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lumber To Bqck Up Our Fighring Men ls The Firsl Order Of Business At Our Mills

Much of our currenl production is moving out on Government Requisitions.

Unril our Unifed Nstions lob is finished we will divide the bqlqnce of our production omong our regulor customers who qre doing essenfiol civiliqn work.

THER,E IS NO tET DOWN IN OUR GIUATITY-PRECISION MANUFACTURE AND KIIN DRYING ltlills rAnderson, Colifornio

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"'trt for tho courrgc thrt wer dwqn orur,' ' And prey for the wirdon thet wc nevcr hed. thrt oncc rold for ten bucks, brlng e hundrod.r: ' thc cerc of the $eak nor thc lumber wcre thc thc rcrult of urphing but the infated riturtloii' .ing ttcn. .'|lrt|l

, Ray Sabcrron, of St. Paul, writer thet he thittb thc rtory

Thc ycar clorcd with avcrage lumbcr prlcer lowcr than thc high lcvcl of the year; but with frc told ycur ego in thcre columnr ir much morc pcrtinent logr end rtandlng timber remaining at i''rbd timcly today than it cvcr war bcforc; he rayr he tcllr it cVe4rwhere,hc gocr. "***

It,ir the onc about thc Southern rawmill opqrator who ' hircd a ncw fireman one day, and thcn left for a couplc of hourg aftcr putting the new man to work. When he rei turned hc found the fireman building fire with grcat cnergy while thc boiler was showing aignr of melting.

"Good God, mant" shouted the sawmill owncr, pointing to the steam gaug€, "you'll blow up thie miU if you don't l.,ttopt Can't you see the gauge showg 90 degrees?" "Nine$/ , degtecs, hell l" said the wild-eyed fircman, "THAT'S THE

THIRD TIME AROUND I'' ***

And Ray says, looking at what's going on in and wit'h this country today, our fix is very much like that of the sawmill at that very moment.

-Ednr St. Vinccnt Millay ;;, eerious nature, if the fate of the nation and civilization did j.: not seem in such tragic danger, a whole lot could be written i''about 1950.

of lcvcla; and with a demand less than during thc levelr of thc year, yct etill in comparativety powcrful

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I future at this time, an account of thc emcrgency in dict. Jurt a few daye since, President Trumsn

It would be folly to try and look into the lumbcr,Or we no\,r find ourselves, the immediate resulte of wbieh evcn thc bravcst or most egotistical would attempt-to, announced a state of emergency, which putr thir natiC practically a war footing, and'brings to thc indurtiy things to think about, and new problems in the offing. rl.**

That the entire lumber industry is joining edly in the plans of the government to save this through enormously increased production of war goes without saying. I think the industry is in much position to help with the war effort than it was at

The ycar 1950 is close to its final finish, as this is being glnning of World lVar Two, because when that ;i typcd. ff there was nothing else to tdk about of more came it found an industry bled white from long yc depression. Its mills were run down, and it waq far ffi equipped as to timber supply than it is today. ,,,t:ti,i * * * '',,.*.ll

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In this year lumber and building material prices rose higher than ever before (following the lead of most vital ' ' commodities such as beefsteak, etc.); the cost of manu1 'facturing them rose in about the same degree; the tide of ' -building throughout the nation reached altitudes never bel1l fore dreamed of ; wages, and profits, and tree values, and i:' everything else that had to do with the lunaber industry ' swept up to new heights in the general infation that has. : come upon us. Not only the cost of manufacture of lumber ,r' and building materials rose to new levels, but so, likewise, did the cost of merchandising and distribution. .***

During the greater part of the entire year there has been an insistent demand for lumber never previgusly known, and the rising costs and prices seemed to deter tfte giant I building boom very little. A strange year. I have seen tenderloin steak sell for $2.75 a pound that I used to buy long ago for less tJran 25 cents; and I have seen lumber items

I think the sawmill industry of the United Statee ii fixed right now to supply the lumber needs of thq