Fir Door Price Schedule Amended

The Of6ce of Price Administration has amended the Douglas Fir Door Price Schedule to allow jobbers a 2 per cent better discount than that permitted dealers, the purpose of the allowance being to "preserve the usual distributive practices in the industry."

The amendment, which will become effective January 1, 1942, makes the following changes:

1. Manufacturers are permitted to charge a two point shorter basic discount from list prices to buyers who did not receive the seller's prevailing maximum discounts during the first nine months ol 1941. The basic discount contained in the original schedule remains unchanged for those purchasers who received the seller's prevailing maximum discount during this period.

2. The extra amount allowed for F-5 and F-Il7l raised panel house doors is increased from 1O cents to 25 cents.

3. Maximum price of one type of garage doors is lowered by 50 cents for the I/s" thickness to jobbers and a new price is provided for dealers 50 cents higher than the jobber price.

4. The record requirements are clarified by a provision stating that any manufacturer who sells, or any buyer who purchases more than one thousand dollars worth of fir doors in any month after December, 1941, must keep rec,ords of all sales or purchases made during that month.

Administrator Leon Henderson stated that the modification of the basic discount provision was made to preserve usual distributive practices in the industry. He added that to enable OPA to determine whether manufacturers are complying with the new provision all manufacturers have been requested to furnish either a complete list of buyers who received the maximum prevailing discounts during tl-re first nine months of the year, or a list of persons rvho during that period purchased at a shorter discount.

The maximum prices f.o.b. factory shall be determined by applying the following discounts to the list prices.

Basic Discount:

To persons who dur'ing the first nine months of 1941 received the seller's prevailing maximum discount.. . .72 per cent

Toallotherpersons..... ....7Opercent

No. I Doors "A" Grade. ..Basic Discount

No. 2 Doors "B" Grade. ..1 point longer than Basic Discount

No. 3 Doors "C" Grade. .2 points longerthan Basic Discount

Millrun, ttfi,,t only. ......1 point longer than Basic Discount

Storm Doors .l ,point longer than Basic Discount

Cupboard Doors (B & Btr. only) .......1 point longer than Basic Discount

"A" Grade Sidelights. Basic Discount

Rim and French Door,s. .5 points longer than ("4" & "8" Grades only). Basic Discount

(d) Design extras exclusive of watertables and trim: is amended by changing F-5 and F-177% to read: Net extra per door Design Flat Raised Panel Panel

F-5 None $0.25

F-ll7% None $0.25

(f) is amended to read as follows:

(f) Maximum pr,ices for garage doors f.o.,b. factory: Per Pair lllt' Basic Price:

To persons who during the first nine months of 1941 received the seller's prevailing lowest price. .. $8.00

Toallotherpersons .... $8.50

1ft,, Basic Price:

To persons who during the first nine months of 1941 received the seller's prevailing lowest price. .. $7.50 Toallotherpersons .....$8.00

Fred Reager Appointed Yard Manager

Fred Reager has been appointed manager of The Diamond Match Company's yard at Oakdale, succeeding H. O. Stewart, who has been named a division manager. Mr. Reager has been associated with the lumber business in Oakdale for twenty-two years, beginning work 'rvith the Oakdale Lumber Company, and when the yard was purchased by The Diamond Match Company, he continued in their employment. He is well known in the Oakdale com-

Lumber and Building Material Group

Amended Procedure For Securing Delense Sponsors Big Gathering at Capital

More than 600 attended the dinner meeting of the Sacramento Trade Club at Sacramento, January 14, sponsored by the lumber and building material group.

Charles L. Shepard of Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, was chairman of the evening.

The lumber and building material group provided a fine evening's entertainment which included five acts of first class vaudeville and a 15 piece orchestra.

Forty books of Defense Savings Stamps were given away as door prizes.

This meeting has now become an annual affair, having been initiated last year through the efforts of Les Carr of L. J. Carr & Co., Sacramento.

Following is the list of firms who financed the meeting: Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Dolan Building Materials Co., Burnett & Sons, Knox Lumber Co., Sierra Mill & Lumber Co., Capital Lumber Co., The Diamond Match Co., California Builders Supply Co., Clare Lumber Co., Lumbermen's Supply Co., L. J. Carr & Co., Sacramento Rock & Sand Co., Homestead Lumber Co., H. R. Neel Lumber Co., W. P. Fuller & Co., Robt. Powell & Co., A. Teichert & Sons, Building Supply Co., Mapes Lumber Co., "Shorty" Sims, c/o Builders Exchange; J. M. Derr Lumber Co., Elk Grove; Davis Lumber Co., Davis; Noah Adams Lumber Co.. Walnut Grove.

Association Gets New Members

"Many new members have joined the Associa"tion since January I in response to an invitation from membership chairman Cloyd Garner," says Ray Clotfelter, president of Lumber Merchants'Association of Northern California, in a recent bulletin sent out to all lumber dealers.

HousingPriorities

Amended Preference Rating Order P-55, provides for the following changes in procedure in the granting of priority assistance in connection with defense housing projects:

(1) Manufacturers supplying building materials for defense housing projects should hereafter apply for priority assistance under the recently announced "Production Requirements Plan," which is designed to help them obtain priority ratings to cover their materials requirements for three months at a time.

In order to secure a priority rating under this plan, the manufacturer must fill out Form PD-25A. Copies of this form are available from the field offices of the Priorities Division.

(2) When a rating has been applied to a housing project, that rating may be extended by a builder to a supplier if the supplier has "not in whole or in part manufactured, produced, assembled or otherwise physically changed" the materials to fill a rated order.

The rating carried by the project may then be applied by the supplier to his own purchase orders for finished items. But when the rating has been extended to a manufacturer, the manufacturer should apply for assistance under the Production Requirements Plan, and is not to extend the project rating directly. Other requirements of the amended order are that:

(1) Suppliers must sign and file with the OPM an Acceptance of Preference Rating Order P-55 amended, before applying its rating to their orders.

(2) Extension of ratings must be made by endorsement on purchase orders or contracts of the statement in (e) (1) of the amended Order, such statements to be authenticated by an authorized agent of the Federal lfousing Administrator.

Copies of the Order and blank acceptance forms may be obtained from field offices of the Priorities Division.

JOrNS BROTHER

Stanley Hawkins, 17 years of. His brother, Edward, joined in Aviation Radioman Third Class. Hawkins who is with the E. K. Angeles.

In Service

age, has joined the Navy. 1940 and has advanced to They are sons of Avon L. Wood Lumber Co. at Los