Hoover Calls Home Building Conf erence

.Washington, Sept. 1S.-President Floover moved today to increase the spiead of home building and home ownership in the United States, calling a conference of 1000 citi"et. front the forty-eight states to meet on this subject here from December 2 to 5.

The President said preparations have been in progre-ss more than a year. He -pointed out the conference will be "the first of ifs kind on this scale in the United States."

"It will deal with the whole question of home construction and ownership and of home environment," he said.."It will embrace finance, design, equipment, city planning, household management, and m-any other aspects." -

The Presideni said a score of national associations are reoresented in the planning committee and that twenty-five committees "have been engaged for months" in preparation. Funds have been provided privately, he said' to cover the activities of the committees of the huge housing conference.

The President said:.

"I wish to announce that the President's'conference on home building and home ownership for which preparations have been in progress for something over a- yeal will be held in Washington, Wednesday, December 2 to Saturday, December 5, inclusive.

"About 400 persons have assisted in the preparatory work and 1000 representative citizens from- the forty-eight states, associated with building and housing activities, are expecied to participate in the conference. The conference has been organized under the chairmanship of Secretary Lamont of the Department of Commerce. Dr. John M. Gries is the executive secretary.

"l decided a year ago after a conference with interested leaders in various parts of the country to undertake the organization of an adequate investigation and study, on a nation-wide scale, of the problems presented in home ownership and home building, with the hope of developing the facts and a better understanding of the questions involved and inspiring better organization and the removal of influences which seriously limit the spread of home ownership, both town and country.

"A planning committee, comprising representatives of some twenty voluntary associations, was created to make the study and set up a national conference for consideration of the data and recommendations of expert committees. The plan is somewhat similar to that of the White House conference on child health and protection, held in Washington in November, 193O. Funds have been provided privately to cover research and other activities of the committees of the housing conference.

"Among the associations represented in the planning committee were the following:

"American Civic Association, American Farm Bureau Federation, American Federation of Labor, American (Continued on Page 29)

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Home Economics Association, American Institute of Architects, Associated General Contractors, Association of Life Insurance Presidents, Better Homes in America, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, General Federation of 'Women's Clubs, National Association of Builders' Exchanges, National Association of Real Estate Boards, National Congress of Parents and Teachers, National Farmers' IJnion, National Grange, National Housing Association, Russell Sage Foundation, savings bank division of the American Bankers' Association. United States League of Building and Loan Associations, Women's National Farm and Garden Association.

"The conference in December will be the first of its kind on this scale in the United States. It wilt deal with the whole question of home construction and ownership, and of the hom.e environment. It will embrace finance, design, equipment, city planning, household management and many other aspects.

Two N"* Government Bulletins on Home

Scores of returning vacationists, temporarily in the class of house hunters, will find the two recent booklets, "How to Judge a House" and "Furniture, Its Selection and (Ise," of considerable help in their efforts to get settled comfortably and economically, according to the National Committee on Wood Utilization of the Department of Commerce. The booklets, prepared by the committee, in cooperation with leading authorities on housing and home furnishings, are designed to alleviate the uncertainty which quite naturally accompanies the selection and furnishing of a home.

"How to Judge a House," written by N. S. Perkins, construction engineer, sells for 1O cents a copy, and "Furniture, Its Selection and IJse," written by Clark B. Kelsey, furniture specialist, is obtainable f.or N cents. Both booklets may be purchased from the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., and from the district offices of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, located in principal cities of the country.

California Forestry Report

Minor road and trail work in the national forests of California for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931, involved an expenditure ol $1,264,776. This does not include $1,469,9I7 of Forest Service road and trail funds spent for the construction and maintenance of major or standard roads within or adjacent to the national forests that are part of the State and county highway systems. New construction totaled 348 miles of road, 356 miles of motorways or fire protection roads, 187 miles of trail and 195 miles of trailways or secondary trails. Maintenance ol 6,457 miles of road, 3,066 miles of motorways, 14,679 miles of trail and 3,257 miles of trailways was accomplished.

Loud Colors Banned On National Forest Buildings

Not content with abolishing sign boards and routing roads according to landscape effects, the U. S. Forest Service has just issued an order to holders of permits for commercial concessions on government land in national forests to remove all color screams in the way of placards, and to harmonize the paint jobs on their buildings with various shades of green, brown and gray.

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Q. RANSOM rN CALTFORNTA

.- Ransom, of Nashville, Tennessee, nationally known flooring man, has been a California visitor of late, callat both Los Angeles and San Francisco.

BACK ON JOB AGArN

Harry Officer, Portland, Ore., Northwest representative of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, who was rushed to the hospital to undergo an appendicitis operation, returned to his home September 19, ind is now back at work. :

T. A. ALBERTSON

__-T. A.- Albertson; of the Pelican Bay Lumber Company, 4lamath Falls, Oregon, has been caliing on the Souihein California trade of late.

J. R. NEECE

J. R, Neece, of Dallas, Texas, President of the Texas Oak Flooring Company, has been in California recently calling on the lumber trade with his local sales associates,-the Geo-. F. Weis Lumber Company.

Claims Against Pickering

The Court at Kansas City, Mo., has set Nov. 3fth as the final date on which claims against the Pickering Lumber Company, now in receivership, will be accepted. This is an extension of the original date. George R. Hicks, 3525 Broadway, Kansas City, is receiver.

WOODI4'ORKING PLANTS TO REOPEN

The Portlancl Manufacturing Company, and the Nico. lai Door Company" woodworkiig plants ii Portland, Oregon, that have been closed down" for months past, are planning to reopen in the next few weeks.

Bloedel Donovan Starts Mills

The ljloedel Donovan Lumber Mills have started oper- ations at their Larson, Washington, plant, after a l,ong sh.gjdowl. They are preparing ilso to start their shingli mlll at that potnt.

Recovers From Illness

Forrest W. Wilson has entirely recovered from a throat affection which recently kept him in an Oakland hospital for ten-days. Forrest, who was formerly with The Little River Redwood Co., and has been wiih the Hammond Lumber Co. from the time of the merger up to September l, is seeking a wholesale selling conniction.