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Advdliring Production

An Editorial

Only happy thoughts should be perpetuated on paper. His letters made you pleased with yourself-with the world. He came right to the point. Never hid a grain of kindness under a bushel of wordy chaff. A lot of loose words turn the milk of human kindness to clabber."

Such was the letter writing of Eugene Field.

Readers will be interested ,o Lno* th"t Eugene Field's grandson is Frederick S. "Fred" Field, Southern California salesman for the Roddis Division of the Weyerhaeuser Company. Though his grand- father died before Fred was born, Fred grew up in the Field lamily honre in Chicago.

Fronr personal knowle<lge we can vouch that Fred is cut from the sanre cloth-or should we say, plywood?-that characterized his illustrious grandfather. No poet, however, but a darn good salesman.

Fred ancl Joan Field and their three children-none of whom is nanreci Eugent:-live in Altadena, California.-Editor.

Introducing Our New Editor

Don R. Dick ioins us after a number of -years in the publishing and editing business in the Los Angeles area. Born in Illinois, Don grew up in Iowa and Wisconsin and, despite his 17 years in California, still considers himself a "small town boy from the Midwest." He attended school at Beloit (Wisconsin) College, UCLA and I-.A. City College. Early business experience included accounting at a farm implement manufacturer in the Midwest and eight with a major airline in fornia and Hawaii.