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Guild Mr. Wrightson attended the Johns-Manville Housing Guild School and has put much time and thought into the study of every phase of Guild operation. He has recently conducted a school in the evenings in the display room on the Guild sales promotion plan, which enables the prospective home olvner to buy a new home or the home owner to buy repairs or improvements to existing structures as a "package," providing a one-stop service applied to anything and everything in building. The Guild includes the services of the dealer, contractor, architect, financial agent and realtor.

Mr. Wrightson has spent all of his business life in the retail lumber business, starting his experience in Saskatchewan, Canada. He operated his own yard in British Columbia for some years and has been in the lumber business in California since 1927. He worked for the Hammond Lumber Company for two years and has been in business for himself since l9D. He is assisted in the operation of the yard by his two sons, Jimmy and Garnet. Stan Junek, Don Cassell, Gordon Sterling and Joe Pearson are outside salesmen. Mrs. F. J. Cornwell is bookkeeper, and Willis Schultz and Bill Seaberry work in the vard.

Anticipated Lumber Demand in First Six Months Exceeds 1939 Figure bv ?%

Washington, May l5,-Total lumber consumption the first half of. l94O is estimated to exceed 13 billion feet, an increase of 3 per cent over the consumption in the similar period of 1939, according to the 36th quarterly report of the Lumber Survey Committee to the Department of Commerce, just released.

While this seems to indicate greater consumption of lumber for the year as a whole, the Com,mittee warned that because of extraordinary conditions, present indications are not favorable for an increase in lumber consumption in the third quarter of this year over last, unless large war orders develop. This, says the Committee, is unlikely.

"Residential building in the first quarter of 194O decreased slightly in the eastern and central states, but was more active in the far west, as compared with 1939," the report declared. "Despite the decline in the residential building contract total in the 37 eastern states, the F. W. Dodge Corporation reports consiclerable gain in new family units. It considers it probable that the prolonged severitv of the winter retarded first quarter building and that there may be a substantial increase in residential buiding activity in the second quarter over the first.

"Softwood lumber exports in the first three months of 194O were less than in any quarter of 1939," says the Committee. "Hardwood exports in this peribd showed a greater decline, due primarily to the near-suspension of buying of American hardwoods for the United Kingdom. Softr,l'ood lumber imports showed a decline from the first quarter of 1939 and considerable loss as compared with the fourth quarter. Hardwood imports were in greater volume than in the first two quarters oi. 1939, but less than in the last two quarters.

"Demand from the railroads so far this year has iallen off as compared with lumber purchases last fall," continues the report. "No large new equipment programs are now in early prospect although, as usual, a substantial volume of lumber has been sold for repair, maintenance and other curfent needs."

The Committee found that the continuing impetus to construction of Small Homes is strengthening the lumber trade and benefiting the lumber industry with urban home building showing encouraging volume and farm building lagging.