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National Construction Figures For August

Expenditures for new construction in August totaled $2.8 billion, about the same as in July, according to preliminary estimates made jointly by the U. S. Labor Department,s Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Building Materials Division, U. S. Department of Commerce.

The dollar volume for new construction this August was slightly under the August 1950 total, but, when adjusted for the increase in construction costs, its represents a significantly smallei physical volume of work put in place.

A contraseasonal decline (2 per cent) in private residential building and an 11 per cent drop in commercial building reflect the continued effects in August of building restrictions. Compared with August a year ago, private homebuilding was down by a third and commercial by 6 per cent. Private industrial building increased by 4 per cent over July and was double the August 1950 dollar volume.

Expenditures for total new private construction declined fractionally from July to $1,865 million, but the decreasc was more than offset by a 4 per cent rise to $937 million for public construction. Most of the rise in public expenditures increase was in atomic energy and military projects and in highway construction.

W. W. (Buzz) Davies loins Rogue Lumber Sales Compcny

Buzz Davies, formerly with Crater Wholesale Lumber Cornpany and Ross Lrlmber Company of Medford, Oregon, is now associated with Rogue Lumber Sales Company, also of Medford, it was announced recently by Harry Dowson of that company. Buzz will handle all wholesale transactions for thc company.

Harry Elden will remain as sales manager for a subsidiary company, the Southern Oregon Planing Mill Company.

The first scheduled radio broadcast in history was on November 2, 1920 over KDKA, Pittsburgh.

Construction of military .facilities, industrial plants, electric power projects, and other defense-supporting facilities continued to rise in August as rapidly as available supplies of structural steel, copper, and'other scarce material would perrnit. Expenditures for military construction amounted to 6l times the level of a year earlier, while industrial plant (private and public) building had more than doubled.

For the first 8 months of 1951 expenditures for new construction totaled $19.5 billion, almost 12 per cent over the comparable period in 1950. Private new construction, at 913.7 billion, was up 5 per cent over last year and new public construction totaling 95.8 billion was up by 31 per cent.

Huge Pulp Mill lor Alqskcr

The U. S. Forest Service has sold to the Ketchikan pulp and Paper Company 1,500,000 cubic feet of timber in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, and the buyer will build a forty million dollar pulp plant near Ketchikan, where the timber will be manufactured. The great plant will be built in runits, the first to be in operation in 1954.

Manufacturers Of Quality Fir Lumber

TWENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

Russell Gheen, who represents the C. D. Johnson Lumber Company in Los Angeles, started his business life as Professor of Forestry at Syracuse University, and was the youngest man to every hold a full professorship in that school, according to a story in this issue.

R. A. Long, of Kansas City, and Longview, chairman of the board of the I-ong-Bell Lumber Co, is in San Francisco at present, dickering on what may prove to be a big business deal.

The California Door Company of a new and modernly equipped Diamond Springs, California.

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Sugar pine. David Douglas, explorer and botanist, made the discovery. He had seen the seeds of a new tree in the pouch of an Indian, and thus knew there was such a tree. He searched for it from the mouth of the Columbia River, in Oregon, to the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, and finally found it in Northern California.

Jerry Sullivan, Jr., has been elected Snark for the Hoo-Hoo Club in San Diego for the coming year.

has completed construction planing mill at its plant at Arthur Heavenrich, sales Pine Company, died at his Ife was 44 years old.

Parson Peter A. Simpkin conducted two Hoo-Hoo Concatenations in September at Quincy, California, initiating a total of 38 kittens.

In this issue is found illustrated descriptions of three of the biggest sawmills on the Pacific Coast, the Coos Bay Lumber Company mill at Coos Bay, Oregon; the Pacific Lumber Company mill at Scotia, California; and the Little River Lumber Company mill at Crannell, California.

manager home in for the Fresno, Madera S.ugar September 19.

Negotiations and meetings are under way that may end in a giant merger of fir mills in the Pacific Northwest. An organization committee composed of C. D. Johnson, of Portland; Major Everett Griggs, of Tacoma; James Tyson, of San Francisco; Ray Danaher, of Detroit; and Chas. S. Keith, of Kansas City, are trying to line up about 70 major mills in the project.

Home Ownerr Promised Tax Break

(Continued from Page 4) residence.

For instance, if a home cost a man $10,000 and he sells it for $15,000, he would have a profit of $5,000. Under the new bill no part of this profit would be taxed if the taxpayer bought a new home within a year's time, for a price of not less than $15,000. Furthermore, if the new home purchased costs less tan $15,000, say $14,000, the taxable gain would.be one-half the difference between the cost of the new home and the olcl one, or $500.

This woulcl apply regardless of why the old home was sold and the new one purchased.

Alaska Sawmill Logs Are Price Exempt

Saw logs produced in Alaska and consumed by Alaskan sawmills are exempt from price control until December 31, 1951, the Office of Price Stabilization announced recently.

The exemption is stipulated in Supplementary Regulation 55 to the General Price Ceiling Regulation, GCPR, efiective August 30, 1951.

Alaskan logs have been subject to control under GCPR, which froze prices at the highest level existing between December 19, 1950, and January 25,1951. Since the logging industry in Alaska was virtually inoperative at that time-the normal season runs from May until November-many operators found it difficult or impossible to determine ceiling prices for the current season.

The result has been a curtailment of production of salv logs in Alaska. To remedy the situation and encourage production, OPS decided to remove all control for the balance of the season. It is expected that a tailored regulation will be issued covering Alaskan saw logs before commencement of the 1952 season.

Filing lor First Qucrter oI 1952

Builders and sponsors of multi-family residential structures who need controllqd materials (steel, aluminum and copper) for the first quarter of. L952 were asked to file an application by October 1, 1951, for the controlled materials they need for that quarter, Administrator Raymond M. Foley of the Housing and Horne Finance Agency, announced Sept. 15. A multi- unit family structure is one that contains rxore than forrr family units.

The filing had to be done on the National Production Authority fo:m identified as CMP-4C, which rvill serve both as an application for authorization to construct and as an application for allotment of steel, copper, and aluminum. Copies of the form may be obtained from field officcs of the Department of Commerce. Thev should be filed as follows: lluilders of public multi-family housing (federal, state or local) will file with field offices of the Public Housing Adrninistration.

Iluilders of private multi-family housing (whether conventionally financed or FHA-insured or VA-guaranteed) will file in local olfices of the FHA.

Ceiling On Chestnut Wood

The Office of Price Stabilization today announced a ceiling plice of $12.00 per cord (128 cubic feet) on chestnut extract wood.

The ceiling applies to. all purchases of chestnut extract lvoocl by members of the chestnut extract industry wherever loc;rted in the United States. The industry centers in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Alabama, Georgi;r and Kentucky.

The ceiling prescribed in Supplementary Regulation 58 to the General Ceiling Price Regulation, GCPR, is effective September 12, 1951, and is figured f.o.b. car or delivered to mill, according to seller's practice, during the period January to June, 1951.

Forte Adds New Line

Roy Forte, machinery dealer, 6918 S.-Santa Fe Ave., Huntington Park, Calif., has been appointed a Southern California agent for the Dependable Machine Co., Inc., of Greensboro, N.C. He will handle their line of cutter heads, knife grin<iers, side head grinders, gang rip saws and their newly developed electro-unit moulders, in addition to his regular line of used machinery. His phone number is MEtcalf 3-2562.

Matt Rycn With Hedlund Lumber Scrles

N{att Ryan, well known lumber salesman, formerly with Gartin-Ryan Lumber Co., Walnut Creek, Calif., is now r,vith Hedlund Lumber Sales, fnc., Sacramento, in the sales department.

How Lumber Looks

(Continued from Page 2) gross stocks were equivalent to 49 days'production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 0.2 per cent above production; orders were 2.5 per cent below production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 1935-1939, production of reporting mills was 40.6 per cent above; shipments were 44.9 per cent above; orders were 47.6 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1950, production of reporting mills was 14.0 per cent below; shipments were 12.4 per cent below; and new orders were 2.2 per cent above.

For the week ended September 8, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association reports:

Lumber shipments of 485 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barorneter were 8.3 per cent below production for the week ended September 8, 1951. In the same week ne'uv orders of these mills were 2.8 per cent below production. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 45 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders were bquivalent to 25 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were equivalent to 51 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 0.3 per cent above production; orders were 2.0 per cerrt below production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 1935-1939, production of reporting mills was 46.5 per cent above; shipments were 45.9 per cent above; orders were 58.1 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1950, produc- tion of reporting mills was 10.3 per cent below; shipments were 19.3 per cent below; and new orders were 3.4 per cent below.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Portland, Oregon, reports as follows: for the week ended September 1, 183 mills reported production 107,574,487 feet; orders 119,320,180 feet; shipments 124,016,860 feet. Orders were l0.9Vo over production, and shipments t5.3Vo over. For the week ended September 8, for the same mills, the reports were, producti6n 98,899,151 feet; orders 101,855,351 feet; shipments 95,167,830 feet. Orders were 3% over production, and shipments were 3.8% under.

The Western Pine Association, Portland, Oregon, reported for 87 mills for the week ended September 1: production 64,815,000 feet; orders 55,743,0m feet; shipments 57,642,000 feet. For the week ended September 8, 101 mills reported: production 66,882,000 feet; orders 57,651,000 feet; shipments 59,079,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association, New Orleans, La., reported for I07 mills for the week ended September 1: production 15,120,000 feet; orders 17,108,000 feet; shipments 15,676,000 feet. Orders were l3.lSVo above production, and shipments 3.68/o above.

For the week ended September 8, the Southern Pine Association reported for 110 mills: production 15,512,000; orders 20,006,000 feet; shipments 14,978,000 feet. Orders above produ ction, 28.98/o. Shipments below produ ction 3.44/o.

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