Lumber Production In Lake States Has Bright Future

By HAROLD S. CROSBY (Forest Products Engineer, Northern Hemlock and Elardwood Manufacturers Association)

At a recent association meeting a member called attention to the fact that for many years the lumber industry of the north had been operating under a philosophy of assumed timber liquidation. He declared it r"'as time to get this kind of attitude out of the minds of operators in the light of hard operating facts. Referring to his own company, he said they had been presumabll' liquidating for 30 years but were still in active and continuous operation' It is true that methods had changed considerably but at the same time their production is substantial and their operation is continuing on a sustaining basis for as far into the future as he is able to foresee.

A reliable forestry authority remarked a few years ago that the Lake States were at that time at about the bottom of their timber supply; that the future would see an increase rather than a decrease in merchantable timber. Government research agengies and opinions of various forestry authorities confirm the opinion that production of the Lake

States 'ivill be sustained or gradually increased in the future from natural grolvth of timber.

A forest survey in the Lake States is now lleing conducted through the me<lium of aerial photography rvhich will provide a means of checking against previous timber estimates taken in 1936. R. N. Cunningham, Lake States Forest Experiment Station, Saint Paul, who directed the 1936 appraisal has issued a statement based upon early results of the present survey for the west half o{ the upper Peninsula of Michigan and central Minnesota. He states that "the allowable annual cut (for those areas) is as large or larger than 1936 ."

Progress in forest protection has had the effect of conserving forest investment and the several species of the north which reproduce well naturally are ztlready Iorming the nucleus of another timber crop.

There are several credible examples of sustained yield forestrv in the Lake States and a numler of large timber land owners have established definite policies with respect to selective cutting practices on their lands.

It is inevitable that many of the larger operations. established in connection with certain fixed tracts of timber will have to be modified in the face of cl-ranging conditions. The trend of operation now is torvard the ttse of smaller units with wider concentrating of lumber for purposes for providing assortments in commercial quantities for kiln drying or refinement and remanufacture.

Therefore it can be reasonably predicted that production of forest products in the Lake States will continue on a relatively even production basis of volume during future years, and that the present stress accorded to intlustrial forestry will eventually expand the harvest forest products.

(From Mississippi Vallcy Lumbcrman.)

Humphries Is Scmd and Grqvel Committeemcrn

The sand and gravel industry of tl-re nation has been holding meetings with ofificials of the Office of Price Sterbilization for the purpose of discussing industry pricing problems.

The industry is represented by 14 men from all parts of the country, and the Pacific Coast member is Richard I(. Humphries, of San Francisco, California, whose firm is Pacific Coast Aggregates, fnc.

\\rell toward completion is the the Cascades Plywood Corpo,'ation Oregon.

hardboard plant which is building at Lebanor-r,

Special Committee To Hefp Small Business on Prices

Albert J. Matthews, director of price stabilization for. Southern California, has appointed a special committee to aid small business with pricing problems, the Office of price Stabilization announces.

"We have in mind the thousands of businesses that are strictly family operations. We don't want to burden these people with paper work, yet we want them to get all of the help to which they are entitled under the law.,'

Matthews outlined a five point program to give the aid as follows: vrvsr@lrr LU srvc L'c aru as

1. Special problems of small business will continue to be reflected to the fullest possible extent in the basic pricing policies and techniques embodied in the regulations.

2. If smallness has traditionally justified higher prices, as in the case of retail food stores, this is to be recognized in price regulations.

3. Whenever practicable, simpler pricing methocls will be <levised for small businesses with limited clerical facilities.

4. Special concern for smail business will be taken in the form of writing regulations in the simplest language so that the small business man who does not maintain a legal stafi, and keeps his own books, rnay understand and comply with them.

5. Insofar as possible, reports required will be kept to a minimum. Records required shall not be more burdensome than the records usually kept in an establishment the size and nature of the business affected.

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Mr. Matthews will head the committee and has named Christian Murray and Elmer Nelson to assist him. Both are especially qualified for the responsibility.

Murray, an attorney and accountant, in private practice represented many small-volume establishments, and additionally was connected with Barker Brothers for many years.

Nelson, who is well known for his work in the field of foreign and domestic trade, served with the government from 7942 through 1946, and since then has been an economic consultant to private industry.

Truman Signs Bill Easing

Home Building Credit

WASHINGTON, Sept. l-President Truman today signed legislation easing credit regulations on moderately-priced new houses and permitting the government to build houses in certaln cases.

The Federal Reserve System accordingly put into effect a revision of Regulation X.

The credit relaxation provision is designed to spur private industry and to encourage the private construction of more homes.

It affects mainly houses costing $12,000 or less which now are covered by Regulation X requiring minimum down payments and amortization periods. An estimated half of all homes in the nation fall into this group.

Down Payment Cut

Present credit regulations require a down payment of 25.Bo/c for nonveterans and 15.8% for veterans on the purchase of new homes costing from $10,000 to $12,000 if the mortgages are guaranteed by the Veterans Administration or are insured by the Federal Housing Administration.

Smaller down payments are required for homes costing less.

The new law says that down payments not exceedinC 20% for nonveterans and 8/o for veterans may be required on homes costing from $10,000 to $12,000, with a 2S-year repayrrent period instead fo the present 20.

On smaller homes, costing $7,000 or less, the new down payment would be lo/o for nonveterans and 4/o for veterans instead of the present l7.l% and 7.I/o. On homes costing from $7000 to $10,000 the terms would be l5/. for nonvets and 6/o for veterans instead of the present 23/o and 10ft.

It will be noted that the new law simply says that the Government does not require more than the specified down payments and minimum mortgages. It does nothing to help a prospective home buyer get a loan.

Used Materials Come Under Allotment Plan

Used building materials, as well as imported materials, must be counted the same as ne\,v materials by anyone operating under the self-allotment plan, according to NPA.

In other words, 50 pounds of second-hand steel pipe rvould have to be counted in the steel allowance; secondhand structural steel cannot be used in residential construction after September 30, without express authorization.

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"Lawmakers have employed the term 'temporary taxes' evidently to lure those they are about to tax into an agreement and then make the 'temporary' levies permanent. The Washington government so performed with about 50 temporary excise taxes 'only for the duration of the war.' NOT ONE OF THEM HAS BEEN REMOVED."-Houston Post. {<**

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An Accountant Speaks

"I have been reading The California Lurnber Merchant for many years. It is sure a great lumber ntagazine,"

Wm. F. Connor, Public Accountant Los Angeles.

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27, and 28, 1951, at the llotel Del Coronado. It r.r'ill not be open to the trade generally but confined to on'ners and principals in the retail lumber industry of Southern California, and the program will be largely given over to discussions of the more practical sort.

Aluminum Window Screens Not Restricted bv NPA-M-4a

Contrary to fairly widespread belief, aluminum window screens are not affected by the most recent NPA order governing the use of metals in current and fourth quarter construction.

Aluminum screens are classed as a B product under the new NPA-M-4a, which means that they may be used without certification or restriction of any kind.

According to Morris Levin, sales manager of Rudiger-Lang Co., Berkeley, Calif., and Toccoa, Ga., some contractors have the impression that screens are included with class A aluminum products, and subject to tight control.

"Actually Tension-tite aluminum screens for double hung rvood windows are available without any red tape at all, and imrnediate delivery can be obtained through local dealers," Mr. Levin said.

NPA Plans to be Toush on Commercial Building

That NPA intends to be tough in granting permits for conrme:cial and industrial building, at least during the fourth quarter of this year, is shorvn clearly ir-r thcir bulletin "Construction criteria for processing CNIP applications."

That document says ir, effect that r.ro allotments rvill be issuecl for any project n,hich can be postponed; thzrt no allotment lvill be issuecl "unless the interests of the public u'ill be so adversely affected b1'denial of an allotment that it rvill l;e a serious ancl unreasonable hardship upon the cornr.nunitl' orrvill have an adverse effect on the defense effort or materially affect the public health, u.elfare, and ,safety." It adds that loss of profit, financial loss, or personal inconvenience shall not be considered as influencing factors except 'lr.here unreasonablc hardship is involved."

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"Americans ann "tarrJr* ,.. a 50 per cent tax; some for a 90 per cent tax. And there is no revolution. Nor will there be any as things are going now. BECAUSE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

Bruce Barton, famous author, pub,licist, and legislator.

"The great trouble -rL In"*omerican people is that they have lost their capacity for sustained indignatisn."Clipt.

Remember Retcil Conlerence ct Hotel Del Coroncrdo

Again Orrie Hamilton of the Southern California Retail Lumber Association calls attention to the conference that the association will conduct and sponsor on Septen-rher 26.

Steel Shortage Yery Serious

The seriousness of the structural steel shortage is eviclenced by the fact that construction of a r.rumber of steel plants is being slorved dorvn by the shortage of rnatcrials, u.hich situation rvill continue through the fourth qrlirrter of the year. Olficials expect that during the first quarter of 1952 the situation rvill be eased by the completion of a numlter of industrial steel plants norv uncler construction.

At the present time it is estimated that the demand for structural steel is trvo and one-half times the available supply.

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