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- OTHER ney Anderson, President of the Phoenix Association of Home Builders, said: "A lot of our builders got hurt in the last year or so . the big boys have had hundreds of foreclosures, but the little builders got wiped out completely." In Phoenix, the - 3,148 single and multiple dwelling starts during the first quarter of this year were 678 below the same period of 1963.

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CAI.IFORNIA SLIPS

California home building has slipped since last year, except in Northern California, where it has merely leveled off and in some cases risen. Most dramatic evidence of the drop was in vast metropolitan Los Angeles, affecting the entire state. The total starts in the first quarter were below a year ago by 7,232 multifamily units and 4,529 single.family units. Because the economic trend had varied little within the l2-month period, overbuilding seemed the culprit. Sanford R. Goodkin Research Corp. predicted 1964 single-family starts in the metropolitan area would be I.5 per cent 'below 1963, while multifamily-unit starts would be 2 per cent above.

In San Diego first-quarter starts for single-family units were about the same as a year earlier, but multiple-family units dropped by 2,257 to 800.

Although Sacramento is relatively stable because of state government, economists predicted a drop in starts this year from 12,349 in 1963 to 7,586. Starts in the Riverside-San Bernardino area increased from 5,01I in the first quarter of 1963 to 6,256 in the first quarter of this year.

Starts in the San Francisco area during the first quaner totaled 9,974, an increase oI 2O4 over a year before. The 2,114 San Jose first-quarter starts for single-family units were only slightly more than a year earlier, but the 2,108 multiple units showed a drop of 922.

Supply is catching up with demand in New Mexico, with emphasis continuing on higher priced single-family homes and on apartments. Home building in Oregon continued prosperous during the first half of the year, especially in Portland, where 2,023 starts for single-family units were issued, against l,5ll for the 1963 period.

Cutbacks by Boeing Aircraft Company hurt the home building industry in W'ashington, especially in the Seattle area. The 1,968 starts in Seattle during the first quarter were 1,311 below a year earlier.

Building activity throughout Montana appeared stable, while overbuilding plagued Nevada. Hardest hit was Las Vegas, where a gigantic two-year boom in housing exploded in the face of ,builders last year as starts declined 33 percent. If multi-family (Cantinued on Page 82)

Dependobility hos olwoys been synonymous with Dont; qnd these ore the men who prove it every time they write up your order.

Colf ony one of rhe 4 "D" men pictured obove for mouldin gs, mil lwork, cut-stock, I u mber ond plywood.

Dont feotures corlood or truck ond troiler deliveries of true quolity Ponderosq Pine, Sugor Pine, White Fir, Douglos Fir, Hemlock, Cedor ond Spruce from prime sources. Indentified in our leoding lines qre: White Swon Lumber Co. . High Sierro Pine Mills . Meodow Volley Lumber Co. . Tohoe Timber Co. of Nevqdq . Dqnt Forest Products, Inc., Redding, Colifornio.

ORDS Lumber Company of Fresno, servicing contractors throughout the San Joaquin Valley, is fast becoming the leading retail-yard distributor of the glue laminated beams in the Fresno area.

Last year, Norm Cords, president of Cords Lumber decided to expand his glu lam business with an extra selling effort and close working relationship with industrial and commercial builders.

The increasing use of glue laminatecl beams in all types of construction, plus the jobsite delivery feature (eliminating any additional inventory), prompted his decision. Within the past twelve months. the Cords Lumber Company has supplied glu larn beams to schools, churches, warehouses, restaurants, commercial buildings, a hospital and an automobile agency.

Three months ago, Cords was faced with the problem of supplying glu lam beams on an installed basis. The contractors bidding the Professional Ofrce Building in Fresno would only accept his quotation if it included the erection of the beams required figured in as a part of the estimate.