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The baby specialist was discussing the interesting topic of mother and babe from the scientific standpoint and he made the statement that nothing in life is more definite and certain than pre-natal influences flowing from mother to child. For instance, he said, if a mother becomes absorbed by some obsession during the months immediately preceding the birth of her child that obsession or line of thought, or whatever it might be, is certain to be refected in the child; will mark the child in some fashion His friend disagreed. He said: t'Now, Doc, you're wrong about that, and I'm a living proof that you are. Few women ever had a worse obsession than my mother did during the months preceding my birth. She became mad on the subject of phonograph playing. She played the phonograph all her waking hours. She would put on a record and let it run down, then start it over again and do the same, until she wore it out. Then she would change records, and do the same. They coutd do nothing with her. She just played the phonograph all the time. Now, according to your theory, that obsession of her's should have marked me. But it didn't. Not in the least. As a matter of fact it had absolutely no effectno effect-no effect-no gfrssf-."

Ten District Offices Set Up In West to Administer ODT Order

San Francisco, Oct 6.-Names of managers and addresses of ten of the western district offices to be set up by the Division of Motor Transport, Office of Defense Transportation, were announced today.

As mailing of application forms for certificates of war necessity in connection with general order No. 21 is completed in a given area, the counties covered and the district offices serving them will be announced so that carriers who have not received their forms will know where to apply for them.

Managers and locations of the western district established thus far follow:

Fresno, Calif.-John P. Calvert, ?21 Patterson Building.

Los Angeles-Roy Long, 955 Western Pacific Building, 1031 South Broadway.

Medford, Ore.-Marshall E. Neuman, 204 West Main Street.

Phoenix-E. C. Corbell,328 Security Building.

Portland-Herman O. Sites, 609 Bedell Building.

Reno-John M. Hiskey, 275 South Virginia Street.

Sacramento-J. Roy Willhide, 831 Forum Building.

San Francisco-W. B. Grummel, 1355 Market Street.

Seattle-Harold N. Smith-White-Henry-Stuart Buildittg.

Spokane-Holley I. Smith, 207 Sun Life Assurance Buildi.g.

Authorizcs Additions to Log Ceiling Prices

Washington, Oct. S-About fifty Pacific coast logging companies were authorized by the Office of Price Administration today to add overtime premiums to their ceiling prices because of extensive overtime payments to their workers.

Provision for the overtime price bonuses was recently made to combat the shortage of labor in the West Coast forests.

The amount of bonus is scaled to the degree of overtime operation. Each firm may continue to add the authorized surcharge to its ceiling price for its entire production so long as it continues to operate on an overtime basis. The effective date is tomorrow.

Forty-one logging companies operating on a forty-eight hour week were authorized to add $1 a thousand feet for all logs produced.

One company, the West Fork Logging Company of Tacoma, was certified as being on a sixty hour week and was authorized to add to its ceiling $2 a thousand feet.

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Jack Clark, formerly with McDonald Logging Co., Sutter Creek, Calif., is now associated with Vander Laan Piling & Lumber Co., San Francisco.

U, S. Truck Conservation Program Restrictionc Lifted on Employment of

The Office of Defense Transportation has a plan to help truck owners to conserve their equipment. It is known as the U. S. Truck Conservation Corps and every operator of one or more trucks is asked.- in fact, urgedto join at once.

Membership in the Truck Conservation Corps is free and involves simply goihg to an official stationservice station, repair shop or truck agency displaying the TCC' emblemand signing the ODT pledge to maintain your vehicles scientifically for the duration of the war. You'll then be given a red-white-and-blue decalcomania to paste on the right-hand cab door, and a booklet outlining the government's war-time program for truck upkeep. It contains full information on how to stretch mileage by scientific preventive maintenance.

You'll be expected, as a patriotic duty, to apply these principles, developed through the experience of the country's largest truck operators in keeping their overhead costs down to the minimum, in operating your own vehicles. Common sense, however, dictates that you'll want to do this for your own protection, if hauling in your own trucks means anything to you.

Since the trucks you now operate are the only ones you're likely to have until the war's over-and probably, for some little time thereafter-the wisdom of tightening up on your maintenance program so as to "Keep 'Em Rolling" is obvious.

Note: The U. S. Truck Conservation Corps program has no relationship to the national registration of trucks which becomes effective November 15. A certificate of war necessity will then become as essential to operating a commercial vehicle as a state license plate. Joining the Truck Conservation Corps, on the other hand, is purely a voluntary move on the part of the owner and is intended to make available to him the experience and technical methods used by large fleet owners to keep their equiiment running at top efficiency.

Ed Harms Coast Guard Officer

Minors at Sawmills

Hazardous Occupation Order No. 4 covered by Vol 1, No. 36, dated July 15, I94I, of this service forbids the employment of minors between 16 and 18 years of age in logging or sawmilling other than (1) work in offices or maintenance shops, (2) work in the operation or maintenance of living quarters, (3) work in timber cruising, surveying or logging-engineering parties, provided that no work in the construction of roads or railroads is performed, (4) work in forest protection, such as clearing fire trails or roads, pling and burning slash, maintaining fire-fighting equipment, constructing or maintaining telephone lines, or acting as fire lookout, or (5) work in the feed or care of animals used in logging.

This section of the order, however, has been amended and effective September L2, 1942, minors between the ages- of 16 and 18 may be employed in the following occupations: l. Saw filing, except in connection with logging operation;

2. Packing shingles;

3. Straightening, marking, tallying or pulling lumber from the dry chain, the drop sorter, or the green chain (other than the pulling of lumber larger than I inch by 6 inches in size from the green chain);

Unstacking from the dry-kiln;

Clean up in the lumber yard;

The handling or shipping of dry lumber or lumber products in yards or sheds of sawmills, lath mills, shingle mills or cooperage-stock mills, excepting the operation of cranes, lumber carriers, and other powerdriven equipment, and the occupation of crane hooker.

Lumber Wagc Waits WLB Rule

Portland, Ore., September D- Voluntary agreements by CIO and AFL unions and employes will retain current wage scales in the West Coast lumber industry until the War Labor Board's (WLB) newly created Pacific Coast Lr.lmber Commission makes industry-wide adjustments, the Oregon office of War Information said today.

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assistant operating manager, McCormick Steamship Co., San Francisco, has been commissioned as a Commander in the U. S. Coast Guard Reserve.

The announcement came from Thomas F. Neblett, acting executive secretary of the commission and chief mediation officer of the WLB, who said the agreement affects 200,000 workers in the forests of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California. and Montana.