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Decorqtive Aluminum Shutters
Decorative aluminum shutters from Reynolds Metals Company are now being distributed in southern California by Vent Vue Window Products. Available in both contemporary and traditional styles, the new shutters provide an economical way to modernize and enhance any style architecture,
Designed for easy installation, low maintenance and economy, the shutters will never rot, warp, crack, peel or split. Semigloss acrylic enamel is bake-bonded to the heavy gauge aluminum and is available in white, black or prime-coat.
Useful Gifi for Builder Customers
Teco's Christmas elf suggests to lumber and building material dealers that a useful and unusual gift for those special builder customers is a Teco "Mark 16" Automatic Marker. Every time it is used to mark the location of studs, joists, trusses and other
Installation Requires 0nly Minutes
The heavy gauge Reynolds Aluminum and quality construction are an assurance of dependable service and beauty. Each pair of shutters comes cartoned complete with simple instructions and mounting screws. The shutters are pre-drilled and reinforced making installation a matter of minutes.
WRITE: Vent Vue Window Products Co., Inc,, 2424 Glover PI., Los Angeles 90031.
Automatically Marks Framing Pieces and Components framing pieces and components the builder will be saving time and money.
A precision tool that makes it possible for the user to automatically determine 8n,12'r 16" and 24" o.c. settings, the,,Mark 16" eliminates the tedious and time-consuming job of measuring and squaring before making "cutting" and "locating, marks. A proven time and labor saver, the product provides greater accuracy in the layout of building parts and pieces.
The marker consists of a special ,,marking wheel" mounted in a chassis which is rolled along the material to be marked,
WRITE: Timber Engineering Co., 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Morlite's
Chqntilly Series
Ttre delicate beauty of rare lace is com_ bined with modern color tones in Marlite paneling's new Chantilly desigrr.
Available in beige, green, gold. and rose, the attractive new paneling'can be used to key an entire decorative seheme or to accent smaller areas,
Large four-foot wide Chantilly panels cover wall areas quickly and economically.
Wallboard adhesive is used to secure the %-inch thick plastic-finished hardboard to any solid backing, including old walls. These satin finished panels also can be used in the tub-shower area.
Like all Marlite, Chantilly is highly- resistant to heat, moisture and hard water. It can be damp-wiped elean; never needs refinishing. Ilarmonizing moldings also are available.
WRITE: Marlite, Dover, Ohio.
Accounls Receivoble System
An automatic accounts receivable system that provides monthly machine-prepared ready-for-mailing customer statements has been announced by Monroe Data hocessing.
The input medium for the system is a new Monroe Sweda sales register with a punched tape attachment. All transactions are recorded through the register. A complete record of each item in a transaction is automatically punched into paper tape, which is sent once a month to a Monroe Data Processing center for computer handling.
The owner of a store with 200 active charge accounts, each of which has five transactions a month, can obtain the statement preparation service for as Iittle as $50 a month.
The system also provides weekly reports of sales in as many as gg merchandise classifications at a priee of g5 per 1000 transactions.
\MRITE: Monroe Sweda Sales Register Systems, 550 Central Ave., Orange, N.J.
Potlorch ond Welch Introduce New Mosterpiece Prefinished Poneling
A new line of prefinished paneling-entitled Masterpiece "perio{ style"-will be jointly manufactured and distributed by Potlatch Forests, Inc. and Welsh Panel Company.
The Masterpiece finish is a hard, wearresistant, glare-free surface. The finish resists stains and mars, and wipes clean with a damp cloth. The panels are available in seven prefinished color tones to match selected historic and contemporary decors.
Each pattern blends to beautify selected decorating themes. Old Seville enhances Spanish decor; American Pine portrays the Colonial motif; Windsor reflects 18th Century traditional; Salem adapts to Early American and three additional finishes cornplement contemporary decor. Contemporary panels have accent tones of veiled turquoise, aqua blue and ofr-white.
Panels will carry a lifetime guarantee. They will retain the natural features of wood with the added beauty and benefits of factory finishing.
The line will be promoted by means of a unique Old Master painting tie-in. When the customer fills in the guarantee, an authentic masterpiece reproduction may be ordered for 50 cents.
WRITE: Potlach Forests. Inc., 320 Market St., San Francisco, Catif.
Siding Looks, Feels Like Stone
Amerox Fiberglas Siding Panels, which make it possible to put up seven stones with just four nails, have been introduced by Bolen International, Inc,
The new siding product for home improvement contractors and builders looks and feels like stone, is pre-mortared at the factory and has no exposed nail heads when applied. Made of real crushed stone imbedded in tough fiberglass, it goes up like aluminum or any other fast-application siding.
Each waterproof panel has seven "stones," covers more than 3 sq. ft, and weighs less than 4 lbs. It will not chip, 'crack or ctaze in normal use.
Designed primarily as exterior accent for sale by dealers as a sales opener or clincher in combinations with other sidings, Amerox provides the beauty of handchiseled stone at a fraction of real stone cosf,.
The Amerox sample case for dealer salesmen contains before-and-after pictures of homes re-designed and dramatically improved with Amerox plus actual panels. A full-color brochure gives the sales story and technical information.
WRITE: Bolen International, Inc., 5238 W. Belmont, Chicago, Illinois 60641.
Fire Door Size lncreqsed
The largest lty'z l:.our, B-Label wood fire door yet developed is now being produced by Weyerhaeuser Company.
Under"writers Laboratories' Iabeled and listed, the new Weyerhaeuser Roddis flushveneered product is available in sizes up to 4 feet by 8 feet in 17a-inch thickness. Vision panels of 100 sq. in. are permitted. The door has a core of incombustible mineral cornpound and has a t/"-inch fireretardant treated lumber banding a,round the entire perimeter.

Guaranteed for the life of the installation (when used as an interior door), the new door may be obtained in any available commercial wood species or with mediumdensity face overlays.
WRITE: Weyerhaeuser, Tacoma, Wash.
New Siding Disploy Wing
A new 4x8-foot siding display wing that allows customers to leaf through series of 4x2-foot samples as easily as turning pages of a book is available from Georgia-Pacific. The swinging wing fits standard G-Plex display units already in use by building ma-
Swinging Wing Fits dealers to show 4x8-foot hardwood plywood wall panels.
Each new wing holds eight siding samples back to back. Initial samples being supplied by G-P are medium density overlaid plywood in horizontal lap and vertical grooved panels, .exterior overlaid particleboard, rrrstic primed hardboard, texture 1-11 and rough-sawn fir plywood in plain, reverse board-and-batten and cedar-stained types.
TilRITE : Georgia-Pacific, Equitable Building, Portland 4, Oregon,