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Getting Them Reody

Little Johgrnie, age 6, was seeing the inside of a bank for the first time. His father had a check to cash, and took Johnnie with him. It was all very new, and novel, and impressive to the little fellow, was this resplendent place of business, so much more so than the corner grocery and the drug store with which he was familiar.

His big, round eyes took in all the sights, some of them hitting him harder than others. At the teller's window he stared long and hard. As his father took him by the hand and started out of the bank, Johnnie still stared backward,

Single-Fomily Housing Breqks R.ecord in | 955

Final reports for 1955 show a total of 1,328,900 units started during the year, compared with the Bureau's preliminary estimate of 1,329,900, released in January 1956. Construction of single-family houses broke all previous annual records, and accounted for 90/o of the total dwelling units started.

so his father stopped.

"'What is it, son?" he asked.

"Papa," asked the little fellow, "why do they have thoSe bars across the windows in front of those men?"

"Easy, son, not so loud," said his father. "They put those bars in front of bankers to make it look like they already are where they really belong."

Horris Fomily Buys Out lounsberry lnterest in Firm

George Lounsberry has retired from the veteran retail lumber firm of Lounsberry & Harris in Los Angeles and announcement is made that the three Harrises : Walter, the father, and his sons Stewart and Bob, have purchased Mr. Lounsberry's interest in the firm.

George Lounsberry has been in very bad health lor the past year and this sale relieves him of any business matters. The elder Harris and George Lounsberry have been partners for many decades and the change in ownership makes no change in their close personal relationship.