Some of f he uses f or 1l OYO CO]ISTRUCTIOII

Heari Redwood

All Heart wood insures maximum durability-minimum shrinkage, warping or checking. Some of the many valuable uses forwhich it can serve your trade are:

POSTS AND FT]TCE BOARDS EXTERIOR BOARD & BATTTI{ TACIA AND CEITING . TXPOSED BEATNS

I.OG CABII{ SIDING RUSTIC AND DROPSIDI}IG

TNUDSI11S . BUI.KHEADS CURBIilG CU1VERTS. ARBORS

GARDEI{ BENCHTS Al{D STEPS . SEPTIC TA]IKS KilOTTY PAiIETING

Consftaaion Heart hens may be incladed in nixed can uitb Noyo Sidings, Finisb, Moaldin{s, Shop and all otber Noyo prodtcts.' u)rite or Pbone nearest ofi.ce

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Veterans's Administration. There is considerable pressure for an increa.se in that rate to a level more realistic in terms of the general money market, and a nell' Administration may now change the rate.

As a result, VA guaranteed hans in 195? measured far below 1951 in numbers and dollar volume. The agency closed an estimated 306,(n0 home loans totaling an estimated $2,700,000,000 in the twelve-month period, contrasting with 447,373 ioans totalinS $3.614,479,644 |or all of 1951.

While the money squeeze hurt the GI home market in 1952, FHA activity ran slightly ahead of 1951, with an estimated 275,M units started under FHA inspection in 1952. On a quarterly average basis, that was about 7 per cent more than in 1951, when FHA :,tarts totaled 263,523 units for the full year.

FHA activity this year has been little more than half as great as in 1950, the oost-war building peak, when 485,932 units were started under FHA inspection. FHA starts accounted for 36O,D3 units in 1949, for Dl,O53 in 1948, for 28,818 in 1947 and 69,033 in 1946.

Defense housing rvas handicapped for a good part of 1952 by the Government's unwillingness to recognize that in some high cost areas it was impossible to build good homes under the arbitrary $8,100 mortgage limit. It was not until late in the year and after vigorous effort by NAHB, that FHA agreed to raise that limit in high cost areas. The program is norv beginning to roll in bigh gear By mid-October, 9,1,531 units of defense housing had been programmed for 194 critical areas, of which almost 36,m0 had been started and about 18,000 completed.

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Sisalkraft Adds Two Plantr

The Sisalkraft Co.. now in its 25th year of business, announces the addition of two plants rvhich rvill help meet the increasing needs of industrial, construction, and agricultural users of reinforced rvaterproof paper.

A nerv plant has recently gone into operation at Cary, Illinois, about 40 miles north of Chicago. Its complete rvarehousing facilities are helping to speed deliverv of all Sisalkraft products in the immediate }fidtvestern area.

Construction has begun on a new mill at Tracy, California, which, rvhen completed and in operation, will service most requirements on the West Coast. Stocks of all Sisalkraft products will also be s'arehoused at Tracy.

This production expansion will supplement the main manufacturing plant located at Attleboro, 1\{assachusetts.

New Westetn Pine Membership Diredory Published

A nerv Directory of Membership, dated Jan. l, 1953, has been published by the Western Pine association.

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FX "PLASTER VORKABILITY" is as.important in the * maoufacnrring of plaster lath as io BLUE DIAMOND If1nf6 l- PLASTER. This invaluable characteristic is a gift of Naturs F', Our gypsum deposia at Blue Diamond, Nevada, poss€ss ii 'PLASTER VORKABILITY" to a high degree. :.:J ffi;$.TflSil-!;rHL:TE:

I i The Blue Diamond Plaster Lath production line is equioDod XlcllltlEs I i with high speed automatic machinery of latest desigo- -I: and is synchtooized from begioning to eod. i ws:mal:{,:3ffiI

FX The 6oest materials and machinery are oo better than the oco $:j who use them. Under standards sdt for them by men wi6 rfl ['l over a quanter century of cootinuous experieoce ns ${ manufacnrriog Blue Diamond productg skilled workers, &l aided by laboratory cootrol methods, guard this long production line aga.inst imperfection s. lr,ttEor $nttr t6 flrEts 5+ crlFnr

Listing the production by species, staple products handled and factory products and specialties of 3l I member companies, the directory contains 20 8fuxll" pages punched for insertion in threering binders. Listed by the 3ll companies are 3-16 mills.

The nerv directory is printed on white paper, in contrast to the yellow stock of previous years. It gives dry kiln facilities and sales office addresses of all member;.

Up to l0 copies are available n'ithout charge from \\restern Pine association. Yeon Building, Portland 4, Oregon.

Endora deloge of Cords Lumber Company, San Francisco, rvas a recent visitor in Pasadena. visiting her family during the holidays.