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By Jack Dionne

Ag" not guaranteed---Some I have told (or 20 years---Some less

Surely Not

The panhandler "Boss" he said, and five cents to stopp€d the gentleman on the "how about giving me twenty buy me a cup o'f coffee?" corner. "What in the devil are you talking about?" r^rr-__ the curious citizen. "A cup of coffee only costs dollars "r know," replied the bum, "but you wotrldn't to go into a restaurant dressed like this, would

National Forest Changes Announced

One new forest has just been added to the national forest system and another has been divided among two other neighboring forests by Presidential Proclamation, the F'orest Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture reports.

The 1.365.0@ acres in the Lemhi National Forest in Idaho rvere transferred partly to the Salmon National Forest and partly to the Challis National Forest, both of rvhich are in Idaho.

The nerv National Forest is the Manistee in Michigan, rvhich previously had been designated as a purchase unit. X[ore than a million acres are included within its boundaries, althougl-r only 263,736 acres are norv orvned, or itt process of being purchased,-by the Federai government.

The X{anistee contains an area lvhich once was the lumbering capital of the Middle West, but approximately 800,00O acres are norv in need of replanting' The Forest Service reports that S]ffi acres have been replanted with rvhite, red and jack pine and enough seerllings have been lrroduced in the nursery to plant 14,720 acres during the coming year.

Net area of the 158 National Forests of the United States is now over 173.000,000 acres.

November lssue o( ttHornett

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Containing several interesting small home designs but not losing sight of the Thanksgiving motif, HOI\'IE magazine for November featured two stories of popular interest. C)ne told the history connected with the building of the Washington Monument, and the other, carrying out the "'turkey day" tlleme, described how to beautify the dining room by attractive use of u,ood paneling and cnpboarcls. There is an interesting short article on the various irritants home olvners invariably come across in their houses, ar.rd a story entitled "Smart People Always lluilcl Refore the Boom Starts."

Home Odclities, Home Workshop and Nlovie ltevr'eu' pages are again found in this issue.

Tour East

John I)eats, Deats Sash & I\f rs. Deats, report a \:ery tl.rrough tl.re E,ast ar.rd South 10,000 miles. They 'rvent as

And South

Door Co., Los Angeles, and interesting auton.robile tour in which they travelecl about far east as the state of IVIaine.

Visits Arizona

Frank Curran, Frank Curran Luml>er Co.. Sar.rta t\na. t'ecently spent several days in Arizona.

Protest Invasion of Low-Cost Housing Fleld by New Federal-Fostered Building Programs

Washington, D. C., November lG-Aclding its protest to the growing list of opponents to the recently proposed plans for invasion of the intermediate low'cost housing field by new federally-fostered home financing and building programs, the National Retail Lurnber Dealers Association today drew the Administration's attention to the activities of this and similar organizations in the construction industry to meet the needs o{ families able to pay from $5 to $10 per month per room for housing.

"In a statement made public here today, Frank Carnahan, secretary of the lumber and building materials dealers' organization, emphasized that private snlqrprise already .n,as actively and successfully exploring this field, r,vith thonsands of homes built under auspices of local retailers over the past several years.

"In collaboration rvith the National Lumber l\fanufacturers Association and leading tracle associations in the construction inclustry, the lumber and building material dealers throughout the United States have for years been u'orking rvith small architects in clevising modern, rvellplanned and soundly constructecl houses, designed to sell u'ithin the very price range in which President Roosevelt intimated recently that a need exists.

"Since 1936, the building n.raterial dealers have been sponsoring jointly with the mannfacturers a National Small Homes Demonstration, encouraging the building of thousands of exhibition houses annually, from which countless others are sold in communities throughout the country. These houses rvere carefully designed by housing ex1>erts to sell for $20 to $25 per month, and they range in size from four to six roolns. The average over-all selling price ranged from $3.165 to $3,858. Ancl the homes l\'ere givell approval by the Fecleral Housing Administration for financing under the mutual mortgage insurance plan.

"'With this kind of housing already available to farnilies in the intermediate lorv income groups, ar.rd the financing structure for their purchase alreacly set up in the Federal Housing Administration." Carnahan further emphasized, "it is the firm belief of those in the industry that there is no need for further machinery to expedite housing in tl-ris field. The only need appears to be for broaclening of thc promotional activities of FHA and other federal agencies to acquaint the public with rnethods already existent through which home ownership is so easily attainable, supplied by private industry u'itl-r governrnental assistance."

Mr. Carnahan further expressed the vierv that housing plans rvhich conterr-rplate the creating of multiple housing rleveloprnents municipaily owned and tax exempt are econonricalll' unsouncl.

"Such projects," he asserted, "place an unfair tax load on property owners in communities where they are built, especially rvhen they are built in competition rvitl-r private property investments u'hich are paying taxes, supporting the educational systems, public irnprovements and municiual {unctions."

Lumbermen Disappointed in New BritishAmerican Trade Agreement

Washington, Nov. lB.-"Preferential tariffs still deny American lumber a fair chance to compete for the British markets," said Wilsor.r Compton, secretary and rnanager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, today, in voicing the general disapproval of American lumbermen of the lumber provisions in the newly announced BritishArnerican trade agreement.

NIr. Compton said:

"Our major industry interest in these agreements has been in the termination of the tariff discriminations against our lurnber and tirlber products in the British markets. \\re had hoped that the United States Government would cleal conclusively rvith this vital problem and we regret that it has not done so. The lurnber concessions in the agreernent urith Great Britain are a gesture in that direction, but no rnore. We are greatly disappointed. We continue to hope for more 'effective concessions in other British countries. Our industry is in critical need of restoration of its export trading. It seeks'at least an equal chance to compete in those markets like Great Britain, in rvhich a fair chance is now denied by the preferential tariff. We <lo not doubt the broad national economic, political and social benefits of the reciprocal trade agreements. The timber industries and those dependent on them for livelihood will share in those general benefits. But this may rrot obscure the fact of the co,ntinued subordination of their trade interests nor the fact that these industries so far have been called upon to pay a large share of the costs hrrt have had an exceedingly small share of the direct benefits of reciorocitv."