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Gel Free Selling aids..,Build Profits with &co eea$-es nugaled rcf l roofing

One of the easiest ways to sell more is to make it easy for customers to buy. That's where Ceco Free Selling Aids can help you. Look at this easy-to-put-up display, consisting of a poster and two banners. All you do is place them as indicated with a roll of Ceco Cross-Corrugated Galvanized Roll Roofing and you hai'e a "silent salesman" on youl staff at no cost to you. The poster and banners are frce rshen 1'ou stock Ceco Cross-Corrugated Roll Roofing. The display rvill suggest the purchase of the roofing to 1'our store tralEc . , the sales message rvill convince those rvho read it. Other free Ceco Sales Aids include ne\{spaper mats-radio and TV spots-TV slides-trvo-color descriptive flyers-and photographs showing roofing application. Ceco offers a variety of sales help on other products such as Steel and Aluminum Windol's, Rocifing Accessories and Rain Carrying Coorls. Mail this c,,rrpon t,,,1,r. I q@

Ceco Steel Products Corporation

Offices, warehouses and fabricating plants in principal cities 1450 Mirasol Street, Los Angeles 23, California

Name ments, have recognized the cluality of ltoddis products and in Wcirld Wars I and II, the firm produced marine interior \\'ood\\'ork for Liberty and Victory ships, as r,vell as plyu'oocl for bulkheads, doors, door frames and the like.

The president is proud of the fact that the Nlarshfield firm, among all the plyr.vood manufacturing concerns in the Unitecl States, supplied one-half of the rvood products required by this country and foreign governments.

The company now owns and operates 25 warehouses under the Roddis name throughout the United States, and the Kansas City wholesale establishments are partly owned by Roddis.

I-umber, veneer and flooring are turned out at the Soo plant. Birch veneer, still a Roddis specialty, comes from the L'anadian operation.

The firm ventured out of the midrvest in 1948 rvhen it purchased the Ilumboldt Plyr,vood Corp., Arcata, Calif., and later bought the'Humboldt Lumber Co. at Maple Creek, enterprises rvhich are operating under Robert T. I3eggs, executive vice-president of the company. The Pacific Coast plants norv manufacture and ship about $800,000 n'orth of plyr,vood and lumber a month.

Proper utilization of forest resources available for manufacturing has always been of prime consideration to Hamilton Roddis. He recently announced plans to begin construction ol a $2,250,000 plant at Arcata for the manufacture of the Behr shavings board rn'hich utilizes rvaste rvood that is not useful for lumber or veneer. This low-cost shavings board is expected to be on the market sometime in 1956.

Don Andrews Wirh N-AWIA

Ner,v York City.-Sid l-. Darling. secretarv oi the National-American Wholesale Lurnber Associirti,)n, iurnounces that Don Andrel's has been selectecl as the ner,r' iissistzrut to \\restern Nlanager I'aul Stevens of N-A\\-L-\ at Portland and joined the ()regon staff July 11. Andres's succeeds John F. Miller rvho has returned to Kansas Ciity, Mo., n'here he was formerly assistant secreta,ry of the Southwestern Lumbermen's Association, in a sales czrpacity 'rvith the I-loyd St. Clair I-rrmber Co.

Don Andreu's is a graduate of C)regon State in forestry, u'hen he u'orked srlmnlers l.ith Oregon-American at Vernonia. After the t'ar, he spent a year at the Springfield, Ore., plant of \\reyerhaeuser Timber Co. in the woods, on the sorting chain, in the shipping shed ancl attending l c()urse in lumber grading. lIe rvas also associated rvith his father in 'ivholesale lumber at the S. S. Andrel's I-umber Co., and his past trvo years \vere spent on the market reporting and editorial staff of Crou"s Pacific Coast I)igest. He is a past president of Portland Hoo-Hoo.

Vof ley Frolic September 23

Fresno.-The big event-the San Joaquin Valley HooHoo annual Frolic-comes off this month, Septernber 23, at the Hacienda Motel here..The rvord is out that, if you enjoyed last year's Frolic, just 'ivait till you see 'rvhat a terrific shorv General Chairman Elmer Rarr has on tap for this year. The Friday affair rvill inclucle golf, cocktails, dinner, entertainment and, of course, "the Rest Feilowsl-rip in the World."

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