Pacific Coast Forest Products

WPBAction Makes More Softwood Lumber Available ]or Egsential Farm Needs

Action to make available softwood lumber for essential Jarm needs was announced August 14 by J. Philip Boyd, Director WPB's Lumber and Lumber Products Division. The following steps have been taken: l. In the allocation of Douglas Fir lumber for civilian use under Limitation Order L-2L8, AA-2 farm and disaster orders will be given precedence over all other orders except those for direct military use, and releases will be confined wherever practicable to farm and disaster orders until further notice. It is estimated that this action will divert an additional 25 million board feet of Douglas Fir lumber per week to farm orders. Heretofore shipments were made by loading cars with approximately 75 percent heavy stock and, 25 percent boards and small dimension needed for farm use. The Administrator will now, however, allocate all requested farm items that the mills can furnish.

2, Certain mills in the Western Pine region producing Fir and Larch are being directed to earmark 75 per cent of their cut produced during August and September exclusive of timbers and ties for agricultural orders rated AA-2.

3. Under Limitation Order L-m (Western Lumber), all orders for Western Pine carrying the AA-2 farm, and disaster rating will be filled as deliveries are needed to replenish depleted inventory.

4. The lumber industry in the South, has been inforrnetl, through WPB field offices and industry associations, that AA-2 farm orders must be accepted in accordance with pri- ority regulations.

In a statement to the Southern Pine War Committee, Mr. Boyd said:

"I ask that you inform your industry members that this lumber is of great importance in meeting the War Food Program and to remind them that these rated farm orders must be filled except when refusal is specifically permitted by WPB regulations."

Five hundred million board feet of softwood lumber were released for the third quarter of 1943 for essential farnr repair and construction by WPB Directive 26, issued in June. Distribution of this lumber, for which preferenco ratings not higher than AA-2 were assigned, was the responsibility of the War Food Administration on a state quota basis. Dealers, however, have not in all cases been able to purchase lumber on AA-2 ratings because of competition with higher rated orders. This situation and a general shortage of lumber of 1 inch thickness and small dimension needed by farmers has to a large extent retarded the effectiveness of the Division in supplying lumber for essential farm needs.

It is believed by WPB that the action announced and the cooperation of the lumber industry will make sufficieni lumber available for agricultural needs.

Back From Utah Trip

C. C. Stibich of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, San cisco, returned recently from a trip to Salt Lake City he attended the funeral of his mother, who passed at the age of 83.

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Rmpr 26 Amendment 2

Altogether 40 specific changes, most of them of a minor nature and generally designed to remove ambiguities in its regulation for Douglas fir and allied species of lumber are made by the OPA, thus bringing the regulation into conformity with present day lumber industry requirements and practices (RMPR 26 Amendm ent 2), effective August 24.

Aromatic Red Cedar

Aromatic red cedar lumber is provided with dollars-andcents ceiling prices at the producer's level by the OPA. The new prices maintain the general levels prevailing in March, L942. In lieu of individual ceilings, the regulation provides uniform maximum prices for all sellers (MPR 454), effective August 24.

Hardwood Lumber

OPA announces revocation of additions of from $1 to $45 per 1,000 board feet which sellers of southern hardwood lumber were permitted to make to maximum prices on sales of lumber prepared in "standard special" widths and lengths (Amendment 7 to MPR 97), effective August 14.

Truck Tires

New rationing provisions for adding to the supply of used and recapped truck tires are announced by the OPA where dealers with recappable truck tire carcasses in their possession may get truck-type camelback needed to recap these tires by applying to their OPA district office. Also manufacturers may sell used truck tires to dealers without rationing certificates under authorization of the OPA district office (Amendment 46 to Ration Order 1-A), effective August 19.

Grain Doors

All sellers of general manager type grain doors are authorized by the OPA to charge prices adjustable later on to new maximum prices for the doors to be established by the price agency (Order 2 under Section 1499.19 of GMPR), effective August 14.

New Maximums On Wood Veneers

Washington, Aug. 20.-The Office of Price Administration today fixed dollars and cents maximum prices for birch, maple and basswood veneers-vital to the plywood used in gliders and pontoons-but said the order wouldn't change the prices much.

Previously the veneers were given price ceilings at the highest price of March, 1942.The new maximums are about the same, but fix uniform ceilings throughout the industrl'.

AMENDMENT TO LIMITATION ORDER L-150

Washington, August l4-Applications for authorization of purchase orders of softwood plywood manufactured in Washington, Oregon and California are now made by the users of this plywood or by distributors when purchases are for warehouse replacement. Applications were formerly made by prospective purchasers. This change is effected by an amended version of Limitation Order L-150 issued by the War Production Board.

The amended order also requires five instead of four copies of applications form WPB-2532 and four instead of three copies of monthly schedules filed by producers form wPB-2531.

ORDER NO. 1 MPR 293 EFFECTIVE AUG. 19

Pending a revision of ceiling prices in Maximum Price Regulation No..293 stock millwork, now under way, sellers of wooden doors, frames, sash and other items priced in the regulation may sell at prices to be adjusted later to the new ceilings to appear in the revision, the Office of Price Administration announced August 19.

This permission is granted in order No. I under Maximum Price Regulation No. 293, and becomes effective August 19, 1943.

The order automatically is revoked, OPA said, on issuance of the revised regulation.

UNIF'ORM LOG GRADING RULES

Ilniform grading and scaling rules for logs produced in Oregon and Washington west of the crest of the Cascade Mountains were announced August 13 by the Office of Price Administration.

The new rules-to be used by all grading and scaling bureaus and independent graders and scalers-were drawtr after extensive consultation between scaling and grading bureaus, independent scalers, the lumber and logging industry and OPA representatives.

They are incorporated into Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 161 (West Coast Logs) in Amendment No. 7 to that regulation, and became effective August 24, 1943.

Published grading and scaling rules have been in effect in the West Coast area for many years, but differed slightly in various logging regions. The new uniform rules resolve the differences, assist in the effective operation of price control for logs, and provide the log buyer with assurance that a 1og of a certain grade is of the same quality and scale, no matter from what part of the territory it was produced, graded and scaled.

The new uniform rules will provide uniform grading quality and scaling quantity for all logs graded and scaled in the territory.

To Be Alive

Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and no to goodness and kindness, purity and love, God and eternal hopes-is to be all but dead.-M. D. Babcock.

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A Sentence

Teacher: "Billy, give me a sentence using the word 'torture.t "

Billy: "A heavy knock at the door, he leaped from her embrace, and said'I torture husband was out of town.",

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Legal Evidence

A man was charged with shooting a farmer's pigeons. Counsel for the defense tried to frighten the farmer.

"Are you prepared to swear," he demanded, ,.that this man shot your pigeons?"

"f didn't say I saw him shoot them," the farmer said. "I said f suspected him of shooting them."

"Ah l" shouted the lawyer. "Just a matter of suspicion. Will you tell this court what made you suspect that he shot your pigeons?"

The farmer said: "Well, first, I caught him on my land with a gun in his hands. Second, I heard his gun go ofr and saw some of my pigeons fall. Third, I found four of my pigeons in his pocket, and I don't believe them birds committed suicide and then flew into his pocket."

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Vacation

The old man his vacation takes, Although he thinks it's rash, Convinced, without his guiding hand, The biz will go to smash. On his return he then finds out, Though not with unmixed jo5 The business has been finely run, Just by the office boy. There's nothing that will jolt us so, Upon the other shore, As finding out the world we left, Is running as before.

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"Do you slunmer in the country?"

"No, f simmer in the city."

A Rhyme In Time

Perhaps no bust in English use is more frequent tharr the misuse of lie and lay. Christopher Morley once wrote the following verse as an aid to straightening out the use of the two verbs:

"Lie and lay offer clips to the pen, That have bothered most excellent men: You may say that you lay In bed yesterday;

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ouR PUP, JOHN STLVER

By A. Merriam Conner

We have a pup that was wished on us, A dear little, queer little ornery cuss; Four big feet and a mop of hair, Two foppy ears and a baby stare; fle's exceedingly friendly, infrequently riled, And kindly disposed toward adult and chitdSo we named him John Silver.

Now he's not so bad, and he's not so good, As the ways of a puppy are understood; He sleeps in the sun when he's not at play, Sometimes he prowls through the woods all day, Comes home with brambles and bugs in his hair, . We have to de-tick him right then and thereOur reckless John Silver.

He bays at the moon as it climbs o'er the hill, And at midnight when everything's spooky and still, He fairly curdles the roots of our hair By yapping at things that we know aren't there; IIe's ruined four shoes and a good garden hat, But one just can't blame a poor puppy for that_ Well, not our John Silver.

Sometimes when we tire of his mischievous play, lVe solemnly mutter "Let's give him away.,, Then he stares at us with his big round eyes, His look seems to say-"You won't if you're wise_ My naughty pup habits I'm willing to break_ My loyal pup heart it is yours to takeI'm your puppy-John Silver."