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1) Construction cost figures used in insuring offices for the purpose of. analyzing property for mortgage insuranc-e or yield insurance shall be frozen as of July 1, 1950;

(2) Eligibility provisions of Administrative Rules under all mortgage insurance plans are amended by reducing the ratios of loan to value or loan to cost specified therein by five percent of such value or cost;

(3) Dollar mortgage limitation on single family dwelling is reduced from 916,000 to 914,000;

(4) Cash down payment of ten percent shall be required on property improvement loans under Title I.

The action described in the first three items are efiective with respect to applications or requests for eligibility statements received by the insuring office after July 18, 1950. The down payment requirement on property improvement loans is to be effective with respect to all applications dated or executed on or after August 1, 1950.

-Military housing and housing in Alaska are expressly excepted from the new FHA controls.

Sells Colton Yard Site

The Hammond Lumber Company has sold its retail lumber yard site and buildings at Colton to the Redlands Security Co. who purchased the property as an investment.

The site has been used for a lumber yard for rnore than a half century. ft was established by the Brookings Lumber Co. when that company had lumbering operations in the San Bernardino mountains. Hammond Lumber Company purchased the yard in 1913 and has operated it continuously since that time. Roy D. Sieh managed the yard for the past thirteen years.

B. C. Foresters Visit Northwest

Industrial forestry in Oregon and Washington was on special view recently when a group of 23 forestry officials from British Columbia inspected northwestern tree farming operations.

Hosts to the Canadian visitors included the Washington Forests Products Cooperative Association, St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co., \Meyerhaeuser Timber Co., Simpson Logging Co., Crown-Zellerbach Corporation and J. Neils Lumber Co.

Chief features studied by the government and industry representatives included fire protection facilities, reforestation techniques, logging methods aimed at more intensive utilization, land tenure problems and forest taxation. The tree farms in the itinerary embrased a wide variety of conditions in these fields.

Kansas \(/oman To Head AFPI Education Department

Washington, D. C.-A forrner Kansas school teacher, Miss Alma Deane Fuller, this week has been named director of American Forest Products Industries' education division. Prior to her appointment, Miss Fuller served as national publicity representative for the American Junior Red Cross with offices in Washington, D. C.

As head of the forest industry-sponsored organization's education division Miss Fuller will work closely with educators, urban and rural youth groups, women's clubs and other individuals and organizations interested in encouraging better woodland management and protection in the United States.

A native of Kansas, she served three years as a teacher in the public schools of that state. Later X4iss Fuller was assistant state Extension Service editor in charge of 4-H Club and hotre economics publicity. She is a graduate of the journalism department of Kansas State College.

Miss Fuller has had wide experience in radio and magazine work and for a time covered the national capital as a reporter for Business News Service. Her duties with the American Junior Red Cross included special work with the State Department in the planning and writing of Voice of America broad: casts.

American Forest Products Industries is a non-profit organization sponsored by the nation's lumber, pulp and paper and plywood manufacturers. As national coordinator of the American Tree Farm System, AFPI encourages land owners in the practice of wise woodland management. In the field of forest fire prevention, American Forest Products Industries sponsors the Keep America Green program now active in 27 of the nation's most heavily timbered states.

Los Angeles Building Permits lor July

Los Angeles building construction continued at a high level during July and were nearly twice that of July a year ago, G. E. Morris, general manager of the City Building and Safety Department, reported.

The department issued 5,451 permits in July, totaling $38,287,329 as compared to 4,600 permits amounting to 920,355,344 in July, 1949.

This brings the amount of ne,,v construction in the city for the first seven months of 1950 to $226,144,82I against $166,339,543 for the same period in 1949.

The permits in July provided f.or 2,468 housing units or enough to accommodate approximately 7,500 persons.

Will Hcndle Sales cnd Distribution oI Kwikset Locks

experience, working with the finest ingredients and laboratory controlled manufacturing methods assures top qualiry stucco.

E,ffective July 15, 1950, sales and distribution of the complete Kwikset line of residential locks will be handled through a new organization, The Kwikset Sales and Service Company.

A. Schoepe, president of Kwikset Locks, In.., in announcing the change, said, "Kwikset Locks, Inc., have decided to form this new division, handling all sales and distribution, in order to provide the best possible service to the hardware jobbers who are our customers. This new organization is set up to give close attention to the needs of the many Kwikset customers throughout the United States."

The trade is invited to order direct, starting at once, from The Kwikset Sales and Service Company, Anaheim, California.