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Revised MPR No. 26---Douslat Fir and Other \Vest Coast Lumber

Washington, D. C., lune 4, 1943. Maximum mill prices on Douglas fir and other West Coast lumber as originally established June D, t942, and the various changes made since that time by amendments and by authorization on special applications, are embodied in a Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. 26 (Douglas Fir and other West Coast lumber) issued today by the Office of Price Administration. It is effective June 9, 1943.

Two changes are made in the rules affecting the application of the price tables on boards and timbers. They are:

1. The former specific addition of $1.50 per thousand board feet for rough boards to the ceilings for surfaced boards is eliminated. To obtain maximum prices for mill sales of rough boards hereafter, sellers must apply to OPA for specific authorization. The price table continues in effect only for surfaced boards. This change has been made because the mills simply used the former $1.50 addition for rough boards as a means of increasing the price without performing any additional service, OPA said. Today's change is expected to correct a situation whereby purchasers who required surfaced boards frequently were forced to buy rough boards at a premium and then themselves bear the extra cost of surfacing. The $1.50 addition was originally granted by OPA because custdmarily mills produced surfaced boards and orders for rough boards disrupted the normal processes and involved additional expense to produce.

2. An addition of $2.00 per thousand board feet is allowed for surfacing timbers in sizes up to and including 16 inches by 16 inches. No addition heretofore has been allowed for surfacing timbers in these "smaller" sizes, and the result was that smaller mills not equipped to surface timbers simply were unable to bid on orders for surfaced timbers. Since the price was the same for both surfaced and rough timbers, purchasers naturally would specify surfaced timbers even though rough timbers might serve their purpose as well or better. Today's revision corrects this situation.

The elimination of the automatic addition to prices of rough boards will have the effect of a price reduction which offsets the increase in the ceiling of smaller surfaced tim- bers, OPA said. The relatively few sizes of timbers less than 16 by 16 inches in terms of total production represent a minor item compared with the percentage of total production devoted to boards. The cost of living will not be affected by these changes.

Today's revision of the regulation, like tlie recent revision of Maximum Price Regulation No. 19 (Southern Pine), makes a number of changes in the various provisions and in the form of the regulation, resulting in greater simplification and clarification.

This regulation covers all Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock and all species of true fir lum.ber produced in those parts of Oregon, Washington and Canada lying west of the crest of the Cascade mountains, and in California and Alaska.

Direct-mill shipments of these types of lumber in the West Coast area from any plant, whatever called, producing this lumber are covered by the regulation.

MPR No. 402---\(/estern Red

Cedar Lumber

Dollars-and-cents ceiling prices at all levels for \Mestern red cedar lumber were announced by the Office of Price Administratioh.

The new prices are established in Maximum Price Regulation No. 402 (Western red cedar lumber), and becomes effective June 12, 1943.

Previously Western. red cedar lumber was priced under the General Maximum Price Regulation, which provides that ceiling prices shall be the highest charged by the seller dur'ing the month of March, 1942.

The new dollars-and-cents prices are based on the March, 1942, price lists of seven companies producing two-thirds of the nation's Western red cedir lumber output, and the level of prices generally is.the General Maximum Price Regulation level.

Some upward adjustments from March, 1942, quotations have been made in prices of such items as tank stock, which is urgently needed in the war program, and in items like molding, lattice and log cabin siding. On the other hand, there have been decreases in the top prices of other items, such as the bevel bungalow, special, drop and rustic siding, and gutter and shop lumber.