Homes Foundation Features California 'Surf wtng" Home Design

Every month volumes are published on the modern American small home, in the form of books, magazines, and government and building industry publications. This output has been growing steadily since 1934, when the National Housing Act was passed and, the FHA plan of home ownership established. Architects and structural engineers have concentrated on the small home as never before. Home-building materials have been analyzed, tested and subjected to experimentation in the Bureau of Standards, the Forest Products Laboratory, and within projects financed by privately endowed research organizations. Homebuilding standards have been raised a.nd fortified in every department, from lot selection to landscaping, from plans to paint.

"All this has resulted in two basic benefits for the 194O home builder," C. W. Pinkerton, chairman of Southern California Homes Foundation, points out. "First and simplest, small-home design and specifications have been improved immeasurably during the past five yeais, so that a home such as the 'Surfwing,' (List No. A5O5) published this week by SCHF, has far more values than can be illustrated in the floor plan and front elevation. Working plans and specifications have been worked out to utilize standard lengths of lumber and to cover a wide range of selection in building materials, in order to lower building cost and meet individual preferences. These are but two of a number of improved features that might be cited.

"A second benefit is that the prospective home builder can now find reliable up-to-date guidance in every step of home ownership, in government and industry publications prepared for this purpose. Southern California Homes Foundation will send free to any inquirer an informational manual on 'How to Acquire a New Home at Less than a Dollar per Day.' Every progressive retail lumber dealer has a library of similar literature. The U. S. Department of Commerce has issued a 'list of Published Material Relating to Home Building and Maintenance' which may be had by post-card request to the Department offices at either San Francisco or Los Angeles.

"An example of the publications listed is 'llow to Judge a Home,' which covers numerous points the layman may fail to consider in the process of home owning. Ten cents will secure it from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. 'Light Frame House Construction' is a ZlGpage book with 163 illustrations, a sure money-saver for the family that has a dad or brother who is handy with tools. It may be had from the same source for 4O cents. The list even includes a 'Birdhouse Book.'

"The Federal Housing Administration has published much new material on 194O streamlined home financing. In short, there are publications on every detail of the modern home and how to own one, most of them for the asking, the others to be had at trifling cost."

For information and service on the Surfwing home design, see local retail lumber dealers or write Southern California Homes Foundation, 441 Douglas Building, Los Angeles.

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Obituarieg

ROLLINS A. BROWN

Rsl'lins A. Brown, well known Los Angeles lumberman, passed away May 27, alter a long illness. Before coming to California, he was connected with the lumber industry in the Northwest.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Blanche Brown; a daughter, Mrs. Marcella Dunbar; two sons, Donald and Hobart Brown, and a brother Hobart Brown.

Funeral services were held in Los Angeles on May D.

ROY V. ISH

Roy V. Ish, detailer and salesman for Eureka Sash Door & Moulding Mills, San Francisco, passed away on May 23. He was formerly with Pacific Manufacturing Co., Santa Clara, and for a time was with Portman Planing Mill, San Francisco.

CHARLES S. LAMB

Charles S. Lamb, widely known Northern California retail lumberman, passed away in Oakland on June 6.

Mr. Lamb was born in Missouri 68 years ago. He was for many years sales manager of Sunset Lumber Company, Oakland, and for the past several years operated'his own retail yard in Emeryville, Calif.

He was a member of Camp No.94 W. O. W. and-of the fnternational Order of Hoo-Hoo.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Carrie E. Lamb; a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth F. Fenton, and trvo sisters, Mrs. Willard Hurst and Mrs. Loren Phillips.

Funeral services were held in Oakand on Tune 8.