Millwork lndustry Meets With OPS

Washington, D.C.-A tailored regulation fixing dollars and 'Malta Manufacturing Co. C. K. paine cents ceilings on stock items would be welcomed by their Malta, Ohio Curtis Companies, I1c. industry, members of the Millwork Industry Advisory Com- Clinton, Iowa mittee told OPS officials at their first meeting.

Committeemen reported they have been operating fairly satisfactorily under the General Ceiling Price Regulation, GCPR, which they attributed to a high volume of production together with the fact that lurnber prices have remained fairly stable.

They urged that ceiling prices be spelled out for lumber before fixing them on millwork, and that current and possibly future wage increases be reflected in ceilings on millwork.

Committeemen said spelled out prices on lumber would be a means of insuring them against paying higher than ceiling prices for lumber.

Members said it would be impossible to put dollars and cents ceilings on custom millwork, recalling this type of millwork was priced by formula under a separate OPA regulation during the war.

Committeemen recommended individrral pricing on hollow core doors because of lack of uniformity of the core structures.

They said old OPA regulation No. 293 would provide a satisfactory starting point for preparing a new regulation for stock items.

The question where the line of demarcation should be drawn between pine and fir millwork was discussed. A separate regulation is being projected for west coast fir products.

The meeting was conducted by Norman O. Cruver, chief, Lumber and Wood Products Branch, and Glen Converse, chief, Millworl< Section.

Other OPS officials present were: Dante Galotta and Bernard Greenfield, counsels; David G. White, economist; George Wathen, business analyst, Distribution Section; R. E. Platter, btrsiness analyst, Hardwood Section; J. I. Wenstrup, Office of Accounting, and Walter R. Moulton, Oftice of Advisorv Committees.

R. D. Behm, chief, Plywood and Veneer Section, NPA, and A. K. Conrad, Millwork and Wood Products Section, NPA, also attended.

Members of the committee, all present, were:

Fred Bissell

Carr Aclams & Collier Co. Dubuque, Iowa

James G. Boden, Vice Pres.

D. C. NIcCray, Vice Pres. Paine Lumber Company

73 West Algoma Street

Oshltosh, Wisconsin

Russell T. Gheen Flew to Portlcrnd

Russell T. Gheen, n ell kno.lvn Los Angeles lumtlerman, flew to Portland, Oregon, on August 21, to be u'ith the families of Dean and E,rnest Johnson during their bcreavement. The Johnson brothers died in an airplane crash that morning. Mr. Gheen rvas employed by the C. D. Johnson Corporation for rnany years, and u,as a close friend of the family.

Joseph Cravenzola, Mgr. Hotchkiss Bros. Company Torrington, Connecticut

Elmer J. Cutting Plywood Plastics Corp. Hanrpton, South Carolina

E. W. Donahue, President Wabash Screen Door Co. Chicago, Illinois

L. L. Gibson, Mg.. Sash & Door Department Long-Bell Lumber Co. R. A. Long Building 926-8 Grand Avenue Kansas City 6, Missouri

Harvey B, Goodjohn, Vice Pres. Goodjohn Sash & Door Co. Leavenworth, Kansas

L. C. Paisley, Sales Mgr. Farley & Loetscher Mfg. Co. Dubuque, Iowa

Ralph A. Prouty Millwork Sales Division Tarter, Webster & Johnson Co. Stockton, California

James D. Rowland, Vice Pres. Anderson Corporation Bayport, Minnesota

F. R. Weddington, Vice Pres. & General Manager Wrn. Cameron and Cornpany Waco, Texas

O. Witt Roddis Plywood Corp. Marshfield, Wisconsin

John F. Young, Mgr. K. H. Klopp, President Anson & Gilkey Company White Pine Sash Company X{errill, Wisconsin

Spol<ane, Washington

The following members of the con-rn-rittee were appointed to subcommittees, to which other members of industry not on the main committee may be named later:

Window units-Rowland, Weddington, Bissell and Paine.

Screen products-Donahue, Paisley, Cravenzola, Weddington, Goodjohn and Klopp.

Hollow core and solid slab cels de61s-Witt, McCray, Cutting and Young.

Window and door frames-Weddington, Klopp, Boden and Gibson.

General softwood doors and windows-Young, l3issell, Gibson, Prouty, Paine and Paisley.

Cabinets, stairwork and entrances-Paine, Paisley, Bissell and Weddington.

Of{ice oI D. C. Essley d Son

Moved to Distribution Ycrd

The sales oflrce of I). C. Essley & Son has been moved to their distribution yard at 7257 Anaheim-Telegraph ll.oad, I-os Angele s 22, The telephone nurnber is I TNderhil'r 0-1147.

The mailing acldress is I'.O. Box 7028, I,-irst Los Angeies Station.

Gosslin-Harding Entertains Employees

Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co., San Leandro, Calif., recently gave a party for their employees at the Mt. Diablo Country Club, August 18. Golf was played in the afternoon and a dinner dance was held in the evening. On Sunday evening all were the guests of Phil and Mrs. Gosslin at their home in Walnut Creek for a barbecue dinner.

Those who attended included: Henry H. Harding and wife, Eureka; Joe Petrash and wife, Los Angeles; Bob Sanders and wife, Eugene, Oregon; Milton Britt and wife, Eureka; Sylvia Fox, Eureka; Paul Gaboury and wife; Doug Freeman; Orville Bresee and wife; Henry Bailey and wife; Robert Bolton and wife; Keith Harry and wife; Peggy Gale, and Bob Skoglund.

Archie King of Galleher Hardwood Ca.. vacationed in Van.couver and on Vancouver he did some fishing in the Campbell River. trip by automobile and was accompanied by two children.

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cisco, spent latter

Los Angeles, Island, where He made the his wife and

Spaldi::g Lumber Co., the sales force of Los for Fairhurst Lumber

Co., San at Feath- ofifice of Tacoma f-unrweeks' vacation in San

Farley, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Franand Mrs. Farley and children, Kim and Jennifer, a week fishing on the Upper Klamath River in the part of August.

Art Neth, manager of the Los Angeles office of Dant & Russell Sales Co., will be back September 15 from a two weeks' vacation trip to the Pacific Northwest. He joined some friends for trout fishing in Canada, north of Vancouver, B. C. in the early part of his trip, and then stopped at Astoria, Oregon for salmon fishing. He called at the company's Portland office on the way home.

A. C. Penberthy, Jr. of the Arcata ber Sales, Los Angeles, spent two Francisco.

Al Kurten, sales manager, dena, spent an enjoyable two Newport Beach.

Fisk & Mason, South Pasaweeks' vacation at Bavshores.

D. O. (Doc) Cook, formerly in business for himself, is now a salesman for Pacific Western Lumber Co. of California, Inc., Pasadena.

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