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Government Rules and Regulations
RELEASE OF DOUGLAS F'IR LUMBER UNDER ORDER L.218 be addressed to of Order L-218,
Paragraph 311.6(b) of Limitation Order provides a means for the release of Douglas fir lumber upon the specific authorization of the Director General for Operations on Form PD4?3.
Requests for release of fir lumber should Mr. George B. Carpenter, Administrator Pittock Block, Portland, Ore.
Builders Hardware Put Under New Ceiling
Maximum prices for all contract, or lump-sum, sales of finishing builders' hardware-knobs, locks, window hardur'are, screen hardware and similar miscellaneous itemsestablished (Maximum Price Regulation 261), efiective November 13.
AMENDMENT 1 LIMITATION ORDER L-150
Douglas fir plywood specifications corrected to read "commercial standard OS 4542" instead of "commercial standard CX 45-40," (amendment 1 to limitation order L-150, effective November 16.
HOME-MADE COMMODITIES
Commodities made by the seller at his home, entirely for his own account and without assistance of employes, are exempted from price control if sales are not above $75 a month (Amendment 4O to Supplementary Regulation I of GMPR), effective November 24.
PRIORITIES REGULATION NO. 10 REVOKED FOR NONFERROUS TRADE
Section 944.3t Priorities Regulation No. 10 establishing the allocation classification system,for the nonferrous trade has been revoked. Brass mills, copper wire mills and copper foundries are cautioned by the W.P.B. to continue to use end-use classification symbols set up under Priorities Regulation No. 10.
zVo CASIj DTSCOUNT MANDATORY UNDER M.P.R. NO. 215
Only the normal cash discount ol 2 per cent for prompt payment is mandatory under the price regulation covering the sale of softwood lumber from distribution yards under Maximum Price Regulation No. 215. (Interpretation of Maximum Price Regulation No. 215) issued November 9.
AMENDMENT 4 M. P. R. 161-WEST COAST LOGS'
Method restated for setting maximum prices on West Coast logs when they are not delivered to the buyer's manufacturing plant or the district waters named in the O. P. A. price regulation; reporting tightening of overtime under the provision which allows additional charges above the maximum for firms working ,E hours or more a week: redefines Columbia River district (amendment 4 to maximum price regulation 161), effective November 20.
Fence Wire
To aid production of barbed wire, fencing and poultry netting, manufacture simplified, eliminating "non-essential" types; one type of barbed wire may be made compared with eight heretofore; fencing, netting and flooring are substantially reduced from more than 100 varieties (Schedule 3 to Limitation Order L-zIl), effective November 12.
Metal Lath
Production of metal lath and other metal plastering bases will stop on November 16 for any use except that of the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, and War Administration WPB has ordered.
Industrial Repairs
AA-1 priority rating will probably be extended by the WPB requirements committee on repairs and maintenance of essential civilian and war industries. WPB is reported speeding top priority assistance to the mining equipment industry in order to speed steel deliveries.
Urgcr Formation of Shrle Ride Planr Fire Season Clocar in Northern Crlifornia
San Francisco, Nov. 6.-Joseph B. Eastman, director of the Office of Defense Transportation, today, according to Washington advices, urged local transportation administrators throughout the county to "redouble their efforts" at once to stimulate car sharing among the public.
In a message wired to 1,600 local administrators, Mr. Eastman called attention to the increased importance of group riding in view of the impending nationwide gasoline rationing, and specifically asked the administrators, appointed by the mayors last April at Eastman's request, to assist in setting up organized car-pooling plans at industrial plants.
NO OUTDOOR CHRISTMAS LIGHTING THIS YEAR, WPB ASKS
The WPB November 7 asked city officials, civic clubs, chambers of commerce, merchants, and citizens generally to dispense with outdoor decorative lighting this Christmas.
WPB pointed out that Christmas lighting requires the use of critical materials, electricity, and manpower.
PREDICT POST-WAR CONSTRUCTION BOOM
Sweeping modernization of dwelling facilities will develop at the close of hostilities, Federal Housing Administration officials told U. S. Savings and Loan League in Chicago. They predicted a post-war construction boom lasting nearly a decade.
San Francisco, Nov. 16.-The t942 fue season in the national forests of California has been characterized by a subnormal number of fires set by lightning, according to U. S. Regional Forester S. B. Show. There are usually about 600lightning fires in an average year. But only about 200 have occurred and the fire season in northern California is now closed on some national forests and fairly safe on the qthers. In Southern California the fire hazard continues in force due to the danger from dry, high velocity winds known as "Santa Anas."
Mr. Show stated that the war has greatly increased the fire protection problem of all protection agencies, and pointed to the Jap bombing of Mt. Emily in the Siskiyou National Forest, of Oregon, where only the vigilance and quick action of forest rangers prevented a forest fire that might have cost millions in property damage and the sabotaging of vital war work.
"Movie goers who see Paramount's new technicolor picture, The Forest Ranger," said Mr. Show, "will realize what a tough proposition fire fighting can be. Perhaps the lives of the forest rangers as depicted by Hollywood are not identical with the lives of forest rangers in the U. S. Forest Service, but the picture of the forest fire is the real thing. We hope it will be remembered next summer."
New Freight Tax Goes In Effect December 1
The new tax bill, signed by the President October 21, imposes a 3 per cent tax on express and freight shipments. Contrary to other provisions, this tax becomes effective December l, 1942. It applies only to the amount "paid to a person engaged in the business of transporting property for hire, including amount paid to a freight forwarder, express company, or similar persori, for transportation with respect to which a tax has previously been paid under this section." Government transportation is exempt from this tax.
JERRY ESSLEY WrLL JOIN AIR CORPS
Jerry Essley of D. C. Essley & Son, wholesale plywood and lumber firm, Los Angeles, has been a student at the Curtis-Wright airplane school since August. He hopes to complete the course in February, when he will enlist in the Air Corps as a mechanic.
