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Free Gheck Anolysis Service Announced for Lumber Industly

Availability of a free check analysis service for the lumber industry primarily to help its members re-design their checks for electronic bank bookkeeping has been announced by the Todd Company Division, Burroughs Corporation, Rochester, N. Y. The service will also appraise it on 12 other points, including general efficiency, arrangement for accurate bank handling, advertising and public relations values, color, typography, general layout, and safeguards provided against alteration and forgery.

To take advantage of the service, companies should send a sample of the check or checks they use to the attention of the Check Analysis & Design Department, Todd Company Division, Burroughs Corporation, P. O. Box 910, Rochester

Modulor Bibliogrophy Published

The Modular Building Standards Association has published a bibliography listing books, articles and technical papers dealing with the modular system of coordinated dimensioning for buildings and products used in their construction. This is the first such bibliography to be compiled since the American Institute of Architects undertook the task in 1950. Free copies of the bibliography can be obtained by writing to Modular Building Standards Association,2029 K St., N.W., Washington 6, D.C.

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Lumber DeolersProised for Work In Wood Kirchen Industry

. A. pressin_g need for. more thorough marketing research in the r_anidll expanding wood kitc-hen industry- was emphasized at the recent (Sept. 28,29,30) third annual meeting of the National Insiitute of Wood Kitchen Cabinets at Sicytop,. Pa. Other highlights of the meeting, attended by 80 members and guesti, included election of 5ificers, admisston of three new members and an address by Kenneth W. Burrows, assistant director of the economics -department of the National Association of Home Builders.

Chosen as new- president was Arthur M. King, vice-presi- dent and general manager of the Wood Products division of The Mengel Company, Louisville, Ky.

Exploring- marketing'problems in a'spirited ,,buzz session," members discussed the question bf what group of merchandisers has done the besi job of selling kiitheris ;n recent years.

The concensus. was that plumbing retailers probably had bee-n least aggressive, lhat the-average re'tail luniber deale-r and appliance dealer had achi&ed only fair success, but that some in the lumber dealer fieli had chalked up outstanding records.

In addition to the offiJers, the other directors elected are Mr. Cha.pman ; Richatld E. Nellis, Sr., Kreamer, pa.; Jack Siegel,^Bennettsv_ille, S. C.; H. W: Eckhardt, Morgan'iom- pany, Orhkosh,'Wis., and James S. Cairns, LittlesTown, pa.

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Mr. Burrows told members to look for a return during the 1960's of a demand for small, relatively low-cost homei as,well.as a rising market for higher priced houses.

"Ruilders, manufacturers, len"ders ind government must not be led, astray," he said, ,,by the fact"that the current market is heavily weighted with second and third genera- tron buyers with several children, hisher incomes and sub_ stantial .savings. The need for the eco-nomy house and rental units will return and this is the time to plan for it throuEh research, improvements in legislation aird knowledge aid acceptance of the facts on the part of industry.,, , He. explained that the number of persons in the family- forming age bracket of 18 to 24 hai declined to about i5 million from the 17 million in the 1940,s. This is due to the Iow birth rate of the 1930,s.

"fn a.few years, however,. lre added, ,,the postwar baby bo-om will take efiect The 18-24 age group will grow to 2b million in 1965 and 25 million in t970.-fnis mean"s a sudden influx of young families needing rental housing ,"a

"*utt, two-bedroom, moderately priced-houses. It will"be a markel hig-hly sensitive to creciit conditions, since these families will not have accumulated the savings for large down payments."

Foresters to Meet in San Froncisco

The Northern California section of the Society of American Foresters will hold its 1958 annual meeting iir San Francisco,. December 6, with the theme, ,,Forestiy As a Business." Harry_C. Abraham, general superintendent, pickering T,rrmfst Corp., Standardl Calif., chlirman of the Northern California Section, SAF, announces that foresters, friends of forestry and other interested persons are invited to attend. George A. Garratt, president of the SAF and dean of the Yale University School of Forestry, will address the Saturday dinner, when ladies are invited.'fnformation and program details will be furnished by Sam Bryan, vicechairman of the section and program ihair-an for ttre 1958 meeting,_who is forest manager-of the Calaveras Land and Timber Corp., West Point, C;lif.

Azusa, California, has received HHFApproval of its workable program for elimination of slums and blight. The city of 20,000 *aJ ir,- corporated in 1898 on land granted in l84l to Louis Arenas by the Mexican government. The Community Development Ageniy is studying a lS-block area for tentative redevelopment for residential reuse. A uniform housing code is slated for adoption before Jan. l.

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