Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Hold Annual Meeting at Portland June 28-30

The 21st annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association will be held at the Benson Hotel, Portland, Ore., June 28, D and 30.

There will be no business session on Monday, June 28, but there will be a social gathering in the evening in the club rooms of the hotel.

The Tuesday morning business session will open at 10:00 o'clock with President Adolph E. Wanke's address of welcome. The treasurer's report, reading of minutes ol 1942 meeting and reports of committees will be followed by a report of the progress of the Association. There will be an address by a prominent speaker and a general discussion on the subject of "Distribution of Hardwood Lumber for Victory."

Golf and other recreation will occupy the afternoon. Paul Smith will be toastmaster at the dinner in the Rose Roon: at 7:@ p. m.

At the Wednesday morning business session reports of committees will be received. The election of officers will be held, and there will be an address by W. E. Difford of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association. The last item on the program will be a generous discussion on "Distribution of Plywood for Victory."

Golf finals will be held in the afternoon. and there will be a bridge tea for the ladies.

Dinner will be at 7:OO p. m., and dancing at Broadway Theatre Ball Room.

The present officers of the Association are: President, Adolph E. Wanke, Wanke Panel Company, Portland; Vicepresident, Charles M. Cooper, W. E. Cooper Lumber Company, Los Angeles; Secretary and Treasurer, Dallas Donnan, Ehrlich-Harrison Company, Seattle.

'!(/estern Pine Price Ceilings lncreased

Producers of Western pine lumber in five states have been authorized to increase present ceiling prices $3 per 1,000 board feet for six species of lumber in twelve named grades and sizes sold to certain buyers under War Production Board limitation order L-N, the Office of Price Administration announced today.

The purpose of the increase is to maintain production.

Production costs in the five states recently were raisecl by wage increases approved by the War Labor Board.

The species, grades and sizes of lumber to which the $3 price rise is applicable can be sold only as approved by the War Production Board under the Limitation Order.

To relieve hardships cause.d by the wage increases for small mills in the five states whose sales of Western pine are not under order L-DO, OPA in addition, directed that the $3 price advance could be applied to all lumber the small mills produced, regardless of species, grade or size, provided the purchaser, if not within one of the named classes, agrees not to increase the price of his productE because of the higher lumber costs.

The higher prices are authorized. in Amendment No. 2 to Maxirnum Price Rgulation No. 94, and became effective May 31.

The states in which the $3 increases may be made are California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. It was only in these areas that producers were directly affected by the wage increases. The wage rises were authorized in April of this year, and were retroactive to the last quarter of. L942.

The different kinds of lumber under order I'-DO to which the ceiling price rise is applicable are Ponderosa pine, Idaho rvhite pine, Sugar pine, lodgepole pine, White fir, Western white spruce, and Engelmann spruce, in specific gra'des and sizes stated in the WPB order.'

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