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Lumber Soles Spurr Upwcrd

Total sales of retail stores in February were $15.8 billion. reports the U. S. Department of Comrnerce. Total sales of lumber and associated materials were $910 million in February, an increase of $26 million over January and $18 million over February 1959. Final estimates for January of this year indicate that lumber sales were aboat 3/o below December, bt 3/o above January 1959.

In the foresta of coastal British Columbia, the giant Red Cedar often survives centuries of time, wind and weather. Little wonder, then, that lumber cut from this naturally timeless wood will beautify and protect homes in the most severe climates for decades more.

ITS BEAUTY IS AGED -IN.TI{E -'WOOD:

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Jack Chamberlain, buyer for Ed Fountain Lumber Co. of Ircs Angeles, and his wife announce the addition of a new son, Jay, 7 lbs. 9 ounces, to their family of three in Fortuna, Calif.

V. A. "Blondie" Van Matre and his wife have returned to the Van Matre Lumber Co. in Downey from a 2-months tour of the South Seas which included such exotic ports-of-call as Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Pago Pago, Samoa and Honolulu, where an extra two weeks were spent visiting their daughter. Dealer Van Matre was chosen as one of the participants in the trial at King Neptune's court during the ceremonies of crossing the equator.

Barbara and Bob Kilgore left Bob Macfie holding down the Kilgore Lumber detail for a mid-March week while they vacationed in the Southland.

Walter A. Remak, district representative of Weyerhaeuser Company in Los Angeles, delivered a talk on west coast hemlock and its uses to the March dinner meeting of the Woodwork Institute of California. The district product supervisor, Ross K' Rasmussen, showed the new company movie, "Tomorrow's Trees."

A recent guest of Orrie W. Hamilton at the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. in Los Angeles was Charles H' Day, manager of the Timber Merchants Assn. of South Australia and general manager of the Timber Development Assn., Ltd., Adelaide, South Australia, on a March 14-15 Southland visit.

Loren Hall of the Hazel Valley Lumber Co., Placerville, and his wife flew to Mexico City last month for a l0-day vacation, stopping enroute at Guadalajara, and report they enjoyed every minute but still-no place like home!

Max Hill of the H. M. Nelson Lumber Co., Montebello, left March 24 for a 3-week lumber-scouting trip to Oregon and Washington, expecting to make new acquaintances and renew the old.

Ray Van lde, Pasadena wholesaler, celebrated his first year business in the "Crown city" on March ?4 and says the flag flying high.

George Melville, southern California representative of Simpson Logging, was an honored guest last month at a party in Seattle given rby officials of the firm celebrating 25 years of service.

George Swanson of the Placerville (Calif.) Lumber Co. and his wife spent a 2-week vacation at Palm Springs and elsewhere in the Southland during the latter half of February.

C. L, "8il1" Fallert, president of Socomi Lumber Company, was a recent visitor in southern California, calling on customers with Jim Linderman, Long Beach wholesaler and Socomi representative.

Ada Essley is recuperating at the D. C. Essley home in I-aguna Beach after a recent collapse brought on by exhaustion. The wife of the prominent Los Angeles lumberman and Whittier civic leader is now doing fine, thank you.

Joining the lumber fraternity's exodus to Hawaii this winter were Mrs. and Jerry Mashek, who spent the last weeks of February checking the action while lolling around Waikiki.

Bill Smith, vice-president of the Smith-Robbins wholesale distribution yard in L. A., spent several Match days in Texas.

Gil Langley of the James Linderman firm, and his family were marooned in the San Bernardino mountains last month when caught in a snowstorm on a weekend holiday, but he was able to check back into Long Beach by Tuesday.

Welcome Back to Perry Adcox, lumber-mover Supreme of Ward & Knapp, who spent a sick couple of weeks during early March flat on his back in Marin General jousting with some sort of beefedup flu bug.

Carl Porter, executive with Atlas Lumber in Los Angeles, was reported basking in the Arizona sunshine at Phoenix last month while on a business trip.

John D. Scouller, president of So-Cal Building Materials Co., Los Angeles, and his wife departed March 26 for a complete swing of the Orient, Australia and the South Pacific. They'll be oft and on commercial airlines till late July.

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Cal-Pacific Redwood's Frank Billings pulled into his home port bf San Francisco the first of March after a business week in Phoenix and another week in the Utah-Colorado territory, where he took in the Intermountain and Mountain States dealers' conventions (combined) at Denver.

Bob Neiman, president of Neiman-Reed Lumber Co., Van Nuys wholesale distribution yard, spent the week of March 1 calling on suppliers in and around San Francisco, and also took in the Western Pine Association annual.

Don Winfree, onetime manager of the M. J. Murphy Lumber Co. in Carmel, has signed on with Diamond National in Walnut Creek as an outside salesman. He is the son of lumber veteran Henry Winfree, who operates a wholesale rbusiness in Walnut Creek.

He was one or ,r:tt-:""t"T-1r:'r: when the preacher met him on the street and stopped to pat him on the back and shake his hand, he was at a loss to understand what it was all about. Then the preacher said:

"flenry, I'm delighted that you have evidently decided to turn over a new leaf. It was a great joy for me to see you at the church meeting last night."

The clouds began to clear.

"Oh !" said Henry. "So that's where I was."

At Fontoineblequ

My love and I to Fontainebleau

Drove through the slanting silver rain, Ne'er was a fairer way to go Than that same road to Fontainebleau-

For slender dreams were blossoming, Its cloth of gold and mauve, the SpringThrough fragrant rain, Was offering.

Do you remember Fontainebleau?

This swift-turned tree, that drowsy bloom, Such song from lark and thrush as though Our hearts were pierced at Fontainebleau?

I can recall your softest sigh, That as a white moth drifted byAnd each perfume, And our-goodbye.

-Elizabeth Shaw Montgomery.

Sroying Sober

Three dignified looking gentlemen enti:red a wayside bar and the first one said to the bartender:

"I'll have a Coke."

The second said: "Make me a lemonade."

The third took a look at the bartender's face and said: "Make mine a glass of !v31g1-f'vs got to drive."

The Mother

I am the keeper of the fame That warms the earth and sky, And I attend the rainbow hues That are so high, so high.

I know the magic laws of God, All answers I can tell:

I understand the hygiene of Keeping my baby well.

I am high priestess, I know all; Grave witchcraft I employ. I am the goddess of hearth and home, And the mother of my boy.

-Helen Baird la Motte.

Bridge Fqcts

Four men made up a bridge game on a train. The nicelooking fellow across the aisle had stated that he knew the game and would be glad to play. It soon developed that he knew nothing whatever about .bridge. The first man to draw him for a partner got hot under the collar and said to him:

"Tell me, when did you first take up bridge? Be specific. Don't just say it was this afternoon. What time this afternoon?"

Forgot One fhing

He brushed his teeth after every meal.

He saw his doctor and dentist twice a year.

fle wore rubbers when it rained.

He slept with the windows open.

He stuck to a diet with plenty of fresh food fle never lost his temper.

He gave up his tonsils, and several glands.

He exercised in moderation.

He never drank nor smoked.

He did his daily dozen regularly.

He got eight hours' sleep every night.

His funeral will be Wednesday.

He had forgotten aboutr grade crossings.