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How Lumber Looks

As we go to press, the strike in the Redwood lumber manufacturing industry has entered its eighteenth week. The strike started on January 14, t946.

The Redwood Industrial Relations Committee in a letter to the union on Aprll 22 made a new ofier as a means of settling the present dispute, but the union rejected it, demanding the union shop rvhich is the main issue in the strike. The letter also pointed out that there is considerable restoration and maintenance to be done before full operations are resumed. and unless this work can be started in the very near future, some of the mills may abandon operations for the balance of the year.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended Aprll 27,102 mills reporting, gave orders as 65,738,000 feet, shipments 62,374pffi feet, and production 57,153,000 feet' Orders on hand at the end of the lveek totaled 281,428,N0 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week April 27, 88 units (117 mills) reporting, gave orders as 17,028,000 feet, shipments 17,123,000 feet and production 17,928,N0 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 88,594,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended April 27,135 mills reporting, gave orders as 85,402,' 000 feet, shipments 93,879,000 feet, and production 84361,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 517.678,000 feet.

Midsummer Hi-Jinks June 14

The Midsummer Hi-Jinks of Lumbermen's Post No. 403, American Legion, will be held at the Royal Palms Hotel, 360 Soutli Westlake Avenue, Los Angeles, Friday evening, June 14,1946.

The committee in charge of the arrangements is as follows: Phil Lyons, Hayward Lumber & Investrirent Co.; Russell Gheen, Alliance Lumber Co.; Harold Hamilton, John W. Koehl & Son; Milton Taenzer, American Hardwood Co., and in addition several members of the Post will contribute their services.

In Business lor Himsell

M. R. (Rusty) Gill is now in business for himself and operating as Gill Lumber Sales with headquarters in Eugene, Ore.

Rusty is well known in California lumber circles, and before he entered the Army he was a member of the sales staff for Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. at Los Angeles. Since leaving the service, he has been connected with the Eugene office.

Lumber Compcny Buys Plcrne

O'Neill Lumber Company, San Francisco, purchased a B. T. Anny plane April 15. The plane is a two-seater with cruising speed of 140 miles an hour, and has a 450 horsepower engine.

Ken and Bill O'Neill, who rvere both Army Air Force bomber pilots during the rvar, will pilot the plane on trips to the Pacific Northrvest and to the company's yard in I-as Vegas, Nevada.