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VAGABOND EDITOR,IALS

(Continued from Page 8) the open hanbs of the whole doggoned world, as we have been doing? Do you think that if Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin were here all rolled into one; do you think that even that super-man could handle such an assignment? Yet with an army of ordiriary people we insist on trying to hantlle a job that would call for nothing less than rnfinitY'

Another thing I want to ask you, Junior, is this: Sup' posing Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin were to return to Washington today in the fullness of their powers. Washington, with his thunders against entangling foreign alliances in this land that now has entangling alliances with all the world, and sighs for more worlds with which to have such alliances; Jefferson, with that incomparable mentality and unparalleled insight into governmental things, warning that national debt is national danger; and Franklin, the most practical man in all American history, preaching the sacredness of economy and the fatality of waste; when our national debt staggers the imagination, and our national waste and utter lack of thrift surpasses description or understanding; tell me this, Junior-do you really think any one of those three could get a job in official Washington today?

Building permits issued in Puente, Calif., in the first five months of 1955 totaled $16,866,840, compared to $9,000,000 in the same period of 1954. May permits alone totaled $2,063,678 for 203 homes of which 186 are in subdivisions.

Owen T. Stebbins Succeeds Monson As C.R.A. Promotion Mqnoger

San Francisco-Owen T. Stebbins was appointed Promotion manager for the California Redwood Association, it was announced June 15 by PhiliP T' Farnsworth, general. manager. Stebbins has been with the association since 1951 as a field rePresentative in the Trade Promotion division and is well known to architects, industrial users of Redwood, the lumber trade, and the retail sales merchandising trade.

'He replaces Byrne C. Manson, who has resigned to accept a position with the Ar'cata Redwood Company as research engineer. With Manson, Stebbins helped to develop many of the promotion techniques used by the association, regarded as unique in the lumber industry.

Prior to coming with the California Redwood Association, Stebbins worked in merchandising and was a news writer for the Fresno Bee and the United Press. He is a graduaie oJ Fresno State college, where he received an AB in journalism in 1941. Following World War II, in which he served as a major in the U. S' Marine Corps in the South Pacific and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, two Purple Hearts, a Presidential Unit Citation, and two Naval Citations. Stebbins returned to take his Master's degree.