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Washington, D. C., January 26, 1948.-R. S. Douglass, executive assistant to the general manag'er, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., St. Paul, Minn., testified today before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee that price control will not be effe,ctive in producing housing lumber at low prices.

"On the contrary," he said, "if high production is wanted, high prices will bring itout." Pointing out that the lumber industry, like agriculture, consists of many thousans of small units, he stated that imposition of price controls will cause marginal producing units to close down and thus bring about the scarcities which existed under OPA.

Mr. Douglass pointed out that finished lumber is the product of a train of separate processes, each usually by an independent operator. At any one stage in the manufacture the product can be diverted to uses other than housing lumber if such uses are more profitable. Manmade controls, as OPA so amply demonstrated, cannot maintain equitable ratios between the various finished items a log will yield, he stated.

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The Weyerhaeuser spokesman cited the situation which price control develops in the wholesale and retail field. When the supply of a needed item is short the retailer buys some other type of lumber and remanufactures it to the needed specifications adding a perfectly legitimate profit. Thus a reduction in price at the mill doesn't necessarily find its way to the consumer, he said.

Calling attention to the ineffectiveness oT first the N.R. A., then the OPA as price regulation agencies, Mr. Douglass stated that controls can be imposed upon larger units to some extent but that the small units will escape. It is these small units which produce the bulk of our lumber. "The builder would pay the price in the end," he concluded,

Not Connected With Firm OI Similcr Name

Since selling out their interests in O'Neill Lumber Company, and opening up their own wholesale business under the name of O'Neill Brothers, this firm has enjoyed a steady and satisfactory growth.

At first there was some confusion owing to the similarity of the names of the two concerns, but now O'Neill Brothers, whose headquarters are in the Merchants Exchange Building, San Francisco, have established themselves as doing a wholesale business exclusively, with no retail connections whatsoever

Executive Oflices in Secrttle

Announcement has been made that C. H. Kreinbaum, president of the Simpson Logging Company, Shelton, Wash.. has established his executive offices at 1010 White Building, Seattle, Wash.

R. G. (Rich) Robbins, R. G. Robbins Lumber Co., Portland, arrived in San Francisco February 5 on a visit to the firm's office in that citl'.

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