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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1941)
Tuesday, October 21, Ban Placed On Construction By Priorities The supply priorities and alloca tion board today announced a new policy under which no public or private construction projects which use critical material such as steel, copper, brass, bronze, aluminum, etc., may be started during the em ergency unless these projects are either necessary lor direct national defense or are essential to the health and safety of the people. This applies to public projects federal, state and local such as the building of postoffices, court houses and similar structures; to the construction of roads and high ways; to river and harbor Improve ments, and to flood control and power projects. It applies to the instruction of factories, lofts, ware ouses, office buildings and all other commercial construction. It applies to residential construction and to construction for public utili ties. BPAB pointed out that because of the defense program's heavy de mand for metals, it will not be pos sible for the United States to build F 1 MifiC (f ffriF CM IT I " If 1941 all of the warships, planes, tanks and other things essential to Its national security If the scarce metals are unnecessarily used In building projects which are not vital to de fense. In effect, the new policy means that on all building project here after two tests will be applied: 1. Does this construction Involve the use of appreciable quantities of critical materials? 2. Is the construction directly necessary for national defense, or clearly essential for the health and safety of the civilian population? If the answer to the first question is "yes" and the answer to the second question Is "no," priorities for the critical materials involved will not be Issued. Where construction actually has started and a substantial portion has been completed, SPAB said, efforts will be made to get the crit ical materials needed to finish the job. The entire policy, SPAB held, is based on the fact that no construc tion job which Is not absolutely necessary is entitled to a share of the materials urgently needed for defense. If factories are obliged to close because they cannot get these materials, SPAB said, there would be neither rhyme nor reason in permitting the use of those same materials to erect public works, new factories, office buildings or other 3 , ; structures unless it could be shown plainly that such construction Is vital to the nation. SPAB urged all federal, state and local government agencies to refrain from Issuing permits or other authorizations for construc tion work on which priorities assis tance would have to be denied. It also suggested that building codes In many cities require the use of excessive amounts of critical materials, and urged that such codes be suspended during the emergency. In arriving at this policy, SPAB surveyed the entire field of con struction to see what quantities of critical materials are used, how much money is involved, how much labor is employed and what de fense and civilian needs are being met Total construction during 1941, SPAB found, will probably reach $11,000,000,000 about equal to the highest levels previously reached In 1926 and 1927. This figure does not Include approximately $3,000, 000,000 which is being spent during the year on maintenance, repair and remodeling. Aluminum pistons, for replace ment purposes In automobile motors, are six times as popular as cast iron ones according to census fig ures. Over 6,900,000 aluminum pis tons are sold annually, latest fig ures show, compared to 1,653,000 cast Iron pistons. . . 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