America Produces MoTeLUMBER Than Steel

While U. S. steel mills cstound the world with cnr crnnuql wqrlime production oI 90 million tons, little recogmition is given the outstcnding crchievement oI the lumber industry this yecrr in crttcrining c production oI 34 billion board leet. Hcrlf of this vcst crmount, alone, is being used lor pcrcking wcrr shipments.

You mcry crsk how 90 million tons of steel cqn be comp<rred with 34 billion bocnd leet. Using crverqge weights 1944 Americcn lumber production wiII be 45,000,000 tons; or hclf oI steel production by weight. But cs cr cubic loot of steel weighs sixteen times the egucl qucrntity ol lumber, from a volume stcndpoint, lumber produciion is eight times more thcn steel.

These ligures explcin why the mills oI Pope & Talbot, Inc. qre qlmost exclusively engcged in the war effort. 'We cre loing cn importcrnt shcrre of wcrtime lumber production, but in the postwcr erc, our mills will cgcin be working lor you.

Seven Directions to L-335 Amended Named President of the Masonite Corporation

(Continued from Page 14) certified and unrated orders since they are not covered by Directions 1-5, WPB Pointed out.

Distributors' sales on uncertified and unrated orders, however, are limited to those which will not interfere with filling certified orders. Moreover, distributors may sell on uncertified orders only the lumber they receive on tlncertified orders.

Culls and rejects may be sold by distributors on uncertified and unrated orders, provided the price is not more than 85 per cent of the price allowed by the Office of Price Administration for the lowest standard grade of the same species. Formerly, the price could not ,be more than 75 per cent of this OPA Price.

Direction 7 afiects sawmills not covered by Directions 1 through 5. Formerly these mills were permitted to sell only to distributors on uncertified and unrated orders. They may now sell to consumers as well as distributors, if such sale does not interfere with the filling of certified orders.

Following are the species covered bv Directi<-rns 1 through 5, size of mills that must give preferential treatment to military orders, and percentage of monthly shipments of the species subject to this preferential treatment :

Direction l-Douglas fir, white fir, noble fir, Sitka spruce (except, aircraft grade), and West Coast hemlock when produced in the States of Oregon and Washington west o{ the crest of the Cascade Mountain range; mills producing an average of 25,000 board feet or more per day; 35 per cent of monthly shipments of these species.

Direction 2-Ponderosa pine, sugar pine, lodgepole pine, Idaho white pine, white fir, western spruce and Engelmann's spruce produced in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and South Dakota, except ldaho white pine and white fir produced west of the crest of the Cascade Mountain range in Washington and Oregon; mills averaging 10,000 board feet or more per day; 2O per cent of monthly shipments of these species.

Direction 3-Redwood produced in California; mills averaging 25,000 board feet or more per day; 40 per cent of monthly shipments.

Matthew P. McCullough, for many years treasurer and a director of the Masonite Corporation, .has been aPpointed president bY the board of directors of the Masonite CorPoration to fiIl the vacancy created bY the recent death of Ben Alexander, it was announced October 5.

At the same time, Charles J. Winton, Jr., also a director, was named to succeed Mr. McCullough as treasurer, and John M. Coates, legal counsel of the corporation, was appointed a director.

The new president is widely known in the lumber and allied industries, with which he has been associated throughout his business career. He has been treasurer of the Masonite Corporation since 1928, and is also chairman of the board of the Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company, Wausau, Wis., president of the Alexander & Yawkey Lumber Company, Prineville, Ore', and a director of the Marathon Corporation, Wausau.

New Retcril Concern

Industrial Terminal Co., recently organized by George Chew, is a new retail lumber concern with yard at the Lumber Terminal, 2000 E"vans Avenue' San Francisco, where a fairly complete stock is carried' Offices are in the Monadnock Building, 681 Market Street.

Direction 4-Southern yellow pine; mills averaging 5,000 board feet or more per day; 35 per 'cent of monthly shipments.

Direction 5-Red or yellow cypress; mills averaging 5,000 board feet or more per day; 30 per cent of monthll' shipments.

PRECtSt0t{ Ktt }t DRYt}tG C0.

Custom Milling

Rescwing, Ripping cnd Trimming At Our Remanulcrcturing Plcnt, Long Beqch, Calil.

KILN DRYING

At both Long Becch crnd Los Angeles plcrnts. Kilns crnd opercrtors cre ssdilied by Governrnent for drying <rircrcdt lumber. Also other commercicrl drying.

Mill crnd Kilns

1405 Wcter St., Long Beach 2 t. B. 6-9235

Los Angeles Kilns

136l Mirasol St., Zone 23 ANselus 2-1945