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Show DAILY- HERALD 7j (SundayJanuary 26, 1947 ! Industry Catches Up With Demand For Rough Lumber WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (U.R A west coast lumber representative representa-tive .said Friday that the industry has caught up with demands for rough lumber. Buyer resistance has forced down prices on cheap, "wild mixture" mix-ture" lots which formerly commanded com-manded first class prices, he said. ' - Joseph R. Blunt, district manager man-ager of the West Coast Lumberman's Lumber-man's association, Portland, Ore., told the -state department committee com-mittee on reciprocity information that prices had "sunk" on "random, "ran-dom, random random" lumber-shipments lumber-shipments in random sizes, random ran-dom quality, and random quantity quan-tity which lumber dealers used to snap up at inflated prices. "We can supply a strong domestic do-mestic demand," he told the committee's com-mittee's forest products panel. "We're already caught up on framing lumber but it will take longer to catch up on flooring, siding and shop lumber." The committee will make recommendations rec-ommendations on proposed tra-iff tra-iff cuts in new reciprocal trade agreements to be negotiated soon with 18 other nations. Growers, Company Decide On $14.50 Sugar Beet Price BOISE, Ida., Jan. 25 (U.R) An all-time high price of $14.50 per ton for sugar beets was agreed to Friday following negotiations between officials of the Amalgamator Amalga-mator Sugar company and the beet growers of Idaho, Oregon! and Utah. The price is for beets of "average "av-erage sugar content," and reportedly re-portedly the highest contract price ever paid for Idaho beets. H. A. Benning, Ogden, Utah, president of the Amalagamated Sugar company, said his firm expects ex-pects 'to contract for more than 100,000 acres of beets this year an increase of 20,000 acres over those harvested last year. William Carson of Weiser,; president of the Nyssa-Nampa j Beet Growers association, was spokesman for the growers in the bargaining sessions. Other beet growers organizations organiza-tions represented were Twin Falls, Cassia, Minidoka, Jerome, Gooding-Lincoln, and the Cache-Weber Cache-Weber of Utah. Byrd Task Force Driven Out By Roving Iceberg LITTLE AMERICA. Jan. 23 CJ.PJ Rear Adm. Richard E. : Byrd's polar task force was lay-j ing to in the open sea today, j driven from its harbor at Little j American -by the phenomenal ac- curacy of a roving iceberg. The eviction came abruptly lost night when the giant intruder intrud-er srnriH a biills-pve on the en - . . .1 ii i i i n ance 10 me xiny nai uur inu floated to a halt in the center of the Bay of Whales. To escape being crushed, the ships immediately stopped un-loading un-loading operations, picked their! way to the mouth of the bay and j and moved out to sea. In doing; so, they stranded 75 men who were ashore working on the ex-' petition's new base atop the Ross ice shelf. Enough food and supplies sup-plies had been unloaded, however, how-ever, to sustain them indefinitely. indef-initely. Early today, the iceberg floated float-ed to the southwest corner of the bay, to the exact point where the ships had been moored for unloading. un-loading. Had they still been there they would have been crushed. Rear Adm. Richard H. Cruzen, task force commander, ordered the cargo ship Merrick back into the bay later to learn what trend the icebergs' antics had taken ?nd to see about the stranded men. There appeared no solution but to wait for it to float back through the bay mouth and off to sea. The iceberg was a colossus, 200 ards long and more than 400 feet high as long as two football fields and almost as high as the Washington monument. Cruzen said that inside the tiny ice-filled bay, it would "riccochet around like a big pea in a pod." The iceberg first was sighted two miles off the bay mouth by a patrol plane. It floated like a ghost ship southward across the Ross sea to the bay entrance and passed through without even touching the sides. Weather experts considered its neat navigation job one of the most phenomenal of this strange Antarctic continent's many phe nomena. Ordinarily, they said. icebergs move with tho ocean current. This one didn't, but it probably was helped along by a brisk nortneast wind. LABOR COMMISSION PLAN TO BE TABLED WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (U.R) Senate 'Republicans were ready today to put President Truman's proposed labor investigation com mission on ice at least until March 1. Babee-Tenda Now Available 3 1 i w v 3w V ;1y J, JoUdic MARCH W UWUUU jyp m iiniMi nimnii ru mutiu ,uiin t5 G lN OUR SKIRTS ... a tsS A Tr a ON YOUR S0 & AND SOFTER - A NEW U H FASHION TOMAKE?015 1 J X : i y -.V j i. r t 4 5-s: . 'V- 4 r 4 c " ss , ' " ' 7 Clio Si k -"'' . i I .1 7 "Taylor Brpx Since 16 T Phxme 529W |