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WHOTESAI.E LUN4BER

F d M BIdg., Long Becch 12, Cclilornicr

Light weight, sofiness, stroightness of groin ond uniformity of texture moke this lumber eosy fo hondle, cut, sow, shope ond noil -thus soving costs on the iob. Widely used for froming, sheothing, subflooring, efc. Select grodes ore excellent for interior ond exlerior trim, millwork ond mony induslriol uses.

This is but one of fen fine softwoods from member mills of the Wesiern Pine Associotion. All ore monufoclured, seosoned ond groded to exocling Associolion stondords. Lumber deolers, builders, orchifecls ond wood users hove found them dependoble ond best for mony construclion uses.

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The best in Redwood

Long Becch

Phone 6-5237

Ernie Moss

Proposed Revision of Housing Construction Regulations

\\,'ashington, D.C., Feb. 4-The National Production Authority, of the U. S. Department of Commerce, and the Housing and Home Finance Agency, today sent to members of the NPA Construction Industry Advisory Committee the draft of a proposed revision of the housing construction regulations which will be issued separately from the basic NPA construction regulations'

Chief among the new provisions of the proposed order are (1) a restriction to one and one-half bathrooms per unit of housing, and (2) a reduction in the amounts of steel and copper allol'ved for use in construction of one- to four-family housing units.

There is no floor area limitation as such in the proposed orcler, it was pointed out, but the reductions in the amounts of steel and copper permitted would have the effect of restricting the size of houses that may be built under provision of the new regulations.

The HHFA will have full responsibility for the administration of the proposed new regulation in connection with all housing, it was stated, tvith compliance and enforcement provisions to be administered by NPA. However, specific applications for particular types of housing such as farm, atomic energy, college and military housing, will continue to be made to the claimant agencies handling such applications.

Committee members are being asked to study the proposed regulations with a view toward giving NPA and HHFA their views as to revisions and modifications at a meeting in Washington on February 11.

This meeting has already been called for the purpose of discussing the proposed revisions of the NPA over-all construction regulations, copies of which have alreadl' been sent to committee members. The proposed housing regulations apply to residential construction, and contain numerous materials conservation provisions rvhich are more restrictive than current regulations.

This has been found necessary, it was explained. because of the greatly expanded military p:ogram and its consequent increased use of critical materials and the resulting cut in the allocation of these materials made for housing construction by the Defense Production Administration.

Joins Timber Engineering Compcrny Stall

Washington, D.C.-Edwin R. Butler, veteran journalist and advertising man in the lumber industrl', has joined the staff of Timber Engineering Company as manag'er of its publicity department, it was announced bv Harry G. Uhl, president.

Mr. Butler, a former editor of National Hardu-ootl N{agazine, was public relations director for Southern Hardrvood Producers, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., when he mot'ed to Washington, in 1949, as assistant managing director oi -\merican Forest Products Industries, from which position he resigned several weeks ago.