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Housing Exposition to Open at Los Angeles M.y 18

Construction has already started on the large auditorium at Beverly Boulevard and Curson Avenue, Los Angeles, in which the Housing Exposition will open on May 18. The site will be known in the future as the Exposition Center of Southern California.

A permanent building which will serve as Los Angeles headquarters for annual shows will cost $125'000 and provides for 108,000 square feet of exhibition sPace. In addition to the space under roof, there are twelve acres of ground which are to be landscaped at once and model homes are to be built to demonstrate all types of home ,construction. The designs for the modernistic auditorium were submitted by members of the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The architects' prize of $1,000 was won by the firm of Plummer, \Murdeman & Beckett of Los Angeles.

The exposition is being conducted by a board of governors representing the banks, department stores, building industries and the federal government' It is a non-profit undertaking, the net proceeds to be used in furthering the general housing program during the next two years.

George L. Eastman is chairman of the board of directors and Clifiord W. Henderson is managing director.

W. W. WOODBRIDGE BACK FROM EAST

E. A. NELSON VISITS LOS ANGELES

E. A. Nelson, sawmill superintendent at the Washington Veneer Co. plant at Olympia, \Mash., arrived in Los Angeles, March23, on a business trip. While in the Southland, he will make his headquarters at the company's Los Angeles offi'ce.

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W. W. Woodbridge, manag'er of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle, has returned from the East, where he attended a number of retail lumbermen's conventions.

Three new field men have been added to the Bureau's stafi. One of these will be located in California, one in Boston and one in Columbus, Ohio'

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