MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jack Dionne

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He Was Willing to Change Places

Two dusky gladiators of the prize ring were having a knock-down-and-drag-out battle, and one of them was wilting under the terrific barrage of lefts, rights, hooks, uppercuts, and crashes of his powerful foe. A thoroughly partisan audience was shouting itself hoarse, and thousands of voices were urging on their choice to greater deeds and sto'uter blows.

Finally the weaker one fell with a terrific thud, face down close to the ropes, and pandemonium broke loose in the

Four Generations of Haleys

Rupert Haley, son of W. K. (Ken) Haley of Haley Bros., wholesale dealers in sash, doors and panels, Santa Monica, is now working as salesman for the firm. He has worked in various capacities in the warehouse and office since he graduated from an Eastern college last May.

It,is interesting to note that Rupert is the great-grandson of the founder of the firm of Haley Bros., established in the East in 1879.

F. G. HANSON ON EASTERN TOUR

F. G. Hanson of West Coast Screen Company, Los Angeles, left January l5 for a six weeks'business trip to the East, ,on which he expects to visit all the large cities in the country. The purpose of the trip is to promote the sale of the company's well known Hollywood combination screen and metal sash door. He is accompanied by Mrs. Hanson.

Mr. Hanson will attend the annual convention of the Mountain States Lumber Dealers Association to be held at Denver, Colorado, January 23 to 25' crowd. One of the backers of the prostrate fighter, sitting in the first row and his face only a few feet from that of the badly whipped boy, rose to his feet and shouted clear above the roar of the crowd:

"Get up and get him, Sam!

And as the referee started answered sadly:

The crowd's with you !" to count, the prostrate one

"Boss, Ah sho wish Ah wuz wid de crowd."

Ben Ostlind Promotes Plywood Sales

Benjamin Ostlind, sales engineer and well known authority on plywood, is doing promotional work on plywood for California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles. In this work he rnakes contact with all .the principal architects and builders.

California Panel & Veneer Co. has issued a pan-rphlet, compiled by Mr. Ostlind, showing just how to specify plywood correctly for the various parts of residential construction and for concrete work. This pamphlet is being distributed to lumber yards, architects and builders.

This firm is Southern California distributor for the "New I-ondoner" C. C. and Flush Doors, manufactured by Arnerican Plywood Corporation, New London, Wisconsin.

From Clovis

We certainly like your magazine very much. Independent Lumber Dealers, Clovis. Calif'

!(/heeler Osgood Passes Half-Century Mark

Fifty years ago, back in 1889, four men: George R. Osgood, W. C. Wheeler, W. T. Clark, and T. E. Ripley, formed Wheeler Osgood & Company. And soon afterward the company became recognized as one of the leading millwork manufacturers. More recently, however, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corporation has concentrated on the manufacture of Woco and Laminex D,oors and Laminex Plywood products.

The Wheeler Osgood plant was, and still is, located in Tacoma, Washington, "next door" to the huge Douglas Fir forests supplying virgin growth timber. The original facil-