California Building Permits for March

Direction 7 and Direction 2a To Order L-335 Amended

Washington, D. C., April l7-Low grade lumber of certain species, and culls and rejects, rvhich may be bought on uncertified and unrated orders, must now be charged against total amounts of lumber that consumers are authorized to receive, the War Production Board announced today.

Direction 7 to the lumber control order, L-335, formerly permitted lumber consumers to receive such lumber in addition to the amount specifically authorized by WPB. This permission is withdrawn by Direction 7 as amended today. The increasingly tight lumber supply situation has necessitated the additional curtailment in consumption of lumber effected by the amended direction, WPB said.

Species and grades covered by the direction are No. 4 or lower grades of Douglas fir, southern yellow pine, western hemlock and Sitka spruce ; E grades of Douglas fir and western hemlock; redwood durrnage ; No. 3 or lorver grades cypress. This lumber may still be delivered by sawmills and received by distributors and delivered to consumers on c'ertified and unrated orders if the sale does not interfere with the filling of certified orders. Culls and rejects of any species are also covered by Direction 7 and may still be sold on uncertified and unrated orders provided that the cost is not more than 85 per cent of the price established by the Office of Price Administration for the lorvest standard grade of the same species.

Direction 2a to L-335, also amended today, makes clear that western pine lumber in inventory as well as that received after March 26 is subject to restrictions on its use for millwork. As amended on March 26, Direction Za prohibited the use of western pine for any millwork except the following: rvindows; sash ; doors; window, sash and door frames; lvindorv and door screens; trim and molding and cut stock for such items.

Oregon Timber Growth

"The annual timber growth in Oregon at the present time is probably less than two billion board feet, because such a large area is now covered with overripe timber where depletion from insects, disease and rvindthrow fai exceeds the grorvth," says Nelson B. Rogers, Oregon State Forester, in a recent statement. "When this area has been logged," he says, "the annual growth for the State should equal at least sevdn billion board feet; consequently it would be safe to say that five and one-half billion feet can be cut perpetually. During the past year 7,180,000,000 feet were logged."

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Floyd Elliott, manager of the San Francisco office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., and P. W. Chantland, maniger of the Los Angeles offrce, went to Aberdeen, Wash. to attentl the funeral of Peter Schafer, president of the company, April 17.

Lieut. George B. McGill, Jr., who was manager of the Eugene,. Ore., office of E. J. Stanton & Son of Los Angeles before entering the Service, is a navigator on a B-24 bontber in the Philippines. His father, George B. McGill, Sr., district manager of Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, at Eugene, Ore., received a letter from him recently in in which he said he had just completed his 30th combat mission.

T. J. Butcher, was a recent Los

Home Lumber Company, Chula Vista, Angeles visitor on business.

Harold Chicago, ness.

Bendorf, California is spending several Redwood Distributors, weeks in California on

John C. Saner, Jr., Northwest representative of Santa Fe Lumber Co., with headquarters in Portland, rvas a recent visitor to the company's head office in San Francisco.

Joe A. Bugley, and Mrs. Bugley, to Mexico City.

Pan American Sales left on April 22 for a Co., Los Angeles, three rveeks' visit of S.

T/5 John R. Osgood, son geles, is 'ivith Gen. George Germany.

R. S. Osgood of Los AnPatton's Third Army in

Tom Ross of The Ross-Terrell Co., is back from a visit to the companv's in Grants Pass, Oregon.