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New Naval Rules

Charles Kempner, riotously funny man of the screen and radio, wows audiences of sailors with this one.

He says that the Navy is calling in and cancelling all previous manuals and rules and regulations covering the deportment and actions of sailors. and subtituted therefor

Lqwrence-Philips Lumber Compcny

The Philips-Hill Lumber Company, a co-partnership of D. R. Philips and Ray H. Hill has been dissolved as of February 15,1946.

Ray Hill is going into a nerv venture in the lumber business to be announced later.

D. R. Philips and son, Donald R. Philips, Jr., recently discharged from the U. S. Navy, will continue in the wholesale lumber business as a co-partnerhip under the old firrn name of the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company, established in 1929.

three simple rules that every sailor may plainly underStand, as follows:

First-If it moves, salute it.

Second-If it doesn't move, pick it up.

Third-If you can't pick it up-paint it.

New Retcril Ycrrd

Andrew Baldwin and William A. (Bill) Samuelson have opened a retail lumber yard at 11764 West Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, rvhich will be known as the Los Angeles Lumber Company. They will run a mill in connection with the lumber business and will have one of the largest resaws in use in this section, designed especially for large timbers and electrically operated. The Pacific Electric Railway Co. has put in a spur track at the plant. Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuelson have been associated with the lumber business for a long time.

Ceiling Prices Raised on Prefabricated Homes

Washington.-The Office of Price Administration has acted to stimulate the production of prefabricated houses by permitting ceiling prices to be called on the basis of current material and labor costs rather than on the cost of materials and labor rates in March, 7942.

The revised formula applies to single and multiple unit dwellirrgs.made mostly of wood. In addition' to.currr:ent costs, markups of 36 per cent at the manufactuiers' level and l0 per cent at the resellers' level are permitted. These percentages remain unchanged from the previous method of computing ceilings.

The new ceilings will result in correspondingly higher costs to buyers of prefabricated houses, the OPA said.

The National Housing Agency estimates that the costs to buyers of building materials and labor rates on houses of all types has risen about 36 per cent.since 1940.

IJnder the revised pricing method materials costs used to figure ceilings may not exceed the maximum prices for carload purchases of lumber milhvork, shingles, composition roofing, siding, rn'allboard and sheathing.

If the reseller installs the prefabricated house, he may add the sum of the actual cost of additional materials to his actual labor costs of installation and also add a 10 per cent markup.

Pricing Method for Doors and Windows Wired with Mesh Aluminum Screen Wire

A uniform method for coi'nputing manufacturers' ceiling prices for combination storm and screen doors and window and sash screens wired with 16 x 16 mesh aluminum screen wire cloth, a comparatively new product, has been established by Office of Price Administration, effective February lZ, 1946.

Consumers' prices for the items wired with the new product will be higher than those paid for items rvired with ordinary screen, but they r,r'ill be in line tvith the prices charged for other stock screen goods covered by the regulation.

In the past, manufacturers have had to apply to OPA for individual ceiling prices for the new product.

Combination Storm and Screen Doors-In computing their ceiling prices for these doors wired with 16 x 16 mesh aluminum wire, manufacturers may add $1.35 to the list prices of 14 mesh galvanized wire listed in Catalogue No. 40 of Standard Lists, and apply a discount of 591 per cent.

Window and Sash Screens-In computing ceiling prices for rn'indow and sash screens wired with 16 x 15 mesh aluminum wire, manufacturers are required to use the 16 mesh bronze wire list found in Catalogue No. 40 of Stanclard Lists and apply a ffi% per cent discount.

(Amendment No. 12 to Revised Maximum Price Regulation 293-Stock Millwork; effective February 12, 1946.)

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