From

Lindbergh to Todcry

If you would like an impressive measuring stick concerning how "the world do move" in some directions, consider the following:

Recently the world stopped to discuss th'e fact that it was ;ust thirty years since Col. Lindbergh made his flight from New York to Paris, the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight.

The fact was brought out at this time that today there are an average of 150 flights EVERY DAY from our Eastern seaboard to Europe.

One-hundred and fifty planes, all big ones and carrying

Pooling R.esources

The nun-rber of contractors rvho build only su'imming pools ancl the distributors u'ho sell then.r pool supplics has grou'n from '100 to 1300 jrrst in 1956! That's hou' fast the pool business is expandir.rg, accordir.rg 1o a survey just con.rplcted by Srvin.rming I'ooi Age, tracle public:ition of the industrr'. IIost oi these builders :rnd suppliers met irr Chicago recently l'hcrr the neu.lr. organizecl National Su'imming l)oo1 lr.rstitrrte helcl its first annulrl convention.

In 195.1 there'rvere 3(r,000 pools in the U.S. One r.ear later therc rvere 56,000, and to<lav there are conservativelr'' estimated tcl Lre lJ(r,0@ pools in riperation. Cost of constructiorr and original equipment of the 30,000 built in 195(r n'ill excec<i $325.000.000.

An Editorial

many thousands of passengers, fly every day from this country to Europe.

You would have to repeat that statement over and over again to get the full import of it. Thirty years ago, one little plane-manned by one lone, gallant man, flew from here to Europe. Today the skies are so filled with planes making that flight that they are really in need of traffic cops of the air, to keep them out of each other's way.

There are, of course, innumerable illustrations that might be offered of the changes that have taken place in our civilization in 30 years-but can you think of a more impressive one ?

Lien lqw-Notice Bills Foil

Although Senate bills 806 an<1 2304. the lien lau'-notice l;ills, u,erc given a "clo-pass" rccommencletion by a vote of 7-6 in the Scnate Judiciary comr.r.rittee, thev failed to reach the Senate floor for clebate in the recent session of the California legislature and u'ere referrcd to a Senate Interim cornrrrittee for a 2-year studv. llecent bulletins of the Lumber Nlerchants r\ssrr. of Northern California an<l also the Southc'rn CalifornilL Iietail Lunri.'er Assn. praiserl their dealer lnenrbers for prompt resl)onse to .\ssociati,,n urgings t,, n'rite and rvire senators to keep thcse anti-irrrlrrstry bills from being enxctc(l. The i,IT-\NC brrlletin s:ri<l the respolrsc trom this industrv u-as "trenrendous."

(Tcll tltt:nt you .to'zLt it in 7'hc Calif ornio Lunthcr lIerclmnt)

$AtE$ IDEA$

A special kit of Marlite display material for standard swinging panels recommended by the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association is now available free to dealers.

Designed specifically to fit on tn'o 30'x80" NIILDA panels. the kit pror,icles comlilete, effective display in little space. Irach kit contains identification signs, descriptive literature, actual s;rrnples ancl installatit-rn instmctit.rns for the complete Nfarlite line-Hi-Gloss, \\roocl I'anel, N{arble l)anel, Plank and Block, Korelock and Flax l'attern. Also included are ful1-color illustrations of the product in roorn settings.

More than 4,000 dealers har.e adoptecl the NRLI)A clisplay panels as a simple, inexpensive \\ray of merchandising many products. The panels tell a cor-nplete story, pre-sell the r,vaiting customer, anrl save selling timc.

Nfarsh \Vall Products from time to time n.ill send revisecl N{arlite material to clealers using the original clisplav kit.

FPL Advisory Counc!! Nqmed

Walter F. tlolzer, product manilger of Cror.vn Zellerbach Corporation, San Francisco, is the nelv chairman of the Technical Aclvisory Council, University of California Forest Products Laboratory. \rice-Chairman rvill l;e A. William Agnew, vice-president oi The Paci6c Coast Company, Sonoma, and. as secretary, Russell l3jorn, manager of Srrb and Xlaterial Contractors Association. San Ilafael. Outgoing chairman is Earl B. Birmingham, {ormer president of

Flammond I-umber Cor.npanr', San Francisco. Heading a conrrnittee to investigate the possibility of srrrveving rvoods ancl mill residrres in California is Kenneth I-. Nlcirro\\', general nranager oI the Shasta Plyrvood divisior-r, U.S. Plyu'ood Corlioration, Itedding. Other members are \\'illiam G. Van Beckum, director of research for The Pacific I-un-rber Com* pany, San Francisco, and l-Iolzer. Another nel' member of the Council attencling u'as E. Patrick Ivorv. president of Ivory l'ine Co., Dinuba, Calif.