Logging Operations Curtailed lssuc Certificates of Award as Result of Strike

Washington, D. C., luly 26.-Because,of the continued retardation of the lumber movement out of West Coast ports, due to the longshoremen's strike, the Lumber Code Authority today made a second reduction in the authorized 1934 third-quarter log production quota for its West Coast Logging and Lumber Division. The two reductions made to date total 305,000,000 feet log scale, lowering the third quarter quota to 814,000,000 feet. Originally the quota had been fixed at 1,119,000,000 feet.

Indicative of the extent to which the longshoremen's strike has checked the flow of lumber from the West Coast producing region is the fact that early in June, when the West Coast Logging and Lumber Division submitted its request to the Lumber Code Authority for a third-quarter quota, it was estimated that the Division's total open market log inventory of July 1 would be 68O,00O,000 feet. So slowly has lumber moved out to the trade, however, that an estimated log inventory of 985,000,000 feet for August 1 is anticipated.

McCormick Announcet Ch.nges in Sales Department

The following changes in the sales department have been announced by the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco:

C. M. "Friday" Freeland, who for some time has been district sales manager at Los Angeles, has been transferred to the San Francisco office as assistant to Guy E. Smith, general sales manager.

W. B. Wickersham succeeds Mr. Freeland as district sales manager at Los Angeles.

Charlie Henry, the company's Arizona representative with headquarters at Phoenix, will divide his time in future between the Phoenix and Los Angeles offices.

Certificates of Award, covering a continuous period of 22 months without accidents involving compensation to employees, have recently been issued by the Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty and mailed by President H. A. Lake, of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, to the following firms: Boorman Lumber Company; Colombo Lumber Company; Grenfell Lumber Company; Homer T' Hayward Lbr. Co. ; Chapman Lumber Company; FletcherNeimeyer Lbr Co.; Viney-Milliken Lumber Company; Ros.coe Lumber Company; Palms Lumber Co., Inc.; Montebello Lumber Co.; Linden Lumber Company; LaMesa Lumber Company; Whittier Lumber Company; YostLynn Lumber Company; Van Nuys Lumber Company; Ernest Ganahl Lbr. Co.; Hill & Morton, Inc.; Independent Lbr. Co., Hawthorne; H. H. Spaulding; Coachella Valley Lbr. Co.; Osbeck Lumber Company; Lumber & Builders Supply Co.; Temecula Valley Lumber Co.; Oceanside Lumber Company; Sunkist Lumber Company, Ltd.; Union Mill & Lumber Co.; Rosemead Lumber Company; Sprague Lumber Company.

The compensation insurance program of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association is under the direction of Manager A. C. Baker, of the Northwestern Mutual Fire Association.

Mr. Baker comments pointedly to the effect that fire and accident prevention pay good dividends. This is evidenced by the fact that both fire and casualty mutual companies have returned substantial dividends t'o lumbermen during the last three hectic years, he says, and the lumbermen have contributed very largely to these results through hearty cooperation with the safety work instituted by these companies.

OREGON LUMBERMAN VISITS S. F.

John F. Woodard, sales manager of the W. A. Woodard Lumber Co., Cottage Grove, Ore., recently spent a few days in San Francisco on business.