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The Commerce Department has announced the ground rules for polling producers and consumers on the proposed new lumber size standards.
Assistant Commerce Secretary J. Herbert Hollomon released a list of more than 200 organizations whose membership will be asked to take a position on the new size proposals. For the actual balloting, each trade organization will be asked to furnish a list of 200 names, or 20/o of the membership, whichever is less. The organizations involved range from The National Association of Home Builders to the National Broom Corn & Supply Dealers Association. Most of the group are representative of major manufacturers, distributors, specifiers and users of lumber and wood products.
3. The extent-by board feet-to which the respondent was involved in the pro' duction, distribution, us€ or other aspects of softwood lumber during 1962.
The ballot to be mailed by the Commerce agency also will give respondents an opportunity to include a one-page explanation of their position for or against the new size standards.
As a preliminary to the upcoming ballot' ing procedure, Hollomon wrote to J. H. Carr, Jr.o secretary of the American Lum' ber Standards Committee, asking for additional information relative to the new size standards. Specifically, Hollomon asked:
I. That the ALSC incorporate o'editorial suggestions which we think would make the proposal more in keeping with the form