Lumber qnd Plywood Used in New 'Dreom Pool'

A Eugene, Ore., man has come up with a new use for lumber and plywood-swimming pools.

A low-cost, do-it-yourself swimming pool has been perfected by the Oasis Swimming Pool Company of Eugene, which has started to expand its sales organization into 11 Western states. Sellers include many retJil lumber dealers.

Jerry Shepard, owner of the Oasis company, says that, after four years of testing, the Oasis "Dream Pool" is now ready for the do-it-yourselfer to install in his own backyard. Shepard formerly was employed by the Start Lumber Co., George Owen Lumber Co., and Central Lumber Co. He also was a partner in the Laneco Planing Mill for a year. They all are in the Eugene Ore., area. This year the company expects to produce at least 1,000 Dream Pools, which are patented in the United States and Canada.

The "Dream Pool" is a below-ground swimming pool that comes in four sizes-l5 by 30 feet, 16 by 34, 18 by 36, and 20 by 4O feet. Prices for the do-it-yourself pools range from $1,640 to $2,340 with freight prepaid. Or, if you have the company install the pool, the prices range from $1,990 to $2.990.

Shepard says 75a/o of all pools sold by his company are the l8 by 36-foot size. A11 size pools are level on the shallow end, with safety ledge around the deep end which range from 3 to 8l feet deep.

The "Dream Pools" come packaged-about 750 feet of

Chemonite-impregnated lumber and 750 feet of plywood, approximately 100 feet of I to l% inch plastic pipe, fittings, nails, and vinyl liner, which is Bakelite Krene ; the liner is tough and hard wearing. You get these packages of mate- rials, plus a blueprint, construction book. The packaged equipment weighs up to 6,000 pounds. A heater can be installed any time, as well as added luxury items such as a diving board, ladder, under-water lights, etc.

"The only material you have to buy, outside of what we furnish you in packages, is four or five yards of sand, and four to five sacks of cement," says Shepard. "Sand is

yes! all by ourselves!

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