PresidcntEnds P.y and Price Ceilings

Washington, Nov. 9-Price ceilings on everything except dwellings, sugar and rice were wiped away completely by President Truman tonight in one sweeping order which spelled the speedy end of O.P.A.

All government controls on wages and salaries, too, were abolished except in case of government seizure, like the soft coal mines. Thus the Wage Stabilization Board goes out of business.

While the O.P.A. rent ceilings will be continued, Mr. Truman indicated that they may be increased-"it may be that some adjustment of rents will be required," he said. But Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt announced that the sales and rental ceilings on new homes built under the veterans' emergency housing program will stay as is.

Ceilings Removed

The Presidential order removed price ceilings from clothirg, automobiles, building materials, furniture, metals, paper, coal, laundry-everything, in fact, that still remained undler ceilings after the avalanche of recent decontrol actions except the scarce items of housing, sugar and rice.

The order was effective as of 9:01 p.m. P.S.T., but price law violations before that time may be prosecuted and businessmen are required to keep their records for another year,

Mr. Wyatt said that present subsidies will continue, along with the houses- $10,000 on the 'purcfrase price monthly rental.

Building Permits At Alt-Time High For Los Angeles

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Value of building permits issued in Los Angeles for the first l0 months of this year totaled $201,52I,441 marking an all-time high for a l0-month period, and $146,000,000 higher than last year, it was announced by G. E. Morris, city superintendent of building.

Mr. Morris said that the next highest l0-month period was in the previous peak year of L923, when valuations totaled $200,,101,864, some $1,000,000 less than for this year.

For October there were issued 428O permits valued at $13,895,436, compared to 3712 permits valued at $11,186,134 issued in October last year. The total for the first 10 months of 1945 was 25,628 permits valued at $55,696,2L9.

Adds Equipment

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Gamerston & Green Lumber Co., added a new Peterbilt lumber truck to their lumber handling equipment.

I. E. MARTIN Mcncaing Editor

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