N. R. L. D. A. Appoints New

Director

Northern California Dealerc Digcuss Problems With OPA Executives of Publ:city

H. R. Northup, secretary-manager of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, announces the appointment of Paul W. Watson to the new post of director of publicity for the Association.

Mr. Watson has spent over eight years in writing about the building and building materials field, having been an associate editor of Domestic Engineering; managing editor of Institutions; associate editor of the American Lumberman, and associate editor of the American Builder. He came to the Association direct from the editorship and managing editorship of the United States Gypsum Company's magazine, Popular Home.

Educated at the University of Illinois where he majored in journalism, he followed the newspaper field, including the running of a weekly in Muskegon, Mich., until he entered the journalistic side of the building and building materials field.

He is 38 years old., married, has tri'o daughters in high school, and plans to make his home in Washington, D. C.

Buy Lumber Yqrd ct Delhi

Rex Abraham, mana$er of the Turlock Lumber Company, Turlock, and his partner, Ifarry Raymus, have announced the purchase of the Conner Lumber Company at Delhi, operated for many years by E. T. Conner. The yard had been closed about a year preceding Mr. Conner's death last fall.

Kenneth Meggs, former employe of Mr. Conner, will be resident manager at Delhi. Turlock Lumber Company also operates a branch yard at Hilmar.

Elected Vice-President Junior C. of C.

Tom Hogan III, Hogan Lumber Company, Oakland, was recently elected Vice-President of the State Junior Chamber of Commefce for the San Fran,cisco Bay district.

SeveralmeetingsattendedbyNorthernCaliforniaretail lumber dealers were.held in San Francisco and Oakland r: June 28 and D for the purpose of presenting to Peter A. Stone and Arthur Larsen of the Office of Price Administration a number of problems in connection with OPA. price regulations on which the dealers want relief.

Meetings sponsored by the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, open to all lumber dealers of Northern California, were held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, June 28 and D. George Young, Friend & Terry ,r11 Lumber Co., Sacramento, presided at both meetings. t

At the meeting on June 28 the various regulations in which the dealers desire changes to be ,made were discussed and committees appointed to present the problems to the OPA representatives.

These matters included remanufacturing charges, weights on ,green Douglas fir lumber, margins on dunnage, mixed car charge, custom milling charges, prices on small mill lumber, direct mill shipments and prices on split products.

At the meeting on June D there was 'considerable discussion and Mr. Stone promised to make recommendations for relief in a number of cases.

Mr. Stone and Mr. Larsen also met in Oakland on June 28 with a group of representatives of San Francisco Bay area distribution yards at a meeting sponsored by Wood Products Co., Oakland lumber service organizations. On the agenda for discussion were: Distribution yard sale, Mixed car charge, charges for "extra" grades in Common, freight ,basing point, remanufacturing charges, markup on wholesale type sales, custom milling and dunnage charges. Representatives of this group also attended the San Fran,cisco meeting'on June 29.

New Retoit Added to Alcrmeda Lumber Trecting Plqnt

An additional retort has been installed at the timber treating plant of J. H. Baxter & Co., Alameda, Calif. It is 8 ft. by 144 ft. and is the largest cylinder West of the Mississippi.

The Alameda plant is completely equipped for the treatment of timber with chromated zinc chloride (CZC), creosote, creosote-petroleum mixture and the Protexol flameproofing processes.

Scrn Diego Hoo-Hoo Will Hold Concct

Vicegerent Snark Frank Park has announced that a concatenation will be held at Rosarito Beach, Rosarito, Mexico, on August 10.

Robert Estudillo, retail lumbermin and owner of the Maderia San Ysidro at Tia Juana; is heading the committee in charge of the arrangements.

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Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Golf Tournament,July 25

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will hold a golf tourna- 'l'. ment at the Oakmont Country Club, Glendale, Tuesday 'i] afternoon, July 25. Golfers will tee-ofi at 12:30 p.m. Din- "-. ner will be served in the Club House at 6:30 p.m., and there l will be an entertairiment during the dinner hour. Prizes , will be awarded to the winners of the various golf events, i'r:i and there will also ,be a door prize. All lumbermen and L, members of the allied indusqries, and their guests, are in':;ii vited to attend.

The committee arranging for the party includes Roy Stanton, Dee Essley, Bob Osgood, Gene DeArmond, Hervey Bowles, \M. B. Wickersham, Ed Bauer, A. W. Dono-' van, Harvey Koll, and Ed Martin.

If you have not received an announcement card, reservations can be made by calling Charlie Mason, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, telephone CEntury 2-92It. :'

Corrections in RMPR 94

Part l381-softwood Lumber (RMPR 94)-Western: Pine and Associatecl Species of Lumber. ' ln the printed copy of the above described docttment, the following errors appear:

Page 2, sec. 3 (b) (3). The eighth line should read "by I rail and sells mostly for truck shipment.

Page 13, column 3. "Ponderosa pine, Idaho white pine, : etc." appearing in the box heading under Schedule of Es:. ; timated Weights-Continued should be deleted and "Larch- .:i Douglas Fir" be substituted therefor. i:

"Battens (all above species)" should appear in the boxi.ir heading in the table at the bottom of the column.

Buys lnterest in Business ;t

Elie Destruel, manager of the Mead Clark Lumber Corh-,..; pany, at Santa Rosa, has purchased an interest in the busi-:,r;i ness. He has been connected with the firm for the past ,1 trlah+!r-+tr'^ \ra.rc .t twenty-two years.

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Revival in Store qnd Hotel Remodeting Noted

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Evidence of a revival in store and hotel remodeling and' beautifying is noted by George Selden, manager of U. S.,-:, Plywood Corporation's Flexwood-Flexglass division, in'or--, ders received and the increasing number of inquiries.

Mr. Selden says: "The use of these products in stofe j'l work is readily accepted by the Government because they;;.l are used -fqr maintenance and repair. It is not necessary.,; drE ustu ,-],\r_r utdrrrLgrrdrrLc duu r gPdrr. tL !J rluL rrrLcsJdrJ -i(:. when using such materials to make an)r structural changes, l:{ They are applied over existihg surfaces."

Appointed to Planning Bocrd

Howard Curran, Frank Curran Lumber Co., fnc., Santii: Ana, was named to fi,ll the vacancy left when William [ ' Tway resigned from the city's Planning CommissionjJ Board.

Mr. Curran's man with the pointment.

name was proposed by Mayor Asa Hofrr'llj four other councilmen approving the ap.;r:1

Southern California Lumbermen Meet with OPA Officials

sen of the Office of Price Administration, Washington, D.C., was held at the Embassy Auditoriurn, Los Angeles, Wed- nesday morning, July 5. There was a large attendance.

Various price regulations in which the dealers want relief were discussed and these included: distribution yard sale; margins of low grade lumber; charges for "extra" grades in Common Fir; mixed car charge under MPR 26;

.weights on Douglas Fir; green shingles; remanufacturing charges; markup on rvholesale type sales, and custom mill- ing charges

The following committee met with Mr. Stone and Mr. Larsen in the afternoon for further discussions: Paul Hall- ingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles; H. Park

Arnold, Fox-Woodsum Lumber Company, Glendale; Bert

, Beless, Owens-Parks Lumber Company, Los Angeles; E. B. Qulnan, Western Lumber Company, San Diego; Lathrop

Leishman, Crown City Lumber & Mill Co., Pasadena; E. C. . Parker, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Russell

Mullin, Mullin Lumber Company, Burbank; Rex Clark, , , Consolidated Lumber Company, Wilmington; G. V. Cur- ian, Curran Bros. Lumbei Co., Pomona; John W. Fisher,

John W. Fisher Lumber Co., Santa Monica; George Louns- berry, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles; George Clough,

San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Percy Merithew, E.

K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Frank J. Connolly,

, , Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; R. A. Emi- son, Santa Ana Lumber Co., Santa Ana; Herman Loehr,

John Suverkrup Lumber Co., Riverside; Frank Gibbs, Gibbs

' Lumber Company, Anaheim; Frank Harrison, Harrison

Wholesale Co., Santa Bar,bara; W. J. Glasson, Glasson Lum- ber & Mill Co., San Diego; J. W. Mcleod, Precision Dry

Kilning Co., Los Angeles; D. N. Edwards, Wood Products

Co., Oakland; Leslie Lynch, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los , Angeles; W. E. Hoyt, American Lumber & Treating Co.,

Lo. Angeles; Hugh Mason, Fisk & Mason, South Pasa- dena; L. B. Ashbaugh, Los Angeles; H. B. Walker, Cres- mer Mfg. Co., Riverside, and Art Kayser, West Coast Lum- bermen's Association, Los Angeles.

., Terrible Twenty Golf Tournament

The 2l7th Terrible Twenty golf tournament was held at 'the Rolling Hills Country Club, Los Angeles, Tuesday afternoon, June 20. A buffet supper was served in the evening. "Bonnie" Bohnhoff and Eddie Bauer staged the show.

Joe Tardy turned in a net score of 65 and won first prize, a sport shirt. Sid Alling and Bob Osgood, each with a net 71, were tied for second prize, two neckties, and they will play this off at the next tournament. Hervey Bowles won the play-off for the famous 6 tournaments, with Eddie Bower as runner-up. Frank Connolly played his first game as a regular member of the "Terribles."

Roy Pitcher and "Curt" McFadden will handle the Tulv tournament.