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the California Redwood Association at recent Society for Paint Technology meetings. He called for "significant improvements. in exterior wood finish performance."

Harpell, of the Association's research stafi, told the paint technologists only 25 per cent of residential exteriors in new construc' tion were painted or otherwise finished in 1960, compared to 80 per cent a decade earlier. The difierenceo he said, was due in large part to the trend toward low maintenance exterior materials such as brick and masonry. Better communications between the lumber and coatings industries are needed he said for more ,effective research toward low-maintenance finishes for wood sidings.

Harpell made his remarks in introducing CRA's Dr. Harold B. Gatslick, Project Director, Coatings and Treatments. Gatslick described his newly-created job as "stimulating the development of improved exterior treatments and coatings for wood and acting as wood consultant to the paint industry.

"I visualize a broad national research program," Gatslick went on, "with the research effort broken into workable segments Parcelled out to the laboratories with the talent to come up with the answers."

Los Angeles Siudents Construcl Model Home

Lumber Sates

Cooperotion Needed

A wood technologist has warned paint manufacturers that cooperation with the lumber industry is needed to save both their market and the wood siding market.

"If present trends continue, the country's housing resources will gradually require less and less paint," said Donald C. Harpell of

Students in the building classes at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College are again busy on the construction of the college's sixth model home, "Artisan'63."

At present, work on the two-bedroom home is at the half-way mark with frame and base work completed. The next steps will be lathing and plastering which will be done by the college's evening and day lathing and plastering students.

Overall, the all-student built home includes some 1,460 square feet of living space, designed in the Balanced Power concept by architectural drafting student John De Young, Jr.

Planned around a theme of a Roman Courtyard, the novel home emphasizes Southland ii.rdoor-outdoor living. In additionn it features a modern built-in gas kitchen, dining nook and den, and a master bedroom suite. The entire home offers complete year-round climate control with a central gas-fired air conditioning system for summer cooling, winter heating, ventilation, and humidity control.

'oThe purpose in the building oI the model home on the college's campus is to give the students in the various trades who participate