Evening star., 1946-10-30
Rent Controls
|0rdered in 88
Additional Areas
Ceilings on DurobIe
Goods Off; Industrial
Field Believed Next
By Malcolm Lomborne, Jr.

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Rent controls will be extended
Friday to 88 areas of the country
with a population of at least
3,5OO,0OO, the OPA announced
today. ,-
This surprise development came
as the agency lifted ceilings on
wide range of consumer durable
goods and prepared TO move into
the industrial field with other de-
control actions.
An OPA spokesman, commenting
on the rent announcement, declared
it indicated that we are not back
ing out of this field"
Eighty-one areas will be con-
trolled for the first time and rent
ceilings are being restored in seven
others, OPA said.
323,549 Rental Units.
The 88 areas had total of 1923 $40
rental units in 1910.
Today's announcement said few
additional areas will require controls
because today's list covers those in
which rent pressures have been
mounting since the war"
Twenty-three areas affected were
described by OPA as college towns
where there has been an influx Of
veterans seeking education under
the CT Bill
The areas included Fredericks.
burg, Staunton and Harrisonburg,
Va.
Restriction Removed.
The Civilian Production Admin
istration. also stepping up its own
decontrol program, announced ter
mination of wartime order that
restricted the manufacture and de-
sign of glass containers. The order
has been in effect since 1912.
CPA said the control was ended
because a reasonable balance OF
supply and demand has been reached
throughout the industry, with man
ufacturers reporting backlogs of
orders now down to normal.
Industrial goods are believed to be
next on OPA's decontrol list as the
agency begins what promises to be
as thorough job in decontrolling
consumer goods as was done in the
field of food.
Free of controls beginning with
! the opening of business today
were all types of radios, electric
monographs, kitchenware, glass
ware, lamps. many small electrical
appliances, all clocks, bicycles, busi-
ness machines and numerous other
items.
So of Food Items StiIl Controlled.
At just what point OPA viii de-
eide to call halt was not clear to-
day. The agency's long-awaited
master decontrol list was reported
tied up as a result of inter-agency
discussions, and may not be made
public before next week
The final list is expected to give
good picture of the extent of OPA
operations in the months ahead.
The agency already has cleared all
but about 3 per cent of food items
from ceilings.
OPA said last night that all items
on the latest decontrol list either
were in balance between supply or
demand or unimportant to business
or living costs. Ceilings still remain
on household mechanical refrigera-
tors. washing machines, electric
ranges, vacuum cleaners, cooking
and heating stoves, floor coverings
and major items of furniture and
bedding.
| An OPA official, however, said
this did not mean that these items
necessarily would remain under
control when the master list is re-
| leased.
! To Hold Cotton Textile Ceilings.
In other developments yesterday.
OPA announced there would be no
change during November of cotton
textile ceilings. For three months.
ceilings have been advanced under
the Price Control Act which stipu-
lated increases as the price of raw
cotton rose.
| While the OPA made no mention
of the sharp break in cotton prices
this month, this was behind the
agency decision to retain the same
ceiling next month.
Following is the list of consumer
goods removed from price controls:
Radios and electric Photographs.
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