California Building Permits for July

Forest Indugtrier Publish Handy Booklet for Speakers

"Speak IJp" is the appropriate title of a new booklet published by American Forest Products Industries, Inc. to provide material and suggestions for industry executives who are called upon to make public speeches.

The 48 pages, of the booklet are replete with pertinent facts, figures, and anecdotes about the forests, their management, and their trends. Added convenience comes from the booklet's orderly arrangement and index. In addition to presenting significant statistics in convenient form, "Speak IJp" presents a series of articles which may be requoted verbatim, or revised by users to fit local audiences. Among the titles of these articles are: "Forest Products in 'War," "The Background of American Forestry," "Tree Farms," and "Science in the Forest." The booklet also presents a condensed bibliography of reference material relating to forestry-obtainable from several associations.

The booklet was prepared by the Public Relations headquarters of American Forest Products Industries, Inc., 1319 Eighteenth Street, Washington, D. C. and copies are being mailed to about 2,000 executives and leaders in timber-producing companies and to others in response to special request.

A four-page supplement, accompanying the booklet, reminds foiest industry executives that, although leaders within the industry know the vastness of the forest products contribution to the war effort and know of the foresight and skill being used to grow abundant trees for the future, there are many people within and without the industry who do not know these facts.

"Many of the people in your home community and some of your best friends are unaware that management methods in the forest industries have undergone great changes in the last decade," the supplement asserts, and adds, "One way you can help them to know and understand the full story of new progress in the forest industries is to speak up with the facts whenever you have an opportunity."

Giulii Renamed Housing Head

Nicola Giulii has been elected chairman of the Los Angeles Housing Authority for the sixth successive term, it was announced,

He has been chairman of the authority since it was organized in June, 1938. Prior to 1938 he served five years as a member of the Municipal Housing Commission.

Maurice Saeta, attorney, was re-elected vice-chairman of the authority. He has been a member of the authority for a year and served as vice-chairman since last December.

Other members include Mrs. Jessie L. Terry, John E. Fishburn Jr. and Lloyd A. Mashburn.

Material Substitution and Supply List

A general tightening of an already critical lumber situation was evidenced in Issue No. 9 of the Material Substitution and Supply List, which places most hardwoods and most one inch boards of all species in Group I.

The list, released by the WPB Conservation Division, groups some 500 materials essential to the war program in three categories reflecting relative availability: Group I, materials INSUFFI'CIENT for essential war and industry needs; Group II, materials approximately in BALANCE with requirements; and Group III, materials available for SUBSTITUTES in essential applications.

Several substitutes for lumber, demand for which has been increased by many factors, including requirements for overseas containers, are now listed in Group III. These include asphalt laminated board; asbestos cement sheets; granule surface insulation board; and'structural surface board.

The new issue of the Substitution and Supply List contains numerous changes in the group listings. Moved from Group I to Group II, (indicative of an easing supply trend) were the following chemicals: Acrylic acid; aluminum chloride; ammonia and derivatives; chlorosulphonic acid; and sulphur chlorides. On the other hand, sulphuric acid and gycols have become more critical.

Among other products moved to Group I from Group II, reflecting greater demand, are: horse tail and mane cattle tail hair; alkyd resins; cadmium pigments ; linseed oil; Ponderosa Pine plywood; and silicon carbide abrasives.

A trend towards downgrading-the replacement of critical materials with generally satisfactory substitutes with slightly modified characteristics-is indicated in the introduction to the list by reference to the Conservation Divisions' "Downgrading Chart for Brass and Bronze" and "Aluminum Alloy Substitution Chart," both of which allow generous use of scrap materials.

The follgwing clue to the relative position of steel and wood in industrial applications was given in the introductory notes to the list: "The choice between steel and wood depends largely on type of need, application, and local conditions. However, no relative change has occurred in the wood supply situation which necessitates wholesale switches back to steel.

Copies of Material Substitutions and Supply List, Issue No. 9, may be obtained upon written request to the Conservation Division, War Production Board, Washington 1. D. C.

Collector Of Paintings

Transferred To Denver

B. L. Adams, salesman with the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company at Los Angeles for the past seven years, has been transferred to the company's Denver office.

Jim Tyrrell, Sudden & Christenson, Los Angeles, returned August 13 from his vacation which he spent at Laguna Beach, Calif., with his old artist friends and associates.

For many years Jim has been a collector of fine paintings, and seven of them are now being shown in an exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum.