WESTERN DOOR & SASH GO.

man-hours in workers moving from one operation to another or from one industry to another, I request that operators and the U. S. Employment Service make every effort to reduce labor turnover and the resulting loss of production throughout the country. I also ask that the workers and their unions join in the effort to reduce excessive wandering from job to job.

The War Production Board is making arrangements for improved methods of granting priority assistance to the lumber industry, especially for the loggers who sell their product to the sawmills and do not sell directly to the Government. It is hoped that through this new priority system for the lumber industry throughout the United States the loss of time in logging and milling operations as a result of lack of material for repairs and maintenance rvill be considerably reduced.

Going All-Out for Purchas:ng War Bonds

Employees of Union Lumber Company, Fort Bragg, California, are going all-out for the Payroll Allotment Plan of purchasing War Bonds.

A score board has been erected at the main gate which shows by a series of thermometers the daily standing of each department in percentage of employees signed up for regular deductions from pay to be applied toward the purchase of bonds. Within two days after the score board was erected, nine departments of the plant had a 100 per cent sign-up. The competition is so keen that 60 per cent of all men in the plant signed up within a week.

With this activity going on in the plant, the woods and railroad men got into the "swim." Now in addition to the competition among the plant departments, the loggers are out to beat the mill-men and the railroad crews are determined to beat both the plant and woods.

Hardwood Firm Busy

George C. Cornitius of George C. Cornitius Hardwood Co., San Francisco, reports that his firm is busy supplying hardwood specialties for use in connection with Naval ship construction. It is interesting to note that this concern had a shipment of Philippine Mahogany delivered in March which left the Philippines just before December 7, and which was four months on the way by an indirect route.

\Tholesalers Meet in San Francisco

Roy A. Dailey, of Seattle, Western manager of the National American Wholesale Lumber Association, was the speaker at a luncheon attended by San Francisco wholesale lumbermen and manufacturers' representatives, held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, June 18.

Among those who attended were A. J. Russell, A. A. Kelley and John Helm, Santa Fe Lumber Co.; M. L. "Duke" Euphrat, Roy E. Hills and D. Normen Cords, WendlingNathan Co.; H. F. Vincent and O. C. Kellogg, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.; George R. Kendrick and Jim Berry, Pope & Talbot, Inc.; Glenn Harrington and Howard Gunton, MacDonald & Harrington; Fred Lamon, Lamon-Bonnington Co.; Bill Lawrence, Shevlin Pine Sales Co.; Mason K,line and Caspar Hexberg, Union Lumber Co.; E. J. Doty and G. J. Hawley, Atkinson-Stutz Co.; C. C. Stibich, Tarter Webster & Johnson.

Acquires South Sound Lumber Sales, Inc.

C. H. Kreienbaum, executive vice-president of the Simpson Logging Company of Shelton and Seattle, Wash., announces the acquisition of South Sound Lumber Sales, fnc., and change of name to Simpson Industries, Inc. Simpson Logging Company has been prominent among Northwest loggers and timber owners since its incorporation in 1895, and it first entered the lumber manufacturing field with the construction of the Reed Mill Company at Shelton in 1925.

The Simpson interests recently acquired the properties, consisting of a door factory, plywood factory and a sawmill of the Henry McCleary Timber Company at McCleary and Shelton, Wash.

The Gange Lumber Company of Tacoma, Wash., and the Olympic Plywood Company of Shelton, Wash., will be associated with this new concern.

The policy and management shall remain the same as that of the South Sound Lumber Sales. fnc.

LUMBERMEN'S SONS GRADUATE

James L. Hall, Jr., and Roy E. Hills, Jr., sons of James L. Hall and Roy tr. Hills, San Francisco wholesale lumbermen, were graduated from Stanford University, June 14.