Reroil Lumber Troining Closses Stort in Pqsodeno, Sqntcr Ano Wirh Splendid Enrollment From Los Angeles Areo Deolers

The long-awaited Los Angeles area classes of the Retail Lumbermen's Training Institute, a joint effort of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association in conjunction with L. A. Hoo-Hoo Club 2, got underway for the first semester at John Muir High School in Pasadena, September 18, and at Santa Ana (Califo-rnia) College, September 20. For the first semester of 16 weeks each, the retail classes will be held on Tuesday and Thursday nights, as above, at these schools. The enrollment started at Pasadena with 48, while 50 were enrolled in the Santa Ana classes. Horvever, there were a large number of students in attendance who had not previously enrolled.

Orrie W. Hamilton, executive vice-president of the SCRLA, paid a personal visit to the Pasadena class and planned an early visit to the Santa Ana group. He welcomed the budding dealers with a few words and promised them he would address some later classes on dealer association activities.

Shor-in-Arm for Building

At press time, Sept. 20, the government put into effect four actions to break the bottleneck in new homebuilding (see Page 24), about which more details will be available for the October 15 issue. Late last month, however, it was known that HHF Administrator Cole's proposals, announced by the White House, to stimulate the lagging 1956 housing industry were: enrollment.

Reduction from 7/o to 5/o of minimum down payment on FHA-insured homes costing $9000 or less; FNMA to make advance commitments to banks and savings-loan companies to purchase mortgages at 94/o of face; Federal Home Loan Bank Board increased the amount of money member banks may lend to affiliated lending institutions; FNMA reduced amount of common stock a lender must buy rvhen l.re sells mortgages to FNMA.

The Retail Lumbermen's Training Institute will continue to acoept enrollments for a few more days for any dealers anxious to enroll, or to enroll their employes in the RLTI. Phone Mr. Hamilton's SCRLA office at TUcker 6108 in Los Angeles.

The address of the Pasadena school is 1915 N. Lincoln Ave., and the Santa Ana classes are at 1530 West 17th St. Gerald R. Westphal, who was instrumental in the successful start of the Riverside school and has worked in conjunction with Dr. Close on the Institute, was at the first L. A. classes and started off the Pasadena section September 18 with a welcome to the ypung lumbermen and women and gave them a brief background of the RLTI in his home bailiwick and its Hoo-Hoo sources.

Dr. Wendell Close, young Ontario, Calif., educator who is moderating the two Los Angeles area classes (shown at the'right in the photo above with Orrie Hamilton at the opening of the Pasadena classes September 18), will carry on the teaching in the very successful pattern laid down in the similar RLTI classes which were started by Riverside County Hoo-Hoo Club 117 the past January to overflow

Westphal introduced Dr. Close, who gave the students a briefing on what the class aims are and introduced Orrie Hamilton.

The SCRLA executive declared that all who attend these classes are due for success in their retail lumberyard careers and told, the students why his dealer association believed in the leadership of such training institutes as this and was sponsoring it. The future lumber(Continued on Page 45)