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the introduction of this legislation, and in a letter to Senator Carlson said:

"If the bill is enacted into law it would provide a substantial incentive for homeowners to improve their homes and would be a major step toward the pievention of slums in the future.

"There are thousands of famili-es who own homes which have been permitted to deteriorate or which have become outgrown by the families occupying the homes.

"The tax incentive provided in this bill would, f am confident, result in the upgrading of many of our older homes and should provide an immediate stimulus to the economy.

"The additional revenue to the government from the increased home-improvement business generated by this legislation should more than oftset any losses of revenue resulting from the deduction taken by the homeowner for expenditures for repair, maintenance, additions and alterations of his home.

"Those who furnish materials and labor for home-improvement work are, by and large, small business men located in every section of the country.

"The additional business activity resulting from this legislation would not only be felt by distributors of building materials, but by the manufacturers of the materials.

"The upgrading and improvement of our older homes would also benefit the local community by reducing unemployment, by increasing the value of the property, and by reducing future outlays for the elimination of slums.

"This bill, if enacted into law, would, in my opinion, provide a more immediate stimulus to the economy than many of the other proposals offered as anti-recession measures, and would not reduce badly needed revenue.

"This legislation deserves the serious consideration of all members of the Congress."

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Richqrd H. LOVEDAY

Richard H. Loveday, 65, one of the best-known and universally liked retail lumbermen in the Los Angeles area, died April 28. He had been in the business almost his entire life and had operated the Loveday Lumber Company at the same location, 500 North Ford, since 1921. His son, George B. Loveday, was associated with Mr. Loveday in the retail lumber business and with him owned and operated another company yard, the Whitacre Lumber Co. The younger Loveday has also been in the business all of his adult life. Richard Loveday's wife preceded him in death about two years ago. Mr. Loveday will be missed in the retail lumber councils as he was generally known and widely respected as "an institution in East Los Angeles."

In Memoriqm

Word was recently received in Alturas, Calif.., of the death of C. E. Rachford in San Diego, where he had retired in 1941. He was born in Ft. Bidwell in Modoc county in 1880 and was taken by his parents to Alturas in 1884. He entered the employ of the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, was promoted to supeivisor in lX)7, and transferred in l9l4 to San Francisco, where he was appointed regional forester. He subsequently served more ihan 20 years as assistant

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forester in Washington, D.C., including war work in which he organized relocation camps in Tulelake and Colorado Martin Nelson, 72, retired building contractor and partner in the firm of Nelson Bros. of Glendale. died Mav 4 at his home there... Katherine (NIrs. Henry M.) Adams,8l. died in Anaheim Nlay 5. She was the widow of the wellknown lumberman, Herrry M. Adams, and had been a resident of Orange coutliy since 1890, a year after it separated from Los Angeles county. The late Mr. Adams will be recalled with the Griffrth Lumber Company, which became the Adams-Bowers Lumber Co. when he and a partner bought the retail yard, rvhich is today the Gibbs Lumber Co. Headquarters yard of tl-re old Griffith Lumber Co. was in Santa Ana, now the site of the Barr Lumber Co.

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Gus Hoover