To Study Housing and Home Ownership Problems

In the interest of inclepenclent honre ownership, the Executive Committee of the California Building-Loan League has instructed its Taxation Committee to cooperate with other agencies interested in decrying the excessive burden of taxation and in seeking immediate relief, according to Harry S. Wanzer, Sacramento, president of the State organization. These include the California Real Estate Association, the California Building Owners and Managers Association and California Land and Title Association.

An intensive study of the entire state tax situation rvas begun by the California Real Estate Association. thrss ys415 ago and leading economists and tax experts from all'over the nation have been consulted. Building and loan interests are now getting behind this program in'the belief that the welfare of the independent hbme owner is involved in the present inequality in the application of the tax burden.

President Wanzer announces the appointment of a Statewide committee of leading building-l,oan men to study the plo.blems of more adequate housing and home owneiship. This committee will get behind President Hoover and tlie White House Conference which is seeking ways and means of. m.aking home ownership easier of accompiishment and within the reach of more people. In addressing the initial meeting of the National Conference, President Hoover lamented the fact that it is easier to finance the purchase of an automobile in the United States today thair that of a home. Said the President, "Adequate hotising goes to the very roots of the well-being of the family and th1 family is a social unit of the nation".

The Building-Loan League Committee on Home Ownership_will be brought together in two meetings, one in the north and one in the south, at which time plans rvi I be formulated for an own-your-own-home progra*. Factors which operate to the disadvantage of thi home owner will be studied and remedial action ploposed. Members of this Committee in,clude: George M. - Eason, Los Angeles; $ow.ard Wilson, Beverly Hitts; J. Curtis Hines, Santa Monica; H. V. Ketcherside, Long Beach; Peter B. Beissel, Santa Ana; N. L. Levering, San Bernardino; Harolcl 13. Starkey, San Diego; Harold A. Noble, Stockton ; G. Vanderende, Perkeley; Lester Miller, San Jose and Peter B. Stumpf, San Fran,cisco.

/ntgh-Boardman

The -mariiiige_of Miss Kate Salisbury Boardman, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Danforth Boaidman. of San Frincisco, to William Henshaw Nigh, of San Francisco, took place on Thursday evening, October 9, at the home of the bride's parents.

The. young couple left immediately after the wedding reception for a honeymoon tour of the Eastern States, and on their return will make their home in San Francisco.

Mr. Nigh is assistant sales manager of the McCloud River Lumber Co., San Francisco.

BENJ. OSLIND VISTTS SOUTHERN CALTF.ORNTA

Benj. Oslind, Oslind Furniture Inc., Marshfield, Oregon, was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent a lew days on lusiness. While in Los Angeles, he wis a visitor at the offices of the California Panel & Veneer Co.. who represent his firm iq the Southern California territory.