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the blonde complexion and silken ringlets of the youthful Ham. Sniffing the odor from his nostrils during the period of a hundred years or so on the Ark-building job, caused them to become distended, and all these consequences are still evident in his descendants to this day.

When at last the job was completed and plenty of cereals, canned foods, condensed milk, corn chops and alfalfa hay had been stored in the bins, the last contrary shoat was run up the gangplank, and Noah and his family jumped aboard just as the backwater from the River Euphrates overfowed their swimming pool.

With justifiable pride Old Noah remarked, "Boys, she looks good to me. Now watch the wicked catfish drown." His absolute confidence in his wooden boat, containing at least a pair of everything that lived on the earth, reposed in the fact that she was "pitched without and within," and impervious to leaks, microbes and harmful fungi.

And THAT was how the first wood preserver was born, and why it has been practical and popular ever since.

Home Builders Elect Myers

R. Reese Myers was elected president of the Home Builders Institute of Los Angeles and will succeed Walter W. Keusder at the aqnual installation dinner January 9. Other elected 1956 officers are Charles W. Getchell, first vicepresident; George M. Pardee, Ji., second v.-p. ; Milton J. Brock, Jr., secretary, and John D. Griffith, treasurer.