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A Close Price

(This is a true story, tlte white jokcr being an oltt friend of ntine, uho always helps, but loves to, "need,lc" his col.ored friends. )

An itinerant colored preacher came to the office door. No high-toned modern solicitor was he. He stepped into the office, hat in hand, and he bent slightly forward and met the eye of his white friend before he started to talk. He was calling on his "white folks," he said, asking for their "hep" in small amounts of cash. As he put it:

"All Ah axes is fo mah white frens to give me bout fo' bits er six bits er a dollah to hep me on mah way, doin de wuk o' de Lavrd an preachin de Baptis, gospel to mah cullud folks. Dass all."

He made that little speech with many gestur,es, elongations, and embellishments, because he was "jus' a humble preachah o'de word o' Gawd."

The gentleman to whom he made his plea-himself a Baptist-had to have his little joke, so he said:

"Parson, I'm a Catholic myself. Surely a good Baptist

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OJ 35 M'LLS in Norfhern Cslifiorniq

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DOUGTAS FIR AND REDWOOD

STUDS . DI'YIENSION TUMBER

TIMBERS . RAILROAD TIES AND INDUSTRIAL CUTTINGS like you wouldn't ask help from a Catholic."

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"You'se wrong now, Cap'n," said the preacher, fervently. "Ah wants to tell you dat de Cathlic chuch is de Mothah of all de othah chuches, de Baptis' an all of 'em."

"Why, IJncle," said the gentleman. "I'm surprised at a good Baptist like you admitting such a thing as that."

"Yassuh !" said the old preacher. "An whut's mo', Ahm de onlies' Baptis'preachah you gwine find whut wili admit hit fo fo' bits !"

$23 Million in L. A. R.eol Estqte loqns

Los Angeles metropolitalt area reiil estate loarrs totalerl $23,938,731 in the first half of 1955, according to rlisbursal by the s'estern home office of l)rudential Insurance Crt. Of the total, $16,394,611 u'as for residential prlrp()ses. .\ total of $71,222,898 u'as disltursed for loarrs in the l1 n.estern states zrnd Harvaii, of which $41,238,77I u-as residerrtial loans.

In California during the period, loans tot:rled $51,382,179, of rvhich $29]04,596 u'as resider,tial.