R. G. NOBBIIIS I.UMBTR CO.

Distribu,tors ol Pacific Coast Forest Products

Amendment 12 to MPR 94--Ylest€rn Pine and Associated Species of Lumber

Washington, D. C., Jan. 30.-Western pine rnills were authorized by the Office of Price Administration today to compute freight charges on government bills of lading in the same manner as on commercial bills of lading to obtain for the shipper the same freight rate advantage as would be obtained if th'e shipment had moved originally on a commercial bill of lading.

A similar authorization was given Douglas fir mills last month.

Transportation charges used in calculated delivered prices for Western pine and associated species of lumber are computed on the basis of estimated weight per 1,000 board feet of lumber, which sometimes are greater than the actual weight of a shipment, OPA pointed out. The seller thus may in some cases make a small profit on the transportation allowance figured in the delivered price.

The new method of computing transportation cl-rarges in calculating delivered prices on Western pine lumber sold to the government permits a mill to obtain the same return

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Sincc in making sales f.o.b. mill in .cases rvhere the government desires to take shipment at the lower land grant freight rates as the seller would enjoy by taking underweights in an ordinary commercial transaction on a "delivered" basis.

(Amendment No. 12 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 94-Western Pine and Associated Species of Lumber. Effective January 29, 1944.)

H. F. Chcney Elected President oI Coos Bcy Lumber Co.

Henry F. Chaney, vice-president of Baker, Fentress & Co. of Portland, Oregon, has been elected president of Coos Bay Lumber Co., according to an announcement made in San Francisco, February 1. He succeeds Homer W. Bunker.

Mr. Bunker and Harry H. Fair, who has been chairman of the board, continue as directors. The changes in management follow acquisition of the controlling interest in the company last fall by Charles E. Dant of Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, and associates.

The sales department continues unchanged with headquarters in the company's San Francisco office.

House-Ssnate Committe e Accepts Forest Tax Reform Amendment

Washington, D. C., January 27.---The acceptance today by the House and Senate Committee of the so-called "Bailey Amendment" relating to the "Gain or Loss from the Cutting of Timber," assuring a much sounder and fairer basis for the taxation of "timber gain," a stimulus to war production, and an encouragement to private forestry, brings into the limelight the Forest Industries Committee chiefly responsible for this significant progress.

For more than a year, this committee, which was organized at the suggestion of the board of directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, has functioned with the steadiness and expertness of an "All-America" team. Chairman of the committee is Earl B. Tanner, one of the principal figures of the Blodgett timber interests for fifteen years. As its vice-chairman, the committee had the services of P. A. Bloomer, president and general manager of the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Co.,-Fisher, La.

Other members of the committee were George Birkelund, Baker, Fentress & Co., Chicago;.John W. Watzek, Jr., of the Crossett-Watzek-Gates interests and a past president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association; Charles W. Briggs, Briggs, Gilbert, Morton & Macartney, St. Paul; Walter E. Lincoln, St. Regis Paper Co.; Paul W. Olson, Crown-Zellerbach Corporation, and A. A. D. Rahn, vicepresident, Shevlin, Carpenter & Clarke Co., Minneapolis.

Others on the industry committee's staff included David T. Mason, Mason & Bru,ce, consulting foresters, Portland,

Ore.; Lo.vell H. Parker, Washington tax expert, and Henry Bahr, attorney of the National Lumber Manufacturers As: sociation.

Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary-manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, who urged the appointrnent of the Forest Industries Committee on Timber Valuation and Taxation, has followed closely the work of the committee at every stage of its progress, and has described the Bailey Amendment as a "new charter" for American forest industries and American forestry.

Scrlmon Creek Redwood Co. Increcrses Mill Capacity

Salmon Creek Redwood Co., Beatrice, Calif., operated by Fred Lundblade, closed the mill for two weeks, January 29, for the purpose of putting in a new 9-foot band saw. This will increase the mill's capacity aborrt 10,000 feet a day. New planing mill equipment was also installed at the same time.

Sales of the output of this mill have been handled exclusively by Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, since the plant was built in 1941.

Congrcrtulctions

First Lieut. Dick Hoover and Mrs. Hoover are the parents of a son, James Shaver Hoover, born at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, on Saturday, January 30. Dick is a son of A. L. Hoover, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman. and has been stationed at Martinez, Calit.

Relused?

"No," said the youthful optimist in civies. "No, Jane didn't exactly refuse me. What she said was that the best she could give me just at this time was a B-13 priority rating."

The Mcrrine Viewpoint

"Yank" tells this story.

The night the Marines landed in the Solomons, a Marine sergeant in a San Francisco cafe was praising his corps to the skies. An Army captain finally interrupted. "Don't forget," he said, "that when a Marine goes into battle there are ten soldiers on one side of him and ten sailors on the other."

The Marine drew himself up to his full six feet one, and came to attention. He said:

"Sir ! That's the proper proportion."

Which reminds one of the song I heard once in a moving picture, where a Marine sang in powerful voice: "Ten thousand gobs laid down their swabs to fight one sick Marine."

An Old Fashioned

Tom Dreier quotes a friend of his named Harry Botsford, who in this manner paid his compliments(?) to that cocktail called an "Old Fashioned":

"An old fashioned is a sissy drink, a veritable fruit salad lashed with a little whiskey, whereas a martini is on the intoxicating side, designed not for dueling purposes but for the express,purpose of stimulating the appetite and uplifting the soul of the weary, and chasing away the fatigue caused by honest labor. The old fashioned was and is a tipple dreamed up by some female who liked fruit better than she did liquor. Who in hell else could conceive the idea of dunking gobs of pineapple, sections of orange, and a lone and cheerless cherry in honest liquor. It's a meal, and not a drink !"

How Sad

There was a young lady named Florence, For kissing professed great abhorrence, But once she'd been kissed, And found what she'd missed. She cried till the tears came in torrents.

She and The Lord

"Aunt Lucyi' said the lady of the house to her veteran cook, "you don't mean to tell me you've gone and got married again, and for the fifth time."

Aunt Lucy said: "Yes I'm is, Missy. Looks lak jess as offen as de Lawd takes em-so does I."

A Fcir Wcrger

This, of course, happened back in the days 'when cars could be bought by anyone who had the money.

A prosperous colored man who was figuring on buying a car and paying for it on the company part payment plan, took an educated friend along with him when it came to signing up the sales contract and mortgage, to advise him in the matter. The friend read over the purchase contract with much care. The purchaser asked him: "Well, tell me Mose, what do h'it say?"

The friend said: "Well, dey's a whole lotta words in dis contrack. A heap o' words. But fum what I kin figger out fum de whole bizqess, Gen'ral Motahs is jes bettin' you ain't nevah gwine finish payin' fo dishere cah."

Old Time Taxes

Screwy taxes did not wait for the present American decade to make their appearance. In 1696 England levied a window tax on her people. You paid so much per window per year. The result was that economical builders got to sacrificing both light and ventilation to save the window tax.

Her Pocketbool<

Comfortably seated in the train, With air absorbed, and very vain, She opened wide her pocketbook And on her lap she slowly shook A comb, some gum, a bit of rouge, A clipping from the Daily News, Some hairpins stuck into a net, A bright green manicuring set, A fountain pen, a safety pin, Some soda mints, and aspirin, A handkerchief, some perfume, too, A pair of gloves, some stockings new, Some lipstick and a mirror fine; Some black, to help the eyebrow line, She looked them over, one by one, Touched up her lips. When this was done She looked again, and Oh ! Despair ! Her railroad ticket wasn't there ! -Ellen B. Endicott in Chicago Tribune.

Her Ncturcl Rights

Someone asked Rose Jackson, the colored maid, if she was going to hang up any mistletoe in her home for Christmas. She said: "Not me. Deed f isn't. I got too much pride to advertise fo'de awdinary cou'tesies what a lady had a right to expeck."

A Hit

"Didn't T hear your kid bawling last night?"

"Yep. And after four bawls he got his base warmed."