Monarch Screen & Mfg. Co. Take Over Cowan Line and Sales Organizations

The Maule-Heber Company, millwork manufacturers o{ Los Angeles, have discontinued business effective July first. Their plant on Slauson Boulevard which was leased from the L. A. Investment Company, has been returned to its owners. Mr. Maule retired from the firm some time since. Mr. Earl Heber, who has been in charge, announces his future plans elsewhere.

The Cowan Line of built-in furniture which this concern has been operating as a department for some time with H. V. Cowan in charge, has been taken over by the Monarch Screen & Mfg. Company, of 6lA7 Central Avenue, Los Angeles, of which Walter Gibbs is the owner. The entire Cowan line of built-ins are already being constructed in the big Mqnarch plant. Mr. H. V. Cowan and his sales force has become a department of Monarch, and they are going ahead with the production and distribution of the line immediately. In spite of depressed building conditions the Cowan line has been doing a splendid business in Southern California.

SOFI Literature Offers Dealer Helps

Four new pieces of literature have jus,t been issued by the Southern Oak Flooring Industries, Little Rock, Ark., that should be of particular interest to the lumber trade in that they supply accurate and scientific research applied to the merchandising of southern oak flooring.

"SOFI Floors for Home Beauty" is an attractive booklet and beautifufy illustrated, s,horving the me:rit and beauty of southern oak flooring and points out the ease and economy with which. SOFI floors can be installed in every home, new or old. A part of the book gives attention to the use of SOFI floors in business buildings-perhaps the first instance in which a book of this kind has been written to cover both residential and commercial uses to this extent.

"How to Lay and Finish SOFI Oak Floors", prepared by the research division of the Southern Oak Flooring Industries, is another important book attractively arranged, showing how SOFI flooring should be handled, installed and finished accor,ding to improved methods and specifications.

The third piece of literature is a folder containing the SOFI grading rules, effective June 15, which embody pronounced improvements over those governing heretofore.

The Oak Flooring Work Sheets for architects and contractors give in brief form the {ollowing information: how to specify oak flooring according to the architectural style of the building; preliminary steps in floor construction; nailing and laying oak floors; and modern methods of finishing oak floors-and sanding and scraping.

Copies of these four pieces of literature will be furnished to dealers on request by writing the Southern Oak Flooring Industries, Boyle Bldg., Little Rock, Ark.

Jerry Stutz with McCormick

J. H. "Jerry" Stutz has joined the sales force of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, and is covering the territory from Lodi south to Bakersfield. Mr. Stutz wJs formerly with Coos Bay Lumber Co., and is one of the most popular lumber salesmen in Northern California'