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HUFF LUftIBER COftTPANY

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Los Angeles 61, Colifornio

Plymouth 6-819l ber Code Authority meeting in Washington, Sept. 12, and the western retail lumbermens' conference in Denver.

Charles P. Henry of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.. returned

Ghonges in Use-Fuel Tox Low Effective on Ocfober I sketch in this issue. from

Sacramento, Calif.-George R. Reilly, member of the State Board of Equalization, First District, announces that arrang'ements. have .been made with the Western Liquid Gas Association to hold a series of meetings with deaiers in liquefied p_e-trolgum gas to inform them bf the requirements of the Use-Fuel Tax Law resulting from a change in the method of taxing butane and propane used as motor vehicle fuel.

Under an amendment to the Law, effective October 1.

1959, persons who use these fuels for the propulsion of motor vehicles on the highways will be subjeit to the UseFuel Tax and are required to ipply to the Board for a user's permit. jpplications may be made at any office of the Board. Sellers of liquefied petroleum ear *ho deliver the fuel into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles will collect the state fuel tax of 6p per gallon. IJsers who fuel their vehicles from their bulk slorage tanks must pay the tax directly to the Board.

HALLI NAN M CKIN l]lc. I.UIUIBER COTUIPA}IY,

Leonqrd H. SCHARER

'Leouard H. Scharer, 38, well-known Bay area lumberman, was killed September 12 in an automobile accident on the Bayshore Freeway, near San Mateo' He had spent^most of his working career in the retail lumber busi_qess. Origiually associated with the old Smith Lumber Company in San-Francisco, Mr. Scharer was employed by the Redwood