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Hardboord Producl File

A colorful product4le of complete and up-to-datc information on each Forest hardboard product is ofr the press. Entitled Ilardboard Panels with the Better IQ, this new pieee stresses the invisible qualities of Forest hardboard.

Included in the attractive filefolder is a complete and separate sheet about eadr Forest hardboard product. Each sheet is desiined to answer any question about each product

One side of each sheet is printed in full color with trueto - life color photographs of Forest hardboard in action. The pageg include complete description, technical information, sizes, architectural specifications antl suggestions for uses. There is a separate sheet on Forest Sandalwood, Sandalite, Burlite, TP siding, punched board, tee-n-gee, and laminated products, Forall and Plyron as well as a complete page on application procedures.

The durable and eye-catdring ffle folder is printed in an attractive brown, green and white. It is tabbed with an AIA file number for easy reference in a file or loose-leaf binder. Each page also carries an AIA ntrmber. The cover has a step-bystep story of the Forest harilboard manufacturing process and a short description of each Forest hardboard product.

WRITE: Forest Fiber Products Co., P.O. Box 68. Forest Grove, Oregon.

Wood Window Brochure

Ponderosa Pine Woodworkts electric heating-wood window program is a compilation of the many editorial articles which have appeared in leading technical magazines as a result of the association's efrorts. he brochure explains in one, two, three fashion how these m,agazines have publicized the performance of wood windows. Every salesman will find irrefutable engineering facts tohelp him sell the superiority of wood windows in cutting air infiltration, reducing heat loss and preventing window condensation.

It has been sent to every eleetric utility company aeross the country to assist them in recommending proper windows for electric heating constnrction. While these facts are most significant in showing how wood windows perform in an electrically heated home, they apply equally as well to gas or oil heated homes.

WRITE: Ponderosa Pine 'Woodwork, 39 S. La Salle SL, Chicago, Illinois 60603. fire cost is $13 per hundred.

Notionol-Americon Appointmenl

Newly appointed public relations consultant for the National Americau Wholesale Lumber Association is the Portlandbased firm of D. Donald [-onie. Jr.. Puhlic Relations.

Representing morc than 300 lumber wholesalers throughout the U.S. accounting Iot 42lk o{ all lumber consumed in the country, NAWLA's head office is in New York City. West Coast office for the association is in Portland.

Lonie's firm has broad experience ir.r thc lumber public relations field and is currently in charge of all national consurncr magazine publicity for the W'estern W'ood Products Association, world's largest lumber producers organization.

"Appointment of a pro{essional communications specialist to make our channels of communication as eflective as possible is a 'must' in the vital distribution end of our industry," association executive vice president J. J. Mulrooney stated.

School Course on Hordboord

Future customers for hardboard products are the target of an educational project aimed at junior and senior high school students.

The first phase of a program to develop a curriculum for industrial arts students has been initiated by the American Hardboard Association, in cooperation with the American Industrial Arts Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association.

Karl Gettle, industrial arts instructor, University of Maryland, has been retained to develop the curriculum.

His aim, Gettle said, is a plan for the effective study of the history of the hardboard industry, its processes, products, product uses and applications, and methods of distribution. Other subjects will include the position oI the hardboard industry in

As Good As Our Name

All species of Pocific Coost Softwoods. Speciolizing in prompf shipmeni of White Fir Dimension ond Resown Pine Commons LCL from yord stock. Customer milling. Serving retoil lumber deolers ond indusiriol users. Give us o coll! P.O. Box ll47 Phone 941-OlOl

Los Angeles - Oronge Counties IMMEDIATE PICKUP SPEEDY DELIVERY

LUMBER HANDLING & STORAGE storoge spoce to leose to Sonto Ano Freewoy- the nation's economy and the role the in. dustrv plays in conserving natural resources.

Plans call for preparation of a study guide packet, including lesson outlines, booklets and brochures, and visual aids, including the AHA motion picture, "Time of Change," which has already been shown to more than 6,000 school audiences since its release in January, 1963.

Treoted Wood Conslruction

A treetop home featuring a foundation of Baxco chemonited treated poles is under construction in San Rafael. Calif. demon- strating a special method for steep hillside building.

The home will demonstrate hillside living at its best allowine the resident to retain all the beauty of thle surrounding trees, yet eliminating expensive hillside construction requiring extensive excavation, retaining walls and drainage structures.

The bedroom side of the house is conventionally placed on a platform foundation supported by poles. The living-garage side of the house is of contemporary concept with foundation poles as a design feature carrying through to support the roof as well as the floor. Economic and aesthetic considerations both are demonstrated in these two methods of construction.

Contracted for by the J. H. Baxter Company, of Oakland, the home utilizes an exclusive chemonited process whereby Douglas fir poles have been chemically preserved by pressure treatment resulting in a soft green finish color which blends ideally with the landscape. The protection Irom decay and termites afiorded by the' chemonited pressure treatment enables builders to use it in direct contact with the ground.

Plywood Production Up

The softwood-plywood industry has increased its production six-fold since 1940.