T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant November 15, 1929

Western Plywoods installing two nerv kilns.

Company, Martinez, California, is cross-circulation Moore veneer drv

Bob Leishman, manager of the millwork department of the Redwood Manufacturers Company, Pittsburg, California, has returned from a two months' business and pleasure trip in South America.

The Phoenix Lumber & Investment Angeles has opened a branch lumber Arizona.

Company of Los yard at Phoenix,

The Peoples Lumber Company has just opened for busiiless a neu' retail lumber yard and store in Oxnard, California, one of the most modern plants in the entire state. Walter S. Riley is manager at Oxnard.

The Red River Lumber Company, Westrn'ood, California, :rnnounces that Theodore S. Walker has been appointed resident manager of the big Westrvood operation, succeeding his father, Fletcher L. Walker.

At the annual convention of the California Retail Lum- bermen's Association held in the Palace Hotel, San Francis.co, November 7,8 and 9, Harry A. Lake, of Garden Grove, California, u'as re-elected president. Dee Esslev \1ras reappointed manager of the association.

R. P. Davidson has been named secretary of the Salinas Lumbermen's Club, at Salinas, California.

Lewis H. Mills, Portland, Oregon, dent of the Pacific Logging Congress ing of that organization in Seattle.

New FHA Home Plon for Servicemen Approved

was elected presiat the recent meet-

Washington-Federal Housing Commissioner Norman P. Mason announced new regulations October 29 to permit ..,ervicemen to buy homes valued up to $18,000 with oniy 5/o down payments.

"This is an entirely new program added to the FHA plan," I\fason said. "It gives the man in military uniform an opportunity to have his or,'r'n home lvhile he is still on active duty, without disqualifying him from any of the 'l-.enefits he might seek later as a veteran."

Here's c Douglqs Fir Whqr Am!

(Continued from Page 40) rvith the Wendling-Nathan Company, making his hea'-lquarters in Fresno.

He continued with Wendling-Nathan and, in 1926, moved to San Francisco and took over the management of its pine department. He remained with Wendling-Nathan until 1936, when he formed a partnership rvith Jerry Bonnington (now we've gone and given it away) to establish the Lamon-Bonnington Lumber Company in the city.

That's right, the young fellow in the picture was Fred Lamon who, since 1952, has been operating the Lamon Lumber Company at 7O3 Market St., San Francisco, and is now most ably assisted by his son, Ralph I-amon, and Gordon Saunders, who joined the Larnon firm the first part of this year.

Hyster Report Avoiloble

Hyster Company has issued a new field report, No. 46, on the handling of heavy logs with the RC-150 aird SC-180 Lift Trucks. Prepared in the field by Hyster engineers, the illustrated report is an actual case history of efficient and profitable handling and storing methods in conjunction with these Hyster truck models. Copies are :'rvailable from the dealer nearest you, or by writing to the Hyster Company, P.O. Box 4318, Dept. P. S., Portland 8, Oregon.

FHA Tokes Emergency Action to Speed Applicofion Processing

Emergency action to speed processing of applications for hardpressed homebuilders and lenders doing business .with the Federal Housing Administration was announced by Housing and llome Finance Administrator Albert M. Cole. Under a special arrangement for an increased rate of expenditures, FHA Commissioner Norman P. Mason authorized all FHA field offices which have backlogs to put in night rvork as necessary, and instructed all such field offices to remain open on Saturdays until further notice.

Commissioner Mason has also wired field offices the .-,-uthority to add another 300 employes to assist in processing applications on hand and additional ones coming in. Mason had earlier relaxed a long-standing FHA regulation in order to permit the temporary use of fee appraisers from private business to speed up handling of appraisal requests in the FHA offices.

Cole explained that since the passage of the Housing Act of 1954 by the last Congress, with its liberalized terms ior FHA insurance on both new and existing small homes, the field offices of FHA have been swamped with applications from builders and lenders. "The response has been r-nuch greater than the offrces could handle r,vith their present staff, even though we had already authorized some increases," Cole said. "The .ivhole thing was getting to be a very serious problem, because backlogs n'ere growing up and in some cases it took rveeks before a home builder could get a firm answer on which to base his plans."

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