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conical form is ideal for smoke gathering and perfect as a reflecting surface for radiant heat. Available in jet black matte with a choice ol three types of base, Available in colored porcelain also!
For CONTEMPORARY HOMES, BEACH CABINS. OFFICES AND RUMPUS ROOMS. CODE APPROVED.
The bottom pivot is contained in a threaded barrel fitted through the bottom rail of the door, into which a hex shaped steel stud is inserted, allowing the unit to be raisecl or lowered in a simple manner. The bottom plate in which the unit pivots is a free-floating type which allows the installer unlimited ease in aligning the unit to an opening which is out of square.
Most dealers and installers attribute the unusual success of the Foldaway door unit to the fact that the hardware and the unit itself fulfill the promise of "Efficiency with Simplicity." Some dealerships outside the Los Angeles area still are available.
WCIA Increqses Technicol Sfoff
Ray L. Todd, a lJniversity of Wisconsin engineering graduate, has been added to the staff of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association technical department, according to T. H. May, Technical director. The addition will increase WCLA's ability to supply the west coast lumber industry with an increasing demand for technical services, and to spend more time in the field with users of lumber and timber, and with such groups as building code of;ficials, government specifiers, and industrial designers, including architects and engineers.
Ilew BAIUIIIG
Yu,ba-Sutter area Masons laid the cornerstone for a new MarYsville Masonic Temple at &th and Oak Sts. to replace the one destroyed by fire in Decem,ber 1956' Buena Park.Larwin Co. filed plans for a 116-home subdrvision valued at $1,291,447, at Lincoln and Miller avenues.

Joseph Rossi ,o,f Winnemuca, Nevada, will construct a $140,000 ho.tel in Oroville, Calif. 'CitY Building Inspector Hughes 'issued the permit rto the Stockton contracting firm of ShePherd and Greene.
A $1,200,000 build,ing Permit was issued in Los Angeles this mon,th for the new Science building at Oc,cidental 'c'ol'lege with 42,0@ sq. ft. of floor space.
Fullerton.-An ll-lot tract was approvod north of Las Palmas Drive on both sides of the P.E. right-of-waY.
Three new apartment houses unde,r construction in BerkeleY include a Z2-unit, $150,000 structure a1t 1735 Highland Place; a 1S-unit, $68,000 apartment at 2636 Waring St., and an 8-unit, $49,2@ dwilling at 1728 Curtis St. Tujunga.-A $53,000' Calif ornia mission-styh edifice for the EPiscopal Church of the Ascension was started at 10154 Montair St. Garden Grove'-Orange County Commission aPproved a 250-home subdivision on 15 acres betweerr Lampson and ChaPman avenues east of the S. P. tracks to McCarthy Co. and George ,R. Sant.
Completion is sctr'eduled bY Jan. I on a $293,000 administration b'uilding for the HaYward, Calif., Union High School District at Amador and Elmhurst Sts. Mc'Clellan Co., HaYward, is the contractor.
Hieht Cons'truction Co. su'bmittea low bid of $1,010,615 for develo'pment of countY ,Parks in the eastern San Gabriel ValleY, including Valleydale in Azusa, Mountain View in El Monte, an'd Live Oak in Temple City. All will be equipped with activitY buildings, office and kitchen facilities and ,picnic shelters.
Tustin.-Swartz & Yedor plan a 47-home tract on 15'5 acres at EsPlanade and Dodge avenues, reports the Orange County Planning Commission.
Trhe Pres'byterian Board of National Missions has bought a 63,000-sq. ft. site at Keeaurrr'oku and Nehot Sts. in the Waikiki district of Honolulu for the first Presbyterian church in Hawa,ii.
P:rlm Springs.-Larry Finley is repo'rted planning a 3-s:tory apartment build,ing in ,the Indian avenue dis,trict, occupying an entire block with recreational facilities and oasis-type landscaping.
Austin Joins Duroble Plywood
Russell A. Austin, former Harbor Plywood executive and salesmanager at Aberdeen, has joined California's Durable Plywood organization, according to Rolf Stolesen, salesmanager of Durable Plywood Sales Co. of Menlo Park. Austin will work with Stolesen in coordinating Durable's 8,000,000-sq.-ft. monthly production from its two mills at Calpella and Arcata through the NIenlo Park sales office.
Austin, a native of Aberdeen, Washington, and a University of Washington graduate, has spent his entire career in lumber and plywood. He originally joined Harbor Plywood during 1934 and was named salesmanager of the organization In 1946.
Dqnt & Russell Elecrs Connolly V-P
Joseph J. Connolly, head of the export department for the export and import of lumber and plywood of Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, has been elected a vice-president. Connolly has more than 25 years' service with Dant & Russell, one of the world's largest lumber and wood products