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For Woodward Store
New Parking Garage
By Robert J. Lewis
j) The National Production Au
thority's Appeals Board today had
under consideration a strong plea
by District officials and civic and
labor organizations to allow con
traction of a downtown parking
!garage by the Woodward & Loth
rop department store.
At a hearing yesterday, the Ap
peals Board was told by official
and civic witnesses that the com
pany’s management deserved cred
it for proposing to build a 240
space garage at 704-10 Tenth
street and should be allowed to go
ahead.
Permission to build had been de
mea ay me iNauonai rroaucuon
Authority. Official and civic sup
port came on Wodward & Loth
rop’s appeal for a reversal of that
decision. NPA representatives op
posed granting the appeal on the
score that denial would work no
hardship on the firm and that use
of steel and copper were not justi
fied.
Point to Parking Problem.
Col. C. H. Whitesell, assistant
engineer commissioner, for the
District told the board the Com
missioners are “vitally concerned
with the parking problem and are
intensely interested in this case as
a partial means of its solution "
Charles M. Upham, chairman oi
the District’s Motor Vehicle Park
ing Agency, testified the proposal
io in line with the agency's pro
. gram and would save the use ol
public money.
“If this application is not ap
proved, the parking agency may
as well stop its efforts to provide
needed parking in the emergency
period.”
Others testifying in support oi
the proposal included representa
tives of the Washington Board ol
Trade, the Merchants’ and Manu
facturers’ Association, the Build
ing and Construction Trades
Council, and Woodward & Loth
rop.
Planned Beiore Controls.
Company officials explained
that the five-story parking garage
was planned long before con
struction controls were put into
effect by the Government. Orders
for steel were placed prior to the
construction control order and a
considerable amount of work was
done before that time.
The building, which would ad
join present limited parking fa
aHiorortt in. IKa flvm’c
North Building, is part of a SS
billion expansion program under
way for some time.
Andrew Parker, president of the
firm, said a considerable part oi
the program already had beon
carried out.
Cost Put at $190,000.
"If denied the permit,” he said,
"the firm will be prevented from
completing an integral portion ol
the plan—the parking garage.’
He explained that the estimated
cost was $190,000 and that the
amount of critical materials need
ed had been trimmed down to L34
tons of steel and 550 pounds of
| copper.
Mr. Parker said the parking
building was considered necessary
to protect the firm’s $9.5 billion
downtown investment in buildings
and that the firm would lose a
considerable amount in interest
! and money already invested in the
project if it were to be halted now.
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from the United States, 20 from
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Text of Message on Controls
Following is the text of Presi- 1
dent Truman’s message accom- i
panying his signature of the De- (
fense Production Act amend
ments: i
[ I have reluctantly signed S. '
i 1717, the Defense Production Act;
Amendments of 1951, which was'
passed by the Congress yesterday.
Unless this measure had become ;
| law, the powers necessary for ■
'carrying out our defense program *
would have expired tonight
i This new act continues, with
Hittle change, the Government’s:
[authority to control production,1
channel materials, and aid busi
ness in the interest of national
defense. To some extent, the new 1
act strengthens these powers, par
ticularly with respect to aids for
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tinues rent control, and permits
recontrol of rents in certain criti
cal areas. The production and
rent provisions of the act are thus
relatively adequate, though they
do not meet all our needs.
But the inflation control pro
visions of the act are gravely
deficient. If these had been the
only provisions of the act, I would
have vetoed it. We will not be able
to hold down rising prices under
this act, and I am going to ask
the Congress to amend it to give
us adequate controls.
This act will do great harm to
our price and wage controls. The
| full extent of the damage cannot
be determined until the executive
agencies have had sufficient time
to study the legislation in detail.
Many of the new provisions are
[complicated and vague, and it has
not been possible, in the brief
time since Congress passed the
law, to estimate fully all of its
effects on present price ceilings
and on the administration of
| price control.
Will Roll Prices Forward.
But it is already clear that the
principal effect of the new amend
ments will be to raise ceiling
I prices for the manufacturer, the
wholesaler, and the retailer. More
over, the act prohibits further
rollbacks in the price of beef, and
makes effective rollbacks on other
vital cost-of-living commodities
practically impossible. In general,
the act will roll price ceilings for
ward from their present levels,
pushing them up to heights that
we cannot yet foresee. Further
imore, the act greatly increases
and complicates the administra
tive difficulties of price control.
As a result, even after prices have
.tovucu ujc lie. w ouu xcvcxo
w'hich the law requires, we may
not be able to keep them from
going still higher.
One of the worst provisions of
the act, the Butler-Hope amend
ment, wipes out slaughter quotas
on beef, thus encouraging the re
turn of black markets.
Another provision of the act
which will operate against the in
terest of the American people is
the Capehart amendment. This
complicated amendment will force
price ceilings up on thousands of
commodities, clear across the
board. It is like a bulldozer, crash
ing aimlessly through existing
pricing formulas, leaving havoc in
its wake.
If we are to prevent the weak
ening of our economy, we must
change these provisions and oth
ers just as bad. As soon as the
executive agencies can complete
their study, I intend to urge the
Congress to revise and strengthen
this law, point by point, to give
us the tools we need to fight In
flation.
Step in Right Direction.
I understand that several mem
bers of the Congress, recognizing1
the deficiencies of this act, have
already introduced legislation to
restore authority for slaughtering
quotas. This is certainly a step
in the right direction. But ft is
only one of the respects in which
this law needs immediate im
provement.
In future months, as our defense
production takes a larger and
larger share of our output, we have
to expect that pressure on prices
will Increase. Only a tremendous
drop in private investment or con
sumer spending could keep rising
expenditures for defense from
bringing on new pressures toward
higher prices. And these pressures
could be aggravated, at any time,
by a change for the worse in the
international situation.
To the extent that this act per
mits prices and the cost of living
to rise, it will be necessary to allow
^reasonable adjustments in wages.
;We cannot ask the working people
,oi this country to reduce their
standard of living just to pay for
the higher profits this act pro
vides for business. And then we
would be caught in another price
jwage spiral.
If we are to prevent a serious
drop in the purchasing power of
the dollar, we must have a good,
strong price control law to help
jus through the period ahead.
Without that kind of law, we can
not protect ourselves from the
! frightful damage of renewed in
flation.
Will Increase Costs.
S. 1717 is not that kind of law.
It is a law that will push prices
up. It is a law that will in
crease the costs of business and
,the cost of our defense program to
the taxpayer. It is a law that
threatens the stability of our
economy in the future. More
over, it prevents us from giving
any further price relief to the mil
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zed by the price rises in the fall
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We should never forget that
nore than half the families in this
:ountry had no increases in in
:ome during 1950; some of them
ictually had their incomes reduced
ast year. To all these people, in
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These families, and all our other
amilies, need real protection
igainst inflation The Government
vill not be able to give them such
rrotection unless and until the
Congress repairs the damage done
jy this new act.
Gasoline Price Dips
NEW YORK.—The average price
jf gasoline declined slightly ir
1950, according to a survey of 5C
representative American cities
rhe average retail price for regu
lar gasoline, taxes included, was
26.76 cents a gallon. This com
pared with 26.79 cents in 1949.
Shotgun Kills Widow
Moving Into New House
By the Associated Press
WAYCROSS, Ga„ Aug. 1.—A
34-year-old widow designed her
future home so it would be just
what she and her two children
wanted.
When work began. Mrs. Sreda
Jackson Kearson went out to
supervise the actual construc
tion. The house was finaly fin
ished and she decided to move in
'yesterday.
While packing the last of her
I household goods for moving, a
i shotgun went off and the charge
struck her in the chest.
A coroner’s jury returned a
verdict of accidental death.
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