The California Lumber Merchant - January 1935

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BACK FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

Ted Lawrence, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and B. W. Bookstaver, manager of the company's San Francisco office, arrived in San Fran,cisco December 2l from a two weeks' business trip during which they called on all the firm's mill connections in Washington and Oregon. They made the trip by automobile.

CALLS ON ARIZONA TRADE

Charles P. Henry, Chas. R. M,cCormick Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a week's trip to Arizona. Accompanied by L. R. Chadbourne of Phoenix, the company's Arizona representative, they called on the retail lumber trade.

RETURNS FROM TRIP TO ST. LOUIS

F. P. Sappington, El Monte retailer, has returned from a t'rip to St. Louis. St. Louis is Mr. Sappington's former horne where he practiced medicine before coming to California. He established his yard at El Monte in 1904. Mrs. Sappington accompanied him on the trip.

CARL MOO,RE VISITS NORTHWEST

Carl R. Moore, Moore Mill & Lumber Co, San Francisco, returned December 22 from a week's trip to the Northwest. He spent some time at the company's mill in Bandon, Ore., and also visited Portland, making the journey by automobile.

T. V. LARSQN VISITS WASHINGiON

T. V. Larson, Forcia & Larson, Noti, Oregon, attended the Lumber Code hearing that began in Was'trin$ton on December 11, as a member of a committee representing Willamette Valley sawmills.

Mr. Larson was recently in California, when he called on a number of Northern California lumb€r dealers in comrl pany with Mark D. Campbell and Jimmy Atkinson of the Chas. R. McCormi'ck Lumber Co.

VISITS SOUTHERN CALIFONNTE

Henry M. Hink, sales manager, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co.; San Francisco, returned December 19 from a business trip to Southern California, where he found the lumber dealers more optimistic than for some time past.

FRANK TUTTI VISITS LOS ANGELES

Frank Tutt, manager of the Jerome Lumbep Co,, Jelorne, Ariz., was a re,cent Los Angeles visitor where he'ipent .qeveral days on a combined business and pleasure trip...

VISITS HOME IN EAST

Art Wahl, of the sales department of the Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, lefi .December 14 to pay a visit to his home in Pennsylvania.

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'Advettirements appeaa ia alternate i*ue.

Abcrdeen Plywood Co---------

Apcieted Lumber Mutuab------------------ t

Brrtgr, J. H. & Co.----------------------------------..-- 9 ' Boolrtrvcr.Butnr Lumber Co.-----------------------21

Eootf,-Kelly Lunbcr Co.----------------------------11

Edce & lfowerd Truc&ing Co.--------------.----*

Btoo&nire, Inc.-------------- -----25

Cdifomie Builderr Suppty C,o. -----------------. *

Cdifornie Pracl & Veneer Co.-----------.----------21

Redwood Arrociation--------------I.B.C.

C,rllfornia Vholerale Lumber Arcn.----------I.8.C.

Cclotcr Company, The.-------------------------------------1 I

Ctenbedin & C,o., W. R--------.-:-------------13

Cooper Lurnber Co., W. 8.,-------..-------- --------21

dlb*t & Canon llrnber Co.----------------------2r

HilI Eg Mortqn, Inc.------------------------------------12

Hogan Lu-bet Co.----------------------- -------------13

Holmes Eure&a Lumber Co. -- ---..------------21

Ffoover, A. L.------------ ----------,21

Kingrley Company, The Koehl & Sonc, fnc., Jno. W.---------------------.---2t

Laughlin, C. J.- ___-_-_______---_21

Lawrence-Philips Lurnber Co.----------=--- --------21

Loop Lumber Company----- ---..-------.-- ---- -21

Lumbermen'r Credit Arcociation---------------------*

McCormick Lumber Co., Clar. R. ------- ------17

MacDonald & Bergrcom, fnc. ----------------------21

MacDonald & Flarrington, Ltd..------------------21

Moore Mill & Lumbet Cg.---'-----------------23

Mulligen & Co, \ff. J. ---------------------21

Patten.Blinn Lumtier Co.--_-____1_1__*: ____:__-. 12. Pioneer-Flint&ote Co.-----------------_--..----I.F.C.

Red River Lunber Co--_---..-_-____-i-O.B.CReilly Tar & Ctenical Corp.----___ -__'l

Schafer Bror. Lumbet & Shingle Co.--:----____-21

Santa Fe Lumber C,o. --------..---- -- ----------- 7

Stanton & Sonq E. J. -------------- --------------.----:O

Strable Hai:dwood Co.----------*--=---._---2f

Sudden & Chrirtencon----:-----,---..---- ---J.B.C.

Union Lumber C,o ___ tt

Van Argdale-Harric Lbr. Co., firc.----_---------21

Wendling-Nathan Co..----------- .;- --- -21

Veyerhaeucer Salec.C,ompany-------j- -',,i1

Wheeler Orgood Saler Corp.-:----.- ---_---:_-O.F.G

Williams Tructing Co. -- ----- --------.-----Ze 'Ivood L"-b6i to., E. R.------.....,,.-.-.--- r

THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCTLANT JackDionne.funrchm

Minimum Prices Under Lumber and Timber Products Code are Suspended

National Industrial Recovery Board Terminates Long ControverryOther Code Provisions to be

Washington, Dec. 22-The National Industrial Recovery Board this afternoon ordered the immediate suspension of all of its orders establishing minimum prices under the Lumber Code. The order follows a long agitation of the price question and a hearing by the Board on December 11-13, 1934, following an application of the West Coast Logging and Lumber Division and some other administrative units for the suspension of prices in their jurisdiction. The Board found that prices should be suspended in those Divisions, and that the interrelation of the industry is such as to require suspension of all other prices under the Code.

Major David T. Mason, executive offrcer of the Code Authority, authorized the following statement:

"Pri'ces are out of the Lumber Code but that does not mean that the Lumber Code is washed up. Today the National Industrial Recovery Board ordered the suspension of ininimum prices under the Lumber Code, effective immediately, but in the same Order emphasized reliance on production control as a stabilizing fa,ctor, and in addition provided for the study of costs and prices, with the object of taking steps to deal with destructive price'cutting if and to the extent that the practice develops in the industry.

"Our Code as originally approved by the President substantially shortened hours and greatly increased wages in our industries. To protect working capital in order to be able to pay the increased wages and to meet other in'creased expense due to shortened hours and the,conservation features under our Code,the President authorized two measures of prime importance. These measures were production control, to balance supply with demand, to prevent destru,ctive over produ,ction, and price control at levels below full cost but sufficient to return out of pocket expense. Unfortunately failure to include the wholesalers under the Code, failure to promptly prosecute code violators in the early stages of code operation, and later conflicting decisions in the lower Federal ,courts, led to serious impairment of the price stru,cture in some Divisions.

"Testirnony at a public hearing in Washington on De-

as Essential

cember ll, 12 and 13 showed a serious breakdown of prices in a few of the more important Divisions. While the maintenance of price control was advo,cated for most of the Divisions at this public hearing, the NRA Board on the basis of the evidence presented has by today's order determined that it is impracticable to maintain prices in some of the major divisions and that if prices are not maintained in these divisions, it is not practicable to maintain them in the other divisions of the industry. There{ore, the'Order eliminates prices in all divisions of the industry but indicates that production ,control must bear the brunt of stabilizing the industry. The Order also provides for investigation of costs and prices with the object of observing destructive price cutting, if it develops, and of taking steps to prevent it in,case it does develop.

"The action of the Board eliminating prices is regarded as'clearing up an impossible situation in some divisions and at the same time it brings a bitter disappointment to other divisions. While this acti'on undoubtedly will create serious disturbance in the industry as a whole, every effort will be made by the leaders of the industry to minimize the difficulties and to restore order as promptly 'as practicable. NRA has already taken steps, for all codes, designed to bring vigorous prosecution of hour and wage violations; at the same time we expect vigorous support from NRA in maintaining production control.

"The industry is in rough water but it will weather the storm."

The operative part of the National Industrial Recovery Board order, after calling attention to the fact that Article ., VIII of the Lumber Code, which provides for the control of production, is still in full force and effect, ,concludes as follows:

1. That Administrative Orders Nos. 9-46 and 9-58, dated July 16 and July 25, 1934, respectively, and all Administrative Orders supplementary thereto be and they hereby are suspended;

2. That the Research and Planning Division be and

hereby is directed to study the prices at whi'ch lumber and timbei products are sold or ofiered for sale and to advise the National Industrial Recovery Board whenever said di vision determines that destructive price-cutting exists as to any item of said products; and

3. That, subject to the provisions of Article IX of said Code, this order may be stayed as to said reasonable costs of any item or items of said products and the rules and regulations for their application, whenever the National Induitrial Recovery Board finds that destructive price-cutting exists with respect to said item or items.

SUSPENSION OF MINIMUM PRICES DIOES NOT APPLY TO RETAIL LUMBER CODE

The immediate suspension of minimum prices under the Lumber and Timber Products Industries Code which was ordered by the National Industrial Recovery Board on December 22,1934, does not apply to the Retail Lumber Code.

The Lumber and Allied Products Institute of Los Angeles in an Association bulletin sent to its members on December24in referring to the suspension of minimum prices under the Lumber and Timber Products Code by the National Industrial Recovery Board pointed out that-"The decision does not apply to the Retail Lumber Code, it applies only to the manufacturers' code. The cost recovery provisions and all other provisions of the Retail Lumber Code are just as they were."

Achilles' Heel

made him vulnerable to mortal attack. It would have been a Iife-saver if that one spot could have been protected.

Vulnerability to attack bY drY rot, termites and decaY is the Achilles' Heel of the otherwise perfect structural materialWOODbut lumber Pressuretreated with REITLY TRANSPARENT PENETRATTNG

CREOSOTE has been rendered invulnerable to attack from lbdflyf4i*emies.f$

Redwood Program Packs Punch

Unusual interest is being taken by retail lumbermen in "Redwood Reveries," the radio campaign being sponsored by california Redwood Association in the interest of better built homes.

The reason? Because this is a campaign that has a "hook" in it which actually brings prospects and customers into the retail yard.

During each weekly broadcast a prize of $25 worth of California Redwood is offered free to the person who writes the best letter telling how he or she intends to use Redwood either in building a new home or in modernizing and improving an old home'or garden.

The campaign has the dual purpose of helping to get a share of the modernization money flowing into retail lumber channels and at the same time making people realize the desirability of using durable Redwood for all vital spots in the home and in garden equiPment'

In addition to the $25 redwood ptize, the ten persons who have written the next best letters are sent a $1 credit certificate, good at any retail lumber yard, to encourage them to carry out their building project.

The entertainment on "Redwood Reveries" 'consists of vocal selections of hearthfire songs, with Paul Carson at the organ.

The broadcast takes place each Tuesday night at 7:30 over KGO.

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V.sabond Editoriafs

Bv Jack Dionne

'Here is ihe most appreciated New year's present I re_ ceived. It is an excerpt from a letter written by a well known retail lumbennan named Will Cavin away off in Sturgis, Michigan, on the subject of my December 15th Vagabond Editorial. He says: ,.ft ls doubtful if you ever wrote a finer thing than your last Vagabond Editorial. Would that I had command of the English language to do Something at least once in my life as fine as your last Vaga"pond. You have given me encouragement. I have heard your editorial spoken of repeatedly in our organization dur_ ing the last few days. I hope it pleased everyone and rneant.as much to everyone else as it did to us. In thanking you for this wonderful bit of inspiration f want to also wisii you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.,,

, Now isn't such a letter full repayment for all the disappointments of the year? To me it surely IS. And it starts e" p{ on my New Year'5 journey over the Vagabond route with a much lighter heart, and filled with the determination and hope that sometime during the year to come I will be bbie to-writ€ something else good enough to draw such fine jpraise from men,of worth and usefulness. I had a whole :iaft of fine letters concerning that Christmas editorial, but ,tt u o"" from my friend in Michigan I really got a great thrill out of.

t,*'*{t ,i I'- B-oiqg to start the New year right by doing very ,fittle profhecfing.' What 'saith the Good Book, that a ,firophet is. not without honor save in his own country?

;MayUe thit's'wiiy the finesi afpreciation of my Christmas icditorial came from far away? Anyway, the past five years ,have helped teach plenty of prophets that prophecying is dangerous. Only very recently have I allowed myself in ,pJr nublic speeches to' do: any prophecying of any char.acter except,thg 5n9gt generpl. I HAVE felt recently that .ft was safe to do a little optimistic predicting, and I have 'indulged myself stigtrtty iir some word picture painting of petter t\ings. just ahead. i.,**{.

:; And I therefore venture the opinion now that 1935 is 'going to be a better year than any in the last five; and it rvould not surprise me at all if it proved to be better for the :turnliorbusiness than.any in the last TEN. Because it ,Wouldn't have, to. be so very hot to surpass anything the Iumber industry tias known since 1925. The lumber indus_ ltry was slumping TIIEN, and the market crash of the fall

of.'29 only accelerated the troubles of the lumber industry. ,!S{.*

IF this proves to be the year when relaxed credit and various other accelerants get thdir grip on tfie building in_ dustry-then look out for a honey. I say IF this proves to be that year. I refuse to prophecy far enough to declare that this WILL be that momentous year. But if you will go out behind the smokehouse with me and promise on your word of honor you won't tell, I'll whisper in your shell-like ear that right down deep in my heart f am convinced that this WILL BE THAT YEAR. But that's on the Q.T. see, and NOT for open prophecying. t3*{.

When things are anything like NORMAL, peopte build. That is just as fundamental as it is that they eat, {rink, and wear clothes. They DO build. When for a single season people cease their building, they pile up an accumulation of building that must be done later. And when they fail to do their normal buitding for an entire year; a very definite and imposing building vacuum is created that must later on be added to the norrnal volume of that later time. rl. !F *

Picture then, if you can, what happens when year aftcr year passes with practically no building. Add that to an almost complete lack of REPAIRING, REMODELING, IMPROVING of all building character such as is normally done by one hundred and twenty-five millions of pcople, for year after year and year after year, and what have you? An accumulation that staggers the imagination. you cannot look around you, take inventory of this great lack, and translate it into figures. Such inventory is utterly hopeless and impossible. But the vacuum is there, and its total is the grand total of all the building that should have been done through those years of building famine, and donrt you doubt it. And when this nation comes forth from its building huddle, and from its long period of building do-nothingness, and begins to fill in the gaps-look out ! rrt*

There is really every reason why that should happen THIS year. There is the great NEED for buildings and building improvements; there is the growing governmental determination that a great building program can and WILL strike sledge-hammer blows at the very roots of the depression; there is the ever-growing pile of private capi. tal still unused and unemployed that could so naturalry take this building credit route; and there is the irnproved mordre

HAPPY NEWYEAR

SI]ITA FE IU]|IBER Gl|.

Incotlcered FGb. la' lgot Ercturivc Rcptrotetivr ia Notthcn Cdiforair for Crco-Dipt Conpeay, Inc., North Tonawrnda, N. Y.

F. S. PALMER, Msa Califomb Ponderora Pinc C-alifornb Su$r Pinc

of the nation which says to the would-be builder "Do it now," and to the would-be-lender "This is the time."

Someone asked Jesse Jones the other day when he thought the depression would be entirely over, and he replied that we would never realize the fact at that particular time; but that at some future date we would be able to look back and discover that it had dissolved into the nothingness from whence it came. There is much sound reason to believe that at this time next year we witl be able to cast backward glances and truthfully say: "The depression left sometime during the past year; we don't know exactly when, but it's gone." What a Christmas present that will be!

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311 Financi'l Center Bldg. 7O4 So. Spring St. - VAndyke M7l

The last week of the old year has given the lumber industry something big and explosive to talk about; something that has set it all agog for the time being. I speak of the elimination of price fixation by the Lumber Code Authority from all divisions and subdivisions of that Authority. Remember, the Lumber Code Authority covers the lumber producing industry, and that the retail end of the business is separate and diitinct, and this announcement of terminating price fixing for the manufacturing industry, does NOT cover the retail end of the business. How the retail end can continue price fixation without fixed wholesale prices for a foundation, is too big for me to tackle right now. Watch the news departments for developments along that line.

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Vagabond Editorials

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No such startling piece of news has come to the lumber industry since the announcement in the summer of 1933 that there would be a lumber Code. And this announcement eliminates from the lumber Code the biggest bone of contention connected with codifying the industry. "\ll/hat will the immediate effect be?" "FIow will it affect lumber sales and demand?" "What will happen to prices?" These and various other pertinent questions are on every lip, and the entire industry goes into the early days of the New Year with eyes and ears concentrated on the whats, whys, wheres, and whens that naturally follow this great change.

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Price fixing was doomed from the beginning, because it could only operate so far as it was voluntary. The idea of enforcing such a provision was never intelligent. I said that in this column at the time it began, and have been saying so ever since. And, knowing the lumber industry as I do, I never had.the faintest conception that it would be voluntarily entered into by anything like ALL the producers of lumber. And, again, since nothing less than maximum participation could possibly solve the problem, I have never had faith in its usefulness.

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Now it is discarded, and we shall see what the reaction will be. In this regard I decline to predict results. Had it happened several months ago, the result would have had dire effects that can hardly be anticipated today. Today we have gotten rid of large surpluses of lumber in all parts of the country, and there is much less reason to fear a drastic slump in lumber prices than there would have been last summer.

There are those *nr ;";"a.an"a as soon as the first shock of price fixing elimination is over and the law of supply and demand again takes charge of the situation, lumber prices will seek a natural level that will be decidedly healthful. Surplus items will drop, and in dropping may find a level at which they will move more freely. Scarce items are very likely to rise. There can be no doubt but that fixing a price minimum automatically fixes a maximum also. It just naturally works that way. People never pay more for things than the price shown in the catalogue. So the fixing of lumber prices have undoubtedly in many instances reduced the market prices of those items. The case of Southern export lumber is one in point. The establishment of a minimum considerably below the market

price prevailing at that time immediately brought the maximum down to the minimum level.

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Somehow I don't believe there is going to be any hurtful shock immediately following the cancelling of minirnum prices. I am more inclined to think that within a very short time things will adjust themselves, and that the lumber situation will be materially helped and strengthened by the change. If nothing else, termination of the continual news stories going out from Washington that fixing lumber prices too high has killed the public interest in building, will be helpful.

Yes sir, I think this big and sudden change that comes to this industry just at the inception of the New Year is going to bring a return of health and happiness to the lumber industry and to the lumber people I think everything is pointing that way, anyway. And I think we should show our faith by getting ready for it. Let us not be like the congregation of people in the old days who gathered together one Sunday during a drouth for the particular purpose of praying for rain. One of the leaders of the congregation looked into their earnest faces and said to one of his colleagugs-"Jhsss people look like they have the faith needed to perform this miracle." And the other replied"Yes, they do, but f notice none of them have brought their umbrellas."

It would be a good arrl"r-r", this lumber industry to "bring their umbrellas," and not only look but act as though this industry were going to get well. And if they WORK likewise, it will be helpful. We have many stout tools to work with that we did not have a year ago. There are innumerable conditions that lend us intelligent optimism. There are millions of people who need new homes. There are added millions living in obsolete homes. Practically all homes and other such buildings are badly in need of repair. The entire country is in need of paint, and of various other sidelines that the lumber industry sells along with its own product. There is money galore in this country to build with. And there is a tremendous urge right now to get this building going.

Is there any doubt but that when I say "Happy New Year" to the lumber industry, I am prophecying great and good things that can reasonably be expected to come?

East B.y Hoo Hoo Distributes 400 Food Kegs to Needy

Breaking their previous record by 50 kegs, Hoo Hoo Club No. 29, Oakland, distributed 400 kegs of groceries at Christmas to needy famiiies of the East Bay district. Distribution was made as in previous years by the Salvation Army.

The committee in charge of the work of getting the subscriptions for the kegs and filling them was as follows:

Miland Grant, chairman, Henry M. Hink, Earle Johnson, C. I. Gilbert, Joe Todd, G. F. Bonnington, Larue Woodson and Gordon Pierce.

With MacDonald & Bergstrom

L. A. "Beck" Beckstrom is now connected with MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc., of Los Angeles and will call on the retail lumber trade in the Los Angeles district. "Beck" has been associated with the wholesale lumber business in Los Angeles for about fifteen years and is well know-n to the trade in that territory. He was formerly with Patten-Blinn Lumber Co.

LUMBER SECRETARIES MEET

The secretaries of the various lumber groups in Southern California held a dinner meeting at the Rosslyn Hotel, Los Angeles, Friday evening, December 14.

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Treated and Stocked at Our Southern California Plant for fmmediate Delivery to Lumber Dealers.

Buy "BAXCO" for Service

a Prompt shipments from our complete stocks.

r Quick pick-ups from local stocks of jobbing yardc.

o Exchange service-dealertc untreated lumber for our cteosoted stock plus charge for treating.

o Treating dealerts own lumber-mill shipments to our dock or truck lots from dealerto yard.

Announces New Typ" of Plywood

Wuest, president of the Harbor Plywood Corporation. In one test, he explains, a panel rvas boiled seven hours a day for fifteen consecutive days, letting the water cool between boilings, but keeping the plywood in the water. Other tests included boiling panels for seven hours, then redrying them and repeating this every day for fifty hours of boiling; also soaking panels continuously in water for several months. In none of these tests, it is declared, have there been any failure of the binder.

"The new panels are distinguished by their unusual lightness, due to low moisture content and their satin-smoothness of surface, resulting from the hot-pressing process. Looking at the edge of a panel of super plywood, it is practically impossible to perceive any evidence of the adhesive, the plies of wood seeming to fit smoothly together.

"Because of the unusually low moisture content, the new panels are lighter in weight and consequently easier to handle and less costly to transport. This low moisture content also greatly redu,ces grain raising, warping, checking and shrinking.

"One important advantage also claimed for the panels made rvith the Nevin resin binder is its resistance to the attacks of insects or molds and fungi. Panels made by this process are also found to have a greater resistance to fire than ordinary plywood.

As the result of months of research and experimentation, the Harbor Plywood Corporation, rated among the largest manufacturers and distributors of plywood in the United States, has announced the perfe'ction of a new type of plywood. "It is claimed", according to officials of the company, "that the new panels differ so radically from former types of laminated wood that they are in an entirely new class, especially when it comes to outdoor construction.

"This new material, which is called super plywood by the manufacturer is fabricated by the use of a resin glue, invented by James Nevin, chemical engineer with the organization, and is made under exclusive processes, protected by patent. Where ordinary plywood manufactured by the 'wet'glue process requires about twelve hours under pressure to dry, the new plywood is glued, dried and ready for use in from three to five minutes.

"Up to the point of gluing the process of making super plywood is identical with that of the regular type. The thin sheets of wood are unrolled from the logs, cut to size and the plies placed together in alternating layers with the grain opposed. The Nevin resin binder is applied dry between the plies and each panel is hot-pressed individually between massive heated plates in a gigantic press weighing 350 tons. This press, rvhich is considered the second largest press of any kind in the world, exerts a pressure of 100 tons, and will take panels up to 102 inches in width and of any length required.

"The great advantage claimed for the new product is its resistance to moisture which makes it ideal for all outdoor uses, such as roofs, outdoor signs, sidewalls, etc., opening a field which has been practically closed to plywood.

"The waterproof quality of super plywood has withstood every factory and laboratory test, according to A. R.

"Officials of the Harbor Plywood Corporation are .conrinced that the new plywood is going to prove far superior to former types for many industrial uses, particularly where exposure to moisture is required. They are producing a special form of the super plywood, known as super plycrete for use in concrete form construction. Already in

Iqmes V. Ncain, Ph.D., Ph,C., Chm. Eng., (seconil fron the left) erllains to oficials of the Harbor Plyzaooal Corpmation some of the superior quolities of the Harbonl Super Plwood. At ertref,e left, A. R. I.!/elch, plont nanager, Hoquiam; Mr. Nruin; Hubert F, Wise, secretar5t-treasuter; E, \il, Daniels, vicetresident and sales nanager; A. R. Wuest, President.

Vim of press, espechllxt built to hondle Harbord. Suler Plpooil. Totol ueight of the press, uhich is the second largest in the United States,'is 35O tors; lanel capacity, L02 inches by any reasonable length. I* this viqu, the Qress hns jrst been looded with Plyuootl, alter uhich the llttes or ,lotns ore brorght togethel b! steaft Pressure, the Pon4lr being left in the Press from three to foe,nir.nt.s.

many kinds of concrete construction where smooth surfaces are desired, plywood panels have been used advantageously for form material and the waterproof character of this new material will enable panels to be used over and over again, for many times, without the panels warping or the plies separating."

SELLING FOR INTERIOR FINISH

<nables deders to serve the interior finish market with pr€serrt stoc!<s of Celotex Building Boardthe thtee' purpoce matcrial that builds, inetrlates, decorates-with one investment in one inventory.

Mills of the Harbor Plywood Corporation are located at Grays Harbor and at Olympia, Washington, in the heart of the great Douglas fir region, with a capacity of more than 130,000,000 square feet of plywood per year. Branch oftices are located in Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Washington, D. C.

The company's representatives in California are C. W. Buckner, California sales representative with headquarters in San Francisco, and J. C. McCloskey of Los Angeles, Southern California representative. They recently returned from Hoquiam, Wash., where they attended the annual sales conference of the company, and. report that their organization is making extensive plans for the production and marketing of the new product.

But to aosure Celotex dealers the oppor' tunity of sewing every phase of the in' terior Gnish market, Celotex offers-

A complete line of Celotex Tile Board and Celotex Finish Plank in E colors and finishes{elotex Mold' ings and Friezes in t4 desirable widths and patterns-Celoter< Otna' ments and Medallions in 9 attractive designs.

The scope and completeness of the line make pocsible a great variety of efiecs and measurably increase the urefulness and appeal of Celotex as an interior finish.

Ask your Celotex reprcsentative. He will gladly assist you in developing t{re larget Celotex market.

Rernernber -No ot{rer insulating build' ing material ofiets your customers all the advantages Celotex aaEures. All Celotex Cane Fibre Products are manufactured under the Fetox Process (patented) and therefore efiectively resist damage bY Fungas Growth, Dry Rot and Termites (White Aots).

C. V. Buckner I. C. McCloslcey

MY FAVORITE

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ATimely Correction

Old Noah Webster, in addition to writing the dictionary that bears his name, was in all things a stickler for the correct use of words, and he never failed to call attention to their incorrect use, regardless of conditions or situation. This was well evidenced by the fact that one day his wife

Santa Clara Housing Drive

Up to the middle of December a total of g171,169 had been pledged in Santa Clara's Better Housing Drive for mbdernization and repair, according to James Thacker, campaign manag'er. A re-survey of the city started December 21 to determine to what extent pledges are being carried out, and to make contact with property owners missed in first solicitation.

Honored by National Association

Wendell T. Robie of the Auburn Lumber Company, Auburn, was elected first vice president of the National Ski Association at the annual meeting of that body held in Chicago, December 2.

came home and found Noah kissing the good-looking parlor maid.

"Why, Noah, I'm surprised !" exclaimed his wife.

"You are wrong my dear," said Noah. ,,yOU are AMAZED. f am surprised."

Santa Rosa Starts Drive

Santa Rosa will start its home modernizing campaign soon after the first of the year. Henry Laws, of the Henry Laws Co., Santa Rosa, is the member of the campaign committee representing the lumber business.

Visalia Housing Campaign

Visalia's Better a total of $65,@O erty owners.

Housing Campaign closed recently with pledged for improvements by 163 prop-

New Folder lssued

An attractive folder on the subject of modernizing has been issued recently by the California Redwood Association for distribution by dealers to their prospects for modernization and repair.

A number of befoie and after pi,qtureS df modernized homes shown in the folder should help to create desire in the mind of the prospect for improvement of the old structure, and should help the dealer in following up leads that come from his local Better Housing Campaign.

wish to extend a word of appreciatibn for your busineca in 1934, and to wish you A Prosperous and Happy New Year

Changes in Patten-Blinn Staff

F. W. Chase, who has been manager of the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. yard at San Bernardino, has been transferred to the company's Los Angeles office where he will be connected with their sales department and will represent the company in the Los Angeles district. Before going to San Bernardino, Mr. Chase was 'conne'cted with the L. W. Blinn Lumber Co. for a long period and is well known to the Los Angeles trade.

J. H. Newman, who has been managing the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. yard at Brea succeeds Mr. Chase as manager of their San Bernardino yard. A. W. Larson, who has been connected with the ,company's yard at Alhambra, will manage their yard at Brea.

Hi-Jinks Brings Out Large Crowd

The Lumbermen's Hi-Jinks held at the Hayward Hotel, Los Angeles, on Friday evening, December 14, brought out a big crowd, about 250 being present. The party was sponsored by Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion. Dinner was served at 7:ffi P.M. which was followed by several entertainment numbers.

Attend Anniversary Banquet

Whittier College 'commemorated the l27th birthday anniversary of John Greenleaf Whittier for whom the college was named, with a banquet at the Hotel Vista del Arroyo, Pasadena, December 17, 1934.

Among those who attended the banquet were Mr. and Mrs. Guy Tyler of the Barr Lumber Co., Whittier, who had the following guestS at their table: IVIr. and Mrs. Bill Dempwolf, Johns-Manville Sales Corp., Los Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stark, Hammond Lumber Co., Pasadena; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Holden, Southwestern Portland Cement Co., Los Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rosenberg, Hipolito Co., Los Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. Homer Anderson, Soule Steel Co., Los Angeles; George Blauer, Blue Diamond Corp., Los Angeles, and Miss Sayer; Arthur Twohy, Twohy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and his daughter, Beverly Twohy; Mr. and Mrs. George Morris, California Stucco Co., Los Angeles, and Mr. and Mrs. Bishoff, Paraffine Companies, Los Angeles.

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Lumber Code Authority Fixes Production Quotas For First Quarter of 1935

Less Than ln First Ouarter of 1934

Washington, D. C., Dec. l8.-Establishment of total allowable lumber production and regional produ,ction allotments for the first three months of 1935, approval for submission to NRA of the petition from the Appalachian Group of Manufacturers, now under the jurisdiction of the Appalachian and Southern Hardrvood Subdivision of ttre Hardwood Division, for a separate Appalachian subdivision, and passage of a resolution protesting against government competition with the lumber industry, were the prin'cipal actions taken by the Lumber Code Authority at its special meeting here last week which adjourned on December 15. The meeting on December 10, recessed that day at 3:30 p.m. to allow for full attendance at the three-day NRA public hearing on the minimum cost-protection price issue, and reconvened December 14 following the hearing.

Due to illness, John D. Tennant, chairman of the Authority, was absent from the sessions, Mr. Tennant having been taken to Emergency Hospital in Washington upon his arrival in Washington for attendance at the meeting. C. C. Sheppard, vice-chairman of the Authority and chairman of the National Control Committee, presided in his place.

Lumber Quotas

Although expecting an appreciably increased demand for lumber in the spring and summer, the Authority, in fixing the total allowable lumber ploduction for the first three m,onths of 1935, also kept in mind the need for a better balance between stocks on hand at the mills and the movement of lumber to the trade. The Authority, therefore, settled upon a total first-quarter 1935 output for softwoods and hardwoods lO/o and26/o respectively under the aggregates it allowed a year ago for the first quarter of. 1934.

The following is a comparison of total softwood production allowed for the first quarter of 1935 and that for the same period a year ago, together with the regional allotments established by the Authority:

Total allowed hardwood production for the first quarter of 1935 and regional allotments ,compared with the same period a year ago as follows:

*Represents extra allotments as rewards of merit, allowable under the Lumber Code, to firms placing their timber operations on a sustained yield basis, conforming with the forestry conservation provisions of the Lumber Code.

Lumber Products Quotas

Quotas were established for the timber products groups for th-e first quarter of 1935, and compaie *ith tbS+ as follows:

*Does not include "peeler blocks" not longer than 10 feet or smaller than 36 inches in diameter.

An import quota of 16.4 MM Feet was approved for the Philippine Mahogany Subdivision for a 7 months period from December 1, 1934,to June 3Q 1935.

Six-Month Quotas. for Western Pirie

Acting upon a petition by a group of Western Pine operators for authorization to anticipate in the third quarter production allotments for the fourth quarter, or if that

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Lumber Manufacturers Vote to Reconstitute and Strengthen the National Lumber Manufactu rers Association

Chicago, Dec. 8.-At a three-day session which ended here this afternoon, directors of the National Lumber NIanufacturers Association and other representative lumber manufacturers enthusiastically decided upon the imrriediate reconstitution of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association as a federation of the regional associations of manufacturers. Fourteen associations, including several yet to be organized, although now existing in the shape of Lumber Code Authority administrative agencies, will be gathered together into the most comprehensive and, it is predicted, the most effective organization the American lumber industry has ever had.

The mee,tings, which parti'cipated in the reorganization of the National Association, included during three days a general meeting of the directors and others on Thursday; a meeting of specially designated regional association representatives the same day; an open meeting of the Board of Directors on Friday; a further meeting Friday evening and Saturday morning of the representatives of the regional association; an evening conference to ,consider governmental policies in relation to the forest produ.cts industries; and, finally, an executive meeting of the Board of Directors on Saturday.

There was also a meeting of the Timber Engineering Company in connection with trade promotion.

At all of these meetings the all engrossing subject of the strengthening and extension of the National organization was discussed from many angles and with complete unanimity as to the main objective.

The New Setup

The directors voted to make the financial basis of the renewed federation a fee of llc a th,ousand feet of lumber production, to be levied and colle,cted through the regional associations. The by-laws were amended to provide for a board of 40 directors assigned, (except for directors at large) to the various member associations according approximately to their relative rank in lumber production, with the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the Southern Pine Association being given maxinum representation with six members each, the Western Pine Association five members, and one each for the small groups.

The return of the Southern Pine Association to the National federation was definitely announ,ced and assurances were received from representatives of the other principal regional groups, whether at the moment organized or not, that they will eventually, and probably soon, enter the National Association. The directors adopted a resolution in which the associations were urged to determine their membership in the National at their,coming annual meetings or, at any rate, by the time of the next annual meeting of the National Association, probably in the spring.

The report made by Arthur T. Upson, who is in charge of

the national trade promotion work, was a powerful contributing factor to the enthusiastic accord of the meetings in renewed support of the National Association and the American Forest Products Industries. Some of the lumbermen in the meeting declared that they had never really had an appreciation before of the magnitude and efficiency of the National's work in the fields of research, trade promotion proper, governmental relations, building code work, and public information. It was ,commonlj' commented that if all of the thoughtful lumber manufacturers of the country could hear Mr. IJpson's presentation there would be an immediate response in sympathetic and vigorous membership which would amount to a renaissance of association organization and activity. Mr. Upson was invited by the regional representatives to appear at all of their approaching annual meetings to deliver essentially the same report he made to the group meetings here.

Wilson Comptods Report

The open meeting of the directors on Friday was devoted largely to the annual report of Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager of the N. L. M. A., under the caption "Looking Ahead in the Lumber Industry". In his address Mr. Compton set out the present {-rarnework of the national organization of lumber manufacturers; including the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. American Forest Producis Industries, the Luhte.'Code Authority and the Timber Engineering Company. It was pointed out that the N.L.M.A. had since 1932lost the regional membership of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, the Southern Pine Association and the Hardwood Manufacturers Institute, while the five other existing regional associations had ,continued their membership in the National except for a short period by the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers Association. This breach in the support of the Ass'ociation had been filled to a considerable extent by individual memberships which gave representation to the regional territories. It was evident for a tine that a large number in the industry expected, "although so far as I know none of them desired that the N. L. M. A. would be discontinued. This obviously would have been the result had not a substantial number of manufacturers in each of the principal regions responded to the opportunity to support the National work as individual members or subscribers, pending such improvement in industry conditions as would permit the resumption of organized regional affiliation." There was also the fact that during the period 1932-34, inclusive, the number of con,cerns particularly supporting the National trade extension work had declined from 185 to about 60.

The present direct supporting membership of the National Association was stated by Mr. Compton to be approximately 500 companies, and if the regional associations

formerly belonging to the National were to return the number of individual representations would be increased to 1000.

Important Role of N. L. M. A.

Mr. Compton pointed out that had there been no National Asso,ciation in 1933 there would have been no national ,code for the lumber and timber products industries, no central Code Authority, and instead thereof, a score of separate codes among the competitive divisions of the industry without authoritative correlation, unification or control. It seemed that there was little difierence of opinion with respect of the necessity of continuing active national industry representation in such matters as national legislation, government policies, lumber economics and statistics, taxation, tarifi, transportation, foreign markets and federal policies, "or in such industry protective a'ctivities as building codes, government lumber purchases and specifications and industry publicity and public information; or in such industry promotion as participation in the Federal Housing activities, retail cooperation and publication from time to time of engineering and other basi'c technical information on the specification and use of lumber and timber products."

It was explained that the N. L. M. A. is excl'usively an industry agency of timber owners and manufacturers of lumber and related products and is the parent institution of the national group. American Forest Produ,cts Industries is a specialized agency for cooperative work with related timber produ,cts industries and an agency for the condu,ct at the expense of interested groups or persons of specific promotion and research projects. A. F. P. I. owns

the Timber Engineering Company which is specifically charged with the development of the metal connector system and other construction systems. The Lumber Code Authority was created by the N' L. M. A. and is a separate Delaware corporation whi'ch handles the administration of the lumber and timber produ'cts code.

Regarding finances, it was stated that the National Association had undertaken no financial obligation which it could not pay, and the essential National industry work on the present scale and with the present set-up can be financed. The practical question however, is whether it can be financed in a manner whi'ch will insure to the industry the 'obvious benefits of inter-regional cooperation in the furtherance of common interest.

It was explained that dependence could not be placed upon the Lumber Code Authority as a permanent national organizalion in lieu of the National Association; particularly, as under the law as it stands the Code Authority-a quasi-governmental body-may expire on June 16 and in any event is limited to code administration. Full reconstitution of the National Association as a federation of regional associations was urged. The importance of a National Association not allied with government was stressed in the enumeration of 24 phases of the problems of the industry in relation to the government.

Twenty-four National Problems

These 24 problems which demand effrcient national spokesmanship and negotiation were stated as follows:

1. The future of the National Industrial Recoverv Act (Con'tinued on Page 19)

fnstead of a wish, we give you this prescription for a prosperous 1935, in the form of YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION.

Wtshes for A Prosperous Nlew Year

We appreciate gready your cooperation and goodwill in 1974, and alrsure you that -BIG TIMBER- products will continue to be

THRU LUMBER YARDS''

In oiler that my business wiII be given an even better chance to ptofit throughout 19i5, I resolve to fteeP in closer conlnct with my McCormicft salesman, thereby receiving the benefit of his company's 25 genrs' experience senting the retail lumber trade.

SATIRE

The golf links lie so near the mill, That every toiling day, The working children can look out And see the men at play.

THE NEW STENO

He was engaging a new stenographer, and the conversation went like this:

"Chew gum?" he asked.

"No, sir.tt

"Talk slang?"

t'No, sir.tt

"RolI your eyes at the salesmen?"

ttNo, sir."

"Know how to spell 'cat, and ,dog'?"

"Yes, sir,"

"Ilave lots of phone calls?"

ttNo, sir.tt

He was trying to th:ink of something'else nasty to ask, when suddenly she took a hand, and began popping questions at him:

"Smoke cheap cigars while dictating?',

"\Mhy-er-no," he gasped.

"Raise Hell with the stenographer when things go wrong at home?"

"Cer-tainly not."

"Bang things around on your desk when business is bad?"

ttN-ever.tt

"Raise the roof when an employe gets caught in a traffic jam?"

"No, indeed."

"Know enough to appreciate a good stenographer when you get one?"

"I-f think so."

"All right, you're accepted. go to work?" When do you want me to

A SMILE

No one needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give.

AN ELECTIVE DESPOTISM

"An elective despotism is not the government we fought for, but one founded on free principles, in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced that no one can transcend their legal limits without being checked and restrained by the others."-James Madison.

PAGANINI

He shambled arfkward on the stage, the while Across the waiting audience, swept a smile. With awkward touch when first he drew the bow He snapped a string, the audience tittered low. Another stroke, off flies another string; With laughter now the waiting galleries ring. A third string breaks its quivering strands And hisses gteet the player as he stands. He stands-the while-his genius unbereft-is calm; One string, and Paganini, left. He plays-that one string's daring notes uprise Against that storm as if it sought the skies. A silence falls, the people bow

And they who erst had hissed, are weeping now. And, when the last note, trembling died away, Some shouted 'Bravo'! Some, had learned to pray !

HIS MISTAKE

"The mistake f made," said the olyner of the cheap watch to the jeweler who was looking over the wreck of his timepiece, "was in dropping that watch on the floor."

"No," said the wise jeweler, "the mistake you made was in picking it up."

LEARNING ENGLISH

A Frenchman was relating his experience in trying to learn the English language. ,.When I first discovered that if I was quick I was fast, and that if I was tied I was fast, if I spent too freely I was fast, and that not to eat was to fast-I was discouraged. But when I came across the sentence, 'The first one won one one-dollar prize,' I gave up trying to learn English."-Bramwords.

Vote to Reconstitute and Strengthen N. L. M. A'

2.

3.

(Continued and the industrial code system established under it' The Anti-Trust laws.

The economic policies of the permanent National Recovery Administration promised by the President' What will be Government policy on industrial price and produ,ction controls ? Will natural resource industries be given special consideration?

Will there be and should there be special Federal legislation for the administration of forest industries ,comparable to the proposed legislation on coal, or oil? Minimum weekly or monthly wages in addition to minimum hourly rates; and the "3O-hour week;" Section 7A as a basis of industrial ielations.

7. Federal policy rvith respect to natural resource industries.

8. Pending proposals that forests and forest products industries be classified and treated as public utilities.

9. Proposed direct Federal regulation of timber cutting under Federal powers over taxation and inter-state commerce.

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What will you do if and when the Government asks this industry to increase employment and proposes to guarantee you against loss by reason of so doing?

If the Government asks where in the forest products industries will be the best, or the least objectionable point at which to start new production,-if some trew production is to be started,-what rvill you say?

If the Government undertakes itself to build low-cost houses, farm buildings and subsistence homesteads in an efiort to reduce the costs of building to the consumer. both in costs of distribution of building materials and e{uipment, and in building labor costs, what will you do?

What protection has the lumber industry from discrimination. unintentional or intentional, against lumber buildings in Federal Housing program-either in financing or in standards and specifi'cations?

10. Proposed United States Government establishment and operation of sawmills to supply lumber and timber products for low-cost subsisten'ce homestead and emergen'cy relief housing and employment; and extension of Civilian Conservation Corps to provide loggers, wood and mill workers.

11. Prospective Federal forestry legislation, including provision for forest loans and credits, forest protection, and timber acquisition.

12. What changes will the Government seek in the prevailing methods of timber taxation by the States?

13. To what extent will American markets be opened to foreign lumber by the system of tariff bargains now under way; and to what extent will additional foreign markets be opened up to American labor ?

What will be the position of timber products in the prospective public works program ? and in road and bridge? and now in ship building? What will you do about furnishing fire-retardant treated wood, if and to the extent required in passenger ship building?

Purchase policies of Government agencies, or of industries using government loaned funds, such as the railroads and shipping 'comPanies ?

Appropriations for Federal 'cooperation and action in the furtherance of the Forest Conservation program? Railroad freight rates?

Provision by the Federal Government for pudchasing and temporarily taking ofi the market excessive inventories of industrial products. What use will the Irumber industry make of such present and prospective provisions?

23. Unemployment and other social insurance, as promised by the President during the coming year.

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Vote to Reconstitute and Strengthen N. L. M. A.

(Continued from Page 19)

24. What system of Federal taxation will be devised to enable the United States to sustain Government credit?

The Directors meeting, besides dealing definitely with the problem of strengthening the National organization, discussed some of the 24 critical contacts of industry with government mentioned by Mr. Compton, and a resolution was adopted protesting against the manufacture by government relief and recovery agencies, of government tirnber or of timber on land acquired for subsistence home stead purposes.

In the open meeting of the directors there was a long dis,cussion of the proposed platform for recovery of the National Association of Manufacturers, adopted at the meeting in New York this week. ft was voted to endorse the National Association of Manufacturers statement of the principles of relief. On motion of a,committee, of which John W. Blodgett was ,chairman, it was resolved that the proposed plan be pursued upon the expiration of Title I of the National Recovery Act as set forth in Sections 1, 2 and 3, pages 16 and 17 of. "The Road to Recovery," (a pamphlet presenting the NAM recovery platform) be approved "with such reservation as to policies set forth therein as the duly authorized committees of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association may find appropriate and desirable for the application of such of these policies as affect the peculiar conditions surrounding industries engaged in the conversion of forest resources."

Meeting of Regional Representatives

Atthe meeting of the representatives of regional associations, at which President C. C. Sheppard of the National presided, C. L. Hamilton of the Weyerhaeuser interests, St. Paul, chairman of the Trade Extension Committee, described the manner in which this work is organized and executed, and sketched its achievements. He explained the inter-relation of the N.L.M.A., the A.F.P.I. and the Timber Engineering Company regarding trade extension. After Mr. Upson's address H. R. Northup, Federal Housing Administration's Lumber Advisor, reported on the progress of Federal Housing activities and pictured the opportunity they presented to the lumber industry.

Mr. Hamilton, reporting the Timber Engineering Company's work of promoting the utilization of modern timber ,connectors, said that during the past 14 months it had produ,ced a new market f.or 20 million feet of lumber. A. C. Horner, West Coast field representative, told how the N.L. M.A. co,operated with regional associations in promoting a school house building program in Chicago consequent upon the 1933 earthquake. A frame house had been designed for earthquake regions whi,ch ,co'uld be .,rolled down hill and still be a good strong house.,,

Geo. W. Dulany, Jr., Chicago, Chairman of the A.F.P.I. Board of Directors, reported pridefully on the good showing made by the Lumber Industries House at the Chicago World's Fair. At a luncheon on Friday Mr. Dulany wis presented by the directors with a handsome silver ioving cup in recognition of his work for the Lumber Industries House. The cup is m,ounted on a mosaic base composed of 48 different species of woods in commer,cial use "rrd hu. wood cover consisting of a carved miniature of the Lumber Industries House. Mr. Dulany also spoke complimentarily of Don Critchfield's work in promoting the Forest products Better Paint Campaign, and said it was the intention to continue the endorsement of this ,campaign.

"Among Those pre5spl'r

Among the nationally known lumber manufacturers who attended the meetings here were M. L. Fleishel, putnam, Fla., E. A. Frost, Shreveport, La.; Harry W. Cole, San Francisco, Calif.; R. E. Danaher, Detroit, Mich.; paul V. Eames, Minneapolis, Minn.; H. B. lfewes, Loyalton, Calif.; W. A. Holt, Oconto, Wis. t C. L. Hamilton, St. paul, Minn.; J. P. Hennessy, Minneapolis, Minn.; S. L. Coy, Cloquet, Minn.; R. B. Goodman, Marinette, Wis.; Charles Gieen, Laurel, Miss.; Robert Hixon, Chicago and McCloud, Calif.; Geo. W. Dulany, Jr., Chicago; David T. Mason. Executive Officer, Lumber Code Authority, Washington, D. C.; Chas. S. Keith, Kansas City, Mo.; A. L. Osborn, Oshkosh, Wis.; Walter Neils, Libby, Mont.; W. E. Moore, Elgin, Ore.; E. F. Horan, Ilouston, Texas; A. B. Hood, Rapid City, S. D.; B. W. Lakin, M,cCloud, Calif.; C. C. Sheppard, Clarks, La., president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Associa_ tion; W. M. Ritter, Columbus, Ohio; R. R. Macartney, Klamath Falls, Ore.; James G. McNary, McNary, Ariz.;EC. Stone, Seattle, Wash.; R. O. Sykes, Conifer, N. y.; F. R. Titcomb, president of the West Coast Lumbermen,s Asso_ ciation, Tacoma, Wash.; John W. Watzek, Jr., Chicago; Ar'chie D. Walker, Minneapolis; F. K. Weyerhaeur.r, "St. Paul; R. C. Winton, Minneapolis; M. C. Woodard, Silver_ ton, Ore.; John W. Blodgett, Grand Rapids, Mich.; M. J. Fox, Iron Mountain, Mich.; Geo. W. york, Albuqrr.rqrl, N. M.; Wilson Comp,ton, manag'er of the National Lr*L.. Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C.; Lee Robin_ son, Mobile, Ala.; H. C. Ber.ckes, New Orleans, La.; S, V. Fullaway, Jr., Portland, Ore.; R. B. Goodman, Marinette, Wis.; Geo. J. Pope, Chicago, and H. D. Mortenson. San Francisco.

BT]YDBS9 GT]IIDD SAN FBANOISOO

LUMBER

Cbambertin tt Co. W. R.

tth Floor, Filq Bfdg. """"""DOugla! 91?0

Dolbrer & Carron Lmbcr Co.,

7t0 Mercbalts Ercbangc Bldg"""'SUtter 7156

Hammond Lumbcr Co.,

tlo Sansomc SL.""'" " "' ""''DOuglar l3t9

Hobbs, Walt & Co, ---a1b l"tt"td Ave"""""""" "'Mlsrion o0l

Holmer Eureka Lumber Co.

l5ll5 FinancialCcnter Bldg' "'""GArfield 192r

Larence-PhiliPs Lumber Co-

a|6 Fife Buitdinc...." "" .' "" "'EXbrook !i193

Loop Luber CortPanY'

it,. ot rc,h St......................EXbrmk lE3l

Long-Bell Lumber Salcr CorPoration'

---Ei Markct Strcct """""""'GArficld lt30

Multigu & Co.. W. J.' -'-Ti tlr"otg"-"rv st. "."""""'GArfield .ttl0

LUMBER

MacDonald & Harington Ltd.,

16 Calitornia Street. ' .GArfield lli93

McComic&, Ch*. R. Lubcr Co.'

16l Market Stnet """"""""'Douglar z50r

More Mill & Lubcr Co.,

525 Market Stret .............""EXbrek C173

Pacific Luber Co- Tlc

100 Bush Stet ........'.........GAr6e1d UEI

Red River Luber Co.'

315 Monadnck Bldg. '.'......."'GArfield 0922

Santa Fe Lubcr Co-

16 Calilonia SttEt,.............'KEamy 2071

Schafer Brc. Luber ll Sbingle Co. l20t File Blds. ........'......'. " "Sutter r7ZI

Sudden & Chrbteroon, 310 Samomc Strut ...............GArfield 2tlC

Uniol Luber Co., - Ctct "t Buildnf ..SUttcr 0l?o

LUMBER

Hlll & Mqton' hc.' '-'ol"i'ii"-St - w[.*' " "'' "'' "'ANdryor lgr?

"T:i "d*fi*W:...........c'.ooarr .o.r

E. K. Wood Luber Co" -' F;"i;ltL? King Sts""""""'Fruitvde 0ll2

LUMBER

HARDWOOD9

LUMBER

Vu Andale-Hmir Lumbcr Co., lnc.' Fifth & Bram Streetr..........GArficld lco

Wendling-Nathal Co. Itc Multet StGt ...'....'........'SUttr Slli

E. K, Wod Lunber CoI Drumm Street...........'.........KEamy l?ll

Weyerhaeuecr Sales Co., fO Calilonia Strut ..."......'..GArftcld tl?'

DOORS AND PLYWOOD

Nicolai Door Sales Co.' !0,t5 ltth Strtet ....................Mb|o 7l2l

Wheler-Ocgood Saler Cqpontio' 3045 lgtb !t.,........'...'...'....VAlencia 2ll

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES-PILINGTIES

Buter. J. H. & Co.' 333' Montgmery Street. .,. .., Douglas 3tE3 McCorrnlc|:, Char. R.' Lunbcr Co., lll Markat Slret ..........'......DOurt[ ,5lr

PANEI.!'

Elliott Bay Salcr Co., ila gioranv ........'............ -Hlrat' Lr?

Califonia Builden SuPPIY Co., 50f 2|th Avenue ..........'.......ANdovcr llt0

Strablc Hardwod Coo - - nt Ftrra strect :..............TEnplobu llll

LOS AITGBLES

BookttrYer Bumr Lumber Co', ---Cb.-;t of Comere Btdg"""PRorycct l2!l

Chubcrlln & Co.' W. R.

tlt West Nintb St' """""""'TUckGr t'|ll

Dolbcer & Carom Lmber Co',

l2l gbcll Buitdlq1""" """ ""''VAadllrc l?tt

Hoher Eurekc Lmber Co.

711-?12 Architects Btdg. "'""""'Mutul Utr

Hmmond Lmbcr Co.

2010 So. Ataneda SL .."""""'PRo'E*t Zl7!

Hoovcr, A. L.'

?00 So l: Bro Avc' """"""""Yor& ll6t

Larrrcne-PhlliPc LuEber Co',

Gt3 Pctnlm Srcrrtd.3 Bldg."'PRosPect 022t

Loag-Bell Lunbs Salo Corlontion'

ZZO P"t-l* Smritle Bldg""PRoqDect t'0E

MacDomld & Bergstrcm, lnc',

?3 Petrolem Seorities Bldg"'PRcpect 7194

MacDonald & Hanirgton' Ltd.'

@6 Petroleu Seqrltiec Bldg'.'PRcpect 5031

DtcCcmick, Cbu. R. Lubcr Co'

u? Wst tth SL ..............'.TRbltv s2{r

Mulltar & Cr.' W. J.,

u? wct rtl 3L ............'.....vArdlr ltlta

LUUAER

Paeific Lubcr Co.' Tbc - --?0c s;- Brci Avc"""""""""York rr't

Patter-Blim Lubcr Co. - - 5a -: jtl st ....................vAndikc 2321

Red Rivcr Lunba Co.'

?02 E. Slausm .CEnturY 290?l

Suta Fc Imbs Co'

3rf Fiurciat Center Blfu. '.'.'.."VAndike 1471

Sc,hafer Bru. Luber & Shingle Co.

lZIt W. M. Galand Btdg.........TRinitv 4Al

Sudden & Chrictsnso, -

OIO Berd of Tnda Bldg. ......."TRinitv tt'|.|

Union Luba Co.'

923 W. M. Gaitand Bld:r....'.....'TRinit22tz

Wqdling-Nathu Co,

700 So. Ia Bro Aro .............""YOrk rr0t

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NRA Hears Both Sides of Lumber Minimum Price Controyersy

Washington, D. C., Dec. l8.-Follorving the three_day NRA public hearing, ended here December 13, on the ,r"*"d question of minimum cost protection prices in the lumber industry, the Lumber Code Authority, in special session here, was assured by NRA that a decision would be forthcoming at the earliest possible date, probably not later than December 20. The Authority refrained fiom taking any position in the matter and adjourned on December 15.

While, strictly speaking, the hearing was predi,cated on the petition by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for elimination of price provisions in the West Coast Division, NRA threw the meeting open to a full discussion of the issue in all its aspects throughout the indlstry, with NRA Division Administrator W. P. Ellis, Deputy Administrator A. C. Dixon, and representatives of the various NRA divisions taking testimony from approximately 100 spokesmen of lumber groups, individual concerns and other industries.

The hearing was the most heavily attended of any held lry NRA for the lumber industry since the Code's inception, the audience numbering into the hundreds. In view of tn" large number of witnesses, NRA adopted the procedure of hearing all testimony on one side of the question before witnesses on the other side were called. Testimony from advocates of price repeal occupied the first day and a half.

A surprise element was thrown into the proceedings just prior to starting the testimony of price proponents, when Dr. Constance Southworth, of the NRA Consumers Advisory Board, read recommendations of the Board with respect to the lumber industry, which he summarized as fol_ Iows.

"Discontinuance of fixed minimum prices; gradual adjust_ nlent of production capacity to a basis of sustained lumber yield and operating effi,ciency; public acquisition of the forests as rapidly as may be feasible, and strict government control over cutting."

His further remark that the Advisory Board recognized that carrying out those recommendations would prove a "painful process", evoked chu,ckles from the several hun_ dred lumbermen present, followed by applause when Divi_ sion Administrator Ellis, ,condu,cting the hearing, explained that Dr. Southworth was presenting the opinion of an NRA advisory board and that he did not speak for the National Recovery Administration itself.

Representatives of the following gioups testified for re_ peal of price provisions: West Coast Lumbermen,s Asso_ ciation ; Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute; Lumbermen,s Fixed Price Repeal Association of Seattle; Intercoastal Lumber Distributors Association; Southwestern Fixed Price Repeal Association; Roofer Manufacturing Association; Small Mill Pine Association; Furniture Code Author_ ity; Central Warehouse Lumber Company, and other wholesalers; National-American Wholesale Lumber Association.

Those groups testifying for retention of price provisions were:

Red Cedar Lumber Group of the West Coast Lumber Di_ vision; Red Cedar Shingle Division; Western pine Divi_ sion; California Redwood Division and California Redwood Association; Southern pine Division; Cypress Division; Northeastern Softwood Division; Appalachian Group oi the Southern and Appalachian Haidwoocl Subdivision; North Central Hardwood Subdivision; Northern Hemlock Division and Northern Hardwood Subdivision; Delta group of mill members of Hardwood Manufacturers Institute; Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Co.; National Stained Shin. gle subdivision and National Stained Shingle Association; Mahogany Subdivision; Walnut Subdivision; Veneer arrj Plywood Subdivision; Woodwork Division; Wooden pack_ age Division and Subdivisions; National Retail Lumber and Building Material Code Authority; National Retail Lumber Dealers Association; Mountain States Lumber Dealers As. sociation; Middle Atlantic Lumbermen,s Association.

The Hardwood Manufacturers Institute was added to the list of price provision opponents when, on the second dav of the hearing C. Arthur Bruce, of the E. L. Bruc. Co. Memphis, former executive offi,cer of the Lumber Code Authority, and J. H. Townshend, secretary_manager of the Institute, reported that a vote of the southern directors on December 4 stood 18 to 2 against retention of price provi_ sions applying to Southern hardwood mills. lt *r" "*- plained that this vote did not include a poll of the Appala_ chian members of the Institute,s board.

In announcing the Institute's decision, Mr. Bruce and Mr. Townshend reviewed the successive developments in the Southern Hardwood territory since last July which had led the Institute to take its action of December 4. Thev said the final breakdown of price administration among the Southern hardwood mills followed the now widely_known order by the Fisher Body Corporation for approximately 50,000,000 feet of lumber at below minimum pri"", authoi_ ized by the ,code, divided among several scores of hardwood producers, resulting in court action cases in a number of Southern states in which decisions had been at wide variance. The result, they said, has been that in some states price regulations are held unconstitutional, in others con_ stitutional, and in still others no determination at all has been made. fn ,consequence those mills which have con_ tinued to abide by authorized minimum prices have sufiered a heavy loss of business to those disregarding the code, and conditions now prevailing in the industry harre become, ac_ cording to Mr. Bruce, ,'intolerable,,. ,,Minimum prices have been shown absolutely impracticable and t'rrr*oik"bl",', h" said.

Mr. Townshend, at the close of his testimony, was asked by Division Administrator Ellis whether he ihought discontinuance of price control in the southern hardwJod industry would afiect compliance with other provisions of

the code. He replied that in his opinion, and in the opinion bf the majority of the Institute directors other provisions would be afiected, that mill operators would probably be asking soon for an adjustment in wages to bring down costs, and probably also would be found protesting against production control. lle said he anticipated sawmill operaiors will ask to have sawmill wages for common labor placed on a level with those now paid by the Federal b,-"tg.tt.y Relief Administration to that class of workers'

H. W. Bunker, Coos Bay Lumber Co., San Francis'co, Calif., and A. E. Mclntosh, Seaboard Lumber Co', Seattle, Wash., spoke for the Lumbermen's Fixed Price Repeal Association of Seattle, testifying that the code pri'ce structure, for all practical purposes is a fead letter on the West Coast'

"We are here to preserve the worthwhile features of the code, and to make changes that will make the preservation possible", Mr. Mclntosh said.

Mr. Bunker reviewed the part the West Coast Lumbermen's Association has taken in the administration of price regulations until its 'recent vote for their abandonment, and stated that protests began to'come in within a m'onth after code price provisions went into efiect in November, 1933' The protests, he said, mounted steadily until the recent longshoremen's strike tied up shipping facilities and caused tremendous stocks of lumber to accumulate on wharves and in mill yards.

"By the end of the strike", he said, "sentiment against price fixing had piled up so heavily that at summer's close price control had largely melted away. The majority of the cargo mills are disregarding code prices."

Mr. Stone declared that the West Coast lumber industry wants to preserve other provisions of the code, with which he said the industry is'complying, and held that the preservation of the wage structure is in no way dependent upon price control. He gave figures to show that weekly earnings of sawmill workers on the West Coast have declined under the code, but upon being questioned agreed that the number of workers employed has in'creased.

R. T. Titus, speaking for the Intercoastal Lumber Distributors Association, Seattle, said that all efforts to obtain either voluntary or forced ,compliance with the price provisibns have fiilea, thdrt purchasers of lumber will not assist in the work of obtaining evidence against price violators, and that "the Government itself either cannot or will not enforce price regulatiotts." Invoices show sales at'code prices, he said, but there are so many now commonly used devices for making the sales at below prices shown on the invoices that the latter have become meaningless.

A. W. Clapp, representing the Weyerhaeuser and Shevlin interests, St. Paul, Minn., termed price 'control of any kind an experiment that has proved "an economic mistake, a subversion of justice, tending only to weaken the justifiable provisions of the code.

Others who took the floor in opposition to price provisions were:

T. B. Larsen, Willamette Valley Lumber Association; F. H. Ransom, Western and Eastern T.umber Co., Portland, Ore., chairman of the first industry group appointed by the West Coast administrative agen'cy to Pass upon complaints of price violations; W. B. Nettleton, Nettleton Lumber Co., Seattle; M. B. Mcl-eod, Southwestern Fixed Price Repeal Association, made up of yellow pine mills in Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana; F. T. Turner, Sanitee, S. C., a director of the Hardwood Manufacturers Institute; Middleton L. 'Wootten, Columbus, Miss., representing the Small Mill Pine Association; J. H. Bell, Richmond, Va', president of the Roofer Manufacturing Association; F. C. Mills, Acworth, Ga., a member of the Roofer association; M' G' Truman, March &. Truman I umber Co., wholesale, Chicago; W. W. Schupner, secretary-manag'er' NationalAmerican Wholesale Lumber Association, and representatives of the Furniture Code Authority:

Defenders of cost protection pri'ces stood their ground tenaciously in behalf of what they declared is an essential to maintenance of order in the lumber industry. They contended that it is impossible to remove price control from any one or group of the industry's divisions without an early resultant breakdown of ,cost protection in all other divisions, and a return to suicidil lumber prices so destructive in 1932 and early 1933.

One of the most vigorous defenders of price provisions was Lee Robinson, who resigned a week ago from the presidency of the Hardwood Manufa'cturers Institute when

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TITTBERS ANI' PITTNG

Ten tiles of The

Years California Ago Today

Lumber Merchant, Januarv 1,19Q5

In his editorial "Looking Forward,,' Jack Dionne says, "The building game has been renewed again throughout California, and gives promise of building prosperitJ, for 7925;'

With the termination of fourteen years in business on November 14, the San Joaquin Lumber Company of Stock_ ton ,celebrated the occasion with a birthday party. rF**

The building permits in the City of San Francis,co in 7924 up to the night of December 23 aggregate in estimated value 957,733,924.00 which is the highest in the history of the city. The nearest approach to it was in lgOZ when- the building permits totaled $J6,529,944.00.

Howell Baker, California Panel & Veneer Company, Los Angeles, has received a group of very interesting pictures of a large shipment of logs received by the Tacoma panel Company of Tacoma, Wash. The entire shipment com_ prised thirty-nine ,cars of hand-picked logs; the largest log was thirty-two feet in length, one hundred eight inches in diameter at the butt and eighty-four inches aithe top, and scaled 11,0@ feet.

The Salesmen's Club of San Francisco held their annual Christmas party and lun.cheon at the palace Hotel on De_ cembet 22. President Mel Salomon played Santa Claus and presented all the members in attendance with an ap_ propriate gift. Walter Blick was in charge of the "rrung._ ments for the party. ***

A reprint from the If oo-Hoo Bulletin 5ays_,,perf Worth, Texas, is going to.have a Hoo-Hoo Club because of the patrioti,c efiorts of our old friend, Jack Dionne, pub_ lisher of 'The California Lumber Mer,chant, and.,The -Gulf Coast Lumberman'."

The First Annual Jinks of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 will be held at the Claremont Country Club, Oakland, January 9, 1925. The Jinks will ,consist of a golf and bowling tourn"_ ment in the afternoon, and dinner and en,tertainment in the evening. Ted Higgins is chairman of the arrangements .committee. * ,1. ,*

At the annual meeting of the Central California Lumber_ men's Club held at Modesto on December 13, W. H. Falconbury was elected president. Harry Fuller was elected vice-president and chester H. Elliott was re-elected secre- tary. George Ground was ,chairman,of the day.

The Auburn Lumber Company are ,constructing a new warehouse, 100 feet long, which will be used for building material supplies. The new building will have a plat! glass front for display purposes.

In a letter to "The California Lumber Merchant,', the King Lumber Company of Bakersfield says-,,From the way applications are coming in for the job we w,rote you about, you must be still running the ad. The job was fiiled a month ago. SOME paper to advertise in.', ***

The Western Hardwood Lumber Co. won the pennant of the Los Angeles Lumber Baseball League whi& came to a close on December 6. Other lumber firms that had teams in the league were E. J. Stanton & Sons. Ker,ckhofi-Cazner Mill & Lumber Co., Vernon Lumber Co., patten & Davies Lumber Co. and Woodhead Lumber Co.

The annual meeting of the Sacramento Valley Lumber_ men's Club was held at the Hotel Senator, Sa,cramento, on December 20. L. H. Chapman was re-elected president, and C. D. LeMaster was elected secretary. J. H. Shepard and Curtis Cutter had charge of the arrangements for the meeting.

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 met at the palace llotel, San Fran_ cisco, on December 11. C. H. White, White Brothers, was chairman of the day.

V. L. McFadden was chairman of the d,ay at the meet_ -ng of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club on December 11. J. C. Ellis was the winner of the attendance prize. :t**

A Hoo-Hoo ,concatenation was held at Modesto on Sat_ urday evening, December 13. Seven kittens were initiated. ri**

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club staged a lumbermen,s golf tournament at the Wilshire Couniry Club, Los An_ geles, December 19. Joe Chapman won the low gross prize, and Roy Stanton was the winner of the low net prize. The committee in charge of the afiair included Frank Con_ nelly, Fred Golding, Edgar Lloyd-Jones, Ed Tennant, Bert Maule, Herman Rosenberg and Roy Stanton.

Frank Minard, secretary of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club, announces that the annual meeting of the Club will be held at Fresno on lanuary 17. ***

The Hansen Lumber Company will open a yard. at Fon_ tana. They will erect a new modern plant and will han_ dle a complete line of building materials.

Bob Osgood was chairman of the day at the Los An_ i geles Hoo-Hoo Club meeting on De,ce-ter 19. Bob read some letters supposed to have been written by some of the boys to Santa Claus that brought out a good laugh from i the large attendance.

NRA Hearing on Minimum Price Controversy

(Continued from Page 23)

that body's directors voted to ask elimination of minimum prices.

Mr. Robinson, stating the Delta group of mills for which he was speaking represent as mu'ch as 5O per cent of the lumber production of the Institute's member mills, declared that the elimination of cost protection prices would result in a return to the 5-and-10 ,cent hourly wages for sawmill workers prevailing in 1932 and early 1933, that the fact that so many of the price-violating mills are also wage violators constitutes in itself sufficient evidence of the consequences of a bottomless lumber market, and that once price prote,ction is removed thousands of sawmills would take advantage of the vast surplus of labor in the South obtainable at 10c an hour or less. Enforcement by NRA of the Lumber Code provisions, not their abandonment, he declared, is the crying need.

Harry W. Cole, San Francisco, Calif., spokesman for the California Redwood Division and the California Redwood Association, said that compliance with "all provisions of the code, in,cluding prices", has been obtained in that division, that the industry is operating at 50 per cent capacity now, compared with 20 per cent in May, 1933, and is employing 6,000 men instead of the 2500 employed then.

"We don't want to go back to the conditions that prevailed in 1932 and early 1933", he said. "Our people feel

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that abandonment of cost protection will lead to just that."

Asked by Division Administrator Ellis whether a change in present methods of price control would meet with the division's approval, Mr. Cole said that the present system "seems to be as fair as it is possible to obtain".

Charles McGrath, Seattle, Wash., secretary-manager of the Washington Oregon Shingle Association, said:

"If price protection is removed, control of production will be impossible."

V. A. Stibolt, Hammond, La., 'chairman of the cost protection committee of the Southern pine division said:

"As long as the emergency exists, the industry must be given protection against cut-throat'competition."

Geo. N. Ifarder, of Wells, Michigan, spokesman for the Northern Hemlock Division and the Northern Hardwood Subdivision, said his division had obtained "practically 100 per,cent compliance" with the price provisions and with all other provisions of the code.

"Since adoption of the ,code", he said, "there has been cooperation between the sawmills of Wisconsin and Michigan as to wages, hours and as to prices-practically 100 per cent ,compliance."

H. D. Mortenson, Klamath Falls, Ore., operator and member of the Western Pine division, said that "even opponents of 'cost protection admit that the industry is better ofi by millions of dollars than it would have been if it had not had cost protection. These millions have been paid out in increased wages and in in'creased employment. Elimination of price control can only lead to elimination of the labor provisions of the Code."

Fred Bringardner, Lexington, Ky., operator in the Appalachian region of the Appalachian and Southern hardwood subdivision, said the Appalachian operators do not agree with southern operators who want pri'ce control eliminated.

"We believe that if the southern operators could be assured efiective enfor,cement, they would favor minimum prices".

Mr. Bringardner said "Appalachian operators believe that if minimum prices are abandoned, prices will decline sharply owing to the present lack of consumer demand; inventories will shrink, many mills will be forced to shut down, and the labor and other provisions of the code cannot be enforced."

NRA Division Administrator Ellis repeatedly asked witnesses whether they had considered or thought of any other method, and said at the end of the day's session: "'We would welcome any alternative plan for pri'ce control if any one ,cares to submit it for our consideration."

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Production Quotas for First Quarter of 1935

(Continued from Page 14) could not be permitted, that the basis of establishing production quotas and allotments in the Western pine Division be changed from a quarterly to a six months basis, the Authority instructed its Executive Officer to draft an appropria'te amendment to the Code for changing to the six m,onths basis in the Division, and approval of the amendment if it develops that such action is necessary to grant the relief requeSted by the petitioners. The LCA National Control Committee, on September 10, had denied the same petitioners their request for anticipation of allotments.

Tillamook Burn Allocation

By unanimous vote, the Authority adopted the following formula for the allocation of quotas of production allotted to the West Coast Logging and Lumber Division (exclusive of quotas authorized for the Tillamook Burn ,or other special purposes) was approved, effective January 1, 1935:

"1. From any quota authorized for said Division there shall first be allocated under the provisions of Article VIII(c) (1) to all duly registered and eligible persons

therein a volume of production sufficient to enable each su,ch person to operate eighteen (18) hours per week during the allotment period, or such uniform portion thereof as the total of such quota will permit

"2. Any portion of any quota.authorized fqr said Division in excess of the amount required to make the alloca, tions under Article VIII(c)(1) in accordance with the fore-, going paragraph shall be allocated to all duly registered and eligible persons therein under the provisions oiArticle vIII(c) (2).

"3. The total allocation to each registered and eligible person in said Division for any allotment period shall be the sum of the allocatirons ,to such -person as determined under the provisions of Paragraphs 1 and 2 herein, respec_ tively."

,Following adjournment of the Authority on December' 15, the LCA National Control ,Committee convened on December 16 for a four-day session to take up matters left tO its disposal by the Authority.

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