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W. W. (Bill) Jackson, J. H. Baxter & Co., San Francisco, was back at his desk May 6 from a 30-day eastern trip. He visited Louisville, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New York. When in Chicago he attended the annual convention of the American Wood Preservers Association, April 22-26.

Dan L. Lindsley, promotion engineer of the Los Angeles of6ce. also attended the convention.

Ralph E. Barto of the Ralph E. Huntington Park, Calif., attended the April 26, on his way to call on mills.

Barto Lumber Co.. Reveille in Oakland

Harry Gulley, back from a trip F{ansen Lumber Company, Riverside, is to the Northrvest.

Carvel D. Brown, Orban San Francisco visitor April ern California sawmills.

Lumber Co., Pasadena, was a 25 on his way to call on North-

Jack lvey, manager of the Northern Tacoma Lumber Sales, Arcata, recently main office in Los Angeles.

California office of paid a visit to the

E. Willard Luther, salesman for L. H. Eubank & Sou, Inglewood, Calif., is back from an extended business trip in the middle western. southern and eastern states.

Captain Orrin Wright, Jr., son of Orrin Wright, office manager, West Coast Screen Co., Los Angeles, has jr.rst returned from a year's service in Okinawa. He has been in the Army Transportation Corps for four years and expects to be released soon.

Mr. Wright's younger son, Jack, a T-5 in the U. S. Engineers, is back from two years' service in England. He has been in the Engineers for three years.

Lieutenant (j.g.) Keith Rawlings, U.S. Maritime Service, son of Wayne Rarvlings, Harbor Plyrvood Corp. of California, San Francisco, and rvho is home while recuperating from an operation, attended the Reveille in Oakland, April26.

Sgt. Bill Freeland, son of C. M. (Friday) Freeland, Los Angeles, Southern California representative of the West Oregon Lumber Co., is out of the Army and will resume his studies at Stanford University. He was in the service for two and one-half vears. and saw action in France and Germany.

Harry F. Vincent, vice president and general manager, 11. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned recently from spending three weeks in the Pacific Northwest, where he visited Reedsport, Portland, Seattle and Bellingham.

H. B. Cooper, Cooper business visitor to San staff of Hogan Lumber after three years' Army

Lumber Co., Portland, was a recent Francisco and Los Angeles.

Ray P. llunter, manager of yard operations for Sterling Lumber Co., Oakland, returned May 10 from a business trip to the Northwest.

Knute Christensen, of the office Co., Oakland, is back with this firm service.

Chuck Griffen III, who has been in the Army Transport Service for the last four years, has now been released, following terminal leave. He was marine superintendent aL the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation for the past year, and before that was at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation for three years. He was sales manager of Monterey Bav Redwood Co. before the war.

Bill Davis, Pope & gene, Ore., is home from a recent illness.

Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, Eufrom the hospital and convalescing

\\/. J. Evans, Evans Lumber Company, Covina, has returned from a fifteen day business trip in the Northwest.

R. M. Engstrand, Los Angeles, Southern California representative for Campbell-Conro Lumber Co., Portland, Ore, was a recent Northwest visitor.

' Fred Morehouse, Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles, attended a department executive meeting of the American Legion in San Francisco, April 28 and 29.

Robert D. Lee, Escondido Lumber Co., Escondido, Calif., is on a visit to his old home in Henderson, Ky. He expects to be back about the end of Mav.

. James Cairns, of the Portland office of McCormick-Baxter Creosoting Co., attended the annual convention of the American Wood Processors Association, held in Chicago, April 22-26.

I C. M. (Friday) Freeland, West Oregon Lumber Co., Los Angeles, visited the company's mill in Portland, Ore., last w-eek.

Louis Robeson, Davidson Plywood & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, returned recently from a business trip to the Northwest, which included visits to Seattle and Spokane.

Fred E. Kopplin, Jr., is now in charge of the accounting department of Cole Door & Plywood Co., Los Angeles. He was formerly with Consolidated Lumber Co.. and was discharged a few months ago from the Army as a First Sergeant.

W, W. Forrest, Jr., who was a coxswain in the Navy Amphibious Force, Beach Battalion, is back from spending two years overseas, and will receive his discharge in June. He is the son of W. W. (Bill) Forrest, Sr., formerlv with Tilden-Forrest Lumber Co., Richmond; with the kaiser Co. as lumber purchasing agent up to July, 1944, an<l now with the U.S. Navy Surplus Board.

W. W. Davies, who was a Captain in the Army Trans_ portaton Corps, is out of the service and is now connectecl with Pope & Talbot, fnc., Lumber Division, at the Los Angeles office. Before entering the service, he represented the company in Arizona.

A. W. (Bates) Smith, MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., Los Angeles, will spend the next two or three months at the coqrpany's Portland, Ore., office.

Cotton Insulation Easily Installed

"We consider 'Lo-K' cotton insulation, for which we became sales agents for Southern California early this year, a very fine product," said Robt. C. Sand of the Cole Door & Plywood Co., Los Angeles, recently.

It can be easily installed by the user or by an insulation applicator. For houses already built, economical results may be obtained by using this cotton insulation in the upper floor ceiling or attic. When the attic is unfloored, this may be done by simply laying the material, unnailed, to the upper floor ceiling joists. Flanges on each side of the batt part of the insulation are provided for use when installing the material in side walls or other areas where fastening is required.

"This insulation is available in standard widths to fit between rafters, joists and studdings. Convenient lengths of 24 feet or over can be cut to suit specific needs. Paperbacked and plain types come in a wide range of thicknesses."

New Mill crt Eugene

Cobax Mills, Inc., is building a new electric sawmill at Eugene, Oregon. It will cut between 30,000 and 40,000 feet a day, and is expected to be in operation about July t. 1946.

After more than four years service in the Air Transport Command, two years of which he spent in the India-ChinaBurma theater, Clarence Dame has retuined to the Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland. He retired from the service with the rank of Captain.

F. A. (Pete) Toste, Toste Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned April 25 from calling on Northern California mills.

Floyd Hallock, sales manager of the Mill City Mfg. Co., Itortland, Ore., rvas a recen.t Los Angeles visitor.

Charles T. Gartin of Oregon Lumber Sales, Eugene, Oregon, flew to California recently on a businpss trip, and while there attended Reveille in Oakland, April26.

John I. Shafer of the John I. Shafer Hardwood Co., Logansport, Ind., who is a director of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, recently spent a few weeks in Los Angeles on a combined business and vacation trip.

\Testern Pine Millwork Prices Raised

Washington, May 6.-The Ofifice of Price Administration gave the low-cost housing program a boost by authorizing an average increase of 23/o over present ceiling prices for stock millwork from Western pine lumber.

The price increase, effective today, will be passed on to consumers, OPA said, but a study is in progress to determine the ability of resellers to absorb part of it. The agency said it had based the increase on cost increases alone, because other financial data usually used in determining prices were "not adequate nor available."

Specific millwork items were given the following price boosts: Frames, 3.5%; open sash, 24.5%; doors with plywood panels,25/o; doors with raised panels, 22/o; glazed sash, 15.75/o; combination doors, 22o/o; window screens, 20.5%; other items, including specialties, 22/c.

(Amendment 16 to MPR 293.)

Adds Equipment

Orban Lumbet Co., Pasadena, recently added three Autocar Diesel trucks and trailers to its lumber handling equipment. This makes four of these units, which handle an average load of 15,000 feet of lumber.

They also operate a Gerlinger lumber carrier, a Iloss carrier, and a Ross lift truck in their yarcl.

Fire Destroys Lumber Yqrd

The Fowler Lumber Company, by fire on April 21. The loss was to $50,000. The yard is a branch Company, Fresno.

R"no$Hoo-Hoo Club Elects New Officert

Ray Smith, Meadow Valley Lumber Co., Quinqy, Calif., is the new president of Reno Hoo-Hoo Club No. 129. Walter Fisher, Washoe Lumber Co., Reno, Nev., is vice president, and Roy Moses, Morrison-Merrill Lumber Co., Rerro, is secretary-treasurer.

The directors are Charles Cross, Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Co., Truckee, Calif.; Bob Huston, Sierra Builders Supply Co., Tahoe City, Calif.; Art Jones, Home Lumber Co., Reno ; Ray Cross, Nevada Lumber Co., Reno; Al Snyder, Snyder Lumber Co., Tahoe City, Calif.

A. L. Kerper, Rocky Mount Manufacturing Company, Reno, is Vicegerent Snark of the Reno district.

Celotex Awcrrded First Plcrce in Red Cross Cover Contest

Chicago, April 2G-Announcement is made by the American Red Cross national headquarters that first place in the 1946 Red Cross cover contest has been awarded to the Celotex Employees Magazine, published in Chicago by The Celotex Corporation. The cover artist for the winning entry was Bob Brightman, of Chicago. The magazine is edited by Halt Green.

$2,500 2-Bedroom

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Fowler, was destroyed estimated from $35,000 of the Valley Lumbcr

17,000 Homes lor San Frcncisco

Construction of 17,000 homes in San Francisco, the largest number for any city in the nation, has been authorized by the Federal Housing Administration, the Chamber of Commerce reported on April 30.

Veterans of World War II will have sales or rental preference on the units, 14,000 of which will be built for sale at prices up to $10,000. Rents on the remaining 3,000 will run from approximately $40 to a maximum of $80.

The 17,000 are part of 36,482 authorizations for three states-California, Oregon and Washington-and 220,7I2 for the entire nation.

Los Angeles got 16,488 and Detroit 15,209.

Mass production of 48,900 two-bedroom homes annually, to sell at the factory for under $2,500, was promised April 29.by Chairman P. W. Litchfield of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, if necessary materials and equipment are readily forthcoming. The houses would be built by Wingfoot Homes Inc., Goodyear subsidiary, in existing idle 'ivar plants. The homes would be complete with bathroom and kitchen fixtures, built-in beds, bureaus; closets, mirrors and cabinets, Mr. Litchfield said.

George A. Good

George Arnold Good, 60, passed arvay in Pacific Grove, Calif., April 18, after an extended illness.

A native of Pennsylvania, he was in the retail lumber business in Tracy for many years before going to Pacific Grove 15 years ago to open his own yard there.

He was a Past Grand Patriarch of the Grand Encampment of California, I.O.O.F., Tracy Lodge Odd Fellows.

Surviving him are his widorv, Mrs. Ruby Irene Good; tlvo sons, Bill Arnold Good and John V. Good; a daughter, Mrs. Georgeanna Blake; a sister and two brothers.

Funeral services were held in Pacific Grove Aoril 22.

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