ARTESIA DOOR 5 QUALITY DOO

Ihe new "Ghalloner" #723 Door Units installed at Artesia lloor Gompany are designed to speed up pro' duction of high quali$ doors in every phase of the operation. "Ghalloner" basic machines are constructed with thlee posts instead of the usual two, which allows a more flexible arangement of the cutting stations, and makes room for the installation of mote units. Equipped with a combination sander'polishet unit, the first machine gives a furniture smooth finish to the door edges, and all necessary units are equipped with tilting mechanisms for running pre-fit doors. Each door is fed through the machines by a modem Yee' Type Chain with every link a center link, much im' proved over older gpes.

Artesia's new "Challoner" #723 Door Sizer Units are geared to tum out 2500 to 3500 doors per eight-hour shlft, a rate of about five doors per minute. An automatic gate $pe transfer mechanism allows both machines to run continuously when properly synchronized, allowing the number one machine to be fed with relatively no gaps. This prevents doors from piling up in a hopper and also prevents scratching. Artesia's modernized process saves time, labor, and money. Ihe money saved is passed on to YOU on the price of your doors.

Large diversiffed stocks of foreign and domestic hardwoods -our yard.

o Prompt delivery by our trucks o Immediate service on "will calls" o Complete milling facilities o New, modern dry kilns o Centrally located o Competitively priced

SIMPLE FAMILY ROOM LOCATED OFF KITCHEN-Many older homes have unused space adjacent to the kitchen-in an old pantry, sun room or porch-which can be transformed economically into a convenient family room. Often this improvement can be added to a basic kitchen modernization job by illustrating the advantages to the family. Built-ins provide plenty of storage space in the room. To make the room as practical as possible, the walls and ceilings are covered with plastic-surfaced Marlite. Homemakers appreciate the easy maintenance of a family room that can be damp-wiped clean. "Before and after" pictures of a modernization project like this will prove effective sales aids.

New Aloskon Plcrnr of Koppers to Stqn Opercrtions

Pressure-treated wood will be produced for the first time in the State of Alaska in earlv lune when the new wood preserving plant of Kopperj Co-pat y, Inc. goes into operation at Whittier, Alaska. The plant is equipped to pressure-treat ties, poles, piling and lumber.

Under the direction of Guy Phillips, Koppers plant manager, the first wood will be rolled into a huge pressure cylinder and preservative chemicals driven deeply into its fibers. Such treatment makes the wood highly resistant to attack by fungus and other decay-causing organisms. Because Alaska has heavy precipitation, both rain and snowfall, these decay-causing organisms thrive in this climate.

In the past, all pressure-treated wood used in Alaska has been shipped in from Washington, Oregon and California. The rlew Koppers plant will make available Alaskan forest products, pressure-treated by Alaskan people for use irr Alaska.

Initially, the treatments used will impregnate the woocl with creosote. Shortly, hovvever, the local plant will also 1>rodnce NON-COM fire protected wood. The NOM-CONI treatment is comparatively new, but thorough tests of its resistance to fire and flame spread have resulted in its being given the Underwriters Laboratories approval.

Major customers for the pressure-treated wood to be produced at the new Whittier plant will be a dozen or more publicly-owned utilities, the Alaska Railroad' which has been using approximately 6O,000 pressure-tr'eated ties anrrrrally, and the Columbia Lumber Company, whose plant is nearby. Steam for operation of the Koppers plant is being obtained from Columbia Lumber.

Timber to be treated in the new Koppers plant is being selectively cut from the nearby Chugach National Forest under the direction of government foresters. Hemlock. rr'hich has not been marketable in the past in this area, will be used predominantly because the pressure-treating process makes this wood highly serviceable. The plant will maintain an inventory of treated wood in order that it may be readily available to Alaskan users.

The \Arhittier plant is locatecl on larrd leasecl from the Alaska Railroad. While its operations are initially small, the plant has been constructed so that it rnay be enlarged as the state's demand for Dressure-treated woocl increases.

How "Lonely" Gon You Get?

Flere's a note of information for those of you rvho noticed the nameless advertisement at the top of page 23 of the July lst issne of California Lumber Nlerchant. The lead-inline of this a<lvertisement was "Lonely . . . No ! Just Particular." It might appear that the advertiser wanted to remain so "lonely" that he purposely omitted l-ris firm name fron-r the acl. We call assure you that this not not what happer.red. Actually we goofed and inadvertently left California Parrel and Veneer's signature line out of tl-re ad. Turn to page 7 of this issue to see the corrected version.

Women in Construction Plon July Meeting

The Los Angeles Chapter of Women in Corrstruction announces its July 18 meeting to be held at the Press Club, 600 N. Vermont Avenue, at 6:30 p.m.

The evening's speaker will be R. Leon Eclgar, head of l.ris own architectural firm in Sherman Oaks, whose subject is "From An Architect's Point of Vieu'." Mr. Edgar is a former presi<lent of the San Fernando Valley District of the Soutl-rern California Chapter AIA, and is nor,v cl-rairnran of the AIA Speakers' Bureau.

Florence Barbour, WIC secretary, reports that the club now has 62 members, with increasecl attenclatrce ancl iuterest at each meeting.