rWf NTY YEAAS AGO

Fronn the March le lO2S Issue

H. B. White of the E. Angeles was appointed

K. Wood Lumber ComPanY in Los manager of its Santa Ana Yard.

MacDonald & Harrington announced the opening of a Ponderosa and Sugar Pine department under the management of Henry O. Geary. He will make his headquarters at the company's San Francisco office. Mr. Geary was formerly with the McCloud River Lumber Co.

W. B. Dean, The Diamond Match Company, Chico, was named executive head of all the company's interests in California, including mills, timber, lands, retail yards, etc', according to an announcement by President W. A. Fairburn'

About forty of the Los Angeles sash, door and millwork manufacturers made a trip to San Diego and Tiajuana on February 1G18. They were banqueted, also took in the races, and reported a grand time.

This issue carried an Parks Lumber Companv illustrated article on the Owensoperations in Los Angeles.

The Homer T. Hayward Lumber chased the retail lumber plant of Fuel Company at Santa Cruz.

Company, Salinas, purthe Central Lumber &

C. W. Pinkerton, Whittier Lumber Company, Whittier, reported that the office r,vas entered the night of February 14 and the safe burglarized. About $20.00 in cash was taken.

B. J. Boorman, of Great Falls, Montana, selected a site for a new retail lumber yard in Oakland. Mr. Boorman, an ex-president of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, was formerly the head of several retail lumber yards in Montana

The Homestead Lumber Company opened a retail lumber yard in Sacramento under the management of John

Mr. Morley was formerly r,i'ith the Sunset Lumber in Sacramento. Morley. Company

Hess Lumber Co., Bishop, tional Forest five rnillion feet Owens River Valley region.

About fifty Elks Club in County was gerent Snark purchased from of pine and fir the Inyo Natimber in the cats and prospective kittens assembled at the Anaheim for their first meeting since Orange established as a separate jurisdiction' ViceW. R. Whitson presided.

Rhea L. Shaw of Charles R. McCormick & Co., San Francisco, and Miss Alice M. Marshall of San Francisco, were married on February 22. They spent their honeymoon at Del Monte and Southern California points.

H. A. Browning moved his offrces to suite 92I in the Los Angeles Stock Exchange building.

The employes of the Hayward Lumber Co. at Long Beach hold a monthly meeting in the evening, at which the business affairs of the yard are discussed, and plans made for future operations. These monthly meetings have proved very successful.

February 16 was a big Hoo-Hoo event in San Diego. It was a surprise party on most of the cats. When the gang assembled, they found about forty vacant seats after the local members had been seated. A telegram from Los Angeles was read stating that forty Los Angeles Cats were on their way to attend in a body and would arrive shortly after the dinner started. Great was the surprise of the group when forty wives of those attending marched in and took these seats. Each member had been urged to attend, not knorving that his wife was coming also. Vicegerent Snark Fred Hamilton acted as chairman. There were some short talks followed by dancing. It was voted one of the best meetings San Diego ever had. It is interesting to note that San Diego was the first Hoo-Hoo Club in the United States to start holding a weekly luncheon meeting.

Property Ownerr Can Add to Incomes Construction Workers in Seven So. Cal. Through Conversion Counties Under Job Stabilization Program

Property owners and builders in San Francisco are overlooking an opportunity of increasing their incomes, it was stated here today by Fred Palmer, San Francisco 'War Housing manager.

In urging owners to take advantage of the governmentsponsored plan of conversion, Mr. Palmer said:

"There are thousands of basements in homes of the Marina, Sunset, Richmond, and Mission districts welladapted for conversion into two-room apartments at the cost of $1,000, while leaving enough room for a two-car garage.

"Each converted basement furnished would bring at least $45 rent from a war worker and after the war the owner would have the advantage of continuing income or living facilities for his private use."

Mr. Palmer revealed that he has completed arrangements with local banks for financing such constru,ction on three to four-year loans which can be paid up from rentals the unit will produce.

"If the property is already mortgaged," Mr. Palmer said, "the alteration can be financed through the FHA title 1, which permits insuring an additional loan by the bank without altering the original loan."

Mr. Palmer said that he now has a blueprint of a basement conversion plan which can be used in a 15 to 25 loot square basement providing living room, bath, kitchen, meal space, bedroom and plenty of closet space for a family including two children.

He disclosed the plans provide for range, refrigerator, sink, wash trays and French doors to the back garden. The apartment can be finished with knotty pine, fiber board or other materials and should be built at a cost of approximately $1,000 or less.

Mr. Palmer said the War Production Board will allow materials under AA-3 priority for such construction.

Builders and home owners are invited to visit the San Francisco War Housing Center to see the plans and to make arrangements for the construction. Mr. Palmer declared the Center is now receiving applications of contractors who are available for this work.

Approximately 150,000 construction workers in seven Southern California counties on February 22 were brought under the voluntary job stabilization program through an extension by the War Manpower Commission of its list of war essential industries to cover the building trades.

An announcement by H. R. Harnish, area chief of the WMC, explains the move as aimed to "stop pirating and needless migration of workers."

Ifowever, because of the fact, Mr. Harnish cited, "that the great majority of construction workers are employed for short terms, and change jobs frequently as the work requires," he announced that a system of ",certificates of availability" will be put into practice.

These certifi,cates will be a workman's passport from one job to another.

The construction industry is the 29th essential industry to be blanketed under the War Manpower Commission's "voluntary stabilization plan."

The counties in which the new setup will now hold sway are: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial.

$75O,OOO FOR KERN LABOR HOUSING

Bakersfield, Feb. 19.-Approximately $750,000 will be expended in Kern county on housing for imported Mexican laborers who will work on a 15,000-acre government guayule rubber project, Elliott Roberts, government representative in charge, announced today.

The labor camps will be established at Arvin, Shafter, Lamont and Wasco and will house 30O family groups each.

Construction contracts were awarded Mid-State Construction of San Fran,cisco and the McNair Co. of Los Angeles, Roberts said.

EARL BLIELE WITH INGHAM LUMBER CO.

Earl Bliele, formerly sales manager for Westfir Lumber Co., Westfir, Ore., ,has been appointed sales manager for Ingham Lumber Co., Glendale, Ore., succeeding the late C. L. Normoyle.