Digest of New OPA Ragulrtionr

Redwood Lumber Products Receive Ceiling Price Increcrses

Washington, October l4-Ceiling prices of dry and finished redwood lumber products were increased an average of $2 per thousand, and mill ceilings for split redwood cross ties werg raised $7.50 per thousand board feet, the Office of Price Administration announced.

All increases are effective Oct. 16.

Specific dollar-and-cent increases on redwood items, to cover processing are : $7 per thousand for resawn siding; $3 per thousand for other pattern items; $2.50 for drying; $2 for surfacing, and $3 for working to pattern. Increases were designed to encourage production of lumber products needed for veterans' housing.

The higher price of cross ties, OPA said, will be passed on to the railroads. Split redwood ties normally account for l/o to 2/o of redwood lumber production.

Douglcs Fir

Douglas fir lumber mills which do not customarily ship by water may now do so from West Coast ports without being required to absorb the cost of transportation to shipside. (Amendment 3 to second revised MPR 26, effective Oct. 30.)

Western Pine Stock Screen Goods

Effective October 17, 1946, manufacturers are permitted a full pass-through of the increases in ceilings in Western pine shop lumber and the advance in freight rates recently granted. The new ceilings amount to a 3.65 percent increase on manufactLlrers' delivered prices and a 3.97 per cent increase on f.o.b. mill prices. (Amendment No. 11 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 38l-Stock Screen Goods; effective Ooctober 17. 1946.\

Edge Grain Western Red Cedcn Plywood

Eliminating any further need for individual applications for ceiling prices on edge grain \A/estern red cedar plywood, OPA has established ceiling prices for this commodity. These ceilings replace those established in individual letter orders and will also effect a uniform price level for the product. (Order No. 1 under Third Revised Maximum Price Regulation No. l3-Edge Grain Western Red Cedar Plywood: effective October 26, 1946')

Stock Millwork

Jobbers of stock millwork affected by recent freight increases have had their prices adjusted to compensate for the increases. (Amendment 14 to MPR 525, effective Oct. 26.\

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