So. Pine \fholesalers and Commission Men OPA Transfers Lumber Distribution, MillTo Report Monthly Volume of Sales

Wastrington, D. C., April 2-Wholesale lumber dealers and commission men who handle southern yellow pine lumber are required by Direction 17 to Order L-335, issued today, to report to the War Production Board their monthI)' volume of sales of this lumber, \ rPB announced.

Monthly reports are to be made on Form WPB-4?{I,7, obtainable in WPB district field offices. The form calls for information on sales handled for (1) direct military procurement, (2) non-military sales to consumers rated AA-1, (3) non-military sales to distributors rated AA-1, (4) sales on orders rated AA-2, AA-2X, and AA-3, and (5) all other types of sales.

Approximately 80 per cent of southern yellow pine lumber is handled by wholesalers and commission-men, officials of WPB's Lumber and Lumber Products f)ivision said. Some 'contraetors working on direct military orders are having difficulty in obtaining southern yellow pine. The reports required by Direction 17 will provide information as to the movement of sbuthern yellow pine, showing how much is going to highly essential uses and how much to less essential uses. If necessary, WPB will be able, on the basis of the information obtained, to divert more southern yellow pine lumber to the highly essential war uses that are in danger of falling behind schedule, division officials pointed out.

l)irection 17 provides that a wholesaler or commissionman who does not file his report is prohibited, during the period that the report would cover, to deliver, order, or sell any southern yellow pine, even though he has received certified orders for this lumber.

Reports for April are due on or before April 15. For each succeeding month, reports are due on or before the tenth of the month.

With Bcck Pcrnel Co.

Ernest (Rudy) Rudolph has joined the staff of the Back Panel Company in Los Angeles. For the past 24 years he was with the Schumacher Wall Board Corporation at South Gate, Calif., and his duties with this firm as salesman, branch manager and sales manager, gives him a .ivide acquaintance with the California retail lumber trade. He was born in Los Angeles, and has spent practically his entire business career in the building material business.

work and \7ood Containers Sections

Washington, D. C., March 28-Transfer of OPA's lum, ber distribution, millwork and wooden containers sections from the Lumber Price Branch to the Building Materials Price Branch was announced todav bv the Office of Price Administration.

The transfer, which becomes effective immediately. is being made so that the pricing of principal building ma. terials, including lum,ber and millwork products at distributive levels, will be unified in a single branch.

As a result of the transfer, building construction men in the era of expanded building activity expe,cted to follow the war will need contact only the Building Materials Branch on matters regarding prices for lumber and other building materials, rather than both the Building Materials and Lumber Branches.

The Lumber Branch will continue to price all primary forest products, eastern softwoods, western softwoods, and hardwoods at the mill level.

Karl Mathiasen will continue as price executive of tlie Building Materials Price Branch, and John Lindeman, associate price executive of the Lumber Branch, will become associate executive of the Building Materials Price Branch.

Peter A. Stone will continue as price executive of the Lumber Price Branch, and Stervart Fathman, head of the Primary Forest Products Price Section, will become assistant price executive of the Lumber Branch.

Los Angeles Building Permits

Building Permits issued in Los Angeles during March totaled 2,252 with a valuation ctf $2,757,6O4 compared with 2,851 permits at $3,821,104 during the like 1944 month, according to G. E. Morris, building superintendent. Activity during February, 1945, totaled 1,854 permits valued at $2,4t7,815.

During the first quarter of this year building permits totaled 6,406 valued at $8,881,847 compared with 7,496 at $13,979,628 during the like 1944 months.

Housing accommodations for 279 lamilies rvere included in the past month's building activity. Permits were issued for 235 single units at an average cost of $3,535 against $3,616 a year ago.

Custom Milling and Kiln Drying o[ LumberRMPR-5 39, Vestern Softwoods

Maximum Price Regulation 539 is redesignated Revised

Maximum Price Regulation 539 and is revised and amended. This regulation becomes effective March 31, 1945.

Section 4, "What is a custom mill," has been changed to clarify the definition.

'While coverage of some handling charges has been extended, these charges have been balahced by the elimination of others. Following are some of the more specific changes in the regulation:

1. Elimination of the requirement that the custom mill absorb demurrage charges, leaving su'ch matters to be settled by negotiation between the mill and the customer.

2. Addition of ceiling prices for random widths without the present necessity of piece tallying them in order to place them in specified 'ividth pri'ce brackets.

3. Addition of one dollar per thousand board measure by a mill to open car and truck handling charge.

4. Elimir-ration of a one dollar 'charge, now permitted, for a single operation.

5. Equalization of charges for ripping and resawing certain sizes to conform with identical charges for these tn'o operations in other sizes. Redtrction in the ceiling price of working 7 /4 inch stock through pricing it as two inch instead of one inch,lvhich is considerably higher. The same amendment prices 5/4 inch and 6/4 inch lumber as one inch. The area pricing regulations permit two handling charges, each just sufficient to cover the cost of the extra services. Two dollars per thousand,board measure may be added for handling lumber between mills and kilns, rvhere it is both milled and kiln dried. Saivmills, which also do some,custom milling and kiln drying, may secure permission to 'charge the prices established from their OPA regional officb, providgd they meet certain requirements.

Sections 3 (c) and 9 (c) of the Regulation prohibit a producing mill or wholesaler from receiving compensation for arranging for custom milling for a customer. They also require that all sales of lumber which the seller arrang'es to have milled in transit must be on an f.o.b. mill basis if ceiling pri'ces for custom milling and kiln drying are charged.

W.V.L.A. Reelect Olficers

At their fourth war-time rneeting, held in'Eugene, Ore., the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Association reelected the follorving officers: President, Charles W. Ingham, Glendale; Vice President, Guy Haynes, Carlton; SecretaryTreasurer, H. J. Cox, Eugene. Directors reelected were: Victor Chambers, Cottage Grove; T. W. Rosborough, Springfield; S'tewart Weiss, Sweet Home; F. A. Graham, Jasper; A. A. Lausmann, Medford; Kenneth Ford, Roseburg, and T. V. Larsen, Noti.

Speakers at the meeting were George Gerlinger, Col. W. B. Greeley, Fred Brurrdage, Charles French and M. O' Chenoweth.

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