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The average savings in material and labor over the regular random lengths has been found to be 12/o and 20,4o, respectively. It has been widely used in the southern states for many years because of the standard utilization of endmatching in hardu'ood flooring, and the use of end matchers by the larger mills manufacturing yello'ir. pine. Architects have accepted and recommended its use for many years, but only in recent years has it received approval by government agencies and inspectors, rvhere random lengths has been specified,'r,vith certain sound, recognized requirements.

Upon submission of a sketch of the house floor plan, shorving over-all dimensions and floor joists or girts on centers, it is possible for the supplier to furnish the exact number of each specified length to cover the floor area, 'ivithout rvaste, or cutting pieces except for openings (fireplaces or floor vents), unless the over-all dimensions are fractional, and then the waste rvill be minimum. The product will also solve certain purchasing problems of purchasing odd lengths or multiples, by being able to make joints as desired, rvithout waste.

Arrangements are being made to fill regular orders from stock, in full car shipments, or finish loading-in-transit, on either the Northwestern or Southern Pacific railroads, or via truck.

TMANC Enrolls Donville Yqrd

The San Ramon Vallev Mill and Lumber Co.. Danville. l-ras joined the Lumber Merchants Assn. of Northern California. Orvner of the retail vard is Harrv O. Stervart.

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Films Show Deqlers How to Profit

Trvo nerv sound-slide films on sales and merchandising techniques are being shown to lumber dealer groups by sales representatives of the Building Products division of the Aimstrong Cork Company. "Lo'iv Man on the Retail Pole" deals rvith the economics of pricing for reasonable profit and compares profit margins in many retail operations to sholv that the average lumber dealer can legitimately price his products to include the cost of services demanded by consumers and still allow himself a fair return. "The ACC Sale" concerns basic selling fundamentals, outlining selling principles which may be applied to many different products. The 2O-minute film shorvs how to sell ceilings to different types of customers, including "do-it-yourself" handymen and remodeling contractors.

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Coll Olympic 3-7711 i76o sherrmound st. .tl:lilY|llt o retetype oA'2ss may be arranged the company's dis-

Screenings of either or both films through sales representatives or through trict oflrces located irr major cities.

Fly Fire Potrols Over Timberlqnds

Flying firemen are battling unpr_edictable elements in the fighf agiinst forest fire losses in Northern California's privite tiinberlands as the 7957 fire season approaches' The Cooperative Aerial Fire Patrol, begun in the spring of 1951 and operating in the pine region between Trinity Alps and the Sierras, nolv has 10 member forest-or,r'ning companies sharing the expenses of its program. Nine of the member companies have certified Tree Farms, totaling over half a million acres, devoted to grorving perpetual crops of timber. Participating companies include The McCloud River Lumber Co., ThJDiamond Match Co., U. S. Plyrvood Corp. and Ralph L. Smith Lumber Co.

NLRB Scrops Seporote Tests

In a decision involving the T. H. Rogers Lumber Co. of McAlester, Okla., (117 NLRB No. 230) the NLRB made its most important revision in its jurisdictional standards afiecting retailers since 1954, says the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn. The case was one involving the determination of Board jurisdiction. At issue .ivas the interpretation of the non-retail and the multi-state jurisdictional standards. (Rogers operates a mill and warehouse at McAlester, Okla., and a chain of lumber yards in several states).

fn asserting jurisdiction, the Board scrapped its former multi-state jurisdictional tests for both retail and non-retail enterprises, and stated it would continue to apply non-retail standards to enterprises which are a combination of retail and non-retail operations except rvhere the non-retail operation is de minimis (trivial). In the same decision establishing the modification of the non-retail standards, the Board also spelled out its jurisdictional standards for retail enterprlses.

By extending to all retail or service enterprises present single and intrastate chain retail or service establishment standards, and eliminating the multi-state standard, the Board established the modified criteria for retailers with this language:

Bubble-both Boffles Smog

Seattle, Wash.-With residents complaining about the heavy brown smoke from the West Coast Wood Preserving Company's .ivet-bark incinerator, the creosote plant near here is going to get a cor-rtinual bubble bath. The invention of John H. Forrest, Vancouver, B.C., and said to be in use already in several B. C. shingle mills, it will draw the smoke through bubbling water on the theory it rvill leave both smell and dirt in the water and emerge as a c!ean gas. The Seattle AirPollution Control Board is watching the experiment lvith interest.

lishments where the enterprise has total direct inflow of $1,000,000 or more, total indirect inflorv of $2,000,000 or more, or total direct outflow of $100,000 or more."

As far as the single-unit operations of retail lumber dealers are concerned, this represents no change from the previous criteria established in 1954.

As far as line yards are concerned, however, the wording of the decision apparentlv clarifies the matter of separate l.reatment of the several units of a chain.

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Present Status of All Retail Dealer Operations

The decision in the Rogers case outlining these new jurisdictional standards was just handed down on May 23d. In discussing it .rvith the National Labor Relations Board, it is their opinion that the Board will assert jurisdiction over cases involving retailers, rvhether the operition is an individual or a chain of stores, operating rvithin a single state, or in more than one state, rvhere the entire ent€rDrise:

(1) has annual purchases of at least $1,000,000 coming to it directly from outside the stare, or

(2) has annual purchases of 92,000,000 coming to it indirectly from outside the state, or

(3) ships $100,000 worth of merchanclise into another state.

At least one of the abor.e three standards must be satisfied. No gross volume of business or gross sales tests rvill be applied. As a matter of information the dollar criteria for nonretail operations is just half that for retail.

Association or Group Bargaining Problem

While the nen' standards .n,ill apparently be applicable to the entire operation of line vards, the Rogers decision does not touch on the matter of individual lumber dealers rvho have found it advantageous to bargain as a group with unions in the area. While NI-RB points out that irr tl-re past they have consistently combined the commerce of association members in applying its jurisdictional standards, they lvill make no definite statement as to their futnre course of action in the case of such lumber dealer groups.

Consequently, the situation in this respect renrains the same as the opinion of Counsel reported in NRLDA Brrlletin I-R-8-54, r,vhich read in part as follorvs :

"This is a matter of substantial importance, because such a policy t'onld make enforcement or non-enforcement depend upon rvhether lumber dealers in an area deal vl.ith unions individually or collectively.

"IJntil such time as this may be clarified by ruling or decision, the members of a bargair-ring group cannot safely assume that the Boarcl rvill treat them individually irr apply- ing the yardsticks."