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If you are the man who is responsible for installing and promoting the Payroll Savings Plan in your company-

If you are one of the eight million Payroll Savers who buy Series E Bonds eaery month through the Payroll Savings Plan-

If you are one of the rapidly growing number of businessmen who are building for retirement through the consistent purchase of Series H (current income) Bonds-

You can well be proud of these figures: o January to June'55 sales of E and H Bonds were the best in ten years-$2.9 Billion-a gain of 13% over L954,28% over 1953. o Since January I, cash aalue of E and H Bonds outstanding increased oDer a BiIIion Dollnrs; value, $39.3 Billion, an all-time high. a Sales exceeded redemptions (matured and unma- tured bonds ) by $493,716,000. a Current income H Bond sales averaged more than $100 million a month.

January-June sales, E and H Bonds, represented 5L9% of the 1955, $5,500,000,000 Sales Goal.

What's good for America is good for business -Vour brniness. If your company does not have the Payroll Savings Plan . or if you have the Plan and employee participation is less than 50%, phone, wire orwrite today to Savings Bonds Division, U.S. Treasury Department, Washington, D.C. Your State Sales Director will contact you promptly. He will show you how easy it is to install the Payroll Savings Plan or boost participation over the 50% mark through a simple person-to-person canvass that will put a Payroll Savings Application Blank in the hands of every employee. That's all you have to do. Your personnel will do the rest.

Those iun-rber dealers who missed the first annual ltetailers' Night held by the Southern California Lumber Seasoning Association at Rodger Young auditorium in Los Angeles, June 14, missed a very stimulating and informative discussion ancl open forum on drying of lumber. This knon ledge is of vital importance in the conduct of 'retail

SoCal Lumber Seasoning Association Holds Dealer Meeting

yards and the dealer attendance should be several times larger the next time the SoCal "seasoners" invite the local deaiers to partake free of this storehouse of information.

The association also held its annual election at the meetir-ig and, despite his strong protests against a second term, Herb Geisenheyner of the Coast Kiln Company n-as r-otecl