Manufacturer-Dealer Coordinating Committee

S. F. Lumbermen's Club Winr Bowling Match Meets in Chicago

The Manufacturer-Dealer Coordinating Committee of the Producers' Council and the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association met at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, Ill., on April 23-24.

Two important decisions were made at this meeting:

(1) The educational program for lumber yard employees and veterans who desire to work in lumber yards, will be promoted jointly through the activities of the NRLDA and Producers' Council. To the lumber yard employees rvho cannot attend the courses set up at a university, lectures in printed form will be available.

(2) The designed low-cost home program which has ; been approved by FHA and also under the Wyatt Plan, will be promoted. Manufacturers of specific ., froterials will attempt to design their products to 1 fit this particular home which will be merchandised by lumber dealers throughout the United States.

Other meetings are scheduled in the future, and the entire program promises to become a most effective medium for solving manufacturer through distributor to consumer problems.

tumber Production Shows 24/o lnaeasg in Mcrch

Washington, May 23Lumber production increased nearly 24/o during March compared with a IZ/o increase in February.

The Civilian Production Administration said at the March production rate of 2.5 billion feet, a total of 30 billion board feet could be produced in 1946: lA production goal of 32 billion feet in 1946 had been set up under the Veterans Emergency Housing program.

SATISF'ACTION

. . A motter of beoufy snd service, plus t{re ossuronce of well-weoring quolity. The three go hond in honJ with rhis durobli plostic wollboqrd.

Keglers from the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club easily bested the team representing the East Bay Lumbermen's Club in an eight-man team.home and home bowling match, completed April 30 at the Bagdad alleys in San Francisco.

In the first half, rolled in Oakland on April 23, the San Franciscans piled up a 341-pin advantage, and increased this in the final session to a total of 561 pins. The score was 7367 to 6806 over the six-game route.

All individual honors went to the San Francisco gang, with President Dave Davis grabbing high single game with 216, rolled the opening night at Oakland. Fred Amburgey came through with a 181 average to lead that department. The 189 game posted by Irving Carter at Oakland stood up for high single for the East Bay crowd, and Miland Grant rolled steadily for all six games to take high average honors for the losers with 175.

The summary, with high game and average shown in that manner:

San Francisco-l373, 7367-Fred Amburgey, 214, I8l; Len Kupps,I75,163; Dave Davis, 216,163; Wayne Rawlings, 175, 162; Don Cathcart, 163, 149; Ernie Bacon, 152, 144; John Conlon, 166., I44; Charlie Wilson, 190, 143; Stu Griswold, 176, L39 and Art Bennett, 146, 136.

East Bay-lzII, 6f;0f-Miland Grant, 187, 175; Irving Carter, 189, 168; Jack Hanlon,169,156; Chris Sechrist, 186, 154; Jo Shepard, 165, 146; Tom Branson, 163, 137; Nick Nicholson, L49, I35; Louie Nadeau, 156, 124; John Helm, trg. toz.

New Mcrncrger Appointed

Harry A. Snow, formerly with Larsen Bros. Lumber & Fuel Co., San Leandro, Calif., has been appointed manager of the Sonoma and Boyes Springs yards of the Hammond Lumber Company.

Certain Milling Service Charges by Lumber Purchases Large Tract of Timber Distribution Yards Get Increase

Maximum charges whi.ch lumber distribution yards are permitted to charge for certain milling services have been raised by the Office of Price Administration, effective May rl,1946.

The increased charges are permitted for working lumber (1) to non-standard sizes or shapes required for special purposes by consumers, (2) in the larger sizes, such as over two inches in thickness, 12 inches in width and longer than 22 f.eet, which are not normally carried by retail yards in the ftrll range of sizes, and (3) into "upper bracket" items made by yards selling at the $5 and 10 percent mark-up, except flooring, siding, ceiling or partition.

The increases range fuom 25 cents to $1.75 per 1000 board feet depending on the service performed. The increases in costs to consumers will not be as significant as the restoration of these services to meet needs oI consumers. who would otherwise have to pay higher charges for the work done on building sites.

The changes were based on data submitted by the industry to OPA which revealed that the original level of maximum charges was below the actual March 1942 level.

(Amendment No. 21 to Second Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 21S-Distribution Yard Sales of Softwood -effective May 11, 1946.)

l,t/ill Build New Fcctory

Quality Frame & Materials, manufacturers of window and door frames, 6lO2 Haas Avenue, Los Angeles, will start construction soon of their new plant at Crenshaw and El Segundo Boulevards, which is expected to be completed in August or September. The plant and yard will have a frontage of 450 feet on El Segundo Boulevard. Dave Isaac is the owner.

H. E. 'West, general partner of the Placerville Lumber Company states that they have recently purchased approximately 34@ acres of Nevada timber land from the.Clover Valley Lumber Company of Loyalton. The price is said to exceed $100,000.00. The property is located just across the State line on the Kingsbury grade and the logs will be trucked to their Tahoe Valley Mill.

"ft is the plan of the corrrp&o], after logging off the merchantable timber, to subdivide this tract into summer and pernianent home sites. Much _of this property overlooks Lake Tahoe and is only one to three miles from the Lake.

"The Placerville Lumber Company is running their three sawmills six days a week, eight hours a day, with the Fresh Pond mill running two shifts. There are about 350 men employed in all departments and the company expects to cut from 4O to 45 million feet of lumber this season.

"This company placed fourth in the Pacific region among 100 mills reporting for 1945, witha cut of 49,000,000 feet. In 1944 they cut 54 million feet of lumber for the Army Air Forces, and a total of 70 rnillion feet during the war. While most of their lumber during the past two years has been delivered to the Army and Navy, 90 per cent of the cut will go for GI homes and essential building purposes this season," Mr. 'West said.

Mill Prices Rcised on Pine Moldings

Washington, May 2O--The OPA today authorized an increase of 20 per cent in mill ceiling prices for Western pine house moldings and 6 per cent for industrial moldings.

The increases, effective tomorrow, are being granted to offset a price hike of $4.50 per one thousand board feet of Western pine lumber. This increase became efiective-last month. The OPA said the increase for house molding will amount to 1O to 13 per cent at retail.