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Dick Freeman of So-Cal Building Materials Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a swing up the west coast which included a visit through the San Leandro, Calif., plant of The Rylock Company to see manufacture of the products of'the company which So-Cal will distribute (see announcement in this issue); a visit with fellow NBM,DA member Ray Haley in Santa Barbara. stops at B-M-D in Sacramento, and on into Seatile for business visits with the Morrison Mer- rill, Wholesale Lumber Supply and Hugh McNiven firms.

Paul Gaboury and family have just returned from a 2-week vacation at Pinecrest and Paul, of course, is back at Golden Gate Lumber. a finalist. The beautiful blonde is 18, will attend Long Beach State college next term. They say she doesn't exactly take after Warren but she does have a beautiful mother. (P.S. But Warren IS an excellent lumber salesman, declares Office Manager Mildred B. Evans.)

Twin-City Lumber Co. Partner John Hunter spent the last two July weeks calling on mill connections in Oregon, Washington and Canada.

Helen and Byron Mathews of the Mathews Lumber Co., Fresno, visited the H. M. Nelson Lumber Co., Montebello, this month as guests of Max Hill and also saw the allstar game on Aug. 3.

Ed La Franchi, who heads up the Clay Brown & Company office in Oakland, treated the family (and himself ) to two weeks at Tahoe last month.

The family returned to Orinda and Hollis Jones returned to Western Door & Sash, Ju,ly 26, after vacationing in Idaho for two weeks.

Congrats to the Marion Wards of the E. A. Padula Lumber Co. on the birth of a little lumberman, Jeffrey, on July 10 in Ukiah (and doin' fine, thankya!).

A. J. 'Gw" Russell (you've heard the name!) and his wife put the Santa Fe Lumber Co. behind them when they sail from San Francisco, Aug. 21, and. arrive in Honolulu, 26th, starting' a Far East tour. You'll get the picture from the dates of the Itinerary: Yokohama, Sept. 4; Manila, 8; Hong Kong, ll; Kobe, l6-overland to Imoerial hotel, Tokyo; Yokohama, 18,: Honolulu, 25, and San Francisco, 9/30. "Cappy" Russell will rbe aboard the American president Lines' "President Wilson."

The Walt Fosters (he's manager of the Diamond Gardner yard at Walnut Creek) flew east last month to pick up a brand new car and, so equipped, spent three leisurelv weeks touring most of the east and a smail slice of Canada.

Harold Cole, incoming Snark of L.A. HooHoo Club 2 for the 1959-60 term. will attend the International Concatenated convention in Duluth next month. Cole and Harvey Koll are the official Club 2 deleeates.

Veteran Lurnrberman Eirl Carlson and his wife vacationed in the Southland for two weeks last month and capped ofi the trio with another week at Lake Tahoe.

Strable Lumber's Ralph Bacon flew to Mexico City early this month for a 4-week tour of Siestaland and its att.ractions.

Noturolly

They tell about the Optician's daughter: two glasses and she made a spectacle of herself.

No lUlusic

"And have you music at the church?"

I asked the rural squire.

"V/al, nor" said he, "Can't say we haveJest singin' by the choir."

[.clw of Kindness

Frances E. Willard wrote: Just as you now play a piece, without music, and do not think what notes you strike, though once you picked them out by slow and patient toil, so, if you begin with set Purpose, you will learn the law of kindncss in utterance so perfectly that it will be second nature to you and make more music in your heart than all the songs the sweetest voice has ever sung.

Mokes Perfect

"You cough more easily this morning," said the doctor as he sat down at the patient's bedside.

"I should," said the sick man. "I practiced twelve hours last night."

Dependobiliry

Dependability is one of the choicest virtues to possess, and the man or woman who lacks it is a mighty good person to stay away from and steer clear of. A person may have minor faults that we can laugh off but, by the great horned spoon, if we are not able to depend on him, he may take one side of the street and we will take the other. If you have a boy and you find, as you sometimes will, that you cannot teach him everything you'd like him to know, for the love you bear him, teach him one thing-dependability.

It Tcrkes So lirtle-

It takes so little to make us glad,

Just the cheering clasp of a friendly hand,

Just a word from one who can understand, And we finish the task we long have planned; And we lose the doubt and fear we had-

So little it takes to make us glad.

His Comploint

It doesn't go this way in Western pictures these days but this really happened long ago:

It was a wide-open Western mining town where desperadoes were everyday affairs, and a tough-looking hombre in a big hat, a long mustache, a black scowl,. and two guns in plain sight, stomped angrily into the office of the local newspaper and demanded of the modest-looking little man working at the desk:

"Are you the guy that runs this blankety-blank, blanketyblank newspaper?"

"I am," said the little fellow, never even looking up.

"Then you're the blankety-blank, blankety-blank coyote that wrote the piece in the paper that said I was a jailbird, a cattle thief, and a yellow hound?"

Said the editor: "Sure. I wrote it. What of it?"

The wild one was taming down rapidly. He said: "Just this. I want you to understand ttrat my name isn't W. K. Mudge; it's W. H. Mudge, see? And the next time you write something about me, you get my name straight. See?"

The Friend Who Stonds By

When trouble comes your soul to try'

You love the friend who just "stands by."

Perhaps there's nothing he can do, The thing is strictly up to you; For there are troubles all your own And paths the soul must tread alone; Times when love can't smooth the road, Nor friendship lift the heavy load.

But just to know you have a friend

Who will "stand by" until the end, Whose sympathy through all endures, Whose warm handclasp is always yours; It helps, some way, to pull you through, Although there's nothing he can do. And so, with fervent heart, we cry, "God bless the friend who just stands by."

Educotion

Education is a companion which no fortune can depress, no crime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave. At home, a friend; abroad, an introduction; in solitude, a solace; and in society, an ornament. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.-Varle.