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(Continued from Page 12) uses. The outdoor plyrrvood is in greater demand by the military, but historically production has been tess. IJcst industry estimates, according to Schrader, are that about 27 per cent of the exterior plywood and 17 per cent of the interior plywood is being set aside for the military.

Similarly, the order requires that manufacturers producing only interior type plywood reserve a fixed percentage (40 per cent of the 20 per cent reserve) of grades suitable for concrete form coustruction or for semi-permanent hutment uses. This rvill include special panels, referred to as "hutment plywood," similar to that used by the military during World War II to supplement the supply of exterior plywood with waterproof bond.

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However, the plywood spokesman stressed, the overall set aside is 20 per cent of production. The NPA directive, similar to previously issued regulations on steel and other ruretals, appties to plywood production starting in July.

Under the regulation, the reserve of plywood for defense orders is hetd up to 30 days in advance of the month of production. Should DO orders not amount to the 20 per cent reserve for a given month, manufacturers are then pernritted to sell the balance of the set aside to the regular trade in addition to the 80 per cent which is always free.

The NPA order does not affect distribution or acceptarrce of orders.

Schrader said the 65-factory fir plywood industry currentlf is producing the husky, all-purpose panels at a record rate of 55 million square feet weekly in an all-out effort to nleet grou'ing mobilization requirements and continuing high civilian demand.

Schr:rder pointed out that direct and indirect military orders for plywood, a critical defense material, have been grou'ing steadily since the outbreak of the Korean war arrd tl-rat they are norv taking approximately 17 per cent of output. The DO priorities have applied to plywood previousll', but there has been no set aside of production as now being instituted.

Douglas fir plywood is used as a structural material in thousands of permanent military installations and portable field buildings. in naval surface craft, crating and for hundreds bf other miscellaneous defense applications.

"Although mobilization requirements are substantial," Schrader declared, "today's record output means that civilian users, barring some major emergency, this year are presently assured more plywood than total industry production in 1949."

For all practical purposes, the set aside applies to all plywood produced on the west coast, and two thirds of the nation's panel material is manufactured here. Specifically, the plyu'ood covered are Douglas fir, western hemlock, ponderosa and Idaho white pine, noble fir, white fir and redwood.

The order also contains a provision prohibiting the trading of logs, the raw material, for the finished product, plyu'ood.