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decline in value. Such a decline in value rvould in itself discourage the construction of new homes."

fn foreseeing the need for 1,000,000 nerv dwellings by l97O the council observed that the "maximum sustainable construction rate of nerv housing will be no more than about 70,000 a year-and only if financing does not become a limiting factor."

While this forecast falls short of the recent 100,0o0-plus

Boys Will Be Buoyed

Philadelphia area boys attending St. Michael's Camp next summer will have over their heads a new and sturdy Wxl4A shelter donated by the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, whose 1957 Exposition closed at Philadelphia's Convention Hall on Noveml>er 7. The building, which had been constructed inside Convention Hall to house the "model" lumber and building materials merchandising center, u'as originally slated to be sold to the highest bidder at the close of tl-re shorv. Learning that it rvas to be auctioned, Tl-romas Monaghan, a carpenter who lvorked on erecting the structure, urged his church to purchase it fr>r use at St. Michael's Boys Camp. Father William FI. Conley, director of the camp, liked the suggestion and offerecl to eclual any bid submitted during the auction. It u'as then that the NRLDA Exposition Committec decidecl to donate the structure aJ a camp shelter for the youngsters. Paul V. DeVille, general ihairman for the 1957 Building Products Exposition, which is the lumber dealer association's annual trade shorv, expressed the gratification of his committee and the entire association that the structure lvonld serr.e such a u'orthy cause.

figure, the council cautioned that the outlook should not be considered oessimistic.

"An annnal ionstruction rate of 60,000 to 70,000 a year n'ould l>e as great as during the period 1946-50 and would be half again as great as the best prewar year," the report -"aicl. "Further, because of the great need for an increasing volume of industrial, commercial and public construction, it is unlikely that the construction industry as a 'rn'hole 'n,ill suffer gieatly from a declining need for nerv housing."

Ilven so, it still means that tnore orange trees must be cut dorvn, the fields plorved under. The repclrt vie'rvecl this prospect l'ith considered understanding:

"For manv reasons life in the future rvill be different from rvhat u'e hai'e knou'n in the past. Orange groves are being uprooted, to be replaced by housing and by industrial and commercial structitres. Many long-term residents of tl-re area deplore tl-rese changes. At the same time, they recognize that no one. even if he u'ished, could reverse the course of economicevents..."