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floor plan and gives the owner the opportunity to greet their guests in more private surroundings.

- A roo{ed porch leads from the front of the house to the entry. Note the interesting design obtained along this porch by the use of planters and screens.

A guest closet is n,ext to the entry and this area is well lighted by the location of a glass panel next to the door.

HIS HOME should have great appeal to any builder who is interested in an economical plumbing installation. Both baths, to' gether with the water heater, washing machine and kitchen sink are all located in one compact area.

From both the front and rear doors, there is spendid traffic circulation to every part of the house. This has heen accomplished with very little square footage devoted to the hallway.

Misplacing the front entrance can sometimes spoil the entire plan of your homeespecially if you cling to the old theory that the front door should always face the street. Here, the entry door is located some distance from the front and faces the side yard. Such a location saves hall space, provides a better designed Clip

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The location of the living room ofiers many advantages such as creating a "dead end" room that eliminates through traffic. It also ofiers a view towards the front of the lot and yet at the rear of the room, sliding glass doors open to the patio so that outdoor living can be enjoyed here in private. A portion of the family .oo- ir separated from both the hall and the kitchen by partial walls. A door opens from this room to the patio.

A feature of the efficient pullman kitchen is the generous size of the nook. It is well lighted by wide corner windows.

Both baths have pullman lavatories. One of the baths has a huge shower while the other has an enclosed tu'b with shower overhead.

The garage door is ofiset to provide a storage area along one wall.

The attractive front exterior of the garage has a long, low, stone planter which ties in with a same'stone veneer. False beams extend from the gable and the wood siding in the gable projects out from the garage wall.

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Mother Nature puts her best into it. But palco improves it with a series of manufacturing processes to produce a superior producf -..pslsg Architectural Quality Redwood." One is ,,taper s&wing." Logs are sawn parallel to the bark, producing straight-grained lumberstronger, more stable, and capable of the finest machining. Many other steps are taken, too,to give you important "extras" in every shipment of "Palco Architectural Quality Redwood." And at competitive prices. Why settle for less? o Prompt delivery by our trucks o Immediate service on "will calls" o Complete milling facilities o New, modern dry kilns o Centrally located o Competitively priced

Large diversiffed stocks of foreign and domestic hardwoods -our yard.

Federql Pork Plqn Reveqled

Some two months after it was promised, the Johnson adminis' tration has taken the wraps off its plan for a national redwood park.

It has proposed legislation to establish a two-unit'45,000 acre park, and is supported by Calif. Gov. Edmund G. Brown and Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (R.-Calif.). The proposal calls for a 43,392-acre unit in Del Norte County and a separate 1,400'acre unit in Humboldt county, including tlle tallest trees in the world ranging up to 367.8 feet in height.

The -Miller Redwood Co. would lose about lB,00O acres and the Simpson company, 896 acres. Other private holdings in the proposed park area total about 5,800 acres. The proposal calls fo, "t immediate start on development of the park to provide jobs for displaced lumbermen. President Johnson's budget for itt" tZ months beginning July 1 includ"s $I0 million to start land acquisition.

The area would be about half the size advocated by the Sierra Club and proposed in bills introduced last year by Rep. Jeffery Cohelan, (D-Calif.) and February 23, by 15 Democratic senators headed by Sen. Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.).

Kuchel introduced the administration bill in the Senate and Rep. Don H. Clausen (R-Calif.) introduced it in the house.

Brown expressed his support in a telegram to Kuchel, saying the administration had adopted their joint recommendations for protecting the communities that would be affected by the park.

Brown said the administration's proposal represents an $84 million package over a five-year period.

"This," he said, "is by far the largest proposed federal invest' ment in a park in our history, and it is the most that reasonable men can expect to achieve."

The administration's bill includes provisions for payment of $342,000 a year for five years in econornic adjustment aid to the California counties to compensate for loss of tax revenue. The figure was arrived at in negotiations between federal and state officials.

Acquisition costs of new land to be included in the park was estimated by the Interior Department at $56,850,000, including $54,167,950 for timber land owned by the Miller Redwood Co. and the Simpson Timber Co.

The Del Norte park area would include the Jedediah Smith and Del Norte Coast Redwood state parks, totalling about 14,0fr) acres.

The plan calls for a $19 million investment in park facilities, $16 million in the first five years, including more than $2 million in the first year for roads and trails, buildings and utilities.

The bill as drafted proposes donation to the federal government of the state park lands, an action that would require approval of the state legislature.

The federal government would purchase for about $4 million redwood stands {or addition to the existing Prairie Creek and Humboldt Redwood parks, as recommendei by th" State Park Commission.

In addition the federal sovernment would transfer to the state the Muir Woods National Monument as a unit of the Tamalpias State Park and some 31,000 acres of the Kings Range area west of Humboldt State Park.

Foresf Service Fire Record

Forest fires which started in the National Forests in 1965 were better-controlled than ever before, according to figures just re' leased by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In fact, acreage burned was the lowest in the 60-year history of the Service.

Other records in managing National Forest resources were shattered, too. Timber cut hit an all-time high; the largest timber sale in history was made in Alaska; more trees were planted than ever before, and recreation visits continued to rise.