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U. S. Ends Warworker Housing Projects In Los Angeles Area

Los Angeles, Calif., June 27-With the announcement of 500 neu' portable shelter units to be built by the Federal Public Housing Agency for Navy employees in the harbor district, local military and civilian Government leaders today joined to cancel their request to Washington for 5750 additional units on which action had not yet been taken by military and congressional authorities.

Barring unforeseen emergencies, the move means an end to construction o{ the Federal public housing projects, dormitories, and the acres of privately built homes reserved for war workers, which since Pearl Harbor have enlarged the Los Angeles area's housing capacity by some 81,300 family units.

Thus, all new homes henceforth rvill be built by private capital.

This action lvas taken yesterday at a meeting of the area production urgency committee attended by representatives of all branches of the armed forces and by heads of civilian agencies. It was based on a report made by a subcommittee after a 30-day study of the housing situation here.

"We by no means feel that the war is anywhere near finished, nor that the housing shortage in this area is over with," Chairman Louis M. Dreves declared.

"We do feel that, barring unforeseen emergencies, additional housing should be built by private capital, when, as, and if manpower and materials are available.

"If a turn in the war should require building'of a new plant or military installation in an area where no housing is available, we would, of course, sponsor public housing for this purpose, as we have always done."

Priorities will continue to be furnished on two types of residential construction designated by the National Housing Agency as "H-3" housing, for veterans of World War If, evictees, and other "hardship" cases, and "H-2" housing, for general relief of the general housing shortage. "H-3" approvals have been averaging about 500 a month, while "H-2" housing was launched with an already allocated quota of 1000 homes per month for the next six months.

The production urgency committee withdrew its recommendations of further Federal housing here for the purpose of (1) avoiding possible over-expansion of housing at tax- payers' expenses; (2) getting faster action than is possible where funds must be appropriated ,by Congress; and (3) bringing the schedule for housing construction here to a size in line with the amount of manpower and materials now actually available.

Chairman Louis M. Dreves said the urgency committee in the past two years had sought by every possible means, including uprating of priorities on materials and assignment of high urgency ratings for manpower, to get more houses built, but that at no time had actual completions been more than about 2000 units per month.

"That appears to be the industry's total capacity under present conditions, and probably will be until the military construction program tapers off," Dreves declared.

Yet in sight for local war workers are some 5522 units of "H-1" war housing, mass-built by private contractors with two-thirds of the units reserved for rental, one-third for sale; and 1500 publicly-financed portable shelter units for Navy employees, including the 5@ units announced today, according to W. Conrad McKelvey, field representative of the National Housing Agency.

Between 6000 and 7000 veterans and evictees, McKelvey said, also have received priorities from FHA since the "H-3" program began on January lst.

For ordinary Southern Californians at large, there are in sight some 6000 units of "H-2" housing allocated for the next six months. About 200 of these already are under construction, although the program was initiated only three or four rveeks ago.

Appointed Scles Mcurcrger

Russell J. Hogue was appointed sales manager of Medford Corporation, Medford, Oregon, effective June l, sncceeding Harry Dowson, who resigned to go into business for himself.

B. L. Nutting is manager o{ Medford Corporation. This concern made an important contribution to the war effort in 1944 with a production of more than 90,000,000 feet of Ponderosa and Sugar Pine, Douglas Fir and White Fir.

Port Orlord Cedcr

The WPB removed Port Orford cedar logs, lumber and veneer from allocation control. Port Orford cedar is the most satisfactory species of wood for battery separators.

Pitcher Disappearing Doors

We hqve on hcrnd Stock ol Pitcher

Discrppecring Door Frqmes cmd Hcurgers

We now ship the lrcnre set up complete which ioins with c t'fa" slud, mcrking no extrcr thicloress lor a sliding door.

Detail Sbeets Sent to Lumber Trad.e on Request

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