Petcr A. Stone Addresges

Meeting \(/. B. tefrerson Retires From at Loc Angeles Retail Lumber Buginess

Peter A. Stone, lumber division, Office of Price Administration, Washington, D. C., addressed a large gathering of Southern California lumbermen on lumber ceiling prices at a dinner meeting held at the Hotel Clark, Monday evening, November 16. At the conclusion of his talk, he answered a number of questions asked by the retail dealers. Lumbermen werc present from all sections of Southern California, and nearly two hundred were in attendance.

Park Arnold, Fox-Woodsum Lumber Company, Glendale, vice-president of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association, presided. Paul Hallingby, Hammond. Lumber Company, Los Angeles, introduced Mr. Stone. George Lounsberry, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles, and Secretary Orrie Hamilton arranged for the meeting.

Sidney H. Wall, legal depatment, OPA, Los Angeles, Frank B. Bird, legal department, lumber section, OpA, Washington, D. C., and J. N. Westsmith, OPA head of the general commodities section, including lumber, Los Angeles, were present.

A delegation from the San Joaquin Valley came down for the meeting which included Ray Clotfelter, W. R. Spald- ing Lumber Company, Visalia, president of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California; Elmore King, King Lumber Company, Bakersfield; Walter E. peterson, Bakersfield Sandstone Brick Co., Bakersfield, and Bernard B. Barber, secretary of the Northern California Lumber Merchants Association, Fresno.

w. B. Jefferson, widely known retail lumberman, owner of The Greater City Lumber Co., closed his office and yard at 3L23 Mission Street, San Francisco, on October 14, exactly 36 years to the day after going to work for the firm on October 14, 1906, soon after the San Francisco fire.

War conditions and their effect on the lumber industry in San Francisco have caused his retirement from the retail lumber business.

His son, Marlin A. Jefferson, who has been associated with him since leaving school, is now with the West Oregon Lumber Co., San Francisco.

Mr. Jefferson has joined forces with E. L. Lomax, who has for some time been successful in the production and distribution of Dr. Hamilton's Special Formula Dog FoodThe firm will be known as Lomax & Jefierson, with offices at 127 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, and factory in San Mateo County.

Visited Redwood Mills

L. A. Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco, and A. W. Donovan of Los Angeles, the company's Southern California representative, have returned from a trip to the Redwood region. They visited the mills of The Sage Land & Improvement Co., Willits; Salmon Creek Redwood Co., Beatrice, and a number of other operations in Humboldt and Mendocino counties.

WPB Officials to Explain Controlled New P rc(erenca Rating Applications, PD-105 Materials Plan

San Francisco, November 21.-West Coast manufacturers and other users of critical war materials will hear details of the War Production Board's new Controlled Materials Plan in a series of meetings of vital interest to Pacific Coast industry, it was announced today by the Regional WPB.

The four Western public meetings, to be held in key Pacific Coast cities starting December 1, will be part clf the nationwide program to focus attention on the WPB's 1943 program for controlling the flow of strategic war materials into war plants.

The first CMP meeting will be at San Francisco, on December 1, at the Auditorium of the High School of Commerce, Van Ness Avenue and Hayes Street.

Other coastwise meetings, open to business and production executives, are as follows:

Los Angeles-December 4-Auditorium of Polytechnic High School, Washington and Hope Streets.

PortlandDecember 8Public Service Auditorium, Public Service Building.

Seattle-December 1l-Eagle Auditorium, Tth and Union Streets.

All meetings will start at 9:30 a.m. and adjourn at 12:30 p.m. There will be an afternoon session at 2 p.m. to answer written questions.

The Controlled Materials Plan, or CMP, is the most important development in the priorities system to date. The plan was announced by Ferdinand Eberstadt, program vice-chairman of WPB, on November 2, to become effective for the second quarter of. 1943' Specialists in priorities and other war production activities will present a comprehensive review of the technical phases of CMP at the Western sessions for war production executives.

The CMP is designed to adjust production programs to conform to material supply and will gradually replace the priorities system, including the Production Requirements Plan, insofar as steel, copper and aluminum are concerned.

Every manufacturer or processor who uses these basic materials will come under CMP, which requires that ceitain information be in the hands of the War Production Board by January l, 1943, to provide for allotments in their production requirements.

Resumption of processing and the acceptance of new preference rating applications, PD-105, by the Federal Housing Administration offices is now in efiect for Defense Areas in which Private War Housing Quotas have not been suspended, it was announced by Wilson G. Bingharn, Southern California District Director, FHA.

"The resumption of this activity is in accordance with new instructions formulated by the National Housing Agency and the War Production Board," Mr. Bingham said.

"PD-105 applications cover new residential construction for war-worker occupancy, and any such applications in possession of the NHA or WPB, for which no P-55 Orders have been issued, are to be returned to the FHA offices for review and disposition in accordance with the new instructions," he said.

"Where review of such applications discloses non-conformance with the new War Housing Construction Standards, efiective October 28, 1942, the FHA will return said applications to the applicants for conformity revisions and re-submittal to the FHA, provided the respective properties are located in Defense Areas in which Private War Housing Quotas have not been suspended," Mr. Bingham continued.

"In addition to checking for conformity with War Housing Construction Standards, those applications will be given precedence which involve the most economical use of critical lumber and critical metals' materials, and which will impose the lightest burdens upon public transportation systems as well as upon war workers in getting back and forth between their residences and places of employment," Mr. Bingham said.

"Preference ratings, in lirnited amounts, are now available for applications on properties located in the Los Angeles Defense Area, south of the line of Firestone-Manchester Boulevards; San Bernardino; San Diego; and other Defense Areas.

"The Private War Housing Quotas have been suspended by the National Housing Agency in the Camp Roberts, Corona, Lompoc, Oceanside-Fallbrook, San Luis Obispo, Taft, Trona, Twenty-Nine Palms, and Victorville Defense Areas.

Typewriter Appeal Made bv \(/PB Ctrief $135,368,000 for Repairs

San Francisco, Nov. 12.-Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, has issued the following statement, the regional WPB disclosed today.

"Twelve days ago the major typewriter companies, at the order of the WPB stopped making typewriters, and I find it necessary to make a statement about the typewriter shortage in our armed services, my second since last July.

"There are 2,400,000 standard size typewriters built since January 1, 1935, in the hands of business firms, schools, colleges, and individuals. The Army and Navy and war agencies need 600,OOO of them-which makes it necessary for us to mobilize one out of every four for war service. The Army has already cut its original requirements by @ per cent. The Navy has ordered half the typewriters aboard warships taken off and turned over to naval units and shore stations which do not have even their minimum quota. On August 31 the President issued an executive order directing, that government machines be transferred to agencies where they are more urgently needed.

"The typewriter companies have cooperatively enlisted their sales organizations to help us buy the machines. Hundreds of independent dealers throughout the nation have been appointed official buying agents for the Treasury Department. War Production Board field offices are calling on business firms in their respective territories to release for sale 25 per cent of their standard office size machines made since January l, 1935. The need for these typewriters is urgent. They won't win the war, but not having them could delay victory."

Washington, Nov. 2l.A total of 370,080 American property-owners employed the facilities of the FHA's Title I loan insurance program during the first 10 months of" 1942 to finance essential repairs and remodeling to house war workers, Federal Housing Commissioner Abner H. Ferguson announced today. These loans, which were made by private lending institutions, aggregated $135,368,683.

Under wartime conditions, Mr. Ferguson said, the FHA Title I program is concentrated on projects assisting the war effort or helping to maintain existing home properties in sound condition. Luxury repairs or improvements merely to beautify or enlarge a home without providing additional living units are not approved.

Controlled Materials Plan

To equip field offices of WPB for handling questions about CMP, 7O priorities specialists have been trained in Washington and these are training others. By November 23, "it is hoped to begin a series of small group meetings with manufacturers' representatives throughout the country." In addition, mass meetings will be conducted in 24 key cities, to be announced.

Appointed Yard Manager

Karnes has been appointed manager of the United Yards, Inc., branch yard at Oakdale, succeeding Austin, who recently passed away. Mr. Karnes operated the Twain Harte Lumber Co. at Twain