ALt OF OUR RESOURCES are at your -\ serwce

In qddition lo our own l2 sowmills, Eeil qre qctively engoged in the procurement ond distribution of oll West Coost lumber producfs snd mointoin buying offices in producing qreqs to give the trqde complete one-coll bolonced serYice.

A Dun & Bradstreet compilation of leading U. S. cities for 1955 showed that building permit values for 217 cities exceeded all past records with $5,922,897,969, an increase of. l}.9/o over 1954 and 6/o above 195O, the previous record year.

Record Building Forecost

Washington, D. C.-Frank J. Rooney, president of the Associated General Contractors o{ America, predicted that a steadily soaring volume of both residential and non-residential construction in the coming months may make 1956 the first $60 billion construction year in history. While the figure for the first four months this year almost equaled the record $11.8 billion of last year's same span, he said there is a steady growth toward the record high of $44.5 billion this year forecast by the AGC in Januaty, rvith another $15 billion in maintenance and repairs to existing structures. Last year's total was $56 billion, including $42.5 billion in nerv construction.

RurqlOronge Building Picks Up

Santa Ana, Calif.Rural construction in Orange county picked up during April after a temporary March slump. The permit valuations rvere $51,249,265 ior this year's first four months, compared to $50,336, 67 in last year's same period. The April total was $11,196,118, of which $9,843,343 was for residential buildi.rg.

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Bill Bell and his two sons rvere euthusiastic builders of house models, back in the early 1930s. They turned out images of handsorne, sturdy, well-equipped hornes that could be built full scale anywhere for $3,500 or less. The Bell boys rvere then of high-school age.

Ten miniature models, as I remember, made the central exhibit of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association's convention at Portland in 1938. The setting was one of streets, gardens, trees and lights. Shining out in giant letters on a green backdrop lvere these bold rvords:

..TIMBER IS A CROP _ THE HARVEST IS HOMES.''

Those models, produced by Bell and his tu'o sons, were shorvn in retail lumber conventions all over the United States. Next year -they u,ere reneu'ecl for the exhibit of tl,e West Coast Lumbermen's Association at San Francisco's rvorld's fair.

The F.H.A. Story

The exhibit appealed because it n'as something new in the use oI scale models of hottses. Itreviously the scale model was an architectural device for demonstration of mansions of highest cost and elegant design. The Bell idea rvas to employ the miniature home to educate the public in the values of a lumber dwelling that could be buiit and possessed by a family for dorvn payment of a fet, hundred dollars and small monthly payments.

Bill Bell, then as now managing director of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Associaltion, was first of all a teacher. And as such he became a national educatio4al leader in a business that today numbers 26,000 retail lumber stores and yards.

Incalculable damage was done to lumber in 1933 b1' the mis-called National Recovery Act. Bill Be11, like otl.rer t'ellposted lumber leaders, r,vas arvake to the revolutionary menace of NRA. And he 'ivas also versed in the constructive recovery principles that Herbert Hoover had urged in va'in on the Congress of l93t-1932.

The Home Owners Loan Corporation was a Hoover idea originally. So r,vas the Federal Housing Administration, with standard home loan amortized over a long term of years, conservatively insured by the government, permitting a smaller home dorvn payment tharr had ever been knorvn in the United States.

The Hoover ideas rvere rvritten into the FHA Act of 1934-but r,vithout credit to him. Bill Bell demonstrated its values in the building market so rvell that he \\ras eventually elected chairman of the Education committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association-and there he stands today.

"Contemporary" I{omes.

The groundu'ork of long ago came alive again a spell back, r'vhen Bill Bell and I got together on a TV home sholv. Once again rve had miniature house models of contemporary Western homes to demonstrate with samples of the species and grades and sizes of West Coast lumber that are used to build them nation-wide today.

Bill Bell's thought today is on things new in home build-

Another Mill to Serve You

ing and design and lumber use. The training course for retail lumber salesmen that he started a few vears ago at the University of Washington has been adopted by schools across the country. He works to keep it up to date. And more ideas of lumber education are on the Bell list for the meetings of the executives of the regional retail trade associations.

It is all vital stuff for education of the American public on uses of the forest products from the West Coast.

Stqte Boqrd of Forestry Meets

The State Board of Forestry met May 16 and 12 in Sonora, Tuolumne county. State Forester F. H. Raymond said the one-day business session convened at 10:00 a.m., May 16 in the Veterans Memorial building. On May 17 a field trip rvas taken to ol;serve range improvement practices and problems in the Groveland-Coulterville area of Tuolumne and Mariposa counties.

The agenda for the business meeting included a report on the Division of Forestry's progress in its restudy of forest fire protection on private and state-owned lands in California; a review of the supplemental budget appropriated as a stop-gap measure to fill critical gaps ir-r the State Division of Forestry's fire protection system; a summary of a study of fire protection for privately owned lands lying inside the boundaries of the San Bernardino National Forest in San Bernardino county. The Board also considered property owner petitions to form four separate ,,IFraz.ardous Fire Areas" in Fresno, Madera, Merced, and Monterey counties.

Col-Pccific Redwood Nqmes Glqrk Toylor Soles, Inc. Lumber Buyer

Clark Taylor of Blue Lalce, California, has been appointed lumber buyer for tlre area cornprising northern California and southern Oregon, for CalPacific Redrvood Sales, Inc., out of its Arcala office, announces Ted Deacy, manager of the company, Taylor was formerly employed by Pacific Western Lumber Company in the same capacity. His experience also includes five years as equipment salesman for Fred E. Barnett Co. of Eureka. The Taylors, including two children, will continue to live in Blue Lake, within a few miies of the New Cal-Pacific Redwood Sales office and mill.

USDA Extends Form Storoge Progrom

Following its annual custom, the USDA has again extended for another year its farm storage facility loan program, which is designed to encourage farmers to purchase more storage facilities for uses on their farms, says the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association.