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robe of nature; spangles the canopy of night with starjewels, and silvers the world with the refected beams from Cynthia's mellow face; hangs the gorgeous crimson of the Occident across the sleeping-room of the sun; wakes the coy maid of dawn to step timidly from her boudoir to climb the steps of the Orient, and fling wide the gates of the morning. Then tripping over the landscape, kissing the flowers in her fight, she wakes the birds to herald with their music the coming of her King, who floods the world with refulgent gold. Did you ever stop to think that this old world of ours is constantly swinging into the dawn? Down the groves of time, flung by the hand of God, with every revolution it is dawning somewhere all the time. Let this be an illustration of our hope."

Music?

"Did you ever hear anything quite like it?" cried 16-yearold Daisy Mae at the end of a TV program that featured a trumpet.

Her father said: "No, I never did. Although once I heard something near it. It was a collision between a truckload of empty milk cans and a freight car loaded with live ducks."

Flintkote Gompony to Acquire Blue Diomond Gypsum

I. J. Harvey, Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of The Flintkote Company, New York City, and N. J. Redmond, president and chief executive officer of the Blue Diamond Corporation, Los Angeles, announced Febrvary 17 that their respective boards of directors have approved a plan of reorganization under which the business of the West Coast gypsum producer will be pooled with that of Flintkote.

!-arvey said the Broposed acquisition is a further step in Flintkote's planned program of diversification and expan- sion, and will provide its customers on the West Cbast rvith the broadest line of building materials available. He said that no change is contemplated in the management of Blue Diamond eorporation or its method of op&ation.

Blue Diamond Corporation, with some 2,500 stockholders and whose stock is traded on the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, was organized in 1931. It operates a gypsum mine and mills near Las Vegas, Nevada, and is engaged in the sand and gravel business at Antelope, San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys, California, as well as operating eight concrete batching plants and a reinforcing steel fabricating plant at Los Angeles, California. In 1957, it reported sales of $19,369,000.