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A HAPPY, Peaceful and Prosperous New Year to all our friends in thelumber and building industry.

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I've no cure to compound when the world goes awry, But I've frequently found that the happiegt guy Is the meek little geek who complacently goes With his tongue in his cheek, and his thumb to his nose.

Many years ago there was printed in this same column, on this same date, a suggested New Year's Resolution, and this seems an excellent time and place for reprinting it. So here it is:

"I hereby resolve: That during the coming year I will endeavor to learn to utilize the limitless possibilities of that most wonderful of all times-TODAY.

"That I will cling less strenuously than in the past to those two fearful eternities-one gone never to return, the other a day that will never arrive-Yesterday and Tomorrow.

"That I will know during this year that sufficient unto each day is the Good-not the evil-thereof.

"That I will make it my life's business to crowd just as much optimism, just as much happiness, just as much sunshine, just as much good will, just as much well-done work, just as much of the Golden Rule, just as much of that spirit that was in the Man of Galilee-into each today as my best efforts will permit.

"And I resolve to think, and do, and work, and journey just one day at a time; to smile, live, laugh, and love _TODAY.''

And a pair of "rrora p.l.grlnnr-0, famous writers might do well to follow-up the above philosophy. First, this one by Eddie Guest:

"If your motto says 'smile' and you carry a frown, 'Do it now,' and you linger and wait; If your motto says 'help' and you trample men down, If your motto says 'love,' and you hate; You won't get away with the mottoes you stall, For the truth will come up with a bounce; It isn't the motto you hang on the wall, It's the motto you live that counts."

And the next, by that great author Mr. Anonymous, says: "It's the human touch in the world that counts. The touch of your hand and mine, That means far more to the fainting heart, Than shelter, or bread, or wine; For shelter is gone when the night is o'er, And bread lasts only a day, But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice. Live on in the soul, alway."

And, in conclusion, r"a L" "Jy ori *u- Year's Day : Look forward, Not back. Look upward, not down. Have faith in your country, And lend a hand.

Conslruclion Controcts Up Agoin in October

New York, Nov. 28-Sharp gains in contracts for commercial buildings and highways boosted total construction contracts in October to a new all-time record for the month, F. W. Dodge Corporation reported today. The October awards totaled $3,319,145,000, up 6/s ovet the same month last year. After adjustment for normal seasonal factors, the Dodge Index of construction contracts surged upward to the highest level since April 1959.

Commenting on the figures, Dr. George Cline Smith, Dodge vicepresident and chief economist, pointed out that the contracts awarded in October indicate high levels of construction activity for many months to come. This activity will help to insure that the current business dip will be quite mild and of short duration since construction is the nation's largest fabricating industry.

Contracts for residential buildings in October were down 8/6 from October 1959. Although still below a year ago, residential building contracts in recent months have edged closer to last year's levels. The October drop of 8/a compares with a L4o/a decline for the flrst ten months as a whole. itrohn Osgood, Los Angeles importer, his wife and three children went "back home to fndiana" for tl:e holidays with Mrs. Osgood's parents and relatives.

The number of dwelling units represented by the October residential contracts totaled 97,121, down 10% from a year ago. Contracts for apartment units rose 26/6, while single family homes remained below last year.

Iloraco \lVolfe, Marquart-Wolfe Lumber Co., Hollywood, completed his pre-Christmas north pacific mill trip during the middle of December completing arrangements for 1961 shipments.

BtlI Smtth, Smith-Robbins executive, Los Ang'eles, and his wife Barbara spent part of the holidays in Dayton, Ohio, where they attended a wedding and visited friends.

Joe Ta,rdy, Arizona Hardwoods sales executive, made a trip from Phoenix to Los Angeles just to attend the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2 Christmas party for the LeRoy Boys' Home youngsters.

Blll & Emma Ha,mllton, he is the former manager of the southland territory for Holmes-Eureka, returned just before the holidays from an extended trip round the world visiting the Orient, Australia, India and Europe.

Ifgrry Finney and "Brad" Bradford opened offices for Donover Co., Inc., in Sacramento last month. Finney was formerly associated with Parr Thomas Lumber Company in Sacramento, and Bradford with The Black Diamond Company.

Del Pugh, former salesmanager of Sierra Mountain Mills, North San Juan, California, joined the sales stafr of The Black Diamond Company in Sacramento last month where he'll direct southera California and Eastern sales, Concord dealer .Iolm Pea.rson, Pearson Lumber Co., "wintered" the month of December in New York's nice warm snowbanks.

If Mac and Pauline MacBeath are still on

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schedule, the popular northern California hardwood couple should just about be visiting Bogota, capital city of Colombia, South America. They left their Berkeley home December 20 for Miami, where they caught a Carribbean cruise ship bound for Rio de Janeiro. After making like Brazilians for a few weeks, they planned to wind up the 6-week trip at Bogota and environs. Congrats to Lloytl and Elaine Lanson (again!) for a healthy bouncing boy baby born to the Redding couple during early December, which helps even up the score at home, three boys vs. five young: ladies. Lloyd earns their keep as star salesmanbuyer for the Main Lumber Company in Redding.

To Dlsplay at NAIIB Show

"F iloplate" and "Rololite," two recent developments in the fiberglass reinforced plas- tic panel industry, will be displayed by F ilon Plastics Corporation of Hawthorne, Calif., at the National Assn. of Home Builders Show, Jan. 29-F eb. 2, in Chicago's new $34 million exposition center, McCormick Place, at Booth 1173. Company personnel will be present at the NAHB Show to discuss the complete line with visitors.

(Tell them Aou sau it in The Culifornin Lumber Merchant)

WASHINGToN. D. C.-America's national Christmas tree for 1960 is hbisted into place at the President's Park in front of the White House. A so-year old, 75-foot Doug- las Fir from the oregon timber reserves of the GeorgiaPacific Corporation, the tree was trimmed to its present size from an original go-foot height and shipped 3,000 miles across country to the nation's capital, where it prc vides the centerpiece for the annual Christmas "Pageant of Peace."

More than 8,000 lights and ornaments decorated America's Christmas tree, the largest ever to grace the annual event. lt was lighted by President Eisenhower on December 23rd at a nationally televised ceremony opening the week-long Pageant.

The tree was a Christmas gift to the country from the state of oregon, the nation's "timber capital," where more than 2Oo/. of American saw timber is grown and where the Georgia-Pacitic Corporation has more than half of its one-million acres of timberland.

The Christmas tree is a symbol of the progressive, conscientious management given America's privately owned timber resources by companies which operate on a "per- petual-yield" basis and follow long-range, scientific harvesting and regrowing schedules which assure a constant stand of timber of all age groups. When the nation's Christmas tree was cut down, foresters of Georgia-Pacific lvere ready to replace it with seedlings. These are pre- pared in seed beds, dropped by helicopter in the oregon forests, and establlshed firmly by supplementary hand planting.