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show uniform reflections of materials and wage rate changes.

The pr-ice tag on construction is 149/o higher than in prewar 1941. Generally speaking. the average*level of cost was then approximately equal to the ave{age for the years 1926-1929. In between theie had been a dipression ind a recovery. A_t- aly rate, the cost to build is today roughly two and one-half times what it was in '41.

^.S^1ying it an_o-ther way, it takes 92.50 today to buy what $1.00 bought 17 years ago. The $8,000 house of lg4l, exclusive of land and charges other than labor and materials for construction, would come today with a tag for $20,000. Thus the.^current purchasing power of the I94l builai.,g dollar is 40 cents.

(Tell them lJou s&ID it in The Calilornia Lumber Merchant)

Nomed Koehring Distributor

George M. Philpott Co., Inc., San Francisco, Calif.. has been appointed a distributor for sales and service of Koehring Division products.

The .C. S.. Johnson Company (Koehring Company Subsrdrary) has announced changes in its sales organization. !tl..old 1 Buckler, former sales manager of thi \Mestern Division Jor the Johnson Company at Slockton, California, has. now -been placed in charge of, all sales for the company and rvill be located at its home office in Champaign, Illinois. Jack D. Shoemaker, who has been active in ialEs with the Western Division for the past six years, has been ap- pointed Sales Manager of tle Johnson Western Division. The. full line of Jolinson Conirete Batching and Mixing e_qurpment has now been made available from its Stockton-, Calif. operation, complete with parts and service facilities.

Jim Froser Joins Twin Hqrbors

Twin Harbors Lumber Company announces the addition of popular lumber salesman Jim Fraser (left) to its Menlo Park sales omce on May 15. Fraser, who will assist Jim Rossman in servicing Greater Bay area dealer accounts, fills a vacancy left by Bob Macfie, who recently decided to resume his career' in aviation.

Fraser, a native of the Bay area, learned the lumber business rvith Collins Pine Company in Chester. His wholesale lumber experience goes back some five years ago when he joined Drake's B"y

Lumber Company in San Rafael. F'or the past four years, Fraser has represented Winton Lumber Sales Co. in the Bay area.

New BUILDING Developments. ..

The Orange County Planning Cornmission approved subdivision of 19 lots of a 4.6-acre tract on the south side of Hazard avenue east of Cannery street.

Buena Park voters approved a $l million bond issue for the Centralia School district to proceed with work on the Raymond Temple school at 7300 Holder St. at $411,268 and a seventh district school at 8301 Mars Drive at $390,000. One school served the entire district in 1954 wit,h 300 pupils. Today's enrollment is 3,678 with 10,000 expe,cted in a few years.

Harrison & Denner, Santa Ana, is doing the $18,989 re'rnodeling of the Garden Grove Ci,ty Hall oflices. )

Rolhfson Construction Co. will truild six houses on Rossmore

Road and five in the Holiday Park traot of Santa Barbara at $15Q000 valuation.

The State Division of Architecture is drafting plans for a state building on Castillo street south of Figueroa street in Santa Barbara. Bank of America has bought $1,875,000 in Lronds from the William S. Hart Union High School district, Newhall, for purchase of a site and construction of a Junior High school in Newhall.

Home Savings & Loan Assn has purchased 250 acres from Chapman college for the "Briarclifr" property on both sides of Laurel Canyon boulevard north of Mulholland drive. It will build a residential area.

Louis Lesser Enterprises, Beverly Hills, will build a 373-home s,ubdivision on a 57.acre plot nor,th of Grazide avenue and west of the Fullenton Road extension in La Puente.

Compton's 9l-year-old Heritage House was dedicated April 14' The hisforic housg, moved from i'ts site on South Acacia street to make way for a new fire station, was placed on a new foundation, reinforced in its underpinning, painted and wallpapered. It was built in 1867, two years before the town of Compton was established as a Methodist colony and the first temperance community in southern California.

Independent Building Materid Co. announced plans for a $59,000 lumber mill at 525 Maple Ave. in Los Angeles.

The Irvine Co. will develop a 160-home subdivision on a 78-acre parcel adjacent to .Shore Clifis in Newport Beach and extending 1525 feet along the coastline toward Laguna Beach.

A t,trird residential unit is projected for the Episcopal Home for the Aged at 1428 S. Marengo Ave. in Alhambra. It will cost $150,000 and contain 20 rooms.

Yorba Linda supervisors approved maps of an 18.7-acre tract with 47 homes to be built southeast of Mountain View ard Orchard drives.

A 3&acre industrial tract northeast of Costa Mesa was scheduled to start in May along Talbert road west of Bristol street, and containing 6O plant sites.

Cormty supervisors approvcd two adjacent tracts of over 10 acres each in Tustin, with 33 homes to b€ built at Irvinc boulevard and Browning avenue, and 31 adjoining that tract on the northeast.

Samuel W. Banowit of National Properties, Inc., obtained what