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Office and counter man, also a good yard clerk. Reliable men have unlimited opportunity. Address Southern Lumber Company, 1402 South 1st Street, San Jose, Calif.

WANT TO SELL YOUR YARD?

Do you want to liquidate for the duration? See us. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers,801 Petrolcum Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

Comments on Acting Chief Forester's Report

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association has sent out a release with an analysis and comments by Secretary-Manager Wilson Compton on the recently issued 1942 report, which is preceded by a letter of transmittal, by the Acting Chief, U. S. Forest Service, to the Secretary of Agriculture, which is this year, naturally, devoted to the use of our forest resources in the war.

In his comments, Mr. Compton covers several statements made in the report and letter of transmittal.

The letter of transmittal of the report concludes with the follorving statement:

"Developments in less than 1 year of war bring sharply into focus the inadequacy of the Nation's present forestry effort and the threat to the security of rural people throughout our forest regions which is inherent in the current situation. Comprehensive action along the lines repeatedly recommended in annual reports of recent years, with Nation-wide regulations of cutting practices on private forest lands as a salient feature, should no longer be postponed."

Commenting on the above statement, Mr. Compton states :

"The position of the industry on this issue is wellknown; namely, that it opposes centralized federal control of local forestry practices and, in anv event, that this issu,: should be determined by full and free public consideration on its merits, and that this cannot be had and should not be sought until the end of the war."

wAR HOUSTNG PROJECTS

WPB assigns blanket preference rating of AA-3 to deliveries of materials for use in construction of most war housing projects program by NHA; this affects war housing for which preference rating order P-55 has been issued to builder, or P-19-D and P-19-H have been issued to FPHA; uprating is automatic for builder but he is responsible for extending neril rating to his suppliers in accordance with priorities regulation 12. At the same time WPB raises to AA-3 all AA-4 ratings assigned by preference orders of the P-19 series, covering essential construction projects.

OUR HE]I NEID * BOOKS *

That book you've enioyed-pcrss it clong to c man in unifomr. Leave it at the necreEt collection center or public library lor the 1943 VIG TONY BOOT CAMPAIGN.

Timber Design Course Complcted

Wartime use of wood to fill many new construction demands has resulted in focusing national attention on the wood industries field. "Elements of Timber Design," a course just completed by Stanford lJniversity's engineering department, is one of the most comprehensive efforts to approach the fast-growing subject of timber design. The twelve-rveek course, in charge of J. Bertrand Wells, professor of Civil Engineering at Stanford, was held in San Francisco.

In line with growing trends in the wood construction field, preservative treatment of wood and flameproofing of construction lumber were among subjects presented to the 75 enrollees in the course, many of them U. S. Engineer Corps men on the West Coast.

Conventional types of timber design, timber connector joints and designs, grades of lumber, plywood, glued arches and beams were discussed. Wood industries representatives assisted Professor Wells by lecturing on special topics during the course. A. C. Horner, Timber Engineering Company of California; J. E. Mackie, National Lumber Manufacturers Association; B. F. Wade, engineer for California Redwood Association; L. 4. Andrews, American Lumber and Treating Company; and John J. Gould, consulting engineer in San Francisco, were speakers at the special sessions.

Eastern Lumberman Visits Coast

Frank J. Imbus, Imbus Lumber Corporation, Cincinnati, O., left San Francisco for home, January 16, after calling on Pine Mills in California and Southern Oregon.

. DISCUSS AMENDMENT TO MPR NO. 2I5

A meeting attended by retail lumbermen of the East Bay district was held at the office of Wood Products Co., Oakland service organization, on Monday, January 25, for the purpose of hearing a discussion on Amendment 3 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 215. D. N. Edwards presided.