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Don't 0VERL00K the R00F !

A fI great deal of emphasis is being placed these days on the inferior paints and stains on the market and home owners are seeking protection for their homes that will give them reasonable seroice. Over 500,000 satisfied shake and shingle home owners on the West Coast are now protecting their shakes and shingles with OLYMPIC STAIN which is made especially to give long service in the protecting and beautifying of homes. Numerous homes have shingle roofs, without color or protection against rot, decay and curling OLYMPIC STAIN a;lll protect and add beauty to the roofs so, when you sell color for the sidewalls, don't overlook the roof . , there's additional profits {or you.

Shingles ond Shokes need OHMPEft,z

The pure linseed, oil base of OLYMPIC STAIN mixed in an exclusive moisture control process with pure color pigments, provides you with the right prod'uct Ior the protection of shakes and shingles. Added to this formula is,Toxal (Pentachlorophenol) the finest wood preservative available. When you feature OLYMPIC STAIN for shakes and shingles you are assured of customer satisfaction.

We help you sell OLYMPIC STAIN with advertisements in Sunset Magazine, colorful point-of-sale material and descriptive lolders for your customers. Sell OLYMPIC STAIN now the season is here, the market is right and the product is right. Write us today for the name of your nearest Olympic dis' tributor and lurther information.

AEC and Military Receive Priorities

lVashington, Oct. 3-The Defense Department and the Atomic E,nergy Commission received first clll today on the nation's productive capacity and raw materials.

Under a priorities system issued by. the National Production Authority last night, a manufacturer must u...pt military or atomic orders and fill them without delayeven if it means shunting aside his output of automobiles, refrigerators or other civilian goods.

In turn he would have the right to compel his subcontractors and suppliers to put him ahead of their other customers on items and services needed to fill the government order,

The system, effective immediately, was authorized by the new home front mobilization law. It covers practically all rnaterials necessary to the rearmament program except electric power, farm equipment, fuels, S?S, petroleum or transportation-items under the control of other governnrent agencies.

Officials said these agencies have authority to clamp priorities on the excluded items should any shortages develop. None are foreseen nolv.

Attended llouston Meeting

Thomas J. Fox and John W. Fisher, John W. Fisher Lumber Co., Mrs. Fox and Mrs. Fisher, Santa Monica; C. Gilmore Ward, Ward & Harrington Lumber Co., and Mrs. Ward, Santa Ana; Orrie W. Hamilton, executive vice president of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, and Mrs. Hamilton, Los Angeles, attended.the annual meeting of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association at the Shamrock Hotel, Houston, Texas, on October 8-12. Mr. Fox is president, and Mr. Ward, vice president, of the' Southern California Retail Lumber Association.

Following the meeting, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, with other convention delegates, visited Mexico City.

New Wholescrle Lumber Compcny

Percy Windsor, formerly with the Great Western Lumber Corp., has organized the Dell I-umber Corp. and associated rvith him are his son, Del Windsor, and Lou l-emieux, formerly with Anglo California Lumber Co. They are handling truck and trailer lots of Douglas fir, Ponderosa and Sugar pine and White fir. All the principals of the new concern are well known and have been associated with the lumber business in Southern California for many years. Offices are at 509 S. San Fernando Blvd., Burbank. The telephone numbers are Charleston 0-6145 and 0-6146.

The company will represent the Richfield Wood Products Co. of Corning, Calif., handling their cut-to-length Ponderosa pine moulding, and Dedo Mouldings Inc. of Merced, Calif., for lineal moulding.

IREES ARE LIKE PEOPLE sorrJe produce consistentlY

Yeor ofter yeor, we've seen the fruits of our lobors. We've monoged to hove ihe right moteriols ot the right seosons.

Our seeds of quoliiy qnd service hove sprouted. You'll olwoys find the best in hordwood qnd softwood plywoods here. In oddition, there ore such quolity building moteriols os Mosonite Brond Products ond Formico. But lor the best olwoys . . it's

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