Produels Hcrve lrnprov€cl, Too

Of course, it is only too true that the cost of everything we buy has gone up. But it is fair to remember that there have been many commendable improvements to atone for some of the advances.

We used to go to the grocery store and buy our butter out of open tubs, our meat out of unprotected boxes, and most of our other eatables were at the mercy of dust, dirt and insects. Today the quality of goods has improved, their variety has broadened, and eatables reach the consumer wonderfully fresher, cleaner and more eatable than in the old days.

While the costs have increased tremendously, it is true that our standards of living have done likewise. Now we

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have pure foods, pure drugs, and highly sanitary conditions prevailing in everything we buy. Proving that we do get something for that extra money we dish out.

Which partially, at least, counteracts the philosophy of the man who gave his young son a dollar on his birthday and said to him:

"llang onto this, my son, for ten or twenty years and, who knows-it may sometime be worth a dollar again."

New Bokersfield Ourler

Ray Palmer is reported to be engaged in the retail sales of framing lumber at 329 Daniels Lane in Bakersfield, California. The firm is Palmer Lumber Sales.

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o Dougfos Hr in sizes 24' x24' o Pfqner copocity for s,lrfccing |o 24' x24' F:'';;o Remnont focilities for resowiE to 34'x 34' ll we can', frtrd it we'll rnokc ft

Thqf Poin in Your Pocketbeeft-

X'or those who wonder what has happened in the race between personal income and taxes, the Mclachlen Banking Corp. of Washington, D.C. has this bit of information reported in The Lumber Letter of the National Lumber Manufacturers Assn.:

"Federal personal income-tax collections have soared 3,470% in the past 20 years, while personal income has climbed only 420/o, so that taxes have increased a littlb over eight times as fast as the incomes out of which thev are being collected."

Blqck Bort Hoo-Hoo Set Annuql Forest lqke Fomily Weekend

June 24-26 are the dates set for a weekend of fun at Forest Lake Resort in Lake County, the occasion being Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club's annual Family Weekend. Ttie complete family package includes special rates for the kiddies as well as golf for dad, swimming for mom, or horseback riding, boating and dancing for the whole family. Reservations should be sent in immediately to either jim Mayer, Hollow Tree Redwood Co. (HOmestead 2-3821\ or'Ecl Gille_spie, Crawford Lumber Company (HCimestead 2-479r).

Reduced R.oil Lumber Rqfes to West Goost Mclde Permonent

The transcontinental railroads, in a meeting at Chicago, Malr 2, approved a proposal eliminating the expiration dite of July 14, 1960, on the reducecl rates on lumbei and related articles (minimum weight 75,000 lbs.) to destinations on the Pacific West Coast, thereby making these reduced rates a permanent part of the rate strtlcture, reports the Southern Hardwood Traffic Bureau.

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