Showing the Tree Farm W.y

a total of. $271.34. Net return per hour of labor, $1.94. And the acre had lost nothing in terms of annual growth of wood.

Pre-logging, salvaging, harvesting operations, marketing, and many other elements of tree farm practice on a farm woodland were shown. The program was on a pattern that may be easily adapted to any forest region, as has been done with "Keep Green" and the industrial tree farm program, which started on the West Coast. The main thing is to keep Tree Farm Field Day a farm-industry deal.

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 3l Has Christmcs Pcrty

San Joaquin Hoo-Hoo Club No. 31 had a very enjoyable Christmas Party at the Desert Inn, with an attendance of 50.

The entertainment consisted of singing by Fay Riece, and the showing of two fine movies, one on the manufacture of plywood, and the other on hardboard production.

F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, in a short talk complimented the Club on what they have accomplished, and made a few constructive suggestions that might be cartied out in the future.

Thinning one dcre oI c 40-yecr-old stand ol Douglcs lir crnd Wegt Coast hemlock in the slcck ol the larm year, Co-Owner Chcrles Grewe oI Vcrlley Gem Fcrrms Tree Fcrm is presenled with cr check lor pcrt oI the yield by E, B. Meir, ol Alderwood Products Corporction. Totcl receipts by woodlcrnd owner! oI Grewe cnd John Wrcge lrom the thinninE yield ol scrwlogs, pulpwood cnd hop poles were $271.34. Tbe remqining trees on ihe ccre will grow cs much wood per yecr os lhe crowded stcrnd hqd been growing. Which is hcving your coolie and ecting her, too.

It w'as old Ma Nature's show, but Farm Owners John Wrage and Charles Grewe and the Forest Conservation Committee of Pacific Northwest Forest Industries sponsored Tree Farm Field Day as their own. It was a day of practical demonstration of how to help nature make money grow on trees by farm forestry practices.

On one sample plot it was shown that a tree farmer could earn $45 per hour by pruning the young Douglas firs up to 18 feet-if the pruner would let the clear wood grow for 30 more years to provide the big pay for plain labor.

There were 65 such points of interest on the roadside "sho\arwindorv" route through the Valley Gem Tree Farms, near Arlington, Snohomish County, Washington, where the first Tree Farm Field Day of history was held. It was a wet and cold rvinier day but well before the American Legion began to serve lunch 1,500 people, mostly farm woodland owners, were in the dripping woods, seeing tree farming on the hoof.

The visitors heard about it too, at every point of interest. There were 50 foresters in the woods as answer men. The first demonstration was on an old stump pasture that had been burned over many times until eight years ago, when it was put under protection. Now Douglas fir seedlings were up in the fern patches. Ifere visitors were shown how to prevent and suppress fire.

One powerful point of interest was a thinned acre of Douglas fir and West Coast hemlock, age 40 years, from which sawlogs, pulpwood and hop poles had been taken and sold for

Carl Bahr, eastern sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Company, with headquarters in Chicago, attended a meeting of the Redwood Advisory Committee of the OPS in San Francisco, December 18, visited the firm's main offrce in San Francisco, and left for home December 20.

FHA Ready to Receive Applications For Oxnard-Port Hueneme Area

John E. Mc Govern, district director of the Federal Housing Administration, Los Angeles, has announced that his office will be ready on Wednesday, December 26, 1951, to receive applications for exceptions from credit restrictions from builders for the construction of the 800 units of defense housing programmed by the Housing and Home Finance Agency for the Oxnard-Port llueneme critical defense housing area.

The defense housing program for the Oxnard-Port Hueneme area, as announced by Administrator Raymond I\{. Foley of the HHFA, represents the estimated number of additional permanent housing units needed for in-migrant personnel of specified defense plants and installations. Construction of this housing will be assisted by suspension of real estate credit restrictions and by the aids auth,orized by the Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act, mainly a new and more liberal form of FHA mortgage insurance under Title IX of the National Housing Act' Mr. Mc Govern announced that these aids are norv available for the housing which is approved for construction on thc basis of the applications that may now be filed rvith his office.

Eligible for the programmed housing in this area are the in-migrant defense workers or military and civilian personnel of the following defense establishments in the area: Camarillo Air Strip, Na'r'al Station, Port Hueneme, Naval Air Missile Test Center, Point Mugu.

Of the 800 housing units programmed for the OxnardPort Hueneme area, 400 are to be rental and 400 sales housing. Of the .rental units, 70 are programmed as onebedroom units rvith a maximum monthly rent of $60.00, 250 as two-bedroom units with a maximum rent of $70.00, and 80 units of three or more bedrooms with a maximum rent of $80.00. Of the sales units, 150 are programmed as twobedroom units with a maximum price of $8750.00 and 250 as nnits containing three or more bedrooms with a maximum price of $10,@0.00--

In order that the housing constructed under the program ruay most nearly meet the needs of eligible defense workers (and military personnel) in the area, the FHA office will approve applicaions of builders on a selective basis, taking into consideration the follou'ing factors:

1. The proximity of the site of the proposed housing to the establishments rvhere eligible rvorkers are employed, :urd the desirability of the site with respect to transportation. commercial and community facilities and services, utilities. street improvements, and similar relevant factors.

2. The rents or sales prices proposed to be charged, the size of the units in terms of the number of rooms and bedrooms proposed to be provided, and the relationship betu'cen the accommodations proposed and the proposed rent or sales prices.

3. The capacity of the applicant to perform the undertaliing for rvhich he is applying for assistance.

Applications rvill be received b1' the FHA office located fi ll2 \\'. gth street, Los Angeles, California, during a 1.5-day period ending Tuesdal', January 15,1952, after which all applications received u'ill be considered and selective approvals'rvill be made. Thereafter, additional applications n'ill be approved only as llecessarv to make up any deficit in the program. Application Forms may be secured from the Federal Housing Administration offices at ll2 W. 9th Street, Los Angeles 15, or 735 State Strcet, Santa Barbara, California.

\\rhen a builder's application is approved, he rvill receive a certificate of inclusion in the defense housing prograln for the number and tvpes of housing units allotted to him. This certificate carries lr'ith it the privilege of relaxed credit controls. eligibility-subject to requirements of the National Housing Act-{or Title IX FHA mortgage insurance. and eligibility for participation in the Federal National Mortgage Association purchase set aside for the FHA-insured or \rA-guaranteed mortgages on programn-red defense housing.

New Kiln Will be in OPerction In Second Qucrrter ol 1952

Calaveras Cement Companv's t-relv fourth kiln lvill be rearlv for operation in the second quarter of. 1952. it u'as announced last month by William Wallace Mein, Jr., companl'president.

Company officers recently made a tour of inspection of the Oakland yards of Moore Drv Dock Company, rvhich is fabricating the kiln under subcontract from Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company of Miln'auke, Wisconsin.