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A new Navy chaplain, serving his first day on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. sat down for mess with the enlisted men for the first time. "I bowed my head to say a few words of grace," he reported afterwards, "and when I looked up, all the plates except mine were empty."

And Merle Tyner sends in this story from Missouri: Getting back to the states from Honolulu in the early days of the war was very difEcult. One American working there was wild to get back and pulled every possible string and worked every angle for months. But it looked like his turn would never come.

Finally things began to loosen up, and one friend of his after another would get to go home. With little else to do, his cro,wd got to making quite a ceremony of bidding them farewell; a trip to the boat, then down the gangplank wav- ing goodbye; and next week another fellow going home, and another similar party. Bill was right in the center of it week after week, but his own turn was long d,elayed until his friends iot to wishing it would be Bill next, instead of one of them.

But he kept seeing the others off and joining in the farewell parties; and finally his call came. He could hardly believe it until his gang got the word and began preparing to throw the biggest party of all for the fellow who had waited so long. As he went aboard they were with him to the last man, and they threw quite a party on the ship before she sailed; so large a party that when the whistle finaily blew they marched down the gangplank in their accustomed style and out onto the dock, and yeah, you've guessed itright in the midst of the crowd, shouting goodbye louder than any of them, waving farewell harder than any of them, stood Bill, while the ship sailed away without him.

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Ceiling Prices for Western Red Cedar Pilins

Washington, D. C., April 14.Specific dollar-and-cent maximum prices for Western red cedar piling, on a lineal foot basis. have been established, the Office of Price Administration announced today.

The new ceiling prices become effective April 19, 1945.

Previously ceilings for Western red cedar piiing were those provided for the most comparable western red cedar pole meeting American Standard Association specifications. This method of pricing, however, was difficult for some sellers, OPA said, because a large portion of piling sold was heavy piling for which no exact equivalent existed in the specifications for A.S.A. poles.

Today's action provides uniform ceilings for piling of all principal specifications and eliminates the necessity of applying to OPA for approval of ceilings for this product when sizes cannot be matched. (Amendment 1 to NIPR

554-Western Red Cedar Poles and Piling-effective April 19, 1945.

Bark Beetle in Englemann Spruce

Bark beetles have destroyed approximately trvo billion board feet of Englemann spruce timber in Colorado and Wyoming national forests, according to Dr. Noel Wygant of the Forest Insect Laboratory, Fort Collins, Colorado. Manpou'er shortages have hampered control measures.

N.L.M.A. Attorneys Admitted To U. S. Supreme Court

Henry Bahr, counsel and acting secretary of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and Milton A' Smith, assistant counsel, were admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States April 5th. Their sponsor was Rolland L. Nutt, Washington tax attorney.

The N.L.M.A. attorneys are members of the bar of the Distiict of Columbia and the United States Customs Court of Ne'iv York. Mr. Smith is also admitted to practice before the U. S. Court of Claims, Court of Customs and lratent Appeals, and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Mr. Bahr is a graduate of Columbus University Law School and studied at Georgetown lJniversity prior to taking up the study of law. Mr. Smith's LL.B. was obtained from Washington College of Law after attending George Washington University. Subsequently he did graduate study at Columbus University and special work in patent law and economics at George Washington.

Henry Bahr has been on the staff of the association since 1936, and Milton Smith since 1940.

Cclilornicr Visitor

Carl W. Bahr, president, California tors, fnc., Chicago, left San Fran.cisco day visit to the ,mills and head offices the organization.

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