NRA to Hold Hearing on Door Redwood Road Planks in Good Price Coordination Condition Alter 24 Yeaw

Washington, D. C., Dec. 3.-NRA has announced that a public hearing will be held December 17, at the Carlton Hotel in Washington, beginning at 2 p.m., on the Lumber Code Authority's application for revision of present minimum price schedules affecting the relationship between Southern yellow pine, spruce, redwood, Douglas fir and cypress doors. Present schedules are contained in Lumber Code Authority Bulletins No. 22, Vol. II, and No. 35, Vol. II.

The proposed revision would alter the discount differentials as between 'Western Ponderosa pine house doors and house doors of Douglas fir, spruce, yellow pine and redwood so that no difference in discounts would exist.in the No. 3 grade; discounts in No. 2 grade Douglas fir, spruce, yellow pine and redwood would be no more than one point longer than those for Ponderosa pine, and discounts in No. I grade would be no more than two points longer.

The present authorized discounts cover all doors in the species named, granting Douglas fir, spruce, yellow pine and redwood two points longer discount in No. 3, two and one-half points longer in No. 2, and three points longer in No. 1.

Copies of LCA Bulletin, Volume II, Number 22, may be obtained from the Douglas Fir Door Manufacturers Association, 510 Tacoma Bldg., Tacoma, Washington; copies of LCA Bulletin, Volume II, Number 35, may be obtained from the National Door Manufacturers Association, 28 E. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Il1.; copies of both bulletins may be obtained from the Lumber Code Authority, 1337 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C., or the National Recovery Administration, X)7 16th Street, N.'W., Washington, D. C. Copies of the proposed revision of said prices may be obtained from the Lumber Code Authority or the National Recovery Administration.

Leaves For East

Harry W. Cole, Code executive for the Redwood Division, left San Francisco December 3 to attend the meeting of the directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in Chicago, December 6, 7 and 8 and the gneeting of the Lumber Code Authority in Washington, D. C.. December 10.

Used to surface the road between Crescent City and Requa in 1910, Redwood planks were found to be in a good state of preservation when they rvere taken up recently when the new nine-mile "highline" unit of the Redwood Highway, south of Crescent City was being constructed.

The routing of the realigned sector follows the alignment of the original "puncheon" road, construction of which was completed in 1895.

These planks were removed when the new alignment was commenced, and were utilized in the highway embankment as log fills. It was estimated that the planks contained enough lumber to build.725 six-room houses.

LCA Committee on Quantity Discounts

Washington, D; C., Nov. 27.-Appointments and acceptances of memberships on the Special Committee on Quantity Discounts, authcirized by the LCA National Control Committee September 25, have been completed, with the committee personnel as follows: Don Lawrence, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Spokane, Wash., chairman; E. L. Kurth, Angelina County Lumber Co., Keltys, Texas; C. D. Hudson, secretary, National Wooden Box Association, Washington, D. C.; Landon C. Bell, W. M. Ritter Lumber Co., Columbus, O.; R. E. Seeley, Puget Sound Associated Mills, Seattle, Wash.; J. C. Collier, Carr, Ryder & Adams Co., Dubuque, Ia.; Harold S. Crosby, Trade Practices Department, Lumber Code Authority, Secretary.

The committee has been directed to make a study of the problems and status of 100 per cent woodwork industries and commercial box plants with respect to the purchase of lumber, including consequences both favorable and unfavorable of discounts from basic wholesale prices, and the practicability of any system of pricing which would avoid or limit the necessity of discounts. A report of the committee's findings will be made at the special meeting of the Lumber Code Authority, opening its sessions in Washington, December 10.