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HEmlock 6-5249 fWX: tB 5o126 rials. This is all done with the help of just a couple of regular employes, three trucks and a fork-lift.

Just to keep his fingers in the business, Charlie comes around once-in-awhile. But most of his time is spent fishing. He has a fine cabin on the shores of Lake Mead and flies to and from his sportsman's lodge in his chartered plane. He also enjoys deep-sea fishing off the coast of his home city. Charlie really knows how to live it up as he closes out 60 years of continuous service as a retail dealer, which he will do come 1961, when, he says, "I intend to really retire" (and do more fishing).

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Pacific Gement & Aggregates, Inc.

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Mqrch Building Record Set. ln los Angeles Gounty

Total construction in Los Angeles County in March set a new record for the rnonth with a valuation of $155,479,500, 7.3/o over March 1959's record-breaking $144,834,900. In reporting on the new record, Chamber of Commerce President James S. Cantlen said this total represented residential building of $75,365,600, an ll.4/o hike over last March. More new duplex and multiple dwelling units were regorded in March, he said, with 4,090 units compared to 3,836 last year, an increase of" 4.5/o.

This year's three-month construction total at $370,032,800 is biggel by 10/o than the January-February-March total of $336,515,500 for 1959, he declared. Residential valuation hit_ $169,814,100 so far this year, 12.3/o greater than the $151,235,100 recorded for the first three months of last year.

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