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Fire-Retordqnt Lumber

J. H. Baxter & Co., develoPers of the Baxco-Pyresote frre-retardant treatment and other wood preserving processes' are offering free of charge a new four-page brochure on Baxco fire-retardant lumber and plYwood.

Photographs, drawings and text define the uses of BaxcoPyresote treated wood products for framing, roof decking and decorative panels. Acceptance by building codes is detailed. Specifications are also given for lumber, plywood and interior decorative panels.

WRITE: J. H. Baxter & Co., 120 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Calif., 94104.

Contilevered Floors

Timber Engineering Company has announced the availability of a free folder on cantilevered floor framing in light construction. Describing the use of Teco Line-A-Joist connectors for "inline" joists, the folder explains how to use smaller size joist members when utilizing cantilever design teehniques.

Engineered to transmit vertical shear forces from one "inline" joist member to an adjacent joist member, the LineA-Joist connector is manufac-

Unlike conventional floor framing where joists are either lapped or buttcd together over a central support, the Teco Line-A-Joist system calls for one of the joists to be cantilevered beyond the central support and joined to a short joist through the use of the Line-AJoist connector. The long joist is referred to as the "cantilevered joist" and the short joist is referred to as the "supported joist".

WRITE: Timber Engineering Co., 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Wash., D.C. 20036.

Gcroge, Corport Plons

Two new full-color folders, one showing eight practical carport designs and one presenting ten modern garag'e designs, are available for 10 cents each.

Unique Shelf Hordwore

Grant Pulley & Ilardware is ofrering an unusual booklet for dealer use in increasing shelf hardware sales.

Described are seven uncom- mon shelf hardware applications whidr can increase sales volume by opening new vistas for standard and bracket use.

WRITE: Grant Pulley & Hardvrare Corp., High St., West Nyack, N.Y.

New Filon Plons

A series of plans, showing home owners how to build pro- jects with translucent fiberglass panels, is now available to building material dealers. The plans, offered by Filon Corporation, are supplied complete with dispenser units, for in-store promotioa.

Explains Cantilevered Floor Framing tured from 16 gauge galvanized steel and is supplied with 9 gatge l|k" spiral shank nails.

Most of the designs are new and drawn by professional architects. Each structure is individual in style, roofline and size.

Blueprints and material lists also are available at $2 each.

WRITE: Weyerhaeuser Co., Tbcoma. Wash. 98401.

While the series is designed' to promote the sale of Filon products, each project involves the use of lumber, hardware, and accessory items sold by the building materials dealer. Consequently, the plans serve to prompt the sale of many items for each dealer.

WRITE: Marketing Services Dept. Filon Corp. 12333 So. Van Ness Ave., Hawthorne, Calif. 90250.

Shingle Burequ Feles "First Fifty"

Although there was an appropriate, even nostalgic, ceremony commemorating the jj first fifty years of the Red Cedar Shingle i;. & Handsplit Shake Bureau at the association's 50th annual meeting in Seattle last month. the assembled mill owners and managers displayed a noticeable itch to get on with the business at hand.

Few, if any, of the 300 celebrants were around when the Shingle Branch of the :-West Coast Lumber Manufacturer's Association, forerunner of the bureau, opened its doors in 1915, but to a man they are deeply involved in today's expanding market for red cedar shingles and handsplit shakes.

Stewart Ferguson, elected to his second term as president, keynoted the recurring theme of growth by urging all segments of the industry, including. retail and wholesale dealers, roofing contractors and manufacturers, to t'unite in creating an even better, even larger market." P. L. Whitall, of Vancouver, 8.C., was elected vice-president.

To bolster the optimism, secretary-manager Virgil G. Peterson, re-elected to his eleventh consecutive term, pointed to an impressive 23 percent increase in production over the past five years, placing the industry in its best position in recent memory.

However, Peterson tempered his enthusiasm by listing potential stumbling blocks, notably the "increasing aggressiveness of our competition in promoting some of the negative aspects of our products." Also listed by Peterson was the need for in-,.creased efforts in the buildine code field.

Bot Bctliner Relires

Arthur M. ooBat" Batliner, one of the West's leading lumber salesmen who has sold countless millions of dollars of Long. Bell building materials in the [.os Angeles area in the last 4u3 years, has retired. Don Brogdon, national sales manager, said Donald L. Obrecht has replaced Batliner.