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Mill Ceiling Prices on Fir Lumber lncreased

\Aiashington, Feb. 21-OPA today announced an average in.crease of approximately $1.10 a thousand board feet in mill price ceilings for Douglas fir, western hemlock and true fir lumber. effective March 6.

The agency ordered a readjustment of prices which it said t,ill increase ceilings on some of these items and reduce them on others.

The readjustment, OPA added, will give mills a profit three per cent greater than at preseht, and an approximate average realization of $40 per 1000 board feet on Douglas fir.

OPA said the new price regulation is designed primarily to stimulate production of lumber needed for home construction.

It added that the measure r,vill not increase costs to builders and home ou'ners, since "the margins of retail distributors are ample to absorb the increase to an extent 'ivhich will hold the average level of prices to that existing before the increase."

Sells Solcnc Beach Yard

The Barr Lumber Company of Santa Ana has sold its Solana Beach yard to the Lumber & Builders Supply Co., a co-partnership composed of H. G. Larrick, Sr., as managing partner, and Herschell G. Larrick, Jr., Alexander L. Childs and Porter E. Jennings as general partners. The yard rvas established in 1923 by H. G. I-arrick, Sr., and was operated by him for fifteen years under the name of Lumber & Builders Supply Co. He also managed the yard while it rvas orvned by the Barr Lumber Company. The name of the yard now retlrrns to its former name.

Mr. Larrick's partners are all veterans of World War II n'ith distinguished combat records.

Coqst Dockmen Vote to Strike

San Francisco, Feb. 2l-The C.I.O. Iuternational Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union announced today that Pacific Coast dock lvorkers have voted to strike "on or before April 1" in support of their wage and rvorking conclition demands. The strike rvould affect 22,0N rn'orkers from Vancouver, Wash., to San Diego, Calif.

The union and employers have been negotiating a 1946 contract in 'ivhich the longshoremen ask $1.50 per hour. The prevailing u'age is $1.15.

Eugene Holland Elected President O[ Masonite Corporation

Eugene Holland, former president of the Florence Stove Company, has been elected president and a director of the Masonite Corporation, and assumed his duties February 1. He succeeds M. P. McCullough, one of the founders of the company, 'ivho rvill continue as a member of the board and as chairman of the executive committee. Mr. McCullough has been serving as president pro tem since the death of Ben Alexander in 1944.

N{r. Holland, with Florence Stove Company since 1940, was elected its president last year after serving as vice president in charge of operations. A graduate of the Nebraska University, he engaged in the retail lumber business at Lincoln, Neb., in 1917, building a chain of six retail yards which he operated as the Holland Lumber Company. In 7928, he joined Universal Gypsum Company as president and general manager, and from 1936 to 1940 r,vas associated with the Chicago office of Sanderson and Porter. His home is in Glencoe, Ill.

The Masonite board also reports that R. G. Wallace, associated with the company since 1926, retired in December as executive vice president and director.

Pcrctrooper Specrks to Sqcrcmento Club

About fifty lumbermen were in attendance at the monthly dinner meeting of the Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club,, held at Wilson's Cafe, Sacramento, February 20.

Ray E. Burdg, Noah Adams Lumber Calif., president of the club, presided.

The speaker was Lieut. Col. Hester, experiences as a leader of paratroopers u,ar theater.

Co., Clarksburg, who told of his in the European

Visitors from the San Francisco llav district rvere Albert A. Kellev and I-eo Hulett.

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