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FHA Accepts Priorities Applications for Privately-Owned Delense Housing

Los Angeles, Sept. 22, Ig4l--:lhe Federal Housing Administration offrces in Los Angeles and San Diego, today began to accept and process applications for preference ratings for privately-orvned defense housing construction under the regulations and requirements established by the Director of Priorities, Office of Production Management, it was announced by Wilson G. Bingham, Southern California District Director, FHA.

Special staffs have been trained in this new procedure and it is in actual operation now.

"It must be clearly understood," said NIr. Bingham, "that FHA's part in the defense housing priorities' picture is merely one of assistance to the Office of Production Management, and not in any sense to render decisions. The FHA has no jurisdiction in the matter of issuance of preference ratings. The FHA is a receiving point for the priorities applications and renders an opinion only as to the eligibility of the application in accordance with the regulations of the OPM, and forwards this information concerning eligibility to the Defense Housing Coordinator in care of the local OPI\'I Priorities office.

"The decision as to the granting of the priorities eventually is given by the OPM directly to the applicant.

"Further," Mr. Bingham stated, "this priorities procedure is handled by the FHA entirely separate from its other activities and without regard to the method of financing the construction under way or proposed for which the priorities are requested. In other words, the requirements and rules and regulations established by the FHA have no connection with this priorities procedure nor financing methods.

"Mr. Bingham has held meetings today with representatives of the financial institutions and. organizations representing the construction and realty business. All of these organizations have agreed to cooperate in disseminating information and application forms. Very few forms are available today, but it is believed that within a very short time the banks, building and loan associations, federal savings and loan associations, mortgage and insurance companies will be provided rvith the necessary information and forms for applicants.

"The procedure is simple," Mr. Bingham stated, "but it is required that completed applications on approved forms must be submitted before they can be considered."

The communities listed as areas under which preference ratings can be accepted as determined by the OPM are as follows in Southern California: Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Oceanside-Fallbrook, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Miguel-Paso Robles, and within the reasonable and normal commuting distance to these areas.

All apptications in the foregoing' areas must be submitted to the Los Angeles office of the FHA, Post Office and Court House Building, except for the San Diego and Oceanside-Fallbrook areas, in which case applications should be submitted to the San Diego office of the FHA, Customs House Building, San Diego.

Credits and Collections

"The Nerv Psychological System of Collections," by Percy H. O'Brien of the Los Angeles bar, is a book written for the purpose of combining the best thought and experience on this problem in language that everyone can understand and presenting methods which can be readily adopted.

Mr. O'Brien has also published an "Automatic Collection System," which is a collection of new forms of collection statements, letterhead size, legally drawn and copyrighted, bound together and ready to be filled in, torn out and mailed.

The price of the book is $2.00, and the Automatic Collection System $3.00; both together $4.50. They can be purchased at O. W. Smith Book Store, 106 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, or from the author, Percy H. O'Brien, 845 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles.

J. Frank Johnson

J. Frank Johnson, president of Monarch Lumber & Box Co., Oakland, passed away in Oakland on September 19. A native of Canada he came to California in l9I2 and settled in Sonora. where he worked in the lumber business. He rvas later an executive in the Standard Oil Company for 15 years.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Frances Elizabeth Johnson.

Repetition And Reputation

"All life is advertisin& and one great factor in advertising, as in all teaching, is repetition. Repetition is reputation. Of course, it makes a difrerence what you repeat. Repetition makes reputation, but foolish repetition makes a reputation for foolishness.-Brisbane.

COUSINS

Can and Will are cousins, Who never trust to luck. Will is the son of Energy, Can is the son of Pluck. Can't and \ll/on't are cousins, Always out of work, Won't is the son of Never Try, And Can't is the son of Shirk.

The One He Knew Would Come

The Sunday school teacher wanted to know how many of the little boys in his class could bring another little boy with him to Sunday school the following Sunday. Johnnie promptly held up his hand. "I can," he said. "That's splendid, Johnnie," said the teacher. "And who is the boy you can bring?"

"I'll bring the only boy in my block that I know I can lick," said Johnnie.

Wanderlust

My heart is warm with friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take. No matter where it's going.

-Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Not Today

A distinguished British writer of another day used to say that the "greatest of human miseries, is boredom !" Well, the Heinies have saved them from that, anyway.

Took It The Short Way

Recruiting Officer: "Got any scars on you?' Recruit: "Nope, but I can get you a cigarette."

A De Luxe Steno

"The stenographer we require must be fast, absolutely accurate, and highly intelligent. If you are not a crackerjack, don't answer this ad." So ran the ad in "Help Wanted." And this was the reply they got.

"Your ad appeals to me more strongly than prepared mustard, as f have searched Europe, Asia, and Africa, as wel,l as America, for someone who needed my sort of talent. When it comes to this chinmusic proposition I have never found man, woman, or dictaphone that could get to first base against me, either fancy or catch-as-catch-can. I write shorthand so fast that I have to use a specially prepared pencil with a platinum point and a water-cooling attachment, a note pad made of asbestos, ruled with sulphuric acid, and stitched with catgut. I run with my cut-out open at all speeds, and am in fact a guaranteed, double hydraulic, welded, drop-forged and oil-tempered specimen of human lightning on a perfect thirty-six frame, ground to one-thousandth of an inch. If you would avail yourself of the opportunity of a lifetime, wire me. But unless you are fully prepared to pay the tariff for such service, don't bother me, as f am so high-strung I can hardly stand still long enough to have my dresses fitted."

Report has it that she got the job.

. SEA CRAFT

A sloop is a craft with a jig and a main, A yawl has a jigger behind;

A schooner's a big one with foam on the top, That gets you three sheets in the wind.

A Rhymed Query

Honest, did you ever try to make it easy for a guy

To come into your yard and buy

A pole to raise the clothesline high?

Or boards to keep the chickens dry?

Or fooring that will please the eye?

Successful dealers testify

That greatly increased profits lie

Not in the creed to "sell or die"

But get together, you and f,

To meet your. wants, and satisfy

Your need. That's not so hard to try.

Lewis Godard Elected President of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club

Lervis A. Godard of Hobbs

Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, was elected president of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 at the meeting of that organization held on Monday evening, September 15, at Hotel Leamington, Oakland.

George Clayberg, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland, was elected vice-president, and Jas. B. Overcast, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, was elected secretary-treasurer.

John Freeman, Holmes Eureka Lumber So.. San Fran' cisco, was elected sergeantat-arms.

The nevv directors are Wm. Chatham, Jr., Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda; E. J. LaFranchi, Hill & Morton, fnc., Oakland; John J. Helm, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco; D. Normen Cords, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, and Frank H. White, Hammond Redwood Co., San Francisco.

The large gathering was entertained with an excellent vaudeville program.

Ernie Pieper, Cheim Lumber Co., San Jose, the new State golf champion, was introduced by the president.

Presentations were made to Carl R. Moore, who haS served for the past 14 years as secretary-treasurer, and to the retiring president, Thos. T. Branson.

The presentation of a life membership in the Club to Mr. Moore was made by Bert Bryan, who expressed the Club's appreciation of Carl as a ffiend, an associate and a lnan. Jim Overcast presented Mr. Branson with a gavel and a handsome golf bag.

President Godard has appointed the chairmen of the various committees who will serve in the coming year. The chairmen will select the members of their committees. The new chairmen are as follows:

Public Affairs-Art Williamson; Finance-G. W. "Chris" Sechrist; Membership-Phil Gosslin; Attendance-Luther

Green; Reception- Charles Gartin; Fraternal-Bert Bryan ; Publicity-Lloyd Harris ; Sports-Miland ;Giant ; Reveille-Tom Branson; Program-DirectorS,will alternate; Christmas Fellowship Fund-Jas. McNab; Good Fellorvship FundHenry M. Hink; ActivitiesNormen Cords, John Helm and Ed LaFranchi.

Lumber Industry Story Told on National Radio Hook-Up

The lumber industry told its story to the world in a realistic atmosphere of crashing timber and singing saws on September l3th when the Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co., Snoqualmie, \Mash., provided the background for the lumber episode in the "Defense for America" series sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers.

Chosen because the Weyerhaeuser policy reflects the modern thought in lumber production and forestry management, this mill of the Weyerhaeuser group provided an unusual touch because it started production for the first time in 1917, when the nation was engrossed in defense during another generation.

Actively participating in the broadcast were E. H. O'Neil, manager of the Snoqualmie mill, John Wahl, logging superintendent, and W. H. Price, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma.

In interviewing these three experienced lumbermen, Graham McNamee, noted NBC an.nouncer, brought out the great story of how the lumber industry has met the heavy challenge of furnishing defense lumber while it continued to serve domestic needs in enviable fbshion. The story was told to millions of listeners tuned in to the 90 major stations joined in the national hook-up. The broadcast rMas also transcribed for transmission to Europe and other foreign areas via short wave.

Heavy Delense Lumber Shipments Scheduled

Approximately 33,000,000 board feet of lumber for defense purposes will be moved from the Pacific Coast during October. The shipments are all. for Army and Navy construction projects. Of the total, 26,ffi,000 feet is destined for delivery to the Atlantic seaboard and the remainder is for the Panama Canal.