CPR 158--Ceiling Prices lor Calilornia Redwood Lumber

Washington, D.C., July 18Dollars-and-cents ceiling prices for manufacturers' sales of California redwood lumber produced in California and Oregon were announced today by the Office of Price Stabilization.

The new ceilings are spelled out in Ceiling Price Regulation 158, effective July 23, 1952. They apply to manufacturers' sales anywhere in the Continental United States.

The purpose of the new regulation is to establish uniform, identifiable ceilings r,vhich are equitable for the industry and consistent with the purposes of the defense production program.

The new regulation rvill not materially change the level of prices now prevailing under the General Ceiling Price Regulation (GCPR). However, it will level out certain disparities in prices betrveen producers. The GCPR fixed ssi]ings for individual producers at the highest levels at rvhich they sold during the period December 19, 1950 to January 25, 1951. During this period some manufacturers had increased prices after the outbreak of fighting in Korea. Others had not. The result was a distorted price pattern u.hich u'as frozen under the GCPR.

The redu.'ood lumber industry is concentrated in north- and strong. It is in demand for use as mud sills, siding, tank stock and for other purposes where high resistance to insect attack, weather and moisture conditions is important. Because of the enormous size of redwood trees, large mill equipment is required. The lumber must be dried with exceptional care for long periods.

Details of the Regulation

Specific ceiling prices are listed for almost all of the basic items produced by the industry. Adjustments are prescribed for selected lengths and widths, special grains, special workings, drying, marking, special handling and other special items and services. The regulation adopts the grade and size standards and pattern numbers established bv the California Redwood Association.

Ceilings are spelled out on an f.o.b. basis, with provision f.or determining ceilings on sales made on 2n f.a.ir. (free alongside ship) or delivered basis. Provision is made for charges for commissions paid on sales made through commission men operating independently of buyer and seller.

Follorving are the ceilings for representative key items, f.o.b. car at mill, f.o.b. customary rail shipping point for off-rail mills, f.o.b. truck at mill, or f.o.b. scorv or barge ern California. In 1951 it produced about one billion board alongside a mill or dock feet of lumber, valued at $105 million. The lumber is light

CPR 97, Amdt.8---Pacific Northwest Logs

Washington, D.C., July 2l-A nurnber of minor changes in Ceiling Price Regulation 97, which establishes ceilings cn Pacific Northwest logs, were announced today by the Office of Price Stabilization.

The changes, prescribed in Amendment 8 to CPR 97, effective July 26, 1952, include: l. A new district, comprising Lincoln and Tillan-rook Counties in Oregon, is established. These connties were formerly part of the Columbia River district. Ceilings prescribed for the new district range from $2.50 to $10 lower than ceilings for the Columbia River district for various major species and grades. The different ceilings reflect the normal relationship of' prices as between the two districts.

2. The western portion of Lane County, Oregon, is removerl from the Oregon-California district and addecl to the LaneDouglas district. The effect is to increase ceilings on tl-re clifferent grades and species of logs delivered in western Lane Couutl' by various amounts ranging up to as much as $10 for better grades of Douglas fir.

The change is made as a resuit of representations from bers of the industry in the area concerned, showing that obtained in western Lane County normally correspond those elsewhere in the Lane-Douglas district.

3. Reference to "red fir" has been deleted tion because, as used locally, the term is "Douglas fir."

4. Ceiling prices for cottonwood logs are levels previously prescribed for alder logs.

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Puget Souncl, Grays Harbor and Columbia River districts" When delivery is to an inlond mill, the regulation uow provicl,:; that the established ceiling prices need be reduced for nondelivery to towable waters only when delivery costs from the point of origin to the nearest towable waters, plus booming and rafting costs, would exceed the delivery costs from the point of origin to the place of actual delivery.

Previously, the required deduction was the cost of transporting the logs from the point of delivery to towable waters, plus booming and rafting.

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CPR 1 52--W estern P:ne and Associated Species of Lumber CORRECTION

Through inadverter.rce, ceiling prices for the item "No. 3 and Better, including 15 percent No. 4," was omitted frorrr Table 38, Ponderosa Pine 1l/16" Common Boarcls Surfac,: Measure (on Grade).

Accordingly, the folloruing correction is made: meir_ 1. Table 38-ll/16" Common Boards Surface Measurr: prices (on Grade) is corrected by inserting after the fifth item, "|i,r. r,r.itlr .5," under the headings indicated, the following: from the regulasynonymous with established at the

5. A change has been made in the requirements 'nents of ceilings when logs are delivered to inland

R. L. SIS S1S2E, S2S or s4s to ll,/16" 1r/16" by 4" 1l/16" ano Dy + wider n/16" tl/16" 11i1(;' 71/t6" l>y 6" by 8" by 10" by 12"

No. 3 and Better, including 15 percent No. 4.. .$72.00

$67.00 $72.00 $71.00 $7J.00 $73.0(i for adjust- ( Sec. 704, 64 Stat., 816, as amended ; 50 U. S. C. App. Supp. mills in the 2154.)