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vestigations desigrted to provide documented substantiation of wood's superiority for specific uses. Technical field specialists of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association will be increased from the present 28 to 52.

Preliminary program planning anticipates some adjustment in advertising-merchandising and other expenditures.

Increqsed Technicol Services To fVlqrk 196l Wood Promotion

The preliminary NWPP budget for 1961 proposes an increase of nearly half-a-million dollars in funds for NLMA's Technical Services division. The money would be used to finance an expansion of NLMA's technical field staff and services, fn addition to the technical promotion specialists, NWPP will augment its staff with three new building code specialists, bringing the total to 13; double its fire insurance staff from 2 to 4, and add one man each in engineering and technical writing speeialists.

A. B. Hood. chairman of the National Wood Promotion committee, in an open letter to the industry, pointed out that an increased field sta.ff is essential to take maximum advantage of mounting opportunities to secure g:reater markets for wood.

"The expansion of our field staff," he said, "will permit increased calls on architects and engineers, greater on-the-spot coverage of school, church and light commercial construction projects, improved liaison with lumber distributors relative to specific projects, broader participation in lumber distributor sales and training classes, increased contact with F'HA field offices and other g:overnment regional specifying and procuring agencies, and accumulation of product data and information on latest construction techniques."

The increase will enable NWPP to double its field offices and increase its technical field specialists from the present 28 to 52. Seventeen of the new staff members will be specialists in technical promotion a^rrd their employment will make it possible for field ofrces to be established in 11 new key cities throughout the country.

Tentative locations of the new field offices are Seattle, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Phoenix, Ifouston, Memphis, Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia and Boston. Present ofEces are in San F rancisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, Cleveland, New York, Sanford, X'Ia., and Washington, D.C.

Los Angeles offico gtrls of Weyerhaeuser Company prepa,rlng to erect Chrisbnas decoratlons. Tho beauttful Della Robbia holtday wreath was secured from tho Boys Republlc at Chino, & nonprofit-non-sectariam, privately supported school organlzed a halfcentury ago for the rehabtlltatlon of deservlng boys with adjustment problems. Plctured here preparlng for the gala holiilay season are (left to rlght) Maxlmo O'NelI, Sallyo Blssell, Phyliss Caldwell and Myrtlo Patmore, Mlss Blssell fu presldent of Los Angele,s Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. I and the glrls wtll bo featured in the Christma^s sectlon of the \ileyerhaeusor Company house magazlne.

Building-code men are presently assigned in Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, New York and Sanfard, Fla. The new code men probably will work from offices in Seattle, St. Louis and Atlanta.

The plan calls for two new fire-insurance specialists to be assigrted to San Francisco and Chicago in support of the two presently assigned to Washington, D.C.

The eng"ineering and technical writing personnel will strengthen present staffs at headquarters in Washington.

Hood pointed out that, in addition to augmenting the field sta^ff and strengthening technical personnel at NWPp headquarters, funds in the 1961 budget are proposed f.or a 36c/6 increase in technical and engineering literature, a 34Vo increase in educational activities and exhibits, and a 58/6 increase in technical market and data development studies.

Flinrkote Reports 3rd Gluorter Results

Operating results of The Flintkote Company in the third quarter of this year showed "an improvement in trend" but the general state of the national economy "has not been conducive to obtaining the full results anticipated," said I. J. Harvey, Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer.

In an interim statement to stockholders, F'lintkote reported net sales for the three months ended Sept. 30 amounting to 973,059,499, compared with $72,824,334 in the corresponding period a year ago. Net income for the latest quarter totaled 95,185,041. !'or the second quarter of this year, l'lintkote had previously reported net sales of $65,893,259 and net income of 94,197,337.

Net sales for the nine months ended Sept. 30 this year aggre- gated $192,255,237, compared with $192,550,488 in the comparable period last year.

In his letter to stockholders, Mr. Harvey emphasized the possible future impact on earnings as a result of Federal legislative action and a recent Supreme Court decision affecting the tax structure of the cement industry, in which Flintkote has a sizeable stake.

lumber Deqlers' "Proiecr A" Progrqm To Combqt Home-Repoir Gyps

One-thousand lumber and building materials dealers, working through their national trade association, have developed a program to encourage homeowners to increase the value and "livability" of their homes, and at the same time guide them to reputable home-improvement specialists.

It is the belief of the dealers that every homeowner has some project already in mind, whether it be kitchen remodeling, adding a room, finishing a basement or attic, or what not. Hence, the catchline for the program is "Project ,A'."

"Of the lifty-million homes in this country, forty-million are in need of repair," according to Paul V. DeVille, president of the Nati,onal Retail Lumber Dealers Association. He pointed out that the huge business potential offered by the home-improvement maiket has attlacted a "horde o{