?/QTHER; rs A SHOR,TAGE OF R,ED CEDAR, SHINGLEIi

I The shifting of manpower to war iobs and the armed forces

2 The imperative demand for Certigrade shingles for essential war housing

3 An unusually bad winter for logging

4 The substitution of Cedar iot itozen lumber, and the use of Cedar logs for pulP

Insofar as the war permits, the manufacturers of Certigrade Shingles are striving to maintain an equitable distribution among their dealer friends. RED'CEDAR SHINGIE aUnglu, Seattle, U. S. A., rnd Vancouver, B. C., Canade.

TH'S 'S OUR WARLET'S F'GHT 'T NOWI

Timber Production \(/ar Project Launched bv WPB

To help stimulate the output of lumber, veneer logs, pulpu'ood, and other forest products urgently needed for war, a special Timber Production War Project is being Iaunched by the War Production Board and cooperating agencies, it was announced recently.

The project will be under the general direction of J. Philip Boyd, Director of WPB's Lurnber and Lumber Products Division. It will be administered in the field bv the U. S. Forest Service.

Critical shortages of wood for many war uses make it imperative that the greatest possible production from the forests, consistent with proper forest conservation practice, be obtained. It is reported, for example, that unless additional production of boxing and crating lumber is obtained, transoceanic shipnrent of essential war equipment vitally needed at the fighting fronts may be seriously delayed.

"The setting up of this project does not mean that we will enter into the cutting and milling business," Mr. Boyd stated. "This program is designed to stimulate production in existing facilities that are not operating at full capacity. In the eastern half of the country there are 7,500 smaller mills, many of which are now idle much, if not all, of the time and which have an annual average cut of less than 100,000 board feet. While their individual capacity is small, their numbers make them an important factor in meeting wartime lumber products requirements. The project will deal with all owners and operators, large and small, in need of lssistance."

The projec_t, as approved by the participating agencies, is designed to: bring together stumpage owners and operators; help operators obtain needed logging and mill equipment, repair parts, trucks and tires; give technical advice on

LYLE VINCENT, JR., WITH SEABEES

Lyle S. Vincent, Jr., is now with the Navy Seabees ai Camp Peary, Va. He is a son of Lyle S. Vincent, Sr., manager of the San Francisco office of West Oregon Lumber Co. Lyle, Jr., is also a lumberman, having been with West Oregon Lumber Co. for three years at their mill at Linnton, Oregon.

Mr. Vincent's other son, Robert, is a I-ieutenant in the Army Air Corps.

logging, milling methods and devices; cooperate with War Manpower Commission in locating, recruiting and training manpower; assist in cost and production analyses; give advice on financing of operators, and provide help in investigating the need for access roads. The project also will cooperate with Selective Service and OPA on all problems affecting production.

The U. S. Forest Service will administer the project through its three eastern regions-Eastern, Southern and Lake States-with headquarters at Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Milwaukee, respectively. The project, implemented by an agreement between WPB and the Forest Service, is designed to stimulate production of log and forest products in the area east of the prairies. It is to be financed primarily by WPB with personnel and additional funds contributed by the Forest Service, the Agricultural Extension Service and other forestry agencies in the several participating states.

The project foresters and woodsmen will rvork in close cooperation with all interested Federal and state agencies, with state forestry organizations, county agricultural services, other local organizations, lumber industry in general, and with labor. It is believed that needed products can be obtained without destructive cutting that would jeopardize future productivity of the forests, WPB said.

Lumber advisers attached to some of the WPB regional and district offices have been carrying on work along similar lines. Mr. Boyd commended them highly; holvever, their limited number has made it impossible for them to give the intensive and widespread assistance that will be provided, to augment their efforts, by this new Timber Production War Project. Close cooperation rvill be maintained between field forces of the WPB and the Forest Service.

East Bay Club Meets Sept. 13

The first dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 following the vacation season will be held at Hotet Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, September 13.

The principal business of the meeting will be the electiorr of officers and directors for the coming year. There will also be an entertainnient program.

Southern Hardwood Prices Increased

An increase of $6 per 1,000 board {eet, in the maximum prices of all standard grades and items of southern hardwood board lumber has been announced by the Office of Price Administration. This increase which affects slight1y over 90 per cent of the Southern hardwood production' will add $5.50 per 1,00O board feet, or 14.5 per cent to mill realizations.

The higher prices are authorized' in Amendment No. 8 to revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 97 Southern Hardwood Lumber, and became effective August 2I,1943.

The increases are the first general increases granted for Southern hardwood since ceilings were established in February, 1942, and are given to compensate mills for increased production costs since that date'

The markups are applicable to all standard grades and items, but not to construction boards, lvhite oak and red oak structural stock or sound square edge material, or to white or red oak freight car stock, common dimension, mine car lumber, or to special grades and items for which maximum prices have been established for particular mills under the regulation's pricing provisions.

New Ceiling Prices for Oak Flooring

Oak flooring was given specific dollars-and-cents maximum prices by the Office of Price Administration August 23.

They are contained in Maximum Price Regulation No. 458, and became effective August 28,1943.

Previous ceilings for oak flooring were established under the General Maximum Price Regulation for individual producers and were the highest prices the individual sellers charged during the month of. Mar'ch, 1942.

The nerv dollars-and-cents prices, in substance, reflect the average level of prices charged by the industry under the General Maximum Price Regulation, and will cause no essential ,change in the current price level, OPA said.

\fPB Estimates 1942 Lumber Production

Washington, August l7.-Lumber production in 7942 totaled 36,,101,895,000 board feet according to revised estimates issued today by the War Production Board.

Chief producing areas in 1942, with a breakdown of their total production figures: North Pacific, II,456,542,000 board feet; South, tO,928,264,00O board feet; Central Pine (North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), 4,016,467,000 board feet; Central States, 2,6LO,242,0ffi board feet; South Pacifrc,2,329,74O.000 board feet; Northern Rocky Mountain, 1,363,509,000 board feet; Lake States, 1,246,764,m board feet, and New England, 1p36,263,000 board feet.