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Four New ltems for SoGsl Deqlers lntroduced by T. M. Cobb Compony

C. H. "Chuck" Corwin, general sales manager of the T. M. Cobb Company, announces that the firm has added four brand new items for distribution to Southern California retail lumber dealers from the company warehouses in both Los Angeles and San Diego.

In order to keep abreast of the trend in the Southland building industry, the wholesale distributing concern is introducing two new aluminum sliding doors, an all new horizontal sliding window, and a completely new aluminum screen door as companion items of the Capri door which the T. M. Cobb organization has been furnishing dealers for several years.

The "Balboa" is a quality product at a competitive price and comes in a beautiful anodized satin finish. This new unit is available single or double glazed. The deluxe "Imperial" is said to be exciting in every detail and is designed to enliven the decor of any room where aluminum sliding doors are used. The colored handle grips of red, black, turquoise and rattan are interchangeable to fit any decorative scheme in modern building.

The new Tyco horizontal sliding window units are called customer pleasers at a competitive price, and meet all standards of the Aluminum Window Manufacturers' Association DS-AI.

The fourth item is the all new Tyco aluminum screen door, which is also priced competitively for the dealer's market and produced for Southern California living.

"We shall- continue to keep abreast of the changes in building trends and we shall do our best to offer not only cluality demand items but a complete specialty item service tb Southland retail lumber dealers," said Corwin' "With these new Tyco products we believe the retail dealers will be able to service his customer's needs in both price and quality."

Teiritory salesmen covering all of the Southern California dealers for T. M. Cobb Company include Jack Bostrom, Jack Behringer, Ray Cobb, Burtt Fleming, Clarence Walker and Bill Pruitt, who is also manager of the San Diego warehouse. Brochures and complete specificatior.rs are available from the sales staff or may be had by writing the company ofifrces, it was said.

Lee Slatht, manager of the Los Angeles warehouse, is in charge of administration and sales in the metropolitan district.

Februory Home Building Boomed

Construction contracts in the United States (excluding Alaska) totaled $2.3 billion in February, setting a new alltime record for the month l8/o above February 1958, according to F. W. Dodge Corporation. Vice-president and Economist George Cline Smith said, "By far the strongest element in February was housing.

"The number of new dwelling units covered by contracts during the month totaled 85,206, an increase of 44/o over February of last year. Units in apartments, single-family houses and two-family houses all were up by approximately the same percentage, marking the first time in several years that single family houses have been as strong as the other two types."

Jqmes F. Shiely New President

James F. Shiely, president of Winton Lumber Sales Co', of 'Minneapolis, was elected president of Ponderosa Pine Woodwork at the association's recent annual meeting in Chicago. Other officers elected include Hugh A. Schaefer, Michigan-California Lumber Co., Sacramento, treasurer'

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