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M0UNTING FLUSH to the ceiling to provide maximum headroom in homes with low ceilings, the Nichols-Kusan fan is available in 38" or 42" conligurations. Part of the old Jacksonville line, the fan leatures a three-speed control, motor reverse switch, solid wood blades, optional light kits and accessories.

Bill Johnson

John Polach

Larry Hansen

Walt Hjort

Pete Gadenasso

Sonia Mastriana

Lill Bruccoleri

Susan McAtee and all the folks at Hobbs Wqll Lumber Co., lnc.

S-P-F Studs Repel Water

Ranger spruce-pine-fir lumber manufactured by Blue Ridge Lumber Ltd. is now being marketed by Simpson Timber Co. The new line includes Rainguard studs, which are precision trimmed and milled with a special water-repellant treatment.

Until recently, homeowners with high hopes but low ceilings had to forego ceiling fans. Not eny more. American Pride's "space saver" ceiling fans are deigned for low ceilings. Backed by a l5-year limited warranty, these fans are easy to install and mount nearly flush with the ceiling.

both feature solid wood upper backs and sculptured seats with turned legs and spindles. All chair parts have been precision-milled.

The chair, complete with necessary glue and instructions, is packaged in its own self-display and shipping carton which is said to provide freight advantages for the retailer as well as occupy less space both in storage and on the selling floor.

Just Hangs in There

New Easy Hooker water supply line packages featuring full color photos of the product have been introduced by Anderson-Barrows Metals Corp.

The chipboard boxes are designed to hang, taking up less shelf space. The photo on the package shows how the product should be installed for use with toilets and sink faucets.

Ready-to-Assemble Chair

American Forest Products Co. has added two chairs to its line of MasterPieces ready-to-assemble and finish furniture.

Made of imported hardwood, the colonial chair and the mate's chair

Locked Up

A new padlock introduced by the KBL Corp., the Kryptonite-4, has reportedly withstood assaults from 42" bolt cutters, hacksaws, pry bars, hammers and chemical freezing agents.

The design and size of the keyoperated lock offers a lightweight alternative to conventional padlocks or chain and cable combinations. The two part padlock has a heavyduty, U-shaped shackle design with tubular key locking mechanism. The U-shaped shackle fits into a cross bar that houses the locking mechanism.

Tough as Nails

Liquid Nails by Macco is available in a new 4 oz. resealable squeeze tube designed for do-it-yourselfers. It is blister-packed on a display card, which can be hung in several areas of a retail store for increased impulse buying.

Suggested retail price is $2.29.

Trims and Tiles

A line of panel trim and ceiling tile mouldings is now being marketed bY Gordon Plastics Division.

The dent-proof panel mouldings are made for use as cove moulding, base trim, inside and outside corners, casing, edge cap and flush divider mouldings. Trim mouldings are offered in several profiles in brown and woodgrain colors for use on plywood and woodgrained panels. A gold and white panel trim is made for use with marble swirl and gold flecked tileboard. Color is moulded in on all the mouldings.

On the HotSeat

The Sevetta Showerlet is a plastic, contoured toilet seat with bidet-like functions by European Water Works.

Designed to be used by both men and women, the unit contains a printed circuit board that operates two heating elements. One that heats a fine spray of warm water and the other that warms the toilet seat. Installation involves an aluminum flex tube hookup to the toilet's water tank. The product's electrical cord plugs into any existing outlet. The warm water spray and warm seat features are operated by buttons on each side ofthe unit. Suggested retail price is $465.

Heated Measures

U.S. Stove Co. has introduced two new accessories for wood and coal burning stoves.

Designed to reduce heat loss and creosote formation while improving burn duration time, the new draft regulator, which will fit both 6" and 8" stovepipes, is installed between the stove and chimney. As the hot gases heat the chimney, the rate at which they travel increases and causes the hinged and weighted regulator flap to open. This lets cool room air into the chimney, reduces the amount of draft and slows the speed at which the fuel burns.

A clean-out tee, which also fits both 6" and 8" stovepipes, replaces a stovepipe's existing elbow and is easily removed for cleaning.

Potent Sates Aids For Deck Dealers

IT.S ABOUT TIME

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(like housing, small business, and the thrift industry) in a random and unfair wav.

So much damage has been done by this non-elected, single-minded procedure, that now we will probably see an inordinately long period of ease in an attempt to revive the mangled economy. The survivors will take what they can get! So finally, builders and suppliers should see some improvement in their markets.

The recovery we envisioned for 1982 should be experienced in 1983. Construction activity should increase every quarter from now until at least mid-1984. Nationally, housing starts should reach about 1.35 million in 1983 and 1.6 million in 1984. Those are not great numbers when compared to fundamental demand, but they are quite an improvement from the 1.1 million starts of 1982. At the same time, commercial construction is in the doldrums and will not show much improvement until at least mid-I983. Unemployment will remain well over 990 for most of 1983, casting a cloud over commercial expansion.

Most of the larger markets in the West should have an improvement in housing starts of about 2590 over 1982. Pacific Northwest cities will do well to hit that figure. In Spokane and eastern Washington there are a number of major projects on the drawing board or in initial development. They will be rolled out slowly as interest rates approach l2slo to

December, 1982 l39o for residential financing and employment picks up. A l59o to200/o increase in residential construction is the expected level in the Inland Empire market.

Activity will be greater than projected if governments and private lenders introduce and implement increased volumes of innovative financing that encourages builders and buyers to move more aggressively. That would be a pleasant surprise for all of us . . but lt's About Time!!!

rHE URBAN FACTOR

(Continued from page 15) tinuing period of at least six months of bankruptcies, erratic demand, volatile money rates, and fierce competition putting bottom line profits under continued pressure. With the outlook of a so-so sales scenario those who plan will have already gotten their balance sheets in order by cutting debt and raising liquidity. creditors with very little residual for themselves.

Debt ridden companies can pay off their bankers while demand is slack and the cost of money is high only if they concentrate harder on how to make money instead of pursuing unproductive sales and carrying unnecessary inventories.

There is some merit in planning for "recession as usual" by implementing tight financial controls which in the 1980s become more and more fashionable. Only cash rich, lightlyborrowed companies can afford the luxury of holding unproductive assets. Those cursed with heavy borrowing are the ones that will be working very hard just to pay their rL-.

There should be no gloom and doom on the part of those aggressive thinkers in our industry who will seize on the opportunities of concentration of asset management and marketing innovation. They will develop new markets by utilizing the entrepreneurial talents of their total staff through introduction and testing of new products, services, handling methods and well targeted sales and advertising effort.

Our current period of profit deficiency can be the positive force to improve our methods and our thinking to provide the means for individual companies to grow at the expense of their rivals who refuse to adapt to the times.

DR. POZDENA

(Continued from page I1) strong temptations to seek easy fixes which, in the long run, would only serve to exacerbate the problems of the economy and the interest-rate sensitive industries such as automobile manufacturing, housing and its precursor, the forest products industry. However, if such temptations are avoided, the pill should begin to taste less bitter in 1983, with a strong recovery underway by 1984.

Hampton Lumber Sales Company

Hampton Overseas 9400 S.W. Barnes Road 400 Sunset Business Park Portland, Or.97225 (503) 297.7691