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Lumbermen Fear Product MayBecomeNo. IProblem BY HERBERT CHESHIRE United Press Staff Correspondent ATLANTA, Ga., June 12—(U.R)— Available supplies of lumber are repidly increasing in the South, and industry cources predicted to day that the lumber business may turn into a number one economic problem unless government con trols are removed, culture said Southern mills and The U. S. Deptrament of agri lumber concentration yards had 219,492,000 more board feet of lumber at the end of March than on January 31. The bottom dropped out of the low grade lumber market in Georgia several weeks ago, and dozens of mills closed temporarily in the face of a price drop from $90 to $50 a thousand feet. Retail prices in Columbia, S. C-, have dropped from $100 a thousand feet six months ago to around $65, and one leading dealer there said “the prices are so low, dealers are not selling any more than they have to. It costs more to bring the lumber out of the woods than you can get for it.” Prices Decline Reports from Birmingham, Ala., were that lumber buyers aren’t taking just anything they can find in the yards now. Common grades are down about 30 per cent from previous levels, a United Press survey showed. “The people are beginning to exercise their privilege of de manding just what they ordered instead of taking what they can get,” a spokesman said. Housing construction in Birming ham dropped off a month ago and there were no predictions that it would return to previous levels until—as one spokesman put it— “the theorists in Washington let supply and demand take care of itself.” The price of building supplies in North Carolina is down from 30 to 40 per cent below the' cost of a few months ago and a number of lumber companies are reported liquidating current supplies with out buying more standing timber. Fear Sharp Drop Some North Carolina dealers said they feared that unless gov ernment restrictions on the in dustry are eased, “the bottom will drop 0ut of this business.” They said there has been a sharp drop in-demand and that an over all decrease of 15 per cent in building costs is anticipated soon. A lumber source in Little Rock, Ark., predicts a general decrease of 15 to 20 per cent in all lumber prices before the end of the year. Does this mean a general de crease in the cost of home con struction. The industry says, no. They point out that lumber costs are a relatively small item in 1 the price of a dwelling. One of the big items is labor. Brick is still expensive and hard to get. FREE PARKING LOT * UYTONS FOOD STORE 1 J OPEN ALL DAY WEDNESDAYS FREE PARKING LOT Native Full Dressed FRYERS, lb.55c Half or Whole HAMS, lb.59c Hockless 4-6 lb. Average PICNICS, lb.45c \ Grade AA Beef POT ROAST, lb.49c Grade A Kingan’s & Armour’s SLICED BACON, lb.... 69c " Fancy CUBE STEAK, lb.69c Brookfield & Cloverblooin BUTTER, lb.69c Parkav & Nucoa OLEO, lb.39c Carnation Evaporated MILK, 3 tail cans.36c Baker’s Shredded COCONUT, pkg..22c Ballard’s Obelisk HOUR, 10 lbs.95c Swift’s Shortening IFUfFI 1 lb* Pk8.33c JL vs LL-3 lb. pkg.97c Regular Size PAIMOUVE.10c Bath Size PALMOLIVE ..15c Large DUZ.33c ; IVORY FLAKES.35c HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley /---"V DOMIN' BV DE GRAVE VAHD UAS' NIGHT, A Big RABBIT JUMP UP RIGHT IN FRONT o' ME’. X THOUGHT 1 WUI A GONER SHO? (Released by The Bell Syn* , s«C dlcate. Inc.) Trade Mark ~>W’TS Rej. U. S. Pat. Office) HUGE FLOWER CROP SLATED AT ORTON Thousands Of Camellia, Azalea And Other Plants Are Prepared BY BILL KEZIAH Star Correspondent SOUTHPORT, June 12—With a general belief that it will be the most valuable single crop ever grown on any single farm or plantation in Brunswick county, the Orton Plantation nursery is low preparing to start hundreds }f thousands of camellia, azalea and other plants in its green uouses. Next spring these plants .vil be transplanted to the open grounds and during the next two and three years the camellia .vill go on sale at prices ranging from about $2.00 to $10.00 each, depending on the variety. The azaleas and others plants, marketed at the same time will, 'or the most part, have lesser prices. Illustrative of the planting now ■eady to start, more than 75,000 camellias and a still greater num ber of azaleas and other plants rave recently been transferred :rom the greenhouses to the open grounds. Three or four acres being equircd for this new planting. Ihese plants were all started in the greenhouses last summer and ;heir removal makes v ay for a still larger number to be started this summer. Additional green nouse space is also available this year. Bill Hyatt. graduate of the University of Florida school of horticulture last week, arrived Thursday to start the new plant ing. Hyatt supervised last sum mer’s work of filling the green houses. Although the marketing of plants takes two, three and even four years after the plants are start ed in the greenhouses, the plans are understood to be to put out a huge number of plants each year and those that are started this summer will really constitute just one year's crop. With around a hundred thousand camellia plants to be started this year, to say nothing of as many more other plants, the claims of a valuable crop can readily be understood. The same goes for plumbing fix tures. screen wire, hard wood products, trimming and rockwool for inculation. Plaster and cement supplies are improving. Supplies Mount On January 31. mills and con centration yards of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina. South Carolina and Tennessee, had 1,341,321,000 board feet of lumber on hand, whereas, on March 31 this accumulation had grown to 1,560,813,000 board feet, according to a government survey. Only Tennessee registered a slight decrease for the latter period. The lumber figures were an nounced by the Commerce depart ment’s census bureau, which also showed that stocks on hand in the South on March 31 compared with 4.443,548,000 board feet on hand for the nation as a whole. The national accululation was 416, 525.000 board feet above that for January 31. Stocks at mills and yards in the South on March 31, by states, ana those of January 31 follow: Alabama, January 31, 312,535, 000 board feet, and March 31, 355, 204.000 feet; Florida, 43,001,000 and 61,661,000; Georgia, 277,629,000 and 312,040.000; Mississippi, 303.884. 000 and 363.250,000; North Caro lina, 157,653,000 and 197.016,000; South Carolina, 156.860,000 ami 182,061,000; and Tennessee, 89, 735.000 and 89,581,000. Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service BUTTERCOOKIES OPEN A PASTRY SHOP LONG BEACH, N. Y. — (A*) — Following in the footsteps of four generations of Buttercookies, Paul and his wife, Jeanette, have opened a pastry <=hcp in this Long Island seaside resort. Paul says his name started in Warsaw, Poland. I FROM THE RELISH TRAY , > Everybody Loves ’Em QUEENS, Plata tr Stifhl kv NEWPACK ^gT % At rout OlAlttt NEW! 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