here comes the INSPEGTOR GENERAT

Who cqres .we don't go for thot sliff collor, high polish routine oround here. We're sorl of eosy-going folk ' except when it comes lo QUAIITY.

Every piece of merchondise we buy ond sell musl meel our porticulor criticol inspection. lf it posses lhol, lhe mosl stringent spit ond polish Inspector Generol would poss it with honors. We're iusl thct criticol oboul moleriol we corry.

Thot's the one ideo we hod when we siorted 34 yeors ogo-lo corry lhe best. We hove never devioted. See for yourself in our slocks of hordwood ond softwood Plywoods, Mosonite Brond products, Simpson Insuloting Products ond Formico.

NPA Followins Arbitrrry Policy, Sayg Lynn Boyd

The National I'roduction Authority is followitlg a cotttpletely arbitrary, ttnreasonable, and unworkable policy irr applying its controls to the building and constrttctiott itrdu.stry, Lynn Iloyd, rctail lumber dcaler of I'autpa, 'l'cx:t:i' and member of Nl'A's ('tlnstrtlctirln In<lustry Advisor.t' Committee, statcd t<day ('lhursday, May 3) follorvirrl; rr nreeting of the c<lmnrittee.

"Nltn officials refusc<l to pcrnrit the a<lvisory conlnrittcc to v()te on certain vitally inrprlrtant prop<lsals, thus tttterly disregarding safeguards which Congress deliberately rvrotc into the l)efense I'rodttction Act''' Mr. lloyd said.

"In addition, NPA pr()lx)ses to batr conrltletcly ecrtltitt additional tylles of constructiotr, regardlcss of rvhcthcr critical materials are involvcd, apd to reqttirc llcrrttits for a nunrbcr of additional types of buildirrg rvhile adnrittirrg that its inade<1uatc staff alrcady is six u'ccks bchin<l irl considering perrnit re<lucsts for thc smallcr list of pt'ojccts previously place<l ttnder permit.

"Presumably llecause this sanre a<lvisrlry cotllrnittce hltrl objected str<lngly t<t cotltrols prrlposed and a<lopterl earlicr by NPA, menrbers werc advise(l that the committee is lo be disbanded, on the grouncls that it is unrvieldy' Yet thc committec contains only 28 nrembers an<l rcpresents everv major branch of thc constrttction irr<lustry'

"It is obvious that NI'A officials do rrrlt desirc or 1ll:tcc any 'r'altte on the viervs <lf an aclvisory comnrittcc tttllcss its members happen to agree with the agency's preconceived decisions. Replacing the over-all industry comnrittce with a number of specialized advisory committees, as proposed, would mean that NI'A wrluld receive nothing bui piecemeal views from industry groups which have no c<rmprehensive first-hand knowledge of problems and viewpoints confronting other grouPs.

"It is difficult to see how Nl'A's Facilities and Constructiou llureau. which clid not find time to meet with the present aclvisory committee betwecn January l1 and May 2, will suddenly havc time to meet at Proper intervals with a dozen or nlore advisrlry committees frotn the various branclres of tlte building industry.

"It also is obviotts that, f<lr some unexplained reason' Nl'A has singlcd out constrttction, the nation's largest non-agrit:ultural industry, to bear far tnore than its due share of the sacrifices required to meet the needs of the rlcfcnse prodttction program.

The fact that lttntber and other matcrials crluld be use<l irr placc of structural steel in ntany types of buildings rvhich Nl'A has banned or proposed to restrict is given no rveight or consi<leration whatsoever' despite the repeated insistence of dcfense nfficials that every effort rvould bc madc to nraintain thc civilian economy at the highest levcl possible, consistent with rearmament needs."

Paul M. Sanders. ior nine years manager of Tree Farms Management Service, Iiugene, Ore , has been placed in chargc of forest management for M and M Wood Worl<ing Co. of Portland, Ore. He is a graduate of the University of \\'ishington College of Forestry.