Lumber Trucking r Custom l :lling Kiln Drying

Betfer Morket for Used Houses

Buying plans for new houses were 20/o lower in November-December 1958 than in the February-March periocl of the same year. Plans to buy used houses, ltowever, climbed 22/o higher than in the early part of the year, it was found in the Newsweek Continuing Study of Consumer Buying Plans conducted by the National Industrial Conference Board. Sindlinger & Company gathered and reported the findings based on 10,000 interviews among households throughout the country.

The peak in plans to buy new houses came, not surprisingly perhaps, in the month of April. Analysis of the findings by income and occupation indicates that those with plans to buy new houses are concentrated primarily within the higher income and occupational categories. Those with plans to buy used houses, on the other hand, are distributed more in proportion to total family income.

Gonstruction Requirement Chonges Reported in SCRIA Bulletin

The following Los Angeles "Construction Requirement Changes" are reported in a recent bulletin of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. by Orrie W. Hamilton, executive vice-president :

The following report and recommendations were adopted by the Board of Building and Safety Commission, Aprll 2, 1959. Board File: 59.301.1

"On September 11, 1958, your Honorable Body approved Research Report 2969 granting permission until the effective date of the 1959 Building Code.

1. To grade Port Orford Cedar lumber under the West Coast Lumber Association (WCLA) Grading Rules No. 15 for Western Red Cedar.

2. To use 2x6 or 2x8 T&G Lumber of the following specie and grades:

Douglas Fi;-Utility or No. 3 Dimension grades

West Coast Hemlock-Utility grade

Larch-No. 3 Dimension grade as subflooring under an approved finish floor provided the span does not exceed four feet.

It is requested that your Honorable Board extend the expiration date of the above General Approval to the effective date of the 1960 Building Code with the following provisions :

DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATIONS :

l Approval

2. Approval, provided finish floor is not less than 3/8" thick T&G wood strip flooring, t/4" approved plywood or ,/4" approved particle board, except that the plywood or particle board shall be not less than /[" thick where required for l-hour fire-resistive double floor construction."

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Green & Dry Uppers

Rough & Milled Commons Mouldings-loth

Less Than Corlood Lots

PockcAed Lots -- Truck-&-Troiler Shipments

Scripture trnd Astronomy

Galileo said: "I am inclined to believe that the intention of the Sacred Scriptures is to give to mankind the information needed for their salvation. But I do not hold it necessary to believe that the same God who endowed us with senses, with speech, with intellect, intended that we should neglect the use of these, and seek by other means for knowledge which these are sufficient to procure for us; especially in a science like astronomy, of which so little notice is taken by the Scriptures that none of the planets except the sun and moon, and once or twice only Venus, are so much as named at all."

Be Gentle Wirh Her

"Yes, my boy, I reckon you can have her," sighed Old Man Hawkins to his daughter's suitor. "But take good keer of her, for she's been raised kinder tender like. Eight acres is all I ever ast her to plow between sun-up and dark. She can do light work, such as well-diggin' and steer brandin', but she ain't used to no rough stuff, so you'll have to be gentle with her."

Orofory

Oratory offers the acme of human delight; it offers the nectar that Jupiter sips; it offers the draught that intoxicates the Gods, the divine felicity of lifting up and swaying mankind. There is nothing greater on this earth. 'Tis the breath of the Eternal-the kiss of the Immortal.

Oratory is far above houses and lands, ofhces and emoluments, possessions and power. While it may secure all of these, it must not for a moment be classed with them. These things offer nothing that is worthy of a high ambition. Enjoyed to their fullest, they leave you hard, wrinkled and miserable. Get all they can give, and the hand will be empty, the mind hungry, and the soul shriveled.

Oratory is an individual accomplishment, and no vicissitudes of fortune can wrest it from the owner. It points the martyr's path to the future; it guides the reaper's hand in the present, and it turns the face of ambition toward the delectable hills of achievement. One great speech made to an intelligent audience in favor of the rights of man will compensate for a life of labor, will crown a career with glory, and give a joy that is born of the divinities. There is no true orator who is not also a hero. (By John P. Altgeld.)

Shocking?

An electrician was working on an emergency wiring job and he told his helper to take hold of the end of a wire. He did.

"Feel anything?" asked the boss.

"No," said the helper.

"Then don't touch that other wire. It's got 5,000 volts."

Will qnd Won't Power

Some people mistake will power for won't power. They think they're strong-minded when they're just obstinate. Will power is constructive-it urges things along. Won't power holds them back. The "will" man sees opportunity in a job. The "won't" man sees a task.

Every one of us is born with a will of some kind. Cultivated, it is likely to become a will in our own favor.

The Rich Man

The rich man has his motor car, His country and his town estate; He smokes a fifty-cent cigar

And jeers at fate.

Yet though my lamp burn low and dim, Though f must slave for livelihood, Think ycu that f would change with him?

Ycu bet I would !

Out in the Fields

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday, Among the fields above the sea, among the winds at play, Among the lowing of the herds, the rustling of the trees, Above the singing of the birds, the humming of the bees. The foolish fears of what might pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover-scented grass, among the new-mown hay, Among the hushing of the corn, where drowsy poppies nod, Where ill thoughts die and good are bornOut in the fields of God.

Knew Them All

The teacher made her class a detailed talk on why Francis Scott Key is famous. When finished, she asked:

"Now, then, why is Francis Scott Key famous?"

And little Johnnie answered:

"Because he knew all the verses of the The Star Spangled Banner."