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New $ales ldeas... EXPENSE-FREE ROOM.DESIGN BOOKLET POPULAR WITH HOME-OWNERS

D'irections for designing a room in a difterent manner, time and without expense, is related in a color-illustrated, l?-page booklet by Masonite Corporation describing its Panelok wali sys, tem. Numerous suggestions for utilizing the system of woodgrained hardboard panels, steel splines and a variety of fixtures for functionalizing the walls are shown. Directions are given for changing wall-hung desks, ca,binets and display ,racks as a child grows. A valuable closet guide chart shows how to increase the storage capacity up to 50%. Fixtures are instantly interchangeable in the slots of the steel splines. The handsomely finished walls are unharmed by such room alterations to meet changing requirements. For a copy of this free booklet, write the Home Service Bureau, Su,ite 2037, LIL W. Washington St.,, Chicago 2, Ill., requesting booklet No. 5719.

HONDURAS MAHOGANY NEW PATTERN IN GENERAL ELECTRIC TEXTOLITE*

Honduras Mahogany, a new General Electric Textolite decorative laminate, patterned af ter the grains used in today's fine mahogany furniture, is announced by the company's Laminated Products Department, Coshocton, Ohio. Textolite designers are said to have captured a high degree of realism in the soft subdued grains and rich coloring of the new pattern. Honduras Mahogany should prove particularly suitable for furniture and certain vertical paneling applications which require a comrbination of realistic woodgrain beauty and durability. A new addition to the company's "select" woodgrain line, Honduras Mahogany will be ofiered in both the conventional satin finish and in newly announced Textured Textolite. Both will be immediately available in CrossGrain form. Availability of the new pattern in the Post-Forming grade will be announced later.

Plastic Cement For Gun Application

An improved plastic cement for gun application has been developed by Permanente Cement Company. Now on the market, the product is specially tailored for use with plaster guns which are increasingly popular for exterior stucco work.

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SUPPLEMENT V ISSUED TO GRADING RULES NO. 15

Grades for double tongue-and-groove "Dex" Heavy Wall and Roof Plank, 3" and 4" thick, are included in the recentlyissued Supplement V to grading and dressing Rules No. 15 of the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau. Both "Select Dex" and "Commercial Dex" grades are described for Douglas fir, West Coast ,hemlock, Sitka spruce and White fir, as well as similar grades for Western red cedar and Incense cedar.

"Dex" material is widely used for attractive walls and roofs. Supplement V illustrates standard patterns and contains a table of working stresses for these uses which have been assigned to the grades. Supplement V also contains a clarification of the Reinspection provisions which reads as follows:

"IJnless otherwise specified by terms of sale or special contract, the grading of lumber is based upon its size, form and condition at the point and time of shipment. Any surbsequent change in manufacture or any subsequent change in condition which includes, but is not restricted to, defacing of the material by use of instruments or marks or otherwise, will prohibit a reinspection except with the consent of the oarties interested."

Copies of Supplement V may be obtained singly or in quan- tity, without charge, from the West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau, 1410 S.W. Morrison, Portland 5, Oregon.

Stonley Works in Crocker Pork

Construction of a new office and warehouse for The Stanley Works in Crocker Industrial Park is the first project in the new 250-acre industrial park immediately adjacent to San Francisco, which was announced in miciAugust by Crocker Land Company. The one-story, tilt-up construction building is part of The Stanley Works' regional expansion program, the latest of five corporate warehouses and sales offices to be built under this program. The first one was in Los Angeles in August of 1958. eontractor for the building is Associated Construction and Engineering Co. of South San Francisco.