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Retail Dealers' Stoclcs Sufficient for lmmediate Needs, State Foundation Heads

The pace of war building is increasing, and more building materials are being added to the critical lists each week. Until the needs of Army, Navy and Maritime Commission are filled, and these purchasers are assured of prompt deliveries of all future requirements, the amount of building materials which will be allowed to go through ordinary channels is somewhat uncertain according to the Northern and Southern California Homes Foundations.

"This does not in any way mean that civilian buildingparticularly essential repairs and maintenance-must be stopped," Bernard B. Barber and Orrie W. Hamilton, chairman of the Foundations, stated. "Retail dealers' stocks are not likely to be frozen, and in most communities are large enough to supply the building materials allowed under the recent building order, for some time to come.

"Manufacturers will be able to replenish dealers' stocks, as soon as they have caught up with war orders. Lumber, the latest major building material to be affected by freezing orders, is expected to be withheld from the civilian market only temporarily, to give the industry a chance to catch up with a huge backlog of Army and Navy commitments.

The difrerence between bachelor's quarters and a family-owned home is often nothing but a few finishing touches usually credited to the lady of the house. -Tais valance box falts into the category of "finishing touches". It is both inexoensive and simple to build and install.

The only metal required is in the nails or screws, and the braces, used to hold the bor together and fasten it to the window frame. The other materials, a few jags of lumber and strips of standard wood moulding, are members of the "non-critical" family.

R. \v. CALDWELL ON ACTIVE SERVICE

Robert W. Caldwell, son of R. E. (Bob) Caldwell, salesman for Hammond Redwood Company, San Francisco, is .now a gas defense officer with the rank of Lieutenant, stationed at the Naval operating base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Lieutenant Caldwell was graduated from the University of California as a chemical engineer, and entered the Chemical Warfare School .at Edgewater Arsenal, Maryland, last August.

"For the duration, if need be, and at least until necessary war building is taken care of, every American family will be content to use construction materials for repairs and simple home improvements, delaying building the longdreamed-of new home until our country has been built strong enough to assure a victorious peace in which to enjoy it."

Happy Event

Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Evju are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son, Mark Taylor, born in Oakland, May 16. The boy weighed 9 pounds, 11 ounces.

Mr. Evju is sales manager for James L. Hall, wholesale lumber dealer, San Francisco.

Los Angeles Visitor

J. Z.Todd, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, returned a week ago from a business trip to Southern California.