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SCRTA Conference Sepf. 27-29

The new Executive committee of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn., meeting in special session last month, voted to hold the annual Retail l-umber Dealers' Conference as usual this Fall despite the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn. 7th annual Building Products Exposition opening in San Francisco six weeks later. An earlier mail vote bv the membership had selected the brand-new Riviera hotel in Palm Springs as the site despite the late-summer heat in the resort town. The Riviera is entirely air-conditioned against the heat.

The membership had also considered as possible sites for the Fall Conference, the Ojai Valley Inn ancl Oaks hotel, Ojai ; the hotels and country club on Catalina Island ; the Hotel del Coronado, San Diego, and the Mirarnar hotel, Santa Barbara.

SCRLA Executive Vice-President Orrie W. Hamilton is now circularizing his dealer membership on the desired discussion subjects for the Conference agenda.

Moy Housing Stqrts 3olo Above April

Work was started on 128,300 housing units this May, according to preliminary estimates of the Bureau of the Census, in comparison with the 156,000 units started in May 1959. Privately owned housing starts totaled 125,700 units, representing a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,322,000, virtually unchanged from the estimated annual 11!e_ of 1,324,m0 in April, but still I7/o below the May 1959 seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,597,000.

Nonfarm housing starts in May amounted to 126,@0 units, trp 3/o over April but still l8/o below May 1959. Privately owned nonfarm starts numbered 124p00 units, representing a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,305,000, unchanged from April but still below the May 1959 estimated rate of 1,580,000.

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