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Wood Products Manufacturers To Choose Pricing Formula

An alternative method by which a manufacturer may determine his maximum price for turned or shaped wood products when the basic pricing formulas cannot be used is contained in Amendment No. 1 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 196 (Turned or Shaped Wood Products,) issued September 14, by the OPA.

In Perfect Condition

Redwood wine storage tanks which had been in use for fifty years at the Petri Wine Company's Forestville winery were found to be in perfect condition at the time additional tanks of this durable wood were being installed a short while ago.

Juntor Forests

In the Pacific Northwest 7rl million acres of junior forests, mostly in private ownership, are growing from 5@ to 1000 board feet of new timber on every acre every year. More millions of recently-cut acres are stocking up with young trees under a code of forest practice adopted by the American forest products industries.

F'IRST SAWMILLS '

The first sawmills in New York were established in 1623. One of these started at Fort Orange, which later became Albany. In 1701 there were 4O sawmills in operation in the Colony. One of these had twelve saws, considered a wonderful advance for those times when four saws in one mill was generally considered the maximum possible.

Ladies in the Forests

The girls are in the forests And they're busy as the bees. Not one of them is lolling Leisurely beneath the trees, No, they're taking up ungirly jobs So the lumberjacks can go To the points where they are needed And make sawdust bf the foe.

Gals might cruise a stand of timber, Burn the slash or blaze a tree, But they can't make good as fallers, Leastwise, so it seems to me. Sure, they ask a lot of questions, That's their way of acting bright, Just today one up and twittered, "Do the ground mules kick and bite?"

One thought she could break a log jam, But she couldn't tell just how, One opined she'd paint the bunk house, Or stir up some extra chow; And another pretty maiden, In a gently naive way, Said she'd always thought a straw boss Was a rabot stuffed with hav.

Yes, the girls are in the forests, But that shouldn't make us blue, I think we'll soon be boasting Of the jobs they'll learn to do; While from many a logging center, Fearless and hard muscled chaps Will surge out across the ocean And make sawdust of the Japs.

Merriam Conner.

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. PAUL MERNER IN AIR CORPS

Paul M. P. Merner, head of the Merner Lumber Co., Palo Alto, is in training at Miami, Florida, for the position of administrative ofificer in the Army Air Corps. He has the rank of Captain.

National Retailers Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the National Retail Lumber Dealers A'ssociation will be held at the Drake lfotel, Chicago, Ill., on October L9, n and 21, 1942.

Monday, October 19, the following men will address the Board of Directors and invited dealers:

Mr. Ben Alexander, the Lumber Co-ordinator of the War Production Board.

Mr. Arthur Upson, Chief, Lumber and Lumber Products Branch, War Production Board.

Mr. Wilson Compton, Secretary-Manager, National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

Mr. Peter Stone, the Price Execuitve, Lumber Section, Office of Price Administration.

Tuesday and Wednesday, October 20 and2L will be given over to the board of directors for further discussion of industry problems, committee reports, election of officers, and discussion of the industry's program of activity for t943.

Tnqutrers About War Houstng Told To See Nha Regional Men

Local officials and business men interested in the warhousing program were advised last week to get in touch with regional representatives of the National Housing Agency, rather than to send representatives to Washington.

The 10 regional officers of the NHA are located in Boston. Mass.; New York City, N. Y.; Washington, D. C.; A1. lanta, Ga.; Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.; Kansas City. Mo.; Dallas, Tex.; Seattle, Wash., and San Francisco. Calif.

Has Read Merchant For 20 Years

Twenty years the 4th of November I started to read your paper and I still take it.

O. D. Ruse, Ruse-Blair Lumber Company, Stockton. California

Navy Sets Up Co-Ordinating Unit for Central Procur€ment

Following on the heels of the government announcement that lumber procurement for seven war agencies, including the Navy, had been centralized under the Construction Division of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Navy Department has established a Navy Lumber Co-ordinating Unit to co-operate in carrying out the Navy's part in the unified program

The new unit will be headed by Commander Oscar L. Carlson, Civil Engineer Corps, U. S. N. R., of Upper Montclair, N. J. Assisting him as Deputy Co-ordinator for softwood lumber will be Kenneth C. Mclntosh, of Portland, Ore., and as Deputy Co-ordinator for hardwood lumber, Charles K. McDowell, of Lexington, Ky. Both have been associated with the lumber industry for more than N years.

The announced functions of the Navy Co-ordinating Unit are:

To provide follow-up service for all using agencies of the Navy Department in expediting lumber deliveries to Navy projects.

To provide consulting service for the various Navy using agencies in adapting lumber specifications and delivery to the available producing capacity.

To co-operate with WPB and the lumber industry in achieving maximum application of production capacity to the more critical needs of the war effort.

In addition, Mr. McDowell will administer the procurement agency for al hardwoods used in ship construction for all branches of the United States armed services.

NEW AGE OF WOOD SUMS UP INDUSTRY'S POSI. TION IN CURRENT ISSUE OF FORTUNE

Read Fortune magazine for October for its feature article, 'The New Age of Wood," which sums up the econornic and industrial position of wood during the war and in the peace to come. The article deals with latest developments in timber engineering and chemistry and dwells on the use of waste, even to the reclamation of by-products from the waste fluids of pulp mills. AFPI Public Relations Department co-operated in supplying research material.

In The Army

Joseph Catelli, assistant manager of Barg Lumber Company, San Francisco, entered the army on October 1.

Itemi of Interest

Under the methods of tree-farming reconmended by the American forest products industries, the country's farm wood lots would bring to farm families an additional income of approximately a half billion dollars a year, the equivalent of a new major crop.

Of the claimed "largest" trees in America, growth cham.pions of 23 species are in Maryland: Black cherry, black gum, red gum, hackberry, holly, horse chestnut, Kentucky coffee, black locust, cucumber magnolia, silver maple, black chestnut, Osage orange, American persimmon, serviceberry, tulip, loblolly, pine, white pine, shortleaf pine, and four kinds of oak---overcup, red, swamp white, and white.

Log driving on the upper Hudson River started in 183O.

Ordinary walnut shells ground fine as flour compose approximately 30 per cent of the plastic tools used by the Vega Aircraft Corporation in making airplanes.

Wood is being quickly seasoned for the Army and Navy at Southern and 'Western lumber mills by the use of a syrithetic ammonia-salt.

Fire protection and. selective harvesting as a means of maintaining forever the country's forests and woodlands on a perpetual basis are the principal requirements for a tract to be designated by the forest products industries as a "Tree Farm."

"Evergreen" trees are largely used in returning wornout and eroded farmland to the forest under the forest industries' national tree-farm program because this species of tree will grow on impoverished land and needs only onefourth as much moisture as hardwoods.

Sun-dried peach pits, used as war-time fuel on the West Coast, are reported to give as much heat in domestic furnaces and grates as hard coal.

Redwood blinds have proved popular in duck marshes o{ gun clubs because they are little afrected by moisture even under intermittent wetting and drying.