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Ceiling Prices for \Tooden Mine Materials

Produced in the '\(/estern Area

\\rashington, D.C., June 6-To encourage production and relieve a critical shortage adr.ersely affecting the defense program, OPS today announcecl increased ceiling prices for sellers of rvooden mine materials produced and consumed in n.rinds in the r,vestern portion of the United States.

The increases a:-e prescribed in Supplementary Regulation 103 to the General Ceiling Price Regulation (GCPI{), effective June 10, 1952.

Sellers are authorized to add 35 per cent to the highest prices they receivecl for such items during the period May 24 to June 24, 1950. The adjustment applies to both proclucers and dealers in such materials produced rvest of the l0Oth l\{eridian, running north to south from the Dakotas through Texas, and sold for use in mines in that area. Adjustments were previously allo.rved producers of mine timbers in the Lake States and Virginia and West Virginia.

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A shortage of mine timbers due to competition for logs from other users threatens to affect adverselv the production of copper and other minerals vitally needed for the defense effort. The neu, level of ceiling prices is expected to bring out the recluired production by restoring customary price relationships.

The supplementary regulation applies to mine ties. srvitch ties, cross bars, cribbing, lagging, posts, caps, u'edges, stull tirnber, pit posts and pit blocks.

Although the timbers are indispensable to mining operations, they' constitute only an insignificant part of the total cost of mining. Consequently the increase u'ill not affect the market prices of mine products.

FHA Consider s 1-'5116" Net Thickness the Minimum Acceptable for Frames and Sills Of Exterior Doors and Sills of \Tindows

The FHA Washington office has recently issued an opinion that they consicler a l-5/16" net thickness the minimum acccptable for the frames anrl sills of exterior doors and the sill,q of windows.

The current "Minimum I)roperty Recluirer.nents for Properties of One or Two Living Units Located in the Southern California District" indicates l-y's" thickness for the mernbers irr' question: hereafter this will be considered a recornmenderi F standard, and the l-5/1C' will be considered the minirnttm :rcceptable. t

Although this ruling will permit the use of "6/4" stock in I place of "8/4" stock, it is intended to apply to future work on which commitments have not been issued, an<l is not intended to modify any current contracts for the heavier material. With ihis, as rvith other materials, when builders intend to use sorne- F thing better than the minimum required, it is urged that thcv specify it so that full credit rnay be allowed for such better-r-nent in FHA replacement cost estirnates.