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Guorontee Plywood Prices
The largest producing firm in the Fir plyr,r,ood business, U. S. Plyrvood, has announced a guaranteed price for its product for all of 1954. Two smaller western concerns, one in Oregon and the other in Washington, set up guaranteed prices for the first quarter.
Spokesmen in the industry saw the move as one that "could be a very stabilizing factor." But they questioned whether any manufacturer could predict the cost of production to a degree where price guarantees could be set up for as long as a year.
S. W. Antoville, president of U. S. Plywood, announced that the mill prices above which the firm would not go, .short of "contingencies beyond its control," would be based on $85 per thousand square feet for the basic fu inch A-D grade. the current price.
The tvi'o companies following suit were the Vancouver Plyu'ood Co., producingTS million feet annually at its Vancouver, Wash., plant, which announced a guaranteed price to last until April 1, and the Evans Products Co., with two western Oregon plants, which took similar action recently.
Reason for its guarantee, U. S. Plywood said, was a desire to stabilize its prices for the "benefit of tl-re many industries using plywood and the 30,000 lumber dealers marketing it to contractors and the fast-growing 'do-it-yourself' market."
Douglas fir plywood prices have changed 39 times since 1949, a spokesman for the company said.
Horbor Lumber Compony, Son Froncisco, Exponds Soles Force
Isaac "fke" Zafrani, orvner of Harbor Lumber Company, Inc., Powell at Embarcadero, San Francisco, recently announced the addition of Tom Tomlinson and W. T. "Bill" Scanlon to the Harbor sales force. They will be active, along with Mr. Zafuani, in both buying nnd selling of Harbor's operation.
Tom Tomlinson is lvell knorvn in lumber circles in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest. He formerly had been sales manager of \\rholesale Lumber Distributors, Inc., Oakland, for 12 years.
Bill Scanlon, p:ior to his present association, had for many years been with the Inspection Bureau of the U. S. Army Engineers.
Lou Hollond Joins Sroff Of Tqcomq Lumber Soles, Inc.
Art Penberthy, head of Tacoma Lumber Sales, Inc., Los Angeles, announced the first of this month that Lou Holland had joined their staff and 'w'ould cover the dealers and industrial users of Redwood, Fir and Plyrvood in this area. Mr. Holland is well known to the trade throughout Southern California, having spent several years rvith Western Hardwood Lumber Company, E. K. Wood Lumber Co. and Roddis California, Inc., before joining Mr. Penberthy and his organization.
