THE VOTLSTEDT KERR TUMBER CO.

Housing Bill Pqsses in Closing Hours of Congress

The last major bill passed by the Congress before adjournment was a compromise housing bill. Lumber dealers are advised that the Title I Home Improvement Loan program of the FHA was extended for three years, reports the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. The maximum loan for irnprovement to a single-family house was increased from $2,50O to $3,500 and the maximum term can be raised from three to five years at the discretion of the Commissioner, who was also given authority to waive the 6-month occupancy provision. The maximum loan for multi-family structures was increased from $10,000 to $15,000. The Title I loans up to $2,500 can carry a $5 discount rate, with loans above $2,500 carrying a $4 discount rate. A summary of the provisions of the housing bill as finally passed by the Congress will be carried in the next issue.

Gonklin Mode Cqscqdes Executive

Charles W. Fox, president of Cascades Plywood Corporation, announces the appointment of Robert P. Conklin as vice-president in charge of the timber department. His experience covers everything from compassman, topographer, surveyor, cruiser and logging engineer for such, firms as Long-Bell Lumber Company, Crown Willamette Paper Company and Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. He joined Cascades in 1951 and has been acting as assistant to the president.

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Joan Beckett, the current "Miss California" and the secretarv-receotionist at the Sierra-Nevadu Fin" Co. irt Sacramento,,was in Hollywood the last of July for a screen test by the MGM Studios, agented by Al Trescony.

William M. Wilson, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, closed his office temporarily last month to make a vagabond world tour through the Orient, South Seas, mid-East and Europe. He expects to be away about a year.

Barney Bates and Harry Lowell, two of the CRA's many able "redwood ambassadors," returned last month from a 3-week business trip in the midwest calling on retailers, wholesalers, architects and also spent a week at the Forest Products lab in Madison, Wis. The trip was part of the association's policy of acquainting all CRA personnel with those who buy and specify redwood, according to Phil Farnsworth of the CRA.

A. M. Batliner, who has been with the Los Angeles sales office of LongBell Lumber Co. since 1922. visited the Kansas City offices in the R. A. Long Bldg. recently. lfe started with the company there in 1918 and one of his first assignments was to take "extra dictation" from Mr. Long.

Bob Caldwell of the Hammond Lumber Company in San Francisco achieved the rank of Great Granddaddy recently when a baby girl was born to Lt. Robert and Beverley Caldwell at Oceanside, where the father is a member of the USMC (his father, Bob's son, is capt. Robert W. Caldwell of the NR). "Never felt so great in my life," says Bob when asked if all this makes him feel any older.

Lyman Laisy, Consolidated Lumber Co. salesman, returned from a vacation trip with his family through the Pacific Northwest, Idaho, Wyoming, the Big Horn country and Yellowstone.

John Driscoll, Simpson Redwood Company's "11 Western States flash," made a flying trip through his Salt Lake-Denver area the r.veek of July 30.

Bud Reitz, Long Beach r,vholesale lumber shipper, spent several days in the Pacific Northwest last month planning fall cargo for southern California accounts of his E. I-. Reitz ComDarrv.

E. E. Abrahamson, who is in charge of mill sales for Hammond Lumber Co. at Samoa, and his wife have returned there after a month's Hawaii vacation.

Irene Olme, switchboard girl at the Consolidated Lumber Co. general offices in Wilmington, was married June 20 in Santa Barbara to "lucky" Joe E,rhart, supervisor at the USN Terminal Island base.

Snark of the Universe Dave Davis, Simpson Redwood Co. salesmanager, leaves San Francisco August 2O for Minneapolis to attend the annual twin cities Hoo-Hoo Picnic the 21st. He will go on to Milwaukee to see Ben Springer, Hoo-Hoo International's able secretary, and thejn on to Chicago to work in a week's SR business with Tom Gleed, head of the firm's offrce there (you KNOW where Dave will be Sept. 16-19, of course!).

HARDWOOD OR S()FTWO()D

For lhe PLYWOOD you need when you need il make il your habtl fo -

Lieut. Macfie (that's Bob Macfie of Twin Harbors Lumber Co.) has returned to TH's Menlo Park office after fighting the "Battle of Tijuana" with the USNR at San Diego for two weeks. Bob (that's Lt. Macfie) is a Naval Reserve fighter pilot. o o o ! J 0.

The Woy to Heolth

Coronet tells the story of an old mountaineer in North Carolina who was being thoroughly examined by a city doctor. Amazed to find the old man in such splendid condition, the physician asked incredulously, "FIow old did you say you are?"

"Eighty-seven" was the firm reply.

"fn all my years of practice, I have never seen a man even fifteen years younger than you in such perfect condition. To what do ybu attribute such long life and good health?"

"Well, I'll tell you, Doc. When me and my wife got married we sort of made an agreement not to argue. If she ever got mad around the house, she promised she wouldn't say anything but just go back to the kitchen until she calmed down; and ifI ever got mad I wasn't to say anything but just walk right out the back door and into the yard, and-if-"

"Yes," interrupted the puzzled physician, "but what has that got to do with it?"

"Well, Doc," drawled the mountaineer, "as a result of that agreement, I reckon I've led what you might call somewhat of an outdoor life."

love ond Duty

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifullv.

-Phillips Brooks

Mqtrimoniql

A gentle sow who took recourse To legal craft and lore, Declared-"I want a quick divorceMy mate's an awful boar."

A lady sheep who sought the halls Of justice, went "boo-hoo ! My cruel husband never calls Me anything but 'ewe'."

"We'll have to part," the gander sighed, "It's not the slightest use, To try and live with any bride, That's such an awful goose."

The stag, however, dropped a t€ar, And murmured soft and low.

"My charming wife's a little deerSo I will keep my doe."

Help!

The sweet girl graduate was being shown through the 'locomotive shop.

"What is that enormous thing?" she asked.

"That," explained the guide, "is a locomotive boiler." ' "And why do they boil locomotives?" she insisted.

"To make the engine tender."

Horbinger

The hurdy-gurdy man has come, f hear the old refrain, "When you and I were young," and then"Kiss me ! Kiss me again."

The hurdy-gurdy man has gone, But filling all the rooms, Inebriating, steals the scent Of rain-washed lilac blooms.

Oh, is it spring in that far land Where you so long have been, Dear love? A,nd can you hear my cry, "Kiss me! Kiss me again?"

"Gone Wirh rhe Wind" From the Rurol Georgio Viewpoint

Katherine Scarlett O'Hara was our shero. A winsome gal with a figger like a marble statue and a head as hard. Gerald O'Hara was our shero's pa. By nature he was most animal-like. Proud as a peacock, he roared like a lion and rode like a dog-and-pony show. After Sherman came he was as crazy as a bed-bug. Anyhow, Scarlett was in love with Ashley Wilkes, who was in love with his cousin, Melanie, who was in love with Ashley, and so they rvere married (Ashley and Melanie in case you're getting confused). This irritated Scarlett no end, so in quick succession she married for spite and cash, respectively, a couple of fellows whose nam€s we didn't get, but then neither did Scarlett for long.

The other major characters were Rhett Butler, Belle Watling, and a colored lady exactly like the one on the flapjack box. Rhett was somehow strangely reminiscent of Clark Gable, and was a cross between Jesse James and Little Boy Blue. If Rhett had joined the lost cause in the second reel instead of after the intermission, the Confederacy would have won the war-and Belle, you'd have loved Belle. Everybody did. During the siege of Atlanta o,nly three things were runningBelle's place, Prissy's nose, and the laundry that kept Rhett's vuhite suits snowwhite.

Melanie's baby arrived about the same time Sherman did. Both were equally welcom,e to Scarlett. It was, so far as our painstaking research has revealed, the first baby ever born in Technicolor.

Anyway, the South lost the war again in the picture (what could you expect with a lot of Yankee producers) and Scarlett married Rhett to get even with him. Finally after Melanie died, Scarlett realized that she didn't love Ashley but RhettScarlett was changeable. Flowever, Rhett had had enough of her foolishness, and when she told him, he said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn !" Neither by this time did the audience. They were glad to see the end, their own having become more numb than somewhat.-(Clipt)

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