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W. T. BLACr

How Lumber LooJcs

Lumber production during the rveek ended August 16, 1941, was 2 per cent less than in the previous week; shipments were 2 per cent less; new business 1 per cent less, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of representative hardwood and softwood mills. Shipments were one per cent below production; new orders 11 per cent below production. Compared with the corresponding week of 1940, production was 14 per cent greater, shipments 10 per cent greater, and new business 12 per cent less. The industry stood at lZ7 per cent of the average of production in the corresponding week of 1935-39 and 137 per cent of average 1935-39 shipments in the same week.

Reported production for the 33 weeks of. l94I to date was 14 per cent above corresponding weeks of 194O; shipments were 17 per cent above the shipments and new orders were 18 per cent above the orders of the 1940 period. For the 33 weeks of. l94l to date, new business was 1O per cent above production, and shipments were 6 per cent above production.

During the week D4242,@O feet of ended August 16, 458 mills produced softwoods and hardwoods combined; shipped 29l,294,0ffi feet, and booked orders lor 262,522,O40 feet.

Lumber orders reported for the week ended August 16 by 383 softwood mills totaled 251,136,000 feet, shipments were 279,2&'000 feet, and production was 283,2ffi,W leet. For the week 86 hardwood mills gave new business as 11,384,000 feet, shipments 12,O30,000 feet, and production 10,982.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended August 16, 126 mills reporting, gave orders as 33,179,000 feet, shipments 41,451,000 feet, and production 34,423,W feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 188.252,ffiO f.eet.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended August 16, 91 mills reporting, gave orders as 78,053,000 feet, shipments 89,486,000 feet, and production 98,951,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 448.539.000 feet.

Lumber cargo receipts at Los Angeles Harbor for the week ended August 16, totaled 14,185,000 feet as compared with 23,379,000 feet the previous week.

Enioy Cruise in No*hern \(aters Shipments to California Ports For July

Five lumbermen, four of them Los Angeles men, returned early last week from an unusual and enjoyable vacation spent cruising in the calm waters of the Inland Passage.

The Los Angeles four, Art Penberthy and M. W. (Mike) Crook of Tacoma Lumber Sales; J. H. Prentice, Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, and Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Co., flew to Seattle where they were joined by Jack Frost, assistant manager of Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, Bellingham, Wash.

The cruise, made on the Diesel-powered yacht Pagan, loaned by its owner, T. A. Peterman of Peterman Mfg. Company, Tacoma, for the voyage, was made from Seattle, occupied seven days and the distance covered was 600 miles

The return trip to Los Angeles was also made by air.

Lumber deliveries by water to California ports in July as reported to the Pacific Lumber Carriers' Association, San Francisco, totaled 8O,46I,2W feet, compared with 75, 3I7 ,W feet for July, 194O. The figures for the various ports are as follows:

Tentative Fir Price Schedule Presented at Portland bv OPACS Official

Acting under Leon Henderson, chief of the Office of Production and Civilian Supply, Peter A. Stone, of Washington, D. C., presented a tentative price schedule on a lower level tharl current quotations for certain classifications of Douglas Fir, at a hearing held at the Multnomah Hotel, Portland, August 20.

The hearing, one of the first of its kind to be held away from the national capital, was conducted by Mr. Stone and Henry S. Reuss, attorney assigned to the lumber division of OPACS.

Mr. Stone prefaced his presentation of the tentative schedule with the statement that a ceiling on mill prices of Fir was being considered as a means to prevent inflation.

Mr. Reuss said the price schedule will affect only sales from mills, and that mills are defined as places where 25 per cent of the lumber used is planed or otherwise processed.

The new prices, if ordered by Mr. Ifenderson, will become effective on September 15, he said.

After quoting the proposed prices Mr. Stone selected a committee from the lumber industry in Oregon and Washington to put together a price schedule. He announced that he and Mr. Reuss would remain in Portland for two days and then return to Washington, study facts unearthed at the meeting and then make recommendations to Nfr. Henderson.

Several hundred lumber manufacturers and wholesalers were at the hearing and many of them took part in the discussion that followed the presentation of the tentative schedule.

A number of manufacturers said that labor, stumpage and production costs have increased to such an extent that it would be impossible for the industry to operate under the rate proposed by the government.

Many of the speakers presented statistics to substantiate their arguments against the schedule, and Mr. Stone asked that the figures be submitted to him for further consideration.

Mr. Stone said the price administrator will make the final decision on what ceiling u'ill be established and added that the schedule orobabh'would not be released for at least a week.

R:chmond Housing Bids Open Sept. 2

Bids on construction of the $1,500,000 defense housing project in Richmond, Calif., are to be opened September 2, the Richmond Housing Authority announced August 23.

This project of 450 units, to provide homes for shipbuilders, will be on 56 acres at the junction of Macdonald Avenue and Garrard Boulevard. Richmond.

The new project, largest defense housing development near San Francisco, is slated to be finished 150 days from the time construction begins. Homes will be of permanent frame construction, and the site has space for an additional 125 structures later should they be needed.

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The dumb dora who read about "unoccupied France', and wanted to know where all the people had gone, must have been related to the "Cajen" Frenchman in New Orleans who said he thought the sorry fix in which the French find themselves serves them just right; they should have stayed in Louisiana where they belong.

And then, of course, ;r..J" the army chaptain who was amazed at the chorus of "Amen" that rolled up from the assembled regiment lvhen he prayed: "Oh Lord, give us good hearts ! Oh Lord, give us clean hearts ! And Oh Lord, give us sweet hearts !"

"I'll telt you what "r-;;rie is," said Brigadier General James A. Ulio, of the United States Army. "ft is when a soldier thinks his army is the best in the world, his regiment the best in the army, his company the best in the regiment, his squad the best in the company, and that he himself is the best damn soldierman in the outfit."

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Many words are being printed right now on the subject of morale in the United States Army. Many magazines report that the soldiers are "griping." My friend, Lloyd Gregory, has the best summing up of that proposition I have heard. He says a soldier that won't gripe, won't fight; that griping, ("bleeding" they call it nowadays) during the First World War was the sign of a good soldier, but did not make him less a fighter. Lloyd says that in that war they griped eternally, griped about the food, the drilling; the officers, the army in general, their best girls at home, and everything else they could think of. But they were grand fighters. Don't worry about a little soldier griping, he says.

The crop of really ,o"J, :i* from the army camps this time, is disappointing. During the First World War the funniest stories in history fairly boiled out of the army and navy, and were on every tongue. f often think the world will never last long enough to produce so marvelous a crop of soldier stories again. And they are just as funny to me as they were twenty-four years ago. ***

Remember the priceless story that everyone told at that time, of the Jewish soldier who lay mortally wounded, and asking for a Rabbi. In battle the nearest available clergyman offers spiritual aid. In this case the only clergyman available u'as a Catholic priest. He knelt at the side of the dying boy, and ssid-"9e11, do you believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost?" "Look," said the Jewish soldier. "I'm dyin'an'he asks me riddles."

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At the beginning of the draft for that war, the story of the colored boy who refused to join the cavalry, became a national laugh. When the enlisting officer asked why he refused to'sign up with the cavalry, he said: ,,Cap'n, de cavalry may be all right fo' some purposes, but when dey soun' de retreat an' mah time comes to leave. Ah don'want to be bothered wid no hoss."

Another favorite -." .rl" :":** the ambulance coming back from the front filled with wounded soldiers. a Red Cross nurse-a very pretty one in charge. As they rode along one of the boys said: "Nurse, you're hurting my hand." Surprised, she said: "Why, I'm not even touching your hand." "Sure," said the soldier boy. "That's what hurts."

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Personally, I loved a story (and have never stopped telling it) about the colored soldier who was so desperately seasick, going over in the troopship. One of his squad hurried down to his side and said, "Mose, come up on deck. Dey's a big whale right close to de ship." Whereat the seasick one ansurered: "Ah ain't comin' up to see no whale, an' lemme tell sumpin'boy! Don't you call me ergin ontil you can show me a post-oak tree !" ***

Johnny Burk loved to tell the story about the time he, a buck private, and a certain Second Lieutenant, were courting the same French girl over there. One evening they both met her at the same time. Johnny Burk had been eating Limburger cheese, and reeked with the odor of it. The Lieutenant had some French perfume on his handkerchief, and was very conscious of it. When the three met, the French girl, smelling the Limburger, snified suspiciously and said: "Who smells like that? The young officer, conscious of his perfume, said: "I do.". She said, .'Then f'm going with Johnny Burk." They walked off and had gone a quarter of a mile when she turned to Johnny Burk and said: "You know, I can still smell that Second Lieutenant."

If I had a dollar ,o, "*'J, O-. ,'t" told the following, I would be in Henry Ford's financial class. A colored soldier, who had been desperately seasick all the way across the Atlantic, heaved a great sigh of relief when he set foot on French soil, and remarked aloud: "Men, Ah ain't nevah goin' t' cross dat awful ocean no mo'." "But," said one of his squad, "how you goin' t' git back to Texas?" "Dass easy," replied the other. "I'm goin'back BY WAY OF NE\V AWLEANS.''

Fromer Leonard t"il" o'JnJ".l" n.on.rred recently, when a very dumb rookie who had volunteered was signing up' and answering the medical examiner's question. The doctor asked: "How are your bowels?" The rookie said"they didn't issue me none." The doctor said: "f mean are you constipated?" The rookie 53id-"lrfa1s, I enlisted." The exasperated doctor said: "What's the matter with you? Don't you know the King's English?" The rookie said"They tell me he is, but I ain't sure."

J. H. FORGTE REPORTS TO PRESTDTO

James H. Forgie, who has been I'r'ith Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. at the Washington Street vard, Los Angeles, reported for service to the Presidio of San Francisco, August 26.

He is a 2nd Lieutenant in the U. S. Army Reserve and t'ill later be attached to the Army Air Corps in Honolulu. Lieut. Forgie is a son of Robt. Forgie, Southern California representative of Santa Fe Lltmber Company, San Francisco.

East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club Meets Sept. 15

The next meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 rvill be held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Mondal' evening, September 15. This will be the first meeting after the summer vacation period. A special program of entertainment is being arranged. New officers for the coming vear will be elected at this meeting.

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