockets for pencils, screwdrivers, and utility knives, and a fully adjustable belt to fit waists 28" to 52".

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Decorative Corner Posts

A 6"-wide corner post with a raised comer angle and edges is new to CertainTeed Corp.'s line of decorative vinyl trim materials.

Available in 20'lengths, the corner post is said to snap easily into place.

Circle No. 704 ing and are the brightest solar garden lights available.

Solar Primelights have adjustable height stakes that snap together.

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The Heat ls On

A gas-fired direct vent wall furnace is new from Empire Comfort Systems.

Equipped with quiet, high-volume blowers and an electronic temperature control, the DV-55E's counterflow design provides an even distribution of warm air. The furnace runs on natural or LP gas.

It has light gray cabinetry rhat stays cool to the touch during operation.

An extended vent terminal is available for thick walls.

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Two-Geared Loppers

Loppers from Fiskars utilize two gears for cutting instead of one or two plvot polnts.

on any product in this section is available by circlfurg the corresponding Reader Service number in the back and sending the form to New Products, either by FAX 714'a5.2'O231' by mail to 45OO Campus Dr., Ste. 48O, Newport Beach, Ca. 92660, or just call us at (7L41852-f 99O.

Premium Plywood Siding

Reportedly the lightest loppers on the market, PowerGear Loppers are 15" long, have an anvil design, and cut branches up to 1-1l4" in diameter.

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A Homebody

A software program developed by Visual Applications, Inc. gives homeowners a sneak peak of what their home improvement project will look like.

Steps Laminated Flooring is composed of four layers and offered in a variety of wood grains and abstracts.

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An Electrical Snap

A power system from Intermatic Inc. enables electrical outlets to be added nearly anywhere, without modifying walls or rewiring circuits.

Premium grade plywood siding from Roseburg Forest Products has selected face veneers for uniformity. Offered in three plywood siding types (primrose, Douglas fir, and medium density overlay) and over 70 styles, Breckenridge siding comes in 4' widths and 8', 9'and 10'lengths; 5ply panels come in 15132" and 19/32" thicknesses, and 3-ply panels are ll/32" thick.

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Customized Wall Framing

Computer-generated, customized wall framing layout tape from Your Set facilitates layout of studs, doors and windows.

Once created with Your Set's software, the tape is attached to the l-1l2" edge of the bottom and first top plates of a wall section.

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With Showoff, homeowners can scan a picture of their home on the computer and then add amenities to visualize possible home plans.

It is composed of five individual, yet integrated, CD-ROM programs: "Build Your Home," "Landscape," "Remodel Exterior." "Remodel Interior" and "Decks, Pools & Hot Tubs."

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Hearty Laminated Flooring

New laminated flooring from BHK of America reportedly is durable, hygienic, color fast, and easy to clean, install and maintain.

The low-profile, surface-mounted Easytrac Surface Power System has pre-wired power components, including track, receptacles, starters, corners and connectors, that connect to one another by snapping the components together.

Available in white and almond, it can be installed on a variety of surfaces and painted, wallpapered or decorated to match any decor.

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Edging Out The Competition

A solid-surface edge product from Kuehn Bevel enhances countertops. Made with Corian, edges are available in a variety of colors in seven profiles.

Beauty doesn't have to be fleeting. Or fragile. Or frivolous. In fact, when it's MaxiPlank, beauty is downright lasting and logical.

Fiber-cement MaxiPlank lap siding offers surprising performance from a lightweight board. Code-approved MaxiPlank is perfectly suited to structures where weight, environment, termites, maintenance and fire resistance are key factors. Maxiplank is weatherproof, pestproof and will not burn. lt won't crack, twist, or warp over time, even when exposed to harsh salt air or UV rays. Available in smooth or knot-free wood grain finishes, Maxiplank readily accepts paint and applies easily to wood and metal framing. Sizes include 6",71f2',91fz" and 12" widths with a length of 1r2,.

MaxiPlank is also easy on the environment, containing only 5% timber content. Calvanized steel trim and special fasteners complete the MaxiPlank siding system. To learn more about MaxiPlank's many beautiful benefits, call MaxiTile today or visit our Internet Home Page at http//www.maxitile.com.

shown painted with water-based acrylic. sold and shipped unpainted in tight gray.

A Brick Trick

Interlocking brick-like panels have been introduced by Nailite International.

Polymer-reinforced Hand-Laid Brick panels are lightweight, flexible and come in several colors.

Music To Your Ears

A selection of decorative door chime receivers can be added to Caradon Friedland, Inc.'s line of portable rec.eivers and two 150-ft. ranse transmltters.

The Messenger series has a 90-ft. range, 64 channel settings and an electronically programmable 8-note Westminster or 2-note chime.

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Smoking Or Non Smoking?

A smokeless method of testing smoke detectors is new from CRC Industries, Inc.

Smoke Test, an aerosol sPraY that simulates smoke, is sPraYed at the detector for three seconds, causing an unclogged alarm to sound.

Each aerosol can lasts about one year, testing each of four smoke detectors once a month.

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Take A Dip In The Hot Tub

Ready-to-assemble screens from LouveRail afford privacY and view around a hot tub.

The 72"x60" Sierra Screen threesection room divider or outdoor screen has an optional fan toP.

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Contact Cement Products

An expanded line of contact cement products is new from Dap Inc. The Weldwood additions include contact cement gel formula, nonflammable contact cement and contact cement cleaner and thinner.

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Legislattve Quota System

I disagree with your editorial "Get Them Off Our Backs" (Aug., p. 6). Of course there are many needless, complicated, confusing govemment regulations, but just saying so is both easy and useless. Can we expect a future editorial that taxes are too high or that you are against illegal drugs? Skill and value come in when you get specific; which regulation, why it is counterproductive, how can it be improved, etc.

I do not believe that all health and safety regulations are "much needed;" in fact, some real junk gets passed in this area precisely because of your attitude that we need all the health and safety legislation we get. See the recent "Wood Dust Standard" or some of the SB198 paperwork rules for excesses in this area.

As long as legislators see a mandate to legislate as opposed to "deJegislate" I fear the trend is more and more laws all intended to right some real or imagined wrong. My only (semi-serious) solution is a quota system; for each new law that is passed, a law of equal weightiness has to be deleted.

John Ganahl

Ganahl Lumber Co.

1220 E. Bdl Rd., Anaheim, Ca.92805

Withage Comeswisdom

David McKinney's letter ("Burn Out, Move Out," Sept. p. 39) is certainly cause for concern. He professes to know much more about business (especially the lumber business) than the folks at Minton's or anyone else. His thinking (or lack thereofl is consistent with that of the current leaders of our country-"trust us, we know what is best for you." What became of plain common sense?

"Relocating, streamlining and being smart is all one needs for increasing prosperity in the lumber business," says McKinney. Chances are he never has actually operated a business.

Mr. McKinney claims to have "spent his youth" in the lumber business and later years as an urban planner where probably everything looked great on paper. Possibly he wrote fairy tales as well.

Mr. McKinney should contact the owners of a large family operated lumber company in south Santa Clara County to find out just how difficult it is to 'take the initiative" to relocate a lumber yard. These folks have been in busi ness since 1945 and are closing their doors' It seems that plans for relocating were not warmly received by those in power. In addition, some unclearable hurdles were put into place. This is but one of many cases in our field. Wait, what about sneamlining and being "smart"?

With relentless intrusion and interference by govemment into each and every one of our businesses it remains extremely difficult to operate profitably. We don't need or want the likes of Mr. McKinney to tell us how or where to operate our businesses. We already know!

The Merchant Magazine recognizes lumber companies over 100 years old. There are many, and there are also many with 30,40 and 50 years in business, crossing two and three generations. Few fields of business can make this claim. To what does Mr. McKinney attribute the longevity and success of these companies? Maybe they know more than he does. The years in urban planning must have made him a "redevelopment crusader'" I wonder how he'd like being told that a park or retail store would rise on the site of his former home should it somehow be destroyed.

Try some other line of business to counsel, Mr. McKinney. There are already a legion of people trying to tell us what to do.

John Saunders Economy Lumber Co.

720

Camden Ave., Campbell, Ca.95008

Urban Planning Wltures

Congratulations for printing David McKinney's response to your July article on Minton's post-fre rebuilding challenges. We now have a clear understanding into the urban planner's lack of sensitivity towards the business anchors in our communitY.

In every city and town across our country' the business person with the greatest longevity and proven civic support has always been the local lumber dealer. We wood merchants are the Rotarians, Kiwanians and businesses who sponsor the Little League teams, purchase raffle tickets, provide the prizes for that raffle, and donate our building materials during the recovery from every disaster that Mother Nature inflicts on our community. We are the directors of local charities, payers of thousands of dollars in local taxes, and creators of hundreds of jobs, while at the same time we attempt to earn a reasonable return on our investment. Now David McKinney and the urban planning bureaucrats think it is best for us to be relocated to a less visible site as if we were a blight on their pristine vision of a perfect community.

The Eaton familv has learned that the bureauc?ats and urban planners of Mountain View find the Minton site more desirable for a high density housing development than the continuation of a viable, tax-paying, community-supporting employer. Instead of actively seeking solutions to get Minton's back into business as quickly as possible, the "hidden agenda" of the Mountain View bureaucrats danced Eaton around in a circle for over a year. When Minton's agreed to an issue, the bureaucrats changed their minds. This is typical of urban planners who have a Disneylandtype vision for their community with little practicality, common sense or logic. The local lumber dealer is expendable in their minds and hopefully will not have the financial staying power to launch a legal challenge to defend his property rights. After all' the bureaucrat is not at financial risk like the business owner who has lost his income stream.

Beware, lumber dealers. These bureaucrats and urban planners are the same people who brought us govemment subsidized developments to lure Home Depot, HomeBase and Wd-Mart into our communities at the expense of the demise of the small business person' After a fire destroys your business, your worst enemy won't be the insurance adjuster you are arm-wrestling over a settlement. It will be the city bureaucrats and urban planners who envision your devastated property as anything but a lumber business. Your greatest costs will not be the reconstruction of your business but the legal fees you will expend to defend your property rights.

Before your fre, spend a couple of hours at your planning departrnent or redevelopment agency and see what r/reir vision of your property really is. If you bum down, I doubt they will allow you to fit into their plans.

David McKinney's letter is a fair waming to all lumber dealers. The bureaucratic and urban planning vultures are already circling above your lumber yard and they are licking their lips. Be prepared!

IRONMAN COMPETITION: Lumbermen took to the woods and the irons during the 33rd annual Shasta Lumbermen's Invitational Golf Tournament Sept. 20 at the Riverview Golf & Country Club, Redding, Ca. (1) Jeff Setzer, Mitch Stevens, Bob Prouty, Gus Proutv, Mike Robinson. (2) Tom Osboine Jr., Ead Moore. Tom Osborne lll. (3) Dutch Wiseman, Sam Witzel, Jack Myer, Jim Murray. (4) George

Kavooras, Rick Kavooras, Ed Sturza, Andv Martisak, Franz Miller. (5) Bill Naboznv. Wayne Nader, Denis Stack, D'ennis Duchi. (6j Bill Fox, Don Cherovsky, Ron Derrick, Teirv Humphrey, Frank Stanek. fi) Rich Stolz, Jirir Spangler. Doug Cox. (8) Paul Taylor, Brian Johnson, Dennis Lisius, Steve Carrillo, John Campbell, Jack Jenkins. (9) Bob Durham, Mark Young, Ron Hoppe. (10) Dave Schaller,

Robert West, Don Porter, Wayne Murphy. (11) Dan Wanamaker, Robert Phillips, Hardy Vestal. (12) Greg Keller. (13) Claude Scotf, Todd Gallant. (14) Dr. Sah Sherrill, Chuc( Shawver. (15) Walt Schneider, Mike Massa. (16) Jim Gonsalves.

(More Shasta Lumbermen's annual golf tournament photos on next page)

GOLFERS: (1) Rich Sabbagh, Dave Seeqer, Mark Setzer, Jack Landers. -(2) Kelly Shults, Bob Buroer, John Maple. (3) Lee Nelris, iohn Buss. (4) Don Frank, Rick Parker, Duncan Kilner, Paul Wunder. (5) Tim De0oito. (6) Tony DeCoito. (7) Don Reagan, (8) Pat Reaqan. (9) Dave Hill, bdn Wolter. bave Dibkman, Dan Burdette, Kim Stovall. (10) Paul Pike, Don Lincoln, Kent Weaver. (11) Joe Bambino. (12) Al Eooland, Mike Berry, Steve D6iwarte. (13) Les Swisher, Bob Borohorst, Xim Smitn. (14) Jack O'Binnon, Dorman Dane, George Sharp. (15) Eric ShelbY, Bart Thunderbird, George Rogers. (More photos on previous Page)