The California Lumber Merchant - November 1942

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The lumber miils of the great Northwest can be proud of the womer.r rvho ira','e joined-up in the battle of production, for the5r are making a magnificent contribution to the solution of the problem created by the shortage ofrnan po\ver.

With courage, determination and an eagerness to learn the tasks assigned to them, the women of tire Northwcst are helping to maintain at high levels the flow ol lun.rber products to meet the trernendous demands of the Usine Services of the United Nations.

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In tlre foregrovnd, Fannie Randa, with pickaroon in hand, is straighteniug lumber. At vpper rig6t Helen Juruakainen is workirrg at a sorting table: below her Elno Ollila is operatirrg a nrnclrinc irr r plarring mill.

A11 over the nation wonlen are working at jobs which a few rnonthri ago were strange to them. No more valiant record has been establisheci than 1-hat of the wome:r of the lumber industrl'who are engaged in the vital production Of Wood for \MQf. (rpyrigb. rry.p,we,verhrcurrS:1cs(r.

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If you require quick dependqble service, coll "C<rlil' Pcmel" when you need plywood. We hcrve c ldrge, well diversified, quolity stock of hqrdwood crnd softwood plywoods clwcrys on hqnd lor your convenience'

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Sell lumber thdt Yields q ptotit @d lcting sctislccttg.n. qZC, rtri- iiotJcna iumlber, is c'lem, odorless ^T4 pct{loble' Il is i.'r",itl, ""ii aJcci rdsistcrrt od fire retdrding.' You -can gell it-'b;'1.H.A.. 0. S. Got.mment, Loa Alsqles Citv-dt-rd qountv ;;i'd;ii;; Euildins Code ;6bs. CZC trected lumber is Jri.rJ--i.i-in-.aitt5 shipmerit in comnerciol sizes crl long B;;A-dtd Almedo. Asl( cbout our e:chcutge sereice @d nill shipment pldr.

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ADVERTISERS

Fir Door fnstitute--------

Fordyce-Crossett Sales Co. ------------------O.B'C'

Gamerston & Green Lumber Co.--------------------*

HaIl, Jamec L.--- -------------------------------------2O

Hammond Lumber Co.------....

Hill & Morton, Inc.------------------------------------------25

Hogan Lumber Co. ------ ---------------------------------29

lfoover, A. L.-------------. -------------22

Johnson Lumber Corporation, C. D.----- O.F.C.

Koeht & Son, Inc., John \ff.-------

Kuhl Lumber Co., C.arl H.-----------------------------29

Lamon-Bonnington Company-------------------*

Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co..----------------

Lumberments Credit Association------------ +

MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd----------------16

Maple Flooring Manufacturerc Association---*

Michigan-California Lumber Co. ------------|

Moore Dry Kiln Co.--------

Pacific Lumber Co., The -------- 5

Pacific Mutsal Door Co.--

Pacific Vire Producte Co. -----.-..--------

Pacific Vood Producte Corp.--------------------24

Penberthy Lumber Co.--

Ponderosa Pine Voodwork--------------------------

Pope & Talbot, Lumber Division--..-.---

Pordand Ceinent Association----

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THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCFIANT

JackDiorne,publdhu

How Lrumber Lrooks

Rcdwood Cciling Priceg Established

San Francisco, Nov. 9-Dollars and cents maximum prices for California Redwood, now used primarily in out-of-door war construction work and in connection with expanding war industry were established today by the Office of Price Administration, according to the regional office. The new prices are effective November 13, 7942.

The action taken through the issuance of maximum price regulation No. Z53-Redwood lumber and millwork-establishes dollars and cents maximum prices for Redwood lumber and millwork, including such items as door frames, caskets, cooling towers, and cigar, box lumber. The maximum prices are somewhat below those prevailing in March, 1942, which were established as maximum prices by the general maximum price regulation.

Amendment No. 2 to Limitation Order L-218 provides that Douglas Fir produced from timber located west of thi crest of the Cascade Mountain Range includes only Oregon and Washington, and does not include Fir produced in California.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended Octo-

ber 31, 96 mills reporting, gave orders as 87,669,000 feet, shipments 92,537,W0 feet, and production 87,30O,00O feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 4D,799,W feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended October 31, 94 mills reporting, gave orders as 18,746,000 feet, shipments 25,634,W feet, and production 22,6I8,ffi f.eet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 138,270,W0 'f eet.

The California Redwood Association reported production of twelve operations for the month of September, 1942, as 38,462,m feet, shipments 48,738,000 feet, and orders received 44,983,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 88.086.000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended October 24 reported orders as 138,147,000 feet, shipments L23,614,W feet, and production 123,211,ffi feet.

For the week ended October 31, orders were reported as IO6,769,0ffi feet, shipments 140,490,000 feet and production 122,318,0@ feet.

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Subecrlpdon Price, $1lJl0 per Yecn Singlc Copiel, 25 centr ecch

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It tcrkes cr lot ol effort and work to stcrrt cr log rolling. Once it gets going, however, it's hcrrd to stop. A log, like crny business, requires c little extra push when it starts to slow down. We're looking lonncrrd to the time when our business slcrckens oII crnd you will be the only one who can keep it rolling. Thqt's why we cre suggesting thcrt on homes clrecdy built "IEMPERATttRE CONDHONING" with PALCO WOOL Insulcrtion offers cr mcrket thct will help you over this present *hump"-cnd keep you rolling on the down-hill pull.

Write us lor detcils, todcry.

Lincoln said: "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history."

Goethe said: "That which the fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.', {<**

Genesis says (Chap. 11, verses 7 and 9) : ',Let.us go down and then confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. * * 'F Therefore is the name of it cdled Babel."

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A Canadian lumber journal now before me prints the building restrictions of that nation. It takes only the fewest minutes to read them, and once read a twelve-year-old school boy will have no difficulty in understanding exactly what they mean.

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Turning homeward from those simple, direct, and uriconfusing regulations of a nation that is fully as much at war as this one is, reminded me of the above quotation from Scripture. The countless words and phrases that have been issued to the lumber industry of the United States to make up all the rules, regulations, restrictions, amendments covering their business might well be called "Babel.', Surely the descendants of Noah could not have been more confused with strange words than the lumber folks of this country have been for the past year.

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The difference is that in Genesis the Lord deliberately confounded the language of the people of the earth, while today our officials who send forth the torrent of rules and still more rules, have, f feel sure, no such intention. But unfortunateln the result is somewhat the same in both cases. Their formula would seem to be, never use one word when you can possibly squeeze in a score or more.

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The lumber industry has no Elmer Dpvis appointed to reduce the redundancy. Mr. Davis has killed off more than 300 separate and distinct publications that the various bureaus at Washington had been sending out, that being one of the big jobs for which he was appointed. But the building industry keeps struggling willingly and manfully to discover

the why and wherefore of the high tide of regulatory and restrictive literature that keeps right on coming. ***

The average lumber dealer is confused, not only as to the meaning of the red tape that surrounds the lumber and building regulations, but he wonders also if all these restrictions are necessary; if they are wise from the standpoint of helping win the war? ***

In the current issue of Colliers I read a statement of Under Secretary of Commerce, \ll/ayne C. Wright, to the efrect that, unless something very practical and helpful is dorie about it, not less than 300,000 small businesses will disappear before another year is past. And it is factual to add to that statement that a whale of a lot of that number will be retail lumber deal€rs. No doubt about it. If the trend of today and the past six months continues, lumber yards are going to disappear in droves.

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Now I doubt if there is anywhere in this nation a more loyal and patriotic set of men than the retail lumber dealers. If their Government, after thoughtful and practical consideration of the facts said fe ffug6-..all lumber yards must close for the duration of the war," it would be done, promptly, without griping, and with the same sort of patriotic fervor with which their sons in such great nurnbers have shouldered their rifles and gone forth to war. It would, and you can bet on it. Any other sacrifices that are found to be vital to the winning of the war, they will make willingty and cheerfully'

But they cannot help wondering if their elimination IS essential to the war effort. On the contrary, they are wondering in their honest hearts if it would not be a national calamity if the lumber yards were to close in wholesale fashion? Would not such a development be actually hurtful to the all-out effort to win the war? The three fundamental essentials of hurnan life are food, shelter, and clothing. To the man in the street, the retail lumber dealer in his town represents shelter. He does not, when his roof leaks, when his porch sags, when his fence rots, when his barn cries aloud for repairs, turn to the architect, the contractor, or anyone else. He turns to the lumber dealer for his material, his advice, and the service that goes with the needed job.

To keep our people decently housed and their'shelter in proper order, is just as big a job in war times as in peace times. Perhaps much larger, because the prohibition (and very proper) against new buildings that are not entirely essential to the war effort, makes it all the more important to keep our present buildings in sound condition. Buildings are like men. They require frequent repair and up'keep' They require patching, strengthening, protecting. Not a day passes but hundreds of thousands of buildings in this country turn up sick, just as millions of humans do. And something needs to be done about it. No doubt thousands of these cases could be allowed to run their course until after the war, if to do so would help win the war. But will it? ***

Step by step, inch by inch, week by week, the new building rules and restrictions keep on reducing the amount, and kind, and character of business that the lumber dealer may do. It is a pincers movement that keeps goose pimplds on Mr. Dealer's back, and makes him wake at night in a cold sweat. He has a well working thinking apparatus, and, while no doubt there is some bias in his opinion, he feels that a general closing of the lumber yards would be a calamity second only to the general closing of food stores, so far as our economic situation and internal workings are concerned. He believes that if the thing is wisely and practically handled, enough corners can be cut, enough material not essential to the war effort can be used, and enough manpower that has nowhere else to go can be kept busy, to allow the active and useful lumber dealer to stay in business, give his territory the retail service it vitally needs, and preserve the skeleton of his business in readiness for after-the-war usefulness. ***

So far as manpower is concerned, it must be kept well in mind that every man who handles the hammer and saw, the paint brush, etc., is not necessarily either soldier or war plant material. In every town there are scores of such men who are not fit to carry a gun or work in a shipyard or ordnance plant. Some of the discussions of employing our manpower remind me of the fellow who asked the butcher why he did not cut ALL of his beef into porterhouse steaks? But they are capable of fixing, repairing, repainting, papering, roofing, and doing the thousands of odd jobs of building that are being called for wherever man and his possessions are housed.

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The present huge demand for Government lumber will not last forever. And when it comes to a close, the lu,mber dealers of the nation will be needed more than ever before to commence the work of post-wap building. When World War One ended, immediately there arose a tremendous tide

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High Eaily Slrength PORTI.AND GEMENT

Guarcsnteed to meet or exceed requirements ol Americqn Society lor Testing Matericrls Strreciliccrtions lor High Ecrly Strength Portlcrnd CemenL qs well qs Feder<rl Specificcrtions lor Cement, Portlcnrd, High-Ecnly-Strength, No. SS-C-201.

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llttftllluM EXPAIlSlOlf rnd GOilTnACTI0If

(Extremely severe quto-clave test results consistently indiccrte prcrc' ticclly no expcrnsion or contrqc' tion, thus elimincrting one ol most ilifficult problems in use oI c high ecrrly slrength cement.)

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Amendment 1 to Limitation Ord er L-218

Part 3116-Douglas Fir Lumber

Subparagraph (1) of paragraph (b) of 3116.1 Limitation Order L-218 is hereby amended to read as follows:

(1) Any producer may sell, ship or deliver (either directly or through one or more intervening persons) any Douglas fir lumber to or for the account of the Procuring Agency or to or for the account of any contractor or other person designated by such 'agency; but only if there is endorsed on the purchase order or contract for such lumber a statement in substantially the following form, signed by the pur, chaser or by a responsible official duly designated for such purpose by the purchaser:

All Douglas fir lumber covered by this purchase order (or contract) is to be sold, shipped or delivered to, or received by, the Procuring Agency or a contractor or other person designated by such agency, as required by Limitation Order L-218, with the terms of which I am familiar.

By Date..

Purchaser

Title or Rank.

Provided; however, That when a producer has received written directions from the Procuring Agency to sell, ship or deliver Douglas fir lumber to any contractor or other person designated by such Procuring Agency, such producer may comply with such directions and no such endorsed purchase order or contract shall be required from such contractor or other person.

Each endorsement made under the provisions of this order shall constitute a representation to the , producer and to the War Production Board that the Douglas fir lumber referred to therein will be sold, shipped, delivered, or received in accordance with such endorsement.

(P.D. Reg. 1, as amended, 6 F.R. 6680; W.p.B. Reg. 1, 7, F.R.561; E.O.9024,7 F.R.329; E.O.9O4O, 7 F.R. S27; 8.O.9125,7 F. R. 2719; sec. 2 (a), Pub. Law 6Zt,76th Cong., as amended by Pub. Laws 89 and 502, 77th Cong.) Issued this 29th day of October, L942.

Ernest Kanzler. Director General for Operations.

Vagabond Editorials

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of building. It will probably be the same after this war. Our citizenship will be well heeled with Government Bonds, there will be a great demand for new homes, and the bond money will drift in great volume into buil'ding, I believe.

Let us join together in prayer that the lumber dqaler in wholesale quantity will not be driven out of existence, but that enough of the spirit of give and take will be used in formulating building regulations so that he may continue to furnish a service vital to our citizenship and to the winning of the war, and thus leave the working structure of a precious post-war industry intact.

Amendment 5 to Order M-208

Sales and deliveries of Douglas fir lumber, after October D, by producers who come within the provisions of Limitation Order L-218, are removed from the restrictions of M-208, which regulates the softwood lumber industry. This is made clear by Amendment No. 5 to M-Zffi, issued today, October 77.

The definition of "softwood lumber" as the term is applied to species and grades markgtable under M-208, is amended by a qualifying clause that reads: "Provided that 'softwood lumber'shall not include Douglas fir lumber sold, shipped or delivered by producers in accordance with the provisions of Limitation Order L-2I8" (Paragraph a-1).

By deletion of the species name, Douglas fir, in subparagraphs (i), (ii), and (iii) of paragraph (f) (l), M-208 is amended to exclude lumber of that variety from the restrictions and control imposed on softwood producers and users generally by that order.

Sales, shipments and deliveries of Douglas fir lumber by producers within. the scope of. L-218 may be made October D only to the Central Procuring Agency for the armed services and their agents, or through the Lumber Products Branch at the direction of the Director General for Operations.

TOM HUBBARD WITH SEABEES

Tom Hubbard, formerly with Cheim Lumber Co., San Jose, is now in service with the Navy "Seabees."

Lumbermen's Thanksgiving

Oh lumbermen, my lumbermen, When on Thanksgiving Day You're giving very heartfelt thanks, I wonder what you'll say.

Oh well, the sky is blue above, The grass is green below, And if they're not just at this time, They'll very soon be so.

You'll say, they're building ships of wood Both for the sky and sea, And that the forest products now Are serving destiny. And you'll be glad to have a part In keeping war at bay, And think full many a grateful thought On this Thanksgiving Day.

Oh lumbermen, my lumbermen, The sledding may be rough, But you will prove to Nazidom Americans are tough.

So now on this Thanksgiving Day You'll don your fighting togs And thank whatever gods there be There's no taboo on logs.

And I am sure that you will see Through all the clouds that lower, The brighter days that are to come When righteousness shall flower. When all the tumult and the strife Of war at length shall cease, And once again we all shall walk In harmony and peace.

So lumbermen, my lumbermen In your own gallant way, I know you'll see that old bright side, On this Thanksgiving Day.

A. Merriam Conner

Pulpwood Control Further Increaged bv \(/PB

San Francisco, Oct. 27.A move toward exercising further control of pulpwood in the states of Washington and Oregon was announced by the Director General for Operations, with the issuance of schedule No. 2 to General Preference Order M-25I, the regional WPB reported.

Schedule No. 2 extends the area of pulpwood control to an area set apart'and described in this schedule, and referred to as the Columbia-Willamette area. It provides that the Director General for Operations may from time to time allocate specific quantities of pulpwood logs to and from specific persons in the Columbia-Willamette area.

Fourteen mills are located in the Columbia-Willamette area. Until the mills receive further directions from the Director General for Operations, they may continue to consume or dispose of pulpwood as though schedule No. 2 had not been issued.

Action is necessary because a certain amount of logs now consumed in pulpwood will probably have to be diverted to lumber in the Columbia-Willamette area, due to a shortage of lumber logs.

Study \Tooden Container Problem

San Francisco, Oct. D.The containers branch of the War Production Boafd today at Washington urged manufacturers of wooden packing boxes-and packers who use them-to investigate thoroughly the possibility of substitute materials available for containers in planning their future operations.

The branch revealed that a study of the whole wooden container problem now is under way in view of the increasingly serious steel and lumber situation which has been reflected in curtailed supplies of wire, nails and lumber available for wooden boxes.

It is very likely that some action will be necessary to reduce the use of lumber for wooden packing boxes for which substitutes are available in order to assure an ample supply for military and lend-lease shipments and also to maintain lumber requirements for other essential purposes.

Glossary of Housing Terms

The National Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce, announces the publication in its Building Materials and Structures series, of a Glossary of Housing Terms in which is presented a large number of expressions found in housing literature.

The publication was prepared by a committee composed of members of various Federal housing agencies, the purpose being to bring together, for the convenient use of all interested persons, definitions that are generally accepted and currently used.

This is a revision and expansion of a publication issued in1937. Additions are most extensive in the fields of landsgape and construction work, where considerable confusion exists regarding many definitions.

It is hoped to subject the document to further improvement from time to time with a view to making it a permanent source of usefulness.

Copies of the glossary, which bears the designation BMS91, are obtainable from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. The price is 15 cents.

ATTEND PORTLAND MEETING

Tom Hogan III, Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland; H. "Abe" Lincoln, Lincoln Lumber, Inc., Oakland, and M. B. "Nick" Carter, Carter Lumber Co., Oakland, attended the meeting held in Portland, October 27, for the discussion and interpretation of Limitation Order L-218.

Ihink of it for the peacBlilnB structu y0u ar8 planning"

Here's talk of the future, about wood that is aiding the war effort, which is helping to expand your postwar markets. Executives i:l gover.-ent and business, architects, builders and suppliers are seeing .it in advertisements like +his one, in Business Week, Engineering NewsRecord, American Builder & Building ASe, a&dArchitectural Forum.

It hsts the advantages of buildinq with woodease of handling and speedy erection, light weight and resilience. It tells how long lile is given wood structures by building with Wobnanized Lumber, lhe vacuum-pressure i'nFregnated wood with the proved durability record.

Now is the "-e to make your plans for cashing in on ihis expanded market for wood iu the predicted postwar building boom. Wolmanized Lumber is produced in plants conveniently located throughout the counhy, and distributed through regular trade channels. American Lumber & Treating Company, 1648 McCormick Building, Chieago, Illinois. rBegEcter€d Trade Marl

[.the :ll6d-cetirle rstructur€B you I ard plaurring,.It offers you an ' iaa:ponttive meane o{ defeating - decay.and termite atlack We'll , Sladly send you inlorrration on its uge. Wdle American Lumber I $- lieating_Compa-ny, 1656 McCormick Bldg., phicago. IU: 'nqil.nd trrd. n.*

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Abie \(/as Consistent

Abie Ginsbur$ was probably the worst scholar in his class. He was more than that. He was the worst scholar in each and all of his classes. His report cards showed him to be a total loss. And it was that way throughout his school days. So when the war came along, Abie qrrit school and joined the army. He worked his way into the air force. Eventually he became a flyer. Still more eventually he found himself in General MacArthur's fying corps in Aus-

VISITS LOS ANGELES

G. L. Speier of the G. L. Speier Company, Arcata, Calif., manufacturers of Douglas Fir and Redwood, was in Los Angeles recently, conferring with his company's Southern California sales representatives, Tacoma Lumber Sales.

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Then came the day when Abie's father, Moe Ginsburg, got a cable that was signed by Douglas MacArthur, himself. Fearing the worst, Moe read it. It said:

"Your son Abie Ginsburg got three Zeros today."

"Ach Gott !" exclaimed old Moe. "It's choost de same in de army as it vos in school. Alvays dot dumb, lazy loaf.er he gets zeros !"

CALIFORNIA VISITOR

W. R. "Billy" Morris, New York, eastern sales manager, IJnion .Lumber Company, has been spending some time recently in California visiting the company's San Francisco office and mill operations.

National Retailers Annual Meeting

W. W. Anderson, Anderson T umber Co., Ogden, IJtah, was elected president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association at the annual meeting held in Chicago on October n-22. The other officers elected were: vice-president, Leonard Lampert, Jr., Lampert Lumber Co., St. Paul, Minn.; treasurer, George W. La Pointe, Jr., O & N Lumber Co., Menominee, Wis.; secretary, H. R. Northup, Washington, D. C.

The following were named to serve bn the executive committee; J. A. Detweiler, Exchange Lumber Co., Rochester, N. Y.; Fred R. Stair, Farragut Lumber Co., Knoxville, Tenn.; Paul Hallingby, Tfammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Lamar Forrest, Forrest Lumber Co., Lamesa, Texas; Frank C. Kendall, Potlatch Yards, Inc., Spokane, Wash.; W. W. Anderson, W. G. Smith, Lyman-Hawkins Lumber Co., Akron, Ohio; and Leonard Lampert, Jr.

On behalf of the Association, George W. LaPointe, Jr., presented Carl Blackstock, Blackstock Lumber Co., Seattle, Wash., retiring president, with a wrist watch.

Among the convention speakers were; Ben Alexander, WPB lumber coordinator; Arthur T. IJpson, chief, Lumber and Lumber Products Branch, WPB; Wilson Compton, secretary-manager, National Lumber Manufacturers Association; Peter Stone, Lumber Branch, OPA; Dwight Hoopeng'arner, Construction Branch, WPB, and Secretary H. R. Northup.

The following committee, appointed by Chairman Blackstock, conferred with Mr. Stone on methods of applying retail ceiling prices: Leonard Lampert, Jr.; J. Hammond Geis, Baltimore, Md.; W. C. Bell, Seattle, Wash. ; Lamar Forrest; Fred R. Stair; Joe Fitzgerald; Paul Hallingby; and Paul Collier, Rochester, N. Y.

Mr. Alexander announced the appointment of Don Campbell, secretary of the Kentucky Retail Lumbermen,s Association, as head of the distribution section, lumber branch, WPB, succeeding John Oliver, retail lumber dealer from Springfield, Mass., who is now connected with the coordinator's office.

EAST BAY HOO.HOO CLUB

Larry Smith, former chief correspondent of International News Service in Japan, will be guest speaker at the next dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 to be held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, November 16.

Mr. Smith will discuss "Our Enemy, The Jap; Where the Japs Will Attack Next, and Could,Russia Withstand a Jap Attack?"

There will also be musical entertainment during the dinner hour.

The program gram chairman. be presented by Ed LaFranchi, pro-

BILL FRASER IN ARMY

Bill Fraser, son of Clem Fraser, Hogan Lumber Company, Oakland, is in the Army, training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

The SINGING SAWS

The scrws make music dcy cnd nigrht in "Pcrul Bunycrn's" plcrnt at Westwood crs three shifts cqrry on in scrwmill crnd Icc-tories. Record brecrking production Ior Wcr needs makes the scrw qn oIIensive weapon qnd its tune cr song oI Victory!

"Pcul Bunycrns"CATIFORNIA PINES

Soft Ponderoscr "nd Sugcrr Pine LT'MBEB MOI'I^DING PTYWOOD Incense Cedcrr \IENETIAN BUND STATS

MEIIEEN WESTENN PNE ASSOCIf,TION MEITIBER WOOD FOB VENETTf,il'S f,SSN.

Lumb er lndust ryr Facing Grave Manpo wer Short ager Battles to Meet Mounting War Needs

By Holman Horvey National Lumber Manufacturers Association

Inundated by a growing floodtide of war orders, the lumber industry is engaged today in a monumental struggle on its production line. Never in its history has so much lumber been demanded of it in so short a time.

For, not only is wood going to war itself in more than ,one thousand difierent forms, but, as metals roll away to 'world fronts in staggering amounts, wood is taking over trnany of metal's heavier home-front tasks.

New timber engineering methods which double the formcr structural efficiency of wood, have made it possible for :the Army, Navy, and Maritime Commission to divert a vast volume of metal from construction use to munitions.

The price, of course, has had to be paid. Fortunately, it ,could'be paid out of our immense and only renewable natural resource, our 630 million acres of standing forest land. Since the beginning of the defense program in I94O, we have used for rnetal-replacement alone more than six billion board feet of lumber a year-six billion feet a year which WPB says has released for war purposes' to date, more than 2,500,000 tons of metal.

Consumption Exceeding Production

-In the face of this unprecedented national conversion to wood, the lumber industry has been waging a ceaseless fight for production. But gradually, because of labor diversion and pirating, wearing out and inadequate replacement of ,equipment, and complicated restrictions, the national pror(luction has been slowly declining. Latest available esti-mates compiled by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, covering the month of August, show national lum,ber consumption four per cent in excess of national produc'tion and the consumption figures did not include exports or readjustments in retail stocks, data on which are not yet available,

The August reported total production of 2,9O/W,m board feet was two per cent below July production.

At the satne time, log stocks and lumber stocks on hand at the nation'a mills continued to shrink under severe buying inroads. On August 31, log inventories in the Pacific Northwest were the lowest on record and, according to the Association, many mills will face shortages this winter. Lumber stocks at mills on the same date were three per ,cent below stocks as of July 31, and 29 per cent below August 31, L94t. Unfilled orders, in the softwood regions, were 78 per cent of gross stocks and, in the hardwood tegions, 34 per cent.

As against this declining total supply, the war agencies estimate that national lumber requirements are four per cent higher than during the past summer, and twelve per cent up over a yeaf ago,

Raw Material Is Plentiful

The lumber production problem is not one of supply of raw material or of mill capacity to convert it into lumber. There is plenty of good timber and ample reserves, and the forest products industries have declared that all necessary lumber can be harvested and the easily accessible forest lands which must be more heavily cut to obtain a speedy supply, can be left in productive condition for regrowth. In some more remote areas, virgin timber stands will be opened up to production by new access roads for which the'Government is advancing funds. No areas need be devastated.

Manpower is the crux of the problem of lumber scarcity. With more and more men needed in logging camps and mills, fewer and fewer have become available. In the great lumbering regions of the 'West, woods operations crews are down 30 per cent in numbers and about 40 per cent in efficiency due to the inexperience of replacement workers. In the South, too, the labor loss has been heavy. Where has this labor gone? The answer given by WPB's Lumber and Lumber Products Branch is that about two-sixths has gone into the draft since last January, three-sixths to other war industries, and one-sixth has been "on the make," working for no one.

After months of warnings {rom the industry that it could not produce lumber without skilled manpower, the Government finally has taken peremptory action on a limited front. Five war agencies, now thoroughly aroused by the declining production curve, have issued directives designed to check the drain, in the West, of essential lumber workers into the armed services and to halt the pirating of lumber labor by other industries. Similar action in the South is known to be in contemplation.

Lumber Workers "Stabilized',

The War Manpower Conrmission, calling for "uninterrupted production" in 12 Western states, issued a stabilization order forbidding essential workers to seek employment in any other industry without first obtaining from the U. S. Employment Service a t'certificate of separation,,, authorizing the worker to leave his job for another.

Selective Service, in a "stay-put-or-fight" order, instructed draft boards in the 12 states immediately to terminate occupational deferments of essential workers who leave their jobs without satisfying their boards that their departure is not adverse to the war effort.

At the same time, Selectivi Service instructed local boards to grant deferments to workers in 68 "critical occupations', in forestry, logging, and lumbering and notified employers that it was their duty to request draft deferment for needed men, with or without the consent of the vdorker. Employers

also were urged to take inventories of their remaining manpower and to train women and non-draftable men to replace draftable men wherever possible and as quickly as possible.

WPB directed that the 4O-hour week be extended at once to 48 hours throughout the Pacific Northwest and OPA raised the price ceiling on logs in the same area to absorb the overtime pay involved.

War Procurement Centralized

Another move by the Government, taken af.ter 14 months of urging by the lumber industry, is expected to ease the situation by trimming down lumber requirements and reducing waste of competitive procurement. It is the centralizing of procurement for seven war agencies in the office of the Construction Division of the Army Corps of E4gineers.

In like manner, all hardwoods used in ship construction by any branch of the armed forces will be procured by the Navy.

The importance of these government moves becomes clearer when it is realized that 9O per cent of all lumber shipments now are going into war, defense, and prioritycontrolled essential civilian uses.

But, inevitably, as civilian uses are curtailed in one direction they spring up as essential needs in another. Confronted with the fuel shortage, the Government has been forced to relax its controls on lumber for the weather-proofing of homes with storm-windows and storm doors and wood weatherstripping. Most of the nation's homes are built of wood and these cannot be allowed to go without needed repair. No limit is placed on repair of homes or productive farm buildings.

Great corporations like Westinghouse turn from structural steel to engineered timber for their war factories. The Army turns to wood training planes and wood cargo trucks -wood is needed for ships, gliders, cantonments, war industry housing; for docks, railroad ties and bridges, defense highways and mines; for livestock housing and grain storage; for boxes and crates to carry our weapons overseas.

There is plenty of wood to be harvested from the forests; the lumber industry is all-out in the fight; the outcome rests on the broad shoulders of the lumberiacks.

No New Preference Orders for Private \Var Housing

San Francisco, Oct. D.Instructions have been received by the regional WPB office to issue no new preference orders covering privately financed war housing projects (P-55) nor orders covering remodeling of housing in defense areas (P-110) pending further allocation of criiical material for these purposes.

Preliminary allocations of materials for the fourth quarter for war housing were made by WpB earlier this month. Preference orders issued so far during the quarter have ex_ hausted the supply which WPB feels should be assigned to privately financed new projects and remodeling proj_ ects, according to Washington advi.ces.

The action was taken at the direction of the Office of Program Determination of WpB so that the materials 'lbank accounts" for construction of the types designated would not be overdrawn. This is the same plan being followed in the allocation of materials for othei purpo..J

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In this war success willdependon howwell the 6cnnan- behind the man behind the gun" performs. It's up to us to keep the men fightirg for us supplied with eaerything they need.

If we do it won't take too long to do the job at hand.

*vlrHo's wHo"

Archie Price

ing the trip alone, his father and mother having preceded him there by one year. He has made his home in Pasadena ever since.

He married Miss Emma Howard, a native of Illinois, in Pasadena, on November 8, 1899, and last week they celebrated their 43rd wedding anniversary. They have three daughters and one son.

His hobbies are football and baseball. He is a veteran of the Spanish-American war, and a past exalted ruler of the Elks Club.

Archie's father, Edmund Price, is 89 years of age and enjoying good health. He was formerly a lumberman, and was manager of the L. W. Blinn Lumber Company's yard at Pasadena for many years. He later engaged in.the oil business at Coalinga, and about 20 years ago retired from active business. He is very proud of the fact that he is a great-great-grandfather.

Archie is a great-grandfather himself, and has seven grandchildren. His son, Raymond, became a grandfather, when his son, Donald, became the father of a son, Donald Dennis, two months ago.

Boolc on Foregts Ready Jor Free Distribution to Schoolg

Five generctions ol the Price lcmily. Lelt to rigbi: Edaund Price, Archie Price, Bcymond Price, Doncld Price, cad Doncld Dennig Price.

Archie Price, well. known and popular Southern California lumberman. has been connected with the lumber business f.or 47 years and is still going strong.

He went to work for the L. W. Blinn Lumber Company ,of Los Angeles on December 9, 1895, in their wholesale department and for several years was manager of wholesale sales. Then he went on the road for them covering .all the counties south from Santa Barbara, and including Yuma, Ariz. When L. W. Blinn Lumber Company consolidated with Patten & Davies Lumber Company in 1931, he went with the new organization, Patten-Blinn Lumber 'Company, calling on the trade in the same teritory. He :spent 25 years as a lumber salesman. About two years ago, he quit the road and called on their branch yards as a representative of the general office. Since war was de'clared he has been devoting his time to the war projects ,on which the company is furnishing materials.

Archie was born in Brenham, Texas, and lived there until he was 13 years old, when he came to Pasadena, mak-

America's Forests, first of two books for school use being published by the American Forest Products Industries Public Relations Department, is off the press.

Keyed to the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades, the book gives general information about the contributions of the forests to American history, social and economic life; the location and extent of the forests, the general nature of forest products, and the basic facts of modern forest management. It is handsomely printed and beautifully illustrated.

The book is intendeci to be used in direct class room study at the time in the school year when natural resources are under discussion. Teachers will be supplied enough copies for all members of their classes, to be colIected after study and re-used the following year.

America's Forests will be supplied in quantity free to all teachers and schools requesting it, to members of the forest industries, or to other interested inquirers.

A sequel, Trees ,for Tomorrow, which tells how the forest industries are replacing America's greatest, renewable, natural resource, is now in course of preparation.

Business Firms Urged to Set Up Transportation Committees

San Francisco, Nov. 4--Business firms employing 100 or more persons today were advised by OPA to set rrp their own transportation committees to assist in handling the gasoline-ratioriing problems of their fellow workers.

The announcement was made by Harry F. Camp, regior,ral OPA administrator, who predicted the procedure will prove "of great service to the local Rationing Boards and at the same time permit employees to file application for 'B' and 'C' books with the transportation committee in their own plant."

Mr. Camp said:

"With these management-labor committees created, an employee will not have to apply to his rationing board for supplemental gas privileges.

"He will apply direct to his own transportation committee which, better than anyons slse, should be familiar with his occupational needs.

"After passing on an employee's application, the transportation committee will 'forward the application to the employee's own rationing board with recommendation. The board may grant the full amount recommended, or less. An employee will, of course, have the right to appeal to his rationing board if his transportation committee refuses to grant his request."

Camp said the mileage-rationing regulations provide that these committees be composed of management and labor representatives within the firm, or any group from within their ranks agreed upon jointly by management and labor. Committees can be composed of any number of representatives agreed upon.

The committees will not handle applications for "A" books, for which every automobile owner is eligible.

WantedYour ldeas !

As the Treasury Department's special six weeks' War Bond Payroll Savings Campaign progresses from November 15th to New Year's Day, the War Savings Staff is anxious to secure as many ideas as possible on how different companies are planning to put across their individual drives tor l0/o of payroll.

These ideas in turn will be passed on to other companies to aid them in reaching the mutual objective before New Year's Day.

The continued success of the War Savings Campaign depends on the Payroll Savings Plan, which has proved the most effective means of insuring the systematic purchase of War Bonds by millions of workers. Consequently, the War Savings Staff is trying to complete the job of signing up every wage earner lor l0/o through the Payroll Savings Plan not later than the first day of 1943.

Help the national campaign, first by putting over the drive in your own company, and then by telling the War Savings Staff how you did it. Send this vital information to Payroll Savings Division, War Savings Staff, Treasury Department, T@ l2th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C.

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POWER FROM OUR F'RIENDS

In times of great anxiety we can draw power from our friends. We should at such times, however, avoid friends who sympathize too deepln who give us pity, rather than strength. Like so many unwise parents, such friends-well rneaning though they br-give lessons in fear rather than in courage. It is said that Napoleon, before each of his great battles, used to invite his marshals to file past his tent, where he grasped their hands in silence. Certain friends, like Napoleon, can give us a sense of triumphing power.-D. Lupton.

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HEREDITY

A soldier of the Cromwell stamp, With sword and psalm-book by his side, At home alike in church or camp, Austere he lived, and smileless died.

But she, a creature soft and fineFrom Spain, some say, some say from France; Within her veins leaped blood like win* She led her Roundhead lord a dance.

In Grantham Church they lie asleep; Just where, the verger may not know; Strange that two hundred years should keep, The old ancestral fires aglow.

In me these two have met again; To each my nature owes a part; To one, the cool and reasoning brain; To one, the quick, unreasoning heart.

-Thomas Bailey Aldrich. !frf*

A SPORTINGMAN

Oliver Wendell Holmes said: To brag little, to lose well, To crow gently if in luck, To pay up, to own up, To shut up if beaten, Are the virtues of a sportingman. *:F*

BREAKING IT GENTLY

There was a knock at the door, and Mrs. Murphy opened it to find Hennessy standing tfiere.

"The widow Murphy?" he asked.

"Mrs. Murphy,t'she corrected. ttltm not a widow."

"\i[/ant to bet?" asked Hennessy.

LIVING

A handful of memories, A cupful of sorrow, A flagon of happiness, Faith in tomorrow. A measure of taking, A measure of giving, A curious jumble, This business of living.

-Don Blanding. rf**

BOTH WERE TOUGH

"I'm a man of few wordsr" said the tough boss to the new employe. "When I crook my finger, that means come arunning."

"So am f," said the new man. ..So, when I thumb my nose, that means I ain't coming." tS**

DETERMINATION

When you speak of selling, remember the boy who applied for a certain job. The employer lqoked him over, and asked: "Weren't you here asking for this job a week ago?', "Yes, sir," said the boy. "And didn't I tell you you were too young for the job?' "Yes, sir,', said the boy. .,Then why are you back again?" asked the man. ,.Mister, I'm older no\f,i," the boy said. He got the job. *!ffrr

DO MORE

Do more than exist; live.

Do more than touch; feel.

Do more than look; observe.

Do more than read; absorb.

Do more than listen; grasp.

Do more than listen; understand.

Do more than think; ponder.

Do rnore than talk; say something. ***

KIPLING OBLIGED HER

When Rudyard Kipling was at the height of his fame, he received a letter from some not-too-intertigent woman, who condescendingly wanted the great author's name for her autograph collection. She wrote: .Just write me a single word, and your signature, Mr. Kipling, for my auto_ gfaph boolr. I understand you get paid a pound a word for your writings, so f enclose a pound",, And right away she got a reply from Kipling, with one word: ..Thanks.,'

Sash and Door Wholegalers Golf NLMA, AFPI, TECO Annual Meetinss

Tournament Nov. 18

The wholesale $ash and door industries of Southern California will hold a golf tournament at the Cheviot Hills Golf Course (formerly California Country Club), 3100 Club Drive, Los Angeles, Wednesday afternoon, November 18, 1942. All members of the industry are invited to attend. Lunch will be served at the Club House at 12 o'clock noon, and the golfers will start teeing off at 1:00 p. m.

A big turnout is expected. The announcement sent out says: "Your last chance to play golf with the gang before gas rationing."

The prizes include the Hollywood Door, Cal-Dor, and Bohnhofi Lumber Company trophies, and other awards will be made to the winners of the various special events. Dinner will be served in the Club House at 6:30 p. m. and will be followed by the presentation of prizes and cards. If you donrt play golf, come out for the evening festivities. The arrangements committee includes Ed Bauer, Orrin Wright, Frank Gehring and Earl Galbraith' Reservations can be made by calling Earl Galbraith, 148 N. Wilton Place, Los Angeles-Telephone Gladstone 6641.

BUYS LUMBER YARD

The San Joaquin Lumber Company of Stockton has purchased the Manteca Lumber & Supply Company at Manteca ' from Tom R. Fuller and Joe Christensen, who operated the yard for the past seven and one-half years. Ted Creswell, with the new owners in Stockton for the past fourteen years, will manage the yard. Messrs. Fuller and Christensen expect to enter defense work.

TO DISCUSS PROPOSED STATE FORESTS

Professor Emanuel Fritz, associate professor of forestry, University of California, will address the annual meeting of the California State Chamber of Commerce, to be held in Los Angeles December 2 and 3, on the subject of a proposed system of State Forests. The system would be acquired through purchase of cutover lands in need of rehabilitation.

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Annual meetings of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, American Forest Products Industries, fnc., and the Timber Engineering Company are scheduled at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, November 17 to 19.

The principal meetings of general industry interest will be November 17 and 18. The business meetings on November 19 will be of interest to stockholders, directors, committee members, and subscribers.

Preliminary meetings to be held immediately prior to the annual meetings include the Advisory Committee, comprising the executive officers of the affiliated associations, the NLMA Forest Conservation Committee and invited representatives of other forest industties, and the NLMA Committee on Nominations and Recommendations which will meet on November 16.

The Manufacturers Committee on Lumber Standards will meet November 16 and 17 to determine final recommendations for the revision of American Lumber Standards to conform with the various applicable decrees.

A conference, open to representatives of all interested lumber and timber companies, will be conducted in the afternoon of November 17 by the Committee on Recommendations to consider the timber provisions under the Federal income tax and excess profits tax.

In the morning of the 17th there will be a similar open meeting to consider the position of lumber and timber products during and after the war. A meeting of the Lumber and Timber Products War Committee is scheduled for the 18th to which representatives of interested lumber and timber products companies are also invited.

CHARLES BARROT IN ARMY

Charles Barrot, Pine Lumber Company, Oakdale, has taken into partnership E. E. Fluhart, who had been associated with him for sometime. Mr. Fluhart is in charge of the yard, while Mrs. Barrot is in charge of the office. Mr. Barrot is now in the army.

HEADS COMMUNITY CHEST DRIVE

R. E. Haddock, Palms Lumber Company, has accepted the chairmanship of the Palms Community Chest drive.

The lumber mqnufqcturers, too, bcrve lrrlonned well in this struggle for victory. Their tcsks have beeu huge under crdverse conditions. They merit the "E" penncrnt of recogmition for work well done. Anywcy, Gentlemen" our compliments.

Miffions of Feet of Lumber Can Be Salvaged From Abandon ed Buildings

A lumber dealer in the Middle West ran out of 2x4,s and boards early last spring right at the time when he needed them most. He still had a good many bins filled with different kinds of lumber but, in order to make maximum use of his broken stock, he had to have some staple items which he couldn't get. Even if he had been fortunate enough to be able to use priority ratings high enough to obtain shipments, they would have been of little use since he needed the lumber at once for portable farm buildings which he was constructing in his yard-brooder houses, poultry houses, grain storage bins and other lumber-built farm accessories designed.to help farmers save labor, reduce waste and increase production. Also for repairs and maintenance of other structures in town and on the farm.

On the way home that evening he found the lumberthick, dry 2x4s, 2x6s and 2x8s and some fine wide boards that were exactly what he needed. For several years he had been driving past an abandoned building that was an eyesore to the community. During the evening he bought it for a song by agreeing to tear it down. Within a few days the usable lumber was in his yard where it was trimmed up, neatly piled and quickly sold. Even the nails were salvaged and the unusable material sold for fuel.

In the meantime, the lumber dealer made a thorough canvass of his entire trade area in searcir of other old buildings and was delighted to find a surprisingly large number of structures ideally suited for his purpose. He had grown so used to seeing them that he didn,t realize thev were

Port Orford Cedar

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These cbandoned, or dcmcged buildiugs, yielded sub:tcniiql qucntities oI dimension etock cnd bocrds which encbled Iumber declers to sell mcny other items lrom their broLen inventories.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

there until he began looking for them-an old grandstand, warehouse, lumber shed, part of an ex-livery barn. Side streets, back alleys, railroad yards yielded truck load after truck load of usable material that served the purpose a.s well as new lumber.

In the country he {ound several sets of old farm buildings; also innumerable sheds and outbuildings that had long since been replaced with modern structures. Farmers were glad to sell or exchange them for other items sold by the dealer.

His "wrecking crew" consisted of an elderly handy man and three or four husky high school boys. His yard man headed another crew at times. Smaller buildings were dragged to the yard intact. Larger sheds were loaded onto the truck in sections. Some structures had to be demolished on the job. He made no pretense of going into the "house wrecking business" on a big scale but simply picked up those frame buildings which could be knocked to pieces easily and which yielded the largest amount of framing and boards.

At the lumber yard nails were removed and the lumber trimmed up and sorted into piles. Straight nails went into one keg, crooked nails into another and everything sold readily. The dealer is still picking up an old building here and there and estimates that, by the close of the year, he will have salvaged approximately six carloads of dimen' sion and boards which, in turn, have enabled him to sell a large amount of other lumber which he would otherwise not have been able to move.

In this connection it is interesting to observe that if onehalf the dealers in the .United States did equally well the salvage would total 60,000 carloads or approximately 2,000,000,000 feet of dimension stock and boards-items now in greatest demand and practically unobtainable by lumber dealers for civilian use.

In no other nation in the world would so much valuable material be allowed to go to waste in peace-time to say nothing of a situation like the piesent emergency when its utilization can be made to play such an important part in the war effort.

ERNIE PIEPER IN WAR WORK

Ernie Pieper, former State amateur golf champion, who was associated with the Cheim Lumber Co., San Jose, for some years, is now with the Joshua Hendy Iron Works, Sunnyvale, Calif.

TIMES DO GHANGE

Pictured cbove cre six 77'trusses, with TECO Timber Connectors ct cll ioints, labricated ct cr central fcbriccting plcnt cnd hauled by truck to the iob sitethree miles distcntrecdy for erection.

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Maximum Price Regufation No. 251

Washington, D. C., Oct. 31.-A new regulation providing specialized price control for the vast American construction industry was issued today by Price Administrator Leon Henderson.

The regulation covers all construction and maintenance services and sales in which contractors, builders, installers and erectors furnish building or iridustrial equipment or materials, together with the labor or services required for actual construction, installation or service.

The pricing provisions of the new regulation are designed to accomplish three things: (1) to maintain the March, 1942, price level (with some exceptions) ; (2) to afford a workable means for determining a maximum price at this level; and (3) to maintain a constant observation over prices of construction not already under the control of other government agencies in order to disclose any activity where existing controls are not adequately preventing inflationary pricing. Since May, the industry in most instances has been strbject to the General Maximum Price Regulation.

Ceilings established by the new regulation are the equivalent of those generally in effect during March, 1942, adjusted for increases in labor costs between March 3I, 1942, and July l, 1942, the date on which the construction industry stabilization agreement between certain government agencieg and the Building Trades Department of the American Federation became effective.

The field covered by the regulation is so broad that it extends from the simple repair of a leak in a roof to the construction of a great project like Boulder Dam. Included are such jobs as the stringing of new telephone or power lines, and the construction of streets and sewers. Ceilings also are established on everyday ordinary household repair and service jobs by plumbers, paperhangers, carpenters and electricians.

The regulation covers construction and repair work when done by the "job," but it does not apply to the wages of persons performing these jobs. Thus, a reroofing contract that named a price for the entire job is covered by this regulation, but if the householder bought the roofing material and employed a roofer to lay it, the pair would not be subject to the regulation.

Representatives of the interested unions, as well as contractors and representatives of the national contractors' associations, along with Government representatives, partici-

pated in the conferences which led to the formulation of the regulation.

The new controls are contained in Maximum Price Regulation No. 25l-Construction and Maintenance Services and Sales of Building and Industrial Equipment and Materials on an Installed or Erected Basis-and becomes efiective November 5,1942.

fn order to adjust the pricing mechanism to the nature and practices of the industry and to simplify its administration, maximum pricing formulas have been established for three different types of sales: (1) sales of all type5 not in excess of $50O; (2) sales in excess of $500 on a cost-plus basis; and (3) sales in excess of $500 on lump-sum basis.

A short formula has been outlined for the sales below $s00.

This is: To the price which would have been charged for the sale in March, 1942, the seller may add .the increases in labor costs on the job up until July l, 1942. The result is his maximum price.

For contracts of more than $500 on a basis of cost-plus a percentage of cost, or cost-plus a fixed fee, or any other basis in addition to cost, maximum prices are to be computed as follows:

1. Materials and supplies at actual cost.

2. Labor at actual cost, but in amount not to exceed labor costs at rates in the area of installation in effect on July 1,1942.

3. Other direct actual costs, including cost of sub-contracts.

4. Margin for overhead and profit at March (1942) rates, based on a comparable sale, or under certain circumstances, the seller's general experience and that of the industry. In contracts of more than $500 on a lump-sum basis, maximum prices are to be computed as follows:

1. Estimated cost of materials and supplies.

2. Estimated labor costs on the basis of rates in the area of installation in effect on July l,1942.

3. Estimated other direct costs, including sub-contracts.

4. Estimated reserve for contingencies.

5. Estimated margin for overhead and profit at March (1942) rates, listing the method by which this is computed. Every contract entered into, excepting those of $500 or less, after the effective date of the new regulation must be reported to the Office of Price Administration. The agency

has designed a system for filing these reports, permitting contractors, where possible, to use copies of their estimating sheets and other ordinary cost formulas. They must be filed within ten days after the award of the contract.

Not less than ten days preceding final settlement, under a lump-sum contract, the contractor is required to file a further report with the Office of Price Administration, setting forth the actual costs of the various items indicated in the original estimates on file.

It is the responsibility of the contractor, in all instances, to have a copy of the new regulation available for examination by his purchasers.

The new regulation excepts from its provisions contracts with the War and Navy Departments under certain circumstances. Contractors engaged in work for the War or Navy Department, or subcontractors on their jobs, are excluded on the condition that the department involved certify that the contract or subcontract has been negotiated, or will be renegotiated, in accordance with a plan previously filed by the agency with the Office of Price Administration.

This was done because the Office of Price Administration investigation prior to issuance of the order showed that War and Navy alpeady were exercising some degree of control over the prices they paid for the performance of construction work. Contractors on such work also will have to file certificates saying they have not purchased any materials at higher than maximum legal prices.

With these exceptions, the new order is designed to regulate all kinds of sales and services common to the construction industry-repairs, improvements, remodeling, and new construction work for residential, commercial, industrial, sanitation, communications, transportation, flood control, power development, reclamation, and other similar projects or services.

Other high points of the order are:

Bonuses: Prohibited except upon specific approval of the Office of Price Administration.

Certificates of Compliance: Mandatory in sales of more than $500; may be demanded by purchaser in sales of less than $500.

Enforcement: The criminal penalties, civil enforcement actions, license suspension proceedings and suits for treble damages provided in the Emergency Price Control Act of

L942 are applicable against violators. There is a sharp prohibition against evasion.

Licensing, Registration: Operators licensed as a condition of doing business as of effective date of order may be required to register.

Records: Must be kept available for the Office of Price Administration examination.

Petitions for Adjustment: May be sought by contractor engaged on Government contract, or sub-contract, who believes the regulation threatens to impede production of any essential war commoditv.

BOB BURNS NOW MAJOR rN ARMY

L. G. "Bob" Burns, head of the Burns Lumber Company and Burns Steamship Company, Beverly Hills, is now in the Transportation Corps of the Army, with the rank of Major. He is stationed at Fort Mason, San Francisco.

PAUL PENBERTHY FLIES NORTH

Paul Penberthy of the Penberthy Lumber Company, Los Angeles, left November 11 on a business trip to Portland and Seattle. He is traveling by air and expects to be back at his desk November 19.

CLARK & WILSON CLOSE L. A. OFFICE

Clark & Wilson Lumber Co., manufacturers of Douglas Fir lumber, closed their Los Angeles office at the end of last week.

Chas. P. Henry, well known lumberman, has been manager of this office for the pagt several years.

NOW IN NAVY

L. V. Baskett, Baskett Lumber Company, Whittier, has been commissioned a Lieutenant Commander in the navy, and reported for duty last month. His brother and partner, H. C. Baskett, is in charge of the business.

GETS DEER AND ELK LIMIT

Bill Sampson of the Sampson Company, Pasadena, made sure of at least a part of his winter's meat supply when he got the limit of elk and deer on two recent hunting trips in Utah.

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2Gpenny nails to each strip, and running at least two /sinch bolts through all members, countersinking both bolt ends. Where it is difficult to secure nails and bolts, Los Angeles officials point out that county and city engineers can use wood dowels and waterproof glue.

The hexagonal cover is 371 inches in overall diameter and is 321 inches between opposite faces. Faces are I8fu inches. Two lifting slots, each 3 inches by /a inches are set in eight inches from the opposite corners. Weight of the metal bound cover is approximately 130 pounds; the gluedin dowel cover weighs slightly less. Lumber requirements total 63.3 board feet of No. 1 common Douglas Fir, and county specifications call for pressure treatment with either Wolman salts or creosote. The manhole cover in the illustration is constructed with Wolmanized lumber.

The six sides of the cover are faced with ty'a-inch plywood when pouring the concrete to give ample space for expansion or contraction between the cover and retainer. Circular covers may be used as inside forms by tacking roofing paper to them for tl-inch clearance.

Preservative treatment of the wood by a pressure-impregnation process is specified.

Wear,and splintering of the wood is reduced by laying the laminated strips at a 45-degree angle to the.line of traffic, applying a thin coating of bitumuls or emulsified asphalt, covered with dry sand or pea gravel, to the top surface of the wood cover, keeping the surface of the cover flush with the roadway.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Treated wood manhole covers have been designed as an emergency measure to replace cast iron, the development of which was supervised by Alfred Jones, Los Angeles county surveyor and engineer, and C. F. Arnold, deputy chief.

Faced with the urgent necessity of building many miles of sewer line to assure healthful living conditions for thousands of incoming war industry workers who have settled in the unincorporated areas, county officials designed a pressure-treated wood manhole cover and concrete frame that saves approximately 500 pounds of metal, the amount normally required for a metal unit.

The cover is made w:rth laminated wood strips fashioned in either hexagonal or circular shape. Plans call for nailing the 2-inch by 4-inch by 8-inch laminated strips with four

George Young, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, recently returned from a fishing trip on the Smith River, Del Norte Countv.

Leo Hulett of Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, did some steelhead fishing on the Eel River, Humboldt County, around the first of the month.

R. E. (Bob) Caldwell, Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, made a round trip by plane to Portland to attend the lumber auction and meetings in that city at the end of October.

Alfred Jones, Los Angeles county surveyor and engineer, explains the metal-saving features of pressure-treated wood manhole covers to Miss Beverly Hoyt of Los Angeles.

H0il08 B0l[.**l

* of Lumbermen fur Armed Forees a

Here will be listed, lrom issue to issue, names ol men lrom the lumber in ilustry uho haoe entered, war sentite, in any branch ol the armed. torces, Please send, in the nnnes ol ony lumberman you hnow ol thw we can list here,

Verlon D. McKinney, Willow Glen Lumber Co., San Jose .:....

Theo. R. Lannin, Willow Glen Lumber Co., San Jose .. ... .Army

Stanley E. Lewis, Willow Glen Lumber Co., San Jose ......Navy

L. G. "Bob" Burns, Burns Lumber Co., Beverlv Hills . Armv

R. S. (Dic[) Pershing, U. S. Wood Products Co., San Francisco .. Army Air Corps

Charles Barrot, Pine Lumber Company, Oakdale. ... .Army

L. V. Baskett, Baskett Lumber Company, Whittier.. .Navy

Ed Oden, Ukiah Farmers' Club, Inc., Ukiah, Calif....Army

REMANUFACTURING AIRCRAFT LUMBER

E. J. Stanton & Son of Los Angeles has arranged for the remanufacturing of their Spruce aircraft lumber at the new mill erected by Fox-Woodsum Lumber Company at Glendale. The operation employs about 30 men. This aircraft lumber is shipped to airplane manufacturers throughout the country.

R. MULHOLLAND BACK FROM EAST

R. Mulholland, California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, is back from a 3Gday eastern business trip. He called on hardwood plywood mills in Wisconsin and South Carolina, steel mills in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, and spent some time in New York and Washington, D. C.

MILL FACILITIES INCREASED

American Hardwood Company, Los Angeles, have expanded their mill by the addition of new equipment. This includes a precision moulder and a gang ripsaw, both highspeed machines.

The expansion was necessary to handle the large of defense work.

UP AND DOWN THE STATE

, Clarence Bohnhoff and Sid Simmons, Bohnhoff Lumber Company, Los Angeles, are back from a trip to the Northwest where t'hey called on the sawmills.

Nelson Lumber Company, Fresno, Calif., yard for the duration. has closed its

Andy Ware, retired sick list.

Corona retail lumberman. is on the

Russell Mullin, Burbank Lumber was a recent San Francisco visitor. Company, Burbank,

Judd Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Company, Burbank, has returned from a trip to the Northwest.

Sanderson Cabinet Company, Los Angeles, is out of business for the duration.

W. B. Wickersham, Pope & Talbot, ion, was a visitor at the company's San week.

Inc., Lumber DivisFrancisco office last

San Pablo Lumber Co., Richmond, is liquidating its lumber and milling business.

Milton Taenzer and Julius Smith of American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, returned last week from a Northwest trip. They visited Portland and called on Pine mills in the Klamath Falls area and in Northern California.

Home Builders Lumber Company, Burbank, Calif., discontinued business for the duration. has

Larue Woodson, San Francisco, representative for Wheeler Osgood Sales Co. for California, Nevada and Arizona, was on a business trip to Los Angeles last week.

volume City Supply & Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has discontinued business.

Fir and Redwood Lumber Shingles and Lath

\fPB Will Undertake Survey of Millwork Industry

Washington, D. C., Oct. 30.-A survey of the millwork industry is being undertaken by the War Producvtion Board to determine what proportion of existing capacity is being used for direct war requirements and whether the available plant facilities may be more effectually utilized by concentration of war orders in strategically located areas.

A questionnaire that will be used to obtain the factual data wanted from the industry now is in preparation.

When the time comes to canvass the industry, mill minagements will be asked to supply detailed information regarding their machinery, plant capacitieg, and operations.

Managements already have gained some idea of what the future may hold for them through conferences between their representatives on the Millwork Industry Advisory Committee and the staff of WPB's Lumber and Lumber Products Branch. Two meetings of the committee have been held in Washington and other meetings are scheduled.

Arthur tfpson, chief of the Lumber Branch, warned the advisory committee that the time is coming when there will be only two classes of orders, those for direct war use and those for essential civilian requirements.

Lumber mills have lallen behind in orders from 20 to 120 days, Mr. Upson said, because of a critical manpower shortage. He estimated the over-all deficit of manpower in the industry would amount to about 14 per cent of normal or usual manhours.

In the face of decreasing manpower, the industry has found it increasingly difficult to adjust to requirements much above normal, Mr. Upson explained. Extensive and increasing use of lumber and lumber products as substitutes for metal has complicated the problem. With less manpower, a curtailment of production has taken place though the demand for lumber has grown by leaps and bounds. It all adds up to a shortage of lumber.

Unequal distribution of millwork orders has become a problem of serious proportions, according to studies made in the Lumber and Lumber Products Branch of the War Production Board.

Mathias W. Niewenhous, assistant chief of the branch, under which the Millwork Section functions, laid the findings of these preliminary surveys before the Industry Ad-

visory Committee and explained the meaning of concentration.

In some areas, he said, mills have booked orders that they cannot possibly fill for several months, while other mills have been forced to suspend operations because they have no business.

To avert needless shutdowns, dislocations and hardship to the industry, a program of concentration is in the making. The main features of the plan are essentially those which have been successfully introduced in other war industries. Some mills would produce exclusively for war purposes, and others would take care of essential civilian needs.

The millwork industry thus far during the war has enjoyed uncurtailed production because, among other things, the industry has required relatively small amounts of critical materials and because lumber has been available.

There are several reasons why a different situation now prevails, however.

1. The available raw materials, labor, transportation and fuel, each within limits of total supply, must be utilized only for war and essential civilian production.

2. It is necessary to keep the production of essential civilian millwork items at a level that will not interfere with war production.

3. At the same time, civilian manufacture must not be curtailed to the extent that a breakdown of the national economy would follow.

In these circumstances, Mr. Niewenhous said it is urgently necessary that a program of production be developed in the millwork industry which will utilize to the fullest extent possible the productive capacities of labor, equipment and management.

In Great Britain, he pointed out, the large manufacturers, under a system of concentration, are producing strictly war items, while essential civilian requirements are being handled by the smaller wood-working plants.

Among the factors to be considered in developing a program of concentration are: (1) suitability for military production, (2) availability of raw materials, (3) labor market conditions, (4) power, (5) transportation, and (6) size of firms.

likely to receive military orders. Hence, they would probably not be chosen for civilian production.

Certain plants would be designated as "nucleus" firms to continue in the manufacture of essential civilian products. A few plants would be used as warehouses, and others possibly would be shut down entirely.

It is estimated variously that there are between 3,000 and 6,500 units and companies manufacturing millwork items. These units range from the one-man millwork department in a retail lumber yard to stock millwork factories employing as many as 1,000 persons. Accurate and complete data on their capacity, equipment, power supply, and transportation facilities will be sought by the questionnaire method.

The problems of the smaller producers would be dealt with where necessary through the special channels that have been set up within the government for that purpose. The Smaller War Plants Corporation is the agency charged with that function. The head of the government corporation is also chief of the Smaller War Plants Division of the War Production Board.

Whether the concentration plan is carried out as now conceived will be determined only aftei all the relevant facts are known, the branch officials said.

C. T. Melander is the chief of the Millwork Section within the Lumber Branch.

Members of the Millwork Industry Advisory Committee who were in attendance at the second meeting were:

E. J. Curtis, Clinton, Iowa; Grant Dixon, Spokane, Wash.; S. S. Edwards, Kansas City, Mo.; Harvey B. Goodjohn, Leavenworth, Kan.; J. P. Simpson, Tacoma, Wash.; R. M. Srygley, Birmingham, Ala.; Frank Stevens, Waco, Texas; Edwin W. Tibbets, Boston, Mass.; A. R. Tipton, Muscatine, Iowa; M. B. Wilcox, Binghamton, N. Y.

DISCONTINUING BUSINESS

Willow Glen Lumber Company, San Jose, A. S. McKinney, owner, has closed this well known vard for the duration.

An even 50 per cent of this yard's crew has already gone into the service. Mr. McKinney's son, Verlon D. McKinney is in the Navy; Theo. R. Lannin is a Second Lieutenant in the Army, and Stanley E. Lewis is in the Navy,s mosquito boat school.

Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Means of 483 Aster Street, Laguna Beach, Calif., will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on December 1. They will be at home all day and will be pleased to have any of their friends call.

l. O. (Joe) Means, now retired, was associated with the lumber business for many years. He started with the S. K. Martin Lumber Co. in Chicago in 1890 which at that time had the largest wholesale lumber yard in the world, and which was afterwards sold to the Edward Hines Lumber Co.

He came West in 1900, and located in Seattle where he became sales manager of the Seattle Lumber Company, remaining with this firm until they closed the business in 1908.'

He came to Los Angeles in 1910 and organlzed the Alpine Lumber Co., as selling agents for the Eastern Redwood Co., Albion Lumber Co., Peninsula Lumber Co., and Clark & Wilson Lumber Co. He was appointed manager of the Consolidated Lumber Co. at Wilmington in 1912, and was with this firm for two years. He then formed a connection with the Frank P. Doe Lumber Co. and retained his interest with them until L924, when he started in the wholesale business for himself in Los Angeles.

Before his retirement from business, he was in charge of the Los Angeles office of John E. Marshall, Inc., of Long Beach, lumber handlers, for several years.

Mr. and Mrs. Means resided in Pasadena for thirty years. Several years ago they moved to Laguna Beach, and liked it so well, they decided to make it their pennanent home.

\VITH McNEILL CONSTRUCTION CO.

Walter Motta, manager of The Diamond Match Company's yard at Livermore, Calif., recently resigned his position to become associated with the McNeill Construction Co., Livermore. He was 14 years with The Diamond Match Company, and manager of the Livermore yard for the past eight years.

RECOVERING FROM ACCIDENT

Bates Smith, manager of the Los Angeles office of MacDonald & Harrington, is convalescing from the results of an accidental fall in his home on November 3.

Shevlin Pine Sales Gompany

;ffir;J.|',"i"|;::,1il,"'ffi;illT::u,# J:: will celebrate 50th \(/eddins Anniversa,v

Heavy FHA Refinancing Business Los Angeleg Firm Resumes Production

Count on it ! When a residential property sale is made, almost invariably a loan will be negotiated, Wilson G. Bingham, Southern California District Director, Federal Housing Administration, stated.

"Extra funds over and above the amount of the existing mortgage are often necessary to complete a transaction," he said.

"Essential repair funds may be required, or the seller may demand cash funds for his equity, and the generous FHA plan of 80/o of. FHA value loans often fit perfectly into such financial necessities.

"Approximately sixteen-million dollars ($16,000,000) tepresents the amount of loan applications received in the Southern California District office of the FHA, for this type of loan, during the past ten months. Nearly 3,500 separate cases were selected for appraisal. Appraisals are made by long-tested appraisal methods which operate to the advantage of both the borrower and the seller. Often the mortgage is increased to take care of the demands necessary because of transfer of ownership.

"These loans are usually over long periods, since, if qualified, they may be arranged for terms up to twenty years; the interest rate cannot exceed 4%%, plas I of t%o mortgage insurance premium. Under the FHA plan the mortgage debt is steadily reduced throughout the term by equal monthly payments, including interest, insurance and taxes. The mortgage never matures until the last monthly payment falls due.

"Any existing property which meets FHA standards as to physical soundness and location is eligible for these generous mortgages, and lending institutions and the FHA office are now specializing in this activity," Mr. Bingham concluded.

RUSSELL GHEEN IN ARMY

Russell T. Gheen, for many years manager of the Los Angeles office of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, has been commissioned a Major in the Quartermaster Corps of the U. S. Army. He will leave November 16 to report for duty at Chicago.

He is a veteran of World War I, in which he was a Captain in the 128th Field Artillery.

LUMBER COMPANY EXPANDING

Warming Lumber Co., Duarte, is expanding and has leased the nearby Wilson Building for additional storage of lumber and other building materials. A. P. Warming is the owner.

For Defen3e Housing Projects

Central Cabinet Company, with offices and plant at &11 East 59th Street, Los Angeles, is back in the cabinet business again with large contracts for cabinets for defense housing in Southern California, Nevada and Arizona.

This concern, which claims to be the largest manufacturer of built-in cabinets in Southern California, some months ago practically discontinued the manufacture of cabinets to devote its efforts towards securing Government contracts for the manufacture of wooden.parts for airplanes and other war necessities, but now finds itself again active in the production of its own specialty for use in defense housing.

Central Cabinet Company was started in a small way by E. J. Verhoef 12 years ago in a shop, 40 by CI feet, at 37th Street and Long Beach Avenue, Los Angeles. The present plant has 37,W square feet of floor space, and can produce cabinets for approximately 30 houses a day. At times thev have employed as many as 105 men.

Mr. Verhoef, who has spent all his business life in the woodworking business, and who came to California in 1922, is general manager, and is assisted by his three sons, Howard E., Donald O. and Adrian K. Verhoef, who are associated with him in the company. Donald is assistant manager, Howard has charge of the mill and Adrian has charge of the assembly department. C. J. Forster is office manager.

Some of the large projects for which this firm has furnished cabinets are as follows: Government Subsistence Home, El Monte, Calif.; Lakewood City, Long Beach; Carmelitos Housing Project, Long Beach; California 4102X Project, Long Beach; U. S. Army Hospital, Santa Barbara.

CLOSING FOR DURATION

California Builders Supply, Inc., Seal Beach, closed its vard for the duration of the war. Calif., has

CHRISTIilAS SEALS

TWENTY YEAQS AGO

hom the November |.6tl;ot22r Issue

California retail lumbermen at its convention at the Hotel Whitcomb, San Francisco, on October 28, formed a state-wide association, the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, and elected the following officers: president, C. W. Pinkerton, Whittier; first vice-president, Fred E. Conner, Sacramento; second vice-president, F. Dean Prescott, Fresno; treasurer, Herman Freese, San Francisco.

"Finish Your Home in Hardwood" was the subject of a constructive advertising campaign being conducted by White Brothers, well known San Francisco Bay hardwood distributors. The advertising was designated to reach the trade as well as the consumer.

San Pedro Lumber office building at its Company opened Long Beach yard. a new modern

The Sterling Lumber Company added to its line, the Colombo-Fuller yard at K. Benneche yard at Penngrove.

Additional property Lumber Company yard operations.

two more yards Santa Rosa and

was acquired by the Hammond at San Bernardino to expand their

Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. erected a new warehouse. 50 bv 100

at San Bernardino feet.

Two lmportant Decisions Made by \(/est Coast Lumber Commission

Both "union security" and the right to remain free were upheld in the first decision rendered October 26 in Portland by the recently created West Coast Lumber Commission, which is empowered to decide all labor disputes in the lumber industry of five Northwest states. Immediately affected were 4,500 workers in the Klamath basin pine industry of Oregon.

Going into force in 15 logging and sawmill operations the Commission order provided:

1. Workers need not join a union to be employed.

2. Employers agreed to approve of their employes joining a union but reserved the right to hire non-union members.

3. Workers who are union members must maintain good standing in the union as a condition of employment.

The Commission decision ended a long controversy between the Pine Industrial Relations Committee, Inc., an employer group, and the Klamath basin district council, No. 6, CIO, International Woodworkers of America.

A second decision was rendered in Portland October 27 by the West Coast Lumber Commission establishing a uniform rate of pay in the Douglas Fir industry for the first time in lumber history.

The Commission ordered an end to lower wage rates paid in the Willamette Valley as compared with other Douglas Fir operations.

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WANT TO BUY 4/4 PONDEROSA SHOP

We expect to use in near future a large quantity of 4/4 Ponderosa Shop lumber for defense housing purposes, and wish to contact a source of supply for 100,fi)O feet per month of this lumber. Address or telephone Central Cabinet Co., 841 East 59th Street, Los Angeles. Telephone CEntury 2-90ll.

Obituaries

Fred E. Golding

Fred E. Golding, widely known Southern California lumberman, passed away in a Madera, Calif., hospital on November 9 following an appendectomy. He had taken a few weeks off from business to look over some mining claims in the Sierra. Mrs. Golding was with him when he was stricken. He was 63 years of "g"

Born in Santa Paula, he lived in Los Angeles since infancy. He had been connected with the lumber business for many years, and at the time of his death was associated with the Anglo California Lumber Company of Los Angeles.

Ife was a charter member of the Los Angeles Rotary Club, and. was an active member of Hoo-Hoo being secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon, November 12, in the Church of the Recessional, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna C. Golding; two sons, Clair and Fred E. Golding, Jr. I three brothers, Ray, William and George Golding, and a sister, Mrs. Louise Goodhue.

If. D. Austin

Will D. Austin, well known retail lumberman of Oakdale, Calif., passed away on October 19 from a heart attack while on duty at an observation post south of Oakdale. He was 43 years of age.

Mr. Austin was a native of Indiana. Ife served in the Navy during the first World War, and had been a past commander of the Stanley Collins Post of the American Legion.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Amy Austin, and three children, his parents, a sister and two brothers.

Funeral services were held at Oakdale, Fridav afternoon. October 23.

!(/illiam Dary

Funeral services for William Dary of the W. M. Dary Co., retail lumber company with yards at Lorig Beach and San Bernardino, were held in Long Beach on Thursdal, November 12. The services included a Masonic service by Long Beach Service Lodge.

Mr. Dary, who was 75, is survived by his widow, Mrs.

POSITION WANTED

Wide-awake, all-round man desires position. Now manager of small yard in Southern California. Ex.perienced salesman, estimator, credits, bookkeeper, all-round office man. Will go anywhere. Age 45, excellent health. Address Box C-975, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif.

WANT TO SELL YOUR YARD?

Do you want to liquidate for the duration? See us. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers,801 Petroleum Bldg., Ircs Angeles: Telephone PRospect 8746.

Viola Dary, a daughter, Mrs. Bernice Dary Smith, a son, W. Maurice Dary, and two grandchildren.

Mrs. Lois Marie Lentz

Funeral services for Mrs. Lois Marie Lentz of Encinitas, Calif., who passed away on November 1 following a five weeks' illness, were held at Santa Ana, Wednesday morning, November 4, with Rev. Fred W. Niedringhaus, pastor of the First Congregational Church, officiating. She was 47 years of age.

Mrs. Lentz was the wife of Norbert E. Lentz, who for many years was manager of the Barr Lumber Company at Santa Ana before they moved to Encinitas to establish the Encinitas Lumber Company and where Mrs. Lentz was associated with her husband in the business.

Mrs. Lentz was born in Huron, South Dakota, and had lived in California since she was two years old. While a resident of Santa Ana she was active in the Santa Ana Ebell, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and the Santa Ana Country Club.

Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, and a son, Don, who is in the Navy.

Builders Must Gear Construction to War Program

Washington, Oct 29.-Builders the country over will be required to gear all future housing construction to the war program by meeting standards of design and material consumption which were announced today by the Director General for Operations under the title, "'War Housing Construction Standards."

"It is necessary in the national interest," the announcement reads, "that all future housing construction meet standards of design and material consumption which have been established by the War Production Board in consultation with the National Housing Agency."

The purpose of the directive is to insure that maximum amounts of housing for essential war-time needs will be provided from limited visible supplies of critical materials, particularly metals and soft wood lumber.

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LUMBER

Arcata Rcdwood Co. 42o Msket Stret...,.,....,......,..YUkon 2067

Atkircn-Stutz Contruy, ll2 Marhet Stret ...............GArficH rE09

Dut & Russell, Inc., 214 Fmt Strcct ...GArfield 0292

Dolbcr & Cuon Lmbe Co., lu8 Mschuts Exchuge Bldg.....SUtter 7456

Guelton & Gren Luber Co., 160 ArEy Street ..,...............4Twater 1300

Hall, Jmec I-, 1032 Mills Bldg. ...................SUtter ?520

Hammd Lubr Compuy, {l? liiontgomny Stret ........,.DOugIar 336E

Holnes Eure&a Lmber Cl., lllD5 Finucial Center Bldg.......GArfield r92l

C. D. Johnan Iambc Cwporation, 200 Califomia Stret ... ..,....G^A,rfield 625t

Carl H. Kuhl Lmbcr Co., O, L. Ruaeum, ll2 Mrkct Stret...YUkon l{60

Lmon-Bonnington Compuy, 16 Califomia Stret ............,.,GArficld 6tEl

LUMBER

LUMBER

MacDonald & Hanington, Ltd., l5 callfornia st. ..................GArficld t39il

Paciffc Lumbs Co., Thc lfll Bush Street ................,..GArficH flEl

Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Divieion, 461 Market Stret .........,.,.....DOuglu 2561

Rcd River Lumber Co., 315 Monadnock Bldg. GArfreld 0022

Santa Fc Lumber Co., 16 Calilomia Stret ...,.,......,.,EXbroo& 2074

Schafer Brcs Lumber & Sbinglc Ca., I Dru Stret .....................Suftff lnl

Shevlin Pine Saler Co., llXtO Monadnock Bldg. .........,..Exbroo& ?O1f

Sudden & Christenon, 310 Saroome Stre€t ............,..GArneId 2t10

Wendling-Natha

OAITLANI)

Ewam Box Co. (Pyruid Lumbcr Saler Co.)

Pacific Bldg. ..GL€nNrt Ez93

Gamenton & Grea Lmba Co..

2Sl Livingebn St.,.,..,..,.,..,..KEIIog 4-rE&

Hill & Mortm, Inc.

Dcnnion Stret Wharf....,,.,,,ANdovcr ltl?7

Hogu Lumber Company, 2nd ud Ali@ Stret!............Glenurt 6661

E. K, Wood Lumba Co., Frederick ud King Strets..,...FRuitvale ollz

Wboleale Iambcr Distributorr, Inc., 9th Avenue Piq................TWinoaks 2515

LUMBER

Arcata Redwod Co. (J. J. Rca)

HARDWOODS

S.ASH-DOORS-PLYWOOD United Stater Plywod Corporationn

2?2? Army Stret ATwatd 1993

Whcler Osgod Salec Corporation, 3{x5 r$h Stret.. ....'.....,...,..VAlmcia 2Zl

CREOSOTED LUMEER_ POLES - PILING-TIES

Ameriru lambq & Trcating Co., u6 N* Montgrery Street.........Sutter 1225

Buter, J. H. & Co., lll3 Montgomery Street DOuglac 3ttB Hall, Jamec L, rlB2 Milb Bldg .....................Sutts 754)

Popc & Talbot, Inc., Lubcr Divieion, ,l5l Mukct Street,.....,...........Douglaa 2561 Vandr Laan Piling & Lumbcr Coo 216 Pine Str*t,..., ..,...,.,......Exbrook {905 Wendling-Nathu Co., u0 Markct Strdt...........,........Suttor 5303

Callfomia BulHerg Supply Co., 7q, 5th Av6ue ....Hlgate 6016

Hogu hmbcr Compmy, 2nd and Alie Strctc,,..........Gl*nourt 6861

lf,restem Dor & Saah CoSth & Cypra! Strets,.....TEmplcbr t40|'

HARDW(X)DS

Strable Hardwood Company, FiEt ard Clay Stretr.........TEmplebu 55E4

'White Brctbss, Sdt High Stret....................ANdover 16110

LOS ANGBLBS

5tl0 Wihhirc 81vd................trVEbltcr ?E26

Anglo Califomia Lumbcr Co., 655 Eut Florene Avuc....,.TRornwall lll{,1

Atkinrn-Stutz Compuy,

62E Pctrolm Bldg..........,....PRocpct {341

Bumc Lunb6 ConpuS

9{55 Chuloillc Blvd., (Bwsly Hilb)................BRadchaw 2-33tE

Cm & Co. L. J. (11/. D. Durntns),

43E Chmbcr of Cmmcrcc Bldg. PRorpet tt43

Copcr, 1lI. 8., 606-6lE Richfield Bldg....,..........MUtual 2l3l

Dant & Ruecll, lnc., trz E. 59th Stret....... ,. ..,...ADamr tl01

Dolbs & Caron Lunbcr Co., 90r Fidclity 81dc...,....,...,......VAndike t792

Ed. Foutain lrnbd Co., 62t Petrclcun Bldg....,........,,PRoapct 1341

Hmmond Lumbcr Compuy, Z0l0 S:o. Alucda St...........,,.PRGpect 1333

Holmec Eureka Lmbcr Co., 711-712 Architcte Bldg., .MUtual 9rtl

Hover, A. L.'

5225 Wilrhirc 81vd....................YOrk rr6t

C. D. Johnn llmbcr Corporation,

6116 Petroleu BIdg........ .....PRospect U65

Cul H. Kuhl Luber Co., 704 S. Spring St....,...............VAndike 8033

Lame-Philips Luber Co., Gl3 Petroleu BldC...............PRcpect 8174

MacDonald & Bergstrcm, 714 W. Olympic 81vd............. .PRorped 7f94

MacDonald & Hmingto, Ltd., _Pctrelcm 81dg...................,PRGpect 3127

Pacific lmbr Co., Thc

5225 Wildirc 81vd.........,........,..YOrk llSt

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Penberthy Lumba Co, 2055 Eart sllt St....,..,.............Klnball 5r[

Pope & Talbot, Inc., Luber Division,

7r4 W. Olympic Blvd...,.........PRdFct t23l

Rcd Rivcr Luba Coa

Z)2 E. Slaurcn, .CEntury 290?1

l(Xl! S, Brcadway..................PRocpcct 03U

Reitz Co., E. L., 333 Pctrcleum 81ds........,..., ...PRorpcct 2369

Suta Fe Lumber Co-

3ll Flnucial Center Bldsr.. .......VAndikc 4171

Scbafcr Brog. Ilnbcr & Shinglc Co.,

117 llf. gth Stre€t......,.,.,........TRinity {271

Shcvlln Pine Salcr Co.,

ililo Pctrclcu Bldg...,...........PRosFct 0615

Slmpon Indurtricr, Inc.,

1610 E. \l/arhington Blvd...,. ....PRcpct 6lt3

Suddm & Chrirtmron, 630 Board of Tradc Bldg..........TRinity8t44

Tarcma Lumba Salcr, E3? PetrcIcum Bldg.,,............PRocpect lllB

Wendling-Nathu Co., 5225 Wilchirc 81vd................,....YOrk lfOE

Wcrt Orcgon Lmbq Co., 427 Petrcleum Bldg..............,Rlchnond 02Et

W. W. Wilkinon, 3f6 W. 9Or Strect..........,.......TRinity 46il1

E. K. Wood Lumbcr Co., {710 So. Almeda St...............JEfferm 3lll Weyerhaeuacr Saler Co., gat I[/' M. Gsland Blda.........Mlchigan 6354

CREOSOTED LUMBER_FOIJS-

PILINGTIES

Americu Lumber & Treating Co., l03t 9. 8roadway.................PRospcct {363

Buter, J. H. & Co., Sltl W$t sth Stret...............Mlcbigu 6291

Pope & Talbot, lnc, Lmbcr Diwirim, 714 W. Olym'pic Blvd. PRcpcct 681

HARDWOODS

American Hardwod Co., 1900 E. r5th Stret. .PRo.FGt {235

Stiltdr, E. J. & Son, 2050 East 3Eth Str6t, ..,. .....CEntury 29fl I 'estm Hrdwood Luber Go., 2014 Eart lsth Stret..,...........PRolpcct 6f61

SAITH-Dq)RS-MILLWORK-SCREEN9BLINDIT-PANEI.II AND PLYWO(X)_ IRONING BOARDS

Back Pd Conpuy' 31G31{ Ea.t 32nd Strcct..,,.......ADus {225 Califmia Dor Compuy, Thc 4940 Distrlct Blvd,. ..Klnball Aal Califqnla Pucl & Vcrrcer Co.'

955 S. Almcda Stret,.............TRintty 0G7 Cobb Co., T. M., 56lf Ccntral Avcnuc..,............ADan. llU?

Eubank & Son, Inc., L. H. (Inglcsod) {33 W. Rcdodo BIvd..... .....,...ORegon 8-1660 Koohl, Jno. W. & Son, 652 S. My.n Strs.t. .,. ., ,Altlgclur Et9l Oregon-Wuhlngton Plywod Co., 316 \[I6t Ninth Str6t.....,......TRlntty 46lil

Pacific Wod Productr Corporation, 36O Tyburn Strcct...,.......,,...Albily alol

Pacific Mutual Dor Co., 1600 E. If,/arhington BIvd........,PRospcct 95Zt Reu Compuy, Go. E., 235 S. Almcda Btret..........,..Mlcligu lEll

Red Rivs Lmbet Cq., ?02 S. Slawn.. .CEntury 2907f Samprm Co. (Pagadcm),

?45 So. Raymond Ave.....,...,...,RYa l-6939

Simpm Induatriea, Inc.,

1510 E. WilhingtoD Blvd.........PRospecl 61t:l

Unitcd Statcs Ptywod Corlnration, 1930 Eilt lsth Strect.. ,. .,. .Rlc.hnord 6t0t ,Wdt Cest Scm Co,, ll{5 East 6:trd Str€t...,.........,ADanr lll0E

Westm Mill & Ilfioulding Co., 5911 So. lf,/e*tem Avc., ..TWinoakr 1660

Whcler Oggood Salcr Corpratim' 922 S. Flows Stre?t..,...,..'.....VAndikc 632a

SrJurinv BronU "/ BOYAL OAIT FLOOBS

For twelve years thie beautiful hardwood floor hae been a joy and pride to the owner. .. will continue eo for dozens of yeara to come. Here'e why:

With Royat Oak Flooring the owner got the beeg grade for grade, that money eould buy. With kilndried lu'nher for all framework and eub. floors, he got the cheapeet ae well ae the best Rfloor innurance" he could buy. Coneequentlyr there hae been no shlinLing sr ilf,slling of joiate and subfloor boarde to cup or to spring the jointe in the ffnirhed floore. Now, with but ordinary care, the beauty and senriceability of hie Royal Oak Floore are ineured for the life of the dwelling. It goee without $ying that the dealer on this job profited by the irnrnediate sale haa profited many timea over by the good will won!

You can obtainprenier quality Royal Oak Flooring in all gtaudald gradea and aizeg. It nay be ahipped with Oak Plank Flooring, Beech, Pecan and Pine Flooring (end. matchedlandOakondGumTrimand Mouldinge. Aekournearestsalearepreeentative, or addlest: