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Looks Like Douslas Fir Production lor 1951 \(/ill Breok All Records

Portland, Oregon, September 20-(Special)-Shipments.and production of Douglas fir lumber through the first 35 weeks of 1951 indicate mills of the region may be headed' for their biggest year in history, topping 1950's all-time record highs..

Harris E. Smith, secretary of West Coast Lumbermen's Association, said shipments through August total 7.505 billion board feet, compared with 7.011 billion feet'for eight months last year. Production totals of 7.595 billion feet top last year's record cut of 6.863 billion feet.

Smith said there is more Douglas fir lumber produced in this region, than any other species of lumber in the nation.

The weekly average of West Coast Lumber production in August was 221,781,000 b.f. or l23.4To of the 1946-1950 average. Orders averaged 195,365,000 b. f ; Shipme nts,

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The industry's unfilled order file stood at 533,236,000 b.f. at the end of August, gross stocks at 886,889,000 b.f.

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, reporting for the week ended September lst, said as follows:

Lumber shipments of. 463 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 3.5 per cent above production for the week ending September 1, 1951. In the same week new orders of these mills were 0.5 per cent above production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted, to 47 per cent of stocks. For the reporiing softwood mills, unfilled orders were equivalent to 25 days' production at the current rate, and (Continued on Page 54)

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OPS Interprets Effects of Freight Rate Increase

A general interpretation of the effect of recent freight increases on ceiling prices has been issued by the Office of price Stabilization for the information of sellers operating under price regulations.

Text of the interpretation (General Interpretation 3, issued) follows:

"A number of sellers have inquired as to whether they may add to their ceiling prices the increases in railroad rates recently authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission (Ex Parte 175, August 2,l95l).

"fnclusion of freight in ceiling prices is determined by the specific regulation which may be applicable to the seller, ancl increases in freight rates may be added to a ceiling price only where such regulation permits this addition. With respect to sellers under the General Ceiling Price Regulation; Interpretation I under GCPR, issued April 9, 1951, states that increases in freight may be passed along to the purchaser only in the situations specified and only in connection with outbounrl freight charges."

(NOTE: Interpretation 1, referred to here, establishes as a general rule that sellers may add freight increases to their GCPR ceiling prices only where a ceiling price was established on an f.o.b. basis or where the ceiling price, in limited situations, is a delivered price reflecting the actual cost of the freight.)

"fnasmuch as the increases allowed by the ICC could become effective only after August 2, 1951, such freight rate increases would not constitute a cost increase which much be reflected in ceiling prices under Section 104 (e) of the Defense Production Act Amendments of 1951, which provides that certain cost increases occurring prior to July 26, 1951, must be reflected in ceiling prices.

"It is the policy of the Office of price Stabilization to afiord relief to sellers where cost increases would result in inequities, and various of the regulations issued provcide for adjustments in certain cases. Freight costs would constitute ,,costs', under these adjustment provisions and may, in appropriate case:;, provide a basis for relief under the applicable regulations."

Controlled Materials "ln Builder's Inventory"

National Production Authority has issued a new interpretation of its construction regulations of August 3, dealing u,ith the use of materials in the possession of a builder.

This interpretation explains that if a prime contractor prior to October I has in his possession, or has held for his account by another, his requirements of controlled materials for the completion of a building, he may use the materials at any time, providing he conforms to the copper and aluminum restriction provisions of NPA Order M-4A. It means that if a builder has ordered his controlled materials, and the distributor has them earmarked for him so that no other person may receive them, the materials are technically in the builder's ,,Inventory" or "possession." Simply stated, engaged materials in the hands of a distributor will be considered to be in the possession of the builder who engaged them for the purposes of construction regulations.

The full interpretation reads: "With respect to construction other than Table I construction or multiunit residential construction, if prior to Oct. 1, 1951, a prime'contractor has in his possession or has held for his account by another, his requirements of controlled materials for the completion of the building, and does not require delivery after Sept .30, 1951, of controlled materials in quantities in excess of the appropriate bmount specified in Schedule I to Direction I to CMp Regula. tion 6, he may use such material so held in his possession o, for his account at any time in his construction job, provided he conforms to Section 7 of NPA Order M-4A. and to anv other restrictions on use of materials contained in other Ni'A orders."

Home Owners Promised Tax Break Under Pending Tax Bill

Owners of homes, who sell those homes at a profit and ther.r use the profit for buying another home at the same or a higher price, will be tax-exempt on the profit on the old home under the new federal tax law. This has been approved by the Ifouse and Senate committees, and is almost certain to be sustained in the final law. The present law imposes the capital gains tax on the profit a home owner makes by selling his

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Frame with Trim - Door with Hardware Installs in 20 minutes rt will be rememb.r.J ,ri". i"n.r, they caught Atger Hiss, a high man in the State Department, red-handed and traitorous, Mr. Truman waited not on the evidence. "A red herring," he snapped out publicly; .,a red herring of the strongest type of smell." But Alger Hiss was as guilty as hell, and is now serving a term in prison.

A substantial inaestment necessary t'or special ilesigned, assembly and, patkaging tooling.

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"What has destroy"d t;.;y lnd the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia, or the aristocrats of a Venetian senate."-Thomas Jefferson.

"A pack of lies" i, th" ;r;. ir."id.rrt Truman recently used when denying in a public address the well nigh universal opinion of Americans that there is shocking waste, extravagance, and inefficiency in the operation of our federal government. You will hear that opinion expressed from every lip, and read it in nearly every newspaper throughout the land-North, East, South, or West. So, .Mr. Truman lashed out with his customary violent t5pe of diplomacy, aganist that opinion as being ,.a pack of lies."

Then one of his own party and usually a party-line man, Senator Fulbright of Arkansas, rose before the Senate and reported with bowed head and saddened face that his committee had discovered greed, corruption, and moral decay in government circles, particularly in RFC. Said Fulbright: "Morality in government has declined to the lowest ebb in the nation's history. The American people are deeply ashamed and rightly disturbed."

And Mr. Truman, when he heard of it, snapped out: "Asinine!" We all know now, and are continually learning more of how right Mr. Fulbright was. The new and honorable head of RFC is still finding and kicking the chiselers off the premises. The record is like the dead Banquo-it will not down. **>F

Now the public has been told with force and emphasis that the reports of huge, open, and notorious waste of the taxpayers'money which have appeared in most of the ne\,espapers and magazines of the land and which are on the lip of Mr. and Mrs. American wherever you find them, are ,.a pack of lies." Naturally the reaction to that statement came fast and furious, and as f write this piece I have on the desk beside me enough facts and figures disproving the "pack of lies" statement to fill a large sized bible. They all contend and offer facts and figures to prove .,it aint no lie," and there is monumental waste, extravagance, inefficiency, and stupidity in the handling of the taxpayers, mone'' * r< *

It would seem only necessary to call attention to a few solid and unassailable facts and figures to answer Mr. Truman's statement. Like these: Between the fiscal years of 1946 to 1949 the Truman administration spent more money than all the preceding national administrations combined up to World War Two, which includes 8 years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's spending; and Franklin, you will recall, was no green hand when it came to getting rid of other people's money. **'*

The 32 Presidents from Washington through Roosevelt's second term spent a total of. $179,620,000,000, while Truman, from the beginning of the fiscal year 1946 to September, 1949, spent $191,081,000,000. And the expenditures prior to the third Roosevelt administration included those for the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War One. ***

President Truman has twice as many people working in the White flouse yard, as President Tom Jefferson had in his State Department.

Recently the president of the American fnstitute of Accounts, Mr. T. Coleman Andrews, a man highly esteemed in his profession, appeared before the Senate Committee on Executive Expenditures in Washington, and gave some interesting testimony. He offered many proofs of government waste and inefficiency. For example, he told of one

We Hcsne Reprinted The MacArthur Editoricrl

Responding to the requests of countless friends we have reprinted in attractive form as a pocket size folder our May first Vagabond F"ditorial on the Douglas MacArthur oration before the Congress. They may be had for the asking.