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Art Grey, manager of the softwood department, J. E. Eliggins Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently vacationed for a rveek at Hotel Coronado, Coronado, Calif.

Paul Overend, California Redwood Association, San Francisco, and Mrs. Overend, had a pleasant tu'o-rveek vacation at Nice, Calif., on Clear Lake.

Bob Kilgore, of L. W. Martinez dealers, San Francisco, is back from Portland and Eugene districts.

Tom Dimmick, T. M. Dimmick Calif.. lvas a recent business visitor

George E. specializing davs in San

Co., wholesale lumber calling on mills in the Lumber Co., Piercl'. to San Francisco.

Schultz, of Cascadian Company, in custom kiln drying, recently Francisco on business.

M. M. (Mike) Crook, of Pecific on a business trip to Arcata, u'here quarters at the company's office.

Chris Sechrist, of l-oop Lumber recentlv broke the n-riddle finger of softball on the company's team.

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Inc., Eugene, spent a fe'iv

Fir Sales, Pasadena, is he is makirrg his head-

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Verlon D. McKinney Called to Active Service in Ncrvy

Verlon D. NfcKinney, salesman for McKinney Hardwood Con-rpany, I-os Angele3, has been called to active service in the Navy, August 25. He served five years in the Navy during \\'orld \\rar II period. His rating was Ship's Cook First.

Earl F. Wood Adds Cut ol Pine Mill of 1948, 5,570,833,000.

Ea:'l F. \\;ood \\rholesale Lumber, Los Angeles, announces that they are getting the cut of Hazlett Lumber Co., West Iroint. Calif., manufacturers of Ponderosa antl Sugar pine lumber. The lumber is shipped from the mill to Oakdale Lumber Processors, Oakdale, Calif., for remanufacturing and drying, and then shipped to Los Angeles.

Ralph M. Rounds, of Wichita, Kansas, president of Rockport Redwood Company, and Rounds Trading Co., recently spent a month on the Pacific Coast. Of this time tu'o weeks lr'ere taken up visiting the San Francisco office and plants at Cloverdale and Rockport, Calif., and the rest of the time was spent in Southern California.

Larue Woodson of Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Woodson, spent an enjoyable two rveeks' vacation at Feather River Park. Calif.. last month.

Bob Ebbesen, salesman for Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, and his wife, the former Miss Acacia Wing of Oregon, returned from their honeymoon, spent in British Columbia, August 7.

Orders for thirty weeks of 1950 breakdown as follows: ll.ail4,285,728,000 b.f.; truck 279,034,000 b.f.; domestic Cargo l,48Z,89O,OW b.f.; export 115,939,000 b.f.; local 387,305,000 b.f.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at 90,817,000 b.f. at the end of .July; gross stocks at 628,571,000 b.f.

Snrith fir rvould factured

Portland, Oregon, August l7-Douglas fir sawmills are pointing for their greatest lumber production year in history, Harris E. Smith, secretarv of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, said today. At the end of July, output from the region's 1800 mills had reached 5,775 billion board feet, five percent more than for the same period tn 1949. forecast today that 1950 lumber cut of Douglas top the all-time record of 10.2 billion feet manuin l9D, barring unforeseen disruptions.

Even in the face of a drastic freight car shortage, Douglas fir mills have shipped 6,080 billion board feet during the first 30 weeks of 1950, up nearly 650 million feet over the same period last year. Smith said Douglas fir mills were absorbing all government defense lumber needs in stride. This record output climaxes a steady, spectacular increase in production of lumber in this region since the relaxation of federal controls in 1946.

The rveekly average of West Coast lumber production in July was 184,871,000 b.f. or 112.7/o of the 1945-1949 average. Orders averaged 207,661,000 b.f.; shipments 176,977,0W b.f. ; weekly averages for June were : production 206,077,O00 (125.6% of the 1945-1949 average) ; orders 212,197,000 b.f.; shipments 219,472,000 b.f.

Thirty weeks of 1950 cumulative productlon 5,775,026,000 b.f.; thirty \\:eeks of 1949 5,500,481,000 b.f.; thirty weeks

The Western Pine Association, reporting for 96 mills for the rveek ended August 12, showed orders 72,963,m feet, shipments 76,123,000 feet, and production 86,398,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 254,414,000 feet. For the previous week ended August 5, orders s,ere 74,672,000 feet, shipments were 80,088,000 feet, production 81,277,000 feet, and balance of orders on hand ?54.794.000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association reporting for 175 mills in the Douglas Fir region, reported for the week ended August 12, as follows : orders, 108,500,294 feet; shipnrents, 93,361,455 feet; production, 114,234,294 feet.

For the preceding week ended August 5, the same mills reported : orders, 154,802,839 feet ; shipm ents, 97 ,272,764 feet ; p:oduction, 118,146,467 feet.

The Southern Pine Association, reporting for 115 mills, for the lr.eek ended August 5,92 units (115 mills) reporting, gave orders as 20,678,000 feet, shipments 2I,791,000 feet, and production 18,650,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the rveek totaled 81.637.000 feet.