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San Fernando Road and in Hollywood. He is well-known among lumbermen for his sound business judgment.

"The next in point of service is probably ROY SANDEFUR. He is now Vice President and General Manager of the Dill Lumber Co. with 7 or 8 yards in the Riverside area, such as Hemet, Elsinore, Bloomington, etc. He began his career in 1905 with the J. G. Gill Lumber Co. in San Bernardino as a delivery boy and continued there until that firm sold out to the Hayward Lumber Co. in 1911 and he worked with Hayward until 1926 when he and Mr. Dill and Mr. Dill's sons started the Dill Lumber Co. in that area. He is another man who has done a lot of work for the Association, traveling to Association meetings all over the State.

"The next one in point of service is no doubt PAUL HALLINGBY. Paul started with the Hammond Lumber Co. in San Francisco in 1905. He came to Los Angeles in 1913 with Hammond and is now Vice President and General Manager of the Southern Division of Hammond Lumber Co. with large supply yards and about twenty branch yards in the area. Paul has done a great deal of work throughout the years for this Association. He was President of this Association in t927 or 1928 and' has also traveled all over the State and in this connection, I can't forget what I think he did for this industry during the O.P.A. days when we got a very favorable price through the O.P.A. Paul's fine ability is recognized by all who know him.

"The next one is FRANCIS BOYD who started in picking up sticks in his father's yard when he was a little boy. In 1905 Francis went to work with his brother, Scott, in the Boyd Lumber Co. in Monrovia. He started in driving a team of horses at that yard. I happen to know that he is quite an athlete because in 1903 and 1904 when I was in Redlands High School trying to get on the track team, Francis Boyd was on it. He was the pole vaulter there in his high school days. He is now the co-owner of the Boyd Lumber Co. in Santa Barbara.

"The next one in point of service is, no doubt, ROSS BLANCHARD. Ross started in the lumber business in 1901 in Oklahoma City. He came to Southern California in 1911, when he went with the Blanchard Lumber Co. owned by his father in Burbank. They have yards in Burbank and North Hollywood. Ross has also been very active in Association work in past years.

"Then another Old Timer is CONNIE GANAHL. Con- nie started in his father's yard, Christian Ganahl, in Los Angeles in 1905. The yard began in 1884. Connie is now the President of the C. Ganahl Lumber Co., probably the oldest lumber company in Los Angeles or vicinity operating under the same old name.

"There are still a few gentlemen who have been in the lumber industry for quite a number of years but did not qualify as'Old Timers.' ASA FICKLING, Fickling Lumber Co., Long Beach, started in the lumber business in 1900 in South Dakota, came to Southern California in 1920. He is a past President of the Association and has been very active in Association work.

"ED STONER started with the Stoner Lumber Co. and is now General Manager of Sawtelle Lumber Co. He started in the lumber business in 1909 and opened'his yard in t922.

"The next Old Timer is ERNEST GANAHL who started with his father in 1905, and started a yard in 1972 in Anaheim.

"The next Old Timer, WALTER SPICER, rvho started in the lumber business in l9l2 and for many years owned his own yard in the Newport Beach area, and is now associated with Ward & Harrington in Newport Beach.

"The next Old Timer is ALBERT E. ROGERS, President and Manager of the Hyde Park Lumber Co. He started in 1908 in Lawrence, Missouri. In 1922 he came to California and opened his present yard on Crenshaw Blvd. in Los Angeles.

"f see another old friend, FRANK OLSON, my old boss. He started in about l%)7 or 1908. He is now co-owner of the Olson Lumber Co. in Alhambra.

"Let's give these men a hand."

Hcrrdwood Distributors Associotion Meeting June 2l to 23 ot Oioi

Hal von Breton, secretary of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association, announced last month the annual convention of 'the organization will be held at the Ojai Valley Inn June 21,22 and 23'

According to Fred Smales, president of the Association, hardwood dealers from all cities in the west are expected to attend the three day conclave and many interesting speakers have been booked to address the group on present day marketing conditions.

ffitUormqn Mcrson Mcrkes FHA Reconimendcltions

Norman Mason, former president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association and newly appointed acting commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, has made public his suggestions and recommendations for tightening the housing laws and preventing further abuses of same. He made the following' recommendations: Lenders should be required to exercise "more responsibility" in connection with the FHA's home repair and modernization loan insurance program.

Builders should be required to submit "cost ,certification" for all multi-family housing programs upon completion of the projects so that mortgage amounts would be based on actual costs, not estimates.

The Federal Housing Commissioner should be given the authority to suspend those who "violate the letter and spirit of the National Housing Act." Officials said this would include denying use of the Government's housing aids to builders, lenders and consumers.

Builders of certain kinds of cooperative housing projects for sale to home buyers should be required to put down a minimum of. a 5/o cash investment. Right no\'\', housing officials say no cash dorvn payment is. required.

Mr. Mason's recommendations centered mostly on abuses revealed in the two FHA housing programs currently under investigation. One prog'ram, the so-called section 608 program, involved FHA insurance for big apartment projects before it was terminated in 1950. The investigations have brought out that builders made multi-million-dollar "windfall" profits in the program by pocketing the difference between over-sized loans and the actual cost of construction. Although the section 608 program has ended, investigators fear similar abuses may be going on in other rnultifamily housing programs and want to avert future scandals.

The other program under fire is the home repair and modernization program under which the Administration has admitted that "thousands" of home owners have been "fleeced" by having to pay exorbitant prices for shoddy home repairs.

To correct any future abuses under the Title I home repair program, Mr. Mason urged:

The FHA commissioner should determine the eligibility of loans on the basis of whether the repair "substantially contributes to the livability and comfort of the home and rvhether the kind of repair is peculiarly subject to selling abuses."

On the basis of livability, for instance, the FHA commissioner would exclude barbecue pits, swimming pools and such luxury items, while under the other category he might rule out fire alarm systems, burglar alarms and other items rvhich have been shown up as subject to abuse, according to Mr. Mason.

"f was shocked," Mr. Mason said in transmitting of the recommendations, "to learn that swimming pools and barbecue pits were being built with federally-insured mort-

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