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Charges for Lumber Reinspections Raised Highest Shingle Production in 1948

By Western Pine Association

Portland, Ore., Feb. Z4-Charges for lumber reinspections by Western Pine Association inspectors.will be raised from $25 to $30 per day on March 1, the association reported today.

W. E. Griffee, assistant secretary-manager, said that increased salary, hotel and travel expenses prompted the board of directors to boost the rates.

The new charge will be a flat $30 per day for the time required, including necessary time for travel to the job, for all shipments originating within the Western Pine Region. For reinspection of lumber shipped on 'Western Pine Association rules by mills anywhere outside the region, the charge will be $30 per day plus hotel and travel expense. The $30 plus expense rate will also apply on all certification work.

The Western Pine region covers the 11 western states east of the Cascades and the California Redwood region plus the Black Hills 6f South Dakota. The new basis of charges will apply to all requests received on and after March l,1949 and will be the same whether stock is shipped by an Association member or a non-member.

Griffee said that requests for reinspectoin should alway.s be accompanied by a copy of the invoice and the names and addresses oT the shipper and any other parties to the transaction. A $100 per car deposit is required from nonmember companies ordering reinspections.

Portland, Ore., February 9-Highest production mark reached by any shingle manufacturer in the United States for the year l94B was attained by the Portland Shingle Company, it was revealed today by Al Schmidt, president.

Recently released reports of the 'Western red cedar industry for the year show' that the Portland concern far outstripped in production any other manufacturer, he said. Its production exceeded 272,On squares, or more than a million bundles of shingles, enough to cover approximately 20,000 homes.

Since Western red cedar shingle manufacturers are today the largest producers of shingles in the United States, the figure scored by the Portland concern is a high mark nationally for 1948 shingle production as well as top figure among \Mesterh red cedar mills of the Pacific Northwest.

Established in 1935, the Portland Shingle Company operates a shake plant and a shingle mill in Portland, and three shingle mills in Washington-at Ridgefield, Kelso, and Quinault.

Arizona Finn Rebuilds

Taylor Lumber, Feed and Supply Company, Douglas, Ariz., is rebuilding, with various improvements. A cabinet shop was recently completed, and a new building is a combination cabinet shop and storage room. A combination office and display building for paint and various small articles is being built onto the service station. Ray Taylor is proprietor.

WiU Add Remcrnulacturing FcciHtiee

Shanett Lumber Company, 322 I Street, Marysville, Calif., 'n'as established more than a year ago by Jack Shacher, formerly of Bell Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and George Burnett, who was with E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, for many years. The company has a concentration yard handling the output of a number of pine and fir mills. Ner,v machinery for remanufacturing has been ordered and will be installed this spring. Dry Kilns are available.

Johnny Walsh, experienced wholesale lumberman, is sales manager.

lnstalls Teletype

Triangle Lumber Co., Oakland, recently installed a teletype. The number is OA 262. The office is at 600 16th Street, Oakland 12.

A grade designation stamp on a board indicates the quality at the time the piece was graded. Subsequent exposul.c to unfavorable storage conditions, improper drying or careless handling may cause the material to fall below its original grade.

Points to be considered when ordering softwood lumber or timber are quantity, size, grade, species of wood, prod.uct, condition of seasoning, surfacing, and the association grading rules to be used.

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Ten Per Cent Mcrgin

If your advertising is ten per cent more effective than your competitors' and seems to be fifty per cent better, you are in danger. You are no better off if it seems to be ten per cent superior when it is really fifty. In the first case a cornpetitor, by a little extra effort, can equal or pass your mark. In the second case he is more ready to take a try at what seems to be but ten per cent. What is the answer? Perhaps protecting that ten per cent or that fifty per cent by merchandising the advertising. Perhaps by even more persistence. Or, perhaps, by backing up either the ten or the fifty per cent by an intense and increased merchandising effort.

Kisses

Give me a thousand kisses, and yet more, And then repeat those that have gone before; Let us kiss faster than the hours do fly, Long live each kiss and never know to die; Yet, if that fade and fly awaY too fast, Impress another, and renew the last.

-Pierce.

Deprecicted EquiPment

A successful negro merchant in Birmingham attributes his good business judgment in part to his great-grandfather, Ephus Cracken, who was a slave. The man who owned Ephus owed a certain Northerner $1500, and the latter finally accepted Ephus in settlement of the debt.

"Ephus," the Northerner announced, "yo'u are now my property, but I don't want to take you North. So I will make you a proposition whereby you can earn some money and purchase your freedom."

The slave being agreeable to the idea, the Nontherner explained: "I will set you up in the trucking business. At intervals you can deduct your expenses from the proceeds, keep half the profits, and send me the other half. Theu, when you have accumulated $1,500 you can buy your freedom."

Ephus accepted the proposition, and was soon operating a trucking business. As the business grew the industrious slave took on helpers, and soon had four trucks operating profitably. When he had sent his owner and backer nearly $3,000, the latter wrote and hinted that it was time for Ephus to purchase his freedom. But Ephus studiously avoided the suggestion. At length the Northerner sent an emissary to discuss the matter.

"Ephus," the representative pleaded, "surely you realize the many advantages of buying your freedom?"

"Ah sho does," Ephus replied. "An' I ain't buyin'! Does you think A'se gonna pay $1SOO fo' such a scrawny, baldheaded, toothless little man lak Ah is?" (Wall Street Journal.)

After Death-What?

(What famous thinkers said on this subject.)

Benjamin Franklin said: "I believe in One God, Creator of the universe. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this."

Edwin Markham said: "The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends on into Eternity."

Propertius said: "There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre."

Seneca said: "Therefore look forward withotrt fear to that appointed hour-the last hour of the body, but not of the soul. That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity."

Walt Whitman said: "Swear I think there is nothing but immortality."

Apocrypha reads: "God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity."

Plato said:

"It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire This longing after immortalitY? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?

'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man."

Who Got The Dollcr?

Three men came into a hotel and asked for a suite of rooms. "The rate is $10 a person," said the room clerk. "It's $30 for the three of you." They paid in advance the thirty bucks.

When they had gone to their roorns the manager noted the charge. He pointed out to the room clerk and cashier that there had been an over-charge. The correct rate was $25. So a bell-boy was sent up to return the five. But the boy, being unscrupulous, decided to keep $z for himself. He returned only one dollar to each of the three men. Being happy to get the refund, they did not check with the clerk.

And see what happened ! Originally, the men paid $10 each, or a total of $30. Each was refunder $1, making each man's payment $9. Multiply that by three and you get a total of $27 that they paid. The bell-boy kept $2. What happened to the other dollar?