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the Season's best and to thank you for your friendship and patron- age this past year!

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Best wishes for a prosperous '551

. the folks at service staff. If you have New Year would be a

HAPPY NE\ry YEAR *{.*

Joy lights the candles of my heart, At New Year's time-at thought of you, And so I'm writing you this rhyme At New Year's time-to tell you true(The way we kids were wont to do

Before our locks turned grey in hue) That though we may be far apartOr near together-what t'hell ? Dear friends, sweet friends, I wish you well; I wish you very, very well.

Do you fear the force of the wind?

The slash of the rain?

' Go face them and fight themBe savage again.

Go hungry and cold like the wolf ; Go wade like the crane;

The palms of your hands will thicken; The skin of your cheek will tan; You'll grow ragged, and weary, and swarthy; BUT YOU'LL WALK LIKE A MAN !

-Hamlin Garland

I've had a grand time living, Not that it's over yet, Searching, finding, having, Releasing the things I get; Never too much possessing, Never too much possessed, Grateful for all that has been so farAnd busting to know the rest.

Blanding

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BY JACK DIONNE

When he was campaigning for President two years ago, Mr. Eisenhower declared that "a liberal is a man in Washington who wants to play the Almighty with our money."

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Which brings me to the point of wondering who it was that made the fateful decision that the United States should relieve the Almighty of His duties, and assume control of the world; who appointed a bunch of ordinary humans to play God?

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Word comes from Washington that the Russians are softening up in their attitude toward us. When they shoot down Americans now, they don't talk near as rough about it as they used to. That really is improving, isn't it?

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The fate of the 13 Americans recently condemned as spies by the,red-handed Chows fills all the prints. General Mark Clark says that isn't 2 percent of the Americans they took and kept. Walter Winchell broadcast that there were thousands. And Bill Cunningham, forceful Boston editor, sears American souls with this question: "What do those boys think of US ?" ***

Rev. J. W. Fifield, famous Los Angeles minister and philosopher, who has looked Europe over in person this past year, told the Los Angeles Lion's Club of 300 men: "A threat to the future exists in instrumentalities that have lost the spirit of the free men who were our founding fathers. This applies to such instrumentalities of world government as the United Nations, the infuence of which, in my judgment, is anti-Christian and evil." *<tt6

A New Year's rhyme:

Mary had a little lime, And likewise lots of gin, ' And then when New Year's day came round, She didn't know where she'd been_ *** tt,<

Jackie Gleason said on his TV show that if Truman had played golf instead of the piano, he might have been president yet.

Now Truman announces that lke's foreign policy is that which Truman created. I knew I didn't like our foreign ecoromics, and now I know why.

And when Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was asked by U.S. News & World Report in its Nov. 26^ 1954, issue if he thought a lot of the unpopularity of the United Nations in the United States was due to the bad odor of one of its satellites, UNESCO, he said it undoubtedly was. He was asked what he knew about UNESCO. He replied that its original idea was good. That was all he would say about it, except that we, who put up most of the money that runs it, have no authority whatever over the thing. and that he does not admire UNESCO. When loyalty risks show up in UNESCO. thev stay on the job, and take our money. We can do nothing about it. t{<*

Thev asked him whether we should try and throw Russia out of United Nations, and he said that from the standpoint of logic they should be kicked out, but he thought there was more advantage in having them in. He thought we should stay in the UN. He realizes that UN is tremendously unpopular in the United tj"."j today.

I move we give three loud and rousing cheers for dear old England. She may be somewhat torn and tattered after the events of recent years, but at least she's decent, and trying to stay that way. Comes the news that the Lord Chamberlain's office has refused to let a certain American stage play be shown in England. The play is headed by a British actress. In this country, we are told, it has played to standing room only wherever it has been shown. It is a dirty tale of bawdry and moral degeneracy that could well have been dreamed up by a drunken reporter with a touch of D.T.'s. ft is an excellent example, with its enthusiastic audiences, of what the American public will go for. It is but one of innumerable fingers that point to the moral degeneration and mental decay of a large segment of our people. You sometimes wonder if the American people have suddenly dived into intellectual dbtage; are becoming mentally and morally emasculated; a lot of them at any rate.

CtM Keeps Him Abreqst

Again it is with pleasure that I renew my subscription to your fine journal for another year. I have alrvays looked forward to each issue in the mail, but now more than ever, since being in L. A. County government, your magazine keeps me abreast of conditions in the lumber fraternity.

-Ruy "Pinky" Nortvedt Field Deputy Board of Supervisors Los Angeles County

R.olph L. Smith Buys Wildwood Plqnt To Process U. 5. Timber Purchqses

Red Bluff, Calif.-Ownership of the Wildwood Lumber Company's plants here and at Wildwood passed to the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Co., Anderson, Calif., on December 20, it was jointly announced by James A. Manter, president of Wildwood, and A. B. Hood, vice-president and general manager of the Smith operations. The purchase price is understood to be more than $500,000.

In the stock purchase agreement, Hood said the acquisition of the Wildwood plants were of greatest importance to the Smith operations because Smith was recently the suc-

John Bull says no, they can't show it to British audiences. Which suggests still an additional three cheers for public decency as it still remains in England.

William Allen White once said to the women of America: "My advice to the women's clubs is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias." >1. {< * cessful totaling located plan to will be pine cut bidder on two U.S. Forest Service timber sales 200,000,000 feet and the Wildwood plant is rvell to process this timber. He said the nerv owners continue both operations and the Red Bluff mill used primarily for fir milling operation rvhile the will be handled at the Anderson plant.

Abe Lincoln said: "When f hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."

Joe E. Lewis says licker never hurt anybody. He tells about his uncle who drank a few quarts of whiskey every day, yet lived to the ripe old age of 24. Personally, he remarks, "I don't drink anything stronger than pop; but Pop will drink anything." *<*{.

And then there was the Scotchman who said he didn't care which side his bread was buttered on-he ate both sides.

Simpson R,edwood €ompony Nome Esfoblished for Division

Arcata, Calif.-Simpson Logging Company's Redwood division will change its name to Simpson Redrvood Company effective January 1, 1955, it was announced by Wm. E. Lawson, vice-president and general manager.

The name change will apply to Simpson's operations at Klamath and Arcata, and the Redwood sales organization headed by E. G. "Dave" Davis, Redwood sales manager, at San Francisco. Simpson Redwood Company has sales representatives in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Dallas.

"This change is made to more closely identify the familiar name of Simpson with Redwood, our principal product in Northern California. It is part of Simpson's over-all program to bring our plants closer to our customers and to better serve their needs," Lawson said. "No changes in the company's management or personnel are involved."