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...Secretary Douglas McKay, whose "partnership" power policy has been received with mounting hostility in McKay's native state. To balding Dick Neuberger, this issue, especially the fight over the nearby Idaho Hell's Canyon project, coupled with the discontent among 100,000 lumbermen after a ten-week lumber strike, made 1954 the year, if any, for a Democrat in Oregon...
...building new towns and industry on a solid base of natural treasures: rich grainland including the nation's top wheat-producing county (Whitman County, Wash.), lush wild-grass valleys providing year-round range for sheep and cattle, the U.S.'s last great stand of valuable whitepine lumber and huge mineral resources in Washington's Metaline and Idaho's Coeur d'Alene gulches and in Butte's mile-high hill...
...Franciscan nun with a round, grandmotherly face stepped out of her office into the Los Angeles sunshine one morning last week, threaded her way between pieces of lumber and piles of bricks until she spotted a trowel. Picking it up, she laid a brick in businesslike fashion, smiled happily at the nearest bricklayer and said: "Thank God it is going...
Panel House. To boost lumber sales, the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association put on its first big national show in New York last week, and displayed the new "Lu-Re-Co" (for Lumber Research Council) house of pre-built panels. To show how easily the house can be put up (at an estimated 25% reduction in labor costs), the association built three of them on the spot (see cut). It has been selling plans for five different Lu-Re-Co three-bedroom houses ranging from $12,500 to $13,500, expects that more than 2,500 of them will...
...LUMBER STRIKE, which started 2½ months ago when some 100,000 Pacific Northwest lumbermen walked out for a 12.5? hourly wage boost, is ending with little gain for the workers. About half the strikes were settled piecemeal, with raises averaging 5? an hour. The other strikers are expected to go back to work at pre-strike wages, let a fact-finding board recommend a settlement...