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New Home Construction in Los Angeles Large in 1937

1937 goes into the records as a very active home building year in Los Angeles. New single family dwellings number 6845 with a valuation of 926,695,159.

7453 permits totaling $30,125,102 were issued last year for single family homes, double dwellings, and apartment houses.

The new housing in Los Angeles during 1937 provides accommodations for more than 34,000 persons.

Also represented in the year's total of 33,i53 building permits with a valuation of $63,170,944, are t6,372 permits, aggregating $9,496,442, for alterations and additions.

Following is the record of Los Angeles building permits and permit-valuations with comparative figures for the years 1929 to 1937:

Jack Dionne to Speak at East Bay Club

Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, will speak at the dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club to be held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, on Monday evening, lanuary 24.

Floyd Haas will give an illustrated talk on Death Valley. President lfenry M. Hink will preside.

Jack Parish Retires

Jack Parish, superintendent of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. yard at Los Ar"rgeles, retired on January 1 after being with the company for thirty-two years. Ffe went to work for the firm on February I, lqJ6, at their San Pedro yard. His fellow workers presented him with a Hamilton wrist watch, and Mrs. Parish was the recipient of a Seth Thomas chime clock. Mr. Parish has not announced his future plans.

REPRINTS JACK DIONNE'S EDITORIAL

1937 was the most active year in Los Angeles since 1928 in point of number of permits.

Chris Totten, Phoenix, Arizona, secretary-manager of the Arizona Retail Lumber and Builders' Supply Association, Inc., liked Jack Dionne's editorial, "A New Year Merchandising Sermon," that appeared in the January l, 1938, issue. He reprinted the editorial and sent it to the members of the Association.

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I Wonder when the New Year comes To rule this little globe of ours, If he'll destroy the noxious weeds And in their stead plant smiling flowers; And will he break the clanking chains From which we long have sought relief, And bid the troubled nations tread

The fair and fruitful paths of peace ?

I Wonder if during the coming months, the world of mankind will move forward into better, braver, and brighter pathways, or sink back into a state of barbarism from which it may take many years to emerge.

I Wonder how we, as individuals, shall face the frrtrrt'e upon that midnight peak of time between 1937 and 1938; how we shall greet the dawn of January first; how we strall walk out into the New Year, with what dreams and hopes, what lofty ideals and sturdy resolutions. Just what shall we do with twelve, new months-I wonder.

I Wonder if "The Task" by Robert Louis Stevenson contains splendid material with which to build New Year's resolutions-let's see.

"To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to spend a little less; to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary ancl not to be bitter; to keep a few friends but these without capitulation; above all, on the same grim conditions to keep friends with himself. Here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy."

A. Merriam Conner.

Receives Extortion Letters

San Francisco, December 31, 1937.-Federal men have not only thwarted an extortion plot but today had in custody an ex-convict who had spent months in planning a "perfect crime," G-men claim.

According to N. J. L. Pieper, director of the San Francisco Federal Bureau fo Investigation, G-men arrested William E. Schram, former San Quentin convict, as the author of three extortion letters, sent to Edward E. Yoder, resident manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, Scotia.

The letters, received by Mr. Yoder, December 18,27 and 29, demanded payment of $1000 under threats of personal injury and damage to property.

"This plan," the first letter said, "is the product of a person who has many months of thought behind it. Whereas you won't have one-tenth of the time to decide. All possible details such as fingerprints, time, strangers, marked money and a getaway have been worked out to perfection."

Schram, a former employe of The Pacific Lumber Company, before U. S. Commissioner Howard P. Noyes at Eureka today admitted having sent the extortion letters, and, charged with "violation of the extortion act," is being held for grand jury action.

Sees Rose Bowl Game

Henry M. Hink, vice-president of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, was in Southern California over New Year's and attended the California-Alabama football game at Pasadena.

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