VITAI. WAR NEEDS

corne first, as we are all aware; it is our sincere hope, however, that during this new year conditions will improve to the extent that we will have additional lumber stocks to serve the retail dealers' reguirements, as we have done for the past thirty years

The Wcy to Hecrlth

Coronet tells the story of an old mountaineer in North Carolina who was being thoroughly examined by a city doctor. Amazed to find the old man in such eplendid condition, the physician asked incredulously "How old did you say you are?"

"Eighty-sevenr" was the firm reply.

"In all my years of practice f have never seen a man even fifteen years younger than you in such perfect condition. To what do you attribute such long life and good 'health?"

"\il/ell, I'll tell you, Doc. Wlen me'and my wife got married we sort of made an agteement not to irgue. If she ever got mad around the house, she promised she wouldn't say anything but just go back to the kitchen until she calmed down; and if I ever got mad I wasn't to say anything but just walk right out the back door and into the yard, 3nd-"

"Yes," interrupted the puzzled physician, ',but what has that got to do with it?"

"Well, Doc," drawled the mountaineer, '.as a result of that agreernent, I reckon IVe led what you might call somewhat of an outdoo'r life."

He'd Seen Big Ones

At training camp some of the boys were telling a tall lanky boy from West Texas, about the size and importance of the Chicago stockyards. "Shucks, we've got brandin' corrals bigger than that," said the unimpressed Texan. That night the Chicago boys put a couple of big snapping turtles into the Texan's bed. One of them grabbed him by the toe, and, he pulled it out. "What's that?' he asked. "Illinois bedbug," said a Chicago boy. The cowboy looked at it a moment, and said, "Must be a young un."

Self-Preserrzcrtion

"Please be carefirl as you walk across my hardwood foors," said the lady of ttre house to the plumber who had come to fix the bathroom.

"Don't worry about me slipping, lady," the plumber answered, "I always wear hob-nailed, shoes."

Unlit

Little Edith's pet cat had presented the family with a nice new batch of kittens, and all the antics of the little furry family were new and interesting to Edith. But when she saw tlre mother cat pick one of the kittens up by the scuff of the neclr with her teeth, and start wdking with it; her indignation knew no bounds. She fairly etormed at the mother cat:

"Why you horrid, mean old cat, yout You ain't fit to be a mothert You ain't hard,ly fit to be a fatherl"

Allcrh

'We pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you; Wherever you stay, wherever you go, May the beautiful palms of Allah grow; Through days of labor and nights of rest, May the love of Allah make you blest; So we touch our hearts, as the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with youl"

Pretty Tough

By J. J. Montague

Much fault with trees has long been found, Because their trunks are fashioned round, And when sawed up leave bulging fanks, Which will not serve 4t all as planks. If trees grew square, the mill men say, ^ Their care would vanish all awaS I So -"rr. have searched the Seven Seas To try and find square-sided treee.

If trees would only saw ttremselves, In shingles, lath, and pantry shelves, And turn thernselves to tidy rows, Of small suburban bungdows, Or fall apart in any plan

That fitted with the needs of man, That stacks of money could be made, By people in the lumber trade.

Too bad that everything of worth Produced by this imperfect earth, The trees, the stones, the coal, the oil, Involves in getting, so much toil. Too bad that man, who would prefer To lie around and never stir

Where fields are green and skies are blue, Has always so much work to do.

NeIve

A man may smile in the face of death, But never will there be found, A man who can draw a placid breath, With his garters coming down.

Disinterested?

"\f,fhy do you weep over the sorrows of people in whom you have no interest, when you go to a theatrcP' he asked.

"f don't know," replied the lady, "unle6s it's for the Bame reason that you cheer wildly when a man with whom you are not even personally acquainted makes a long run for a touchdown."

Postwar Homes

(Continued from Page 16) market. These extra 900,000 homes will require the labor of, at a guess, 1,500,000 workers for construction and 2,0m,000 workers in manufacturing plants, making a total of 3,500,000 extra workers provided with jobs by low cost housing alone.

There are those who say that it will take a miracle to build and sell such a volume of houses at that price. These are days of miracles-ships built in days instead of months, radar that "s€es" unerringly through fog and darkness, atoms cracked, the riches of coal-tar chemistry, huge bombers flowing off mass production lines, helicopters that hover stationary and even fly baclinvards.

I sincerely believe that the production of the low cost house will be another such miracle. But the same old

Wood Box Quotcr Restrictions Postponed

A three months' postponement to California and other Western States farmers on wooden box quota restrictions which were to have been dfiective at the beginning of the year, has been announced by the War Production Board. Producers of leading vegetable crops, including cantaloupes, melons, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumbers, lettuce and radishes, will be allowed wooden shipping containers suffcient to meet current crop harvests prior to April | 1944. No easement is anticipated in the critical supply of wooden shipping containers and shippers u'ere urged to plan for the re-use of containers.

Los Angeles Building Permits

Building permits issued during December were slightly more than in November, but estimated valuation totaled nearly $1 million less. During the last month, 1,976 permits valued at $5,462,357, were issued, compared to 1,964 permits valued at ffi,374p50 in November and l,W4 permits valued at $1,278,736 in December, 1942.

Comparison of last year's totals show 17,970 permits valued at $31,D6,W were issued in 1943 to 21,138 permits valued at $ffi,219,U6 issued in 1942.

Last month's permits include plans for housing accommodations for 345 families in 24 apartment houses, 241 single dwellings, 2 double dwellings and I multiple dwelling. Average cost of a single unit is $3,097 compared with $3,472 a year ago.

Addresses Fcrrm Buildings Conference

Chris L. Christensen, vice president of The Celotex Corporation, and formerly dean of the College of Agriculture, Ifniversity of Minnesota, was one of the principal speakers at the government-sponsored Farm Buildings Repair Conference recently held in Chicago. He pointed out the close association that exists between the building materials manufacturers, the lumber dealer and the farmer in the production of the nation's food,

"ordinary" ways of doing things won't produce it, any more than a blacksmith and his anvil could turn out a car for $900. On the other hand, no superhuman methods are required. If building can do just half as well as other industries, it will produce a miracle that will stand head and shoulders o.rrer any previous building achievements.

We have at hand today the skill, the material and the brains to make it a reality, and at the war's end we will have ample manpower. These factors, combined with the genuine need for, and determination to produce, adequate housing are a combination that is as unstoppable as was the automobile.

Moves Offices

Burns Lumber Company has moved its offi,ces from Beverly Hills to 58 Roosevelt Building, 727 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles. The telephone number is TRinity 1061.

frlcde by Americo's lorgest Door tmsfocbrerl

Wheeler Osgood craftsmanship has triumphed iu full dcvclopment of Tru-Sized Doors. This ncw product provides the building industry with doors precision machined to exact book opening sizes. No sawing, no planing is ncccssary to install a Wheeler Oegood Tru-Sized door. I;lercts whlrt fnt-Eizd Dors m,ellrr Io yovl f,Time saocd oa tbc job frAmazingly lout cost *Trtbsh.d Flnisbcd Bdges frGnater Pmfits fiPctfect bstallation f,Satisfud Csstomen

Amendmend 1 to2d. RMPR 215--Digtribution Yard Saler of Softwood

Lumber distribution yards remanufacturing Douglas fir, true fir and Western hemlock plank and timbers into smaller-sized boards and dimension lumber may calculate their ceiling prices for the remanufactured products by adding remanufacturing milling charges to maximum prices and inbound freight costs for the original size material, the Office of Price Administration announced on January 5.

There are, however, these limitations and qualifications placed on such pricing: l-Sales of remanufactured material at the ceilings thus computed, which are approximately $6 to $7 per 1,000 board feet above the maximum prices for standard millmade boards and dimension lumber, ffi&y not in any month exceed 30 per cent of the yard's total average monthly sales for the preceding three months. This program applies only to yards having remanufacturing equipment.

2-The higher prices for remanufactured material are applicable only to sales in which the distribution yard markup is $5 and 10 per cent or less.

$-The total remanufacturing milling charge may include allowances for only two workings, ripping, resawing or dressing. For example, it may cover one rip and one resaw, or one resaw and one dressing charge, and so forth, but a total of only two workings may be charged for.

4-Yards using the "remanufactured" lumber prices are required to obtain spe,cial permission to do so from OPA, and thereafter submit monthly reports of remanufacturing operations to the price agency.

While the new prices represent increases of approximately $6 to $7 per 1,000 board feet in prices of remanufactured lumber to consumers, OPA said, they will permit yards to saw up heavy slower-moving stocks of larger size material into smaller dimension sizes of lumber {or which there currently is heavy demand.

Because of the limitation of the higher ceiling prices to sales in which the distribution yard mark-up is $5 and 10 per cent or less, OPA adtled, the principal transactions at the remanufactured lumber price levels will be "wholesaletype" sales, such as sales to United States Government agencies, industrial users, railroads, shipyards and war housing construction projects.

Much of the yard-manufactured lumber will be sold under allocation by the War Production Board for essential war uses.

"New war housing.requirements on the Pacific Coast call for approximately 117,000,000 board feet of one-inch and two-inch lumber," OPA said. "There is heavy demand in other regions, too, for lumber one inch and two inches thick. Lumber mills are manufacturing and selling little of this material to distribution yards, but are rather selling rough lumber, chiefly timbers, to the yards. They do not have the manpower to saw timber up into smaller sizes in the volume current demand requires.

"Ilnder the established ceiling prices for mill-made standard boards and dimension lumber, distribution yards cannot profitably remanufacture the larger sizes of lumber products into needed thinner material. The present action will permit yards to recover actual out-of-pocket costs for additional freight on the larger sizes plus charges for remanufacturing.

"The result will be an increase in present distribution yard prices, on those sales which must be priced at the $5 and 10 per cent mark-up. However, a reduction in the consumeds cost will probably be effected by the change since the inability of labor-short mills to produce badly needed one-inch and two-inch material is forcing consumers to buy the larger sizes, pay the higher freight, and have the lumber remanufactured at custom mills at charges much higher than distribution yards will charge under remanufactured lumber ceiling prices."

(Amendment No. 1 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 (Distribution Yard Sales of Softwood). Effective Janaary ll, 1944.)

Congrrcrtulctions

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Fahs are receiving congratulations on the birth of a baby daughter, Kathleen Carey, born at the Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, on December 30. Mr. Fahs is manager of the California Panel & Veneer Co. at Los Angeles.

Icrck Cosper Promoted

Jack Cosper, former manager of the Vallejo Lumber Co., Vallejo, Calif., has been promoted to the rank of Major, and is now stationed in England. Major Cosper was a Captain in the U. S. Army Reserve at the outbreak of the war.