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l',Stolement by Mr. leonqrd L. Frqnk President, Notionol Associofion of Home Builders On lssuonce of Executive Order on Housing

As home builders, we shall do our best to fulfill our responsibilities and duties as citizens in relation to the new Executive Order. The Government, the nation's communities and their people have similar responsibilities.

, We do not believe the blemishes of our society can be erased by Executive Order. What is required are skill, toleranci, patience, understanding and education.

- The issuance of the Order now places the burden of acceptance squarely up to the people in our communities all across the nation.

The Federal Government, too, cannot forego its responsibilities in this tremendous social problem. Its full resources must be used to lessen the impact on our nation's economy.

The President and his advisers, we feel sure, studied a recent NAHB survey sent to the W'hite House concerning the possible economic impact of an Executive Order against racial discriminaia housing.

The survey reflected the opinion of many builders throughout the country that such an Order would cause a cutback in housing

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production, have an adverse eflect on the entire economy and, consequently, on jobs and incomes.

We fear the health of the home building industry may be sapped by the Executive Order. Any diminution oI home building's vigor, of course, will hurt other arteries of the nation's economy.

The White House apparently arrived at conclusions other than those found in the survey. For the economic and social welfare of the country, we would hope that the President's assumptions prove correct.

U. S. Plywood Comes Through On Huge Emergency Plywood Order

Ten days after the island of Guam emerged from the worst typhoon in its history, with 90 per cent of the civilian buildings on the island destroyed or rendered useless, the backlash of the storm struck the Northwest plywood industry.

It came in the form of an emergency order from the Navy in November for 2 million feet of plywood for delivery to the SS Canadian Bear in ,Oakland, necessitating assombly of the entire order within 48 hours.

According to Niedermeyer and Martin of Portland, the firm