Oakland club repeats successful follies

OAl(tAND Club 39 had a rip-roarer again at this year's annual Follies, (no folly these Follies). Headed up by club prexy Ro.n Delisle and Paul 0lsen, publicity was handled by Bruce Lofchie, with Dave Mensing counting the bucks. In a deoarture from The Merchant's usual practice of identifying people in the photos, we are here using tag phrases for each picture supplied by HoeHoo Club #39; site was The Revival, in San Francisco. (l) The Good Guys. (2) The Big Spender. (3) 0K Boys! (4) Hey guys is this for real! (5) l'll drink to that. (6) Yahl (7) You may not know it yet, wholesale

Our about phase two. (9) lf I was them, I'd grin, too. (10) Caught you! (11) Down by the old mill streammm. (12) Charge!!! -that is all he said all night. (13) The Council. (14) You bet, tigers. (15) Phase what? A I and trailer Iqv A I redwood IYY A qv

Lumber Supply Problems Loom

National Forest Products Assn. exec. vp. J a m e s R. Turnbull has warned key government officials and Congressional leaders that "adverse conditions are developing in the supply of lumber, plywood and other wood products which could create a crisis in supplies during tfre coming spring." Actions by Congress and the Administration, Turnbull said, "could certainly be helpful in averting a crisis."

Turnbull said o'the combination of circumstances which prompted high prices for wood construction materials in 1968-1969 is being repeated. Rising demand for housing, bad weather in producing areas and good weather for construction in other areas, plus transportation interruptions are combining to create the real possibility of shortages of critically needed lumber and plywood. [n addition, ready access to federal softwood timber is diminishing; this can only result in reduced volumes of finished products and pressure for higher prices.t'

He listed several steps to correct the situation. They included funding to expand supplies of federal timber for sale to the publicl Congressional action to authorize mbjor improvements in funding of timber management and reforestation on federal lands; and federal aid in helping small, private non-industrial timber land owners to undertake forest management practices to increase timber growth.

Housing Sets New Record

The strongest rate of home-building ever recorded for a three-month period was achieved in the fourth quarter of I97I, with a 34 percent increase in new dwelling units over the comparable year-ago period.

This raised housing production for the full year 35 percent over 1970, reports F. W. Dodge.

According to George A. Christie, chief economist, "One of the surprising things about 1971's quantum jump in housing output is that it was accomplished without any increase in the volume of federally subsidized units. As in 1970, subsidized housing accounted for a sizable share of last year's new startsabout one out of every five new dwellings built in L97Ibut the to. tal wasn't any bigger than it was in 1970 when federallyassisted housing first came into its own.

"\[hat really made most of the difierence in 1971," said the Dodge economist, "was the huge increase in the ability of savings institutions to make mortgage loans as individuals chose to save an unusually high propor. tion of their incomes."

Lqnd, Environment Goqls Set

An advisory group of forest products industry execu. tives has recommended establishment of a nationwide forest land use policy and economically attainable environmental controls on manufacturing.

The Economic Council of the Forest Products Industry also cited the opportunity for increased foreign trade, and called for improved communieations to gain greater public understanding of the industry's environmental and economic problems, policies and record to date.

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