Club lO9 Hcs "Hoo-HooHqll of Forest Products" in Sqcromenlo's r'Porode of Homestt

'One of the outstanding exhibits of this year's recent Sacramento "Parade of }Iombs" was the "IIoo-FIoo Hall of Forest Products," prepared and staffed by Sacramento Club 109. The exhibit, filling a large double-garage in one of the 21 homes of the "parade," contained a wide variety of attractive lumber and plywood displays. In addition, thousands of copies of promotion brochures from all of the western trade associations were distributed.

Over 300,000 visitors inspected the annual "Parade of Homes" during its two-week run. Most of these prospectivc )home-buyers and home-improvers, stopped at the Hoo-Hoo exhibit to get better acquainted with the wide variety of wood products available. One of the principal purposes of the exhibit was to stress the services made available by the retail Iumberman.

Club members served as receptionists for the "Hoo-Hoo Hall" in three-hour shifts for the entire course of the "parade."

According to Wayne Hubbard, Keep California Green, fnc., chairman of the reception staff, the thousands of visitors were a "gold mine" for a retailer's prospect list. He also noted that 'a surprising number were in the process or planning to remodel .'or improve their homes.

Committee for the Hoo-Hoo club project consisted of Al

Baltus, The Diamond Match Company, general chairman; Erwin Bjerke, Berco Manufacturing Co., chairman; Bill Fraser, Wendling-Nathan Co., wholesale exhibits; Gil Clark, Pacific Flooring Supply, hardwood flooring exhibits; Bill Haskins, U.S. Plywood Corp., plywood exhibits; Les Van Doren, Spore, White and Van Doren, plan and layout; Wayne Hubbard, Keep California Green, Inc., reception stafi, and Jack Berry, club president, finance.

This was the third annual "Parade of Homes" spor.rsored by the Sacramento Homebuilders Association. It was.the first time that the Sacramento Hoo-Hoo club has entered an exhibit of forest products.

Pqlmdole Permits Top $Z Million

Construction in the Palmdale area of Antelope Valley hit $2,850,000 in August. The 281 permits included 2Zl new dwelling units. Population there has norv reached 12,708, a 417/o increase over the 1950 census. Four major aircraft companies are locating there and aircraft tvorkers are scheduled to top 5,000 by January.

Schools Builr of Wood Find New Uses for Lumber

Nantucket, Mass.-If some of the old ship captains of this once famed w-haling center were around today, they would marvel at the construction techniques used today with the material of which their homes and ships were laboriously built.

Graceful wood arches, "shop grown" to desired size and shape, frame the roof of the large gym-auditorium. All framing has maximum structural strength through the use of ring connectors and framing anchors developed as improved wood fastenings by the research affiliate of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Arches and roof planking for the gym, as well as the framing for the entire building, are Douglas fir. The gym floor is beech, laid on tidewater red cypress planks.

The school' achieves a friendly interior warmth with ponderosa pine and southern pine used for trim. Windows are of white pine and the exterior wood trim is redwood. Even the roof gutters are of wood, furred out, with lath in back, to provide an air space for dryness.

Roof ventilators are concealed with the traditional "Captain's Walk,'l a vantage point on old Nantucket dwellings which wives of the old-time seaman used as a lookout for the ships they awaited.

The new high school, with six classrooms, gym-auditorium, studyroom, cafeteria, kitchen and science lab, was built at a cost of 92 cents per cubic foot.

"The trend to modern one-story wood schools has unlimited possibilities," Ar,chitect Tallman said. "Full wood use in single story construction is only partly developed. The wood. structure makes sense in many ways. It may well be that many of our school structures of heavy construction, built of relatively high cost materials and difficult to alter, will prove very tiresome and embarrassing from a maintenance and obsolescence standpoint. This may be particularly the case if teaching methods continue their present rapid change of pace over the next decade or two."

Gosto Mesq Builder Elected

Max W. Pope, Costa Mesa realtor and builder, was elected president of the new South Coast Chapter of the Building Contractors Assn. of California. Miles E. Thomas of Laguna Beach is vice-president.