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Home Building Booms Bay Area

The number of home building units in the San Francisco Bay area's nine counties during 1958 was the second highest in history. it is revealed in recently released figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Authorized 1958 permits came to 41,214, against the alltime high of 45,350 units built during 1955. Multifamily structures such as flats and apartments showed a great increase. Apartmenthouse construction of 14,800 units took a 40% jump over the 10,500 units in 1957, and far above the 6,000-units average for 1956.

Lumberman Lawler At Safety Meet

J. K. Lawler, president of the Gardena Valley Lumber Co., Gardena, Calif., was among those taking part in the 9th annual statewide meeting of the Governor's Industrial Safety Conference at the Biltmore hotel, Los Angeles, Feb. 5-6. Lurnberman Lawler serves as a member of the Conference Coordinating committee, governing body of the Conference, and also as cochairman of the Forest Products Section committee.

Get School Contract

The $545,300 contract for construction of the King Elementary School in the east Oakland hill area was awarded to Western Empire Construction Co., Concord, on a bid $74,600 below the Board of Education estimate.

San Gabriel Dealers Lunch

The San Gabriel Valley Lumbermenfs Group of the Southern Californii Retail Lumber Assn. gathered in the Westerner restaurant, Arcadia, Feb. 16 for a luncheon meeting at 12:15.

Spalding Yard Gets Permits

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Visalia, Calif.-The W, R. Spalding Lumber Co. during Tanuary secured two Tulare lountl'-6u;1ding permits. for the construction of dwellings, one to cost $7,000 and the other $5,900.

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Boredom

A profound thinker once wrote: The greatest of human miseries, the most deadly of diseases, is one we cannot touch with a knife, or reach with drugs. I mean boredom. Anyone who can discover a cure for boredom would put an end to more misery and tragedy than all doctors put together.

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For this is the law of the jungle, It's as old and as true as the sky, And the wolf that shall keep it will prosper, And the wolf that shall break itmust die; As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, The law runneth forward and back, That the strength of the pack is the wolf, And the strength of the wolf is the pack.

-Kipling.

Lndde Lffttory

i ;utius Caesar and his friend Cassiris were walking in the Roman Forum when they passed a couple of pretty girls. As was his custom, Caesar winked and whistled as they went by.

"Who was them gals?" asked Cassius.

"I don't know them personally," said Caesar, "but I'm Forum.tt

And then Cassius knew this monster must be destroyed.

Fomous Funerol Orotion

(As an erample of sustained flights of beautiful oratory, ihe oration thqt was d,eliaered, in Rawhide, Neaada, in April 1908, by a preacher named, H. W. Knicleerbocker at the funeral of a famous gambler named Riley Grannon, has been printed and reprinted countless times. The oration in lull is not attempted here on account of its length, but the lollowing paragraphs well illu,strate the larnous utterance: )

"Riley Grannon was born in Paris, Kentucky, about forty years ago. He died day before yesterday in Rawhide. You have the birth and the period to the grave. Who can fill in the interim? Who can speak of his hopes and fears? Who can solve the mystery of his quiet hours that only himself knew?

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"He was born in the sunny Southland, where brooks and rivers iun musically through the luxuriant soil; where the Magnolia Grandiflora like white stars, grow in a firmament of green; where crystal lakes dot the greensward and the softest summer breezes dimple the wave-lips into kisses for the lilies on the shore; where the air is resonant with the warbled melody of a thousand sweet-voiced birds and redolent of the perfume of many flowers. This was the beginning. He died in Rawhide, where in winter the shoulders of the mountains are wrapped in garments of ice, and in summer the blistering sun beats down upon the skeleton ribs of the desert.

"When I see the ambitions of man defeated; when I see him struggling with mind and body in the only legitimate prayer he can make to accomplish some end; when I see his aim and purpose frustrated by a fortuitous combination of circumstances over which he has no control; when I see the outstretched hand just about to grasp the fag of victory, take the emblem of defeat, I ask:'What is Life'? Dreams, awakening, and death; a pendulum twixt a smile and a tear; a momentary halt within the waste, and then the nothing we set out from; a walking shadow; a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing; a child-blown bubble that but refects the light and shadow of its environment and is gone; a mockery, a lie, a fool's vision; its happiness but Dead Sea apples; its pain the crunching of a tyrant's heel.

"Did you ever stop and think how God does not put all His sunbeams into corn, potatoes and four? Did you ever notice the prodigality with which He scattdrs these sunbeams over the universe? Contemplate: God fings the auroral beauties round the cold shoulders of the North; hangs the quivering picture of the mirage over the palpitating heart of the desert; scatters the sunbeams' lamelated gold upon the bosoms of myriad lakes that gem the verdant