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Appointed Advertising Manager

The Celotex Corporation has announced the aPPointment of Gates Ferguson as advertising manager. Mr. Ferguson was formerly associate director of the Federal Housing Administration for the Nerv York District.

The ner.t' Celotex executive has had a long and successful career in newspaper, advertising and public relations work. He was formerly head of the advertising dePartment of the B. F. Goodrich Co., and more recently was a member of the public relations stafi of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., and production consultant for The Princeton Film Center.

He served for five years as a director of the Association of National Advertisers, was also a director of the Advertising Club of New York, and is a past president of the Advertising Club of MinneaPolis.

Lumber Cut Up 34 Per Cent

Officials of the Placerville Lumber Company, Placerville, Calif., announce the company's 1945 lumber cut to July 1 was 17.386,&0 board feet, and increase of 34 per cent over last year when 12,991,334 board feet were cut during the same period. The company's 1945 goal is 55,000,000 board feet. They operate three sawmills, and all the lumber cut is going to the Army Air Forces and the Navy'

Direction 8 to L335 Amended

This amended Direction-permits homeowners, except farmers, to pur'chase lumber to repair their home damaged by fire, flood, earthquake, storm or similar disaster, or in any other case where the dwelling will be unfit for continued occupancy if not repaired immediately, by signing a special certilicate. Dealers will replace this lumber with a AA-3 rating, subject to certain limitations,-by also using a special certificate.

Farmers will continue to obtain lumber for emergency repairs through county committees of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency.

Restrictions on Distribution of Balsa Lumber Removcd

Washington, D.C., July 10.-Restrictions on the distribution of balsa lurnber, which limited sale to purchase orders rated AA-5 or better, were removed today by the War Production Board.

Military uses of balsa are for life rafts, life floats and aircraft plyvvood, WPB said. Before the war, balsa was used chiefly for model airplanes (approximately 65 per cent of production) and for toys, scale models, surgical supplies, iheatre and motion picture props' hat blocks and scientific equipment.

Order M-177 was revoked today because the amount of balsa now being brought into Jhe country is considered sufficient to meet military requirements and to build up an adequate stockpile, WPB said.

Hello Sheila!

Mr. and Mrs. Paul McCusker are receiving congratulations, the occasion being the arrival of their first baby at the Stanford Hospital, San Francisco. The young lady's name is Sheila.

Mr. McCusker is in the wholesale lumber business in San Francisco, where he represents Parelius Lumber Co.

Sells Plcrnt

Silver Falls Timber Co., Silverton, Ore., has sold its plant to R. A. Babb Hardware Co., Eugene, Ore. Mr. Babb indicated the sarvmill will be dismantled but the planer mill may be operated by his company or someone else, opening in early August.

Pickering Mill Destroyed By Fire

The sawmill of the Pickering Lumber Corporation at Standard, Calif., was destroyed by fire July 7, with an estimated loss of $500,000. The fire was said to have started under the resaw building. The capacity of the plant was 22.@0'feet an hour.

J. C. Rassenfoss, vice president and manager, announced July 11 that the mill will be rebuilt as rapidly as conditions permit, and that they are continuing to cut and stack logs, and are operating the box factory.

John H. Ycncey

Obituaries

John Hardin Yancey, of Newman, Calif., well known San Joaquin Valley retail lumberman, passed away July 17. He was born in Stockton 73 years ago. His company operates yards at Newman, Patterson and Crow's Landing, with headquarters at Newman.

IIe is survived by his widow, Mrs. Merle Yancey; two sons, Thomas G. Yancey of Newman, and Joel H. Yancey, U. S. Army; and two daughters, Miss Madeline Yancey and Mrs. Sarah Orr.

Funeral services were held in Newman lulv 19.

George A. Sheldon

George A. Sheldon, Los Angeles, passed away on July 18 following a long illness. He was 67 years of age. He had been associated with the lumber business in Los Angeles for a long period, having been with the San Pedro Lumber Company for twenty-six years, and later with the E. K. Wood Lumber Company.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Frances L. Sheldon. Funeral services were held in the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. on Tulv 20.

George M. Dunccn

George M. Duncan, retired lumberman, passed away on July 4 at the Veterans' Hospital, Portland, Ore. Before his retirement in 7936, he was well known in lumber circles, having served as president of the Duncan Lumber Co., the Corvallis Lumber Co. and the Leudinghouse Lumber Co.

Southern Pine

The temporqgry increase of $4 per 1,000 board feet in the carload ceiling price of southern pine 2x4 lumber of all common grades sold on direct mill shipment in lengths of 10 feet or longer may be charged only in sales to an agency of the U. S. Government or to a user for direct use in filling Government contracts, the OPA announced. (Amendment 1O to Second Revised MPR 19, effective Juty 23)

Furniture

WPB announces the revocation of Order L-260-A governing the use of wood in manufacture of furniture. The agency said. the action \l'as not expected to mean early increase in furniture production, but would remove impediments to output when supplies of other components ease.