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A Word of Coution-

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Wooden'l You Know?

The most up-and-coming material in home building today turns out to be that reliable performer-wood. Definite gains for wood in house'framing, flooring and kitchen cabinets and the continuing predominance of wood for windows, sheathing and subflooring are reported by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from surveys of new one-family houses made for the last three vears bv the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"Eighty-three per cent of new houses were of frame construction, as shown by the latest BLS survey," the lumber association said. "The sharpest gain for frame construction was in the South, where there was a rise of 16 percentage points between 1955 and 1956.

"Hardwood flooring kept its great lead over all other types. Hardwood floors in 1956 were used in &4/o of. living rooms, 85/o of bedrooms and 8l/o of. dining rooms.

"Kitchen cabinets were of wood in 887o of the houses, according to the BLS survey. This is a significant increase from 1950, when a Housing and Home Finance Agency survey showed wood cabinets in 75/o of new houses."

The proportion of houses built on slabs remained stationary at 16/o between 1955 and 1956, while those with basements gained slightly. Since a total of. 82/a of houses either had basements or were built with crawl spaces, g'reater use of lumber for wood floor construction was indicated.

Wood windows continued as the favorite, being installed in 57/o of the houses in both 1955 and 1956. Wood plank outranked other sheathing materials, and softwood boards had a big lead over other materials for subflooring, in the 1958 BLS survey.

The survey showed wood paneling had its greatest popularity in family rooms, being used in 3l/o. Wood siding alone rvas used on 24/o ot the houses, and on another 7/o in combination with brick facing.

First Gommerciql Timber Gufring in Blodgeft Forest

Blodg-ett Forest (Fl Dorado County)-The first of a plal11ed series of experimental timber cuts was under way this Fall on the University of California's Blodgett Forest, lbcated on the Georgetown Divide in northern El Dorado county. This cuttine marks the first commercial tin-rber sale here since the Universiti acqrljred the -2,600-acre property as a gift from the Blodgeft family in 1933.

Under a contract with the lJniversity's board of regents, the Kelsey-Lumber Company of Placerville-is harvesting lVa million board-feet of timber in accordance with the exper'imental plan for the forest. The logging operation covers 110 acres ancl'was expected to require about six weeks for completion. The cut includes overmature residual trees that were leit when the area was first logged during the period 1905-1915. The loggers are also removing yoyng trees fhat show poor form, brofin tops, or high risk to insect attack