The California Lumber Merchant - March 1946

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I. E. MARI]N Mctacgring Editor

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

JaclcDionne,fufilishr-

Howl.rumber Lrooks

As we go to press the A. F'. of L. strike at the redwood mills in Humboldt and Mendocino counties, which started January 15, continues and the mills are still down. Chief issues involved in the strike are the union's demand for the union shop and a 22tl cents an hour pay increase. The lumber operators offered a 15 cents an hour wage increase, the same as was accepted by the Fir workers in the Northwest, but it was turned down by the union.

Seattle, Washington, Feb. 21.-The tveeklv average of West Coast lumber production in January (5 weeks) was 103,874,000 board feet, or 71.7 per cent ol 1942-1945 average, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in its monthly survey of the industry. Orders averaged 104,987,000 b.f. ; shipments 106,233,000. \\reekly averages for December were: Production88,27l,NO b.f. (60.9 per cent of the 1942-1945 average) ; orders 90,48q,000; shipments, 85,650,000.

West Coast lumber production for the first five rveeks of 1946 ran 29 per cent below the figure for the same periocl in 1945. Last year at this time logs were coming out o{ the woods, rvhile continued snows have kept most camps closed through this January. That is one factor of the current low production rate of the West Coast lumber industry. Another is the business uncertainty which prohibits acceptance of orders in large volume. It is a period u'hen any business may be crushed in the interplay'and conflict of group demands and governmental controls. Tl-ris is particularly true of the rvl-role building industry, and most of all of the industry that produces the basic material of build-

ing construction-lumber. Good weather will relieve the acute West Coast log shortage. but there is no similar prospect for an increase in production that will materially reduce the industry's unfilled order file ol 702,728,00O board feet- an amount which alone lvould keep the industry cutting for six and one-half weeks at its current rate.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended February 9, 101 mills reporting, ga'i'e orders as 47,398,000 feet, shipments 42,689,Om feet, and production 33, 990,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 285,5n,00O feet. I

The Southern Pine Association for tl.re rveek ended Febrtary 9,87 units (118 mills) reporting, gave orders as 18,532,000 feet, shipments 16,116,000 feet, and production 17,090,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled q5.960.000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended February 9, I4O mills reporting, gave orders as 76,800,000 feet, shipments 74,939,Ufi feet, and production 76,380,000 feet. ,

The San Francisco telephone number of The California Lumber Merchant has been changed to GRaystone 0756. The address is unchanged, 645 Leavenworth Street. San Francisco 9.

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Mill Ceiling Prices on Fir Lumber lncreased

\Aiashington, Feb. 21-OPA today announced an average in.crease of approximately $1.10 a thousand board feet in mill price ceilings for Douglas fir, western hemlock and true fir lumber. effective March 6.

The agency ordered a readjustment of prices which it said t,ill increase ceilings on some of these items and reduce them on others.

The readjustment, OPA added, will give mills a profit three per cent greater than at preseht, and an approximate average realization of $40 per 1000 board feet on Douglas fir.

OPA said the new price regulation is designed primarily to stimulate production of lumber needed for home construction.

It added that the measure r,vill not increase costs to builders and home ou'ners, since "the margins of retail distributors are ample to absorb the increase to an extent 'ivhich will hold the average level of prices to that existing before the increase."

Sells Solcnc Beach Yard

The Barr Lumber Company of Santa Ana has sold its Solana Beach yard to the Lumber & Builders Supply Co., a co-partnership composed of H. G. Larrick, Sr., as managing partner, and Herschell G. Larrick, Jr., Alexander L. Childs and Porter E. Jennings as general partners. The yard rvas established in 1923 by H. G. I-arrick, Sr., and was operated by him for fifteen years under the name of Lumber & Builders Supply Co. He also managed the yard while it rvas orvned by the Barr Lumber Company. The name of the yard now retlrrns to its former name.

Mr. Larrick's partners are all veterans of World War II n'ith distinguished combat records.

Coqst Dockmen Vote to Strike

San Francisco, Feb. 2l-The C.I.O. Iuternational Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union announced today that Pacific Coast dock lvorkers have voted to strike "on or before April 1" in support of their wage and rvorking conclition demands. The strike rvould affect 22,0N rn'orkers from Vancouver, Wash., to San Diego, Calif.

The union and employers have been negotiating a 1946 contract in 'ivhich the longshoremen ask $1.50 per hour. The prevailing u'age is $1.15.

Eugene Holland Elected President O[ Masonite Corporation

Eugene Holland, former president of the Florence Stove Company, has been elected president and a director of the Masonite Corporation, and assumed his duties February 1. He succeeds M. P. McCullough, one of the founders of the company, 'ivho rvill continue as a member of the board and as chairman of the executive committee. Mr. McCullough has been serving as president pro tem since the death of Ben Alexander in 1944.

N{r. Holland, with Florence Stove Company since 1940, was elected its president last year after serving as vice president in charge of operations. A graduate of the Nebraska University, he engaged in the retail lumber business at Lincoln, Neb., in 1917, building a chain of six retail yards which he operated as the Holland Lumber Company. In 7928, he joined Universal Gypsum Company as president and general manager, and from 1936 to 1940 r,vas associated with the Chicago office of Sanderson and Porter. His home is in Glencoe, Ill.

The Masonite board also reports that R. G. Wallace, associated with the company since 1926, retired in December as executive vice president and director.

Pcrctrooper Specrks to Sqcrcmento Club

About fifty lumbermen were in attendance at the monthly dinner meeting of the Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club,, held at Wilson's Cafe, Sacramento, February 20.

Ray E. Burdg, Noah Adams Lumber Calif., president of the club, presided.

The speaker was Lieut. Col. Hester, experiences as a leader of paratroopers u,ar theater.

Co., Clarksburg, who told of his in the European

Visitors from the San Francisco llav district rvere Albert A. Kellev and I-eo Hulett.

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Announccs Appointments

L. M. Cassidy, vice president of Johns-N{anville Corporation, has announced the follorving appointments in the company's sales organization.

J. A. O'Brien, White Plains, Nerv York, vice president of Johns-Nfanville Sales Corporation, a subsidiary,. l.ras been appointecl manager of the po\ver proclucts and irrdustrial department. Mr. O'Brien began l.ris career rvith the company in 1915.

H. R. Berlin, Scarsdale, Nerv York, has been elected vice president of Johns-N{anville Sales Corporation and is appointed manager of the building materials and general department of the company. He u'ill also serve as a member of the Oflicers Board. He joined the company n1926 as an acoustical engineer.

C. G. Dandrorv, White Plains, Nerv York, l-ras been elected a vice president of Johns-Manville Sales Corporation ancl is appointed general sales manager of the Power products ancl industrial department. He has b.een u'ith the company since 1922.

New Lumber Group Completes Orgcnizction Plcrns

The Pacific I-umber Re-l\'Ianufacturer's Association at a recent meeting in Portland, Ore., completed plans preparing the rvay for an organization, national in scope, 'lvhich worrld unify, discuss and ansrver current problems for resarving, milling-in-transit and similar operations.

(lfficers elected at the meeting include Ilaymond Leu'is, Raymond Hardu'ood Co,., Raymoncl, Wash., presidentiJohn Harris, Reclding Forest Products, Redding, Calif., vicepresident; J. H. Jones, Golden Gate Lumlter Co., Eugene, Ore., secretary-treasurer; Dick Ultican, Jr., Ultican Manufacturing Co., Aberdeen, \Vash., and A. N. trord, Ford and Ford, Portland, Ore., directors. Morris N. Ellen, Portland, rvill represent the association as attorney.

The position cr{ executive secretarv has yet to be named. Potential n.rembership in the state o{ Oregon, Washington and California is set at 175.

Ecst Bcry Hoo-Hoo Club

To Meet Mcrch 18

The regular monthlv dinner

Hoo Club Nb. 39l'ill be helcl at on X{ondav evening, Nlarch 1[3,

meetirrg of East llotel Clarenrorlt, at 6:39 p.rn.

Two Forest Supervisors Transferred

Regional Forester S. B. Show has announced the traltsfer on March I of Supervisor S. A. Nash-Boulden of Los Padres National Forest, at Santa Barbara, to the California region headquarters of the U. S. Forest Service in San Francisco. NIr. Nash-Boulden will direct State-rvide Federal activities in forest fire prevention.

Supervisor Nash-Boulden has had 34 years' experiertce in National Forest administration in this State. He has been closell' associated with all phases of forest fire control and is u'ell qualified to filI this position which n'ill have as its principal objective the developrnent of policies and methods to reduce man-caused fires and fire hazards. During last year more thar-r 750 man-caused fires lturned nearly 50,000 acres rvithin the national forests o{ California.

N{r. Shon' has named Andrerv G. Brenneis, Supervisor of the Trinitl' National Forest, Weaverville, California, as successor to Supervisor Nash-Boulden. Mr. Brenneis, a professionally trained forester, rvas first employed by the U. S. Forest Service in 1926 and l-ras served as supervisor of the Cleveland, Lassen, ancl Trinity National Forests.

Buys Redwood Timber

J. H. England, J. H. England l-tturber Co., \Vinlock, \\tash., has 1>urchased the South Navarro timber holdings of the old Nortl-rn'estern Reclrvood Lnurlter Co. The holdings, consisting of over 2,0O0 acres of redu,ood timber, are lcicated in the Comptche ar.rd Navarro section of Mendocir-ro Countl', Calif. The Northr'vestern Redrvood Lumlter Co. formerly operated a sarvmill at Willits.

JJecause of tl-re present machinery shortage, Mr. England n'ill rvait lntll 1917 to build an al1-electric mill on the propert.v. In tl.re meantime, he piar-rs to build five miles of private road to a connection l,ith the Navarro road through Anderson \ralle1-, ovelrvl-rich lumbel l'ill be trucked to Sarr Francisco r.nd otlter markets.

Peter Stone Resigns

Bay HooISerkcl cy,

Peter Stone is resigning frorn the OPA effective March 15, and he is going rvith the F. W. Doclge Corporatior.r of Nerv York. W. S. Ingram, formerly rvith the OPA Regional Office in San Francisco, and norv the Price Executive of the Building Nfaterials and Construction Branch of ()PA in Washington, u,ill succeed hinr.

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Opposer Patman Housing Bill

Much needed lumber for the Reconversion Housing Program can and will be produced by the nation's lumber mills if a reasonable and realistic price policy is put into effect, Henry Bahr, secretary of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, told the l{ouse Banking and Currency Committee February. 1. Mr. Bahr appeared in opposition to the Patman Housing Bill, which would establish price ceilings on new and existing housing facilities, provide subsidies for the construction of low-cost homes and create a "czar" for housing.

In commenting on the bill, Mr. Bahr pointed out thht: (l) the powers recently granted Wilson Wyatt by executive order of the President made it unnecessary to provide for a national housing stabilizer; (Z) on the matter of price controls for new and existing housing the Executive Committee of NLMA believes such an extension is unnecessary and would retard the housing program; and (3) the Association is opposed to subsidies for lor,v cost homes, materials or t'orkers, as subsidies are not solutions to production bottlenecks. They only create new problems which further delay a practical solution of the critical housing shortage.

Recounting the history of the industry during the war and since, N{r. Bahr pointed out that OPA was the outstanding example in the Government of "too little and too late."

Proposes Nationwide Meeting ol AU Lumber Brqnches

A plan to stage an industry-wide meeting of national scope, to embrace all branches of the lumber world for the purpose of creating a united front in meeting conditions, is being placed before the various state and regional lumber associations.

The suggestion comes from the Carolina-Virginia Lumbermen's Club, rvhich, at a meeting in Raleigh, N. C., adopted this program as their chief project for the year. Manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers are specifically embraced in the program in order to secure cooperation of all branches.

The purpose of the mass meeting i5 to formulate plans of action to present to Congress the situation in rvhich the lumber industry finds itself in being unable to supply returned servicemen with homes, and industr)' with lumber to provide them lr.ith employment. President Joe \Ar. McLaney has a definite program for such a meeting in u'hich causes and remedies u'ould be discussed.

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St. Paul d Tacomcr Lumber Co. Tccomc, Wcsh.

Delicrnce Lurnber Compcrny Tqcomc, Wcrsh.

Dicloncrn Lumber Compcny Tccomc, Wcstr.

Kcrlen-Dcrvis Compcrny Tccomc, Wash.

Vcrncouver Plywood & Veneer Co. Vqncouver, Wcrsh.

Tccomc Harbor Lumber d Timber Co. Tccomc, Wcrsh.

Clecr Fir Scrles Co. Eugene, Ore.

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Roseburg; Ore.

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WHITNEY OLSON s. s. wEsT coAsT

The use of the name of the Lord in this organization is, I am convinced, in the nature of a prayer, rather than an oath. God knows well how thoroughly confused all the lumber people are. And, since the Washington announcement of the new rules covering industry and profits, the confusion has grown, rather than decreased.

On the very same day I talked with a big mill man and a big retail line yard man. The mill man said he was going to close his very large sawmill plant-one of the largest in the South-for good, and dismantle the mill, all because he could not operate under present restrictions and rules and regulations.

The retail line yard man with several millions invested in a string of big yards, said they were seriously considering closing their yards entirely, locking the gates, and waiting for a healthier atmosphere in which to do business. I{e said OPA and other government regulatory bodies had put him entirely out of business, and it was silly to waste a lot of money keeping open businesses that had nothing to sell.

You can multiply those cases by thousands and tens of thousands. All mills that would like to do so and would profit by doing so, cannot close down as this one mill has. And all yards are not in position to consider complete closing. But there are thousands that would want nothing better' * * *

The recent shift in the business regulatory agencies and also the shift in personalities, will not help the lumber industry in the least. It will NOT produce a foot more lumber than was being produced before the change. The lumber folks are now fully convinced that the gang in Washington is working steadfastly on regulations and planning that will carry regimentation right on through the years; and continue their jobs.

Mr. Truman finally got around to speaking high praise for production as a means of saving the postwar nation. Even Mr. Bowles said in the papers that he was willing to go along with changes that would increase necessary production. But how can we rejoice at what they SAY, when what they DO keeps staring us in the face? And up to

this moment every move of Mr. Bowles, and every suggestion of Mr. Truman. are in directions that would restrict, reduce, and retard production.

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There is no hope for us to get out of this mess except through UNRESTRICTED production. Regulated production will always, necessarily, be light production. The boys who crack the whip in Washington do not seem to know that. The time-honored law of supply and demand is as popular with our administration offEcials as the proverbial skunk at the children's lawn party. They never even mention the time-worn old rule that has served the world since civilization began. We must have reconversion over the artificial, man-made route. No other need apply. :B**

Mr. Bowles seems to be the sort of man who, if he saw a tea kettle boiling over, would try to hold down the lid, instead of opening a vent to let the surplus power out. >I*<*

About the only time-tested fundamentals they have failed to throw out in Washington, are two: the killing qualities of carbolic acid, and the purgative properties of castor oil. They haven't tried to regulate those yet.

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The housing shortage grows worse and worse. It is a terrific national headache. All building materials are short, including lumber. Has anything been done that even the most optimistic would consider likely to increase the production of lumber? Could any of the n€w rules and regulations possibly have that effect? The answer is no. And only by tremendously increasing the production of lumber and other building materials, can the housing shortage be handled. ***

And so on down the line. The shelves and bins of the nation are bare, and they are bare because of federal rules and restrictions, principally those of OPA. Only in the Black Market is there a generous supply of goods, OPA makes the Black Market. It sustains the Black Market. And there isn't a chance on earth to kill the Black Market except by producing such an abundance of everything we need and want that the prices will get down to where there is no chance for profit for the Black Market operators. There is no other *"t olr. * *

OPA says that it has prevented inflation by holding the price line, but holding the price line in the way it has been done has thoroughly stifled production, and there is no cure for threatened infation except great production. So

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One of my friends tells me that all the lumber folks in the country are now members of an organization called GAIC-"God. am I confused."

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Home Office-Aberdeen, Wcrshingrton

Mcrrufqcturers of Douglcrs Fir cnd West Coost Hemlock

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the OPA, in trying to prevent inflation, has only prevented production, which is the sure and only destroyer of infation' ,< * ,<

There came in this morning's mail an open letter from H. V. Simpson of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, at Seattle. The first paragraph is interesting. It reads: "On my desk is a long dispatch from Washington that recites a series of measures the OPA is considering to increase the production of home-building lumber. Beside it is the Chief Forester's annual report PRESENTING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DECREASING LUMBER PRODUCTION."

rt is my honest opirriorl.*1. I".rr,ning the administra' tion at Washington has done of late and is doing now, tends to decrease the full possible production of lumber. When the know-it-all boys quit trying to run this nation and all of its business, we may start getting out of this mess we are in. But up to now they are still trying the same artificial respiration they have been fooling with since the summer of 1933, except during the war years. And it isn't working, because there is no sense to it.

OPA rules have been the indirect cause of many of the paralyzing strikes. Whatever their justice or injustice, strikes destroy production, force people to use up their savings in order to live, and deprive the public generally of the goods that would have been manufactured had there been no strikes. These losses can never be made up. They are gone forever'

Take price ceilings and production. Full production is absolutely impossible under price ceilings. Any student of business psychology knows that regardless of the height of the ceiling, it would certainly have a retardent effect on production. Price ceilings prevent vital goods from being made-invariably.

Continued government spending and waste, discourages production; and our government is still spending and wasting at a tremendous rate. This means high taxes, and high taxes mean less business, less production, fewer jobs, and less money to spend.

What we desperately need right now, and should get through the acts of Congress, are: A labor policy that will treat and consider labor and industry exactly alike, and with the public interest in mind at all times; removal of price control over manuJactured goods; cutting down gov-

ernment spending and balancing the budget; stopping of all artificial controls over business, industry, and commerce'

Young Henry Ford has recently been touring the country. He makes a splendid personal impression. He says the only thing that can save this country is for everyone to go back to work. He says the nation has forgotten how to work. He says that the efficiency of labor in the Ford plants has fallen off 34 per cent since before the war. Asked how long it would be until a man can walk into a Ford sales room and'buy a car like he used to do, he replied it would be at least one and one-half years, and probably two.

rn light of what -. ;J ,loo,, ,. can safely be said that it will be at least that long before a man can ivalk into a lumber yard, buy the materials, and build a home. And that's hell, neighbor, that's hell.

Wouldn't it be wond**, ,, J.,.r, -". in this country would get a proper picture of what this nation and this government should really mean to him? What America gives a man is a place to do something for himself. But it doesn't do your work for you. It simply says here is a wonderful place where there is ample opportunity to do your best, and be rewarded according to how good that is. Neither the world nor this country owes any man a living just for being around and breathing. The door at the bottom is open to get on the ladder of success, and at the top it is open so you can get on the roof if you can climb that high. But you've got to do your own climbing.

rf the gang in *"rnr:*;" lo."r,', awake soon to a realization of what must be done to get this country straightened out, they are going to be in the position of the flyer whose ship was lost in a heavy fog, and whose fuel was getting low. He couldn't find a beam for a long time, and was getting desperate, when he finally picked one up and found himself over a landing field, but with the air still filled with soupy fog so that he could see nothing. He signaled the field, said he was short of fuel, and asked for instructions. The operator below told him to circle the field for five minutes and report back. He did. By this time his fuel was almost gone and he said so, and asked for orders. The operator below told him to circle the field one more time, and call back. He did. He said one engine had quit, the other was sputtering, his fuel gauge said empty, and he couldn't see a thing, so what should he do. The operator below called up to him: 'lRepeat after ms-'Qlu Father who art i11 fis3ys11-.",

My Home That Used To Be

If I had found the old house waiting there, Beneath the trees rvhere I in childhood played, fts oaken door ajar, its windows bright With glowing tints the fires of sunset made, I would have crossed the dusty, time worn sill And wandered through the empty. rooms alone, Pausing tB touch the dear, familiar walls Or stand in silence by the cold hearth stone.

I would have conjnred to that well loved place The {orms of those who made and called it home, My mother sewing by the evening lamp, My father reading from some treasrrred tomeWith all the gracious arts of living wl-rich they wrought Into the pattern of their love for me, And fashioned memories which hang today, Like rainbows over life's mysterious sea.

If I had found the garden as of old, The pink moss roses and the jasmine vine, The tall syringas and the lilacs too, Dear fragrant flowers that once were theirs and mine; If I had wandered down the orchard path, Under the blossom laden trees, I would have heard sweet voices of the past fn every r,vhispering breeze.

But no, the house was gone, the garden dead. The orchard trees were blossomless and bere; There seemed no semblance in that r.r'asted place Of aught that we had deemed supremely fair. But as with tear dimmed eyes I turned away, A rose my mother's hands had planted smiled at me ! I kissed the perfumed buds in memory Of one dear home-my home that used to be.

-Adeline Merriam Conner

Price Differenticl Ccncelled

The proposed OPA order whi,ch would have permitted sawmills located on the Pacific Coast to charge $2.50 per thousand feet more for Douglas fir lumber, to buyers on the East Coast who receive their lumber by water shipment, than those mills were permitted to charge to buyers on the West Coast, has been cancelled for the present time.

New S. F. Wholesale and Retail Yard Specializes in Western Pine

Western Pine Supply Company, l20I Harrison Street, San Francisco 3, started operation February 1 as a wholesale and retail business specializing in Ponderosa and Sugar pine lumber and mouldings. They will stock pine plywood later, as soon as it is available. They have leased the property of the Sugar Pine Lumber Company, rvhich recently retired from business.

Philip J. McCoy is president of the company, and James M. Corbet is secretary-treasurer.

Mr. McCoy has a good background of experience in the manufacturing and wl.rolesale branches of the lumber industry, and as a Lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy became better known in Pacifi,c Coast lumber circles when he was in charge of pine purchases in the CPA San Francisco office.

The telephone number of \\/estern Pine Supply Company is UNderhill 8686.

Appoints Hoo-Hoo Nine

D'ave Davis, Vicegerent Snark for the San Francisco District has appointed the following to serve on this district's "Nine" for the Hoo-Hoo year expiring September 9, 1946:. Senior lloo-lloo, Earl Carlson, Santa Fe Lumber Co.; Junior Hoo-Hoo, Carl Warden, Warden Bros.; Jabberwock, Seth Butler, Dant & Russell, Inc.; Gurdon, Charles Lindsay, Smith Lumber Co.; Custocatian, Larue Woodson, Nicolai Door Sales Co.; Scrivenoter, Paul E. Overend, California Redwood Association; Bojum, Frank Egnell, Service Lumber & Supply Co.; Arcanoper, Floyd Elliott, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co.; Pianist, "Sti" Stibich, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc.

Arrangements are being made to have a golf tournament, dinner and Concatenation in May, at a time and place to be announced later.

Sells Plcning MiIl

J. M. Reinarz has started operation bf a custom planing mill at Smith River, Calif., handling lumber from various sawmills in that vicinity. He purchased the plant from the Crag Lumber Co., Inc. The planing mill has a capacity of 25,0n feet of finished lumber per day. Mr. Reinarz tvas formerly superintendent of the Shasta Planing Mill at Klamath Falls, Ore.

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New Naval Rules

Charles Kempner, riotously funny man of the screen and radio, wows audiences of sailors with this one.

He says that the Navy is calling in and cancelling all previous manuals and rules and regulations covering the deportment and actions of sailors. and subtituted therefor

Lqwrence-Philips Lumber Compcny

The Philips-Hill Lumber Company, a co-partnership of D. R. Philips and Ray H. Hill has been dissolved as of February 15,1946.

Ray Hill is going into a nerv venture in the lumber business to be announced later.

D. R. Philips and son, Donald R. Philips, Jr., recently discharged from the U. S. Navy, will continue in the wholesale lumber business as a co-partnerhip under the old firrn name of the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company, established in 1929.

three simple rules that every sailor may plainly underStand, as follows:

First-If it moves, salute it.

Second-If it doesn't move, pick it up.

Third-If you can't pick it up-paint it.

New Retcril Ycrrd

Andrew Baldwin and William A. (Bill) Samuelson have opened a retail lumber yard at 11764 West Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, rvhich will be known as the Los Angeles Lumber Company. They will run a mill in connection with the lumber business and will have one of the largest resaws in use in this section, designed especially for large timbers and electrically operated. The Pacific Electric Railway Co. has put in a spur track at the plant. Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuelson have been associated with the lumber business for a long time.

Ceiling Prices Raised on Prefabricated Homes

Washington.-The Office of Price Administration has acted to stimulate the production of prefabricated houses by permitting ceiling prices to be called on the basis of current material and labor costs rather than on the cost of materials and labor rates in March, 7942.

The revised formula applies to single and multiple unit dwellirrgs.made mostly of wood. In addition' to.currr:ent costs, markups of 36 per cent at the manufactuiers' level and l0 per cent at the resellers' level are permitted. These percentages remain unchanged from the previous method of computing ceilings.

The new ceilings will result in correspondingly higher costs to buyers of prefabricated houses, the OPA said.

The National Housing Agency estimates that the costs to buyers of building materials and labor rates on houses of all types has risen about 36 per cent.since 1940.

IJnder the revised pricing method materials costs used to figure ceilings may not exceed the maximum prices for carload purchases of lumber milhvork, shingles, composition roofing, siding, rn'allboard and sheathing.

If the reseller installs the prefabricated house, he may add the sum of the actual cost of additional materials to his actual labor costs of installation and also add a 10 per cent markup.

Pricing Method for Doors and Windows Wired with Mesh Aluminum Screen Wire

A uniform method for coi'nputing manufacturers' ceiling prices for combination storm and screen doors and window and sash screens wired with 16 x 16 mesh aluminum screen wire cloth, a comparatively new product, has been established by Office of Price Administration, effective February lZ, 1946.

Consumers' prices for the items wired with the new product will be higher than those paid for items rvired with ordinary screen, but they r,r'ill be in line tvith the prices charged for other stock screen goods covered by the regulation.

In the past, manufacturers have had to apply to OPA for individual ceiling prices for the new product.

Combination Storm and Screen Doors-In computing their ceiling prices for these doors wired with 16 x 16 mesh aluminum wire, manufacturers may add $1.35 to the list prices of 14 mesh galvanized wire listed in Catalogue No. 40 of Standard Lists, and apply a discount of 591 per cent.

Window and Sash Screens-In computing ceiling prices for rn'indow and sash screens wired with 16 x 15 mesh aluminum wire, manufacturers are required to use the 16 mesh bronze wire list found in Catalogue No. 40 of Stanclard Lists and apply a ffi% per cent discount.

(Amendment No. 12 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation 293-Stock Millwork; effective February 12, 1946.)

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Give Us Freedom to Produce Housing

V. Simpson, Executive Vice President, \Uest Coast Lumbermen's Association Offers an Answer to "Housing Shortoge" Agitation

On my desk is a long dispatch from Washington that recites a series of measures the Civilian Production Administration is considering to increase the production of home-building lumber. Beside it is the Chief Forester's Annual Report, presenting recommendations for decreasing lumber production. These two items represent just one of the many current collisions of Government agencies

baked or rvholly unfounded charges were piling up because of slowness in home building in such areas of over-population as Portland and Seattle. Recently in Seattle a mayor's conference came to such conclusions as these, as published on the front pages of the city's newspapers:

"The chief bottleneck to new contruction is lack of building materials, particularly lumber.

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lumber cnd shingles cvcilable, but with no work lor cr month on 30 ol lhe units ct the time picture wqs taken Note house ot lelt wilh bocrded-up windows+no worlc on it since September, 1945. The builder slqted thcl grecter lumber supply would be oI little help in hcstening completion ol this iob cnd stcrting <r trew one, while there were yet critical shortcAes in other building matericl items. The $64 queetion on the progrcm of home building in Seqttle aad Portlcnd, cg in most othei creqs ol the country, ie, "When will there be cn cdequcte supply ol building labor? How long will we hqve to stand in liae lor ccrpenters crnd hod ccrriers?" "Whct is lhe home-building picture in your community?" agks H. V. Simpson. rvhich catch productive industry in the middle and beat down its freedom to produce.

Everywhere in the country a hue and cry is being raised about "the housing shortage." Nine times out of ten "the lumber shortage" is given as the main restraint on home building. Public opinion is being stirred up against the building industry and the lumber industry by the conservative press ald.politicians as well as by the Leftists. "Housing for the veteran" has succeeded "Bring the bo1'5 home" as a theme for agitation.

So there you have it in two paragraphs, perhaps oversimplified, but representing the two sides of the general situation in the field of home building and its basic material. lumber.

Let's get the facts on the building situation everywhere, and publicize them. We have begun to do this in the producing region of the West Coast lumber industry. Half-

"OPA pricing policies have resulted in a substantial diversion of lumber to the Mid-West. the East and California.'

"The supply of building labor, except for highly skilled craftsmen, will be adequate when sufficient materials are available."

There lvas more, much more, but those three paragraphs show how the heat was put on materials, "particularly lumber," in such meetings and how the shortages of building labor and their causes were glossed over,

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association went after the facts, with an investigator, a prominent building contractor, and a cameraman. The facts were dug up and pictured and the Seattle press gave them a good play. The only weakness in the factual story was on the labor situation. Contractors were naturally reluctant to put themselves on the spot with the sources of control over their skilled labor supply.

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We were able to show, however, that construction on a hundred homes in Seattle was being held up by lack of rock lath-and also that contractors who had lath were unable to find hod carriers ! Our cameraman caught views of brick sidewalls half corapleted, with no bricklayers in sight or in prospect.

In Portland work was halted on a large project for lack of 16-penny framing nails. And there contractors were standing in line for carpenters.

These are just snapshots of a stock of facts that rvere brought out for public information. No attempt was made to cover up a shortage of lumber. But 'ive did shorv that the effort of the West Coast lumber industry to spreacl its product equitably among its old friends of normal trade, in the markets of the Mid-West, the East and California, was not the prime reason for the slowness of home building in our over-crowded cities of Seattle and Portland.

Probably the nation-wide agitation on "the housing shortage" rvill cause charges to be made in some cities of the Mid-West, the East and California, that the Pacific Northwest is using so much of its own lumber that home building elsewhere is being unfairly deprived of its basic material.

I am sure that in every such center the same sort of investigation that has been made on the West Coast will show that the worst shortages are in labor and in materials other than lumber.

The West Coast lumber industry is plannipg and working with might and main to produce for its normal markets and old customers everywhere in the country. Industry leaders believe that lumber will be ready when labor and

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other materials are ready; that builders will be able to get plenty of lumber n'hen they have all else that is needed to get up steam and roll out on the main line of American home building.

Ho'wever, West Coast lumber faces tl-re big IF that all private enterprise faces in planning its future. That IF is freedorn to produce. If all of tl-re industries and businesses that make up the home building industry are given freedom to produce, then all of us rvill knorv that we can plan and move by the old rule of American progress-the law of supply and demand. While that rule is inoperative, tl-re lumber industry, with other industries, faces uncertainty and confusion.

Mean'ivhile, let us keep unity in the building industry and rvork together to present the plain, unvarnished facts on "the housing shortage" to the public everywhere.

New Yard in San Ccrrlos

County Road Lumber Co., San Carlos, Calif., was opened for business February 1. The partners are Bert Hasselberg and Arthur M. Paulson. Mr. Paulson, who is a son of the late Arthur M. Paulson, Paulson Lumber Sales Agency, San Francisco, was recently discharged from the U. S. Marine Corps. He had 35 months service, was a Corporal, and rvas wounded at Leyte in the Philippines.

Mill Ceilings ol Southern Pine Lumber

OPA announced that the average increase 1,000 board feet in mill ceilings of southern became effective Feb. 20. (Amendment 15 to vised MPR 19, effective Feb. 20.)

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Specific Invoicing Features lssued For Yard Salec of Softwood

An amendment to the revised Maximum Price Regttlation No. 2l5-Distribution Yard Sales of Softwood, effective January 22, 7.946, sets forth the specific information vi'hich must appear on an invoice covering a yard sale of softwood.

All invoices must contain a sufficiently complete de' scription of the lumber to show whether the price is right or not; i.e., grade, quantity, size, condition of dressing, pattern, species, and afiy other extra or specification u.hich affects the n.raximum prices. The amount added for each extra or specification does not have to be shown separately on the bill; except on sales of lumber to be shipped outside the United States, in which case, the invoice must also shor'v the actual expenses incurred in making' such shipments. The invoice must further reveal 'ivhether working kiln-drying or treating was done by a distribution yard or custom establishment and if done by the latter, a copy of the bill for such services must be attached to the distribution yard invoice. Any addition for delivery must be shorl'n separately on the invoice.

Where the invoice for a sale of lumber does not carry a sufficiently complete description to show that the price appearing on it is within the maximum prices fixed by this regulation, the maximum price applicable to such sale shall be the maximum price of the lowest priced item under this regulation to which the description could apply. In the absence of any description at all, the maximum price shall be the lo'n'est price tl-rat can be computed under this regulation.

(Amendment No. 15 to Second Revised Maximum Price Regulation No.21S-Distribution Yard Sales of Softrvood; effective lanuarv 22, 1946.\

With Moncrch tumber Co.

R. O. Wilson, rvell knorvn wholesale lumberman, is now associated with Monarch Lumber Company, Oakland, as purchasing agent. He has completely recovered from the illness which kept him out of circulation for a while last fall, and has made several trips into the lumber producing regions of Northern California and the Pacific Northwest.

SanFrancisco Lumbermen'r Club

A record crorvd caused some to be turned away at the meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club (sponsored by Hoo-Hoo Club No.9), held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, February 19.

Members enjoyed the Louis-Conn 1941 fight pictures and the opportunity of meeting so many of their fellow lumbermen.

President Dave Davis presided, and Al Nolan conducted a very successful raffle. Prizes r,r,ere awarded as follows: bottle of bourbon, John Helm; bottle of scotch, Art Field; 2 lbs bacon, O. L. Russum; 3 lbs. bacon, W. B. Jefierson; I lb. butter, Frank Boileau; pair nylons, Bob Gehring.

It rvas decided to form a bowling team. Aspirants should phone Fred Amburgey, Pope & Talbot, Inc., DOuglas 2567, for particulars.

Secretary-treasurer Paul E. Overend reported a paidup membership of 130. Dues may be mailed to him c/o California Redu-ood Association, 405 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 4.

Lumber Inspection Services Suspended Irom Price Control

Lumber inspection servibes performed by non-profit org'anizations not engaged in the business of selling or distributing lumber have been suspended from price control, efiective February ll, 1946. Laboratory testing services rvere alsg suspende-d.

(Amendment No. 69 to. Revised Supplementary Regulation No. il to the General Maximum Price Regulation; effectir,e Februarl' ll , 1946.)

9 Ccrgo Ships lor Pccilic Coast

Washington, Feb. 1S.-The War Shipping Adrniuistration today announced allocation of nine coastal cargo vessels for the Pacific coastwise service. The ships are expected to "greatly alleviate" the railroad car shortage in the Pacific northwest and California. Three ships were allocated to the Coastwise Line, three to Pope & Talbot, and one each to Olympic Steamship Co., Burns Steamship Co., and James Griffiths & Sons.

Qucrliliccrtions oI a Salesman

1. Must be a man of vision and ambition^ an afterdinner speaker, before and after dinner guzzlet, nite owl, work all day arid drive all night and appear fresh the next day.

2. Must leirn to sleep on the foor and eat two meals a day to economize on traveling expenses so he can entertain customers in the next town.

3. Must be able to entertain customers, wives, sweethearts, and stenographers without becoming too amorous.

4. Must inhale dust, drive through snow ten feet deep and ten below, and work all summer without perspiring or acquiring B.O.

5. Must be a man's man, a lady's man, a model husband, a fatherly father, a good provider, a plutocrat, Democrat, Republican, New Dealer, Old Dealer, and a fast dealer; a technician, a politician, a mathematician, and a mechanic-

6. Must be sales promotion expert, create a demand for obsolete merchandise, be a good credit manager, correspondent.

7. Must attend all dealers' meetings, tournaments, funerals, hospitals, jails, and contact all accounts every six weeks.

8. Must in spare time look for new business, do missionary work, and attend factory sales conferences.

9. Must have unlimited endurance for wine, women, and song, wind and gab; a wide range of telephone num' bers in all principal cities.

10. Must have a good car, and attractive home, belong to all clubs, pay all expenses at home and on the road on a 5 per cent commission.

11. Must be expert driver, talker, liar, dancer, traveler, bridge player, gin rummy, poker hound, golfer, diplomat, financier, capitalist, philanthropist; and must be an authority on palmistry, chemistry, psychology, physiology, dogs, cats, horses, blondes, brunettes, red-heads, etc., etc. etc.

Memories

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and when, f have forgotten. And what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh

Upon my glass, and listen for reply. And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain, For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished, one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before; I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that sings in me no more.

-Edna Vincent Millay.

The Dog Thct Obeyed Orders

A gang of negroes were sitting around during the noon hour, eating lunch out of their tin pails and at the same time doing much discussing and discoursing, as is the custom of colored folks under such conditions. The subject of dogs arose. Hunting dogs, smart dogs, all sorts of dogs. Several took the wraps off of their imaginations and recited marvelous feats of intelligence performed by dogs they knew or had known. One story led to another, the lies getting bigger as they went along. Finally Amos Johnson cut in for the first time:

"You know whuts I thinks? I thinks dey ain't none o' youse whut knows whut a smaht dog reely is. Nossuh, I don' believe you does. Now lemme tell erbout my dog. I gots me a dog whut unestans evathing I says t' him. An' evathing I tells dat dog t' do, he doos hit. Yassuh ! Why, when I leaves home in de mawnin', I jus' say to dat dog, I say'Boy, are you comin' wid me, or aintcha?' Dass all I says. An' you know dat dog eithah does or he don't-yessuh-eva time."

Getting Out cr PcPer

Getting out a paper is no Picnic.

If we print too many jokes, they say we are silly.

If we don't, they say we are too serious.

If we stick to our own stufr, they say we lack variety.

If we use other people's stuff, they say we are too lazy to write.

If we don't print the things folks send in, they say we lack appreciation.

If we do, they say we print a lot of amateurish junk.

Some rascal will probably say we swiped this from some other paper.

That's right. We did.

My Golf Clubs

How dear to my heart are my mashie and niblick, My driver and putter, my brassie and spoon, My midiron so thrusty-although they're all rusty, I'll be clouting yon pill with you all very soon.

With my spoon I will bash it, that ball-I will mash it, O'er bunker and sand trap, o'er bushes and lake, I'll loft it precisely, and make it land nicely, Then one lonesome putt and a birdie I'll take.

Oh ! Would that I could make my golf dreams come true, In glee and in gladness quite loudly I'd yell, But when I have dubbed every shot round the iourse, I wish every club in the bag was in Hell.

New Construction Activity

New construction in January 1946 totaled 9503,000,000, an increase of 6 per cent over December and 82 per cent over January 1945, the Construction Division, Department of Commerce, reported.

Privately financed construction in January 1946 reached the highest level in almost five years rvith a volume of $394,000,000. This figure represented an increase of 8.5 per cent over December and 249 per cent over January 1945. The rise from December to January was a deviation from the normal seasonal trend of about 5 per ,cent decline, it was pointed out.

Publicly financed construction declined $2,000,000 frorn the December level to $109,000,000 in January. The volume of publicly financed construction in January 1945 was $1e,000,000.

' In the privately financed group, residential construction (exclusive of farm dwellings) amounted to $138,00O,000 in January 1946 and showed only a small rise-3 per centfrom December. Constru,ction of stores, restaurants and garages increased 24 per cent from December to $46,000,000 in January, and industrial construction advanced IZ oer cent from December to $l 11,000,000 in January. Privatel-y financed public utilities construction continued at a fairlv even pace rvith $48,00O,000 in January as compared r..itir $50,m0,000 in December.

The volume of publicly financed residential construction in January amounted to only $1,000,000, the same as in December, and public non-residential construction also remained'unchanged at $31,000,000. Military and naval construbtion continued its downward trend, dropping 10 per cent from December to $17,000,000 in January. Highway 'construction amounting to $25,000,000 in January reflected seasonal influences in a 14 per cent drop from the previous month. There rvere small increases in January in hospital, institutional, educational, and sewer and rvater construction, and in expenditures for conservation and development projects.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting

Frederick Richman, prominent lawyer and apartment house owner, was the speaker at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club luncheon meeting at the University Club, Los Angeles, February 26. He gave an interesting talk on the housing situation. President George Clough presided. There was a good attendance.

Terrible Twenty Golf Tourncment

Bob Mason won the first prize, a sterling silver goblet, with a net score of 68 at the 237th Terrible Twenty .gol{ tournament held at the San Gabriel Country Club, San Gabriel, February 15. Ed Bauer and Curt McFadden rvere tied for the second prize, each turning in a net 7l score, and they will play-off the tie at the next tournament.

Elected Board Chairman of Allied Buildins Credits

James Twohy, for the past six years Governor of the Federal Home Bank System, has been elected Chairman of the Board of Allied Building Credits, Inc. president W. A. King announces also the election of H. W. Brower as Board Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee.

Before entering Government service, first rvith the I{ome Owners Loan Corporation and then with the Home Loan Bank System, Mr. Twohy was president of Twohy Brothers Company and an officer and director in various Western companies.

Allied Building Credits, founded by the Weyerhaeuser group, and recently acquired by the Giannini interests, will expand its porverful financing facilities to material and equipment dealers, builders and developers supplying the home building and repair n"rarket. New offices, in addition to its present 32, rvill be opened throughout the country.

"We hope to make our operations a post-war example of rvhat private industry can do in promoting good construc_ tion and sound realty appraisals on the basis of lotv-cost credit for veterans and other home-seeker5,', said Mr. Tvvohy.

New Hcrdwood Ycrd in Los Angeles

The McKinney Lumber Company, which rvill handle principally hardwood lumber, has opened a ,,vholesale yard at ll7l9 South Alameda St., Los Angeles. 'The business is owned by Arthur S. McKinney, and will be managed by his brother, S. A. McKinney.

S. A. McKinney has been corrnected with the hardwood business since 1914. He has spent the past fourteen years on the Pacific Coast, selling lumber in the Los Angeles area from 1931 to 1933 for the Slattery Hardwood Company, and from 1934 through 1938 for the Angelus Hardwood Com_ pany. He was with the E. L. Bruce Company, San Fran_ cisco, as warehouse foreman, from 1940 through 1944.' As_ so,ciated with him in the operation of the yard will be his brother's son, Verlon D. McKinney, who is at present at_ tending the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, and who served as a First Class Petty Officer in the Navv during the war, enlisting at the age of seventeen, serving four years and recently being discharged.

The company has completed the erection of offices, ware_ house and sheds, and are beginnning to get in their opening stocks of lumber.

Los Angeles Visitors

Warren B. Wood, San Francisco, president, and I. B. Wood, Oakland, vice president, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.. .were recent visitors at the .company's Los Angeles offi.ce.

2)/o to )O/o mote capacity due to solid edge-to-edge stacking. Bettcr guality dtying on low temperanrreg rith a fast reverrib.c circulationLower stacking cort+-just solid cdge-to-cdge rtacking in thc siarplest fon.

Moorekiln Paint Products for weatherproofing drv kiln and mill roofs.

Kil,o Builden for More Tba! H.If e C,enttry Nortt Pord.a4 On Jactronvitte. Fl6id.

The Promise of Industrial Forestry

Address by Colonel W. B. Greeley. Chairman of the Board, American Forest Products Industries, Inc., at Dinner Given in His Honor by National Forestry and Forest lndustry Leaders, Portland, January 25,1946

I don't know what an ordinary guy is expected to say or do under circumstances like these. The only way I can express my feeling is to tell you a story. It was the most effective lesson in humility that I have ever had in fortyodd years of active contact with other men.

Early days in the Forest Service come to mind when I had to lay down the law to a bunch of cattle men that were grazing in a national forest. They had been over-grazing' I had to fix the numbers of stock they would be permitted to range on their particular limits. It provoked quite an argument; and several of the stock men called my attention to the fact that other national forests allowed more cattle per section than I was setting up for this particular grazing area. Finally to settle the argument, I said a bit warmly that I didn't care what was being done in other national forests, in "my" national forest you are going to graze such and such numbers of stock. Well, before the discussion was over, one of the oldest men there, a gr\zzled pioneer with tobacco juice trickling down the corners of his mouth, cut himself a fresh cud of tobacco, put his feet up on the table and said to the crowd in generalhe didn't say it to me, he said it to the n'hole room full"When this young supervisor was telling us just nort' about 'his national forest,' he reminded me of the time rvhen old Satan took Jesus Christ up to the top of a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the earth. 'All these will be yours, if you 'ivill rvorship me,' he saicl. "And the Son of a Gun didn't own a damned acre !"

I rvant to assure you that I appreciate all the things you have said tonight, but I am going to take them u'ith the same large dose of salt which I have learned to take on other occasions.

I have had the wonderful experience of being one of the West Coast lumbermen, and it has been a very gratifying one. After all has been said, my greatest reward has been the intimate acquaintance I have had with many of you men, your intimate friendship year after year, the manv occasions when we could get together and talk things over with absolute freedom. I keep thinking of those days during the depression when we were all struggling for survival, and when the characters of men'ivere tested as they seldom nre during days of greater prosperity. I shall always think of the friendships and associations that rve made during those days.

Another great reward I have had is the opportunity to see the West Coast forest industry shake off the depression; to see.it grow into a great industry of national proportions; to see it assume the strength and self-reliance of a great industry. You are a great industry. Certainly your war record is sufficient proof of that. You are a great indus-

try today as you face another period of peace; you are a great industry in your aggressive approach to your own future. You are writing your own new rules; you are not waiting for them to be written by others.

A few weeks ago I 'talked with a very shrewd and able gentleman who made a tour of West Coast saw and pulp mills, preparing material for magazine articles. On his last night here one thing he said impressed me very much. "As I have talked with West Coast operators during the last two or three weeks, I find everyone is trying something new. Every one of them is working on something newa new type of forestry, relogging his old slashings, new operating devices and machines in his mill. The West Coast lumber industry has the spirit of progress."

You are writing you own new rules of the game, and rve begin to see how these rules are taking shape for the postwar period. You are writing nell. rules on forestry; you are setting up tree farms and sustained yield. The industry has become convinced that it pays to grow trees. And you are creating your own future by assuring- your own tir-nber supply. You are rvriting nerv rules in the utilization of logging wastes. There has been a vast improvement in tl-re past ten years in that respect, and today all kinds of net. ideas and devices are coming into the utilization picture. You are writing new rules on fabrication, on new products and nelv processes.

I envy my successor, H'al Simpson, because of the picture of forest industry in the next 10 or 15 years that I see taking shape, with all of these neu' ideas, neu, outlooks, new industrial processes and uses of 'lvood surging into the forefront. We are going to see here a great alchemy-of forestry----of utilization-of new products, all based upon the marvelous gror'ving' power of the Douglas fir forest. The Pacific Northwest will develop the most outstanding forest economy vet seen in the history of the world.

I am glad that the dinner this evening has not ended as a graveyard ceremony. At least you are not going to sprinkle anv dirt on my coffin tonight. I have the rare opportunity to retire from the hard work, leaving that on younger and abler shoulders. But I can still help West Coast lumbermen grow trees. And nolv an opportunity has been made available by the A.F.P.I. to take part in the foru'ard movernent of American forest industry generally tou'ard our Number One job of assuring a future supply. There is nothing more indicative of the spirit of progress in the forest industries nationallv than the Code that is included in your program. It is a platform for united action in perpetuating our supply of timber.

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A MAN-SIZED 'OB

We are mcking every effort possible to tcke care oI our customers. As you all know, from your own experience, this is c mcn-sized iob in these times. But we're hopelul.

The Promise of Industrial Forestry

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cern upon our forest resources; how during the war special measures became necessary to increase the production of pulpwood, of lumber and plywood. Order after order came from Washington to increase the supply of these essential materials. And now, with the end of war, this national interest is keener than ever. The Forest Service is making a fresh inventory of timber supply. The American Forestry Association, prompted by the zeal of public interest is conducting an appraisal of forest resources. And right at this juncture, the forest industries themselves step forward in unison with a plan to take the lead in timber growing. Certianly one should be proud of an opportunity to have a part in this great service.

We are going to see timber growing far more widely recognized as the foremost job for every industrialist, for every labor union, for every associated group concerned with wood. Let us make it our platform to keep in full production every acre of forest land in the United States that is capable o{ gro'iving a commercial forest and not required for other service of greater importance; and to maintain as many of those acres as possible in full production under private ownershiP.

That is a very large order, gentlemen, but not too large if all of the powers and capacities for education represented by the forest industries are brought together under a unified program. The job is a challenge to the capacity of our management. We are not going to meet these issues by glossing over hard facts. We are not going to fool the public by colored propaganda. We have got to meet the issue of our future timber supply squarely and honestly. If we adhere to the clean, simple objective of keeping all of our potential forest acres fully at wotk growing trees, we will not only supply the needs of our industries, bui at the same time restore public confidence and command public support.

I am proud of the opportunity to have a share ir-r this program. It is not going to take me from the West Coast. My main interest is here, and I will help where I can in tree farms and sustained yield plannings in the Northwest' I know that you will support me and the A.F.P.I. in the larger program, which is simply a national extension of the things we have been starting here. It offers a splendid

field for industrial service, bnd it is the sort of thing that strong, progressive industries should do.

Just think for a moment of what can be accomplished if all the forest industries of the country, mobilized under A.F.P.L, make it their job not only to bring about timber growing by every industrial forest owner but to strike right out and reacll all the four million farm and other woodlot owners. These four million small owners make up 80 per cent of our privately owned timber supply. Think of what we can accomplish if we perfect an organization that backs up the Agricultural Extension Director and State Forester of every State in effective, practical education on growing trees; if we put tree farms in every forested county i if we put a Keep Green campaign in every State of the country. We will show the United States what real industrial progress is.

I would like to close rvith this thought. Lumbermen have always played the game according to the rules of the game. In the early days, rve pioneered the wilderness, we developed new engineering, new equipment, new types of manufacture. When the country's emergencies came we met them; we furnished the materials that made possible the great national expansion in transportation, in housing, in agriculture and industry. Today we face a different kind of emergency-the perpetuation of our forest resource. Let us play this new game also according to the rules of the new game, and take it in our stride.

S. F. Lumbermen's Club Meets Mcrch 19

The next lun,cheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club will be held in the Concert Room, Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on Tuesday, March 19. Cocktails will be served from 11 :49 to 12:29, and luncheon and meeting will be from 12:29 to l:D p.m.

There rvill be arnple room for all comers, and' no delays in seating.

Enters Wholescrle Business

R. T. (Bob) Evju recently resigned as sales manager for James L. Hall, San Francisco wholesale lumber dealer, to enter the wholesale u'ood products business for himself.

He was 3f years rvith Mr. Hall, and prior to that was with Carter Lumber Co., Oakland, and White Brothers, hardwood dealers, San Francisco.

His office is at 523 Folsom Street, San Francisco' Telephone DOuglas 2026.

Pnrtonal -,A+/nrt

Ralph L. Joss, manager of the rvrecking department for Whiting-Mead Co., Los Angeles, will retire on March l. He has been with the firm since 1912, and is l,ell knorvn in Southern California lumber circles.

Mr. Joss says that he plans to keep busy as he has interests in Arizona and Kansas that rvill require his attention, and he also intends to devote some time to one of his favorite pastimes, fishing. He rvill continue to make his home in Los Angeles.

W. L. Clabaugh is nor,v representative in Eugene, Oregon for Hallinan Mackin Lumber Co., San Francisco.

G. E. Long has been appointed assistant to W. E. McPherson, mana[Jer of this firm's Portland office.

William Kelley, Milwaukee, Wis., rvholesaler, and president of the National Association of Hardwoocl Wholesalers, has recently spent several weeks on the pacific Coast.

H. G. Dowson and V. E. Johnson Sales, Medford, Oregon, were in San 'Angeles recently on a business trip.

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A. B. McKee, Jr., general manager of the San Pedro Lumber Co., u,as the speaker at the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting in the Biltmore Hotel on February 13, and he discussed the building-construction situation in the Southern California area.

Recent visitors to the Northwest rvere Walter Harris, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles; Ross Blanchard, Blanchard Lun.rber Company, North Hollywood; Frode Kilstofte, Rossman Mill & Lumber Co., Wilmington; Ralph E. Barto, Ralph E. Barto Lumber Co., lfuntington Park, and Frank Kranz, Golden State Lumber Co., Santa Monica.

Roy M. Barto, geles, rvas in San of February.

Mahogany Importing Francisco on business Company, Los Anaround the middle

George R. Kendrick, sales manager, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, has returned from Los Angeles. He visited the company's mills and office in the Northrvest early in February.

W. W. (Bill) Jackson and Fred Harvey of J. H. Baxter & Co., San Francisco, flew to Los Angeles in the comre- pany's private plane, a twin-engine Cessna, February 15.

Henry H. Ketcham, cently spent a few days Seattle wholesale lumberman, on business in San Francisco. Gardner Pond, vice president, Los A'ngeles, flew back with them to San Francisco a few davs later. Fred Harvev is the pilot.

Joe Matlick, Whiting-Mead tioning in St. Louis, Mo. Co., Los Angeles, is vaca-

Harold J. Ford, Tarter, Webster & Iohnson. and C. C. Stibich of the company's San ira.,cisco tended the annual meeting of the Western pine tion held in Portland. Februarv Zl-22.

Stockton, offr,ce, atAssocia-

A. B. Sammons, Sloan Lumber Co., Fort Worth, Texas, visited San Francisco recently and spent two weeks in Washington and Oregon.

A. J. Macmillan, general manager, Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington, Calif., and Rex Clark, in charge of sales and lumber purchases, were recent visitors to San Francisco. Mr. Clark was on his way to the Pacific Northwest on a buying trip.

George S. Douglas, Puget Mill Company recently spent a few cisco.

vice president, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Division, Seattle, and L. C. Fuchek, days at the head office in San Fran-

News o[ Our Service Friends

H. Pierson ("Piery")' Plummer has rejoined the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, after three and a half years' Army service, and rvill call on the trade in the Sonoma Valley territory. He was a Captain in the 30th Infantry Division, and was with the lst and 9th Armies in the campaigns of Normandy and Northern France; was wounded at Aachen in October, 1944, and returned to duty in February,1945'

Captain Carvel D. Brorn'n is now managing the Orban Lumber Co. at Pasadena, follolving his release from tl-re service. lle rvas u'ith the U. S. Engineers, and had been for some time in charge of the CPA office in San Francisco, rvhich handled the California production of all rvoods'

Roger Nine, son of Marion Nine of the Marion'Nine Lumber Co., Fresno, is now associated rvith his father' He was a Lieutenant, Senior Grade, in the Navy' and received his discharge January 24 attet three and a half years' service. of which 18 months were spent in the Aleutians'

Matt Handley is back with Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, after three years' servi'ce rvith the Navy. He' tvas SK/3, assistant in charge of the lumber yari ^t the Naval Supply Dtepot, Oakland, for some time' and later operated West Otegon Lumber Company yards for the Navy at San Francisco and Oakland' Then he went to sea for a rvhile and after a spell in the hospital was discharged last November-

Art A. Bennett, salesman for Harbor Plywood Corp' of California, San Francisco, since January 1, was a Sergeant in the AAF for several years' He r'vas with the Weston Basket & Barrel Co., San Fran,cisco, before the war' He recently spent several weeks in the Northwest visiting the Harbor plant at Hoquiam and otl-rer plywood mills'

Bob Bonner has returnecl to Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., San Francisco, following his discharge from the Army' He was a First Lieutenant in the Infantry, was wounded twice in ltaly, and was with the San Francisco CPA office for about a year after his return from Europe' He is a son of T. A. Bonner, Chapman Lumber Co', San Fran' cisco.

Captain W. W. (Bill) Davies, formerly 'ivith Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, expects to be released from the Army about the micldle of May and will return to rvork for this company out of its Los Angeles office'

Captain Davies has lleen in service with the Army Transportation Corps for 43 months, much of rvhich rvas spent in North Africa, the Middle East, Sicily, Italy and the Balkans. He is at present stationed at the Water Division, Pier 6, Camp Knight, Oakland.

T/Sgt. Don Winfree, son of W. H. Winfree, Modesto, Calif., representative of Dant & Russell, fnc., recently arrived home from Japan by way of Okinawa. He is a radar specialist in the U. S. Army Signal Corps'

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New Method for Pricing Certain Stock ScreenGoods

A simple method for computing ceiling prices at all selling levels for stock screen goods wired with 14 x 18 mesh galvanized or hronze rvire ancl 16 x lU mesh aluminum wire, comparatively new products, has been set up by OPA, effective February 13, 1946.

The new pricing method revokes the former open billing orcler in elTect for these items. Products sold under the open billing arrangement rvill be settled for at the newly established ceiling prices.

Maximum prices will be computed by applying specified additions to ceiling prices already listed in the regulation governing sales of screen goods with 16 x 16 mesh wire. The resulting prices are subject to the usual discounts determined by species of lumber and type of purchaser. Where no 16 x 16 mesh wire prices are provided in the regulation, the seller must apply to the Office of Price Administration, Building Materials and Construction Branch, Washington 25,D. C., for individual price authorization for these new rvires.

The listed price additions were determined by computing the differential in cost per 100 square feet of rviring betrveen tl-re new wiring and the cost for the particular 16 mesh rviring to whicl, the new list is added.

Items affected include Ponderosa pine and Southern pine doors, extension rvindorv screens and comltinatior-r doors equipped u'ith 14 x 18 galvanized *'ire, ar.rd lronderosa, Southern pine and oak screen doors, and combination doors equipped with 14 x 18 mesh bronze and 16 x 16 mesh aluminum rvire.

Pricing provisions for the above items are provided in the regulation governing sales of stock screen goods for manufactnrers, jobbers, retailers and mail-order houses. Sales of combination doors included in direct-mill sales of 15,000 pounds or more of stock millwork moved by rail to one or more points, or 12,000 pounds or more moved by truck to a single destination are priced in the regulation governing sales of stock millwork.

(Amendment No. 6 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 381-Stock Screen Goods; effective February 13. 1946.)

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Obituaries

Sidney M. Hauptmcrn

Sidney M. Hauptman, well known lumber and shipping company executive, passed away in San Francisco February 18, after a short illness.

lle rvas vice president and general manager of the Charles Nelson Company, of which he was trustee. He reorganized the company in 1936. Before that he had been vice president of the McCormick Steamship Company and the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company. He was also a director of the Douglas Fir Export Company.

Mr. Hauptman was born in Saginaw, Michigan, 70 years ago, and came to San Francisco in 1901. IIe was a son of George N. H,auptman, a prominent lumberman of that city. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Hauptman, and a brother, George B. Hauptman of Los Angeles.

Jcmes E, Mcckie

James E. Mackie, western manager for the National Lumber Manufacturers Association since 1935, with offices in San Francisco, was killed in an automobile crash involving 14 cars near Brisbane, Calif. on the Bayshore Highway, February 21. His car skidded and he was thrown out when he tried to avoid striking other piled up automobiles. His wife, Mrs Jean Mackie, was also thrown from the car, and was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

Mr. Mackie was a native of Minnesota, aged 47 years. He was a graduate of Wisconsin University in engineering. After coming to the Pacific Coast he became building inspector for the City of Long Beach, and in 7927 was appointed secretary of the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference. He u'ent with the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in 1929, spent some time in the Northwest, and moved to San Francisco in 1935 to take charge of the western office. He did an outstanding job for the industry in building code work, in 'w'hich he rvas an acknowledged expert.

In addition to his wife he is survived by a daughter, Travis Gene Mackie: his mother, N{rs. Caroline Nlackie; a sister, Mrs. L. J. Cleary, and a brother, Bernard \{ackie.

Arthur M. Pculson

Arthur M. Paulson, owner of the Paulson Lumber Sales Agency, San Francisco, passed away in Belmont, Calif., on February 15, from injuries received when he was struck by the automobile of a hit-run driver on El Camino Real, Belmont.

He was born in North Dakota 52 years ago. One of his first jobs in the lumber business was in the lumber department of the Anaconda Copper Company, Bonner, Montana. Ife r,r'as with the M. A. Wyman Lumber Co., Seattle, lor 12 years before coming to San Francisco in 1944 to open his own wholesale concern.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma H. Paulson; three daughters, Mrs. Mary Hanset, Mrs. Helen Hasselberg, and Mrs. Margaret Hale; a son, Arthur M. Paulson; a sister, Mrs. Esther Hankins, and four brothers, Clifford, .Roy, Danton, and Norman Paulson.

Chcrles E. Miller

Charles E. Miller, head of the Youngs Bay Lumber Co., passed away suddenly on February 19 at his home in Roseburg, Ore. lIe was 54 years of age.

He was a resident of Portland for many years, and for fourteen years was associated with the Kingsley interests in the West Oregon mill at Linnton. Later he moved to Gearhart and organized the Youngs Bay Lumber Co. at Warrenton, lvhich moved to Roseburg, and now operates the Defense Plants Agency sawmill there. He also organized Stebco, Inc., which built a large mill in Vancouver, Wash.

Mr. Miller was a native of New York, and a graduate of Harvard University. He rvas a member of the Arlington, University, Waverley and Multnomah clubs in Portland.

Surviving are his u'idor,v, Elizabeth Robertson Miller; trvo daughters, Mrs. Roy Cummins and Jessie Miller; a son, Charles E. Miller, Jr., and a brother, Danforth Miller.

C. A. Lcrrsen

C. A. I-arsen, Box & Lumber ary 25.

for many years sales manager of Chiloqurn Co., Chiloquin, Oregon, passed away Janu-

lncreases Granted Manufacturers of South Central Hardwood Lumber

An increase averaging approximately seven per cent in manufacturers' maximum prices for standard grades of hardwood lumber produced in the South Central hardwood region has been announced by the Office of Price Administration to be effective February tI, 1946.

Retail prices will not be affected by this increase, as dis'tributors will be required to absorb the rises.

The increases include a nine per cent rise in the maximum prices of grade No. 1 common and better; a three per cent rise in grade No. 2 common and lower; a three per cent rise in dunnage (used for binding cargoes in ships) and a seven per cent increase in "leg run" maximum prices. No increases are made in prices for structural stock or sound square-edge freight car stock, common dimension mine car lumber and No. 1 and No. 2 dimension.

These price adjustments cover prodnction cost increases shown in a cost study of South Central hardwood operations during 1944 and the first half of 19,15. The increase is appiied variably to the several grades in order to restore normal price relationships between timbers used extensively by the military during the rvar, and grade lumber, 'nou'that abnormal war demands have abated, and to bring prices in the South Central and Southern hardwood region3 more closely in line with normal differentials.

The last increase in hardwood lumber prices in the South Central region-one of 11 per ssnf-6r25 granted October 20, 1943. (Amendment 9 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 15S-Central Hardwood Lumber.)

The method of applying the increases permitted by the current amendment was adopted at the request of the fndustry Advisory Committee.

Items affected by this pricing action amount to aborrt 9O per cent of all hardrvood produced in the South Central hardwood region, which is less than l0 per cent o{ all the hardwood produced in the United States.

The South Central hardwood region includes Kansers and Missouri and parts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Illinois.

(Amendment 2O to Maximum Price Regulation No. 155 -Central Hardwood Lumber; effective February ll,1946.)

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We hope, however, to be in position shortly to tcrke ccre oI our customers.

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California Building Permits for January

Southern California Retailers Protest Absorption ldea of OPA

Orrie W. Hamilton, secretary-manag'er of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, Los Angeles, on February 21 sent a telegram to Geoffrey Baker, deputy administrator, in charge of price, Office of Price Administration, Washington, D. C., protesting the absorption idea of OPA. A copy of Mr. Hamilton's telegram follows:

"\\ie learn OPA has action in process requiring retailers to absorb increases given at mill level on fir lumber and hardrvood flooring. If true, .rve hereby register bitter opposition. Such action r,r.ould rvork a severe and unjustifiable hardship on 450 retail lumber dealers in Southern California. Further action of OPA forcing absorption by retailers of nrill price increases w'ill bring disastrous results on a very large number of dealers r,vho already feel they have been irnposed upon unmercifully and driven beyond all reasonable limits u'ith the many unreasonable costs they are n()\\' required to absorb, such as freight differential on rough green lumber u'hich is rnuch heavier than estimated average l'eights; and also on lumber shipped from points beyond Portland; remanufacturing costs sustained in their production of boards, dimensior.r, ceiling and siding; rerouting and custom mill remanufacturing charges; \\'age and salary increases amounting to as much as l1/o, u'hich n,ere given follorving issuance of \\'.L.B. General Order 40, in settlement of strikes and to avoid threatening laltor trorrble ; etc. Failure o{ OPA to recognize this growing resentment torvard unfair aud intolerable conditions n'ill unrluestionabll- bring rampant disrespect and disregard of all regulations. Further, it rvill encourage present tendency torvard black market to a point beyond control. Cooperer.tion and consideration of vieu's expressed by industry advisorv committee essential to ar.oid complete break-dorvn. Moreover such unjustifiable zrction is driving dealers here to distraction. There is a grorving feeling that unrealistic controls are holding back reconversion from l'ar to peace, and that the nation u,ould be better ofi economically in very short order if :rll controls 'were removed. Also rve learn that OPA has in process an order prohibiting distribution yards from selling any self-orvned timber at retail prices. This has merit, providing and only if, this is aimed at producers nor,r,'seeking to establish ne.iv outlets to sell at retail prices. Hou'ever, if such action rvere to prevent continuation of historic shipments from mills to afftliated yards on normal pre-\\,ar basis, snch action 'n.ould be discriminatory, unjust in the extreme and rvould unctuestionaltlr. reduce oroduction."

Nqtioncl Affcrirs Counsel Appointed by NRLDA

Joseph T. King, forr-r-rerl1' Assistant General Corrnsel of the Civilian Production Administration, \\rashington, D. C., has been added to the staff of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association to help guide the actir,ities of the recently formed National Affairs Committee. Mr. King has been appointed National Affairs Counsel of the NRLDA by H.R. Northup, secretary of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association in Washington, D. C.

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Red Cross Fund Drive Seeks $10010001000 "JOE BEAVER"

Financial support to continue the world-wide services of the American Red Cross will be asked during the month of March when the 1946 fund campaign for $100,000,000 will be conducted.

Continuation of services to occupation armies, to hospitalized servicemen, and to veterans who have returned to civilian life as well as of community programs will be made possible by contributions to the March drive.

Overseas, Red Cross funds rvill provide field director service and recreation clubs, clubmobiles and other recreation activities for men in occupation zones. The field director, serving as a link rvith home for the man overseas, helps him work out family and personal problems.

Red Cross chapter home service, 'ivhich assists the veteran in the community, offers help in filing and developing claims, financial aid pending decision on claims, and guidance in solving other readjustment problems.

For servicemen in army and navy hospitals, professional Red Cross rvorkers conduct welfare and recreation programs and Red Cross volunteers perform friendly personal services. Volunteers also serve in V'eterans Administration hospitals, and Red Cross claims service is available both at Veterans Administration offices and hospitals.

Stcndcrrd Specicrl Grqdes oI Hardwood Lumber Get New Mqximum Prices

OPA has granted a four per cent increase in producers' ceiling prices on certain "standard special" grades of hardwood lumber produced in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, effective February 13, 1946.

Hardwood lumber items included in this action are basswood key stock and one and trvo face clear birch.

Resellers will be required to absorb the increase.

This action is in line lvith the supplementary to the increase recently granted on standard grades of hardu,oocl lumber in the same states and is made to complete the former action, from which these "standard special" items were omitted.

(Amendment No. 15 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 223-Northern Hardwood Lumber: effective Februarv 13, 1946.

Opens Plywood Distributing Wcrehouse

The fifth in a chain of plywood distributing rvarehouses has just been opened in Houston, Texas, by U. S.-Mengel Plyrvoods, Inc., a company jointly owned by The Mengel Company and United States Plywood Corporation, L. B. Olmsted, vice-president and general manager, announced. George W. Rummel, for several years with Mengel in the door and plyrvood department, will serve as manager.

Buys Lumber Yqrd

The Bostonia Lumber Company, Bostonia, rvhich has been owned and operated by Donald H. Storms, has been ptrrchased by Ralph H. Fry of Pacific Beach. A new s'tore building is being erected u'hich will be used to display hardrvare, eiectrical equipment and building materials.

10% Increase in Manufacturers' Ceilings Of Oak and Pecan Hardwood Flooring

A ten per cent increase in manufacturers' ceiling prices for all standard grades of oak, pecan and miscellaneolls hardwood flooring has been granted by the Office of Price Administration, eff'ective February 73, 1946.

The action averages $8.15 per 10@ board feet, and is granted to boost urgently needed production of hardwood flooring for use in the construction of postwar homes. The Civilian Production Administration has declared hardwood flooring to be one of the bottleneck items now limiting construction of postwar homes.

Consumers' prices will not be affected except in the Southern area, which includes Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and all the other Southern States except Texas, Louisiana and Florida.

Only partial absorption of the increases rvill be required of the distributors in the Southern area because margins allorved Southern yards on sales of hardwood flooring are lou'er than in other areas.

This action also changes that part of thi original regulation which permitted manufacturers an addition of $4 per 1000 feet in less than car load shipments. The revision allorvs the addition only on shipments, regardless of quantity, which move hardwood flooring by transportation means other than in rail freight cars or by rvater. The addition permitted applies to truck shipments and to shipments made by express.

(Amendment No. 4 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 458-Oak, Pecan and Miscellaneous Hardwood Flooring; effective February 13, 1946.)

Production oI Lumber Declined in tg45

Washington, Feb. 21.-Lumber production last year de_ clined 16/o from 1944 levels, the Civilian Production Administration stated.

The CPA said 1945 production amounted to 27,356 mil_ lion board feet. December production alone represented a 22.9/' decline from November and 30.6% less than in December, 1944.

. Production in the North Pacific section increased in December after some strikes were settled but production in the South and Appalachian regions fell more than 40lo because of bad weather conditions, the CPA said.

Improvement in the labor situation u,as reported in New England during January. the CPA said. lfowever, strikes continue to hinder production in the California redwood and Washington and Montana pine areas.

Between Jan. 15 and Feb. 14, the CPA granted priorities assistance in 110 cases.

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Assembly Joint Resolution No. 19

The Assembly and Senate of the State of California passed Assembly Joint Resolution No. 19, on February 7 and February 11 respectively, urging the Office of Price Administration to refrain from effecting any amendment to RMPR-26 which would provide an allowance to sawmills in the Pacific Northwest of an extra charge of $2.50 per thousand feet for Douglas fir lumber shipped by water to the Eastern Coast. A copy of the resolution was wired to the Office of Price Administration by the Chief Clerk of the Assembly.

C. W. Pinkerton, Lumbermen's Governmental Service Bureau, Whittier, Calif., made a special trip to Sacramento for the purpose of having the resolution introduced and passed by the legislature.

Plans to Build Bcttery Sepcrcrtor Plcnt

Cascade Plywood Corp. of Lebanon, Ore.,.is planning construction of a battery separator plant at North Salem, Ore., to cost approximately $500,000. The plant will provide employment for several hundred workmen, according to Keith Brown, who is representing the.company in negotiations for a building site.

Lecses Sawmill

Austin A. Cleek has leased the Mt. Pitt Lumber Co. sawmill at Central Point, Ore., and will operate it under the name of Central Point Sawmill Co. Dimension lumber will l;e cut and planed in transit by the Southern Oregon Planing Mill Co., also of Central Point. The Mt. Pitt mill can cut 45,000 feet daily. IJntil recently, Mr. Cleek was superintendent for the Southern Oregon Planing Mill Co. which had formerly leased the sawmill.

Stcrte Buys 4590 Acre Timber Trcrct i.

'The Mountain llome Tract in Tulare County, Calif., has been purchased by the state of California from the Micl-rigan Trust Co., Muskegon, Mich. It will be developed as a fishing and recreational area.

Reopens Ycrrd in Scrn Jose

Arthur S. McKinney has reopened the Willow Glen Lumber Co. at 714 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose. He closed the yard shortly after the start of the war and leased the plant to Dade Brothers, of Mineola, Long Island, New York; who were packing equipment for the Army and Navy. They recently returned the yard to Mr. McKinney.

The business will be under the management of Stanley Lewis, rvho was with the company for several years prior to the outbreak of the war. lle enlisted in tl-re Navy shortly after Pearl lfarbor, serving throughout the rvar in the South Pacific area, attaining the rank of Chief Torpedomar-r, and was assigned to duty on a PT boat. He participated in the invasion of several of the Pacific islands, as'ivell as Okinawa and the landing in Japan, and was awarded the Purple Heart and several Battle Stars.

Kesterson Corp. Lumber Interests Sold

The Kesterson Lumber Corp. at Klamath Falls, Ore., has sold its lumber interests to the Klamath Basin Pine N{ills, fnc., a Washington organization, owned by H. J. O'Donnell, M. A. Wyman and L. Mclellan. Iyan Kesterson will act as resident manager for the new firm, and there t-ill be no change in key personnel, it was announced. A. N. Beals will continue as sales manager.

Opens New Yard

The Barr Lumber Company has opened its nerv and modern offices and yard in the 300 block on West Chapman Avenue, Orange. Their old location in Orange was at 230 North Lemon Street.

lcrth Mill Reopened

J. E. Berg has been placed in charge of the Coos Bay Lumber Co. lath mill at Coos Bay, Ore., which resumed operations recently after a two-year shutdown. Broom handles and lath will be manufactured.

CITASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Rate-$2.50 per Column Inch.

FOR SALE

COMBINATION LUMBER CARRIER AND STACKER

Address Box C-1163, California Lumber Merchant 508 Ccntral Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

WANTED

Young man for planing rnill ofrce with detailing, estimadng and billing experience. Permanent position for right man. State age and experience. Pleasant California location.

Address application to Salinas Planins Mill, 60 Market Street, Salinas, California

FOR SALE

See our advertisment in the Febnrary 15 issue for Lumber Yard,s, Woodwo,rking Plant, and Douglas Fir Sawmill for sale

If you want to sell your lumber yard, let us know.

TWOHY LUMBER CO.. LUMBER YARD BROKERS 801 Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Cdif. PRospect E746.

INVESTMENT SOUGHT

Responsible party from the East is interested in investing capital in established building materials enterprise.

Address Box C-1165, The California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg,, Los Angeles 14, Calif.

SUPERINTENDENT

Furniture Plant

Customet Planing Mill

Excellent Opportunity

Old Established Firm Write Qualifications.

Address Box C-1164, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Cdif.

BUYER'S GUIIDE SAN FRAIYCTSCO

LUMBER

LUMBEN

Arcctq Redwood Co. q20 Market Streei (ll). .YULon 206?

Atkinson-Slutz Compcav, ll2 Market Stre€i (li) .GArfiEld 1809

Christeuson Lumber Co. Evcns Ave, cnd Quint St. (24)..VAlencic 5832

Dqnt d Bussell, lnc., Zltl Front Srreet (ll). ....GArlield 0292

DolbEer d Cqrson Lumber Co.. lllS Merchcnts Exchcnge Bldg. (4) DOuslcs 64{6

GcmersloD d Greau Lumber Co., 1800 Army Street (24). ..ATwqter 1300

Hcll, Jcmes L., 1032 Mills Bldg. (4). .SUtier 7520

Hcllincn Mackin Lumber Co. 681 Mcrket St. (5).. .. .DOuglca lg4l

Hqnmord Lumber Compqnv, 417 Moutgomery Strear (6). .Douglds 3988

Hobbs Wcll Lumber Co., tl05 Moutgomery St, (4)..........GAr6e1d 7752

Holnes Eurekc Lumber Co., ll05 Finqncicl cenrer Blds. (4).. .GArfietd lg2l

Kilpctrick 6 Compcny, Crocker Bldg. (4).

Lcmon-Bonninglon Compony, 16 Cqlilornic Street (ll)..........GAr0eld 6881

I-onc Bell Lumber Compquv, - 60I Migsiou St. (5).

Northern Redwood Lumber Co,, 2408-10 Bus Bldg. (4). ..EXbrook 7894

O'Neill Lumber Co., Ltd., 16 Cqlitonia St. (ll). ...GArlield 9ll0

Pccilic Lumber Co.. The 100 Bush Street (4). .GArlield llSl

Pculson Lunber Scles Agency, 681 Mcrket Street (5). .....SUtter 8623

Pope d Tqlbot, Inc., Lunber Division, 461 Mcrket Str€et (5). ..DOuglcs 2561

Scntc Fe Lumber Co.. 16 Cqliloruic Street (ll). .EXbrook 2074

Schqler Bros. Lumber 6 Shinqle Co., I Drumm Streei (ll) .......:.........SUt|er l77l

Shevlin-Cords Lumber Co,, Inc., 68 Post Sireet ({)..... .DOuglos 2469

Shevlin Pire Sales Co., 1030 Moncdnock Bldg. (5)...-....EXbrooL 7041

Sudden d Christenson, Iuc., 310 ScusomE Street (4)..........GArlield 2846

Tcrier, Webster d Johnsou, Iuc., I MontgomEry Sr. (4). .DOuglcs 2060

LUMBER

West Oregon Luober Co., 1995 Evcns Ave. (2{)... .ATwqtcr 5878

E. K, Wood Lunber Co., I Drumm Street (ll). ...El6rooh $ll0

Weyerbceuser Sqles Co., 391 Sutier St. (8).. .GArlield 891

HABDWOODS

Whit6 BrothetB. Filth cnd Brcnncn Streets (7)......SUtter 1385

SASH_DOORS-PLYWOOD

Hcrbor Plywood Corp. ol Calilornic, 5{0 l0rh St. (3)..... .....MArLet 6705

Uuited Stqtss Plvwood Corp., 2727 Army Sr. 1I0).

CNEOSOTED LUMBEN_POLESPILING_TIES

Americqq Lumber 6 Trecting Co., 116 New Montgonery Street (5). .....Sutter lZ25

Bqxter, I. H. 6 Co., 333 Moutgomery Street (4). .DOuglc 3883

Hcll, Jcnes L., 1032 Mills Bldg. ({). .......SUtter 7520

Pope d Tclbot, lac., Lumber Division, 461 Market Street (5). ...DOuglss 2561

LUMEEN

GamErslon 6 Green Lumber 2001 Livingston Sr, (6).

Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co.

2ll Prolessional Bldg. (r),....

Hill 6 Motton, Iuc., Dennisot Street Wbqrl (7)

Hogcn Lumber Compcny, 2nd cud Alice Streets (4).

Kelley, Albert A. P. O. Box 240 (AlcmEda).

E. K. Wood Lumber Co., 2lll Frederick Street (5)...

LUMBEN

.....YUkon 0912 Co., .KEUos.4-t884

Cqrl W. Wcits, 975 Monodnock Bldg. (5)..........YUkon 1590

Vcnder Lqqn Piling d Lunber Co., 218 Pine Street ({). ,. .EXbrook t1905

Ccrl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., O. L, Busgum, ll2 Mqrket St. (ll)..YUkoa l{60

Wendliag-Ncthcn Co,, 564 Mqrket Sr. (4).. .......SUtier5363

OAKLANI'

LUI\IIBER

Wholesqle Buildiac Suoolv, Iac., 1607 32nd Sireet- (8)..'..'......TEmplebcr

,, ...I(Ellog 4-2017

.....ANdover 1077

.Glencourl 6881

.. .Lckehurst 2-2751

.... .KEllos 2-UlTt

Auclo Cqlilorniq Lumber Co., 655 E, Florence Ave, (l)......THornwqlt 3144

Arcqtq Bedwood Co. (J. l. Bec)

5410 Wilshire Blvd. (36)........WEbster ?828

Atkinson-Stutz Compcny, 628 Petroleum Bldg, (I5). .PRospect {341

Atlcs Lumber Co,,

2035 E. lsth St, (21). ...PRospecl 7401

Brush Induslticl Lumber Co..

5354 E. Slcuson Ave. (l2t. ...ANgelug l-1155

Buros Lurnber Compo-r, 727 W. Sevenlb Si. (I4).........TRinity 106l

Cqrr d Co., L. J. (W. D' Duuning),

438 Ch. ol Com. 8lds. (15). .PRospact 8843

Consolidcted Lumber Co., I22 W. Ielleresoa St, (7)......8lchmond zltl

11146 E, Ancheim St., Wilmiagtoo.. .Wilm, 0120; NE, 6-1881

Cooper, W. E., 60-5-508 nichrield Bldg. (13). .MUtual 2r3l

Dcut & Russell, Inc.. 8I2 E. 59th Street (l). .ADons 8l0t

Dolbeer d Ccrson, Lumber Co., 901 Fidelitv Bldg. (13)..........V4ndike 87,92

Ed. Fountqil Lumber Co', 528 Petroleum Bldg, (15). PRospect 4341

Hcllinan Mcckin Lumber Co. ll7 w.grh sr. (15). .....TRiaity 36'l{

Hqmmond LuEber Compqly, 2010 So. Alcmedc St. (54). .PRosPect 1333

Hobbs Wcll Lumber Co', 625 Rowcn Btdg. (13). ...TRinity 5088

Holmeg Eurekq Lumber Co,. 7ll-712 Architects Bldg. (13)......MUtucl 9l8l

Hoover, A. L., 5225 Wilshire Btvd. (36). .YOrk 1168

Kilpctrick d Compoay (Wilmington) 1240 Blin! Ave....-. .NEvcdc 6-1888

Ccrl H. Kuhl Lumber Co', (R. S. Osgood), 704 S. Spring Sr. (14). ...TRinity gAE

Lcwrence-Pbilips Lumber Co.'

633 Petroteum aldg. (t5).... ..PRospect 8174

Ross C. Lcsbley (R. G. Robbins Lumber Co.), 714 W, Olympic Blvd. (15). ..,..PRospect 0724

Lonq Bell Lumbcr CompqnY, 6lI N. Alvqrqdo (26). ..DRexel 1347

MccDonald Co', L. W., 7ll W. Olympic Blvd' (15)......PRospect ?194

Mchogcnv Inporting Co., 621 -S. Epring St. (l{). .TRiuity 9651

.Postofficc Zone Nutuber iu Pareuthesis.

Wbolesale LumbEr Distribulors, Inc., 5{ First Street (7)..............TWinoaks

HANDWOODS

Strcble Hcrdwood Compcnv, First and Clcy Streeti (7i....TEmplebcr

Wbite BrothErs, 500 High Srreer (l). ....ANdover

LOS ANGELES

LUMBEB Mctthies Co., P. L. 3060 Andritq St. (4t)...... Orbcn Lumber Co., 77 S, Pcscdenc Ave., Pccilic Lumber Co., Tbe 5225 Wilshire Blvd. (36). Pctrick Lumber Co.,

Weudliag-Nctbcn Co., 561 Marlet Sr. ({).. .......SUlter 5353

HANDWOODS

Americaa Hcrdwood Co., .Albqny ulr4 1900

Ecslmqn Lumber Scles, 714 W. Olympic Blvd. (15) .....PRospect 5039 Pope 6 Tclbot, Inc., Lumber Division ?14 W, Olympic Blvd. (15). .PRospect 8231

E. L. Reitz Co., 333 Petroleum Bldg, (15). .PRospect 2359

Squ Pedro Lumber Co.,

l5l8 S. Centrql Ave. (21).. .Rlchmond ll4l

1800-A Wilminstou Boad (Scn Pedro). ..Son Pedro 2200

Schcler 8ros. Lumber d Shingle Co., ll7 w. gth srreer (I5) ..TRiuiry 4271

Shevliu Pine Scles Co,, 330 Petroleun BIdg. (15)........PRospect 0615

Simpson Industries, Inc..

16-10 E. Wcshington Blvd. (21)..PRospect 6183

Stqrton, E. I. 6 Son, 2050 E. 4lst St. (ll). ...CEutury 29211

Sudden d Chrislenson, Inc.. 630 Bocrd ol Trqde Bldg. (14)....TRiaity 8844

Tqcomc Lumber Sqles, 837 Petroleum Bldg. (15). .PRospect ll08

Toste Lumber Co., 326 Petroleum Bldg. (15). .PRospect 7605

Weudling-Nctbcn Co., 5225 Wilshire Blvd. (36). ..YOrk 1168

West Oregon Lumber Co., rl27 Petroleum Bldg. (15). .Rlchmond 028I W. W. Wilkinson, ll2 West Niath Streei (15). .TRinity 4613

Weverhqeuser Scles Co., lilg W. M. Garlcnd Bldq. (15)..Mlchiqcn 6354

E. K. Wood Lumber Co., {710 So. Alcmedc Sr. (54). .lEllerson 3lll

CREOSOTED LUMBEN_POLES PILINCFTIES

Americcn Lumber d Trecting Co., ll5l So. Broqdwcy (15)......,...Pnospect'!353

Baxter, I, H. d Co., 801 West sth Street (13)........Mlchigcu 629{

Pope d Tclbot, Inc., Lumber Division, tll W. olyEpic Blvd. (15). .PBoepect 8231

TWinoclg 55{{ .CEatury 29211 Mlchigcn 9326 Wester! Hcrdwood Lumber Co', 2014 Ecst lsth Streoi (55). ......PBospcct 616l

SASH_D OORS_MILLWONK_SCAEENS

BLINDS_PANELS AND PLYWOOD IBONING BOARDS

Bqck Pqnel Conpcuy. 310-314 Eqst 32nd Street (ll).. Bcck Compq[Y.32nd-Street (ll)....ADqms 122,5 Cclilornic Door CompcnY, The P, O. Box 126, Vernba Stction(ll) Klmball 2l'll - F, o. Vern-oa Station (ll) 2l{l Caliloruia Panel d Veneer Co., P. O. Box 2096, Termincl

Arnex (54) ...TRiuiry 0057 Cobb Co., T. M., 5800 Ceutrcl Avenue (ll)........ADcru llllT

Cole Door & Plywmd Co., Itl49 E. Slauson Ave. (ll) ,ADams 4371 Dqvidson Plvwood 6 Veneer Co., 2435 Enter-priEe St. (2I). .TRiniry 2581 Eubcnk d Son, L. H. (Inglewood) 433 W. Bedondo Blvd.. .ORegon 8-255

Hclev Bros, (Sqntc Monicc) 1620 l4tb Sireet..........:........AShley'!-2268

Koehl, Jno. W. d Son, 652 S. Myere Street (23)........ANgelus 8l9l Oregon Wcshington Plywood Co., Itz W.gth Streei (15). ...TBnily l6t3

Pacific Mutual Door Co., 1600 E. Wcshington Blvd. (21)..PRospect 9523

Recm Compcuy, Geo, E., 235 S. Alcmedc Street (12).....Mlchigoa 1854

Sqmpson Co. (Pcscdenq), 745 So. Bcymoad Ave, (2)........RYcn l-6939

SimDson Industries, Inc,, 1610 E. Wdshington Blyd. (21)..PRospect 6183

UBited Stdtes Plywood Corp., 1930 Eost lsth Sr. (21)........Rlchnoad 610l

West Cocst Screen Co., ll45 Edst 63rd Street (l)... ...ADcmg lllttl

Western Mill 6 Moulding Co,, 11615 Pcrnelee Ave, (2)........trImbc1| 2953

E. K. Wood Lunber Co., l7l0 S. Alqnedc St. (5{)........tEff.tron 3tll