ALAN A. SHIVELY WHOTESALE

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Each week brings new uses-a commercial photographic studio, an auction sales room where dances and bazaars are held between auctions, offices, restaurants, and other insulated, heated, lighted buildings. Currently, plans are available for small, do-it-yourself pole-type structures, such as carports for home owners, farm tool and machine sheds for farmers, summer houses, play houses, boat houses, and similar structures. AWPI currently is having designed a series o{ low-cost, pole-type hangars for private planes. Plans and material lists will be announced soon.

City councilmen and building officials are modifying their building codes to permit erection of pole-type buildings. Chambers of commerce encourage the move, so they can invite a manufacturer to erect a plant in the citl', with the added inducement that his auxiliary buildings can cost as little as $1.90 to 92.50 per sq. ft. of enclosed space.

The most recent development is a design trend that uses wood foundations for houses. It could enable the building industry to reactivate its low-cost, all-wood homes market. The movement hinges on the fact that pressure-preserved wood, used as a foundation, is good for 40 to 50 years and more in direct contact with the ground, even in areas of very heavy decay and termite exposure.

Work is being done with four types of wood foundations: (1) houses on pressure-preserved posts; (2) houses sup- ported by "underground studs"; (3) pole-type houses, in which superstructures are "hung" on pressure-preserved poles; (4) rigid-frame houses in which sawn timbers are used as foundations. The possibilities are very interesting, for, as one successful contractor stated it, "Pole construition is just beginning."

Wogner Visits HPI Heodquoilers

G. Corydon Wagner, Jr. of Tacoma, Washington, an executive of the St. Paul-Tacoma Lumber Company, Division of St. Regis Paper Company, and James Owens, director, Forest Products Division, Business & Defense Services Aclministration, U.S. Department of Commerce. recentlv visited the Hardwood Plywood Institute's Arlington, Viigina, office and laboratory to view the newly opened "President's Room," where pictures of the past presidents of the Institute are displayed.

960 Residentiql Permits Srort Big ln los Angeles City ond County

January 1960 building permits issued for tl-re city of Los Ar-rgeles included 1,465 for residential housing units, reports Gilbert E. Morris, superintendent, Department of Building & Safety. The Los Angeles County permits for resider.rtial l.rousing numbered 968, reported County Engineer I-an.rbie, bringing the total for the year's first month to 2,433 housing units.

Roil R.or" Chong. ott P|y*ood

The Imported Hardwood Plywood Assn., San Francisco, has receivecl notice that the amendment of Item 1945, Transcontir.rental Freight Bureau Tariff 30-I, as proposed and approved under TCFB Application 8255, will be published effective Feb. 15, 1960. This basically eliminates in transcontinental rail-freight rates on plywoocl some of the

New - original - striking designs give the most modest home the "decorator" effect.

Reproduced by Coralite's special process on famous long-life wall paneling with permanent "Coral-Coat" finish resistant to moisture, stain, scorch, hard wear. For details, colors, prices, call: duplication in the rate change of Dec. 15, 1959, and will allow "domestication" of those species of imported plyr,voocl (other than very rare) to the domestic rates shown under this schedule. Shippers should check with their local rail freight agents for details of the change.

Deqlers Should Stort Adiusfing lnventories for New Regulotion

Dealers who sell lumber for FHA house construction. and rvho have not already done so, should start adiustins their stocks, if necessary, to comply with the gracle-markinI requirement !!at becomes effective April 1, 1960. by whicf, the Federal Housing Administration will require that all framing and board lumber used in FHA-insuied construction must be grade-marked, reports the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn. It is reliably reported that there rvill be no extension of the requirement date.

Brief

An Indian petitioned a judge of an Arizona court to give him a shorter name. "What is your name now?" asked the judge.

"Chief Screeching Train Whistle," said the Indian.

"And to what do you wish to shorten it?" asked the judge.

The Indian folded his arms majestically and grunted, ttToots.tt

Seeking Home

A restless breeze goes straying Across the landscape fair, It whispers in the tree tops, It searches here and there. It rustles through the grasses, It fees across the fen. It cannot rest until it finds The little homes of men.

-Adeline M. Conner.

Whot He Wqnted

The telephone operator said: "Here is your party. Deposit ten cents, please."

The drunk asked: "Whazzat?"

The operator repeated: "I have your party, so deposit ten cents."

Drunk: "Listen, girlie, what I want is a conversation with a friend, see, and not financial advice from a strange woman."

The Cold Both

What is so fine as an icy cold tub?

The kind you pop into and duck with a glub, Then hop lightly out of and start in to rub.

(So they say-so they say.)

Let women and children and folk feeble-souled Turn on the hot faucet, but give me the cold, The joy of the peppy, the bath of the bold !

(So they say-so they say.)

Cold water, I love it ! It fills me with zip. What's that? You don't like it? Say, boy, take my tip. ft's good for what ails you, cures spavins and pip.

(So they say-so they say.)

I've heard these here birds with their cold water rot. I've spied on'em, too, though perhaps I should not, And nine of ten times they've turned on the hot.

(Hey-hey ! Hey-hey !)

Von Dyke on Living

Henry Van Dyke wrote: "To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and play and look up at the stars. To be satisfied with your possessions, but not to be content with yourself until you have made the best of them. To despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice. To be governed by your admirations rather than your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor's, except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners. To think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and every day of Christ, and to spend as much time as you can with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors. These are the guide-posts on the footpaths to peace."

Love Restroined

Believe me if all those endearing young charms, That I view with admiring dismay, Are going to rub ofr on the shoulders and arms Of this suit that was cleaned just todayThou wilt still be adored with my usual zeal, My sweetheart, my darling, my own, But I'll sternly repress the emotions I feel, I'll love you, but leave you alone.

'Tis not that your beauty is any the less, Or your cheeks unaccustomedly gay; They're lovely, indeed, as I gladly confess, And I think I should leave them that way. For the bloom of your lips isn't on very tight, And the powder rubs off of your nose, So my dream is platonic, my dear, for tonightFor these are my very best clothes.

Touche

A somewhat snobbish bachelor was invited to dinner by a lady, but did not accept. A few days later, seeing her at a social. gathering, he strolled over and said: "I believe you asked me to dine with you last week."

She looked at him thoughtfully and said: "Why yes, I believe I did. And did you come?"

A Sound Opinion

"Donal," said the minister, "why do you not get a wife?"

"Oh, Reverend," came the cautious reply, "I might get a bad one."

"Trust to Providence, Donal," said the clergyman, "Ye'll get a good one."

"I'm no' so sure, Minister," said Donal, "for ye ken Providence has to dispose of the bad as well as the good."

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