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cessful component manufacturers in the nation, including the Blackstock Lumber Com ion in Seattle ; rne LumDer Lompany operatlon tn Seatile; dealer Sam Slaughter's New Richmond, Wisconsin, yard; Burton Lumber Co., Norfolk, Va.: Thompson Lumber Company, Champaign, Il1.; and one of the more successful I u-Re-Co dealers, Knecht Lumber Co. of Rapid City, South Dakota, which is engaging in actual real estate development and building itself.

In the Wednesday morning session, Sedgwick also covered the "Second-Home" market, the booming vacatior.r cabin trend which lends itself exceptionally welf to panelizing, or Lu-Re-Co construction.

Sedgwick disclosed that the DFPA will soon have some 20 different cabin plans available for Lu-Re-Co-minded dealers (look for a big OneA promotion on this a little later this year). Meanwhile, some 12 detailed cabin plans are currently available at LMA headquarters,24 Calilornia St., San Francisco.

Actual "down-to-earth" cost of the Lu-Re-Co package is in the neighborhood of $300. This includes all promotional literature, plans for the jig and truss tables and the first year's Engineering Bulletin and Lu-Re-Co shield. The shield, required under FHA financing, labels the supplier as an FHA-recognized shop, legally responsible for workmanship of the components in the job.

FHA inspection of the shop may be made at will and this, of course, eliminates the almost imoossible insoection job in the field after material has been cut. paneliz^ed and erected, many times with grade marks sawed off or hidden by siding applied to the panels back at the shop.

For further information regarding Lu-Re-Co in "black and white," it is suggested that interested dealers contact their local associations, or write Lumber Dealers Research Council, 1828 Jefferson Place, N.W., Washington, D.C.

(Tell them Uou suD it in The California Lumber Merchant)