Harry Hanson With General Control Body of LCA to Meet

Paint Corporation ln New Orleans

Harry V. Hanson is now with the General Paint Corporation as district manager of the Orange County terriiory, with headquarters at Santa Ana' He was formerly secretary o{ the California Panel & Veneer Co' of Los Airgeles having resigned on January 31 ; he had been with the company for the past eighteen years being its first employee. Harry has always been active in lumber afiairs in Southern California where he is rvell known to the lumber trade, and in his new position he will be calling on the Orange County retail lumber and building material dealers.

The General Paint Corporation with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, Spokane' iulsa, Okla., Chicago and Honolulu, operates eleven factories manufacturing Flex finishes, paints, varni'shes, lacquers and enamels. In addition to their paint lines, they also handle roofing materials.

OREGOIN LUMBERMEN VISIT S' F'

E. D. Kingsley, president, and his son, G. A' "Arch" Kingsley, vice president, \Mest Oregon Lumber Co', Linnton, Ore., were recent San Francisco visitors' When there they made their headquarters at the offices of WendlingNathan Company, California agents for their products'

Washington, D. C., Feb. 21.-The Lumber Code Authority has an'nounced that the next meeting of its National Clntrol Committee has been called for March 21 at New Orleans,.La. The committee will recess there on the 15th and reconvene in Washington on the 18th'

The question of production allotments for the second quarter ;f tqls will be the only major question considered ai tt e three-day New Orleans session, although' it is understood that the committee will consider any emergency matters peculiar to the territory, and particularly those which -"y i" brought up as a result of any action taken by the Southern Pine Association or the Hardwood Manufacturers Institute at their New Orleans meetings'

At the meeting in Washington the committee will handle such routine and other business as may have been docketed for consideration. The meetings in New Orleans will be 4t the Roosevelt Hotel, and in' Washington at the Mayflower Hotel.

N.L.M.A. OFFICES MOVED '

The offices of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, The.Timber Engineering Company, and A' CHorner, consuiting -engineer, have been moved from 45 Second Street, San -Francisco, to the Wells Fargo Building, 85 Second Street, San Francisco, room 719'

"Red" Wood Scys.'

"There is a grade of Redwood for every purPose4e sure to get the proPer gmde."

HEART STRUCTURAI-The'third Structural grade. Not quite as durable as the higher Structural grades but still an exceptionally durable lumber' Defects so defined and limited that this grade has a safe stress in bending of 1100 lbs. per square inch.

lJnexcelled for roof sheathing on pier sheds, paper mills, reservoirs, etc.

Problem of "R"li"f ers't Sawing Lumber for Their Own Buildings

Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 1l.-Lumbermen here as weil as.in some other parts of the ,country, are disturbed over evid_ences of a possible general intention on the part of U. S. relief and recovery authorities to saw lumber (re_ quired for certain construction purposes) at their own mills and with relief labor. T. N4. True, Secretary of the Southern Cypress Manufacturers Association, hlre, has written to l.ulius F. Stone, Jr., Administrator of the Florida Emergency Relief Administration, and to Senator Fletcher at Washington, in regard to a sawmill set up in Madison County by FERA.

Mr. Stone has replied that the small plant which his ag'en'cy has erected at cherry Lake rural industrial com. munity, is intended entirely for the relief of the settlers in the community, which takes the form of helping them to provide materials for their homes and other nJ"..rry buildings. "This, of course',, he says, ,,really represents ng interference with the interests of private industry inasmuch as these people are now entirely dependent upon the FERA and constitute no market for other than the barest necessities of life." Mr. Stone further argues that the establish_ ment of a successful community will create a certain mar_ ket for lumber in the future.

Mr. True's position is that these emergency mill opera_ tions tend to "depopulate old established "orn-,rrriti." which have been built up around private mill operations now idle on ac.count of lack of demand for lumber.', Mr. True further contends that the proposed plant cannot be classed as a self-liquidating project, and that the lumber required for the community could be furnished immediate_ Iy by established mills at a lower cost to the taxpayer than by the relief mill, which will pay the cooperative colonists 15c an hour, as against the Z4c an hour private employers are paying.

"We think it is in the public intefest,', Mr. True con_ cludes, "for the Federal and State g.overnments to pur_ chase their lumber requirements through normal channels to the end that unemployment may be relieved.,,

W. C. Deering Elected President

John Dower who has retired as president of the John Dower Lumber Co. has been eiectecl chairman of the board of directors and W. C. Deering, vice president and general manager, was elected president at a meeting of th.e board of directors.

Price Filing Versus Price Fixing

The following letter, written in, whim,sical vein and sent to the January t hearing at Washington in response to a call for opinions and suggestions, is reprinted with the permission of the writer in the berief that iiwill be of much interest to the retail lumber dealers:

San F'rancisco, Calif., _ Jaouary 3rd, 1935. SUBJECT-HEARING JANUARY gTH, 1e35

Dear Sir:

Concisely:

Price Fixing The term misleading

Price Filing An intelligent tefm

Survival ; The Retail Lumber distributors can not survive

Without helppo maintain the integrity iof honest ethical merchandisers

From N.I.R.A.- Through firm measures looking to Compliance Which has at best been unsupported through

Conflicting Edi'cts, orders, wishy-washy spineless manana attitudes, unintelligible advices, Feversalls-yea, eveh pussy-footing in Washington for unknown reasons is responsible for the Retail Lumber Code going nearly

The N.I.R. Act is a law that is just as formidable as the Income Tax or the Inheritance Tax Laws.

Can be forestalled by enunciating quick- ly and courageously minimum price Filing honestly c6mputed at which we all sit in the-same

This concern though not ro,cking the skifi will pay an fncome tax foi t934 and our fervent appreciation and thanks go out to the N.I.R.A.

Uncle Sam Damn Glad And Besides

Without which, we, after forty-three years on the same corner must be readv to throw up the sponge

Surely needs the monqy and we are fo pay it

Mr. Dower was head of the Dower yards in Minnesota

Very truly yours, 'Major .E. Q. Griggs was elected vice president; Corv_ don Wagner, treasurer, and C. J. French, secretary. Th. other directors, who were re-elected, are A. H. Landram, Earl M. Rogers, Everett Griggs II and W. H. Hipple.

The happiest reaction we have is that largely throqgh the N. R. A. many of our old employees are back on the pay roll VAN

The only hope to continue the New for over twenty-five years, and in Washington for the past Deal in this Industry is to make the fifteen years. Mr. deering has.been with the Dower or- chiseler walk the ganization sin,ce 1910, and came West with Mr. Dower in Plank 1919 when the company opened their yards in Washing- There is some solution for every problem. ton with headquarters at Tacoma.

M. A. Harris. President