TACOMA LUMBER SALES

Tacoma

Peterman

Eatonville

De(iance

Allow Increare on Redwood Prices

Increases in ceiling prices for redrvood lurnber, the net effect of rvhich rvill be to raise the average sales realization for all redrvood lumber by $2.30 per thousand board feet, were announced on Mav 19 by the Office of Price Administration.

O.P.A. said that this u'as the minimum necessary to cover the stumpage and out-of-1>ocket costs of substantially all operations, excluding onlr' a snrall percentage that are normally unprolitable.

Tlre increases, u'hich became effective N[ay 23, 1944, are as follou's :

$5 per thousand board feet in the maximum prices of all common and shop grades of redn'ood, except 5f 4" and 6/4" thicknesses, ancl ties sold anywhere in the United States (For example, 1" x J'R/L No. 1 Heart Common is 'aised from $41.50 to $46.50.)

This action u'as taken after extensive consultation rvith the inclustrl' and examination of cost data, O.P.A. said.

In 1943 approximately 600 million feet of redn-ttod u'ere produced, rvith an aggregate vah,re of $33,000,000.

California redwood grows only in tlie northern coastal counties of California. Production is confined to a feu' companies, five companies accounting lor over 80% of the total and nine companies producing95/c of all redu,ood.

Three-quarters of the production is going to the Army, Navt' or Maritime Commission or into indirect militarl' uses such as tanks and pipes in offshore military and naval estabiisl-rments. The remaining quarter goes into farm construction and repair, home repair, boxes and general milllvork.

O.P.A. pointed out that the $2.30 increase in sales realization provided by today's action compensates for a gradual redtrction in sales realization since the first half of 1943, rvhich amounted to $2.02 per thousand board feet.

This reduction rn,ras due to the exhaustion of stocks of dry lumber and the conseqttent loss of extra cl'rarges {or dry condition. Redu'ood takes 12 to 18 months to dry and a stock eqrrivalent to trt'o-thirds of annual production is normally maintained. Nlilitary clemands have been so great that for two vears very little has been put in stock, and the only dry redrvood available l.ras been that already in stock' Present inventories are critically low and it is not expected that any larger proportion of clrv lumller u'ill be available until after the end of the lr'ar O.1'.A. saicl.

Paul C. Stevens Named !(/'estern Manager

The Executive Committee of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association announces that Paul C. Stevens o{ Portland, Oregon, has been named to succeed the late Roy Dailey as Western manager. He rvill assume his duties on or about June 16. After spending some time familiarizing himself rvith the workings of the organization it is planned to move the Western bran'ch ofifrce from Seattle to Portland, a move that has been under consideration by the Executive Committee for the past year or more.

For the past seven years, Mr. Stevens has been manager of the Portland office of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. The four previous years were spent with the Douglas Fir Exploitation and Exporting Company of Portland, and for ten years prior to that affiliation he was manager of the rvholesale department of Chas. K. Spaulding Lumber Co. also of Portland. Mr. Stevens came to the last mentioned concern after seeing service in the U. S. Army during World War I, prior to r'vhich he had been rvith the Bridal Veil Timber Companv, lumber manufacturers.

Will Live on Oregon Rcnch

After twenty-one years with the Rossman Mill & Lumbcr Co. at its San Pedro yard, C. P. Kellogg has left for Grants Pass, Ore., rvhere he and Mrs. Kellogg rvill make their home on his 4o-acre ranch. Ife expects to spend part of his first six or eight months in the North as a buyer for the firm, calling on the Oregon and Washington mills. His son, Eugene, rvill succeed him as manager of the yard.

Buys Retcil Lumber Yqrds

Bert McKee has purchased from Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lurnber Co., the lumber yards at Calipatria, Imperial and Brawley. They will be operated as the Imperial Valley Lumber Company, the head office being at 1518 S. Central Avenue, Los Angeles.

The only' change in personnel management rvill be that Wilie Manning, who has managed the yard at Calipatria, will be succeeded by his trvin brother, Riley Manning. J. R. Weakley, u'ho has been manager of the Brawley r-ard for sixteen years, u.ill remain in that position. Jerome A. Wilson, manager of the Imperal yard for the past twenty-three years, lvill remain in full charge.

Tuition-Free Evening Courses Designed for Builders and Allied Trades

-'\nrong more than 150 tuitioi-r-free er-ening courses offerecl bv thc \\rar Training L)ffrce oI the Universitv of Southern California at l-os Angeles arc sirccial classes designed for builders ancl :rlliecl tracles, stlLrting rluling the u'eek oi June 1.

Sponsorecl b1' the U. S. Ofllcc of l.-clrrcatior.r, the majority of classes rr-reet u,eekly for thc lrcnr tenn of 1S-u'eeks duration. Supplement:lrv gasolinc :Llrplications are issued to trainees thlorrelr ( ). l'. .\. rt'grrlltri,,ns.

Listed in the neu- cataloguc :rre subjects of l'ood technologl' featurir.rg strcngth :rnrl structural values, reinforced concrete rvith special selcctecl problems, plastics ancl tl'reir phvsical and chemical properties, civil engineering, errgineering ur;ithematics iLnil both elementary and arli'ancecl errginceri rtt],I r':r rving-.

()ther fielrls inclucie thosc of electrical enginccring ancl a group of corrrses in r:iclio, ultra high irecluency studies, electror-rics, tool and die clesign, time ancl motion strtclv, lrlant protection, and phases of inclustrial r.nan:rgenrcnt.

Detailed information on the new catalogrle rlitv be had fron.r tl're S. Cl. \\rar Training (){ice at llTchnron<l -ll I I or l)lloslrcct 9877 a.fter 5:30 p. rn.

In the Ncrvy thc Lawrencethe Navv and :i saiesnran for

Don Philips, Jr., son o{ l)or-r 1'hilips of Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is norv in is stationed at San Diego. Hc n';rs fornrerll' the comDanv.