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Equipment orders! Although we have a freight fleet of over 67,000 cars and over 1300 modern locomotives, we believe even the best can be made better. In the last five years we have invested $598 million in new equipment - and will start 1970 with $146 million more. Already in operation are the first of the new 6600 hp "Centennial" locomotives, the most powerful in the world. Power to speed tomorrow's commerce. To step up schedules. To keep freight on the go 'round the clock, in any terrain and weather.

Whatever you ship, you can depend upon Union Pacific for the hustle and muscle to meet your particular needs.

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In their new installation, the Arizona firm spent $750,000 to replace its oldfashioned lumber yard at 2626 E. Indian School St. with the three-quarter-acre building. And then it put $500,000 more into new merchandise.

All of this outlay is aimed at boo-.ting the store's $1-million-a-year share of the general consumer market for building materials.

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Departmental approach, streamlined staffing and complete stock covering every home need gear Arizona merchandiser to gross from $7t/z-5 million in opening year.

"W'e expect a $1.5 million gross in the first year, but it could go to $5 million," forecasts Virgil D. Hunt, Jr., O'Mallev Companies' director of corporate planning and marketing.

He and Dean A. Drake, manager of the O'Malley retail division, explained the merchandising concept this way:

."We wanted to give our customers an attractive place one that your wife would like to come to when she picks materials to redecorate your home, to plan and buy a new kitchen or to do other remodeling.

"With the present tight money, we feel that many people will be improving instead of buying new homes and we want to sell them the things to do it with. Our