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Maximum Prices for Rough Grcen No. 1 Northern California Retailers Meet Aircraft Poplar Lumber Rolled Baclc

Maximum prices for rough green No. 1 aircraft poplar lumber were "rolled back" to 90 per cent of their former prices by the Office of Price Administration in order to create a "spread" between prices of the rough lumber and aircraft wood ready for use by the fabricator.

The "Spread," which provides a margin of profit for the re-manufacturer of rough green lumber for the processing and refining he performs, is established in Amendment No. 5 to Maximum Price Regulation No. l0g (Aircraft Lumber), and becomes effective May 27,1943.

Under the regulation as originally written, prices for aircraft lumber were set up to apply to any seller, no matter whether the seller was an originating mill or an intermediate re-manufacturing plant.

It has since developed, however, that a large number of originating mills do not have the equipment necessary to prepare poplar lumber to the degree of refinement that it would be immediately ready for use by the fabricator of airplane parts without further basic preparation.

To give a margin of profit to intermediate operators who purchase rough green poplar aircraft grades from the mills and perform a refining or re-manufacturing process on such lumber, maximum prices for rough green aircraft lumber are now established at 90 per cent of their former levels.

The new prices for rough green poplar aircraft lumber,

A meeting of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California was held at the Palace Hotel. San Francisco, Tuesday morning, May 18.

J. H. Kirk, Southern Pacific Milling Company, San Luis Obispo, the Association's representative to the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, and Secretary B. B. Barber of Fresno, who -had just returned from " t.ip to Washington, D. C., addressed the meeting.

New Retail Firm in Fresno

Walter Krumbholz has purchased the Standard Lumber & Mill Company at tTlO Blackstone Street, Fresno, and will operate a retail lumber business under the name of K-Y Lumber Company.

Mr. Krumbholz is well known in Fresno. He was with Kellner Lumber Co. for some time an.d was manager of Madary Planing Mill for several years.

together with certain adjustments for shrinkage in kilndrying at the re-manufacture's levels and stiffening of recovery regrading rules, were worked out in conferences of OPA officials with primary producers, re-manufacturers and fabricators, the Army and Navy Aeronautical Board, and the War Production Board.