THURSDAY, SEPT. 23, 1948
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THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
Building Codes
Here is more on government
and the lumber business. Lum
ber still suffers from the prac
tices that grew about it in the
hundreds of years when its pro
duct was the cheapest commodity
everywhere. The building codes
of municipalities, counties and of
states were formed out of ex
perience with practices and cus
toms of lumber use.
In the main, building codes yet
require the use of lumber with
qualities—that is, grades—higher
than those needed. The great
majority of the 37,000,000 homes
enumerated in the 1940 Census
contain many more board feet
per unit than were ever needed,
as well as much higher grades
than were actually called for in
service. Very few old houses are
wrecked because of lumber failure
in the structure.
They demon
strate that today’s new homes can
be built to serve as well with far
less lumber and with substantial
employment of low grades of wood
that were left always to rot in
the forest in the old times.
Basic Code Items
The National Bureau of Stan
dards has defined the common
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code of building as "a collection
of legal requirements whose pur
pose is to protect the safety,
health, morals and general wel
fare of those in and about the
buildings.” Most of these collec
tions are municipal codes. There
are more than 2,000. Six states
have codes of one kind or another,
and all states’ have laws of some
sort that bear on building con
struction. Countless building codes
are becoming prevalent.
Normally the local building code
states in detail requirements for
fire resistance, strength of ma
terials, design loads for various
types of construction, for securing
building permits, and for many
other technical phases. The code
dictates to a builder the types
and the grades of material for
his building project, the way ma
terials are to be used and the
place for each material. The re
lative quantities of differing ma
terials for each building job are
regulated by the usual code.
All of this has a special effect
on lumber, which comes to the
building market in a wide range of
grades and items among a large
number of species. No two trees
are alike, and no two pieces of
wood are alike. The grade of any
one piece can only be approxi
mately fixed.
In view of this
fact, the engineers who recom
mend building code provisions are
apt to go to extremes in making
sure that the grade of lumber
specified for a given use is more
than high enough to meet the
need.
The Tide of Change
Engineers in building and engi
neers in forestry are joining to
work out building regulations of
lumber use on principles of assert
ing sound and safe home construc
tion, while at the same time pro
viding for more lumber supply,
lower building costs and for utili
zation of the lumber tree to a
degree that will help forest con
servation. The example of ex
perience with wood floor con
struction in war housing is but
one of a myraid that dictates build
code changes for lumber.
In all corners of the country
public and private agencies that
carry technical authority, with
numerous organizations that have
various interests building, are pro
moting revisions of building codes.
The National Housing Agency has
long-range program of tests on
ways and means on the building
of good housing at reduced costs,
and most of the tests are with
lumber and carpentry.
The National Burreau of Stan
dards Association, the Producers
Council, the American Society for
Testing Materials, the National
Board of Fire Underwriters, the
John B. Pierce Foundation, various
engineering societies, companies
and trade groups in building ma
terials, building trades unions, re
searchers, prefabrication—all of
these and a long list besides are
supporting the moderizatibn of
the codes and ordinances that
rule building and building supply
in America.
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Veterans desiring to make these
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courses are being received from
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Q. Will the VA pay for the
medical care of my dependent?
A. No. Under existing laws,
only eligible veterans are entitled
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