CPR 132-Southern Hardwood And Yellow Cypress Lumber

\\-ashington, D. C., March 25-The Office of price Stabilization today issued the first of a number of tailo:ed regulations for the hardwood lumber industry. It spells out dollars-and-cents ceilings for standard grades and dimen_ sions of hardrvood and yellolv cypress lumber produced in the Southern hardwood region and provides methods for pricing special items.

The ceilings are prescribed in Ceiling price Regulation 132, effective March 29, 1952. They apply to sales by sarvmills, planing mills and concentration yards, including sales through commission men.

The Southern hardrvood region includcs the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma and parts of Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolir-ra, North Carolina and Virginia.

The regrrlation supersedes the General Ceiling price Regrrlation (GCPR) for the products covered. The nerv ceilir-rgs are approxirnately at the same levels as current ceiiings n.hich tvere frozen on January 26, 195I, by the GCPR.

The regulation n'as issued to provide the industry n.ith equitable ceilings, spelled out in detail for the maximum convenience of the industry, and consistent with the require_ ments of the Defense Production Act.

Separate dollars-and-cents ceiling price regulations are plarrned by OPS for fir'e other hardu.ood regions, as follorvs: South Cer-rtral-N[issouri, Kansas, .lvestern Tennessee, southn'est Kentucky, and the extreme southern part of Illinois.

North Cer-rtral-Indiana, Ohio, Iorva, Nebraska, South Dakota and parts of Illinois and Kentucky.

Appalachian-West Virginia and parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and l\{aryland.

Northeastern-Ner.v It ngland, Neu, York, I,ennsylvania, Neu' Jersey, Delau'are, and parts of Nfaryland.

Northern-N{ichigan, Nlinnesota and Wisconsin.

The Sorrthern hardrn.ood region is the major harch.r'ood producing area. In 1947 approximately 3,200,000,000 board feet of hardl'ood \vas crlt in the area, or 43 per cent of the total of 7,395,000,000 board feet of hardu'ood lumber cut east of the Rocky Nlountain States. The area produces 95 per cent of the yellon'cypress cut in the country.

Base ceiling prices are spelled out for the r.arious standard grades and rough, air-dried and green lumber, f.o.b. point of origin, per i,000 board feet. Differentials are provided to cover special rvidths and lengths, mixed carload shipments, shipments in straight or mixed cars of the higher gracles, kiln-drying, resavl'ing, surfacing, stenciling, bundling, special loading, anti-stain treatment, and other items.

Four price zones are established, based on freight rates to Chicago, I11., and Scranton, Penn. The base ceiling prices are f.o.b. ceilings in Zone 1. To these prices are added $1, $2 and $3 for Zones 2, 3 and 4 respectively, from r,vhich the freight rates to the major northern consuming centers are progressively lo'rver. In this u'ay the regulation maintains approximately the price differentials that normalll' exist among the respective zones, reflecting th relative savings in freight.charges to major northern consuming markets.

Follon,ing are the base ceiling prices for No. 1 Common rough lumber, I inch thick, for the various species conmonly cut, with the prices shown respectively for air-dried and green:

Tough ash, $110, 9110; cabinet ash, 9100, 9100; bassrvood, $125, $94; beach, 9100, $60; birch, $130, 978; cherry, g150, $90; cotton'rvood, $85, $51 ;yellow cypress (a11 cypress except tideu,ater red cypress), $105, $63; soft elm, $80, $,l8; hard elm, $95, $57;black gum, plain, $110, $66;black gum quartered, $125, $75; red gum, plain, 9150, $90; red gum, qnartered, $165, $99; red gum, figured, 9180, 9108; sap gnm, plain, $120, $72; sap gum quartered, 9125, 975; hackberry, $90. $68; hickory, $95, $57; locust, 980, 948.

Magnolia, 9135, 9101; soft maple WHAD (n,ormholes a defect), $110, $83; soft maple, \VHND (u,ormholes no clefect), $95,971; red oak, plain,9110,972; red oak, quartered, $132, $8(r; u'hite oak, plain, 9115, $75; r.vhite oak, quartered, $155, $101; pecan, $95, 957; poplar, plain, g130, g98; poplar, quartered, 9140, 9105 ; sycamore, plain, 995, $57; sycamore, cluartered, $120, $72; tupelo, plain, $120, $72; tupelo, quarterecl, $125, 975 ; and n.illorv, gl2}, 972.

Ceilings are spelled out for dunnage delivered to Atlantic ancl Gulf ports, for rough tie siding, construction ltoards of random lengths, and residue lumber.

Provision is made for application to OpS to establish ceilings for lumller n'ith special u.orkings, grades. sizes ancl services not otherrvise covered in the regulation.

Sellers are authorized to add commissions paid for sales through commission men to their ceilings, ltut in no event may the total selling price, including the cor.nnrission, exceed the f.o.b. ceiling plus 4 per cent.

Mills and concentration yards may make limitecl local retail-type.sales at prices up to 15 per cent higher than the otherrvise established ceilings.

Delivery costs, determined in a specified manner, may be added to f.o.b. ceilings for sales made on a delir.ered basis.

G. B. Mcleod Visits Hawqii

G. B. X{cleod, chairman of the board of Hammond I-umber Company, San Francisco, returned earl1. in March from spending three lveeks in the Harvaiian Islands. He \\'as accompanied by Mrs. N{cleod. They made the trip to Honolulu and return on the Nlatson Line's luxury steamer Lurline, and have the highest praise for the service. In Flonolulu they stayecl at the new hotel, the Surf Rider. They fleu' to Hilo and up the Kona Coast, and n.ere greatly interested in a visit to the orchid industry near Hilo, which has developed a great trade rvith the United States for shipment of its product by air. But more than all, N{r. Mcleod says they lvere impressed by the hospitality of friends there, ar.rd the great beautt' of the Islands.