Port Orford Cedar

(Ilso Lnown ca Wbite Cedcr or Lcwson Cypress)

Lumber Ties CrossingPlcnks-Decking

Tunnel TimbersVeneticrn Blind Stock

Aleo Suppliera oI

SPLIT NEDU'OOD, DOUGTAS FIB, RED CEDAR, I'NTNEAIED AIID CNEOSOTED PBODUCTS

AI,ASKA CEDAR (clao Lnown qg Yellow Cedar or . AIcgLc Cypreae)

JAMDS L. HALL

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FACTIIRY LUMBER-YARII STI|GKS

Ponderosa Pine

Sugar Pine

Douglas Fir White Fin

McDIIFFEE TUMBER SATES C0RP.

382 Montrdnock Bldg.

SAN IIRANCISCO 5

Phone GArtield 7196

L. t. GARR & CO.

Cr{ilqnia &tgee and Pelrd,erorc Pinc

Scrle Agcntr For

SACNAMENTO BOT & LUMBER CO.

Millc At Woodleaf, Calif' ltcBAt@tto tos INGE.ES

P. O. tc lrll W. D. Duttt&t lolotl'po !c'lt *18 Cbqabrr ol Conmco Ud|l.

KILPATRICK & COMPANY

Dedcrr in Forcrt Produclt

Douglcs Fir-Redwood

Cedcr-Spruce

General OtEce

Crocker Bldg., Sco Frclncisco 4, Ccrlil.

Southero Ccrlilornicr Office cnd Ycrd

Digest of New War .Agency Regulations

Amendment 8 to RMPB 26

OPA continues existing price ceilings on Douglas fir boards and "dimension" lumber (lumber cut in thicknesses up to two inches and used for crating, dunnage and Army ';.i construction projects) until Sept. L6,1944. (Amendment 8 to RMPR 26), effective July 3.

Direction 8 to Order L335

Procedure by which lumber distributors get lumber for sale on certified and unrated orders to lumber users designated as "all other consumers" in Lumber Control Order L-335 issuecl by WPB. (Direction 8 to Order L-335), effective Aug. 1.

Hardwood Flooring

Producers of maple, birch and beech flooring, located in the northern, northeastern and north central hardwood lumber regions of the U. S., have until July 15 to submit applications to the OPA for individual adjustment of maximum prices on the ground of hardship, the agency advises. (Amendment 4 to MPR 432), efrective June 28.

Southern Pine Lumber

The OPA rules that only timbers eight inches wide oh less are subject to the log-run southern pine lumber regulation provided in MPR 19A.

Wooden Shipping Contciners

The WPB removes from Limitation Order L-232 re-, strictions on the use of wooden shipping containers for packing and shipping certain fruits and vegetables after July 1.

Moreover, commercial growers of oranges and grapefruit in Californi a and. Arizona who limit their shipment in ngw wooden containers to 92/o during the quarters beginning May 1 and Aug. I will not be required to comply with the restriction that not more than 96/o of. these fruits may be packedorshippedinneworusedwoodencontainers.

Woodworking Mcrchinery

The WPB amends list B of Priorities Regulation 3 so 1 that blanket maintenance, repair and operating supplies,* (MRO) preference ratings may now be used for the pud chase of woodworking machinery selling for $350 or less, and makes certain other changes in the list.

tract carriers have been included in the $11000 class. Frozen'food locker plants are limited to $200. Insulation of build- ",j ings.is redefined, and other changes,of minor interest have',ii l2d0 Bliaa Ave- WiLningrton, Cclil., P. O. Bor 5{8 been made.

Obituaries

. HEADQUARTERS

Ben Alexqnder

Ilen Alexander, one oi the men rvhose products are common place on the American scene, died in the Colonial Hospital at Rochester, Minn., on July 6. Funeral services rvere helcl at \\,-arsarv, Wis., on July 8. lIe was the man behind Masonite.

When it becarne evident that lumberivas headed for the critical list in the first year o{ the war, he was called from his post as chairman of the N{asonite Corporation for duty with the War Production Board's industry operations, 'where he became chief of the Lumber Division. With the groundrvork of this job completed, he took time off to undergo a surgical operation. He found it necessary, a year ago, to resign to recover his health on his ranch near Phoenix, Ariz. A relapse, after apparent recovery, brought him back to Rochester, rvhere he passed alvay.

ESSENTIAL MATERIALS "SINCE

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PLYPANE LS-PLYFORM-PLYWALL DOORS-SASH-GLASS

Sold Through LUMBER DEALERS ONLY

Mr. Alexander will be remembered in the Northrvest where his activities found hin.r a partner in the Silver Falls Timber Co. of Silverton, Ore., and for operations lvith the McClou<l River Lumber Co., N{cCloud, Calif., ancl the Alexar.rder-Yarvkey I-umber Co. of Pineville, Ore.

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Willicm H. Gcmble

William H. Gamble passed ar,vay in thc Wilshire Hospital at Los Angeles on July 6 from a heart attack following an operation a few days before.

Ile u'as one of the orvners of Gamble & Douglas at Burbank rvhich concern is building defense housing projects for the \Vestern Defense Housing Corporation. Prior to that he \\ras superintendent of the Frank Graves Sash Door & Mill Co. at Los Angeles for more than turenty years.

Surviving are his rvidorv, N{rs. Amelia Gamble; trvo sons, Donald H. and Norman A. Gamble, and three sisters, Mrs. Ruth De Long, n'frs. Sadie Conn, and Mrs. Myrtle Davis.

Robert Mitchell Hopkins

Robert Mitchell Hopkins, superintenclent of the yard and rnill of the Rarr Lumber Company at Santa Ana for the last twenty-three )'ears, passed arvay at his home on June 16 follorving a short illrress. He rvas 52 years of age.

Surviving are his 'n.idou', N,Irs. Clara Patricia l{opkins; ,a daughter, Patricia Hopkins; a son, Forrest I{opkins; his mother, Mrs. Sarah Hopkins ; trvo sisters, Mrs. Maude Tisdal and Mrs. Elizal;eth Johnson; and three brothers, Walker, Everett and Charles Hopkins.

C. N. Bcrssett

C. N. Bassett, for many \-ears president of the Bassett Lumber Companl'at Douglas, Ariz., passed arvay in Santa Monica, Calif., on June 11. He had lived the past year in Santa Monica but most of his life had been spent in El Paso. Texas.

His father, the late O. T. Bassett, founded the Bassett Lumber Companv in Douglas in 1902. The late Albert Stacy managed the 1'ard for man)' years, and shortly a{ter his death, H. G. Schn'eikart acquired the business in Augr-rst, 1943.

THE CAIIFORMA DOOR COMPANY

Talephone: Klmbqll2l4l 4940 District Boulevcrd LOS ANGELES ]1, "Buy lrom q'W'holesqler"

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Control Over Softwood Plyvvood Extended

Washington, June 24--Control over softwood plywood was extended today by the War Production Bolrd to include all softwood plywood strips, odd sizes, and scrap with surface measurements of more than eight square feet.

Order L-l50-a, which restricts the sale of softwood plywood by distributors to purchase orders rated AA-2x or better, formerly excluded all pieces not meeting commercial standards (rejects, cut-backs, strips, odd sizes antl scrap). The exemption resulted in some softwood plyrvood going into unessential use, WPB said. L-150-a as amended today, limits exemptions to pieces measuring less than eight square feet. Larger pieces can be completelv utilized for military boxing and crating, WPB said.

The amended order also permits the sale of softwoocl plywood on purchase orders rated AA-3 for use in authorized construction projects, (Forms GA-1456 and CMPI.593). Such purchase orders must be certified as set fortll in L-I50-a. The purchase of plywood on AA-3 ratings will be authorized only for use in concrete form construction, WPB said.

Wcr koduction Bocrd Form 817

Washington, June Z4-Applkants who nqrmally use_',ii War Production Board Form 617 to obtain WPB permi5':i sion under Conservation Order L-41 to acquire or construct. facilities are advised to follow the revised instructions fci.gr;J the filing of this form, WPB said today.

The revised instructions, effective immediately and bear-i; ing the printing date June 17,1944, on the instruction sheet,'' apply to the filing of the form only. One additional copy', of the filed form is now asked for, making four copies to,1 be filed rather than three copies as formerly. No change, holvever. has been made in the form itself or in the in'lj formation asked for where the filing of this form is re-'. quired.

Split Produc'ts Producers Meet With Peter A. Stone

Peter A. Stone of the Office of Price Administration helda meeting in San Francisco on June 28 with producers of split products, who asked for relief from OPA regulatiorrs, :,i which they contend are unfair to them.