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Manufacturers and Wholesalers of Pacific Coast Forest Products

Eugene, Oregon

Lumbermen's Exchqngie

Phone 3838

Will Represent NLMA In Buildins Code \(/ork

Washington, D.C., August 26, 1947-john Fies, long prominent in building code work in the Southwest, has been retained by the National Lumber Manufacturers Asso,ciation to represent its Technical Department on the Pacific Coast, R. A. Colgan, Jr., executive vice president of the association, announced today.

Prior to entcring the Army, Mr. Fies served as chief of the Division of tsuilding Inspection of Dallas, Texas, and was engaged in u,ork on building code standards. As a member of the executive committee of the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference, and chairman of a sub-committee of the Building Officials Conference of America, Mr. Fies took active part in the drafting of builcling codes.

Upon his release from the Army r,vith the rank of Major, Mr. Fies served as a building code. specialist for the National House Agency in the Southwestern region.

Mr. Fies has rvritten numerous articles for Building Standards Monthly, Building Officials Digest, American City Magazine and other publications.

A graduate of Ohio State University, he is a registerecl professional engineer in the State of Texas and past president of the Technical Club of Dallas.

As representative of the Technical Division of the National Lumber iVlanufacturers Association, Nfr. Fies will spend his time in the seven u'estern states in the interest of improved building codes and technical activities for lumber.

On the persor.ral side-Mr. Fies was born in Marion, Ohio, is married, has trvo sons.

Scrn Francisco 4, Ccrlil. 444 Mcrrket Street

YUKON 6-2428

The Farm Book To Be Published Late This Year

As part of its continuous program in behalf of lumber as a building n.raterial, West Coast Woods Promotion announces it is publishing "The.Farm Book, A Guide to Better Buildings."

It is planned to start distribution of the book, soon to be on the press, late this year. Sales will be handled through retail lumber dealers. Reservations for a free sample copy for retail lumber dealers are being taken now by the promotion organization's office, 1410 S. W. Morrison Street, Portlancl 5, Oregon.

Tl.re Farm Book, u'hich rvas compiled b1' the Doane Agricultural Service, St. Louis, rvill be 9 xl2 inches and contain approximately 100 pages ancl more than 100 illustrations.

"\\re feel there long has been a need for such a book," says a West Coast Woods announcement. "ft is not a compilation of building plans, but an economic study of farm buildings in relation to farm profits. With explanations based on actual experiences, the book tells horv to plan and locate farm structures so they rvill create and preserve income.

"More than 80 tables, in addition to the written matter, make the book a valuable soLlrce of reliable farm information."

\\/est Coast Wc-'ods Promotion is sponsored by manufacturers ancl lvl.rolesale distributors of Douglas fir, \,Vest Coast hemlock, \\/estern red cedar and Sitka spruce.

New Directory ol Membership

A ner,v directory of rnembership dated July 15, 1947 has just been issued by the Western Pine Association.

This directory which supercedes the one of December 1, 1946 contains more than 30 firms who were not listed irr the previous issue. In addition to the new listings there have been changes in daily capacities, species manufactured, lumber and allied items produced from the Western Pines and associated rvoods.

The directorf is a list o{ firms manufacturing the Western Pines and associated species. It gives the address of each general sales office, S-hour mill capacity, percentage of each species manufactured, lumber items produced and other items which are further refined before being shipped to consuming areas.

A free copy of the directory may be had by writing to the Western Pine Association, Yeon Building, Portland 4, Oregon.

FHA Receives Record Volume Mortgage Insurance Applications

Washington, D. C., July 27.-The Federal Housing Administration in the first half of 1947 received a record volume of applications for mortgage insurance, with all dwelling units involved totaling about 276,000, Commissioner Raymond M. Foley announced today.

Approximately 200,000 ne'iv units were covered by the total, Mr. Foley said, with more than a third in multiple family rental housing projects. There wete 1,671 rental housing project applications, comprising 68,702 units.

In addition to applications on mortgages covering new construction, FHA received applications involving approximately 76,000 units in existing one to four-family dwellings.

At the same time, loans reported for insurance for property improvement purposes reached a record high of 562,' 910 in the amount of $266,578,920. These loans included those for remodeling homes and other properties to provide additional living units for rent to veterans'

Mr. Foley pointed out that the Federal Housing Administration is currently insuring a far larger proportion of all residential mortgage financing than in 1945-46 although it has not yet reached its pre-war maximum, percentage-wise.

"lt lookcd ro prctty, Joe, I just couldn" rcsist putting it in for decorqlion!"

FHA's total business, Mr. Foley said, has been gathering momentum since late in 1946 and reached an alltime monthly high in June, with total applications for mortgage insurance under all sections of the National Housing Act reaching 62,227 units. Of this nurnber 48,684 represented new construction and 13,543 existing residential units.

"The record June total," Mr. Foley said, "was particularly gratifying to FHA because it included 20,706 units in 47I rental projects. Since the emphasis has shifted from dwellings for sale to apartments for rent this phase of ottr business has shown steady expansion."