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Son Frcrncisco Hoo-Hoo Club To Hold Dinner Donce

Presiclent Bob Bonner has announcecl that the San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club's next event will be a dinner dance. to be held Friday evening, Aprtl 2, 1954, at tl-re California Golf and Country Club, on El Camino Real ir.r South San Francisco. The social hour-and-a-half prior to dinner will bc presentecl with compliments of Simpson Logging Co., Hedlund Lurnber Sales, Inc. and Hobbs Wall Lumber Companl'. General Chairrnan, Jim Hall, Jr., has assured the best in the way of entertainment, with dancing 'til the u'ee hours to one of San Francisco's finest bands.

Predicts Prosperous Air Gondirion,ing lndusfry

Accorcling to a recent business visitor in Los Angeles, Carl E. Buchholzer, president of the Airtemp Division of Chrysler Corporation, it will be another six vears before the air conditioning industry can hope to even scratch the surface of its American market potential. He declared it to be a depression-proof industry, grou,ing every day throrrgh its supplying of human needs. \{r. Buchholzer was accompanied by J. F. Knopf, vice president in charge of sales of his corporation.

Thev hosted a gigantic dinner meeting at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles while here, 'n.ith 800 dealers present. Ashburn Supply Company, Culver Cit)', California, has been appointed exclusive sales representatives in Southern California for their air conditionir.rg products.

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Burns of Bunker Hill

A great American, Fritz Burns, builder of homes, is winning a ner,r, Ilattle of Bunker Hill. An olcl residential district of Los Angeles has borne the name of Boston's historic hi-ll since the 1870's. The best homes of the sleepy little city of Los Angeles of that time were built in the Bunker Ilill district. Today it is a "blighted" neighborhoocl, but rrany of the old homes are as staunch rrnder lvalls Irom 'ivhich the paint is gone as they were in the 1890'sfor they were framed with Douglas fir :rnd were handsorrely dressed in Western red cedar siding.

liritz B. Burns has been rvell au'are of the durability oi these r,l'oods throughout his career as a California builder. Now Chairman of the Build Ameiica Better Council of the National r\ssociation of Real Estate Iloards, Builder llurns is an active leader in the building industry's crusade ior the rehabilitatiun of old neighborhoods.

Last year, as a practical private er.rterprise builder, he moved into the Old Bunker Hill district of faded and worn lrouses and, r'r'ith his son, put money. time and talent into an expert trial run on the problem. N<trv specific results are in evidence. They are more than goocl. They holcl inspiring promise.

The Facts Ma'am

During the last lvar and for some time after it I regularly rvrote columns on the ten nrillion and more hon-res that had been built before 1901 and u.hich were yet in use. I\'ly story was that in most so-callecl blightc<l neighborhoods there rvere literally millions of houses thirt u'ere sound of frame and could economically be remodelecl into apa.rtnrcnts rvith rnodern equiprlreirt and be rentecl at moclest rates to make a fair profit.

L. A. Builder Fritz Burns nou,'has the facts, ma'am, the facts on the case. Here are a few of the important ones.

As reported in the Los Angeles m:rg:rziue, "Westerrt Housing," Mr. Bnrns last year purchased three adjoinirrg' honses iLt 240 and 242 N. Hope Street. Al1 three hacl been

$uilt,atriout'1885."'.Gheir basic"'ccinst+uctisn .ivas sound. Th e frame and the wood underpinnings remained as good as ever through 68 years. Says the report, "The exterior rvoo<l siding was in good shape . . . The tvood, n'hich had been seasoned for three quarters of a centnry, took paint like a dream The floors rvere sancled zrnrl re-covered ll'ith linoleum and cork."

So the job rvent, all the way through. The heavy costs were for modern plumbing fixtures and kitchen installations, not for structural rebuilding. A couple of immense old closets \\''ere converted into bathrooms. "Double-hung rvindows needed no repair, other than a little glazing here ancl there, and still function perfectly well," s:rys the rel)ort. Good r,vood again !

TheCost...

The one old house that has been expertly rernodeled cost Mr. Burns $6,000 at the start. Nearly $8,0CI \\'as spent making it into tr.vo completely equipped modern apartment homes of trvo bedrooms gash-61 tu,o homes at :r total cost of $14,0@.

In addition to the pair of bedrooms, each apartnrent has one living room, one bath, one kitchen and one dining room, covering 1,000 square feet per aparturent. He expects to rent each apartment for from $85 to $100 per month.

Comments "\\restern Housing," "Using the old rule c,f thumb of one per cent per month of the total investrnent:rs a profitable rental figure, the ansrver to this experiment is obviously'good economics'."

Southern Coliforniq Visifor

Hubert Heying, president of Timberline, Inc.. c.,f Kansa:i City, Missouri, and Mrs. Heying, spent tu'o n.eeks during Februzrry in I'alnr Springs and Laguna Beach as gr-rests of I)ee and Nfrs. Essley, \\rhittier, California. On a combinerl l;usiness and pleasure trip through the South and far \\rest for his firm, n'hich distriltutes plyu,ood, motrldings and doors in the middle u'est, Mr. Heyling r.isiterl business associates in Louisiana, Texas, Nerv Nfexico. .\rizona and California. He reported that business cr-ir-rclitions in the buiiding industry rvere good in the South and a general uptrend u'as indicated every. place he and his rvif e visited. Ntr. and Mrs.. He1.ling departed frorn Palnr S1>rings February 23 on their return trip to Kansas Citv.