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Show Mountain States War Front The war production board has called a halt to all non-essential construction in a sweeping order designed to conserve critical materials mat-erials for war uses. The order prohibits the start of unauthorized construction projects pro-jects which use material and construction con-struction equipment needed .'n the war effort and place all new pub- licly and privately financed construction con-struction under rigid control, except ex-cept for a certain limited categories. cate-gories. ' Equally binding upon property owners, builders and suppliers, the rder prohibits not oniy the start ff construction in most cat egonr-s, but also the withdrawal from inventory and the purchase, sale or delivery of any material from use in such construction unless un-less expressly authorized by the WPB. ' ' 1 " - No residential - construction, except ex-cept for maintenance and repair work, may be started without permission if the estimated cost is $500 or more. No new agricultural agricul-tural construction may be started start-ed if the estimated cost is $1,000 or more. Institutional, commercial commer-cial and similar types of construction construc-tion can be started only if the estimated cost is $5,000 or less. Officials said that projects already al-ready under construction are being be-ing carefully examined by the war production board in an individual indi-vidual basis and that such projects pro-jects may be stopped if the scarce materialy to be used in them can be put to more effective use in the war program. |