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exterior glue line is now required on flush doors when used as entrance doors, and on hardwood plywood paneling in bathrooms or kitchens).

Final speaker on the morning program was William Wesley Peters, chief Architect of Taliesen Associated Architects of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, who gave an illustrated talk on natural hardwood applications.

Rain-weary members from the North and East were treated to a western cookout Thursday evening, complete with square dancing under balmy Arizona skies to the strains of an exceptionally good western band,

Friday morning panel sessions began with a steamship panel moderated by Eric Wagner of Del Valle, Kahman & Co., at which industry complaints with carriers were aired.

A second panel on the future of the prefinished panel moderated by Clark McDonald pointed out the very real need for a uniform prefinishing standard. With more than 200 prefinishing plants in the nation, several of them with production capabilities of up to 150' per minute, HPMA is pressing for early adoption of such a standard.

The o'Lauan Doorskin Dilemma," thinner skins, mismanufacturing and consumer resistance to Lauan was the subject of a third panel moderated by James E. Nolan. The panel discussed the recent trend to paint grade flush doors in modest residential construction and the return of the stile and rail door in custom construction as a result of the generally poor quality of Lauan skins on the market at the present time. A definite need for better grading rules as applied to doorskins was pointed out to a member of the Japanese plywood industry who participated in the panel discussion.

IHPA will continue to press for adequate and uniform grading standards and to develop uniform trade practices in order to achieve greater understanding of imported hardwood plywood within the trade, both at home and abroad, it was pointed out by sources at the convention.

Stoining Answers

A colorful and comprehensive infolmation manual for Olympic Stain dealers throughout the country has been prepared by the Olympic Stained Products Company.

The four'-color, heavy-duty book features ploduct information langing from the use of Olympic's loof stains to the mildeu' problem. Another section features research, backgroutid, and promotional material from Olympic and many other organizations.

Olympic Stain president John Anderson said the book has been developed to provide dealers and their staffs rvith information under one cover that should enable them to ansrver' every customel question.

"For example, the section on heavy-bodied solid color si"ains includes concise infolmation on uses, ingredients, surface pfeparation, stain preparation, application methods, and coverage," he pointed out. "Elserl.here in the manual, the reader rvill find accurate color samples of each of these solid color stains."

WRITE: Olympic Stain, 1118 NW Leary Way, Seattle, WashinEton 98107.

Wood Finishing Booklet

"Horv to Finish Beautiful Wood"-in just four basic steps -is described for the home booklet by the Watco-Dennis Colp.

The easy-r'eference, pocketsize booklet was prepared to help the home craftsman "do professional finishing quickly, easily and economically-on all the varieties of wood available today,"

DesiEned for convenient use at any home workbench, the booklet includes special tiPs on working u'ith wood, and brieflY explains the 5-in-1 Watco Process that preserves, hardens, seals, primes and beautifies anY domestic or exotic wood.

WITITE: Watco-Dennis Corp., 7756 - 22nd Street, Santa Monica, Calif., enclosing a five cent stamp to cover the cost of Postage.