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A. Burlingame Johnson Species Pricc Dallercntials
A. Burlingame Johnson, 78 years of age, diplomat and fomer State legislator, died at the Pasadena Hospital. Pasadena, Calif., June 27, following an operation. He was the father of Earl Johnson of the johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena. His family came to Pasadena in 1904.
He was native of Colorado. In 1897, when a resident of that state, he was appointed Consul-General to Amoy, China. He spent nearly twenty years in the Orient. He was the founder of Tung Wen Boon College at Amoy, for which he was decorated by the Chinese government. After a period in China, he moved to the Philippines, where he lvas largely instrumental in constructing the Manila street railway system. He was interested in Chinese art and had one of the most famous collections of Chinese porcelain and bronzes in the world, which he presented to the Los Angeles Museum. As a California State Senator, he assisted in framing the gasoline tax so that the proceeds went toward the building of state roads.
Mrs. Johnson died two years ago. Besides his son, Earl, he is survived by a daughter, Miss Erma Johnson of Pasadena, and three brothers, Russell of Pasadena, William of Grand Junction, Colo., and Denton J. of Delta, Colo.
Spends Vacation In Honolulu
Roy E. Hills, of Wendling Nathan Company, San Francisco, accompanied by Mrs. Hills and their son, sailed from Los Angeles on the Mariposa, July 7, for Honolulu. They expect to be back in San Francisco August 1.
Washington, D. C., July 3.-Mill price differentials, a cluestion of difficult complexity with which the Lumber Code Authority and its administrative agencies have been struggling for months, was brought to the fore at the Annual in two major issues, that of the differentials to be aliowed small Southern pine mills on a group of sub-standard items (disposal of which issue was recounted in reports of the meeting's first week of business) and that of the petition for parity of Western Ponderosa Pine Manufacturers. After two weeks of study of the problem by a specially appointed committee, the following decision was approved:
"That there shall be an increas.e of $3 per thousand feet B.M. in the price of No. 1 and No. 2 shop grades of fir Iumber and a decrease of $1 per thousand feet B.M. in the price of No. 1 and No. 2 Ponderosa Pine shop grades;
"The difierential in price between Ponderosa Pine doors and doors of fir, spruce, yellow pine and redwood, based on the mixed carload minimum price, shall be as follows:
"No. 1 Ponderosa Pine doors shall be priced at three points shorter discount than No. I doors of fir, spruce, 1'ellow pine and redwood;
"No. 2 Ponderosa Pine doors shall be priced at two and one-half points shorter discount;
"No. 3 Ponderosa pine doors shall be priced at two points shorter discount."
Specializing in Heavy and Long Tirnbers
It was further decided that a committee, the members of which shall be designated by the interested Divisions and Subdivisions, shall be appointed immediately to confer and recommend to their respective Divisions and Subdivisions and to report to the Authority not later than August 15 their conclusions as to equitable rules for the distribution of softwood doors, windows, frames and other items of woodwork on business contracted or purchased by or for the Federal Government. Within ten days after this committee has reported to the Authority the West Coast and Western Pine Divisions shall coordinate their prices on shop lumber.
The Authority had taken steps towards a thorough study of the entire differential problem, a number of the menl, bers suggesting that in future consideration of the matter an attempt be made to base price schedules wholly on quality and not on such factors as mill capacity, mill production, opportunity for sales or sales facilities. A committee appointed to weigh the problem from all angles reported back to the Authority that any searching inquiry into the situation would require time and first-hand observation, and so recommended that a member of the.Lumber Code Authority staff be delegated to make a survey of the field and report its findings to the Authority. The recommendation was approved. It is thought that several months will be required before such a survey can be completed.
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