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MAY 1955 CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY SEIS RECORD FOR MONTH Jonuory-Msy Totol l5 percent

The value of new construction put in place expancfed seasonally in May to $3.5 billion, setting a new high for the month and reaching a record total of nearly $15.3 billion for the first five months of the year, according ,to preliminary estimates prepared jointly by the Departments of Commerce and Labor. After allowance for seasonal changes, construction expenditures during May rose to an all-time peak annual rate of $42.1 billion. This compares with an annual rate of $41.1 billion during January 1955 and actual outlays of 937.6 billion in 1954.

Increased activity for nearly all types of private work contributed to this record rate. Private expenditures totaled $11.1 billion during January-May 1955, an alt-time high for

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Aboye First 5 Months of 1954

the ireriod and.2l/o more than private construction outlays in the previous record first five months ol 1954. Public outlays during this period were the same as in the corresponding five months of 1954 as a sustained expansion in state and local public works offset continued declines iq public housing activity and most types of direct Federal construction.

Private residential building activity increased about seasonally from April, and outlays were at a new peak for the month of May to complete a record S-month period. The $6.0 billion of work put in place was a one-third increase over January-May 1954.

AFL Products Show August 26-31

Choice display space in the $3 billion marketplace being set up by the Los Angeles AFL in its first annual Union Products and Services Show is rapidly being sold out, the Union Label Council reports. The rapid rate of space reservations is proving that local marlufacturers and distributors realize the great buying potential of the Los Angeles market, Council Secretary W. J. BaLssett declared.

The show, to be held Aug. 2G3l at Pan Pacific auditorium, represents the efforts and production of 650,000 AFL union workers.

U. S. Department of Labor statistics show these workers and their families total a 2,W,000 segment of the Los Angeles area population, enjoying more than $3,250,000,000 a year in take-home pay.

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The show, first in Los Angeles on a local basis, is limited mostly to produ,cts and services of local organizations, presented on a joint labor-management basis. The National Union Industries Show held here last year proved the need for an exposition stressing local production, Bassett said.

Bonnell-Word & Knopp Move to lorger Gluorters

Bill Bonnell, Ben Ward and Jim Knapp, partners in the San Francisco wholesale lumber concern of Bonnell-Ward & Knapp, move into larger office quarters on the sixth floor of the Monadnock building in San Francisco July 1. The address is 681 Market Street, and the new number to 'call for one or all of the partners is GArfield 1-1840.

The firm, which has mill connection s throughout Oregon, Washington and Northern California, services the California market. In addition to the partners, all active in the business, B-W &K recently added Morrey Greenlaw to the sales staff to cover the San Joaquin Valley and north to Chico.

2OO ilIILLIO]I FEET ITIORE To Serve You Better!

The 200 million feet of timber we just bought in Trinity Nat'l Forest brincs our reserves to more than a billion board feet. This, plus three ,u*f,ills, two planing mills, and dry kiln capacity of seven million feet of seasoned lohber a- month, is yoir assuraice ybg can get the lumber you want when you want it, from the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company. Good service makes good friends we're working constantly to serve vou better.

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Dreoming

Do you remember the hero in "The Rover," one of Conrad's books-the ong who had his ship in the harbor always ready for a cruise but who never went anywhere? He found his fun in knowing that he was free to go. Thus life in the little house by the Mediterranean never wearied him. Tomorrow, or the next day, or possibly the day after, he intended to sail for some strange port. If you feel tied, there may be a suggestion in this for you. Let your imagination carry you to freedom from all things that keep you enslave'd. Make your mental life so rich that the limitations of part of your actual life will seem insignificant to you.

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"f can't" is a foolish expression-

'Tis,really a coward's confessionSomehow or other it always comes back Stealing the good things we already lack, Bringing us nothing but trouble and care, Leaving us hopelessly sunk in despair, But there's never a day

When the world can say That a man's not a man, if he dare.

Whor ls flly thore in This World?

There are 2,000,000,000 inhabitants of this troubled, beautiful world.

I am one-only one-of the 2,(XX),000,000.

There are 1,999,999,999 others.

I am needn wistful, fearful, heart-hungry, hungry of body.

The other 1,999,999,999 earth-bound, sky-aspiring are equally needy, wistful, fearful, heart-hungry, and gry of body.

I am entitled to l/2,@A,000,000 of the earth's benefits, of mankind's rights, claims, and privileges-no more.

-Dreier

"f will" is a wonderful blessing, A heart full of courage expressing. Somehow or other it brings us success, Fills us with joy that we cannot repress, Gladdens our friends, makes their burdens more light, Places a star in our crown every night, For there's never a day

When the world cannot say That a man's not a man, if he'll

No Proof

-Brinson Smith

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Returning the Gompliment

-Shaw

During a grouse hunt in England, where men and women both were in the line of shooters, two families were shooting from covers close together. Suddenly a red, angry face showed over the side of a "blind" and the man shouted- f am inescapably dependent upon them-upon their Good Will-for my very existence and for the fulfillment of my desires.

"Curse you, sir, you nearly hit my wife that last shot."

'Did f ?" said the other, aghast. "I'm horribly sorry, old fellow,-er:have a shot at mine."

The other 1,999,999;999 are entitled to all except my | /2,OO0,000,O00 share.

The 1,999,999,999 are likewise dependent upon me.

My hope is in them: their hope is in me.

If I betray their trust, I have betrayed myself.

-Dr. S. H. Kraines and Dr. E. S. Thetford in their book "Live and Help Live"

Toking the Scotch Census

"Do you know how they take the census in Scotland?" "How?"

"Roll a penny down the middle of the street."

rt is not science ", ,f#llfliltil". humanity, that holds the world together. It is not the easy bed, but the easy conscience, that makes man happy. And it is our belief that people need to recognize this principle if they expect to give to the world what they owe it, and receive from the world what they believe they have coming.

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The Green Chqin Poet

You told me you loved me, and sweetest perlume Passed by on the wings oi night,

From a garden of roses just over the way And your eyes held a tender light.

Yet I wondered if you knew the meaning of love, Or if I worthy ever could be;

But time has a way of deciding such things, She bids us wait till we see.

So we stand once again in the autumn of life, How swiftly the happy years fed;

And the garden of roses that bloomed o'er the way Has withered long since, and is dead.

Yet you still say you love me, and that is enough, Let the sweetest of flowers all die.

For your voice is as tender as in by-gone days And the loveJight is bright in your eye.

-Chas. A. Ewing

IT'S THE EFFORT THAT REAI.LY COUNTS

SHE PUTS HER BEST INTO HER WORK_AND SO DO WE

It tqkes one coll to us lo secure All Slqndqrd Brond Producls for the Builders in your oreq. Jusl osk lhe deoler who depends on usFwe reolly believe in SAIISFIED CUSTOMERS.

Ponderosq Pine Woodwork Absorbs Americqn Wood Window Instifute

A stepped-up "seal of approval" program for double-hung u'ood window units has been initiated by Ponderosa Pine Woodwork, Chicago, as an immediate result of the absorption into PPW of the American Wood Window Institute, Inc., formerly located in Dallas.

Certification of quality is the core of the program. This is acccnnplished by the labeling of windows with a permanent metal seal, which constitutes proof to the customer that the rvindow meets the quality specifications of .Commercial Standard 190-53 of the U. S. Department of Commerce.

Manufacturers and assemblers of window units are being licensed to use the AWWI seal. Membership in PPW is not a requirement for membership in AWWL

Although the program is now limited to double-hung units, the intent of PPW is to extend the service to other types of rvood windows as soon as appropriate commercial standards have been released by the U. S. Department of Commerce.

Commercial Standard 190-53 specifies that double-hung windows must be made of approved lumber dried to a moisture content of 6 to l2/o, treated with a water-repellant, preservative chemical, weatherstripped, and properly balanced. Other specifications cover construction detail, dimensions of frame and sash members and glazing.