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Golf Business 14 REGULATION" FIBERGLASS FLAGPOLES News • Flexible • Low maintenance • Lightweight • Last for years • Non-corroding • Economical Available in 5, 6, 7, and 8' lengths. Woods With 'Easy Playing Shape' Up to 12' on request. Are Marketed By Wilson Molded fiberglass in permanent white or yellow and striped with Wilson Sporting Goods Co., 2223 West St., red or black. Long-lasting metal River Grove, 111.,- 60171, has available 1965 base and aluminum top assembly X-31 woods with several secured bygalvanized all-tite swivel. new scientific features. Ef- aluminum fective hitting area is broadened because new TEE MARKERS shape places the shaft closer to the center of gravity than in other standard clubs. Torque in clubhead is thus lessened Made from aluminum al- See your local by shaft position, minimizing slice or hook. loy for durability and weather resistance. Num- dealer or write for Epoloc face is designed for more effective ball bers available, 1 thru 18. complete catalog. impact and is molded into the clubface without glue or screws. Clubs are available in ebony finish with cream or black face insert. Sets are CONTAINER DEVELOPMENT CORP. matched. MONROE STREET « WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN Mallinckrodt Cites Big Jump in Mercury Metal Prices Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, St. Louis 7, points out that mercury metal prices have been climbing at fantastic rates on the world market and has made necessary an increase in the price of mercurial based turf fungicides. Most manufacturers have attempted to hold the price line by passing on only a small portion of the increased cost of fungicides to their golf course customers. In June, 1963, mercury metal was listed at $184-$187 per 76-lb flask; by De- cember, 1964, it had jumped to $495-$505 per flask, a 170 per cent increase. The price of Mallinckrodt's Calo-Clor, with a total mercury content of 76 per cent, has increased only 32 per cent in this period. Waterproof Roval Golf Shoes RAINOMAT A new golf shoe from U. S. Rubber Co., New York, is lightweight and flexible, styled in the traditional golf-shoe fashion of a "V" throat sys,e 1 pattern with shawl. The AUTOMATIC " upper portion of the shoe is made of U. S. Royalon. SPRINKLERS The steel spikes are re- placeable. The shoe is also Send for Drtaila washable. The new Royal RAIN-O-MAT SPRINKLERS shoe features a wide range 11701 E. WASHINGTON BLVD. WHITTIER. CALIFORNIA of men's and women's sizes. TEE I MARKER Dress up tees with color — This tractor appeared many years later than the red, white, blue or yellow. "Apple Tree" gang, which built the first U.S. Custom molded of high course in Yonkers, N. Y., but it still has plenty of impact plastic. Cannot rust, age behind it. It was one of the first built in 1906 rot, corrode, nor discolor. by International Harvester Co., which turned out Number decals available. 14 of these sleek models that year. Last fall, IHC PRACTICE GREEN passed the four-million mark in tractor assemblies. MARKER Same construction as Schamp Named PEC Officer above. Bright red, mounted on metal rod and light E. D. (Dean) Schamp has been named vp alloy base. Pressure- sensi- and general manager of Product Engineering tive number decals available. Co., Portland, Ore. Schamp was the founder of Radcor, a chemical processing equipment For further details contact your dealer or . , firm which, with Product Engineering, was acquired by Northwest Industries, Inc. in 1963. CONTAINER DEVELOPMENT CORP. He becomes a member of NWI's board. Prod- MONROE STREET • WATERTOWN, WIS. 53094 uct Engineering manufactures the Con-Voy cart. Wilson's Executive Set Bag Wilson's 1965 golf bag line includes the Execu- tive Set, which, says the WE'RE SELLING company, has all the aes- thetic and functional fea- SUCCESS* tures a discriminating golf- er could want. The leather body is complemented by Complete leather trim and welt. The bag has a keystone step- Construction down top ring, full length grommeted club dividers *ln just two years and specially molded plas- Colonial Gardens tic bottom. Carry-All and has become shag bag are constructed one of the leaders to harmonize with the golf bag. in Golf Course Construction. Rake Has Visibility Features They have constructed Rake-Ezee sandtrap rake, produced by North twelve new courses Central Plastics, Inc., Ellendale, Minn., fea- in five states tures a high density v v plastic head with ex- and made additions tra long tines. A metal or have done maintenance point fitted into the ~">>v on five others. head makes it possible ^® to jab the rake into ^nPiftl* LIST OF COURSES ON REQUEST sand or turf so that it a - stands erect and is eas- « COLONIAL GARDENS, INC. ily seen. The rake's 4-ft. handle is painted 708 GREENE STREET • MARIETTA, OHIO bright yellow. Two head sizes are available — Phone 373-2188 • Area Code 614 14 and 22 inches. Stevens Claims High Efficiency for Club Car Transmission HANDY-BIN A 96 per cent efficient transmission and lightweight, all-aluminum frame are features of CONTAINERS the 1965 Stevens' Club Car, made in Augusta, Ga. The electric car has positive drive sealed (Patent applied for) for storage in pro shops and unit with no open chains or V-belt to get out maintenance departments of line. The frame has great stability and won't 9 versatile sizes • 2 molded-in colors: rust. Club Car has a fiberglass body that is green and yellow • Smooth, one-piece, rust- and corrosion-free and comes in five easily cleaned • Impervious to oil and colors — white, blue, red, yellow and green. Overall weight is 650 lbs. and suspension is by water • Transparent dust covers to keep air-cushion shocks. The Stevens car travels contents clean • A variety of mounting 8 to 10 mph. units available to meet every need For further details contact: CONTAINER DEVELOPMENT CORP. New Building For Champion Glove Co. WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN Champion Glove Manufacturing Co. of Des Moines, Iowa has moved into a new 20,000 sq. ft. building. The new building is of all GOLF RANGES Depend on East- ern for a full MINIATURE range of golf equipment: steel construction with a rock faced brick front. Air conditioned, the new facility has a large COURSES balls, clubs, customer display room and new stock handling mats, tees, ball program, which enables faster service in filling washers, mark- customer orders. PAR THREE ers, retrievers, pails, golf carts, GOLF CLUBS golf bags, etc. Building Built By Sportsman's In Mississippi Expansion Sportsman's Golf Corp., makers of Kroy- Free Illustrated Catalog On Request don golf equipment, has begun construction of the first one-third of a planned 150,000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant on a twenty-five acre site near Pontotoc, Mississippi. Completion of this EASTERN GOLF CO. first stage of construction is planned for April 2537 BOSTON ROAD • BRONX 67, N.Y. Dept. G of this year. Manufacture of golf clubs and golf balls will be at this plant. Other Sportsman's items that are manufactured at Bay City, Michigan will be warehoused at the Mississippi plant to give Classified Ads • P 132 all customers in the South fast service. For the BEST of the LATEST in LOCKER NAMEPLATES RANGE-PAR 3-MINIATURE GREETER PINS Equipment — Supplies — Fixtures Consulting & Contracting Services Write for complete catalog R.T.JONES WITTEK Samples and prices on request GOLF RANGE SUPPLY CO.. Inc. KIRSCH CARD SERVICE 5128 W. North Ave. Chicago 39, III. Box 222X, Villa Park, III. DeFrance Becomes Senior Scientist New Buckner Automatic Water For Scotts Turf Service Controller Available for Courses O. M. Scott & Sons, Marysville, Ohio, has A new 11-station automatic watering controller appointed Jesse DeFrance as senior scientist of for golf courses is produced by Buckner Indus- Scotts Professional turf tries, Inc., Box 232, Fresno, Calif., 93708. counseling service. Since Available in two models— retiring from the Univer- wall-mount and pedestal- sity of Rhode Island, De- mount—the Bll controller France has counseled more incorporates special 0-to-60 than 350 golf course supts. minute adjustment on each in New England and upper station. This variable time New York State. He is now control feature enables the available to participate in operator to choose any day seminars in various parts of the country to or days over a two-week cuss regional and local needs and problems. cycle and any one of 24- hour starts. Each of 11 stations is equipped with Dunlop's 1965 Catalog potentiometer adjusting knobs that regulate pre- Dunlop Tire and Rubber Corp., 500 Fifth cision time setting for each station, and control Ave., New York City, has their new 1965 the station's automatic valve. Because of this professional catalog available. The four-color device the operator may irrigate one area for 27-page booklet features new and continuing as little as one minute-and irrigate other areas Dunlop merchandise. There are four new lines five minutes or more. Individual stations may be of woods and irons, 62 new shapes and tex- set to operate in sequence. tures and colors in golf bags. Dunlop also claims to feature 13 new putters, six new gloves and ten new Creslan headcovers. Also included are Adds Two Snow Throwers Maxfli golf balls, an airline bag cover, various Four and six hp Sno-Bee self-propelled walk- colored shoulder straps, and Dunlop carryalls and ing-type snow throwers have been added to shag bags. Included in the Dunlop line are left-handed woods and irons. „I T A„Sn0ru i"em°Val «^Pment manufac- tured by Alhs-Chalmers, Milwaukee Wis GOLF ONLY ELECTRICALLY POWERED NATION-WIDE DISTRIBUTORS of NOTARY BRUSH GOLF SHOE CLEANER PAR 3, GOLF DRIVING NEET-KLEET* * Saves Carpets RANGE & MINIATURE * Saves Shoes GOLF COURSE * Saves Greens * Saves Time EQUIPMENT.