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Los Angeles Has Best Building Year

SINCE 1929

Los Angeles had the best building year in 1941 since l9D, the building volume during the past twelve months totaling $87,48,818. The I9D mark was $93,016,160. Nearly half of last year's permits, over $42,000,000 were for single family residences.

RETURNS TO NORTHWE.ST

Edgar W. Pack, Seattle lumberman, has returned to the Northwest aftir spending a few weeks in Los Angeles where he called on many of his lumbermen friends. Mr. Pack was associated with the lumber business in Los Angeles for many years before going to the Northwest and is well known in Southern California lumber circles.

FHA Residcntial Buildins Reaches All-Time High fn No*hern California ln 1941

Residential construction financed under the FHA plan last year soared to an all-time high for Northern California and raced into 1942 at a record-making pace, according to the Federal Housing Administration.

Registering an increase over 1940 of 1699 mortgages amounting to $11,746,625 accepted for insurance, and a jump of more than 33 per cent above 1939, the FHA district office reports having just closed its books on the banner year since government-insured financing was made available to home owners.

During 1941, FHA accepted for insurance mortgages on 23,242 Northern California homes for a total of. $102,825,265, of which 18,753 are new houses built under FHA inspection and requirements and financed with insured mortgages aggregating $82,658,315.

This was said to compare to a total of.21,543 mortgages amounting to $91,076,639 accepted the previous year, and 15,437 mortgages for $&,948,876 accepted in 1939.

JOHN TIETJEN ON FURLOUGH

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J. E. Tietjen, Jr., who was associated with llIcElroy Lumber Co., Palo Alto, until he joined the Army seven months ago, recently visited his parents in San Francisco on furlough. He is stationed at Fort Meade, S. D. Mr. McElroy says he is looking forward to the time when John will be back on the job.

Log Industry Big Business

Portland, Ore., Jan. 3-During the 16 years from 1925 to 1940, inclusive, more than 136,000,000,000 board feet of logs were removed from the forests of Oregon and Washington, it was reported by Stephen N. Wyckoff, Portland, director of the Pacific northwest forest and range experiment station.

Sawmills, pulp mills, veneer and plywood plants and other wood-using industries so vital to the economy of the Pacific northwest have been using logs at the average rate of 8,500,000,000 feet annually.

Private Homeg Under Way to be Finished

Washington, Dec. 24Builders of privately financed homes, apartment buildings and hotels for which foundations were in place Oct. 9 will be granted priority assistance to complete construction under terms of an order issued today by the Office of Production Management.

Arthur Grtswold Back On Job

Arthur B. Griswold, manag'er of the San Francisco office of C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, was back in his office January 6 f.or the first time since the serious accide.nt on November 1 which caused him to spend several weeks in the hospital. He has made a good recovery and hopes to be as good as new in a few weeks.

Ray Whitby In Navy

Ray Whitby, who has been for some years with the Redwood Sales Company, San Francisco, and was a member of the Naval Reserve, reported for duty with the Navy on January 1 at San Francisco. He has the rank of Ensign.