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Orrie W. Hamilton, secretary-manager of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, Los Angeles, left the latter part of July by auto for a four weeks' trip East, visiting many points and ending up in Washington, D. C.

J. E. (Ted) Higgins, Jr., J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco, attended the recent annual Bohemian Club celebration at Bohemian Grove.

C. Walter Krumbholz, K-Y Lumber has returned from a buying trip to the

Company, Fresno, mills in Oregon.

Roy E. Hills, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, is spending a few u'eeks' vacation at the Menlo Golf & Country Club. The greens there are in fine shape, and his friends believe he will be hard to beat after this period of quiet but intensive practice.

Jack Ferri, sales manager, Paramino Francisco, left August 4 on one of his the mills in Oregon and Washington. about three weeks.

Lew Haclcett With Ogle, Inc.

L. J. (Lew) Hackett has resigned his position as Pacific Coast manager of The Celotex Corporation and is now sales manager for Ogle, Inc., of Azusa, Calif., manufacturers of aluminum residential double-hung windows. His office is in the Architects Building, Los Angeles. The telephone number is Mlchigan 1263.

Lew has spent the past eighteen years on the West Coast with Celotex, and made his headquarters at their Los Angeles office. He is widely known with the retail lumber trade on the Pacific Coast.

Certcrin Hcrrdwood Grqde Lumber Ceiling Prices Granted 6o/o Increcse

Ceiling prices for certain hardwood grade lumber produced .in the North Central hardwood lumber region have been uniformly increase{ six per cent, effe,ctive Jaly 26, t946.

Lumber Co., San periodical trips to He will be gone

Walter Franck, of the Hammond Lumber Company's Arroyo Parkway yard, Pasadena, spent his vacation in the San Francisco Buy district, where he called on many old friends.

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These increases do not apply to timbers or construction items, which account for about l0 per cent of hardwood lumber production in the region. This restores the normal price relationship between timbers and grade lumber which formerly was altered to increase the supply of timbers for military requirements.

No change is made in ceiling pices of cottonwood, soft elm, quartered sycamore and plain sycamore. Price increases were granted on these items, effective June 15.

(Amendment No. 23 to Maximum Price Regulation No. l55-Central Hardwood Lumber; effective July 26,1946.)

Shortcrge oI Lumber Closes Benson Finn

San Diego, August l.-The Benson Lumber Co., San Diego's only full-sized sawmill, shut down last night for lack of materials.

Frank C. Lynth, president, said production had fallen from 2,000,000 board feet a month in pre-war years to less than 500,000 board feet in recent months. He said the big rnill will reopen as soon as lumber supplies increase to the point where the plant can resume normal operations.

At its production peak the company had a payroll of 160, but that had fallen recently to 50. Preparations for closing the mill have been underway for the last three weeks, Mr. Lynch said. Since it was founded in 1906, the company has brought 120 big rafts of logs down the coast from Oregon.

Distributors

We are distributing mqterials qs last qs they reach us . . . cll our efforts are directed towcrrd procuring lumber lor the trcrde.

56 Day Holiday Ordered on All Bis U. S. Construction

Washington, Aug. S.-Reconversion Director John R. Steelman today ordered a 56-day moratorium on all big Federal construction contracts with the objective of trimming the Government's public works program by $200,000,000 to combat inflation.

The moratorium extends from August 6 to October 1. During that time Government agencies must stop awarding construction contracts for projects over $3000.

Exempted are urgently needed hospitals for veterans, overseas military projects, the Manhattan atom bomb project, veterans' housing and access roads into timber lands.

In the moratorium period, Mr. Steelman directed, Government departments and agencies are to review their construction programs and submit.them in revised form to the Civilian Production Administrator and, in the case of housing, to the National Housing Expediter.

These officials, in turn, will recommend to Mr. Steelman the propjects and programs which should be allowed to begin between October 1 and next March 31. Mr. Steelman can approve or disapprove the recommendations.

Attends Son's Picno Recitql

Maurice L. "Duke" Euphrat, Sr. of Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, had the pleasure recently of being present at a piano recital given by his son, Maurice L. "Duke" Euphrat, Jr., at the Portland Golf & Country Club, Portland.

The recital was largely attended and was a splendid success. Maurice Jr., who is a talented musician was overseas for 30 months in a Special Service Company of the Army, during which time he gave concerts, did broadcasts, and was connected with the Army newspaper in Jape.n. He is returning to Yale lJniversity, where he will major in music.

Appointed Member oI [rdustry Advisory Cominittee

Jack B. Wood, Oakland, vice president of E. K. Wood Lumber Co., has been appointed a member of the softwood distribution yards industry advisory committee of the Office of Price Administration.

Bruce Hill of the E. M. Hill Lumber Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.. is chairman of the committee.

Building oi1726 Home Units Ordered

San Francisco, Aug. 2.-Proceed orders f.or 726 family dwelling units to be constructed at Los Angeles ,at a cost of $846,516 were announced today by the Federal Public Housing Authority. The effective date of the contract, awarded to the Zoff Construction Co., was .given as July 18. The completion date was not announced.

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