UP AND DOWN THE STATE INSECT SCREEN CLOTH

Frank Brown, salesman Division, San Francisco. Camp Rucker, Alabama.

for Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber returned recently from a trip to

George C. Cornitius, of George C. Cornitius Hardwood Co., San Francisco, has returned from a trip to Washington, D. C., and points in Virginia. He has recently been awarded several large contracts by the Bureau of Ships for White Oak timbers.

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, left November 11 for a trip on Association business to Chicago, New York and Washington.

Mr. Smith was recently elected a director of the American Trade Association Executives. This organization has its headquarters in Washington, D. C,

J. E. "Eddie" Peggs, San Francisco November ?3 f.rom a business trip to wholesaler, returned Oregon. representative of Los Angeles No-

Eric Hexberg, formerly sales manager, Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and now a Cadet in the Army Air Corps, was recently in Los Angeles on leave, He is taking advanced training at Chico, Calif.

Arlo D. Squires, Southern California a number of Pine sawmills, returned to vember 20 from a tour of the mills.

Ralph Zinn, Baskett Lumber Company, Whittier, was a recent Northern California visitor.'

Charlie Christensen, California Lumber Company, Montebello, is with the Navy "Seabees" in the East.

Fred Smales, manag'er of the San United States Plywood Corporation, Northwest on business.

H. B. Cooper of Cooper was a recent San Francisco nual Stanford-California big

Francisco branch of recentlv visited the

Lumber Company, Portland, visitor. He attended the angame November 21.

R. W. (Jack) Dalton, of R. W. Dalton & Co., Los Angeles, returned November 27 from a business trip to Sin Francisco and the Pacific Northwest.

W. J. "Nick" Nicholson, California Plywood, Inc., Oakland, returned recently from a three weeks, business trip to the Pacific Northwest, where he called on a number of plywood mills.

Ronald Harnew, formerly with Brush Industrial Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is now in the U. S. Coast Guard Service.

Distribution Yards Appointed by the ,Office of the Chief' of Engineers

Below will be found a list of the distribution and remanufacturing yards appointed in Calilornia by the Officc of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army.

The Office of the Chief of Engineers has been charged with the procurement of lumber for all divisions of the War Department, all bureaus of the Navy I)epartment, the Maritime Commission, the War Shipping Administration, Defense Plants Corporation; Panama Canal and lendlease.

This includes all of the firms under their jurisdiction that make purchases of. lumber for any purpose whatsoever, and applies to all species of lumber, rough or finished, including plywood-

The work of procurement of lumber by the Office of the Chief of Engineers is administered from Washington, D. C., by the Materials Unit of the Construction Division, of which Walter T. Deadrick is the chief. James F. Mahoney is his assistant, rvith offices in Portland, in direct charge of lumber.

Contracts u'ith lumber mills, auctions and allocations to mills for the various projects are handled through the West Coast Lumber Office, Portland, rvhich is in charge of R. L. Hennessy.

Allocations for the California distribution and remanufacturing iards are handled through the South Pacific Lumber Office, 405 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, which is in charge of Roy Paulus. The California yards are:

Northern California

Christenson Lumber Co., San Francisco; Loop Lumber Co., San Francisco and Alameda; Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; Lumber Distributors, Inc., Stockton; E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland; Henry Hess Co., San Rafael, Calif.

Southern California

American Products, Inc, San Diego; Benson Lumber Co., San Diego; Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington and Los Angeles; W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles and San Diego: Pope & Talbot, fnc., Lurnber Division, Los Angeles, yard in Wilmington, Calif.; San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles; E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles; Western Lumber Co., San Diego; E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

Percy I. Merithew, well known Los Angeles lumberman, has been appointed as representative of five Los Angeles yards, Hammond Lumber Co-, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Pedro Lumber Co., Consolidated Lumber Co., and Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., and is stationed in the South Pacific Lumber Office of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, San Francisco. This office has control of all Douglas Fir lumber moving out of distribution yards. All orders of over 25,000 feet must have a clearance permit from the South Pacific Lumber Office. It is Mr. Merithew's duty to determine where stock is available in the distribution yards which he represents and to make allocations to the different yards for what they may deliver.

Other Los Angeles and San Diego yards will be represented by a liaison man appointed by the yard operators for assignment to duty in the South Pacific Lumber Office.