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patterns will be available on a direct-shipment basis, and that they will also carry an LCL inventory to serve all retail yards.

Among the western red cedar products offered by the W. E. Cooper Wholesale Lumber Co. are lxlo 'Sierra" Siding-dry rustic rough-face, thick butt, bevel r'vith rabbet; 1x6, 1x8, 1x10 and 1x12 dry sound tight-knotted boards SISIE with resawn face, for board and batten; 1x6 and 1x8 dry T&G V-joint interior paneling stock; 1x6 and 1x8 McDonald "reversible" panel-dry T&G V-joint both sides with one surfaced face and one resawn face; 1x8, 1x10 and 1x12 dry rustic, rough-face channel sidings; 1x8, 1x10 and 1x12 D&Btr or C&Btr dry clear finish stock; 1x6, 1x8, lxl0 and 1x12 rough green sound tight-knotted stock 5151E, and 2x8, 2x10 and 2xI2 rough green sound tight-knotted stock.

L. A. tuly Building High Despite Srrike

Although the building-trades strikes during July slowed constru,ction in Los Angeles county, work continued at a high level in both the city and county. The city of Los Angeles issued 5617 permits last month for total valuation of $42,148,4W, compared to 5840 at ffi7,317,341 in the same 1956'month, and also compared to 5446 at $49,346,194 just this June, and bringing I957's first seven-months total to 38,685 permits at $321,008,569 valuation.

The unincorporated area of the county reported 2955 July permits at $20,678,076 valuation, compared to 3302 at $24,775,672 in June, and to 3754 at$29,985,673 in July last year.

La Habra, Calif.-City Planning Commission tentatively approved three tract mais with a t"otal of. 375 drvellings-9"S lots on the west side of Palm avenue north of Central avente,264 lots south of Las Lomas and west of Hiatt, and 13 lots between Francis and Lemon streets.

Lerrett Storts Third Decode of Service to SoGol Deolers

Joe Terrell is now offering an additional service.to retail lumber dealers who are customers of Lerrett Lumber Company. The wholesale lumber firm now maintains a complete inventory of redwood commons, both surfaced and rough, in lift lots for the trade. Because of reduced costs in handling, his firm is able to offer this mill-packaged stock at attractive prices, it was said.

"In addition to our regular yard business, we are now offering direct-mill shipments of mixed, straight cars or truck-and-trailer loads of Douglas fir and redwood," Terrell

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610T SO. VAN NESS AVENUE f.os Angeles 47, Calil, said. "And another unusual feature of our service is that we can combine both fir and redwood species on one shipment," he continued.

This progressive redwood concern will continue to offer milled-to-pattern stock from its concentration yard and maintains one of the most complete stocks of redwood uppers available in the Southern California market, Terrdll delared. The direct-mill shipments are iust an additional service being offered, along with yard stock in LCL loads of common and uppers.

Don Muller, sales manag'er, says: "ft is no longer necessary for dealers to carry a large inventory becausi our yard is^just as close as their telephone, and we really ofier iast, efficient service to the short-order trade."

The Lerrett yard is located in the eastside industrial district.adjacent to the Santa Ana Freeway and all of Southern California. "We are just minutes from the San Fernando valley, as well_ as Santa Ana and other southland cities,,, Terrell pointed out.

Tom Gqmble Moves to Denver

Denver, Colo.-Tom Gamble, former executive vice_oresi_ dent of Potlatch Yards, Inc., Spokane, where he directed the 9pe_1at!on: of 45 retail lumberyards, and who recently ioined Hallack & Howard Lumber Co. here, has just bee,i "ameJ general m_e_rchandising manager of the hrr.r, urrrrourr.", President IJ. R. Armstrong. Tom Gamble was well knorvn in Northwest dealer activities and in the NRLDA

New Down Pcyments' Inlerest Roles' Ceilings on FHA Morfgoges Announced

The Federal Housing Administration and Housing and Home Finance Agency ptrt the new lower, minimum. downpayment requirerienti fbr FHA-insured mortgages if!g-:{ieit August 6. At the same time, the Commissioner of FHA announded the new regulations limiting discounts on FHAinsured mortgages to a maximum of 2rl points, and increasing the maxitrrim permissible interest rale from 5 to 5'/4/o, eff-ective August 5. ttte maximum discount rvill vary in the different sections of the country.

An announcement of these maximums is expected soon. Our information is that the new maximum discounts rvill be ll points in the Middle Atlantic States, Zf points, in the Mountain States and Michigan, and 2/o in the other areas, said the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn.

Tlre new lower minimum down payments are 3/o on the first $10,000,l5/o on amounts from $10,00O to $16,000, and 3O/o above $16,000.

Simultaneous with the FHA announcement, was a VA announcement that efiective August 5th the ceiling on discounts of VA-guaranteed mortgages 'ivill range from 2f points to 5l points, depending on the area and the amount of dorvn payments. llowever, the maximum interest rate on VA loans remains at 4l/o. Consequently, there will be little interest in such loans by lending institutions.

Since the passage of the Housing Act, there has been some question as to whether the Administration would put the new terms in effect. Recently, NRLDA's president, Paul Ely, wired the President urging him to put the nerv terms into effect immediately, not because they would provide more funds for mortgages generally, but because it would channel more of the available funds into lower-cost homes.

One feature of the new law and regulations of interest to builders, dealers and lenders is the increase of the maximum mortgage amount on Sec. 203(i) low-cost housing in rural or non-urban areas from $6,650 to $8,000 and the authorization for lenders to receive an additional service charge on such mortgages of. I of. 1o/o. This provides lenders wit&r the equivalent of ss/ao/o return on such loans and should stimulate interest in these smaller loans.

The new discount ceilings effective in the different states will soon be announced by the Federal Housing Administration.

S.F., L.A. Hoo-Hoo Greel the Snqrk

(Continued from Page 12) Cleveland room. Several hours were spent discussing future activity of the Southern California fraternal order in general and Los Angeles club problems in particular.

Jim Forgie, outgoing president, gave a rundown on Club 2 activity for the past two years, while Harry Boand, president-elect, presented a resume of the 1957-58 agenda which will get underway next month. Boand also suggested that the International Order sponsor a national promotion campaign to advertise the use of wood, using the slogan, "If It Is

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Wood-It Is Good." This campaign rvould cover all levels from manufacturer through consumer. The complete idea will be presented at the convention in Atlanta next month and it is hoped that it will be adopted for immediate action by all lumbermen.

On his swing around the country, Snark Schorling visited clubs throughout the west, middle west and Canada. He was accompanied by his wife. Los Angeles club members who turned out on short notice to honor the Snark included Past President Forgie, President Boand, Dee Essley, John Osgood, Harold Cole, Freeman Campbell, I-arry Weiland, Ole May, Don Philips, Jr., Don Bufkin and, from San Francisco, Dave Davis, the 1955-56 Snark of the Universe and now Hoo-Hoo International President.

TREEFARMERS AND IAANUFACTURERS rORT BNAOG CATIFORNIA

Son Frqncisco

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Ridge,

Keep the Holy Land Green..

A hundred wholesale and retail lumber concerns on the eastern seaboard are among the original sponsors of a benevolent organization named "The Lumbeimen's Forest in fsrael." Samuel Cohen, head of the American Lumber Corporation of Philadelphia, is a sponsor. He says: "Israel, famous for its wealth of forest in Biblical times, has been virtually denuded of trees . This has resulted in serious soil erosion. To help correct this terrible conditi-on, the J:^*:l! National Fund has reforested an aggregate 9!_sgg" 100,000 dunams (about 20,000 acres), planling2O,400,000 trees. Most of this land rehabilitation was done in the hills of Galilee and Judea, and is now being extended to the Negev. . . It is the plan of the JewisE National Fund not less than 200,000,000 treei in all parts of Israel

A hundred years ago pilgrims to Palestine came home lamenting the increase of its desert areas. Mark Twain wrote of Palestine as a hopeless wasteland.

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Technical foresters will be interested in the fact that the Jewish National Fund's nursery experts have found, through long experiment, that the best species for keeping the Holy T.and green are the olive and the pine, the eucalyptus and the tamarisk, the cypress, the carob and the pistachio. Also that tree seedlings. to survive in Israel must be naturalized -grown in nurseries within the country.

Tree planting in Israel was begun long, long ago, on the authority proclaimed in Isaiah 4l: I9- /.t-:

"I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together; that men ma), see and knorv, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the .t::9 n". done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it

So the first Forester of Israel speaks to us still. First Blood.

In late f,all, 1916, I came down from a season as a logging teamster for the McCloud River Lumber Company, packing a sheaf of poetic scribblings in my bedroll. Four of the items seemed fit to send to magazines.

The Saturday Evening Post was first on the list. And there all four met a welcome-two sonnets, a l2-line lyric, and an ode of 48 lines. They brought a personal note from the great editor, George Horace Lorimer, and a check for $55. Two were published in the November 11, 1916 issue of The Post, the others later. Here's one:

"A world for each ! A world for all ! It seems to be the mystic plan

That each man's soul shall be a world. The common world around the man.

"Alack ! The world's a piteous thing, And gets new ills as years unroll; And millions bring astounding cures, But no one brings a perfect soul.

'

'?Now heie's a motto for the good, Who want all flags of evil furled:

' First, mend the world within vourself. Then doctor up the co-ntoi-t world ."

_ It had begun on a July day of 1907 when I took pen in hand and wrote "a piecet' to send to the editor of Hbard's Dairyman at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. No word came from the effort until the September 13, 1907, issue arrived in Weiser.Idaho.

It has been a long haul, from age 14 to age 64.

As my 90-year-old mother still- says, "What a business for a grown man !"

GloryRoad...

For 20 years it has been my pride and joy to be a bearer 9l S_ooa _tidings on the forest industry progress of Grays Harbor County. It took a a lot of looking to find bright bits of riews around the Harbor in the perioil 1937-t94f..

The "depression" had struck the county early, with the closing of the Hayes and Hayes Bank on February 7,1927. I-ocal building and much other enterprise of small business was all but stopped. Even so, an old logger could see vast pole timber stands on the hills along the highways, and these growing into sawtimber sizes. And on new cutovers one could paw down through the bracken and find tree seedlings being nursed by the weeds. The like make good stories to tell. And thev were true. as the new IJ.S. Forest Surveys demonstrate.

Defense and war demands for lumber, plywood and shingles set the Harbor saws and lathes tui"ing again in 1940. And in 1941 Weyerhauser's Clemons Tree Farm was dedicated. McCleary was saved and made a Simpson Logging Company unit of manufacture and tree farming.

Now a new pulp mill is in operation, as a vital unit of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company enterprises in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties. All of the company's forest ownerships in thetwo counties were brought under the Clemons management a year ago, adding the Willapa and Wynooche tree farms to the elder of the family.

The pulp mill employs 250 persons. The plant structures and their production units and equipment represent a value of $100,000 for each job in the operation.

The total extent of the three tree farms is about 341,000 acres. More than 400 men are in the logging crews, to sup- ply the company's Aberdeen and Raymond sawmills as well as the new pulp mill. The Willapa Harbor sawmillthe Raymond mill-is one of the world's most modern lumber manufacturing plants. The old mill has been built anew. It is a powerful witness to the economic faith that lumber will remain the No. 1 forest product of the United States for many years to come.

Anyone who specifies, buys or sells hardwoods and hardwood products will want a copy of the "Fine Hardwoods Selectorama," a handy reference guide just published by the Fine Hardwoods Association, Chicago. Over 400 commercially available species of hardwoods are described, giving geographical sources, color, pattern, characteristics, common uses, availability, and general price range.

Los Angeles Led Entire Notion in Number of Homes Built in 1956

A survey released this month by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce shon's that the L.A. metropolitan area led the entire United States in construction of new homes in 1956. The survey is based on a study made by the U. S. Department of Labor, rvhich included Orange County, Calif. in totaling nerv dwellings and valuation for Los Angeles. In the Labor Department's study of other metropolitan areas, such as Ne'iv York City, Chicago and Detroit, figures also included the nearby residential areas there.

On a national basis, Los Angeles built 9.5/o of the nerv homes constructed in the U. S. in 1956, with 8.4/o of the national valuation figure. The valuation of building permits for the area \\ras $1,579,600,000, which was $38,000,00O more than the second-place area of Nerv York-northeastern Ne.rv Jersey. The actual number of L. A. drvelling units ..,.as 89,262, almost lz,mo units above the runner-up. Chicago and Detroit lverc in third and fourth places, respectively.

The survey noted that San Francisco placed a fine fifth, with a valuation of $464,900,000 for