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Prices of \(/ooden Agricultural

Containers Upped

San Francisco, Feb. 4.-Prices for western wooden agricultural containers-used in shipping and storing fruits and vegetables-were increased about 8 percent today by the Office of Price Administration to cover increased production costs since 1941.

Completely revising maximum regulation No. 186 (western wooden agricultural containers), the OPA set new dollars and cents ceiling for shook-the finished lumber used in the manufacture of containers-warehouses and delivery charges and extra workings.

Generally, the revision effects an increase of $4.00 per thousand feet of shook, $1.00 per thousand feet for warehouse and delivery charges, and 10 per cent for extra workings.

The action, effective February 3, 1943, also makes special provisions for metropolitan factories and for retail sales and institutes a modified pricing basis for items produced in the states of Washington and Idaho, and the counties of Baker, Umatilla, Wheeler and Union in the state of Oregon-an area defined in the regulation as the "northwestern area."

The regulation covers wooden agricultural containers produced in California, Idaho, Oregon, W'ashington, Montana, \Myoming, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.

The measure will relieve metropolitan box factories by permitting them to sell agricultural shook in quantities of less than 10,000 feet at a price $5.00 per thousand feet more than prices established for the other producers. OPA found that metropolitan plants have higher costs than mills located in forest areas, so that the $5.00 premium is necessary in order to assure continued supplies to users in or near metropolitan areas. A metropolitan "mill" is defined as one which has 66 per cent of its total production in industrial shook and delivers agricultural shook within a radius of 25 miles from the cities. listed in the regulation-Oakland, San Francisco and San Pedro in California; Portland and Salem, Oregon; and Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma in Washington.

Another change in the regulation establishes a special

$5.00 mark-up which may be added to the maximum prices on small retail sales under 2,000 feet. If a retail sale is made out of a warehouse a charge for delivery may be added.

The revised regulation also changed the method of pricing items produced in the Northwest area. All items produced in the Northwest area now are priced f.o.b. mill, but full freight based upon an 18OO pound weight for shook and 2700 pound weight for car strips may be added to the basic price.

The revision distinguishes between two groups of warehouses-(l). the "mill warehouse" which is at the mill, and (2) the "distribution warehouse," that is awav from the mill. On a shipment of 30,000 pounds or more, a distribution warehouse may make an addition of $2.00 per thou;and feet (or 10 cents per hundred units of unitized stock) ; but mill warehouses cannot m'ake these additions. On a shipment of less than 30,000 pounds both types of warehouse may make the additions.

Change Of Office

Union Lumber Company has moved its Los Angeles office from suite 923 tn suite 623 W. M. Garland Building. The telephone number is the same, TRini\, 2282.

JAMES R. McLEOD IN AIR CORPS

James R. Mcleod, son of James W. Mcleod of Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Los Angeles, is now a cadet in the Army Air Corps, in training at Arlington, Calif.

Logs

WBP says that subcontractors who cngage in building of logging roads and persons r,r'ho carry on contract-hauling of logs are entitled to benefits of Preference Rating Order P-l38 (Pro P-138, Interpretation 1), issued Januarv 21.

Appointed Manager

R. R. (Dick) Proctor has closed the Valley Lumber & Wrecking Co. at Colton, Calif., for the duration. For seven years, from 1928 to 1935, Mr. Proctor was a branch manager for the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., and on January 13 returned to their employ as manager of their Riverside yard.

Reprerenting in Southern Californic: The Paciftc Lumber Company-Wendling-Nathan Co

Port Orford Cedar

Questions and Answers on Conservation Order M-208

The following questions and answers, designed to explain more fully Conservation Order M-208, as amended January 12, 1943, were issued by the Lumber and Lumber Products Division of the War Production Board:

-1- a. To what material does M-208 apply?

A. The new Order (Conservation Order M-208 as amended January 12, 1943) includes lumber from all of the softwood species of trees. In addition to the species specifically mentioned in paragraph ("), the order applies to lumber from all of the coniferous or evergreen trees, such as redwood, red cedar, and tamarack.

Unlike the old Order (Conservation Order M-208 and its five amendments, before revision on January l?th)' the new Order is also applicable to wood shingles and wood lath.

It should also be noted that the new Order includes those grades of Douglas Fir lumber not restricted under Limitation Order L-2I8; i.e., No. 3 common boards, dimensions, and timbers, and all grades of factory and shop lumber. The new Order is also extended to which is specifically released for distribution under the terms of M-208 by the Administrator of L-2I8.

-2- a. Are "producers" and "box factories" affected by the Order ?

A. Yes. Producers and box factories are subject to all provisions of the new Order, insofar as the provisions are applicable to them, since the specific restrictions contained in the old Order from which producers and box factories $''ere exempted have been eliminated.

-3- a. What effect do the "Classes" of orders of the former M-208 have?

A. None. "Classes", grouping several different ratings, have been eliminated. The new Order assigns specific preference ratings for certain uses, and each rating assigned by this Order or any other Order, regulation, or certificate will take its own rank in order of preference, according to Priorities Regulation 1 1- a. What effect will AAA and AA-1 ratings have?

A. They will have preference over the lower ratings assigned by this or any other Order in accordance with the provisions of Priorities Regulation 1, but they are not assigned by this Order and so are not mentionecl ir. it.

-5- a. I{ow are the other ratings handled such as those assigned for war housing, PRP, remodeling authorized on P-l10 certificates. or PD-1A's?

A. Each rating assigned by any preference rating order, regulation, or certificate will be treated in exactly the same manner as ratings assigned by this Order. (See Priorities Regulations 1, 3, and 11.)

-6- a. What if an order is assigned one rating according to the use lists of M-208, and is also assigned a different rating by some other regulation ?

A. Either rating may be used. If the rating assigned by M-208 is higher, then the M-208 rating may be applied, or vice versa. However, only one rating may be used; that is, though two or more ratings may be applicable to one (Continued on Page 30)

Pressure-Treated Wooden Manhole Covers lnstalled in Los Angeles Create Nation-Wide Interest

Hundreds of inquiries pouring into West Coast engineering offices emphasize the country-wide interest aroused by pressure-treated wooden manhole covers installed in Los Angeles county. Building commissions, municipal engineers, and sewerage and water commissions-from whom the inquiries come-see the new covers as a wartime boon for cities where sewage and water systems must expand with the new housing districts being built for industrial workers.

Adapted to construction in lumber yard woodworking shops, the new wooden covers are stripped of all metal except bolts, nails and reinforcing rods; they chalk up a saving of.250 pounds of cast iron each.

West Coast dealers are rounding up short pieces of lumber that normally would be discarded so they will be able to meet the new demand for wooden covers. Depending on the kind of shop machinery available, manhole covers may be fashioned in either hexagonal or circular shape. Plans call for nailing Z-inch by 8-inch laminated strips with four 20 penny nails to each strip and running at least two fi-inch bolts through all members, countersinking both bolt ends. Where it is difficult to secure nails and bolts, Los Angeles officials point out that wood dowels and waterproof glue may be used until the quicker and easier method of construction with metal binders is possible.

Circular covers of laminated wood can be turned out in one operation on the tilted table of a band saw. Hexagonal covers may be fabricated with a more limited amount of equipment. Cost of covers varies according to locality. Lumber yards are able to make the covers at a low price because this "sideline" manufacturing does not cut into regular lumber stocks.

The hexagonal cover is 37/, inches overall diameter and is 321 inches between opposite faces. Faces are |B/a inches. Two lifting slots, each 3 inches by fu inches, ate set in 8 inches from the opposite corners. Weight of the metal-bound cover is approximately 130 pounds; the gluedin dowel cover weighs slightly less. Lumber requirements for the Los Angeles covers called for 63.3 board feet of Douglas fir (No. 1) treated with Wolman Salts preservative or creosote. The frame uses 0.14 cubic yards of Class "A" concrete.

Wear and splintering of the wood is reduced by laying the laminated strips at a 45-degree angle to the line of traffic, applying a thin coating of emulsified asphalt-covered with dry sand or pea gravel-to the top surface of the wood cover, and keeping the surface of the cover flush with the roadway.

Back From Trip To Mexico

George A. Hill, sales manager, Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a 30-day trip to Mexico where he called on the sawmills which are the company's sources of supply of Mexican hardwoods.

In the course of his trip, Mr. Hill used methods of transportation ranging from the most modern to the primitive, including airplane, automobile, mule and rowboat.