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II EFFERTIAlI SUPPLY GOMPAIIY,

cuslom Milling of lumberVotume producrionMilling in Tronsit

SurfocingRippingResqwingpdfiernspur Trock Fqcirities

P. O. BOX 1353 -- SACRAMENTO -. TETEPHONE 5.9I4I

Custom Kiln Drying ond

Milling in Tronsif

0A$TR0 UAttEY tflrlts

Complete kiln drying ond milling qf one locotion. Redwood, pine qnd Fir

Truck or Roil Shipments

Phone LUcerne l-8651

6OO2 Costro Volley Blvd., Hoyword, Colif.

Direcf Mill Wholesole

PINE - FIR.. PTYWOOD In Stroight or Mixed Cqrs

J'orest Products $alos Company

86ll Crenshcw Blvd. ORegon g-gg5g Inglewood, Colifornia

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framerston & firoen lumher Co.

Lumber - lqth - Plywood - Sheetrock

Quick Shipments from Stock lryD$T COA$T PI,YIryOOD COMPANT ABERDEEN, WASH.

TRU-BItT

DOUGLAS FIR PLY\rOOD

R. W. DALTON 307 so. Hiil St. Representative Los Angeles 13

Phone MAdison 9-2173

Wholesale to Lumber Yards Only Windows, Doors, Plywood, Moulding

We hove

TIIE COMPI.EIE WINDOW UNIT Built Up With Screen crnd Bcrlcnrce Dr StockWestern Sizes

8221 $ln Leandro $t" 0akhnd 0 - Phone l0okhryen 8-318f Spur Inck lor In Tnnsit Drying

IOOTE nEvEnatar,E CROSS CIRCUI,ATION KILNS

21/o to )O/o aote capaciry due ro solid edge-ro-edge staclcng Better quality drying oa low temperatures witb a fast revereibu circuLation.

Lower $acling corts-juer solid edge-to-e<ige rtacling in the eiaplest fornr.

HALEY BROS.

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SA]ITA iI(IIIICA

Phones: Texas 0-2289

Scntcr Monicc 4-gZ9B

Moorekiln Paint Products for weatherproofing &y Liln and mill roofs. your

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Kiln Builderr for More Than Half e Century

Nonh Pordand, Or+Jactsooville, Florid.

I Privotc Indurtry Still Ksy To Prorp crity, Lumbcr Dcolcrr Told

If we sold every house and every farrn in the coutrtry, and cashed in evcry citizen's life insurance, we wouldn't have cnough rnoney to rtln our Fetleral (i<tverntltcnt 2f years, C. Il. Swcet, president, Nltional llctail l,unlbcr Dealcrs Association, Witshington, I).C., t<lld Westcrn lurnller tlealers, Addressing the annual rneeting rlf the Western Retail Lurllberrnen's Association at the Muntnomah Hotel, Illrtlan<|, ()regon, Mr. Sweet lxrinte<l out that btrsiness will bc grxxl in 19.50.

"Wc nray build as trtany hottses, as trratry barns, fttrnish as nrany in<lustrics with rtr:rterials, as we <li<l last year. Wc rlray cven show rrrore <lollars in ottr tills, llut will we have nrorc profit or nrore g<lo<ls or tllorc services ftlr ottr dollars," hc askcd thc <lealers.

tinr"s grcater than its annuat income, and is spending annuatty l/6 nrore than it takes in," he grinte<l out.

"lf cvcry urban horne owner in the U.S. sold his home and <lorraterl the cash to the lie<leral (ioverntrrent, we could only get enough to run this govcrnment 8 rnonths," declaretl Swcet.

"An<l if cvcry farutcr in this cotlntry srll<l his farrn, eqttiprrrcrrt an<l livcstock, att<l <l<lnittc<l that rtroncy to tlrc Governnlent, we woul<l only have en<tttgh to rtrrl thc govcrntrlcnt for 7 ntrlrrtlrs,

"'lhen if cvcry l)crson in thc U.S. cashed in his life insurrrrrcc policy tonlorrow, antl w'rc the richest nation in the world in that resl)ect, we cottt<l only get 44 billion tlollars, or not cnougtr t() run our (irlvcrntncttt frlr tlne year," saitl Sweet.

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"l,ivcry suggcstirtn rnatle lly the l'resi<lcnt in his St;rtc of thc Nltion a<klrcss has sotttc relationship to thc ittlt<lttrtt rlf ruroncy Autericittrs ltrc g<ling to have to spcn<l in 1950," Sweet statetl. "As retail lttmber tlcalers we think of ottrselvcs :ts locitl bttsirtcssrrrcn, yet cvcry tllovc wc nrake in tlttr business ttt<lay is alTectctl lly n:rtional-ilttcrnatitlnal <levcl<lprrtents, rlr is h:rving sonre cffect on thetrr."

"l,et's quit kitlding ourselves that we citn :tffortl to pay otrt thc world's greatest atrotlnt of ttnetnployrttent instlrltnce, the highest okl age benefits, thc freest an<l most costly rnedical service an<l at the sarnc tinre practic:rlly give away the world's most costly housing in the forru of pttblic housing," he srrggestetl.

"The Fcdcral Governntcnt today is juggling a tlebt 6ve

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