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Former city manager to head NAHB community facilities unit
After a five-month search for the right man, NAHB named Frederick E. Wagner,
43, city manager of Pleasant Ridge, Mich, (pop. 3,598) as head of its new community facilities division.
His job will be to help builders cope with increasing local requirements for items like sewer and water mains, wider streets and schools.
Wagner, who will take over July 16, holds a BS in civil engineering and law and a master's degree in public administration. He is a onetime administrative assistant in Grand Rapids, Mich, and a former city manager of Roseville, Mich.
J. F. Moore resigns as secretary of Home Loan Bank Board
While top politicos scratched around to find a successor for Walter W. McAllister,
whose resignation has been accepted as chairman of the Home Loan Bank Board, J. Francis Moore resigned as board secretary. He will become vice president of the Savings & Loan Foundation, nonprofit cooperative which promotes thrift and home ownership. Moore had been with the HLBB since 1934 and secretary since 1939. Harry W. Caulsen, assistant board secretary since 1934, was named to succeed him.
As successor to McAllister, the man most prominently mentioned was John R. B. Byers, Newark, NJ. certified public accountant who has specialized in the savings and loan field. He recently served on a US Savings & Loan League advisory committee to draft a new accounting guide for the industry, has taught for the American S&L Institute. McAllister, HLBB chairman since 1953, wants to return to Texas.
Lumberman Cy Sweet named to bigger job at FHA
Cyrus B. Sweet, former president of the Natl. Retail Lumber Dealers Assn, who has been assistant FHA commissioner for Title I repair loans since August 1954, became FHA's assistant commissioner for operations. He replaced Charles S. Mattoon, who has been ailing for three months and whose post Sweet had been filling temporarily since March.
Sweet is a former vice president and general manager of Valley Lumber Co. of Fresno, Calif, and one time vice president of First Federal S&L Assn, in Longview, Wash., where he was also western division manager of Longbell Lumber Co.
NAMED: Clyde E. Weed, 65, vice president in charge of operations since 1952, as president of The Anaconda Co., a leading world producer of nonferrous metals and uranium, succeeding the retiring Robert E. Dwyer; exec, vice pres. R. Edwin Moore, as president of Bell & Gossett Co. of Morton Grove, 111., makers of hot water heating equipment, succeeding Earl J. Gossett, who continues as board chairman; President Joseph Grazier of American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp., as a director of Johns-
Manville Corp.; Malcolm Meyer, president of Certain-teed Products Corp., as chairman of the Asphalt Roofing Industry Bureau.
Howard Evans, urban renewal aide, leaves housing field
S. Howard Evans, right hand man to Urban Renewal Commissioner James Follin for the last two years, quit HHFA last month to become president of a new company formed to exploit a patented device said to preserve all kinds of fluids indefinitely without refrigeration. As director of URA's urban renewal service, Evans, 53, prepared material for a field staff of 100 persons trying to explain the complexities of renewal procedures to cities struggling to take advantage of federal renewal aid. He has also presided over URA's $5 million Sec. 314 demonstration program through which the government hopes to show cities the detailed specifics of urban renewal and its benefits.
Lanky, red-haired Howard Evans was born in Rome, N.Y. and, after studying city management at Colgate and Syracuse Universities, he went into public administration. He was an instructor in municipal government at Syracuse, then secretary to the mayor of Syracuse. During World War II, as head of the War Production Board's government requirements division, Evans was one of the men responsible for putting steel in copper pennies. From 1945 to 1950 he was president of the Evans Machinery and Equipment Co. in Philadelphia, then joined HHFA.
Some home shows have been laying eggs this season. More and more have been degenerating into appliance shows where the product builders must sell complete houses are all but lost in a carnival of vibrator chairs, cheap china and better paring knives.
Houston home builders have just scored a solid hit by tying their home show and parade of homes together physically.
They put a 300' long arcade of 60 exhibitors' booths inside a circus tent, made it the only passageway to and from a parade of homes on adjacent lots in a subdivision being developed by Fred McManis. He donated the
Like many another toiler in the field, Evans has chafed for months at the frustrating red tape and official timidity which has kept urban renewal to a turtle pace.
In his new job, he will be president of Industrial Processes Co. Inc. and treasurer of Daveat Milk Process Co., with offices in Washington.
Omaha urban renewal director quits, raps slow progress
Joseph F. Mangiamele director of urban renewal in Omaha, decided to quit Sept. 1 to become an assistant to Glenn Beyer, director of Cornell University's famed housing research center.
His main reason: frustration at Omaha's flabby, ineffective gestures toward housing rehabilitation.
The city has been at it three years now. Originally, at the urging of the Omaha World-Herald and the Omaha real estate board, the city conducted a pilot rehabilitation program in a two-block area. Twenty-two homes were improved. Two years ago, the office of neighborhood conservation was established to promote voluntary rehabilitation. Mangiamele, 34, who has a master's degree in economics and had spent four years in Omaha's city planning department, was named head of it.
Last December, the city council abolished the conservation office and named Mangiamele as $4,750-a-year urban renewal director. But the office was part of the building department, its budget part of the building budget. Some building officials looked askance at urban renewal, resented its demands on their public monies. Mangiamele was able to make two surveys, and to persuade building officials to condemn a few dilapidated structures.
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lots to the Houston HBA, which sold them to participating builders, used these proceeds to help swing a $50,000 budget. A record 108,000 Houstonians paid 25⅜ apiece to see the week-long display. It took 23 cops to handle the 30,000 crowd on closing day.
Closed circuit color TV, beamed to the 31 model houses, from 6 to 10 pm daily, helped create interest. So did a $24,000 giveaway house a shed-roofed, brick model (see photo) designed by Architects James Karl Dunaway and Williams Paul Jones. Before the show closed, 18 of the models were sold. Prices: $15,000 to $22,000.
Houston makes home show entrance to parade of homes