Exclusive Airpfane Spruce Yard Ne*" Note in Lumber Business

Entrqnce io 59th Street Ycrrd, \\rnr neccls of the c()rlntrv havc creatcrl mlLr-ry ncn' recor<1s in the lrrnrl>er bu-siness that ha.,-e bcen cntirelr- unlrrerlictable. One of these recor<ls n':rs the opening about hr-e The rnain 1.arcl of l)enlterthr- l-umbcr Co. is at 2055 East mor-rths ago of a 1re\\' r.arc1 in I-os Angelcs dcr-otecl ex- Fiitr'-hrst Street, I-os Ar.rgeles. In aclclition to specializing clusive11, to tl.re remanufacture, processing ancl clrr-ing of in airplane Spruce, this u'ell-knou'n n'holesale conceru car:rlrpr:ire )l)rllce rumDer for tl're glicler a'cl aircraft progralr ries a large stock of hard*'oods' white and Sugar Pine and b-v l,erl,erth.r- J-u'rlrer co.

' patrern lrrmber'

'l'he r-arrl is locatccl at 710 I:ast Fiit,v-nintl.r Strcct and is about one and one-half acres in extent.

Paul Penlrerthr', ou'ner and m:rnager, \\.as associated u'itl-r Sliipnrents of airplane Spruce are nracle to airplane ancl the lun1ber ltusiness for t'any 1.ears before he startecl in glider tnanufacturers all or-er the Unitecl Statcs. business for hiniself 11 years ago.

FHA Loans Pasr $6,000,000,000 Marlc

Washington, Sept. S-Loans of more than $6,000,000,000 by private lending institutions for the construction, purchase or repair of home properties have been insured under the various FHA programs since the start of operations in June, 1934, Federal Housing Commissioner Abner H. Ferguson announced today.

Through regular monthly payments against principal and through prepayments, approximately one-third of the total amount of FHA-insured loans reported to date has been paid of by the families and property owners participating in the program, Mr. Ferguson said.

The private residential lending stimulated by the FHA program has involved almost 5,000,000 individual properties, the commissioner pointed out. These include approximately 980,000 one-to-four-family homes financed by mortgages exceeding $4,200,000,000 in original amount which were insured under Titles II or VI of the National Housing Act, and approximately 4,000,000 repair or modernization loans totaling more than $1,600,000,000 which were insured under Title I. In addition, mortgages, of approximately $145,000,000 on large-scale rental housing projects have been insured under Section 207.

"During peacetime, the FIIA loan insurance program was largely responsible for the re-opening of the private mortgage lending market and for the revival of the home construction industry," Mr. Ferguson declared. "To the consumer, the FHA plan offered the soundest home financing terms in history as well as a convenient method for repayment of home indebtedness out of current monthly earnings.

"IJnder wartime conditions, the FHA program has played an equally vital role by providing the principal financing vehicle for the construction of war housing by private enterprise."

Since July 1, 1940, when the housing problem first became acute in the war industry centers, approximately 440,000 home mortgages totaling more than $1,900,000,000 have been insured by the FHA. By far the greatest proportion of these properties were located in the shortage areas.

Because of acute shortages of war materials, new construction financed under the FHA program is now restricted to the most urgently needed housing for war workers in the designated critical areas and is insured under Title VI, which was added to the National Housing Act by Congress for the specific purpose of facilitating privately financed war housing. The facilities of Title II remain available for the insurance of mortgages on existing houses.

Under Title I, more than 1,400,000 loans totaling approximately $565,000,000 have been insured since July 1, 1940. Title I loans are now limited to projects providing additional living accommodations for war workers through the conversion or rehabilitation of existing structures or to essential repairs and maintenance.

Under current conditions FItrA borrowers are being encouraged to apply inereased wartime earnings to the reduction of their mortgage debt at a faster rate than that'called for by their mortgage contracts.

Consolation For Bald Heads

The thirteenth chapter, fortieth verse of Leviticus says: "And the man whose hair has fallen off his head, he is bald; yet he is clean."

He Feared It

"f used to be jes' crazy erbout apples," said Uncle Mose, thoughtfully, "but heah lately I has done give 'em up. Yassuh, I'se skaid. You see, I bin hearin' so much erbout dat awful apple-plexy."

Trusting Your Father

By W.C. Brann

There is a Deity. I have felt His presence. I have heard His voice. I have been cradled in His friendly robe. All that is, or was, or can be, is but the visible garment of God. I ask no written covenant with Him,'for He is my Father. I will trust Him without requiring priests or prophets to indorse His note. As I write, my little son awakes alarmed by some noise, and comes groping thru the darkness to my door. He sees the light shining thru the transom, returns to his trundle-bed and lies down to peaceful dreams. ffe knows that beyond that gleam his father keeps watch and ward; and he asks no more. Thru a thousand celestial transoms streams the light of God. Why should I fear the sleep of death, the unknown terrors of that starless night, the waves of the river Styx? Why should I seek assurance from the lips of men that the Wisdom, Love, and Power of my heavenly Father will not fail?

MAKE SENSE OF' THIS

Smith where Jones had had had had had had had had had had had the examiner's approval.

The answer: Smith, where Jones had had "had had," had had "had." "Ifad had" had had the examiner's approval.

New York Mispronunciations

I'd sentence him to a dungeon castleThe "athalete" who likes to "wrastle."

I lose'respect for Bert and Bella, Who order "chalklate" and "vanella.'?

I'd have him labor for an eon

Who at the ringside cries "champeon.,, And him f'd spurn who says "beeographn', And rhymes it falsely with geography.

In Account With Life

One midnight deep in starlight still I dreamed that I received this bill: fn Account With Life:

Five thousand breathless dawns, all new;

Five thousand fowers, fresh in dew;

Five thousand sunsets wrapped in gold; One million snowflakes, served ice cold; Five quiet friends; One baby's love;

One white-mad sea, with clouds above; One hundred music-haunted dreams

Of moon-drenched roads, and hurrying streamsOf prophesying winds and treesOf silent stars and drowsing bees; One June night in a fragrant wood; One heart that loved, and understood. I wondered, when I waked at day, Howhow in God's nameI could pay?

C. W. Sayres.

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The Senate

Senator Nesmith, who hailed from Oregon, was asked by a newspaper reporter long, long ago how it felt to be in the United States Senate. He said: "For the first two months I kept wondering how a damn fool like me ever got into the Senate. Since then I do nothing but wonder how the other damn fools got in."

First Public Games

The first record of public games we have in literature is in the 23rd Book of the Iliad. They were performed at the funeral of Patrolcus. The first event was a chariot race and the prize was "a woman fair." The second tyas a pugilistic encounterand the prize was a mule.

He Was Tougher

"Call the head waiter !" angrily demanded the restaurant guest. "f never saw anything as tough as this blanketyblank steak."

"You will," said the waiter, pointedly, ,,if I call the head rsaiter."

San Joaquin Valley Dealers Meet at Fresno

Ray Clotfelter, W. R. Spalding Lumber Company, Visalia, and president of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, presided at a dinner meeting of retail lumbermen of the San Joaquin Valley, held at the Fresno Hotel, Fresno, on Friday evening, September 25. There was an attendance ol 120.

A. J. "Gus" Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, was toastmaster.

The meeting, arranged by Bernard B. Barber, of the Building Service Bureau of Fresno, was mainly a social affair, but included a round table discussion of present conditions and the most recent regulations governing the retail lumber business.

In Active Service

Three officials from the Pacific coast sales staff of American Lumber & Treating Company now must be addressed in care of United States military forces.

Only one of the men, Ensign Clinton T. Hallsted, of Navy Intelligence Service, retains his purely western location. Formerly with the company's Los Angeles office, he is now stationed at San Francisco.

Another of the Los Angeles staff, Sales Manager A. E. Ferguson (now a captain in the Field Artillery) is at Colorado Springs, Colo. Marx Hyatt, sales manager for the San Francisco division, has moved completely from his old territory to the Army Ordnance School at Rockford, Ill. During the absence of Messrs. Hyatt and Ferguson, Leslie K. Andrews and Warren E. Hoyt are in charge of the sales at the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

Another Lumberman

Joe Bugley has been passing out the cigars to his many friends, the occasion being the arrival of a baby boy, John Charles Bugley, on September 15 at the Methodist Hospital, Los Angeles. He reports that l\{rs. Bugley and his new son are doing nicely. Joe is with the W. B. Jones Lumber Company of Los Angeles.

Enlists In Navy

Don Lentz, son of Norb Lentz of Encinitas Lumber Co., Encinitas, Calif., recently enlisted in the Navy.

Awarded Maritime M Pennant

The Western Hardwood Lumber Company and P. J. Walker Company of Los Angeles, a joint venture performing joiner contracts for the U. S. Maritime Comrnission, have received the following telegram from Commissioner H. D. Vickery, U. S. Maritime Commission, Washington, D. C.: "As chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission Board of Awards I take pleasure in advising you that the Board in recognition of your outstanding production achievement has awarded your plant the Maritime M Pennant, the Victory Fleet Flag, and Maritime Labor Merit Badges for all your employes. A U. S. Maritime Commission representative will personally present the award to your plant between October 1 and October 15."

The first contract performed by this joint venture for 55 EC-z cargo vessels, Liberty type ship, has been completed, and they are now working on the second contract for 109 vessels of the same type.

WILL ENTER OFFICERS' TRAINING SCHOOL

Ralph Lamon, son of Fred Lamon, Lamon-Bonnington Company, San Francisco, who has been in the Army for the past six months, has been promoted to corporal, and has passed the board examination for officers' training. He is stationed at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas.

\^/. C. ULETT NOW NAVY FLYING INSTRUCTOR

William C. Ulett, son of George A. Ulett, manager of Smith Wood-Products, Inc., Coquille, Ore., has been commissioned in the Navy as a flying instructor. He formerly owned his own plane and had completed several hundred hours of flying.

WILL OPERATE S. S. SOLANO

The steamer Solano has been towed from Coos Bay to Portland and is now undergoing repairs at the Portland Dry Dock. The vessel is expected to be ready to sail by October 1, and will be operated by Tacoma Lumber Sales, Los Angeles.

NATIONAL RETAILERS ANNUAL OCT. 19-21

The annual meeting of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association will be held at the Drake Hotel, Chicago, October 19,2O and 2I,1942.

George Clayberg New President Olfice Civilian Defanse Lists Home Repairs of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club

Among War Conservation ltems

George Clcyberg

George Clayberg of Boorman Lumber Company, Oakland, was elected president of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 at the meeting of this organization held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, September t4.

D. Normen Cords, Wendling-Nathan Company, San Francisco. was elected vicepresident, and Jas. B. Overcast, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

Thos. P. Hogan III was elected sergeant-at-arms.

The new directors are the following: Ed La Franchi, Hill & Morton, fnc., Oakland; John Helm, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco; Frank H. White, Hammond Lumber Co., San 'Francisco; Reginald Smith, Smith Lumber Co., Oakland, and Wm. Chatham, Jr., Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda.

The retiring president, Lewis A. Godard, was presented by the Club with a beautiful Seth Thomas nautical clock. The presentation was made by Tom Branson, who conveyed the thanks of the members to Mr. Godard for his fine work during the past year.

A staff photographer and reporter of the Oakland PostEnquirer attended this meeting with the result that some excellent pictures of the new officers and a story appeared in the issue of September 15.

The new board of directors and officers will hold their first meeting on Monday evening, October 5, at Hotel Leamington.

Join Army

Fred Amburgey and Denton Wilkerson of the sales department of Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, have reported for service in the Army.

"What Can I Do ?" just issued by the U. S. Office of Civilian Defense as a citizen's handbook for war, states that "Conservation is a war weapon in the hands of every man, woman, and child," and presents two basic rules for use of the weapon-r'Get along with less, and take good care of the things you have," with special emphasis on the family home itself. Northern and Southern California Homes Foundations urge every home-owner to secure a copy of this handbook through local civilian defense authorities. It is simply and brightly written and is entertainingly illustrated by Gluyas Williams.

The Foundations quote from "'What Can I Do ?" as follows:

"War production goes faster when home life runs smoothly, and so it is a good idea to keep our homes and personal possessions in good order and repair. Do it nowdon't wait until your things are past repairing. The more shipshape and tidy we keep our homes and personal possessions the less we will feel the need to buy new things

"This new simple life means fewer household gadgets, because the skills and materials that made them are needed for war. Such things as refrigerators, cooking ranges, heaters, electric irons, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, toasters, sewing machines, radios, flashlights, carpentry and garden tools are precious. You won't be getting any new ones until after the war. Usually the household repair jobs are done by Dad or by the local carpenter, plumber and electrician. Now, all of us should be brushing up on the hundred and one home skills. If you have a little spare time see about classes in repair at the local school or elsewhere. Ask your local Defense Council about this."

GREATER \vAR HOUSING FUND APPROVED

Washington, September ,22- The Senate Labor Committee approved today legislation authorizing an additional $600,000,000 expenditure for war housing.

The measure, introduced by Chairman Thomas, Utah, would double the funds already authorized by Congress for defense housing, increasing the total amount for this purpose from $600,000,000 to $1,200,000,000.

National Forests of Northern and Central California Open to Hunting

San Francisco, September 17-The national forests of northern and central California, within districts where the deer season started September 16, will be open to hunting, according to S. B. Show, Regional Forester, U. S. Forest Service. These Federal Forests, with the following general exceptions, are outside the boundaries of areas recently closed by the State to deer hunting at the request of Army authorities: Trinity Forest: Southeast portion in Shasta and Tehama Counties; Sierra Forest: Scattered areas west of Ponderosa Way along the west boundary of the forest; Sequoia Forest: South end, in the Greenhorn and Piute Mountains region.

The Forest Service also announces that there will be a few limited areas of specially high fire hazard in the northern and central national forests that will be closed to public use in order to protect the timber and water resources. All such areas will be clearly marked, and full information thereon may be secured from local Forest Service officers. On some of the forests hunters will be checked-in and given detailed information regarding special smoking and night campfire regulations.

All national forests in southern California are already cloSed to public use; and will remain closed until the end of the fire season.

"We want the sportsmen to enjoy camping, fishing and hunting in the national forests," said Mr. Show. "These forests provide good hunting grounds and have always been noted as a place for public recreation. But the extent to which the Federal forests will remain open to public use must be consistent with the hazards of the fire season and all rneasures vital to the war effort and national security.

"This season, far more than ever before, the whole-hearted cooperation in fire prevention of all sportsmen and forest visitors is essential. Already this year' California has had well over 4,000 forest, range and grain fires, which have burned in excess of 400,000 acres. Even more startling is the fact that the number of fires caused by man's carelessness has materially increased.

"The war has also brought new dangers to our forests and their resources. Lieut. General John L. DeWitt has forcefully pointed out that forest fires destroy needed war materials, limit visibility for defense air and sea patrol, disrupt communication and transportation systems, endanger defense plants and military establishments, and reduce water supply needed for hydroelectric production. Ih short, Forest Fires Delay Victory."

The Forest Service cautions sportsmen to watch for and respect "No Trespassing," "Closed Area," and "No Smoking" signs, and for their own safety to obey imrnediately the orders of sentries, peace officers and guards.