The California Lumber Merchant - December 1945

LU M BER M ERCHANT

Ohserue the door!

makes it the center of attraction in any building, yet portant to architectural design tle

door has been for hundreds of years. Always of prime coneideration to the architect and designer, it took modern ingenuity and craftsmanship to develop a door adaptable to modern design... the Roddiscraft Flush Hardwood Door.

The beauty of a Roddiscraft Flush Hardwood Door

its simple grace allows it to blend harmoniouely with modern styling and interior decoration. And its time. less durability, gained through solid core construction, makes the Roddiscraft door an unequaled value in modern homeo industrial or commercial building. Available now in a variety of beautiful hardwood finishes through your local lumber dealer.

ere's what you can do to help put over the Victory Loanour last "all out" effort! To help brin$ our battle'weary.men home and give the finest medical care to our wounded heroes t To show every one in your community that your store is bach' ing uP the Victory Loan!

A Yorrt community measures your support of the Vic' tory Loan by your Bond advertisements ! In all your ad' vertising, include the Victory Loan "drop'ins" supplied by your newspapers. IJse the Victory Loan Insignia and your own Tiade Group Emblem in every adttertisement!

B For top Victory Bond sales on Armistice Day, the Thanksgivin$ season, and Pearl Flarbor Day, use mats of special Bond advertisements, which you can $et from your newspaPers !

C Advertise, display, and put your best selling effort be' hind the new Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial $200 Bondl

Make every working day a Victory Bond Day! And be sure employees buy their quota, too, throu$h the Payroll Savin$s Plan ! If you do not have the Campaign Book, $ot in touch with your local Retail war Finance chairman or the head of your own Tlade Group. The Victory Loan is our final big drive-make it YOUR BBST!

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The Coliforniq Lumber Merchnnt

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Mcncaing Editor

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Early End of Lumber Sttke Predicted

Portland, Ore., November 25.-End of the crippling Northwest lumber strike appeared near tonight in a compromise settlement by the Tacoma A. F. L. locals and lumber operators.

In announcing the Northwest strike policy committee's acceptance of the 15 cent hourly compromise, Chairman John Christenson said that all locals in the fir belt were urged to accept the proposal.

Christenson said, "It sets a pattern which may be followed in other negotiations throughout the pine and fir industry."

Klamath Falls, Ore., November 22.-An agreement for a l2t/2 cent hourly wage increase for C. l. O.-I. W. A. lumber workers has been ratified by both the union members and companies involved in a seven-week strike last summer and now goes into effect retroactively to November 1, it was announced by the Pine Industrial Relations Committee office here.

The main issue in the strike w'as the union shop. Later the wage question was threshed out and a l2t/2 cent compromise rvas reached. Work was resumed without granting a union shop and this issue rvas not mentioned in the later settiement.

Susanville, Calif., November 19.-A 121/2 cents an hour pav increase and an equivalent boost for piece work has been granted to members of the A. F. L. Lumber, Sawmill and Millworkers Union by fourteen Northern California pine mills after negotiations extending eight months. The agreement was signed SaturdaY.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended November 17, 153 mills reporting, gave orders as 38,934,491 feet, shipments 33,352,970 feet, and production 4O,382,5D feet. The figures for the previous week were: ord,ers 37,679,897 feet, shipments 36,221,869 feet, and production 40,128,000 feet.

The Western vernber lC, 106 feet, shipments feet. The week feet, shipments feet.

Pine Association for the week mills reporting, gave orders as 34,320,000 feet, and production before the figures wer€: orders 37,7WffJ/J- feet, and Production

ended No36,990,000 38,772,W 34,120,W 38,174,M

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended November 17,93 units (133 mills) reporting, gave orders as 14,540,000 feet, shipments 15,888,000 feet, and production 17,417,W) feet.

Need for Better Public Relations Stressed by R. M. Bodkin

Because of the tremendous interest that the public has in housing, the lumber dealer today has an opportunity to build his business into one of the leading enterprises of his community. This thought was expressed by R. M. Bocl_ kin, general manager of Ponderosa pine Woodwork. Chi_ cago, during a recent interview.

"The eft'ort the dealer now makes in providing the prop-. er public relations will greatly determine his future ac_ tivity," Mr. Bodkin explained. ..Many dealers are giving considerable thought and effort to creating and maintain_ ing a favorable impression. They are attracting goocl will by placing advertising and news releases in lolai papers, giving suggestions and advice on home planning. Some dealers are going a step further-they are seeing that all prospects are provided with home planning books that are made available to them by various publications and manufacturers.

"One snch booklet made available to dealers for dis_ tribution is 'Today's Idea House.' produced in four colors by Ponderosa Pine Woodwork, this booklet is pro_ vided with an imprint space for the dealer,s signature. Its 32 pages, containing practical suggestions that can be used either in remodeling or new construction, offer the dealer a booklet that will be kept for reference by the home planner.

"'Today's Idea House' features the uses of stock doors and windows and illustrates how, through their proper ar_ rangement, they can add comfort and beauty to even the most modestly-priced homes. It provides a powerful sales stimulus for stock items, and since it does not fea_ ture any particular manufacturer, it creates much good will."

Amendment 5 to MPR 568--Hardwood Plywood

Washington, D. C., November 2O.-Hardwood plywood manufacturers no longer will be permitted to make additions to maximum prices for lumber cores edge-glued from strips less than 3/2 inches wide, except for what is known as "stave" construction, the Office of price ,Administration announced today.

The action becomes efiective November 24, Ig4S.

Since last December, plywood manufacturers have been permitted to make additions to their lumber core, panel prices ol $22.50 per 1,00O surface feet in the South (Zone 1) and $29 per 1,00O surface feet in the Ohio Valley and the North (Zones 2 and, 3) when edge-glued strip less than 3l inches wide construction was specifically requested by the buyer.

The permission to make additions, however, resulted in sales of the material at prices including the addition in instances in which the buyer did not normally request nor actually require this particular core construction. It was then discovered that, contrary to claims made by the indus_ try, manufacturers generally had been in the practice of supplying this construction without extra charge.

Hardwood plywood is defined in the regulation as any assembly of veneer, fiber board, paper or other pulp board, and any other material in which at least one ply is of any hardwood species of veneer.

(Amendment No. 5 to Maximum price Regulation No. 568-Hardwood Plywood effective November 24, lg4l).

Monqrch Lumber Co. Moves yard

The distribution yard of Monarch Lumber Company, Oakland, has been moved to the foot of 5th Avenue, *h"r" a site of five and a half acres has been acquired. Robert M. Grant is manager of the yard.

Appointed District Sales Manager

George R. Kendrick, sales rnanager of PoPe and Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, at San Francisco, announces the appointment of Jim, H' Berry as new District Sales Manager in charge of sales in Northern California.

Mr. Berry first joined Pope' and Talbot, Inc., in 1938, and became a familiar figure to lumber dealers in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valley districts as u'ell as around the BaY area. He received five years' experience in matters Pertaining to the distribution of the Douglas Fir lumber handled by PoPe and Talbot, Inc., before he left the company in FebruarY, 1943,

to serve his country as a Captain in the United States Marines. He is returning to the company now following his recent release.

Mr. Kendrick stated that Mr. Berry's appointment was in line.with the company's policy to place experienced personnel in positions where they can best use their knowledge to serve dealers in working out plans for meeting postwar problems in lumber marketing'

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 to Hold Christmas Party Dec. 21

The annual Christmas party of Hoo-Hoo Club No' 39 will be held at Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, on Friday evening, December 21.

Tom Hogan III will be chairman of the Christmas party'

D. H. LeBreton will be in charge of the entertainment' and Norm Cords will be in charge of tickets and attendance. An excellent dinner and a .fine entertainment program will be provided, and a large attendance is .expected' ih"r. will be a Christmas tree with members bringing presents costing not more than 25 cents'

Amendment 1 to Third Revised MPR 13-'

Douglar Fir Plywood

Administration

Douglas fir and tribution plants

Washington, D. C., November 20'-The Office of Price today authorized, retailers who purchase other minor species of plywood from disto increase their maximum prices 712 pet

cent.

The action becomes effective November 24, 1945'

Previously, the markups 'for retailers purchasing from 'distributing plants were the same as for those purchasing on direct-mill shiPments.

Today's action is designed, OPA said, to eliminate undue hardship for retailers who do not buy any direct-mill shipments.

The new ceilings average about the same as prices received by these retailers in March, t942'

OPA also announced that regional administrators are authorized to increase the dollar-and-cent ceilings of retailers who buy from a plywood distribution plant by the amount of the actual freight that is in excess of 45 cents per 100 pounds.

Previously, retail sellers had to absorb all freight charges outside the jobbers' free delivety zone' Reason for the change in this pricing method, OPA said, is to relieve an unintentional squeeze on retailers situated in areas remote from distribution Plants.

Regional administrators are also authorized to establish dollai=-and-cent ceilings on a square foot basis for plywood in sales of less than 1000 square feet and to adjust these prices to the nearest r/a of- a cent per square foot of plywood.

During the war, OPA said, the amount of plywood handled by retailers for resale was very small in volume' However, plywood has now been released for civilian use and is beginning to flow through normal distrbiution' (Amendment No. 1 to Third Revised Maximum Price Regulation l3-Douglas Fir Plywood-effective November 24,1945.)

Ed Sitze in Manilq

Pfc. Ed Sitze is in the infantry replacement depot in Manila. He rvas with A. C. Pascoe, hardlvood mill representative, Los Angeles, for nine years before going into the service.

Iin H. Berrl', veleran, cPPoinled Pope 4 Talbot't new District Sales M<rncEcr tor Northern Caliloraic.

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Lumber Trade Barometer Passes

2,000th Edition Marlc

Publication of the 2,000th edition of the National Lumber Trade Barometer has been announced by Henry Bahr, director, Economics & Statistical Services, National Lumber Manufacturers Association. From a one-page, weekly summary of production, shipments, and orders supplied by three reporting associations in 1916, the Barometer has developed into a four-page analysis of weekly statistical reports submitted by l1 regional associations. It is regularly carried by the wire services and published in the leading newspape:s across the country.

The first Barometer contained figures reported by the Southern Pine, West Coast Lumbermen's, and Western Pine associations. No percentages were given and no comparisons made. By 1919 eight associations were reporting, and two pages of cumulative totals for the year to date had been added. tn tgZS figures of unsold stock were included and in 1926, unfrlled orders.

The present monthly Barometer, supplemented by the weekly issue, also shows gross stocks, carloadings, ..lum.ber movement index, and graphic presentation of production, shipments, orders, and stock figures.

New Scles Mcncger

L. V. Carroll, who was formerly sales manager of the Feather River Lumber Co., Delleker, Calif., has been appointed sales manager of Scott Lumber Co., Burney, Calif.

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CUSTOM MIITING

Resowing, ripping, surfocingi ond trimming crt our re-mqnufqcturing plcnt of Long Beoch, Colif.

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Our kilns crrd opercriors cre certified by Government for drying aircrcrft lumber. We qlso do other commercicl drying.

Civilian Production Administration Takes Over Former \(/PB Functions

The War Prodrhction Board, which guided American industry through the war years and started it back on the road to peace-time production, wound up its affairs November 3. The task of guiding the nation's industrial changeover to fuil civilian production falls upon WPB's successor' the Civilian Production Administration.

J. A. Krug, WPB chairman since August, 1944, is leaving government service to go into private industry and the new agency is headed by J. D. Small, formerly WPB chief of Staff under Mr. Krug.

The Civilian Production Administration inherits from WPB 52 orders and three main priorities regulations' This compares with about 650 controls which were in effect at one time under the war agency.

Mr. Small outlined the CPA's functions as follows:

"The Civilian Production Administration will take over and carry forward those remaining WPB functions and controls u'hich are required for the orderly transition of American industry to peacetime production. Briefly, the agency will use its powers to expand the production of materials and items still in short supply; to limit the use of scarce materials and to restrict the accumulation of inventories so as to avoid speculation and hoarding. It will grant priority assistance to break bottlenecks, facilitate th9 fulfilmenr of relief and other essential export programs and allocate materials necessary in the production of low price items.

"WPB was primarily concerned rvith war production. The CPA, as its name indicates, is essentially concerned with civilian production. We hope to do as good a job as our predecessor."

The limited number of orders remaining in effect are necessary because of continued scarcities of certain materials anrl products.

Roughlv, the controls still in eftect are concerned with the distribution of scarce materials and products, their use in production and the amounts of these materials and products any one concern can hold in inventory. The over-all plan is to assure, as far as possible, that these materials receive equitable distribution. The use of WPB forms for reporting will be continued.

A list of the orders and regulations still on the books includes: Order L-28 (asphalt and tarred roofing products and asphalt shingles)-It limits manufacture to grades and types of asphalt and tarred roofiing products and as' phalt shingles to size and types specified. Designed to save materials, manpower and transportation. There are no other building material orders on the books.

Also, all priority regulations are retained, Nos. 1 to inclusive, except Nos. 2, 4,9, 10, 11, 18, 19, n, 21, 24, 26,27, D, and 30.

Bqck With Schumacher

William O. Moylan, formerly with Schumacher Wall Board Corporation, has been released from the Navy and is now back on the road for this organization.

tONG.BEtt SERYICE

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Longview, Vashington

Weed, California

Domis, California

Eugene, Oregon

Joplin, Missouri

Quitman, Mississippi

De Ridder, Louisiana

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Sheridan, Arkansas

From the forests of the far West and the Southerrr states, in order to senre lum- ber dealers everywhere, Long-Bell-in its manufacturing ahd treating plarrtr-p"o- duces a complete line of lumber and lumber products, iicluding TREATED PRODUCTS . . . Vood preserving plants treat woods with creosote and standard salt preservatives.

FACTORY PR'ODUCTS... Long-Bell Douglas Fir and'Ponderosa Pine factories produce g_uality Frames, rndustriJcut Stock] sash and Doors, Glazed sash, and Box Shook.

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Douglas Fir Ponderosa Pine

West Coast Hemlock White Fir

Southern Pine Southetn Flardwoods

long-3sll representotives ore availoble to serye you in the following cities s

Amarillo, Texas

Billings, Montana

Buffalo 21, New York

Cambridge 38, Mass.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Chicago 4, Illinois

Columbus 15, Ohio

Concord, North Carolina

Dallas 1, Texas

Denver 2, Colorado

Des Moines 11, Iowa

Detroit 19, Michigan

El Paso, Texas

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Grand Rapids 2, Michigan

Floboken, New Jersey

Ffouston 1, Texas

fndianapolis 5, fndiana

Los Angele.s 15, California

Memphib 3, Tennessee

Minneapolis 4, Minnesota

New Orleans 2, Louisiana

Oklahoma City 1, Oklahoma

Omaha 2, Nebraska

Paducah, Kehtucky

Rockford, Illinois

Roswell, New Mexico

Sacramento 14, California

St. Louis l, Missouri

Salt Lake City tt, Utah

San Antonio 5, Texas

San Francibco 9, California

Sioux City 4, Iowa

Syracuse lO, New York

Toledo, Ohio

Tulsa 1, Oklahoma

Vashington 5, D. C.

V7ichita l, Kansas

They stood in the door of a cottage' In the dawn's first amber glow, And the sailor boY sighedAnd the little girl criedThey loved each other so. His ship was to sail in an hour, They'd heard the bugle blow, And the sailor boY sighedAnd the little girl criedOne more kiss-and then he must go. The sailor boy pressed the girl to his breast, Their young hearts with love were aflame' And the sailor boY sighedAnd the little girl cried-

"Before you go-TELL ME YOUR NAME!" {. {. * (Author unknown)'

The little poem above made a great hit with me. I heard the veteran movie director, Fred Niblo' recite it one night to a room full of hospitalized vtar veterans, and it brought down the house.

Charles Coburn, great character actor, was on the same program. He made a hit with this story: "When I was but a lad, my father said to me-'Charles' never go to a burlesque show; you would see things you shouldn't" Naturally that aroused my curiosity, so at my first opportunity, I went to a burlesque show. And I saw something I shouldn't. I SAW FATHER!"

The vets liked that one a lot.

I have attended many entertainments for wounded and hospitalized veterans during the past year, and I noticed one thing with deep interest; the great love of these men for the better class of music. They laugh long and loud at comedians' jokes; they join in lustily and sing popular songs and "boogie-woogie"; but when some magnificient offering of fine music comes on the program their interest and applause knows no bounds. Iturbi at the piano transforms them into wild enthusiasts. And when some great violinist turns loose with "Ave Maria," they can hardly stand it. I was impressed by this fact. They say it was the same way with overseas entertainment. Standard music got the biggest cheers.

Speaking of music people love, one of the great American creators of such music died just the other day-Jerome Kern. If music is good for the soul, then the sixty year life of this man has been the means of spreading goodness over untold millions of souls. Already, "Old Man River"

is an American classic, to be sung as long as time and music shall endure. While he wrote many other beautiful songs, this one should make his name immortal, for'it betongs in much the same category as the wonderful songs of Stephen Foster-"Old Kentucky flss1s"-"$wanee River," and "Old Black Joe." A wise man once said, " I care not who makes the nations' laws, if they will let me rir'rite its songs." For beautiful melodies that touch the human heart are direct pathways to immortality.

A wise man was asked the other day to state where, in his ofinion, lay the best and brightest opportunities for the returned service men to take up a life's work' And he replied without a moment's hesitation-"Scientific Agriculture." Personnaly I am convinced of the wisdom of that opinion. Science has moved into the field of farming in a fashion that has amazingly improved and modernized the production of things from the soil; and the surface has not even been scratched. With the marvelous and completely practical aid that our agricultural colleges and state departments are furnishing the modern tiller of the soil, energetic and intelligent young men will from now on make many bushels of corn, and many bales of cotton grow where one grew before. The total a modern farmer can produce is no longer limited to his acreage-it is limited only to his scientific application of practical new methods' Research is doing wonders. A mighty future awaits the strong hand of the farmer.

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It has been recognized by the thinking men of all ages that agriculture is the basic industry on which civilization is built. A famous economist once remarked that the civilization of the United States is founded on 9 inches of top soil, and when that is gone, civilization will go with it' Daniel Webster said: "The farmers are the founders of civilization." Emerson wrote: "All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land." Thomas Jefferson said: "Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God"' Chatfield wrote : "Agriculture is the noblest of all alchemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health'" Lord Chatham said: "Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land." Dr. Samuel Johnson said: "If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science." And so it goes through all generations and centuries. If we can induce a sufficient number of our re-

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Large Panels of Douglas Fir Plyuood offer Many Possibilities \ fo, Attractiae Wall Designs

There are three grades of Douglas fir plywood panels made especially for various Phass ol wall con3truction. PLYWALL is nade esgeciallv for standard wallboard use; PLYPANEL i3 a 'oremium oanel used for quality Interiol woit; ptYscono is a utility panel mads fot wall and loof sheathinS.

Simph Suggestions For An Attractiae Vall Devgn Vitb Plyutood

No.5ofaS*ies

Large, light, durable, kick-prpf panels of Douglas fir plywood offer scores of possibilities for attractive and unusual wall designs. The bedroom illustrated above shows one architect's application of the suggested treatment detailed at the right. A two-panel treatment is used, with panels placed in horizontal arrangement.

IN PIANNING, WORK FROM THE OPENINGS:

In planning a plywood wall treatment, start at th€ oPenings with vertical joints and divide the plain wall spaces in an orderly pattern for the most pleasing effect. Vertical joints should be used at each side of the top of door:s and at top and bottom of windows, as in Figures A, C and G. lf the width of the wall is l0 feet or less, however, panels may be run horizontally with openings cut out, as in Figures B and E.

DOUGLAS FIR

SUGGESTIONS FOR SPECIAL PATTERNS:

Where special patterns or patterns made up of small panels are desired, the recommended method is to sheath with 5/16" or 3/8" Plyscord placed horizontally, then apply the f inish panels (Plypanel or Plywall) as designed. For additional technical data, see Sweet's File for Architects or write the Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

There are three grades of Douglas f ir plywood panels made especially for various phases of wall construction. PLYWALL is made especially for standard wallboard use; PLYPANEL is a premium panel used for quality interior work where both sides are to be exposed as ln built-ins; PLYSCORD is a utility panel made for subflooring or sheathing walls and roofs, or for interior walls which are to be covered with sanded plywood, acoustical materials, tile or linoleum.

CAN PLYWOOD BE SPECIFIED NOW FOR POSTWAR, USES?

The increased capacity of the industry vill make MORE Douglas fir plywood available for civilian consrnPtion THAN EVER BEFORE, as soon as the needs of the almed s€rvices ' lessen ot wal testrictions are lifted. There will be no reconYersion delays; the same tyDes and grades of Douglas fir plywood that aiC now being nade can flow inn€diately into peace-timb building and conslruction.

Follew\thes€ SinPle Suesestioni,Tr:LT"i:E"lyill Desisns with 1.18..

(Continued from Page 8) turned soldiers to go back to the land and t4ke up scientific agriculture as a lifetime profession, we will be well on our way to solve some of our pressing immediate problems.

Proverbs says: "Ife that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth vain persons shall be void of understanding."

I'm getting a wee bit discouraged, I must admit. The day I've been waiting and hoping for through the long years of war and the dull years of depression that preceded them seems just as far off as it ever did. My instinctive notion that the end of the war would usher in that day, has already been proven wrong. What day? Why, friends, the day when the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of government go back into the places and positions they occupied in our national life from Washington to lloover; the day when the law of supply and demand comes back to its old position in our economic, financial, and industrial life, because all the substitute laws we have tried are pure fakes; the day when the federal government retires completely from business, and when all of the bureaus go back to where the woodbine twineth and are seen no more; the day when the MERIT SYSTEM returns, applying to all those who work, whether that work be with head, or hands, or both; the day when equal rights under the law come back to all our citizens alike, just as it used to be; the day when we will create genuine prosperity by producing in the greatest possible volume the good things of life, making them at the lowest possible cost and selling them at the lowest possible price; the day when the time honored fundamentals of thrift, economy, honesty, debt paying, saving, and hard work come back again to our national consciousness; the day when life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the normal American manner we used to know and prize, become once more our national ambition. I might mention a few more details, but those are the fundamentals.

And the greatest of these is the MERIT SYSTEM. By that I mean the system on which everything that America means, was built. Everything ! What this country needs today more than any other one thing in this world is a return of the precious American philosophy which says that genius, thrift, industry, sweat, frugality, ambition, integri-

ty, productiveness, and excess THINKING and DOING will be proportionately rewarded. For THAT is the merit system. That is the system that built this country, made it great, strong, rich, and the envy of the rest of the world. That system practically disappeared in the years that preceded the war; and it will not return now unleSs its supporters are willing to strive for it.

"The heights that great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward through the night."

It was the merit system the poet was talking about in the above stanza. Take the history of every great man in this nation's history and when you read his biography, you will find something like this: "He worked harder and longer, thought straighter and better than the rank and file of his fellows, and so he rose above them, and prospered." That's the way we build great men. That's the way we build leaders o,f all kinds. No man and no nation ever became great the easy way. We sirnply put a premium on ability, on efficiency, on productiveness, and American ambition did the rest.

These sort of sticcesses are gone for the present. Ben Franklin's homely maxims, the ones America followed and lived by for more than a hundred years, would get a worker into trouble these days. Overwork and over production and over ability are frowned upon. The man who became great by toiling while his companions slept would find himself in all sorts of trouble in these times. The fact that that is how all the progr6ss of the world was made, makes no difference. There must be no incentive to work harder, better, longer. No merit system. Many a man gets his ribs kicked in for working so hard, he shows up his fellows' :f :f x

So we are not building any Edisons now, nor any Henry Fords, or Andrew Carnegies, or Franklins, or Lincolns. Sad, isn't it, that we seem to be living in a c,limate that is unhealthy for the things that created all our power and greatness? We've all got to work and pray for those good old days with their good old fundamentals, to come back; the old faiths, the old proven things on which the might of this Republic was founded. Until they return, there will be

no great upward surge of any sort in this nation. Why, with the prevalent thinking of today it is difficult to understand how we can even develop foremen not to mention leaders. The philosophy of less work for more pay and all men share alike regardless of the difference in their ability, can take us as a nation and as individuals in but one direction. And that direction is NOT up.

America cries aloud today for leadership; men without selfish ambition, or craving for personal power; men willing and able to serve with knowledge, with courage, and with conviction. and with no interest in the next election.

As usual, Winston Churchill takes the top prize for perfectly chosen descriptive words and phrases. The whole world laughed the other day when he described Britain's new Prime Minister Attlee as: "a sheep in sheep's clothing." No other one thousand words could have done the job more thoroughly.

And the top prize for the most impressive and successful speech made in this country this year by a civilian, goes to-whom do you think? You know, if you've been reading about the Labor-Management Conference. It was John L. Lewis. You may not like him, but you'[ have to admit he's smart. For years the C.I.O., the P.A.C. and the New Deal have joined their strong efforts in favor of a planned economy, with the government running everything, prices, wages, profits, etc. That philosophy was strongly

backed at the Conference. Then big John L. rose, and the industry members, their loins girded to fight a death fight for free enterprise in American business, could scarcely believe their ears when he TU r.

"The resolution seeks to perpetuate Government control of prices, profits, and the fixation of wages . I am opposed to labor's being required to bargain collectively within these limits. I want free enterprise and free collective bargaining. Free enterprise and free competition have acted in the past and will act in th'e future as a brake on profits and will bring lowered cost to the consumer. We must not inhibit industry from making profits. Labor, investors, and the public generally are entitled to share in the fruits of American technical genius. Price controls should come off as soon as possible. Price and profit limitations should be removed. What Mr. Murray and the C.I.O. are asking for is a corporate state wherein the activities of the people are regulated and constrained by a dictatorial government. We are opposed to the corporate state. Whenever we get production started the competitive situation will take care of prices. Ford's entire policy in the last 30 years has been to raise wages and lower prices. General Motors has tried to do the same. That will come again if we give industry the chance. The stock market is advancing all along. Values are increasing and there is no chance for pessimism. To quote the immortal James A. Garfield-'America is sound, God reigns, and the flag flies over the Capitol at Washington.' "

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Amendm ent 2 to RMPR 5 39--Custom Milling And Kiln Drying of Western Softwoods

Washington, D. C., November 15.-A limitation on the number of lines of ripping or resawing, or both, of Western softwood lumber for which custom mills may charge established dollar-and-cent ceilings was announced by the Office of Price Administration today.

Today's action, effective November 20, 1945,limits sales by custom mills of these services on Western softvn'ood lumber for which established dollar-and-cent ceilings may be charged to not more than three lines of 6/4 inch or thinner stock or a combination of 8/4 inch and 6/4 inch or thinner stock, and not more than two lines of ripping and resawing in thicker stock.

Today's action provides, however, exemption to the limitation when government agencies request milling services on lumber held in inventory on the effective date of this amendment and for purchasers requesting precision resawing to a thickness of f{ inches or less. In these cases, custom rnills nay apply to OPA for permission to charge for more lines.

These exceptions, OPA said, will give legitimate purchasers the benefit of extra milling services and will enable government agencies having stocks of heavy timber on hand to replenish their supply of boards and dimensions by remanufacturing timbers rvithout making new purchases.

OPA pointed out, however, custom mills may charge back excess lines to producing mills if mutually satisfactory, but costs for this work cannot be passed on to the customer.

In order that ceilings may be more commensurate with the cost incurred in servicing Western softwood lumber, today's action also provides that ripping and resawing must be charged for on the basis of the size of the stock that is actually ripped or resawn, instead of on the basis of the original size and footage, as formerly.

For example, under today's action, if 1,000 board feet of 6 by 6 timbers are resawn to a 2 inch tfiickness, the charge for the second cut will not be based on the resawing of 1,000 board feet of 6 by 6 timber, but on the resawing of 667 board feet of 4 by 6 inches timber.

The new method of pricing will result, OPA said, in increased prices in some few cases where the decrease in

footage is more than offset by the increase in the cutting charge allowed. In other cases, the two offset each other. On the whole, however, there will probably be a net decrease in prices on account of today's action, since for most cuttings the reduction due to the drop in footage is not offset by the higher charges allowed for cutting smaller sizes.

This revision will remove the inequity of the former method of pricing which allowed premium prices for additional cuts, and the reduction will also bring prices more closely in line with the intention of OPA when prices were first established.

Today's action also permits an additional charge of $6.50 per car to the open car handling charge if the buyer of Western softwood lumber requests packaging the load for mechanical unloading.

This addition will cover, OPA said, the direct cost of this service, and is similar to that allowed under other regulations.

Packaging is more in demand'than formerly. Unloading is 'facilitated and the handling costs are thus reduced, OPA said.

(Amendment No. 2 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation 539-Custom Milling and Kiln Drying of Western Softwoods-effective November 20, 1945).

New Sources of Lumber

The November 1945 issue of the Reference Book of the Lurnbermen's National Red Book Service is just off the press. It is the 128th issue of the book, which is a semi-annual consolidation of that service's twice-a-week bulletin of changes in the lumber and woodworking industries.

Lumbermen's Credit Association, Inc., Chicago 5, and New York 5, publishers of this service, advise that as compared with the issue of six months ago, there are dozens of newly listed sawmills, some of which are brand new sources of lumber, others are mills which have resumed.

For the past 69 years, practically the entire lumber industry, and many other industries marketing through retail lumber dealers, or selling to furniture and other woodworking factories have used this service as their guide in credit and collection work. They have also found that as an aid in sales promotion and as a guide to sources of lumber and allied products there is nothing as good.

F',re Prevention Exh:bit Now Available

A graphic three-panel forest fire prevention exhibit for L946 has been completed and is now available to state foresters, directors or chairmen of Keep Green committees, or similar organizations, it is announced by the American Forest Products Industries, Inc.

Notably brief in text, and arresting, the display is in three colors, black, red and yellow. The central panel is 30 by 40 inches, bearing the balloon caption, "Fire Destroys Jobs," at the top. Below is the slogan, "Keep America Green," with space allowed for a local slogan or name of an organization. A blazing forest fire is pictured.

'Side panels are 20 inches wide by 30 inches high. The left panel shows a hand reaching into the picture, breaking a match and above the hand the balloon caption, "Break That Match." Pictured is a great area of growing forest, while below the center of the picture is the slogan, "Trees Are a Crop."

On the reader's right, the panel shows a hand reaching into the picture, flipping a cigarette, with the balloon caption above, "Kill Burning Cigarettes." The picturi shows a once heavily timbered area, devastated by a forest fire. Below the center is the slogan, "Protect the Woods."

Pictures on the panels are varied to conform with the sections of the country in which they will be displayed. Sets up to 500 may be secured at $4.25 each, sets of 500 to 1000, $3.45 each, 1000 or more sets, $2.15 each. Orders should be mailed to the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., 1319 Eighteenth Street, N.'W'., Washington 6, D. C.

Amendment 2 to MPR 589--Douglas Fir Stock Millwork

Washington, D. C., November 16.-An increase of 11.4 per cent in manufacturers' ceiling prices for Douglas fir open windows and sash was announced today by the Office of Price Administration.

The increase becomes effective November 20, 1945.

The price adjustment is being made because previous ceiling prices were not high enough to cover factory costs of production of all producers.

Prices to consumers remain unchanged as the price increase will be absorbed by jobbers and retailers.

(Amendment No. 2 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 589-Douglas Fir Stock Millwork-effective November 20, t945).

Cocrst Building Officicrls Elect Officers

James H. Park, Compton city manager, was elected president of the Pacific Coast Building Officials to succeed D. K. Kennedy, Victoria, B. C., at its convention held in Fresno.

Other officers chosen were If. O. Rasmussen. Santa Ana building inspector, and Frank Rogers, Medford, Ore., building superintendent, vice-presidents.

Arthur Hoefer, Spokane, Wash., and A. L. Russell of San Mateo county, were elected new directors. Hal Colling of Los Angeles was reappointed managing secretary and Frank H. Clough, South Pasadena city manager, was reappointed treasurer.

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ThJmas J. Fox was married October 20 to Miss Catherine Clary at Santa Monica. They flew to Mexico City and spent their honeymoon making an air tour of Mexican cities and historical spots.

Mr. Fox, who served 27 months in the United States Marines with the rank of Sergeant, is junior partner in Fisher Lumber Co.. Santa Monica.

Scn Frcncisco Visitor

Martin W. Parelius, Parelius Lumber Co., Portland, was in San Francisco recently on business. He made his headquarters at the office of Paul McCusker, Northern California representative of his firm.

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C. L. A. Monthly Lumber Facts

Seattle, Washington, November 16, 1945.-The u,'eekly average of West Coast lumber production in October (5 weeks) was 52,284,@0 board feet, or 32.2 per cent of l94l-l944 average. Orders averaged 57,673,On b.f. ; shipments 50,690,000. Weekly averages for September were:

Production 101,575,000 b.t. (62.6 per cent of the 194I-1944 average) ; orders 119,470,000; shipments 103,428,000.

Forty-four weeks for 1945, cumulative production 5,23I,849,000 b.l.;44 weeks. 1944, 6,816,211,000; 44 weeks 1943, 6,696,254,W0.

Orders lor 44 weeks of 1945 break down as follows: Rail, 4,183,717 W b.f. ; domestic cargo, 623,947,000; export, 308,057,000; local, 530,767,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 694,063,000 b.f. at the end of September; gross stocks at 369,631,000.

The strike is the predominant influence on the current situation of the West Coast lumber industry. In October it cut production by about 50 per cent. Acceptance of new business was curtailed to the same degree during the month, although buyers persisted in efforts to purchase for both rail and water deliveries. West Coast mills remain reluctant to commit themselves to future deliveries while lacking any way to predict when they may be able to deliver lumber.

Building construction for the season is at its annual low; by spring, when activity normally is resumed, lumber should be freely available.

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club Holds

Christmag Luncheon Dec. 20

The Christmas luncheon and get-together Party of the' San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9, will be held at noon, Thursday, December 20, in the Concert Room of the Palace Flotel, San Francisco.

Reservations for the Christmas party can be made by phoning Dave Davis, SIJtter 6170; Norm Cords, DOuglas 2469, or Lew Godard, GLrfield 7752.

Demurrage Penalty Charges on Box Cars

Effective 7:@ a.m., November 15, 1945, the Interstate Commerce Commission under Service Order 369 has ordered an increase in demurrag. .ha.ges on closed box cars. The order is effective for a period of 30 days, unless otherwise changed by ICC.

The order applies to intrastate as well as interstate traffic, but does not apply on coastwise, intercoastal, export or import traffic.

The new demurrage charges follow:

After expiration of free time demurrage charges on box cars held for loading or unloading shall be: 92.20 per day for first two days; $5.50 for the third day; $11.00 for the fourth day, and $16.50 for fifth and each succeeding day.

On closed cars subject to average agreement, credits earned may be used to offset only $2.2O per day debits.

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Dec. 11 - - Golf and Concat

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club will hold its annual Christmas Party at the Oakmont Country Club, Glendale, Tuesday, I)ecember 11. There will be a golf tournament in the afternoon, and dinner, entertainment, and a concatenation in the evening.

The golfers will tee-off at twelve o'clock, noon. The golf prizes will include the George E. Ream, Roy Stanton and The Califtrrnia Lumber Merchant trophies. Prizes will also be awarded to the winners in the special events.

Dinner rvill be served in the Club House in the evening. Those who d.o not play golf are especially invited to come out for dinner and the evening program. President George Clough will preside.

The concatenation will be put on following the dinner and the ctrramittee is rounding up a nice class of Kittens.

Application blanks for membership and reinstatement can be secured from Secretary-Treasurer Earl Galbraith, 627 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Los Angeles, l5-telephone Rlt:hmond 5012; these will also be available at the meeting.

The committee has arranged for a fine program and a big turnout is expected. Members of the committee are: George Clough, Bill Ream, Earl Galbraith, Roy Stanton, Bob Osgood, Ed l3auer, Huntly Wark, Lloyd Miller, Harvey Koll, Fred .Smales, Max Barnette, Harold Hamilton, "Spud" Jorcian, Orville Stewart, Roy Pitcher, Dee Essley and Ed Martin.

Redwood Assosiation

San Francisco, California, November 9, 1945.-Lieutenant Colonel Byrne C. Manson, recently released from the Armed Services, has joined the staff of the California Redwood Association to actively conduct the postwar research program of its Redwood Seasoning Committee. This committee was set up two years ago by kiln operators at the various Redwood lumber mills to further advance the technique of drying durable and versatile Redwood.

Following graduation at Stanford University in 1935 as a lVlechanical Engineer, Mr. Manson took a post-graduate coui-se in forestry and lumbering at the lJniversity of California. IJpon completion of this post-graduate work, he was first employed by a lumber company to analyze drying problems, design kilns and train operators. Later he became associated'#ith a kiln 'consultant firm of the Pacific Nd;thwest with which he gained wide experience in kiln design and analysis of lumber seasoning problems at a number of large mills.

He was inducted into the armed forces at the end of 194O. He spent three and one-half years in the South Pacific zone, serving as a lieutenant colonel in Ordnance, and was decorated with the Legion of Merit.

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The Time oI Dcry

The tlme of day is a really important matter. You meet a man and a woman-not married to each other-on the street five in the afternoon, and you think nothing of it. But if you met that same man and woman on that same street at five o'clock in the morning ! Oh, well ! Maybe you shouldn't be up that early.

The Use ol The Universe

This earth with its infinitude of life and beauty and mystery, and the universe in the midst of which we are placed, with its overwhelming immensities of suns and nebulae, of light and motion, are as they are, firstly, for the development of life culminating in man; secondly, as a vast schoolhouse for the higher education of the human race in preparation for the enduring spiritual life to which it is destined.

-Alfred R. Wallace. Recrdy

I strove with none; for none was worthy my strife. Nature I loved and, next to nature, art. I warmed both hands before the fire of life: It sinks; and I am ready to depart.

-Walter Savage Landor.

Just Iike Thcrt

A high school girl seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation, asking, "What do you do in life?" He replied, "I study astronomy." "Dear me," said the young miss, "I finished astronomy Iast year."

Buddhcr Scrid

"The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.t'

Henry ward "".*tlJ3"t:lq.#; is the river of Life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you have gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until feets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths-not until then can you know.what love is."

Candid Comrnent

Fellows who drive with one hand are usually headed for the church aisle. Some will walk dow.n, some will be carried.

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Louis Stevenson Said

"O toiling hands of mortals ! O unwearied feet, traveling ye know not whither ! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of Eldorado ! Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is better thing than to arrive. and the true success is to labor."

Competition Mqkes Qucrlity

The tree that never had to fight, for sun and sky and air and light,

That stood out in the open plain, and always got its share of rain,

Never became a forest king, but lived and died a common thing.

The man who never had to toil, to heaven from the common soil,

Who never had to earn his share, of sun and sky and light and air

Never became a manly man, but lived and died as he began. L

Good timber does not grow in ease; the stronger wind, the tougher trees,

The farther sky the greater length; the more the storm the more the strength.

By sun and cold, by rain and snows, in tree or man good timber grows.

Where thickest stands the forest growth, we find the patriarchs of both;

And they hold converse with the stars, whose broken branches show the scars. This is the Common Law of Life.

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Boy: "The one about the multitude that loafs and fishes."

Dcnrin Said

"If I had my life to live over again I would have made it a rule to read some poe'try and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature."

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"Jones always strikes me as an indolent sort of ghap."

"Indolent? Why that fellow is so lazy he always runs his automobile over a bump to knock the ashes off his cigar."

Associations of Forest Products Industries Meet

Seattle, November 24, 1945.-Preparing to move forward on a nation-wide front, associations of the forest products industries are holding a series of meetings this week in Chicago, Lo set up programs for 1946, according to H. V. Simpson, secretary-manag.er of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, who is attending with other leaders of the industry from the Pacific Northwest.

"The outlook {or progress in industrial forestry projects throughout the nation's forest regions, and for the building construction business that will pay for them, is bright with promise," Simpson stated. "The crises of reconversion the country over, the little wars that have followed victory over Germany zrrrd Japan, are bound to be settled in due course by demand of public opinion and the needs of returning veteralrs. There is reason to hope that the normal peacetime rise of spling building will come with fair weather in 1946. and that thc lumber industry will be able to supply it.,'

The gruups meeting in the Midwest, Mr. Simpson said, are the N'ational Lumber Manufacturers Association and American Forest Products Industries, Inc. Both have headquarters in Washington, D. C., with regional manufacturing associations for members.

"There rs plenty of timber to supply the country,s building requirements for lumber, and projects for growing tree crops in the wake of the sawtimber harvests have expanded amazingly throughout the war period,,' the West Coast lumber executive continued. "Further expansion will be plan-

ned at Chicago, with the certified Tree Farm as the medium, and with increased protection measures against the forest fire as a main objective. Encouragement is in the fact that timber is growing all over the United States in far,greater volume than the average man dreams. The industry pro_ poses to demonstrate this fact fully.,'

"The most pressing question from the public, however, is that of lumber supply for home and farm building. Here, too, a big j,rb has to be done in informing the publi,c on the fact that lumber prices remain low in comparison with those of many other necessities of life. Aside from millwork and hardri'ood flooring, the lumber required for the con_ struction of the average wood home generally represents no rnore than12 per cent of the total cost of the home. This is remarkable, when it is considered that the bulk and rveight of lumber in a house are so much greater than that of all matcrials in it combined.',

"The na.tional lumber industry is a vigorous giant of the American enterprise system," Simpson continued. ,.The West Coast lumber industry is its mightiest unit, and so stands in the forefront of the industrial institutions that have made America what it is today and which will produce the future g-reatness of the country. Our industry challerrges comparison with any other on progress. It is producing homes. It is growing trees. And that's what West Co".t lumbermen will be doing 'til the .cows com.e home'!,'

Vote S-Point Program Enabling Dealers to Become Local Building Headquart ers

In the most beautiful setting ever picked for a National Retail Lumber Dealers Association meeting, the most cooperative, effective and progressive program was planned and passed bY tl.re board of directors, November 6-7-8, during hardr,vorking sessions at the Broadmoor Hotel. Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Highlight of the Tuesday, November 6th morning session was a discussion of current problems facing the industry in dealing with the Office of Price Administrasecretary-manager of the Associa-

It was brought out that there were four major problems confronting the industry in its dealings with OPA:

1. The problem of several years' standing of securing revisions of lumber price regulations to correct inequities and'to relieve the retail industry from hardships being suffered by reason of present regulations. Among these problems were those involving remanufacturing charges, green weights on lumber and shingles, plywood markups, a recog.ritio.r of the dealer's function in making direct mill shipments, the question of over-weights, and similar problems, all of which have resulted in an inability on the part of the retail industry to realize the markups allowed them by RMPR-215.

2.Theproblems developing from the release by the Office of Price Administration of its "major program to control the .costs of construction." It was pointed out that thiq program had been generally opposed by the retail lumber indurtty and by many other groups concerned with the distribution of building materials. The industry took the viewpoint that while already operating under twenty-three price control orders which were sufficiently strong to win th. *ur, it was difficult to understand why these existing controls would not be sufficient to establish the peace in the months between now and July 1, when OPA expires'

In the field of lumber distribution, OPA's program' apparently, is to establish community prices on lumber in .iti., of more than 10,000 population-such community prices to be fixecl on a dollars-and-cents basis on the more .o-rrron items going into construction' Community prices would, in effect, give lumber dealers a two-price system in thai they would be working on the common construction items on dollars-and-cents ceiling published by OPA and on rhe other' lumber items they would be pricing on the basis of the markups provided by RMPR-215' k was' however, pointed out that OPA proposed, in the development

of the community pricing on lumber, to instruct their regional administrators that such prices when established should not deviate more than 2% up or down from the price that would be established from utilizing the formulas provided in RMPR-2l5.

It was likewise emphasized that to date the OPA had taken from June 27 until the date of this meeting and had not yet worked out a satisfactory community price ceiling for the pilot area, Chicago, Illinois.

Going beyond OPA proposals to establish community prices on lumber, as well as community prices on other building materials which are being currently developed in many communities, the so-called lumber distribution plans in OPA's major program apparently" embraces a determination by the OPA to apply profit control to the retail industry inasmuch as OPA definitely states that it will make continued analysis of margin data and reappraise the margins from the retail sale of lumber on the basis of expected high volume of sales. To this philosophy, the industry records itself as being unalterably opposed.

It was indicated that as a result of hearings before the Small Business Committee of the Senate, it seemed likely that OPA proposals to Put prices on existing real estate and new houses would not be acceptable to the Congress.

3. The third matter of importance and currently under discussion with the Office of Price Administration is their policy of absorption to be applied at the retail level in the lumber industry. Although lumber manufacturers might neecl increases in mill price ceilings to encourage labor to produce more lurnber, this will not necessarily immediately afiect the supply of lumber and in any event, mill price increases should not be arbitrarily taken from the lumber dealer. It was further pointed out that the retail lumber dealers had, over a period of years operating under price control, been absorbing remanufacturing costs, extra freight .on green lumber and shingles, additional costs involved in the purchase of LCL shipments, and other costs which were not a part of customary or usual industry practice'

The board of directors went on record as being opposed to the principle of cost absorption in view of increasing cosis of operation in retail yards and other costs already being absorbed as has been outlined.

4. And iourth, the discussion brought out that the present application of wholesalers for an 8/o markup on mill ceilings rvhich it is proposed that retail lumber dealers absorb, would be a reversal of past practice where-the wholesalers have always taken their commissions in the form of discounts allowed to them by the lumber mills. Doubt was expressed that the granting of this markup to wholesalers would increase the volume of shipments to retail yards.

The Board of Directors of the NRLDA supported the position of the Retail Advisory Committee to OPA in opposition to the granting of a wholesale markup at the ex-

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pense of the lumber dealer, and agreed that it would be far better to wait out the present period of scarcity of two to four months and rely on lumber after that time flowing through the normal channels in the usual way.

The meeting on the first day was opened by an address of welcome by M. D. Bradfield, president of the Mountain States Lumber Dealers Association. host to the National Association.

President S. L. Forrest, Lubbock, Texas, in his annual report keynoted the meeting by stressing the fact that the retail lumber dealer would be judged by his ability to serve customers, and that the industry as a whole would rise or fall on this basis. He emphasized the importance of preparing to serve the ,community through better yard layouts, handling methods, employee training, cooperation with manufacturers and a more effective means of keeping in touch with national legislative and governmental affairs through the chbnnels afforded by the National Asso,ciation.

"The period just ahead is perhaps the most critical in the life of our industry," he said.

Irnplemcnting his remarks, President Foirest appointed a Nationai Affairs Steering Committee and discussed the much larger National Affairs Committee now in the process of being formed. The purpose of this 4@ or 500-man National Affairs Committee which will embrace every ,congressional district in the United States, is to be able to quickly obtain a grass roots reaction on every piece of legislation or proposed legislation affecting the retail lumber industry.

In connection with dealer-manufacturer cooperation, President Forrest appointed a lumber dealer liaison committee to meet with a like committee whi.ch has been selected by the Producers Council to work on problems of mutual interest.

Of major importance to the industry was the S-point program which has been under discussion for the past year, and which was presented to this meeting by Robert A. Jones, secretary-manag'er, Middle Atlantic Lumbermen's Association.

The S-point program consists of a pledge br platform of service in which the lumber dealer subscribes to the following: within the limits of his ability and the area of his operation, he will provide an establishment which for his customers will integrate and correlate the various materials and elements within the building industry necessary to home or farrn or commercial .construction. This does not

mean that he will necessarily enter the architectural, financing or contracting fields, but that he will attempt to correlate these activities and his own in such a manner as to make it easy for the customer to buy or remodel a home or other structure. It is pointed out that if these activities are correlated through the dealer, the lumber dealer will rnaintain control of the sale.

This part of the S-point plan, the pledge or platform of service, to which lumber dealers subscribe, was promptly adopted by the board of directors.

The second point presented was the modernization of lumber yards to include better and more efficient handling methods and,better display and showroom facilities. In a recent survey, 75/o of the dealers of the United States have already indicated their interest in remodeling their yards and incorporating adequate display space and equipment.

The third point was the development of a yard personnel training program which would be put into effect for the training of .new yard employees, and as a refresher course for older employees.

The fourth point consisted of the establishment of a specialty sales department for the handling of such application materials as roofing, siding, insulation and other specialty equipment such as household electrical appliances.

The fifth and one of the most important points embraces cooperbtive planning and promotion by liaison committees of the National Association and manufacturing groups such as Producers Council.

As an example of what cooperative planning can mean to the dealer and the dealer's customer, Mr. Jones spoke of the Modular System which if adopted by manufacturers of all types of building materials would make the various parts or elements within a building fit with a minimum of waste. He pointed out that the Modular System has been adopted by many millwork manufacturers, brick and tile, glass, wallboard and in'sulation manufacturers, and most important of all the architects.

To illuminate the need for adequate display space and showroom equipment, he pointed to the trend which indicates that in the future most customers in the lumber yard will be women.

During the meeting of the 6th, H. R. Northup emphasized, "home.prices will seek normal levels once the demand is lessened through new construction. There is a demand for homes, but once building begins the pressure will be lessened and prices will seek normal levels. The philosophy

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of shortages, lack and limitations on housings may be substantiated by government figures, but such unimaginative ac'counts do not take into consideration the techniques and abilities the building industry has learned during the war.

Clarifying the point that the home building industry has no real reconversion problems except those connected rvith the current strikes, Mr. Northup suggested that the government settle the strike situation, provide sensible u'age and hour regulations, and let the building industry put to work the nine million men and women. it is capable of employing. Returned servicemen and women want jobs and only production and the return to a peacetime economy can put them to work.

It rvas trrought out during the meeting that before the rvar lumber dealers built 73/o of the homes constructed ir.r the United States; that during the rvar approximately 65/o of the lumber dealers prefabricated portable farm buildings for the farmers and that 80/" of. these lumber dealers plan to continue to manufacture portable farm buildings. It r"'as not surprising therefore, to find that if prefabricated homes were to become a factor in the home building market, lumber dealers would handle and distribute them also.

Although many lumber dealers have not yet begun to experience a flow of materials through their yards, the mood prevailed that the pipelines of distribution rvould fill in March and April when building in most sections of the country actually begins. Freed from most of the building restrictions and shackled bnly to OPA price controls, the consensus of the meeting was tllat if the strike situation were straightened out, production and employment lvould be the salvation of the country during the reconversion period.

Wednesday, November 7th, morning sessions were featured by election of officers. S. L. Forrest was reelected president by acclamation. His devotion to the industrv and personal sacrifices for the good of all rvon him recognition frorn all present. All other officers rvere reelected for the outstanding job done. The officers are as follows:

President, S. L. Forrest, Forrest Lumber Company, Lubbock, Texas; Vice-President, Norman P. Mason, Wm. P' Proctor Co., North Chelmsford, Mass.; Treasurer, G. W. LaPointe, Jt., O & N Lumber Co., Menbmonie, Wisc.;

Secretary-Manager, H. R. Northup, National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn., Washington, D. C.

Norman P. Mason. who as a member of the United States Chamber of Commerce Construction Industry Advisory Council has been "pitched into some of the roughest spots possible," in an address on housing and construction problems expressed the opinion that the Wagner-Ellender Bill, norv before Congress, would be withdrawn and rewritten as a result of opposition by the Chamber of Commerce group. "Thc bill gives lip service to private industry in every paragraph while setting up a platform for government housing," he said. The Chamber group likewise has drafted a private housing bill for consideration.

The GI Bill of Rights housing provisions were termed ineffective and not well thought out. The Chamber group, Mr. Mason said, has been active in seeking an improved program for GI housing.

H. R. Northup, in an address on industry cooperation, outiined rrork done by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association on joint committees. The manufacturers' building codc experts have been offered to lumber dealers for the solution of local problems.

The manufacturers, he said, also are preparing a motion picture for use by retail dealers, showing consumers how wood may be used in home construction and have engaged W. A. Ross of the Department of Education, Washington, to write a manual for employees of lumber yards so they may give better information to customers.

Edward H. Libbey of the NRLDA, Washington, declared little surplus lumber from Army and Navy projects would reach retail dealers, because the Services intend to live oft their stockpiles.

A college course for prospective lumbermen will be offered by the $tate of Washington University beginning in January, forerunner of similar courses expe,cted to be established in other schools of higher learning, W. C. Bell, secretary of the Western Retail Lumbermens Association told members of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, Thursday morning, November 8. Directors voted "adoption" of the program. The course is designed for men

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returning from the armed forces who want to get into the building industry.

NIr. Bell said Oregon State and Washington State Colleges also were willing to offer similar courses, .ivhich will give intensive instruction for 30-day periods and be continued as long as there is a demand.

Gene E,bersole, secretary of Lumbermens Association of Texas, outlined the results of the u'ork condrrcted by his committee as follor,vs: a book on plans of yards already modernized or about to be modernized rvill be put ont lt.i. American Lumlterman magazine about January 1st. Results of a contest for yard modernization ideas conductecl by Building Supply Neu,.s rvill be contained in a book to be issued by. that publication. The American Builder rvill issue a 36-page book containing five hypothetical types of lumber yard modernizations. Further development of this program is being ,carried on by this comrnittee.

President Forrest named the following as members of his executive committee for the coming year: District No. lNorman P. Mason, Wm. Proctor Co., North Chelmsford, Mass.; District No. Z-Ben L. Johnston, Madison Lumber Co., New Orleans, La.; District No. 3-Nfark H. Alexander, M. S. Alexander Lumber Co., On'atonna, Minn.: District No. 4-S. L. Forrest, Forrest Lumber Co., Lubltock, Texas; District No. 5-C. B. Sweet, Long Bell Lumber Co., Longvieu', Washington; District No. 6-.4. O. Shelclon, TriState Lumber Company, Salt Lake City, Utah; District No. 7-J.H. Kirk, Southern Pacific Milling Co., San Luis Obispo, California; District No. S-Clyde M. Fulton, ColbornFulton Lumber Co., Charlotte, Michigan; At Large-G. W. LaPointe, Jr., Menomonie, Wisconsin, Orrie Hamilton, secretary, Southern California Retail Lumber Association. Los Angeles, and J. D. McCarthy, secretary of the Illinois Lumber & Material Dealers Association, Inc., Springfield, Ill. W. Wadsrvorth Wood, publisher of Small Homes Guide, Washington, D. C., brought to the assembled board of directors simplified visual methods of selling prospective home buyers the type of home they planned.

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As part of this presentation, Mr. Wood spoke of the ten nrodel home plans he had designed based upon a survey of or.er 12,000 prospective home buyers contacted through his nragazine.

Paul W. \\ratson, clirector of Publicity and public Relations for NRLDA, Washington, reviewed the success of the dealers' advertising mat service and Home planners' Institrlte programs adopted last year, and outlined the importance of Home Magazine rvhich rvill be published not later than April l, 1946 lor distribution through lumber deaiers to customers. "Hon1e Magazine," he said, ,,is the rifle fire of the industry-the finest direct mail piece any dealer can send to his customers or prospects."

Proposed also rvas a Building Headquarters program rvhich consistecl of decalcomanias, signs and banners proclaiining the slogan "Building Headquarters-InformationServices-Materials" for dealers r,vho rvanted to elect themselves burlding headquarters in their communities.

Tl-re development of 12 one-reel movies covering the basic products sold through lumber dealers, and for the dual purpose of selling customers and training yard personnel u'as also discussed.

A quarter hour transcribed radio program available to lumber clealers at $7.50 per program in towns of 2,500 and less and ranging up to $25 per program in tou'ns of 1,000,000 and over, w'as also presented. The local Colorado Springs Radio Station KVOIT broadcast this program as a salute to i'.rmber dealers of the United States with special men_ tion for the Mountain States Lumber Dealers Association. host to the National, and special credit to the Denver and Colorado Springs lumber dealers who furnished the entertainment and many of the features which played a large part in the comfort and pleasure of the dealers assembled at the Broadmoor Hotel during the meeting.

Terrible Twenty GolI Tournqment

Dee Essley u'as the rvinner of the first prize, a sterling silver goblet, at the 234th Terrible T.n,enty golf tournament held at the Annandale Country Club, pasadena, November It1, i,vith a rret 70 score. Helmer Hoel and Bob Osgood, each u'ith a 7l net, u'ere tied for the second prize u,hich will be played bff at the December tournament. The tournament \vas spons()red ltv l3ob Osgood and George Gartz. A bufiet supper rvas servecl in the Club House i.rr the evening. Bob Osgood, president of the Terrible Trventy, presented the guests u'iih a memoranda book and beautiful leather case.

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News of Out Service Friends

Lieutenant Colonel L' G. Burns, Army Transportation Corps, has just completed terminal leave and has now returned to active participation in both the Burns Lumber Co. and Burns Steamship Co., Los Angeles'

Lieut. Ray Haley, Jr., Army Transportation Corps, was recently home on lO-days leave. He is the son of Ray Haley, Sr., partner in Haley Bros., Santa Monica, and is stationed at Indiantown GaP, Pa.

Lieut. Rupert Haley, USN, is now out of the Navy after nearly four years' service, and has returned to Haley Bros', Santa Monica. He is a son of W. K. Haley' Another son, Lieut. David Haley, Field Artillery, is now in charge of a prisoner of war camp on Luzon, P'I'

Lieutenant Commander John Rudbach, on terminal leave trom the Navy, is back in the wholesale lumber business and has opened an office in the Rives-Strong Building, Los Angeles. FIe was in the service four years, and spent two anJ one-half years in New Guinea, Australia and the Phillippines.

Lieutenants James Hudson, George Burgon and Joe Bur' gon, who also servbd in the Navy, will be associated with him.

Pic. John R. Osgood, son of Robert S' geles lumberman, who was with Patton's l-atter part of the war, is now stationed in

Lieut. Fritz Harvn, recently discharged from the Navy' and again associated with his father in the Hawn Lumber Co., Alhens, Texas, recently visited T o-s Angeles, San Fran"ir"o "rd ihe Pacific Northwest' He attended the San FranciscoHoo-HooClub'sluncheonwhenintheBayDistrict, and called on friends in Los Angeles' where he was formerly with Coos Bay Lumber Co' and the Hammond Lumber Co.

Sgt. John Tietjen, son of Ed Tietjen, Sudden & Christenson, Inc., San Francisco, has received his discharge from the Army and has returned to work with his former employer, McElroy Lumber Company, Palo Alto, Calif. He was a platoon Sergeant in command of a reconnaissance platoon of a cavalry squadron. One sentence from his discharge papers gives an eloquent and terse description of his work. It reads: "He was in continuous combat in France and Germany from D-Day to the end of the war in Europe."

Sgt. Ed Heiberger, 38th Infantry, formerly with Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, received his discharge November 13. ' He was three years in the Army and saw considerabie service in the South Pacific and Philippines.

Sgt. George W. Allen, who served with the Ordnance Corps ia England, France and Germany, and who was formerly with the United States Plywood Corp. in the San Francisco office, is now back with this organizatibn as office manager in Oakland.

Major Jack Dubois, U' November 18, and will be ger of Star Lumber Co.,

S. Army, received his discharge back in his old position as manaStockton, on December 1.

Osgood, Los Anarmy during the Linz. Austria. Donald I'I. Barker, owner of the DRB Logging Co. and West Side Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., has received his discharge frcrn the Navy and is again active in his organization.

Herbert J. Peteqson, Air Force, stationed in is out of the service and United States Plywood desk.

whe was a Sergeant in the 8th England for the Past three Years' is back with his former emPloYer, Corp., Los Angeles, on the order

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Our biggest iob right now is buying lumber, cnd getting it into our yardcnd we crre very busY crt it.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club Meeting

Chief Boatswain's Mate E.,R. Kilbride, who recently returned frorn a tour of duty with the Seabees in the South Pacific, was the speaker at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club luncheon meeting at the University Club on November 20. His subject was "Thirty, Months of Construction in the South Pacific from Guadalcanal to the Philippines." lIe outlined the rvork done by the Seabees in the 'construction of airstrips, power plants, hospitals, camps' docks, bridges, supply huts, etc. The Seabees also built the Seventh Fleet headquarters near Manila, and assisted in clearing debris from devastated Manila. His talk was enjoyed by a large attendancr-.

President George Clough presided at the meeting, and J. W. Fitzpatrick introduced the speaker.

Hcley Bros. Expcrnd Fcrcilities

Haley Bros., wholesale sash, door and millwork dealers, Santa Monica, have been carrying out an extensive building program over the past several months. This includes a large new warehouse and additional loading dock. The capacity of the warehouse has been more than doubled in anticipation of increased postwar business.

Scrcrqmento Hoo-Hoo Club

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club No. 109 held its regular monthly dinner meeting at Wilson's Confectaurant, Sacramento, on Wednesday evening November 21.

Ray Burdg, Noah Adams Lumber Co., Clarksburg, Calif., president of the club, presided.

Hold Get-Together Meeting

A group of about 50, including officials and employees of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, had a get-together party recently at the Admiral Cafe, Huntington Park. Warren B. Wood, San Francisco, president of the company, and J. A. Privett, Los Angeles manager, were among those present.

Lumbermen's Dinner Dqnce qt Scn Diego Dec.7

There will be an informal dinner dance for lumbermen and their suests at the San Diego Country Club, Chula Vista, on Friday evening, December 7.The party is sponsored by the San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club. These dinner dances are enjoyable affairs, and a big crowd is expected to attend.

Alter ne<rrly lour yecrrs working lor Uncle Sam, this com1xmy, which pioneered in plcnaing cnd building modern kitchens, is once more in production lor civilicn homes. Peerless is cgcin oflering profitcble decrlerships in modern kitchens, brecrHcst rooms, rumpua rooms, etc. Get recrdy NOW lor'home building, Ior hbme modernizing! For profitcble inlonncrtion" write to:

Bowerman Yard Sold

The Industrial Lumber Co. has bought the Bon.erman Lun:ber Co. property at 65D San Fernando Rd., Glendale. L S. Brorvn, lvell-kno\\'n Southern California lumlterman who was a sales representative for the E. K. \\-ood Luntber Co. ar Los Angeles for the past t$'enty-se\.en years rvill be president and general manager of the ne\\: concern. The company n'ill be ready for business as soon as sorrie improvements are made and their ne\r. equipment is received.

Art Twohy, Tlvohy Lumber Co., lumber yard brokers, made the arrangements for the sale of the propertr-.

The Borverman Lumber Co. u'as started in 1924 by

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George IJamrnond and his father-in-larv, Chas. C. Bowerman, who came to Southern California from pocatello, Idaho, rvhere they had been in the lumber business since 1910. N{r. Borvcrman died in 1936, and Mr. Hammond continued tlre yard tti;til 1942 when he sold out the stock and began the manufacture of aircraft metal parts at the same location. He discontinued this operation at the end of the war. Nlr. Hammond has incorporated a nerv company, George Hammonci & Sons, and will be back in the lumber business at 18,228 Parthenia Street, Northridge, in the San Fernando Valley, just as soon as the buildings can be completed.

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Group picture tcken qt Victory sections oI Southern Ccrlilornia ct the Roycl Pcrlms Hotel, Los Angelea, over three hundred Eqt down to dinner. 403 oI the lmericqn Legion.

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East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club

There was a large attendance at the monthly dinner meeting of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held at Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, on Monday evening, November 19.

President John Helm presided, and Jim Overcast was back in his old job as secretary after several years' absence due to war service.

Chris Sechrist was given a vote of thanks for his efficient work as secretary while Jim Overcast was away.

Jack Tucker, of the Consumer Information Service Calvert Distillers Corporation, told of the distilling dustry's contribution to the rvar effort.

Paid-up membership was announced as 98, and announcement 'was made by Ev Lewis of the membership committee that the club is out to exceed last year's total of 125 paid-up members by a substantial margin.

The $10.0O door prize was won by Mervin Troyer, Walnut Creek Building Materials Co., Walnut Creek, California, the $7.50 prize by Frank Anderson, and Al Hansen, S. H. Chase Lumber Co., San Jose, rvon the $3.50 prize.

Ceilings On Builders Hardwcrre Items

Upped l0 Percent, OPA Announces

Washington, D. C., November 13.-In an effort to induce greater production of low cost builders l.rardrn'are items used in home construction and repair, OPA toclay announced a 10 per cent increase in the price of these items effective tomorrow.

Today's action affects cast iron, r,r,rought steel ancl a very few rn'rought brass items such as hooks, catches, hasps, brackets, drawer pulls, knobs, door springs, basement windor,r' sets, and bright wire goods such as stecl screw eyes, hooks, etc.

The increase will affect all sales levels and 'ir''ill benefit consumers due to the fact tl-rat the items rvill become available to them and they 'ivill not be forced to buv the higher priced wrought and cast brass hardware.

With Calilornia Builders Supply Co.

E. F. "Pat" Cardin, Jr., who has been for some tin.re with the War Production Board, Plyrvood Division, in Portland, is now associatecl with California Builders Supply Co., Oakland.

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J. Frank Baldwin, Los Angeles, sales representative of Eastern hardwood plywood, lumber and veneer mills, returned recently from a visit to the mills. He was accompanied by his family, and combined business and pleasure on the triP.

Erik Flamer, general manager, Coast Lumber & Equipment Co., Long Beach, returned November 19 from calling on mills in Northern California and Southern Oregon'

Jim Sufiolk, Southvt'estern Sash & Door Co., Phoenix, Arizona, spent a few days in Los Angeles on business around the middle of November.

Frank G. Duttle, president, land, returned November 19 Angeles.

Western manager, National-American Association. Portland, was a recent Cal-

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Art Kayser, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Los Angeles, is back from the Northwest where he visited the Associati<,,n's offrces in Eugene, Portland and Seattle, also calling on a number of mills.

C M. (Friday) Freeland, West Oregon Angeles, ir:ts returned from the Northwest the comparry's mill in Portland.

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Bill Coivling, Dixie Lumber & Supply Co., San Diego, and Mrs. Cowling, were recent visitors at Palm Springs rvhere they spent a couple of rveeks.

E. L. (Bud) Reitz, E. L. Reitz Co., Los Angeles, was recent visitor to the Northrvest.

Fred Smales and Mrs. Smales, Los Angeles; Don Braley and Mrs. Braley, San Francisco, and Don Kesselring, Oakland, will return from New York December 5, where they attended a branch managers' meeting at the new offices of United States Plywood Corp. in the Weldu'ood Building.

Guy Male, Globe Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a trip to Cl-ricago.

C. H. Hernly of Louisville, Ky., formerly with Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet Co., and Unique Sash Balance Co., in that city, is now a salesman with United States Plywood Corp., Los Angeles. He is devoting part of his time to promo' tional work among' architects. engineers and designers.

Sterling Lumber Co., Oakfrom a business trip to Los

Paul C. Stevens, Wholesale Lumber ifornia visitor.

Obituaries

Albert A. Schafer

Albert A. Schafer, president of the Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingles Co., Schafer Bros. Logging Co. and Steamship Line, passed away in Montesano, Wash., Wednesday evening, November 21, following a heart attack. He was 66 years of age.

He was the son of the late John D. and Mrs. Anna Muller Schafer, who homesteaded in the Satsop Valley, Wash., in 1820. He and two brothers, the late Peter and Hubert Schafer, in 1893, got the consent of their parents to cut some logs on the family place which they sold to the local sawmills. F'rom this small logging operation began the development of the Schafer interests, now one of the largest lumber anci logging concerns in the Pacific Northwest. The holdings of the company include the mill in Aberdeen, a plant in Montesano, and extensive holdings in the Olympics and Lewis County. The steamship unit owns three coasd liners which were operated by the government during the war. The company has offices in Aberdeen, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Eugene and Reedsport.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Albert A. Schafer; a son, Captain Albert M. Schafer, U. S. Army, and daughter, Mrs. Maurine Close.

Funeral services were held on November 26.

Mrs. Alma M. Wood

Mrs. Alma M. Wood of Lafayeite, California, widow of Walter T. Wood, former vice president of E. K. Wood Lumber Company, San Francisco, was instantly killed in a head-on collision when her sedan skidded in the rain into the path of an Army truck in Contra Costa County, November 16.

Mrs. Wood was a director in the E. K. Wood Lumber Company.

She is survived by her mother, , Mrs. Elizabeth B. Mitchell, Lafayette; a son, John B. Wood, vice president, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., and three daughters, Mrs. Marian Fee of Lafayette, Mrs. Elizabeth Heywood, Lafayette and Chicago, and Mrs. Frances Bell of Piedmont.

Funeral services were held in Oakland on Monday. November 19.

John N. Berry

John N. Berry, director, treasurer and sales manager of the Scott Lumber Company, Inc, Burney, Calif, died suddenly frorn a heart attack in his office on November l. He was 72 years of age, and was born in Ashley, Pa. He was a member of the Masonic lodge

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Julia E. Berry; a daughter, Mrs. Emily Tatler, and two sons, Raymond H., vice-president of the company, and John N. Berry, Jr.

Albert Lansrell

Albert Langrell, president of the Coos Bay Logging Co., North Bend, Ore., died October 31 on a train near Pocatello, Idaho. He was born April 14,1897 in Pine Valley, Ore. He was active in fraternal circles. and was commander of Coos Bay Ilost No. 17 of the American Legion at the time of his death.

Amendment 12 to Second Revised MPR 215

Washington, D. C., November 16.-Softwood lumber distribution yards may compute mark-ups only on the basis of mill f.o.b. ceilings, without any additions for method of shipment or type of sale, the Office of Price Administration announced today.

This action becomes effective November 21, 1945.

In explanation, OPA said, in some cases the various lumber regulations permit certain additions to ceilings for mixed car or less-than-car-load shipments which do nr:t affect the physical condition of the lumber.

Contrary to the intent of the regulation, some softlvood lumber distribution yards in computing their maximum prices have been adding these additions to the basic f. o. b. mill price when purchasing or selling mixed car or lessthan-car-load shipments.

(Amendment No. 12 to Second Revised Maximum Price Regulation 215-Distribution Yard Sales of Softwood Lumber-effective November 21, 1945).

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Hoo-Hoo Concat Held in Reno 20 Kittens Initiated

Trventy Kittens rvere initiated into the mysteries oi Hoo-Hoo, and a nnmber oI old Cats u'ere reinstated at a Concatenation held at the Nevada Game Farm. Reno. on S:rturday ever.ring, November 10.

A party of 3O came from Sacramento district in a chartered Gibson Lines bus, ',r'hich n'as delayed by snorv, but arrived in time for the Concat.

Chas. Shepard,,Sacramento, vicegerent Snark of Sacramento district, headed the Nine n'hich earried out the initiation ceremony, the other members 1'vere: Al Kellel', Alameda. Calif.. Senior Hoo-Hoo: Len' Godard, San Francisco, Junior Hoo-FIoo; Homer Derr, Elk Grove, Calif., Scrivenoter; Leroy Miller, Sacramento, Bojum ; C. D. LeMaster, Sacramento; Rav Burdg, Clarksburg, Calif. ; Mitch Landis, Walnut Grove, Calif., and W. Henry Gilbert, Sacramento.

Supreme Bojum Leu' Godard appointed A. L. Kerper, general manager, Rocky Mount Manufacturing Co. of Reno. Ner,ada, to be Vicegerent Snark for Nevada.

George Ackerman, rvholesale lumberman, of Reno, tvas elected president of Reno Hoo-Hoo Club.

There was an attendance of 100 for the fine pheasant dinner, and there was general agreement that the "Biggest Little City in the World" had put over a successful Con' cat.

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Amendment 9 to MPR 525--Jobber Sales of Stock Millwork

Washington, I). C., November 17.-The Office of Price Administration announced today that the coverage of the regulation governing jobber sales of stock millwork has been extended to include pricing provisions for sales of Douglas fir stock millwork by jobbers.

The action becomes effective November 21,1945.

Up to now, jobber sales of Douglas fir stock rnilhvork, except fir doors have been priced under the General Maximttm Price Regulation, at March, 1942, levels.

In those jobbing areas where specific mark-ups are not provided for Douglas fir stock millwork, jobbers must apply to OPA for price approval.

Jobbers of millwork produced from redr.vood, red cypress and fir also must apply to OPA for individual pricing provisions in areas where specific mark-ups are not provided, the price agency said.

It is proposed, OPA said, to establish soon appendices u'ith specific mark-ups for four northrn'est areas r,r'here fir rnillwork is the predominant product.

Today's action also removes softwood mouldings from the regulation covering sales of stock milh,r'ork, and places tl.ris commodity at all levels under the pricing provisions of the regulation being amended today (MPR 525).

(Amendment No. 9 to Maximum Price Regulation No. .525-Jobber Sales of Stock Millrvork-effective November 21. 1945.)

GOilMERGIAL HARIIWO0DS--D0IIIESTIG and IMP0RTDID

Flooring, Veneers, Plywood and Dowels

CIJASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Rat+$2.50 per Column Inch.

RETAIL YARD WANTED

Will pay cash for small retail yard in town of lfr)0 population and over. Pleasc give fullest dctails by letter.

Address Box C-1152, California Lurnber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

POSITION FOR ASSISTANT MANAGER

Wanted-Asssitant manager of retail lumber yard 17 rniler south of San Francisco. Starting $200 per month. Splendid opportunity for the right party.

Burlingame L-umber Co.

MiUbrae, Calif.

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

See our ad in the Novernber 15t} issue of The California Lumber Merchant for lumber yards listing "A" "B" also Woodworking Plant "E'.

F. Two yards in San Fernando Vdley, grornd and buildings on leased basis. fnventory and equipment for sale. **i<

We have the following sites for yards (ground only) for sale:

POSITION WANTED

Manager or Assistant Manager. 2O years in Californira retail lumbcr, 3 yeare assistant rnanager, 12 years managcr. Knowledge of Plumbing, Builders Hardware, Bookkeeping. At preeent employed.

Address Box C-1154, California Lumber Merchant, 508 Central Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif.

SAWMILL FOR SALE

Production just started. Top and bottom saws 60 inchcs. 72inch head blocks, 6x8 odger. Full equipmart. Cat with blade. Own 320 acres of fir and redwood, about 8,(XX),0(X) fcet Other tim,b€r available. Four houses with full plumbing and two cabins. Also shingle mill ready to run. In Mendocino County. Total price, $39,0fl).00. Terms.

Address 180 Santa Ana Avenue, San Francisco 16, for full information.

New Scn Diego Hoo-Hoo Nine

Mearl L. Baker, Baker Hardwood Co., San Diego, Vicegerent Snark for the San Diego Hoo-Hoo district, has announced the members of the Nine for the coming year. They include the following: Senior IIoo-Hoo, Charles D. McFarlane, Dixie Lumber & Supply Qo., San Diego; Junior Hoo-Hoo, John Stewart, Frost Hardwood Lumber Co., San Diego; Scrivenoter, Nihl F. Hamilton, Lumber Service Bureau, San Diego; Custocatian, George V. Johnson, National Lumber Co., National City; Bojum, Caql B. Gavotto, American Products, Inc., San Diego; Jabberwock, J. C. Evenson, Gadgets, Inc., San Diego; Arcanoper, Syd Smith, retail lumber dealer, San Diego; Gurdon, Charles L. Hampshire, Gadgets, Inc., San Diego.

L A. County Building Permits

Los Angeles building permits approved by the county department of building and safety during October numbered 2,4A0 and had an estimated valuation of. $5,775,423 compared with 1,684 permits issued the pre'ceding month with an estimated value of $4,626,387, During October, t944, a total of 1,446 permits were approved with an evaluation of $1,316,033.

Building total for the year to date in the county is in excess of $34 million evaluation compared with $27.7 million for the like period in 1944.

G. Ten acres on Highway 66 at Pornona, spur track, $35,000. H. Several sites in San Fernando Valley.

I. On Vermont Avenue in Crardena, 2E,(XX) square feet, $5,(X)0. Shepard S-ton eloctric lumbcr hoist. Complete with 27 f@t "l Beanl" Timber frame wor! new cabla Now in use, buyer to dismantle. $f250 F.O.B. Los Angele*

If you want to sell your lumber yard let us knonr.

TWOHY LUMBER CO., LUMBER YARD BROKERS

EOl Petroleum Bldg., Los Angeles 15, Calif. PRospect 87,16.

WANTED

Lumber Truck wittr Rollers-Ford preferred. Fortuna Lumber & Mill Work Co. 1888 Main Street Fortuna" Calif.

Mcncrging Yard

L. A. (Lew) Merrill is managing the Beam Lumber Co. which recently started in business at 698 Moulton Ave., Los Angeles. Lew is well-known in Southern California lumber circles. He was formerly with the Chandler Lurhber Co., N<lrth Hollywood, and prior to that was a member of the sales staff of the Hammond. Lumber Company, Los Angeles, for a number of years.

Will Represent Finn ct Eugene

W. A. Duncan, president of the Duncan Lumber Company, Inc., Seattle, announces that Fred W. Burnham has joined their organization and will maintain an office "in Eugene, Oregon. Mr. Burnham was recently discharged from the army after having served two years overseas. He is well known in the Eugene area where he worked before he entered the service'

Amendment I to MPR 592

The OPA has liberalized its policy for adjusting ceiling prices on construction materials such as brick, sand, stone, gypsum and asphalt and has made it possible for manufacturers with gross annual sales up to $1 million to apply to regional offices for price adjustments. (Amendrnent 1 to MPR 592, effective Nov. 5.)

BUTER'S GUIIDE

SAN FBAIICISGO

LUMBEN

Arcctc Redwood Co, e20 Mqrket Street (ll).

Atkiason-Stutz Compcnv, ll2 Marlet Stteef (l[)

Barg Lumber Co. 16 Csliloruio St,.......

..YUkon 2067

GArlield 1809

GArlield'5748 Exbrook 2062

Buller. Selh L., 2l{ Front St., (ll). ......GArlield0292

Christenson Lumber C6. Evqne Ave. dnd Quint St. (24). .VAlencic 5832

Dcnl d Bussoll. Inc., 214 Fronl Street (ll). ... GArlield 0292

Dolbeer d Ccrson Lumber Co., lllS Merchonts Exchcnge Btde. (4) DOuglcs 64/tG

Gqmorstou d Green Lumber Cc., 1800 Army Street (24)... ATwcler 1300

Hqll, lcmei L., 1032 Mills Blde. (4) .......SUtter 7520

Hcllinon Mcckin Lumber Co.

-_681 Morket S!. (5) .....DOugtcs lg4l

Hcmmond Lumber Compqnv,

--4-lf \4gnlsgmery Srrelr (6).... Doustas 3388

Hobbs Wcll Lrtmlier Co., 405 Monlgomerv St. (4) GrlrtielC Zl5Z

llolmes Eurekc Lumber Co-. ll05 Finqusicl Cenrer Bldq, (4). GArfietd l92l

C. D. lohnson Lumber Corcorqtion, 260 Cclilorniq Street (ll) .GArtield 6258

Kilpctrick d Compcnv, Crocker Blds. a4).:. yUkon 0912

Ccrl H. Kuhl Lumber Co,, O. L. Russum, ll2 Mcrket St. (ll) YUkor 1160

IUMBEN

Ccmpbell-Conro Lumber Co. (Phit Gosslin). 2.ll ProlEssionql Bldg. (l)......... .KEltog 4-20f7

Gcmerston 6 Green Lumber Co., 2001 Liviugston Sr. (6)...... .KEttog 4-1884

Hill d Morton, lnc., Deanison Strest Whqd (7)........ANdover 1077

Hogan Lumber Compqny, 2nd qud Alice Strelts ({). .Glencourt 686t

Kelley, Albert A, P, O. Box 240 (Alcmedc).......Lckeburst 2-Zl5l

LUMBEN

Anglo Colilornic Lumber Co,, 655 E. Florence Ave. (l)......THoruwqlt 3f{{

Arcqtq Redwood Co. (J. J, Rea)

5410 Wilsbire Blvd. (36). .WEbster 7828

Atkinson-Slutz Gompcnv, 628 Petroleum Bldg, (15). .Pnospecr 43itl

Atlas Lumber Co., 2035 E. l5th St. (21). ...PBospect 7{01

Burns Lumber Compcny, 727 W. Seventh St. (14). .TRinity 106l

Ccmpbell-Conro Lumber Co. (R, M. Engstrond), 70tl Soulb Spriag St.. ..VAndike SSll

Ccrr G Co., L. t. (W. D. Dunning).

438 Cb. oI Com. Blds. (15). .Pnospect 8843

Consolidcted Lumber Co,, 122 W. Jellereson St. (7)......Blcbmond 2lll

1446 E. Aucheim St,, wilmiogron. ..wilm. 0120; NE,6-188I

Cooper, W. E., 606-608 Richtield Bldg. (13).......MUtual 2l3l

Dcnt 6 Russell, Inc.,

8I2 E. 59th Skeet (l). .ADcms 8l0l

Dolbeer 6 Cqrson, Lumber Co., 901 Fidelity Blds. (13) .VAndike 8792

Ed. Fountqin Lumber Co.,

628 Petroleum Blde. (15) .PBospect 4341

Hollinqn Mqckin Lunber Co.

tl7 W. gth St, (15). .TRinity 354{

Hqmmond Lumber Compoay, 2010 So. Alqmeda St. (54)......PRospect 1333

Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., 625 Rowqn Blds. (13). ...TBinity 5088

Holmeg Eurekc Lumber Co.,

7ll-712 Architects Blds, (13). .MUtucl 9l8l

Hoover, A. L., 5225 Wilshire Blvd. (36). .YOrk ll88

Kilpalrick G Compcny (Wilminglon)

l2{0 Blinn AvE. ....NEvcdc 6-1888

Ccrl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., (R. S. Osgood), 70'! S. Sprias Sl. (14). ..TBinity 8225

Boss C, Lcsbley (R. G. Bobbins Lumber Co.), 7l{ W. Olympic Blvd. (15).. .PRospect 0724

Lqwrence-Pbilips Lumber Co., 633 Petroleui Btdg. (15).... ...Pnospect 817{

Long Bell Lumber Conpcay, 318 W. gth St. (15). .TRiaitv 2819

MccDonqld Co., L. W., 714 W. Olympic Blvd. (15)......PRospect 719{

Mcbogony Importing Co., 621 S. Spriner St. (14). ...TRinity 9651

+Postolfice Zoue Nuurlrer itt Paretrtltesis.

. LUMBER

Lcmon-Bonnington Compcny, 16 Caliloruic Street (ll)..... ...GArlield 6881

Long Bell Lumber Conpcny, 60'l Missiou St. (5).. .EXbrook 8695

Norlhetn Bedwood LunbEr Co., 2{08-10 Russ Btdg. (4). ..EXbrook 789t1

O'Neill'Lumber Co., Ltd., 16 Cclilornic St. (ll). ...GArlield 9ll0

Pqcilic lumber Co., The 100 Bush Stleet (4) ....GArlield llSl

Pcrelius Lumber Co. (Pcul McCusker), lI2 Mcrkei Street (ll). ...GArtield 1978

Pqulson Lumber Scles Agency, 681 Mcrket Street (5). .SUtter 8623

Pope 6 Tclbol, Inc., Lumber Division, rt:61 Mcrket S'reot (5) .DOuglas 2561

R. G. Robbins Lbr. Co. (W, H. O'Neill) 16 Colilornic St. (ll). ....GArlield 9ll0

Sontq Fe Lumber Co., 16 Cqtilornic Stree{ (ll) -EXbrook 207{

Scbqler Bros. Lumber d Sbincle Co., I Drumm Street (tl) ....SUiter l77t

Shevlin-Cords Lumber Co., Inc., 88 Post Strest (4)... .DOugl<ts 2169

Shevlin PinE Soles Co., 1030 Moncdnock Bldg. (5)........EXbrook 70{l

Sudden 6 Christenson, Inc-. 310 Ssnsome Street (4)..........GArlield 2846

Tqrler, Websler 6 lohuson. Iuc., t Montgonory St. (4).. .DOuglas 2060

Carl W. Wqtts, 975 Moncdnock Bldg. (5)..........YUkon 1590

Wendling-Nctbcn Co.. 56{ Mcrket Sr. (4).. .......SUtter 5353

OAKLANID

LUMEEN

E. K. Wood Lumber Co.. 2lll Frederick StreEt (6). .KEllog 2-4277

Wholesale Buitdinc Supplv, Inc., 1607 32nd streei (8)... - .TEmplebcr 696{ \Mholescle Lumber Distribulors, lnc,,

54 First Street (7) ..T\lYinoqks 2515

HANDWOODS

Strable Hcrdwood Comrqnv, First cnd Clcy Streetj (?i. ..TEnplebar 5581

White Brothels, 500 High Street (l). .ANdover 1600

LOS ANGELES

f,UMBER

Crban Lunber Co., 77 S. Pqscdenq Ave., pcscdgnc (3) .... ""."frT: i:!ll'

Pccilic Lumber Co,, Tbe 5225 Wilshire Blvd. (35)............YOrL fl68

Pqrelius LunbEr Co. (Tosle Lumber Co.), 326 Petroleum Blde. (15)........PBospcct 7605

Pclrick Lumber Co,, Ecslnqn Lumber Sqles, 7l{ W. Olynpic Blvd. (15) .....PRospect 5039

Pope d Tqlbot, Inc., Lumber Division Tltl W. Olympic Blvd. (15). .PRospect 8231

E. L. Reitz Co., 333 Petroleun Eldg. (15)..........PRospect 2359

Scn PEdro Lumber Co., 1518 S, Centrql Ave. (21) .....Rlcbmond ll4l

1800-A Wilmington Rocd (Scn Pedro). ........Sqn Pedro 2200

Schqler Bros. Lumber d Shingle Co., t 17 W. gth Street ( 15) . Tninity {271

Shevlin Pine Scles Co., 330 Petroleum Bldg. (15)........PRospect 0615

Simpsoa Induslries, Inc., 1610 E. Wcshington Blvd. (21)..PRospect 6183

Smith, Stuqrt C. (Pcscdenc) Pcrkwcy Blde. ( I ) SYcqmore 2-3837, ZEnith 6833

StaDloB, E. J. 6 Son. 2050 E. 4lst St. (ll). ...CEntury 29211

Sudden 6 Christenson, Inc., 630 Bocrd ol Trcde Btde. (14)....TRinity 88{l

Tccomc Lumber Sclee, 837 Pettoleum Bldg, (15)........PRospect ll08

Toste Lumber Co,, 326 Petroleum Bldg. (15)........PRospect 7805

Wendliug-Ncthcl Co., 5225 Wilshire Blvd, (38). ..YOrk 1168

Wesl Oregon Lumber Co., {27 Petroleun Bldg. (15) ...... .Rlchmond 0281

W. W, Wilkinson, ll2 Wesl NiBth Street (15). .TRiaity 4613

Weverhqeuser Scles Co., I t[19 w. M. Gqrland Btdg. (15)..Mlcbigiu 5351

E, K. Wood Lumbor Co., 4710 So. Alcmedc St. (51) .lEllerson 3lll

CNEOSOTED f,UMBEN_POLES PILINCFTIES

Americqn Lumber 6 Trecting Co., Il5l So. Broadwqy (tS)..........PRospect 1353

Eaxter, I. H. d Co., 601 West Stb Street (13)........Mlchigqn 629{

Pope d Tolbqt, Inc., Lumber Divicion, il{ W. olyEpic Blvd. (15)......PRorpect 8231

LUMBER

West Oregron Lumber Co,. 1995 Evcns Ave. (24)... E. E. Wood Lumber Co., I Drumm Street (ll)........ Weyerbceuser Scles Co.. 391 Sutter St. (8). HANDWOODS

.ATwcter 56?8

..EXbrook 3710 .GArlield 8971

E, L, Bruce Co., 99 Sca Bruno Ave. (3). ..MArket 1838

Dsvis Hardwood Comrqnv, Bcy at Mason Street (5i. .........EXbrook 4322

While Brothers,Filtb cad Brcancn Streets (7). .SUtter 1355

SASH_DOORS_PLYWOOD

Hcrbor Plywood Corp. ol Ccliloruic, 540 l0tb St. (3)..... .....,MArlet 6705

United Stqtes Plvwood Corp., 2727 Army Sr. ilo).

CNEOSOTED LUMBEN_POLES_ PILING-TIES

Americqn Lumber d Trecting Co., ILi New Mon'.gomery Street (5). .Sutter 1225

Bcxter, I. H, d Co., 333 M6ntgomery Street (4) '...... .DOuglcs 3883

Hcll, Jomes L., 1032 Mills Bldg. (4). .SUtter 7520

Pope 6 Tolbot, Inc., Lumber Division, 4:61 MorLEt Slreet (5). ...DOuglcs 2561

Vqnder Lcoa Piling d Lumber Co., 216 Pine Street- ({). .EXbrook 4905

WEndlinq-Nathcn Co., 56{ Mirlcet St. (rt). .. .SUtter 5363

PANELS_DOONS_SASH_SCREENS PLYWOOD-MILLWORK

Cqlilornic Builders SuPPIY Co., ?00 6tb Avenue (4).:.......... ...HI94t€ 6016

HoEcn Lumber ComPcnY, - 2ia qnd Alice Slr6eb-({)......GlEncourt 6861

E. C. Pitcher ComPcaY, -'608 i6rh Sr. (12):...:..... .......Gleacourt 3990

Peerless Built-in Fixturo Co. (Ber}eley)ZSOS Scn Pqblo Ave' (2)........THornwall 063{l United Stctss Plywood CorP', - sto 3td Si.- tZl'........ ...........T\lginoqks 55ll

W€stern Door d Ssh Co., -'ii-i-C Cvp*"g Streels (7)......TEnplebcr 8400

E. K. WoodLunbcr Co'. -'Ztit "freaericL street (6). .KEllog 2-4277

HANDWOODS

Americcn Hordwood Co., -- tS00-E. lsth Sireet (5{). .PRospect 1235

E. L. Brucb Co.' --SSiS-So.-West€rn Avc. (44).....TWinoqks 9128

Penbartbv Lumber Co.. --Se00 S.;uth Boyle Ave. (ll)......Klmbcll 5lll

Stsnto!, E. J. 6 Son, - miOE""t ilat Street (ll)....... .CEnturv 29211

Westorn Hardwood Lunber Co', 201{ Ecet lsth Street (55)... ....PRospect 8l5l

SASH_DOORS-MILLWOBK_SCBEENS BLINDS_PANELS AND PLYV,IOOD INONING BOARDS

Bqck Pqnel CompcnY, 310-314 Ecet 32nd-Street (1I)....ADcms UI?S

Cclilorniq Door CompqnY, The P. O. Box 125, Verntu Stctiou (ll) Klnbcll 2I'!l C<rlilornic Pcnel G Veneer Co., P. O. Box 2096, Ternbql Auelc (54) ...TRioitY 0057 Cobb Co., T, M., 5800 Central Avenue (lI)....... .ADcns llllT Cole Dmr & Plywod Co.' 1049 E. Slaumn Ave. (ff) ...'......ADus {3?l

Dcvidson Plvwood d Veneer Co., 2{35 Enter-prige St. (21)..........TRility 258t Eubcnk 6 Sou, L. H, (Inglewood) {33 W. Redoudo Blvd.. .OBegon 8-2255 Hsley Bros. (Santc Monicc) l8?i! l{th Strool... .......AShley tl-2268

f,oehl, Iao. W, d Son, 552 S. Myera Slreet (23)........ANgelua 8l9l

Oregoa Wasbirglo! Plywood Co., ll2 W. gth Street (15). ...TRaity 4613 Pccilic Mutucl Door Co., 1600 E. Wcsbington Elvd. (21)..PRospcct 9523 Beqm Conpcuv, Geo. E., 235 S. Allmedc Street (12).....Mtchigcn l85l Sqmpsoa Co. (Pcscdeac), 745 So. Rcymond Ave. (2)....... .RYcu l-6839 Simpson Induatries, Inc,, 1610 E. Wqehioston Blvd. (21)..PRospect 6183

Uniled Stctea Elywood Corp., 1930 Engt l5rh St. (21).......,Rlchnond 610l West Coogt Scrsea Co., ll{5 Eqst 63td' stte€t (l)..........ADcms lllnl Wosten Mill 6 Mouldinqf Co., 11615 Pqmelee Ave. (2). .Klnbcll 2953

E. K. Wood Lunber Co., t!7I0 S. Alcnedd St. (5{)........lEflerroo 3lll