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los Angeles Extends Deqdline For lumber-Grqding Requiremenls

G. E. Morris, general manager and superintendent -of building, Citl'of Los Angeles, has agreed, on recommendations oiLumber Grades eommittee, to extend to September 1,1957, the enforcement date of their bulletin dated June 17, though the nelv Code will require (1) all lumb-er be "gradestamped" and (2) all roof sheathing io be Standard and Better.

This means that dealers now having orders in process will have until August 31 to deliver lumber on the basis operating during the past year, which ruling permi!; the use of ulitity giade roof sheathing, Executive Vice-President Orrie W. Hamilton told SCRLA members in his July 12 bulletin.

On and after September 1, the rulings rvill become effective, permitting the use of only Standard and Better grades of roof sheathing and requiring that all lumber be "gradestamped" by a recognized grading agency'

Comes Nqturqlly to Forestry Winner

A sraduate from Oakland High School, Brian Randolph Pavne. is a winner in a nationwide contest designed to provide a four-year scholarship for America's most pr-omising teen-agers; secondly, he will be a third-generation forester. The cSntest was the largest scholarship competition ever conducted in the United States. Brian's scholarship was awarded by the Weyerhaeuser'Iimber Foundation.

Brian's fither is Burnett H. Payne, assistant Regional forester in charge of Timber Management, of the U.S. Forest Service, Reeion 5, in San Francisco' And his father's stepfather is De-nnie Ahl, former timber sale officer in the state of Washington, who has a lookout in Olympic National Forest named after him.