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Teco Exponds Glulqm Work

introduced. Daily restorative maintenance once involved sweeping, waxing and bufiing and took approximately 2 to 3 man hours each day. Today this has been reduced to simple sweeping to remove surface dust--an operation requiring much less time.

With it all has gone an added Watco benefit: floors that are skid-free for basketball, but still smooth enough for dancing.

The beginning of the Watco story in this country was unusual enough to match the unusual qualities of the product, itself. For it began with a hobby. Guy H. Dennis, now president of Watco-Dennis Corp., of Santa Monica, California, has been a

As Guy Dennis himself relates it, 'oOne of my fellow ohams' was a chap in South Africa. He was distributine Watco Danish Oil Finish in that countf on behalf of Watco, Ltd., the English company which originally developed the product. He told me about Watco during our 'ham' radio conversations and he sent me some samples.

"f was in the building and developing business at the time-and somewhat skeptical alout what he told me. But after testing the product, I got so excited about it that I just about took the next plane to London-and came back with a 99-year exclusive license to manufacture and distribute Watco Danish Oil Finish and other Watco products throughout North America and the Far East.

Timber Engineering Company has announced expanded activity in quality control, inspections, testing and certification of gluedJaminated ,rrood products. Teco is a Ieading independent testing and certification agency for wood products, active in particleboard and plywood in addition to expanded activity in glulams.

Elmer F. McDade has been named supervisor of structural glued laminated timber inspections, wlth his field office in Santa Rosa, Calif. Previously McDade operated the McDade Timber Laboratory, specializing in glulam inspections rrrd t".iing. Before that he was staff wood technologist and quality control supervisor for Fluor Products Company, for four years.