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manager of Kilpatrick & Company, San a few days at the Los Angeles office in January. He was accompanied by Mrs. made the trip by plane.

Harry Eastman, Eastman representative of the Patrick is back from a business trip eled both ways by airplane.

Joe Matlick, Whiting-Mead Co., Los Angeles, is from the Northwest where he called on the mills.

A. E. Wolff, Francisco, spent the last week in Wolff, and they Bill Litchfield, made a business

Litchfield Lumber Co., trio to the Northwest.

Lee Slaght, manager of T. was back at his desk January in Washington and Oregon.

Lumber Sales, Los Angeles Lumber Co., Portland, Ore., to the Northwest. He trav- back R. P. Ellingson, and his son Robert, Ellingson Lumber Co., Klamath F'alls, with mills at Keno and Unity, Oregon, were in Los Angeles on vacation in the latter part of Glendale,recently January.

M. Cobb Co., Los Angeles, 28 lrom calling on the mills

L. G. Burns, Burns Lumber Co., was on to Portland in the latter part of January.

Emery Phoenix, Angeles.

Glenn Hout, president, Home Lumber ath Falls, Oregon, was in Los Angeles cation trip.

Company, Klamrecently on a va-

Emil Swanson, Eagle Rock a Duslness trlp Rock, who was on the sick list, Lumber Company, Eagle is now back on the iob.

T. Wright, Valley Lumber Seed & Feed Co., Arizona, was a recent business visitor to Los

Mark D. Campbell, Campbell-Conro Lumber Co., Portland, recently spent three weeks in Arizona, and called on the firm's representatives in California.

Lyle F. Vincent, West Oregon Lumber Co., returned recently from a business trip to Portland. While in the Northwest he attended the annual meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and the testimonial dinner to Col. Greeley.

Paul McCusker, 'wholesale lumber dealer, San Francisco, returned early in February from a trip to portland, Eugene and Coos Bay.

George L. Drake, vice president and superintendent of logging, Simpson l-ogging Co., Shelton, Wash., and Mrs. Drake have been vacationing at Rancl.ro Santa Fe, San Diego County.

J. W. Copeland, J. W. Copeland Yards, Inc., Portland, Ore., and his family, are vacationing in Los Angeles.

Wayne Mullin, Mullin Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has returned from a business trip to Arizona.

Robert W. Sells, was a Los Angeles around the first of

Houston, Texas, wholesale lumberman, and San Francisco visitor on business the month.

Dick Schiller, llammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was a recent Northu'est visitor and called on the mills.

11. C. Sand, Cole turned January 25 Pacific Northwest.

Door & Plywood Co., Los Angeles, refrom a three weeks' business trip to the

Erik Flamer. Coast Lumber Beach, Calif., rvas in Oregon in on a business trip.

& Equipment Co., Long the latter part of January

' eharlie Shoup, zona, was in Los

H. H. Shoup Lumber Co., Phoenix, Angeles recently on business.

Ray Van Ide, manager, 'W'. Angeles, returned February I the Pacific Northwest.

A. X{. Schwarz. A. Arizona, was a recent

Ari- Filing Procedure on Special Hardwood

Lumber ltems Prices Eased

B. Jones from a

Lumber Co., Los business trip to manager, Union Lumber Co., calling on the trade in South- president, Willamette Valley Lumwas in San Francisco on business

N[. Schwarz Lumlter Co., Miami, l>usiness visitor to l-os ^A.ngeles.

C. Hexberg, district sales San Francisco, returned from ern California.

George T. Gerlinger, ber Co., Portland, Ore., last week.

Tom King, former manager of Cascade-Pacific Lnmber Co., Dallas,'Oregon, is norv sales manager, Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas.

Mace Tobin, former sales manager of Willamette Valley Lumber Co., is now manager of Cascade-l'acific Lumber Co.

Russell Baker, rvl-rolesale lumberman, of former manager of Redwood Sales Co., cently visited Washington, Oregon and

Decorah, Iou'a, ancl San Francisco, reCalifornia.

Hou'ard Curran of F'rank Curran I-umber Co. Santa Ana, Calif., and N{rs. Curran urere recent visitors to San Francisco.

Judd Blanchard Calif., was recentlv of I-llanchard Lumber Co., Burbank, in San Francisco on business.

Ed Biggs, Independent l-umber Co., Grand Junction, Colorado, former Southern California lumber salesman, recently spent some time calling on mills in Oregon, Washington and California.

George B. McGill, Jr. has been appointed buyer for & Talbot, Inc., I-umber Division, rvith headquarters at ford, Oregon.

Frank Brown, manager of Tynan ufacturers of Utility Fence, is back in Oregon and Washington.

Pope Med-

& Rogers, Salinas, manfrom calling on sarvmills

Washington, D. C., Jan.24-A revision of the provisions for obtaining ceiling prices for special hardwood lumber items not specifically priced in OPA's regulation for Northern and Northeastern hardwood lumber has been announced by the Office of Price Administration.

The procedure, which will eliminate much continuous filing of applications for prices for special items by mills, becomes effective January 29, 1946.

Under the nelv procedure, a manufacturer receiving approval for a price for a special item may continue to use that price for subsequent sales of the same item, without applying again for approval, unless OPA limits its approval in some manner.

Under the old procedure, price approval for a special item was limited to the one order for which the price was sought. On all subsequent sales of the same item, the seller was required to apply again to OPA for approval of a price.

Special items affected by this action include all special items not specifically priced in the Northern and Northeastern hardwood lumber price regulations.

For example, heel stock-the material of a special grade used in the manufacture of rvooden heels for women's shoes-is a special Northeastern hardrvood item.

Other special items include Northern and Northeastern lumber of grades or dimensions not listed in the regulation. For instance, specific prices are provided for lumber, one-inch, one and one-half inches and two inches thick, but not fcir material two and one-quarter inches thick. A mill is to apply to OPA for a price for Northern or Northeastern hardrvood lumber two and one-quarter inches thick, if it receives an order for stock of that thickNCSS.

(Amendment No. 8 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 368-Northeastern Hardwood Lumber; Amendment No. 14 to Maximum Price Regulation; No. 223-Northern Hardwood Lumber, both effective January 29, 1946)

On Federcl Grqnd Jury

B. W. Byrne, B. W. Byrne & Sons, Long Beach, is a member of the Federal grand jury now in session in Los Angeles.