GamERsToN & Gnun LumBER Co.

Wholesale and Jobbing Yards

Lumber-Timbers-Ties

FirRedwoodPonderosaSugar Pine

SAN FRANCISCO

1800 Army Street

OAKLAND

2O0l Livington Strcet ATwater 1300 KEllog +1884

FHA Acts to Help Dealers

(Continued from Page 14) lurnber dealer's name-and then skip out leaving the lumber dealer and the FHA holdir-rg a bag of claims and complaints.

"There are three u'ays to cure tl.ris evil," H. R. Northup emphasized. "The home-ou'ners in the tou'n should be in{ormecl through tire local ne\\'spapers that it is rn"ise to call the local lumber clealer, or some othern'ell-established business in the building industry, before signing any loan papers for any unknown company or representatives. Second, lumber dealers can train their ou'n sales force. Third, lumber dealers rvhen not u'orkir.rg u'ith contractors known to then.r should investigate the salesman or contractor actually doing tl-re job, for unless the salesman or contractor is knor,vn to the lending institution the dealer rvho sold the materials may be askecl to sign the l)ealer's Completion Certificate in order to get his money for the materials.

"Active enforcement o{ good business practices rvill make better business for all dealers rvl.ro live up to the regulations. It rvill also protect home-orvners and instill confidence in the minds of those who have repairs ancl remodeling r,r'ork to be clone on their homes. The time to estaltlish procedures for weeding out undesiraltles to the industry is right no\

Stock Millwork

O1'A announces new ceiling prices for jobber sales of stock milhvork--doors, rvindou's, frames, kitchen cabinets, molding ar-rd relatecl woodu'ork items-applicable to jobbers in Nebraska, ancl in the West Cer.rtral region.

Mexico Suited For Highly Developed Forest Industry

Washington, September 1l-Mexico is admirably suited for a highly developed forest industry, according to a report released toclal' b1' the Department of Commerce.

The study, prepared by the Lumber Unit of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, covers the forest resources and lumber economy of the neighboring republic.

Once adequate means of transportation are established and good forest management put into practice, it is pointed out, the vast timber reserve rvill become a constant and valuable source of income, and l\,Iexico rvill be in an enr.iable position with regard to international lumber trade.

For example, the southern republic has overland communication with the United States and also links together North, Central and South America. Waterborne trade can be carried .rvith ease to any point along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and overseas via the great circle routes.

l\Iexico's forest resorrrces are diversified, ranging from tropical l.rardu'oods of exotic nature and high intrinsii value to the temperate hardr.r'oods and conifers common to the United States.

Obstacles presently stand in the way of the full development of these resources. Transportation and labor are frequently inadequate in various regions. Sawmills are ferv in number, rather small and generally poorly equipped. Industrial organization, standardization and grading rule practices need improvement. But with careful planning and foresight full utilization of Mexico's forest resources can be realized.

The report was prepared primarily to ansr,r,'er questions of United States rvho look to Mexico for supplementary timber supplies. Copies can be obtained on u'ritten request, from the Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D. C., or its various field offices.

Digest of New \(ar Agen"y Regulations

Wooden Contcriners

Western manufacturers o{ u'oo<len containers 'n'i11 no longer be reqttire<l to apply to the OIrA for advance approval of their selling prices on coutainers made from grades of lumber more expensive than those normally used in box production, the agency announces. (Amenclment 10 to Revised MPR 186,) effective Sept. 7.

Lumber

The OPA re<luces the transportation permitted over maximum prices on log-run southern pine lumber in deliveries over 30 rniles from 10 to 5 cents a n-rile. (Amencln.rent 3 to MPR 19-A,) effective Sept. 19.

At the same time the agency announces consolidation of several price tables in the sonthern pine lumber regulation for purposes of.simplilication and t'ivo cl.ranges in the regulation's provisions dealing rvith direct-mill distributors.

(Amendment 4 to Second Revised MPR 19,) effective September 19.

Portland Cement

OPA announces an increase o{ 20 cents a barrel in the manufacturers' ceiling price of portlan<1 cement sold in Sotrthern California, Arizona and southeastern Nevada. (Amendment 8 to MPR 224,) effective Oct. 14.

Hemlock Pulpwood

Ceiling prices at r,'i'hich hemlock pulpwood produced Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia rr'ay be sold the U. S. are announced b1' the OPA. (Amendment 2 \{PR 530,) effective Sept. 8.

Priority Regulcrtions

Producers of equipment subject to any WPII order on List A of Priorities Regulation 24 must file form WPB394O monthly in accordance with the instructions on that form, showing the quantity of their rated and unrated shipments, the WPB announces.

Lumber

WPB removes Douglas fir and larch lumber produced in the western pine region frorn Direction 2 lo the lumber control order, L-335, and mills may now ship this lumber to clistributors on uncertified and unrated orders.

Plywood Firm Honored Three \(/ays In Recent Months

Recent months rn'ere months of achievement for the M and M Wood Working Company of Portland, Oregon. Thomas Malarkey, vice president of the contpany, rvas elected president of the Douglas Fir Plvwood Association; Michel Pasquier, engineer, was granted a patent for a step-scarf joint for joining sheets of plywood; and the Plylock division of tl-re company received its second "E" flag arvard from the War Production Board.

N{r. Malarkey, who has been vice president of the company for over four years, was a member of the management cornmittee of the Douglas Fir Plyrn'ood Association for five years before becoming president. He is also vice president and a rnember of the management committee of Pacific Forest Industries at Tacoma, member of the WPB Softwood Plyrvood Advisory committee, and member of the OPA Plywood Advisory committee.

The step-scarf joint, conceived by Mr. Pasquier, represents a substantial improvement over the ordinary scarf joint in joining sheets of plywood. Continuous long plywood panels are used in construction of Navy rescue craft, landing craft, PT boats, life rafts, and life boats. Special feature of Pasquier's joint is that the step assures a posi-

New Wholesale Lumber Firm

Ed Bauer and Carl Porter are starting in the rvholesale Iumber business O,ctober 1, operating under the name of Atlas Lumber Company, with ofifices and warehouse at 2035 East 15th Street,. Los Angeles. The telephone number is Prospect 7401.

They will handle hardwoods, sugar and pondetosa..pine and plywoods, specializing in West Coast hardrvoods. Ed and Carl were formerly associated r,vith Bohnhofi Lumber Company, fnc., at Los Angeles, and are rvell knou,n to the Southern California lumber trade.

25 Years in Lumber Business

Hans Wall is now in his 25th 1'ear in the lumber business for himself, starting on October 1,1919. He has been operating the General Lumber & Supply Co. in Los Angeles since 1941.

Step-sccnf joint lor ioining sheets ol plywood. tive alignment all along the scarf, thereby assuring a 100 per cent waterproof scarf when phenol resin glue is bonded in hot plate press.

The company's second "E" flag award was gqanted for doing an extraordinarily good job in producing exterior plywood for landing craft, PT boats, etc. The first award rvas granted in October, 1943.

Fire Destroys Store cnd OIIice Building

Fire destroyed the main store and office building of thc Whiting-Mead Company of San Diego, 14th and K Streets, San Diego, early Wednesday morning, September 20. The yard was not damaged.

A part of the finish shed and mill are being remodeled into a store and office, and business is continuing as usual. A new store and office building lvill be constructed as soon as possible.

Housing

Apartment houses and other existing dlvellings mby now be authorized for remodeling or conversion to provide smaller housing units in areas where the national housing agency has determined that an extreme housing shortage exists.

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Jim Farley, assistant cific Lumber Company, desk September 25 after

W!rte.r, sales manager, The PaSan Francisco, lvas back at his a week's vacation.

Allard Kaufman, representative of California Redwoocl Distributors, Inc., at New Orleans, La., is on a visit to the Pacific Coast. He conferred with Hammoncl Lumber Co. and The Pacific Lumber Co., member mills of the sales organization, and visited the mills at Samoa and Scotia.

George D. Eubank, rnanager of L. H. E,ubank & Son, Inglewood,. Calif., returned September 20 from a trip on which he visited a number of Northern California sanmills.

M. R. "Rusty" Gill, representative of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle recently spent their vacation in San Gatos. Calif.

New Construction

at Eugene, Oregon, Co., and Mrs. Gill, Francisco and Los

Total new construction activity in the United States in August amounted to $316,000,000, a Z per cent increase cver the previous month's level of $310,000,000 but less than half the $638,000,000 volume of August, 1943, the War Production Board reDorts.