News of Our Friends in the Services

Captain Ralph Lamon, son of Fred Lamon of LamonBonnington Co., San Francisco, has recently been active in making a survey tour of European cities for the Army Post Exchange. His last assignment was in Italy and from there he will be redeployed for home. He is expected to arrive before the end of March.

John E. Colombo, Jr., son oi John E. Colombo, Sr., who has recently been released from military service, will be associated.with his father in the Colombo Lumber Co. at Sebastopol, Calif. He was a Stafi Sergeant with an aircraft repair unit, stationed near Manila, P. I.

Mr. Colombo will also have associated with him his sonin-law, Joseph E. Schafer, who was also a Stafi Sergeant in the infantry, and has just returned to civilian life.

First Class Seaman James W. MacDonald, son of L. W. MacDonald, L. W. MacDonald Co., Los Angeles, has received his discharge from the Navy after over three years' service in the South Pacific. He is going to vacation in Mexico City for a month, and on his return to Los Angeles, will be associated with his father in the lumber business.

Captain Jack Boorman, IJ. S. Air Force, who was a transport pilot for some time in the China-Burma-India area, and was in the Air Force for four years, has completed his terminal leave and has returned to the Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland.

Capt. R. K. Nadeau, son of Louis B. Nadeau of Wood Products Co., Oakland, is on terminal leave following almost four years' service with the U. S. Air Force as a navigator. He completed 87 missions, all out of Italy. He will enter the Universitv of California.

D. C. LeBreton, son of D. C. LeBreton, Lincoln Lumber Co., Oakland, is now out of the service and is enrolled in a veterans' special class in the University of California College of Dentistry. He was until recently taking a dental course at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, under the Navy V-12 program.

OPA lssues Revised Basig for Distribution

Yards' Retail Ceiling o[ Hardwood Flooring

Effective March 2, 1946, milt ceiling levels in effect on December I, 1945, l0 per cent lower than current ceilings, must be used by retail distribution yards as a basis for computing prices on all retail sales of oak and pecan flooring and for computing prices on retail sales of hardwood flooring of miscellaneous species produced in the Southern, South Central, and Appalachian hardwood regions, the Office of Price Administration has announced.

Wholesale distribution yards and wholesale type of sales by retail yards may continue to compute their ceilings on sales of the items affected by this action on the basis of the current ceiling prices provided in the regulation.

As part of the action, retailers in the Southern area were authorized to increase the percentage portion of their markups on retail sales of oak, pecan and miscellaneous hardwood flooring from 25 per cent to 30 per cent. This mark-up will reduce the absorption required of Southern retailers.

Absorption by retailers of the higher mill-costs recently granted is ln line with OPA's estalished policy of preventing price increases from causing increases at later levels of production or distribution, wherever absorption is possible.

(Amendment No. 16 to Second Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 21S-Distribution Yard Sales of Softwood; effective March 2, 1946.)

S. F. Lumbermen's Club Meets Mar. 19

The next luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club will be held in the Concert Room, Palace Hotel, San Francisco on Tuesday, March 19, at 12:29 p.m, Clifford 'W. Stein,. special agent in charge of Francisco office of the FBI, will speak on "The War and Peace."

One of the door prizes to be given away will pound ham.

Ioins W. R. Spclding Lumber Co.

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