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Expert Hondling cnd Drying of Your Lumber-Fqst ServiceNEW qnd MODERN FACIIITIES-INCREASED CApACtTy

These ore but o few of the mqny feqtures

Ofiered By

L. A. DRY KIIN &. STORAGE, INC.

Pres.

Billion-Dollqr Poycheck

.. If all.the_people now on the Federal civilian payroll lived with their families in one city, it would be the second largest city in the United States. Sen. Harry F. Byrd reveals _that 2,367,000 people norv collect theii pay from Uncle Sam. And their-paychecks now total mbrl than a billion dollars every nronth. What is more important, their paychecks iome out of our paychecks. Government workers averaged II/o pay raisei during 1958, but few taxpayers di-d. Mariy bfthese workeri are engaged in programs which business organizations such as the National Association of Manuficturers. as well as many individual citizens, feel to be non-essential or even detrimental to the welfare of the nation. But even if every program the government now conducts were to be continued, Sen. Byrd declares that more t!^an 150,000 jobs-.could be abolisl-red without impairing efficiency in the slightest. This is slightly more tban 6/i.

Februcry Housing Storts-89,OOO

The preliminary estimate of -89,000 new nonfarm dwelling units started in February is 22,900 units more than Febrti ary a year ago. Private starts were at a seasonally adiustecl annual rate of 1,320,000 units.

An upward revision of 7,400 in the November starts raisecl the preliminary estimate of 1958 starts to 1,209,100 units. The final figures for the year 1958 .lvill not be known ur.rtil after the revision of the December figure, but this prelim- inary total is 767,200 more than 1957, reports the N^ational Retail Lumber Dealers Association. -

. Nonfarm. housing^,s^tarts in,.February were 35/o higher than in _Feb_ruary 1958, according to pieliminary estim"ates of the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The increases over the month and over the year were all in privately owned housing. The advance in private starts from January,.to 87,900 units in February, wai primarily in conventionally financ,ed, housing. The gain in the private total from February 1958, however, reflected over-ihe-year increases in FHA-and VA-assisted starts, as well aJ in conventionally financed housing.

_ Preliminary building permit reports indicate January-to- February volume was off a little in the west.

During the first two montl.rs of 1959, construction .ivas be- gun on 175,000 new houses and apartments, of which 171,200 were privately owned. The privale total was 38/o above last year's figure for the same months and was the hiehest for any similar 2-month period except in 1955.