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sults from promoting the DFPA Christmas patterns over the past three years. Sales of ov'er 500 patterns and 500 panels of plywood were not unusual. Some dealers gave the patterns away with a plywood purchase; others pre-cut the figures and sold them as complete displays. 'es

Dealers have reported a brisk business in rental and cut sale of power saws for do-it-yourself customers who their own patterns.

Complete information on the DFPA Christmas patterns may be obtained by writing Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Washington. The DFPA says no orders can be filled after November 30.

Sell Peg-Boord for Troin Tobles

Lumber dealers can cash in handsomely on the big Christmas business in model trains-not by going into the selling of these mechanical marvels but by encouraging customers to build train tables for their convenient operation.

A oooular train table made of common buildine A popular building materials t having verv sDecial features is shown in the illustration. but very special With a surface of Masonite /4" Peg-Board, the youthful model train operator and his eager coach (Dad) will have wiring underneath and out of sight, yet available at any point for powering the train and all accessories.

This flexibility of wiring enables the young owner of the model train, as well as his Dad, to have a clean-looking board but facilities for quickly locating the tracks and accessories anywhere they like.

The multi-purpose Peg-Board top is a 4'x8' panel. The wires, strung underneath, are brought through holes closest to the accessories' connections on top of the board. Tracks may be fastened along any desired route simply by wiring some of the ties through the holes.

Lumber dealers wishing to distribute a free plan to their customers may write the Masonite Flome Service Bureau, 111 W. Washington St., Chicago 2,lll., for plan No. AE-328. Included are directions for making the sturdy table and also

Uses DFPA Designs

Albert McCubbin of Burlingame, Calif., manager of the Bayside Home Improvement Center, 19th and Norfolk, San Mateo, last year made and set up a Christmas display on the grounds of City Hall. He used the Nativity scene cutouts furnished by the Douglas Fir Plywood Assn. in its 1958 promotion. The building materials dealer worked about a month on the 15 figures before he presented the scene to the city manager and the superintendent of parks for the city's seasonal display.

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Wholesalers of West Coast Forest Products

564 Market St.

2185 Huntington Drive

Main Office

Other Offi,ces

SAN MARINO 9, CALIF.

San Francisco 4 in a boy's room, including a handy workbench adjacent to it. The bench is covered with Tempered Presdwood-tough, splinter-free and safe for the hands.

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Another almost certain pre- or post-Christmas sale that can be made by the lumber dealer is the material for a mobile electric train table that can be shoved out of the way under the bed when Dad and the boys get through playing with it.

Of course. the easv way the dealer sells the materials is for him to sell the id6a to ihe dads with boys of model train age. Then the materials-lx4-inch lumber, Masonite PegBoard, corrugated fasteners, casters and paint-will just about sell themselves.

Peg-Board is recommended for a couple of excellent reasons that will be immediately apparent to both the dealer and his prospective customers: All wiring can be hidden under the hardboard with lead wires to the transformer.

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