The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-21
Farm Construction
Projects Now Need
Priority Ratings
Urgent need of essen
tial materials causes
limitation on new work

limitation on new work
Farm construction which will ex-
coed $1,000 over any continuous r.
month period, "off-farm" construc-
ton exceeding 5000, or farm resi-
dence construction exceeding $500
now requires a War Production
Board project rating which is OBJ
tainable through the County USDA
War Board, Fred Wilson, chairman,
said this week.
The War Production Board has is
sued an order restricting sale OF
scarce materials for residence and
other construction in order to con-
serve essential war supplies, the War
Board said. Construction not es-
sential to the war program must be
postponed for the duration of the
emergency.
Application for a project rating
for farm buildings, fences, irriga-
ton or drainage structures and 9TH
er facilities serving a single farm
when they exceed $1,000 and Off
farm facilities for storage, process
ing and marketing of farm products
in their primary stages when they
exceed $4,000 may be made to the
War Board. Application should also
be made to the War Board for resi-
Dental construction exceeding $500.
Application should be made on a
Form Pd-200, which may be obtain
ed from the County USDA War
Board. The Benton County War
Board office is located in room 8 of
the Penney Building in Kennewick.
Most everyone is familiar with this
as being the same as the Conserva-
ton office Application forms may
also be secured from the County
Agent.
The County War Board will rec
ommend the construction as elig-
ible or ineligible and forward apph-
cations to the State USDA War
Board at Pullman, which will act on
them before sending them to the
War Production Board in Washing
ton.
Decision of the War Production
Board on individual cases will de-
pend largely on recommendations of
the County and State USDA War
Boards, Mr.. Wilson said he had
been informed. Appeals from the
County USD!A. War Board decis-
ions will go ITO the State USDA War
Board; appeals from the State
Board will go directly to the secre-
tary of Agriculture's special War
Board Assistant. -. Is
Applications, whether estimated
construction exceeds the amount of
exemptions or not, should be made
when assistance is needed in OBJ
tanning priorities for materials.
Otherwise the application will be
for authorization to begin construc-
tion. 80.
Exemption of $1,000 per farm ON
non-residential construction will
permit many ordinary farm con-
struetion jobs needed in making adj
justments to meet agricultural pro-
duction goals, the War Board said.
-Four basic standards have been
given War Boards as yardsticks for
making recommendations. They are
necessity, in terms of production
goals; practicability, in terms Of
sound farming practices; expedien-
cy, in terms of war needs for scarce
materials; and feasibility, in terms
of available labor not essential to
war industries.
Residential construction must be
absolutely essential for housing per-
sons whose full-time labor is neceS-
sary to farm operations. War Boards
are expected to examine need in
view of the areas production goals
and the extent to which present
facilities are being utilized in passing
on construction of creameries, ware
houses, elevators and other off-farm
facilities for which project rating
applications are made.
Farm residential construction UNI
der $500, other farm construction I'M
der s100, and off-farm construction
for handling agricultural products
under $4,000; construction begun be-
fore April 9, 1912: ordinary MAIN
tenance and repair work needed to
return a structure to sound working
conditions without change of design
and reconstruction of residences
damaged or destroyed after Decem-
Der 81, 1941 by fire, tornado, flood,
earthquake, act of God or the public
enemy do not need project ratings
under the WPB order.
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