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Redwood Direct-Mill Retail Sales

Washington, Nov. 7-Direct-mill retail sales of 10,000 board feet of redwood or less are brought under coverage of the redwood lumber and millwork regulation through an amendment issued today by the Offi,ce of Price Administration.

Effective November 13, 1944, the amendment provides that the mills in such sales may add $2.50 per thousand board feet plus delivery charge to the current f.o.b. mill maximum price. These sales, holvever, are restricted to buyers, such as farmers and ranchers, located within thirty miles of the mill. In most instances, this represents a reduction in price for buyers in the redwood producing area as they will no longer have to purchase from retail yards where the prices are higher.

Formerly, direct-mill retail sales of 5,000 board feet or less were covered by the General Maximum Price Regulation, which limited the mills' prices to their highest March 1942level. The prices thus established for direct-mill retail sales became disproportionately low as the result of an amendment to the regulation issued last May which increased mill prices, but which did not affect the "frozen" prices for direct-mill retail sales.

Today's action allows an addition over the base price to compensate the mills for additional costs involved in directmill retail sales and raises the quantity limit to 1O,00O board feet.

(Amendrnent No. 8 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 253-Redwood Lumber and Millwork-effective November 13, rgA.),

E. K. Wood Lumber Co. Building Plcnt Necr Roseburg, Ore.

The E. K. Wood l,umber Co. is constructing a new resaw and planing mill plant at Green station, four miles south of Roseburg, Oregon. It is expected to be in operation about January I,1945.

The plant is being built for the purpose of remanufacturing rough lumber from small mills, and will have a capacity of about 125,000 feet per day.

Helmer-K<ryser

Miss Ellen C. Kayser and H. G. Helmer were married at Las Vegas, Nevada, Saturday, October 2i.

Mrs. Helmer is secretary to her ,father, Art Kayser of Los Angeles, California manager for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Mr. Helmer is a TechnicaliSergeant in the Marine Air Corps and recently returned from the South Pacific where he was stationed the past eighteen months.

Recovering from Auto Iniury

J. W. Wrightson, Wrightson Lumber Corp., North Hollywood, whose arm was broken in an automobile accident while on a deer hunting trip in Nevada, is making good progress and is now back at his desk.

He was with a group of members of the North Hollywood Optimist Club, ten were in the party, and they were returning home when their truck overturned. A11 received injuries brlt they are now coming along nicely. They were fortunate in that two doctors were in the pari.y.