fueo. TGEL DOORS c|re TRADE.MARKED!

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I\OW you can know . for sure-when vou order Mengel Doors, you'll get Mengel Doors. The 'Mengel-Man' trade-mark is your assurance.

This famous symbol, in a distinctive, harmonizing wood dowel, is now built permanently into the stile of every Mengel Flush Door. Nationally advertised and recognized in Mengel Permanizecl Furniture, the'Mengel-Man' trade-mark assures unquestioned workmanship and finest rnaterials in Mengel Flush Doors. Assurance backed by Mengel, the world's largest maker of fine hardwood products. The 'Mengel-Man' trade-mark tells you now you're getting the quality you expect when you specify Mengel Flush Doors !

Look for this symbol. It leaves no room for doubt or disappointment. Door Department, The Mengel Company, Louisville 1, Ky.

/lleagel Doors eguol or exceed the requiremenfs of Bvreou ol Sfoadqrdr speciticorions CS200-55 little man o,n whose talking, writing and thinking fame has placed no prizes.

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It was a French woman who said that "the strongest of all antipathies is that of a second-rate mind for a first-rate one." Truly, to mediocrity, genius is unforgivable. Seldom has this nation watched so completely unequal a conflict. ***

I have regretted exceedingly that this government has not used that mighty, Magnificent MacArthur during recent years. I wanted to see him play the important role for which he is fitted in our national life. If he did nothing else he could greatly improve our general use of the English language, and our recollections of pertinent history. A scholarly orator and writer such as MacArthur would materially raise the level of our talking and thinking. We have no orator worthy of the name in our active national life today, and no colorful personality like this towering man'

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We need a man who can say, as MacArthur said: "While the hordes of death are mightR the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when f am gone, will remember me not from the battles, but in the home, repeating with him our daily prayer, 'Our Father Who art in heaven'." ***

This nation needs inspiration badly. And the General possesses to a greater extent than probably any other living man the spiritual qualificaltions and personal prowess that

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Lumbermen's fnvestment Corp. of Texas, a retail dealer-owned finance company, handled $5 million in VA and FHA home-building and home-ir.nprover.nent loans in 1955, its first year of operation. Lumber retailers offering wider credit in a move to combat tract building, prefabs, etc., are fast studying similar finance companies and setting up their own co-op financing in several areas. Among the states now having such units are Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, New \{exico, Ohio and Wyoming. In many areas, dealers being bypassed by the big builders and developers who purchase direct and offer to arrange complete financing for the home buyer, are offering the same financing and hope to meet the competition.

could lead this nation to a higher spiritual state. He might have been a "mighty draught for a mightier need" had we used him of late. Said he: "We all dream of the day when human conduct will be governed by the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount, but as yet it is only a dream."

40.,177 Home lmprovement Entries

Only a month after Better Homes and Gardens magazine announced its 1956 Home Improvement contest, 40,177 entries from homeowners and nearly 7,000 from trade dealers applying as contest headquarters, were received. The contest, designed to stimulate, recognize and rew'ard home improvement, nrns throughout 1956.

We qre reoctivoting our Son Frqncisco offl ce under the personol supervision of Nelson E. Jones, identified with the Pqcific Coost Hordwood Distribution Industry since 1913. The Son Froncisco office hos been unstoffed for the post two yeors ond our mony customers ond friends in ihot territory hove urged our octive porticipotion in the Northern Colifornio Hordwood ond Plywood consuming morket.

We will offer efficient ond economicol distribution of Domestic Hordwoods ond Plywoods, ond will speciolize in Joponese Ook, Ash ond Birch; Philippine Mohogony Plywood ond Lumber, ond Teok.