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Lumber shipments of.465 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 5.5 per cent below production for the week ended June 19, 1943. In the same week new orders of these mills were 2.6 per cent less than production. Unfilled order files in the rdporting mills amounted to 105 per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 41 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 36 days' production.

For the year to date, shipments of reporting identical mills exceeded production by t1.2 per cent; orders by 15.3 per cent.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended June 26, lO3 mills reporting, gave orders as 82,DO,0N feet, shipments 83,085,000 feet, and production 92,465,ffi0 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 455,939,000 {eet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended June 26, 137 mills reporting, gave orders as 22,799,ffi feet, shipments 26pOl,W feet, and production 23,153,000 feet' Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 142,643,0@ feet.

The California Redwood Association tion of ten operations for the month .of

551,000 feet, shipments 47,856,000 feet, and orders received 47,4O7,W f.eet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 90,949,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended June 19 reported orders as 110,612,000 feet, shipments I@,784,AN feet, and production 120,012,000 feet' For the week ended June 26 orders were reported as 113,567,000 feet, shipments 124,504,000 feet, and production 124D3,@O f.eet.

ED LA FRANCHI COMMISSIONED LTEUTENANT (J. G.) rN NAVY

E. J. La Franchi, well known young San Francisco Bay district lumberman. has been commissioned a Lieutenant, Junior Grade, in the Navy, and left July 6 for training at Williamsburg, Va.

Ed served four years in the Navy after leaving school. He has been associated for the past seven years with Hill & Morton, Inc., wholesale lumber dealers, Oakland. He is married and is the father of three children.

HEADS CREDIT MEN'S ASSOCIATION

A. I. Hermann of San Francisco, Union I-umber Company executive, was recently elected president of the Creclit Managers Association of Northern and Central California. reported producMay, 1943, as 35,-

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