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California Businegs Roll of Honot

Glenn O. Fogleman, resident manager of the Los Angeles branch of The California Door Company has mailed out to his friends an interesting book, "California Business Roll of Honor-A Romance of California Business," containing a list of over 70O Calilornia firms which have been in business for more than fifty years.

The lumber companies listed in the book are: The California Door Company, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., Friend & Terry Lumber Co., C. Ganahl Lumber Co., Glasson Mill & Lumber Co., Kerckhofi-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co., A. J. Koll Planing Mill Ltd., Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Patten & Davies Lumber Co., San Diego Lumber Co., San Pedro Lumber Co., Skidmore Lumber Co., and Whiting-Mead Co.

ft contains historical sketches of many of the concerns, including The California Door Company, KerckhoffCuzner Mill & Lumber Co., Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., San Pedro Lumber Co., and Whiting-Mead Co.

The book has been issued as a. supplement to Ghost Town News, a bi-monthly magazine devoted to the 'West, edited by Nicholas Field Wilson, and published by Knott's Berry Place of Buena Park, Califor.nia.

..IJANK'' ALDRICH ENSIGN IN NAVY

"Hank" Aldrich, son of Harry W. Aldrich of the H. W. Aldrich Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., was recently graduated as an Ensign in the Navy. He visited his home last week and left April L2 for Miami, Fla., for further schooling.

1lth Annual Reveille May 7

Indications are that the l1th Annual Reveille of Central and Northern California lumbermen to be held in the Leamington Bowl, Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Friday evening, May 7, will be a very successful affair.

Wholesale and retail lumbermen of the San Francisco Bay area are as usual giving their financial support and the response this year has been most generous. All proceeds over actual expenses will be devoted to a special fund for a worthy cause in connection with the war.

Lewis A. Godard is general chairman of committees, Miland Grant is assistant general chairman. Earl Chalfan is chairman of the publicity committee, and G. W. Sechrist, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Broadway & Blanding, Alameda, is general secretary-treasurer.

Home On Furlough

Captain James H. Forgie, U. S. Army Air Corps, son of Robt. Forgie, Southern California representative for the Santa Fe Lumber Company, is on a two weeks' furlough and is visiting his father and mother. Before going in the service he was with the Patten-Blinn Lumber Company in Los Angeles.

Building Materials

To meet problems created by acute local shortages in regionally produced building materials, the OPA revised the methods by which manufacturers of these materials may apply for adjustment of maximum prices (MPR 188, amendment 9), effective April2.

CMP

WPB clarifies Direction I under CMP Regulation 1 to indicate that it was not intended to be retroactive. Orders which were placed in mill production schedules prior to March 22 need not be reinstated (CMP Regulation 1, Direction 1), issued March 26.

LUMBER

Prices for jack pine lumber produced in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan were reduced and brought in line with ceilings previously established by OPA for white pine and other northern softwood lumber cut in the same area (MPR 222, amendment 2)' effective April 2.

REDWOOD

Permission is granted for use an average sales price tower stock (Amendment 2

Logs And Bolts

redwood lumber producers to in setting ceilings on cooling to MPR 253), effective April 5.

Runaway price advances during the last four months for logs and "bolts" are halted by OPA by placing almost all logs and "f6115" not covered previously by other price regulations under a single coltrol reflecting SeptemberOctober, 1942, prices. (MPR 348), effective April 23.

AIRCRAFT LUMBER

Producers of remanufactured aircraft lumber are enabled to recover the costs of surfacing and resawing rough, green aircraft lumber to small fractional thicknesses (Amendment 3 to MPR 109), effective April 7.

Building Materials And Consumer Goods

Any person making the first sale of an article of specified building materials and consumer goods covered by MPR 188 is considered the "manufacturer" under that regulation, says OPA (Amendment 10 to MPR 188), effective April 5.

Metal Plastering Bases

Restrictions on manufacture of metal plastering bases are eased by WPB to provide products needed for certain essential war uses (Supplementary Limitation Order L-59B, as amended April 2), issued April 2.

CMP

To eliminate possible confusion resulting from operation of CMP, WPB makes certain formal changes in its order M-21 governing deliveries of iron and steel products (GPO M-21, as amended April 1), issued April 1.

Teak

WPB revokes preference order issued last year to conserve nation's entire teak supply for exclusive use of armed services inasmuch as it has fulfilled its purpose oi directing available supplies into hands of Army and Navy and their contractors (Revocation of GPO M-83), issued March 25.

LUMBER

Preference rating order providing for maintenance, repair and operating supplies for loggers and producers in the lumber industry is revoked by WPB because obtaining of such supplies now is provided for by CMP Regulation 5 (Revocation of Preference Rating Order P-138), issued March 26.

CMP A sir4ple under CMP than $10,000 plan for the allotment of controlled materials for certain types of construction costing less is offered by WPB.

Logs And Bolts

Plants purchasing logs and bolts are reminded by OPA that the deadline for filing their maximum purchase prices with OPA is April 23.