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color are accompanied by her suggestions for blending furnishings with woodgrained Royalcote walls and other decorative panels. She says:

"The choice of panels will be determined by your own preferences, since each of these lovely wood grains is an appropriate background for today's home furnishings, traditional or contemporarv, formal or informal."

\YRITE: Masonite Corporation, Box B, Chicago, Ill., and send a dime.

Pockoge Tying

A full facts brochure on a wide variety of package tying machines for myriad uses is available.

Well illustrated and full of problem solving machine applieations, the book is a welcome answer to anyone who ties or wraps most anything.

Bunn has engineers in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other Western cities who will analyse your problem needs and make a no obligation recommendation.

WRITE: B. H. Bunn Co.,7605 Vincennes Ave., Chicago 20, Ill,

Morlite "How-To" Sheets

New, easy-to-follow installation instruction sheets for the various types of plastic-finished Marlite paneling have been published by Marsh Wall Products.

The new instructions, printed in bright colors, will be included in all cartons of Marlite paneling. Individual installation sheets

Marlite can be used in new construction as well as remodeling' Tips on the use of adhesive and the application of moldings also are iniluded in the new installation sheets.

WRITE: Marsh Wall Products, Denver, Ohio.

Noise Control SYstems

Advanced structural sYstems designed to meet increasing noise control problems in residential, commercial and institutional buildings are covered in a new 20 page manual Published by the Bestwall GYPsum division of Georgia-Pacific CorP. Single copies are available at no cost. It includes cut-awaY drawings, detailed material lists, sound and fire test ratings, and technical data on methods of isolating and controlling sound.

Covers Marlite Panels, Planks & Blocks have been prepared for Marlite plank and random plank, ceiling blocks, and four-foot wide panels. The installation instructions show how plastic-finished

A "Partition Selector Guide" lists types of wall construction needed to meet various decibel levels and sound control goals. A glossary of terms explains technical language.

WRITE: W. F. Rooney, Georgia-Pacifie Corp., P.O. Box 311, Portland, Oregon 9?207.

Kitchen Cobinet Cotolog

Kemper Brothers' new full color, I2-page Wood Kitchen Cabinet Catalog is now ready for distribution.

Included in this comprehensive piece is a full color photograph of every kitchen stvle and finish available from Kemper. In addition, feature photographs are shown along with descrip- tive copy and complete drawings of every type kitchen cabinet and accessory offered by Kemper.

Copies are free.

WRITE: Kemper Bros., Inc., Richmond, Indiana.

New Cupolqs Described

Stephenson & Co. have announced two completely new lines of cupolas u'hich include six new models. All have culved roofs and decorative mouldings.

The illustrated catalog sheet describes two complete new lines of four-and six-sided nrebuilt and assembled redwood cupolaswith distinclive curved roofs-that give a prestige look to homes, garag'es and ccmmercial buildings. Details are given on the new president series (6sided) that features 36" and 42" roof widths, and the nerv €iovernor series (4-sided) with 25", 28", and 36" roof widths.

The president series features copper roofs, and the governor series offers copper and aluminum-clad construction. Ease of installation for both homeowner and builder is explained. Dimensions, shipping weights, and prices are included.

lr ltI'IE: Stephenson & Co., 15752 Industrial Park*'ay, Cleveland, Ohio 44135.

D&B Anolysis

The industry studies department of Dun & Bradstreet is ofrering a depth-type study of the general building contracting industry. The nation's 184,000 general building contractors are responsible for the supervision and coordination of construction projects awarded to them through competitive bidding or by negotiated contracls.

The Dun & Bradstreet study points out the characteristics of the industry, giving a special emphasis to its financial structure and condition as determined from a lepresentative statistical sampling of financial statements.

Copies may be obtained without charge.

WRITE: Public Relations Department, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., 99 Church Street, Ner'"' York, N. Y. 10007.

Fosteners Cotolog

A free 12-page comprehensive catalog describi-:g the complete line of Teco structural wood fasteners is available from Timber Engineering Co. Presented split rings, shear plates, toothed rings, clamping plates, spike grids, floor bridging, post anchors and base supports, cantilevered joist connectors and grooving tools.

\\'lilTE: Timber Engineering Co., 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. 20036.

Sound Control Selector

Technical infolmation on sound and fire ratings and PhYsical characteristics of partition assemblies, such as weight and components I equired. is now available in just seconds with United States Gypsum Company's new Sound Contl'ol Paltition Selector.

Describes Teco Structural Fasteners in the publication is detailed information on dimensions, manufacturing specifications, recommended safe working values, suggested applications and methods of packaging.

Products covered in the Teco catalog include joist hangers, framing anchors, truss plates, plywood supports, utility angles,

This slide chart was designed to clarify the values associated with interior partitions used as sound contlol elements in building construction and to broaden the understanding of just what a partition can be ^rPected to do as a sound balrier.

All the infolmation is uP-tothe minute and based uPon tests conducted at recognized laboratolies ol bY qualified independent consultants. Ali sources are listed with the information.

WRITE: Dept. 122, tlnited States Gypsum ComPanY, 101 S. Wacker Dr., Chicago, Illinois' 6"606.

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The Return of Benny Beqver

Benjamin ooBenny" Beaverfaller, bucker, dam-builder and member of the world-famed lumbering family has joined the Redwood Region Conservation Council as its supervisor of forest activities and chief fire fighter.

Benny applied to RRCC headquarters for work following a six-month period of convalescence.

January 1, while inspecting the culinarv qualities of the wood structures which support Pasadena's Rose Bowl, he was seriously mauled by a curmudgeonly wolverine.

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Clear Dry Firs and Pines to 6" (inclusive) thickness

Commercial r"."0 irr.l.ssing Boards

Turning Stocks/Mast and Spar Spruce

Pattern Grade pine jnO'tvta'trogany/Boat Lumber OAK

Seems that wolverine had left his home in Michigan for a trip to Disneyland and had stopped off in Pasadena for some mild exercise. A beaver with a football was all he could find to tussle with.

Healed, Benny headed back to his fam' iliar forest where, he says, the most dan' gerous creatures are 2l-year-old loggers on Saturday night and a funny old bear who wears a silly hat.

Benny's first assignment will be to work with that bear, Smokey they call him, in an effort to keep the Redwood Region green. But being a charter member of the "hardhat-on-head, we're-not-dead" club, Benny

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ease enter my subscription for the lifornia Lumber Merchant: indicated he would try to talk Smokey out of wearing his felt campaign hat.

One Year. . . $4.00 | n VIV check is enctosed.

Two Years . . $7.00 | tr Aitt me tater. I n eirl my company.

"W'idow-makers,t' he warned, "can drive you into the deck like a rvickct."

Well known as an industrious woods worker, Benny has numerous qualifications for his jol, irr [orest conslrt ati'rr.

His gr('at-great-granddaddy pioneered the tet:hnique of selt'ctive logging. and carly lumberjacks t'opied llenny's srreat uncle Rernard Z. Beavt'r's method of gt'tting logs from the forest to the mill by rivcr floating.

As a matter of {act, Benn\"s cousins still ('rcavate canals-some ser"eral hundred feet long-to float wood for life's ne cessities into their communities. Their dams are engineered perfectly to keep the water in the canals at a proper depth.

Dams, however, have occasionally gotten Benny and his cousins into trouble with forcsters when they flood -"eedling areas. iJut it's generally conceded that Lreaver dams do more sood than harm.

Tht dams o.t lik" giant sieves to hold ha<:k the water and settle the finc particlt's of -.oil in the stream-q. Ilennl' strl's. espet'ially after rains. The rich meadorvlartds in crur mountains are a re,sult of beaver dam irrigation.

Thc Crolier Socicty of Nel York provided Bcnny rvith his most glowing recommendation when it said: "'fhis continent owes a debt to thc Lreaver-.."

The RRCC hopes the Rcdtood Region