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All inquiries regarding NEI7 PRODUCTS, New Literature or booklets and other items mentioned in this section should be addressed to THE CALIFORNI,A LUMBER MERCHANT, Room 508, 108 \$fest 6th St., Los Angeles 14. Your inquiries will be promptly forwarded by us to the manufacturer or distributor, who will then answer your inquiries direct.

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New Device Prices lumber in Seconds

A new easy-to-use device developed by the Lumber Dealers Merchandising Service in collaboration with Weyerhaeuser Sales Company enables you to price lengths of lumber rvith a flick of the wrist.

Using the new "I-umber Pricing Calculator" for retail selling, bill-ofmaterial estimating or inventory prici.g, you can forget about pencils, charts, scratch pads and figure juggling with freedom from error, the Merchandising Service reports.

The Calculator does the figuring for you. It gives you a direct reading in price per piece and lineal ft. price for a real shortcut to your everyday pricing problems.

All you do is set it read it, the Service reports.

Johns-Mqnville Booklet Tells How to Build Flexboord'Gcroge

"How to Build a Flexboard Garage" is a new 36-page booklet published by Johns-Manville. It is profusely illustrated and covers the building of a one or two-car garage. Starting with hints on financing and building codes, it proceeds step-by-step through all the problems of construction foundations, pouring the garage floor, framing, sheathing, roofing, doors and windows. It even includes incidental suggestions on how to make the garage attractive by adding such things as cupolas, lamp posts, fences and. so forth. For exterior walls and for lining the garage interior, the booklet recommends Asbestos Flexboard, a large size, asbestos-cement sheet material. The advantages of this fireproof building board are fully explained and illustrated.

For example . . suppose you want to know the price of a piece of V'x4" lumber 12' long, selling for $150 per 1000 board feet.

Simply set the arrow at $150 and read the Calculator's anslver ($1.20).

With the Calculator you can quickly read your selling price for the complete range of lumber lengths, from 8' to 20', in 18 sizes.

The Calculator's listing of the lineal ft. price for each lumber size, enables you to quickly figure odd sizes.

The Calculator is l23f', x 4fut,. It is handsomely printed in two colors on special varnished "Toughcheck" stock to withstand plenty of rugged use, indoors or out.

Calculators are available from the Lumber Dealers Merchandising Service, Eighth Floor, Palace Building, Minneapolis 1, N{innesota, $2.00 postpaid.

To secure copies of "How to Build a Flexboard Garage" send 25 cents to Johns-Manville, 22 East 40th Street, New York 16, N. Y.

California's forest industries employ more than 100,000 persons, with an annual payroll of more than ${gg -;1lion.

A new random pattern acoustical tile has been added to the Wood Conversion C,ompany line of Nu-Wood interior finishes. The new tile not only opens up striking concepts of interior beauty, but provides excellent light diffusion and sound,conditioning. The Stalite predecorated surface is a pleasing rvhite that actually grows whiter rvith age, as provided by fadometer tests. The matte texture of the tile surface help to distribute reflected light and reduce glare.

Nu-Wood random tile features scientifically designe<l "sound traps" in the tile perforations. Precision drilling machines correctly space these pat- terned acoustical holes for maximum efficiency. All tile bevels are coated to match the decorative white of the tile surface. In application the tile edges are rninimized to produce a monolithic type of ceiling or rvall surface. Joints stay cleaner longer because the painted surface is more resistant to dust and dirt.

Nu-Wood random acoustical tile is available in tongue-and-groove type for application with the famous NuWood clip . . or available in WideFlange style for staple application . . and both types of tile can be applied by adhesive or nailing. For a decorative effect. random tile can be mixed with regular non-perforated Nu-Wood tile having the same joint.

The units come in three sizes: LT'xlV' in both tongue and groove joint and wide-f lange joint, and I2nx24il, cross-scored to look like a square. For further information write Wood Conversion Company, Department 422. First National Bank Building, St. Paul 1, Minnesota.

Rondom Groove Spocing in Dlssonite Sldings Now

Introduction of random groove spacing and 8" groove spacing in trvo panel type Masonite sidings, Panelgroove and Ridgegroove, has been announced by E. W. Hadland,'manager of dealer sales for Masonite Corporation. Prices of these sidings are the same as for the present 4" groove spacing: Panelgroove and Ridgegroove also are used for interior walls, providing modern treatment for any room. Hadland also announced that a new joint treatment in these products has been perfected. The new design will make the joints practically invisible, he said.

Popularity of Primecote products has prompted the corporation to include in the line Masonite lap siding, with and without the Shadowline strip. Primecote Masonite siding will be back-sealed, and all long edges, in addition to the face. will be factorvprimed.

Wood Ponet Folding Doors Wirh liferime Vinyl Hinge

An entirely new line of wood panel folding doors with a lifetime vinyl hinge is currently being introduced nationally by Wood Specialty Products, fnc. of Arlington, Washington. Termed "Space-Saver Dor," the product is available in three difierent woods, Alaska Cedar, Western Red

Cedar and Philippine Mahogany. Each is hand selected for highest quality. The doors are packaged complete with track, hardware (including screws), track backing, matching wood valance, handles and simple installation instructions. The wood panels are 7/16" thick and are kiln-dried to prevent \\'arping or checking. By independent laboratory test, the vinyl hinge, which runs the,entire length of the panels, shou,'s no 'rvear ffter 250,000 opening and closing cycles.

Write-on Door Right for Boy

ized handsomely and at low cost defi-. nitely can sell the essentials needed. And he may, with proper salesmanship, do a lot more.

Marlite can be fastened with Marsh-, wallboard adhesive either to a flush door or an old-fashioned door with panels. In the latter case, the panel depressions should first be filled with insulation board, Matching edge molding gives the door a finished appear-. ance.

To sell a product, demonstrate it, ; says John J. Marsh, sales manager for Marsh Wall Products, fnc., manufacturer of Marlite. The Marlit€-oo-&: : door technique is a perfect device for .,1 such a demonstration, as a sales mes.: sage can be written on the plastic.r,,l surface and a salesman can follqw through.

Formicq Tokes to the Walls -

Formica is taking to the walls as :,1 the result of new adhesives "trd ip;'. i,;

Ihis lqd is procticing his arlthmcdc on lhe closet door. lt ho: becn modernized with c ponel of white Morlite, the plostic-surfoccd hcrdboord which moy be cleoned quickly wirh o dcmp clorh. A dcmonstrnlion door sinilsr to thir in a deolcr'g rlore ir recommended by llorrh Woll Producb, Inc., ol o mcone of demonstroting llrc obrorive-rcsislonce, durobility ond eosy clccning quoliticr of Marlirc. A greolc pcncil ir ihe writing medium.

Demonslrqtion Sells Morlite

New ideas on product application often leiad to sales. For example, the building supply dealer wllo installs a demonstration unit showing that a disreputable looking door can be modern- stallation techniques. Vertical surfacg i,, installations open up a vast market to the installer. Formica on the walls is not entirely new. llowever, the latest method of instaliing it is new. Formerly, the only recommended proce-. dure and method of installation was, to veneer the Formica sheet to ply. wood, and then position and attach' the entire slab to the wall. This called for part of work being done away from the point of installation and in a shop where facilities and equipment for veneering were available. Now, the Formica sheet can be installed direct to the existing wall surface. This is made, possible through the development of a new adhesive-Formica Fast Dry Contact Bond Cement, especially de. signed for on-the-job applications and,, speed-up installation.

Products lqb to Test

Whire-Pocket Douglos Fir Plywood

Madison, Wis.-A research project that will help turn millions of acres of timber, commonly left in the woods as waste, into valuable wood products will soon be undertaken jointly by the U. S. Forest'Products Laboratory and the Douglas Fir Plywood Association of Tacoma, Wash., Dr. J. A. Hall, Laboratory director, announced here recently.

The Laboratory, lvhich has been conductir-rg research on wood and wood products since 1910, will soon begin an extensive evaluation of the strength and gluing of rvhitepocket Douglas fir plywood. The results of this research will be used by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, whose member firms produce most of the plywood made in this country, to set up standards for the grading and manufacture of white-pocket plywood.

White pocket is the common name for a condition in the heartwood of over-mature Douglas fir in which the wood is dotted with minute holes or pitted with a highly decorative white substance. Large stands of such trees exist in the Pacific Northwest.

"The importance of the more complete utilization of white pocket can be better appreciated when it is realized that almost one-third of the softwood savl-timber in the United States is Douglas fir and that a large percentage of this timber contains some white-pocket," Dr. Hall pointed out. "In some areas, close to 60% of the timber available is white-pocket Douglas fir."

The problem has been accentuated by the growth of the Douglas fir plywood industry. In 1946, only about 1 billion square feet of Douglas fir plywood was produced in this country. By the end of 1956, the productive capacity of the industry will be over 6 billion square feet. remarkable (Tell them you saw it in The California Lumber Merchant)

Many of the new mills that will account for this increased production are in areas that contain whitepocket Douglas fir. The result is a shortage of top quality veneer logs and a need on the part of plywood producers to use white-pocket Douglas fir veneer sofar as is practical.

The U. S. Forest Service, of lr'hich the Forest Products Lalioratory is a part, is also anxious to get white-pocket timber out of the forests so that new timber can grorv in its place in line with tl-re Forest Service policy of utilizing as much of the timber cut as possible.

The Forest Products Laboratory has already conducted much of the research on which the Douglas Fir Plywood Association's grading rules for clear plywood are based. It has also tested white-pocket Douglas fir lumber, r'vhich is graded by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

Since the research will be on the structural applications of white-pocket plyr,r'ood, new methods will have to be developed for testing the material, Hall explained.

"Our preliminary tests have shown that plywood containing limited amounts of white-pocket is suitable for use as house sheathing and subflooring, which is the largest single market of Douglas fir plywood today," Hall said.

Hoo-Hoo Tqkes q Forwqrd Sfep; Adoprs Nqfionql Prolecf Progrom A Report on the Annual Meeting of the Supreme Nine

The adoption of a general long-range national prograln in.rplemented through Hoo-Hoo clubs rvas the important, constructive action taken by the Supreme Nine of Hoo-Hoo at its annual meeting held in Milwaukee, October 12-13.

In a t'ivo-day session the entire subject of national and local projects u'as given serious consideration. It n'as recognized that the gror,vth, development and increasing influence of Hoo-Hoo demand a master program that rvould strengthen and make more cffective the aim and objectives

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The follolr'ing lesolution contains the basic idea of the master program:

"Recognizing the great need of a unifying, praiseworthy, newsworthy international project and {urther recognizing the grorvth an<1 increasing influence of Hoo-Hoo,

BE IT RESOLVED: That the international project of Hoo-Hoo rvill be a Youth Program directed towards the utilization of lumlter and forest products, building youth and promotir.rg citizenship, and

BD IT FURTI-IER IItrSOLVEI): That this program be implementecl on a local basis by inclivi<lual clubs."

The master progr:rm n'ill be clevelopecl by the national office. It n'ili be aimed at educating youth in the use and utilization of lumber and wood pro<lrrcts and in the final analysis buildir-rg morale to nral<c lrcttcr men and upstand- citizens. It rvill outline all possible projccts to bc submittecl to the local clubs.

It should be noted that this program is orrly thc hrst step of a ten-year prograln, rvhich rrray n,ell servc as the ltase f rom n'hich more intensive irrclustry progranrs may be developed to include tl-re stu<lv o[ carecr opportuuities, industry education and rvoocl prolr.rotiou.

Recognizing that a largc nunrbcr of clubs alreacly havc constructir.c progralns servir-rg )r()uth, it rvill rrnify atrcl bring the various 1;rojects trnrlct' one clirectior-r. It rviil irr-