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WEYERHAEUSER 4-SQUARE HOTUIE BUITDING SERVICE

O Each month dealers who use the '$7'eyerhaeuser 4'square Home Building Service receive blueprints, material lists, estimating forms, and a complete sales promotion Program built around a smart new home designed by a leading architect and engineered by Veyerhaeuser'

Now these dealers are also receiving additional business builders. A good example is the grouP of five Related Designs illustrated here. These houses are Patterned after one of the most popular designs of the Service. They are excellent examPles of how a Plan of proved popularity can be attractively treated in a variety of exterior' styles' Like the scores of other designs in the Service, these houses are architect designed and Veyerhaeuser engineered'

The Weyerhaeuser 4'Square Flome Building Service expands continuously' thus maintaining its vitality and increas' ing its worth. It continues to be a valuable home planning guide, and a most helpful selling tool for the lumber dealer who wants to maintain his position as the Shelter Merchant of his community'

Simpson Industries Take On Olympic Stained Shinsle Line

Philip W. Bailey, president of the \Arest Coast Stained Shingle Company, Seattle,.manufacturers of Olympic stained shingles and shingle stains, announces that Simpson Industries, Inc., will distribute Olympic products from their warehouse in Los Angeles, a unit rvhich is managed by George S. Melville, and also in Southwestern Washington from their warehouse in Shelton, Wash. The Simpson plant at Shelton is managed by Harold Johns.

The Olympic stained shingle line is already distributed in eleven Western states and at some points in the East, but, until the recent conne,ction rvith Simpson Industries, Inc., it was not available in Southern California.

The West Coast Stained Shingle Company, rvith their main plant in Seattle, under the direction of Mr. Bailey, have developed several new formulas for shingle stain, in addition to new processes and methods of prestaining red cedar.shingles. They now manufacture a complete line of shingles and shakes for sidewalls and roofs.

All Olympic shingle stain formulas were recently revised to include an entirely nerv rvood preservative, called Toxal, in place of that which was formeily used. Mr. Bailey said that Toxal is the best known wood preservative against termites, rot and decay. Containing a base of pentachlorophenol, the new wood preservative prevents checking, curling and splitting rvithout bleeding or leaching readily.

Celotex Corporation Donated Cemesto House to Aid Cancer Fund

Public interest in homebuilding is playing a helpful role in the country's current all-out offensive against man's great enemy-Cancer.

To aid the fund drive of the Damon Runyon Foundation for cancer research, The Celotex Corporation erected, furnished and donated to the Foundation a five room Cemesto pre-engineered house. Located at Columbus Circle in the heart of New York City, the house served as headquarters of the drive until its termination on June 30.

Completely erected in nine days, the house was officially opened on Sanday, May 10, when Bror Dahlberg, Celotex President, turned over the keys to the Runyon Foundation.

A charge of 25 cents for admission to the house went in its entirety to the Cancer Fund. The Foundation also conducted a contest to select a slogan that best expressed the objectives of the Cancer Research Organization. The writer of the best slogan was awarded the Cemesto House fully furnished and equipped and re-erected lanywhere he designates in the United States.

Frank N. Gibbs Honored

The Orange County lumbermen gave an enjoyable dinner party at the Chung King cafe in Anaheim, Tuesday eveuing, July l, in honor of Frank N. Gibbs, who recently announced his retirement from active business. A number of Mr. Gibbs' lumbermen friends from Los Angeles and vicinity rvere guests at the dinner.

Mr. Gibbs u'as head of the Gibbs Lumber Company for 36 years, and upon his retirement turned over the management of the firm to his son, Oscar L. Gibbs. The company operates yards at Anaheim, Fullerton and Placentia. Mr. Gibbs is a member of the Anaheim Kiwanis Club, and it is interesting to note, that he has a perfect record of attendance for over twenty years.

Instcrlling New Plywood Equipment

Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Co., Vancouver, Wash., is installing two nerv hot presses, one B-Toot and the other l0-foot. Both presses have 20 openings.