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6000 Dwelling Units Assigned Los Angeles County

John E. McGovern, district director, Federal Housing Administration, Los Angeles, has announced the National Housing Agency has assigned to Los Angeles Cohnty a quota for privately-financed construction of new housing under its "H-2" program as follows i

3,000 dwelling units, with a maximum sales price of $2,000 based upon a three bedroom unit. Any other size units to have a maximum sales price in relation to the accommodations proposed.

3,000 dwelling units, with a maximum shelter rent of $6O. 6O0 units are reserved for owner-occupant use.

The number of dwelling units started in successive, 3Oday intervals shall be limited to 1,000 units.

The Los Angeles office will be open at 8 A.M., Monday, May 21, 1945, to receive applications for not to exceed 1,100 units (being llo/o of each 30-day quota.)

Occupancy of H-2 housing is .not restricted to immigrant war workers or to hardship cases or any special group, but is available rvithout eligibility limitations. Owners who construct for their own use and occupancy, and contractors who have a contract to build for an owner who is to occupy the improvement,.will be given first consideration. Inasmuch as this is a continuing program for a six (6) months period, the maximum allocation to any builder will depend upon the number of units which.the builder can start per day, with a maximum permitted of 25 units for the first month. Further approval in subsequent months will be based upon the number of units which the builder has started under approval of the previous month.

Any person desiring to construct dwellings pursuant to this quota, may make application to the FHA office (112 West Ninth Street, Los Angeles 15) on Form WPB 2896, requesting priority assistance to begin construction of a dwelling either for rental, sale, or owner-occuponty.

Southern Hcrrdwood Lumber

The OPA provides southern lumber mills rvith dollarani{-cent additions that they may make in sales of specified "standard special" items of sonthern hardwood lumber. A "stanclarcl special" item is a selection of l-rardwoocl lumber of special rvidth or length from a standard grade. (Amendment 18 to revised MPR-97 effective Mav l.)

Buildirig by End ol Year Forecast

Portland, Ore., May 7-A War Production Board official told America today it probably can begin building houses, stores, and other lumber products by the end of this year.

J. Phillip Boyd, national \ /PB lumber division director, said the WPB plans the first large scale release of lumber to civilians by September.

Meeting here with western lumber manufacturers, Boyd said restrictions on civilian lumber use would be lifted gradually. Details probably will be announced by August, he said.

New Scwmill

A new sawmill will be erected by Oceanside Lumber Co., Inc., near Garibaldi, Ore., which will cut 5O million board feet annually and will employ approximately lfr persons on a one-shift basis. A. E. Mclntosh, manager of the West Oregon Lumber Co., Portland, will be president; Harry T. Nicolai, president of the Nicolai Door Manufacturing Co., Portland, vice president, and J. G. Bourus, secretary-treasurer and resident manager.

[.os Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting Mqy 28

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will hold a luncheon meeting at the University Club, Los Angeles, Monday noon, May 28. Luncheon will be served at 12:19 p.rn. There rvill be a guest speaker.

Additioncrl Douglcs Fir Price Chcnges

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An addition of $7.50 per carw'as provided for open car loading for a type of lumber ordinarily loaded in boxcars and an extra charge of $6.50 per car authorized for packaging lumber into sling lots or dividing the load into individual parcels. More buyers have been requesting these services recently to facilitate unloading and conserve labor, OPA said. Ceiling prices {or both services are designed only to cover the direct costs.

Mills are authorized by today's action to apply to the Ol)A Lumber Branch, Washington, D. C., for special prices on oallet stock sold on Government contracts and subcontraCts. When these special prices are fixed, they rvill be based on the cost of remanufactnring them from longer stock than is normally required for pallet.

The only other changes clarify pricing provisions that have causecl sarne clilficulties in interpretation in the past. (Amendment 13 to Revised NTaximrrm Price Regulition 26-Douglas Fir Lumber-effective N{ay 4, 1945.)

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