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(Continued from Page 15) the Forest Resource Survey for the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station, United States Forest Service, Asheville, N. C.

The chief of the U. S. Forest Service, Lyle F. Watts, expressed "high approval" of the Forestry courpanies recently, in a business call with Brigadier General Johu W. N. Schulz, commanding general of the Engineer Unit Training Center. His stop at the EUTC was part of a routine inspection trip to study Army use of national forests, and to fulfill a desire to see the Engineer forestry units in action. These, said Mr. Watts, should answer a vital need overseas for rough timber and lumber for military construction. The companies utilize the Evangeline unit of Kisatchie National forest, under special use permit, for their training at Camp Claiborne.

As for the members of the Forestry companies themselves, many of them prefer to be called "sawmillers," not foresters, for they are not prepared for the reseeding or replanting rvork now associated with forestry. They are trained to get out the luml:er or timbers for construction in the war zones. The militarv railroads of tomorrow may run on their ties, c,r cross some foreign stream on timbers they have hewn. Some growth of timber near a fighting front may become a vast stockpile of lumber under their skilled hands.

They are proud of their nelv battle cry: "Timber, timber !"

Amendment.No. 6 to MPR No. 223-Northem Hardwood Lumber

Specific dollars-and-cents maximum prices for additional grades and items of Northern Hardwood Lumber were announced by the Office of Price Administration.

Tl-re new specific ceilings are established for white oak and red oak structural stock or sound square edge material, and white oak and red oak freight car stock, common dimension, mine car lumber. They are maximum prices previously approved by OPA for use by a number of individual mills. Mills in the past had been required to apply to OPA for approval of prices for these items.

Establishment of the specific ceilings eliminates the necessity for mills filing the proposed prices with OPA in the future, and, at the same time, creates uniform prices for all sellers.

The new prices are provided in Amendment No. 6 to Maximum Price Regulation No.223 (Northern Hardwood Lumber), and become effective July 3, 1943.

Appointed Purchasing Agent

Frank Harrington has been appointed purchasing agent for the Barr Lumber Company at Santa Ana. Mr. Harrington has been with the company for a number of years.

Back From Northwest

Jas. E. (Jimmy) Atkinson of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, was back at his desk July 6 from a three weeks visit in the Northwest.

Ed Newhall Gives a Valuable Service

A unique purchasing and expediting service to busy materialhungry firms is being rendered by Ed Newhall, well known in the lumber, steel and hardware trade.

With everybody having trouble locating material, Mr. Newhall, through his San Francisco office, is devoting his efforts to obtaining badly needed items, especially steel and industrial supplies.

"You might call me an assistant purchasing agent, as in the case of firms having such an executive I act as his assistant in digging up urgently needed items and making personal contacts expediting shipments," Mr. Newhall says, "or as a part time purchasing agent for firms whose requirements do not urarrant the employment of a full time experienced executive in this capacity."

Organizations located arvay from San Francisco find his services of special value due to their inability to maintain the personal contact necessary under present conditions.

Back of Mr. Newhall is twenty-five years of experience in the field in which he is specializing, which has embraced the complete cycle of manufacturing, warehousing and distributing.

Offices are centrally located in the Monadnock Building, Third and Market Streets, San Francisco, where he has been located for a number of years. His telephone number is SUtter 64O7.

HAMMOND LUMBER CO. BUYS SIX RETAIL YARDS

The Hammond Lumber Company has purchased from the former orvners and will operate the following yards: Boyes Lum,ber Yard, Boyes Springs, Calif.; Calistoga Lumber Company, Calistoga, Calif.; Clear Lake Lumber Co., Clear Lake Highlands, Calif.; Napa Lumber Company, Napa, Calif.; St. Helena Lumber Company, St. Helena, Calif.; Mission Lumber Company, Sonoma, Calif.

Wade Shiflett continttes as general manager of the six yards, and tl.rere rvill be no changes in personnel.

Up And Down The State

W. J. (Nick) Nicholson, California Plywood, Inc., Oakland, returned recently from the Pacific Northwest, where he called on the plyrvood mills.

T. A. Work, Work Lumber Co., Monterey, spent with his family recently at their cottage on the River.

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Elmo Lombardi, formerly yard foreman at the Coos Ilay Lumber Company's 9th Avenue, Oakland, Tenninal, is now yard foreman for Christenson Lumber Company, San Francisco.

O. N. Reynard, Barbara, spent a few first of the month.

Ambrose Lumber Company, Santa days in Los Angeles on business the

Joe Hearin, Ashland, Ore., lumberman, was Angeles visitor. a recent Los

Frank J. Connolly, Los Angeles, is on a and New York.

Western Hardwod Lumber Con-rpany, business trip to Washington, D. C.,

Glenn M. Harrington, MacDonald & San Francisco, Ieft July 9 on a business

Lu Green, Gamerston & Green back from a business and pleasure

Harrington, Ltd., trip to Portland.

Lumber Co., Oakland, is trip in the High Sierra.

Jack Hohvay, lumber buyer and yard manager for Whiting-Mead Co., Los Angeles, has resigned and is retiring from business. He was with the company for several years, and is well known in Southern California lumber circles.

Judd Blanchard, Blanchard and Mrs. Blanchard are on a

Lumber Company, Burbank, trip to the Northwest.

Chas. S. Brace is back at work with the Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton, having made a good recovery from the illness which has kept him away for more than a year.