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Ihe new "Challoner" #723 Door Units installed at Artesia Door Company are designed to speed up prc duction of high quality d00rs in every phase of the operation. "Challoner" basic machines are constructed with thlee posts instead of the usual two, which allows a more flexible arrangement of the cutting stations, and makes r00m for the installation of more units. Eqripped with a combination sander-polishel unit, the first machine gives a furniture smooth finish to the door edges, and all necessary units are equipped with tilting mechanisms lor running pre-fit doors. Each door is fed through the machines by a modern VeeType Chain with every link a center link, nuch improved over older types.

Artesia's new "Challoner" #123 Door Sizer Units are geared to turn out 25t10 to 3500 doors pel cight hour shift, a rate ol about five doors per minute. An automatic gate type transfer mechanism allows both machines to run continuously when properly synchronized, allowing the number one machine to be fed with relatively n0 gaps. This prevents doors from piling up in a hopper and also prevents scratching. Artesia's modernized process sayes time, labor, and money. The money saved is passed on to Y(lU on the price of your doors.

Grone & Co. Now Under One Ownership

Charles H. Matheny, partner since 1943 in ihe business of Crane & Co., Los Angeles, has announced that he has purchased the assets of his partner, Fred B. Crane, and that he and his son, James C. N{atheny, will continue the management of the company.

Crane and Co. is the largest labor contractor in the southland, specializing in lumber car unloading and lumber handling and sorting.

Nlatheny, a professional football player with the C-hicago Cardinals and Toronto Argonauti, irung up his cleat: last_ year to take over office management-and run the Car Unloading business in the absence of NIr. Crane.

Charles Matheny has been active in the business since the beginning of the original company-Inland Stevedore Company. Crane and Mitheny sold or.tt th"i. interests to Inland Stevedore in 1945 and ihen formed the Crane & Co. Agency.

For the past 18 years, Crane & Co. has published a printed price list to the lumber industry in the Los Angeles and_Orange Counties, setting forth rates per thousand for lumber handling and car unloading.

"The lumber industry has made good use of our services, fixing -their handling costs one year in advance by using our labor services," states Charles IVlatheny. "Employeri have saved countless dollars in eliminating excess libor from their payrolls, by use of the union men they order from us. Thousands of dollars have been saved. too. on their state employment taxes on their gross payrolls-because the employers have been able to maintain a minimum tax contribution rate by use of our contracting labor service instead of hiring extra hands that soon had 1o be laid off."

_ Chuck Matheny and his son, James, are on the phones five days. per week, seven a.m. to five p.m., filling brders and sending the labor the customers select from th-e labor pool. Phone number: CApitol 2-8143.

Crane & Co., located at 5143 geles, announces that its new the mail by August 15.

Alhambra Avenue. Los An196l-62 price list will be in

Vic Roth Opens Ooklond Wqrehouse

With the idea of diversifying and more closely aligning his operation to the needs ol the smaller ret;il lu;be-r dealer, Kensington wholesaler Vic Roth recently opened warehouse facilities in Oakland, where he will -maintain inventories of several new lines including: Shastawood Pre-finished Wall Paneling and Fertimulch, both produced by Scott Lumber Company, Inc., of Burney, Califoinia; and California hardwood_plywood and solid haldwood paneling, produced by Hyde Timber Company, of Arcata.

Shastawood is manufactured in 14-combinations of colors, yo"q? a.nd styles and is packaged for easy handling and installation in 7, 8, and 10 foot lengths, six pieceJ to a package, enough to cover a wall area four feet wide. Matching moulding is available, no painting is necessary, no nails show and "Paracote" finish is completely washable.

Fertimulch is known as "nature's own humus blanket.,, Th-is .rich, organic material combines with the soil to pro- vide.id.ul growilg conditions, holding water in sandy joils and improving drainage in heavy clays. The product js also poqula-rly used for patio and playground covering.

California hardwood plywood -aid solid paneling pro- duced by. Hyde Timber Company is among -the firii iver commercially marketed from California's huge 6 billion foot reserve of hardwood timber. AvailablJ in several species, including madrone, tan and black oak, walnut, Syrtle and_ chinquapin, veneer and moulding samples may be obtained at Triangle Lumber Company.

.Roth, who started Triangle Lumbir io-prtty in 1947, will continue to lvholesale redwood. fir and piire on a direct mill basis plus operating his new distribution setup.

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The Pqroble of the Comels

We sojourned in Egypt, I and Keturah, and we rode on donkeys, and also on camels. Now, of all the beasts that ever were made, the camel is the most ungainly and preposterous, and also the most picturesque. And he taketh himself very seriously.

And we beheld a string of five camels that belonged in one caravan, and they were tethered every one to the camel in front of him. But the foremost of the camels had on a halter that was tied to the saddle of a donkey.

And I spake unto the man of Arabia who had the camels, and inquired of him how he managed it.

- And he said, each camel followeth the one in front and asketh no questions. And I come after, and prod up the last camel.

And I said, doth not the first camel consider that there is no other camel in front of him, but only an ass?

And he answered, Nay, for the first camel is blind, and knoweth only that there is a pull at his halter. And every other camel followeth as he is led, and I prod up the hindermost one.

And I inquired, how about the donkey?

And he said, the donkey is too stupid to do anything but keep straight on, and he hath been often over the road. And I said unto Keturah, behold a picture of human life, for on this fashion have the processions of the ages largely been formed. For there be few men who ask otherwise than how the next in front is going, and they blindly follow, each in the track of those who have gone before.

And Keturah said, but how about the leader?

And I said, that is the profoundest secret of history; for often he who seemed to be the leader was really behind the whole procession, and at the head was nothing more sensible than a donkey.

The fools make the fashions, and wise men follow them. For so long as the world is content with the kind of leadership that now doth guide the fashions in clothes, politics and such like, the donkey will not lack for occupation.

Best by Tesr

The. English class of a certain colored school had to write an essay on 'the most useful animal,' and then read it aloud.

Roosevelt Cheek's essay read as follows:

"De mos' usefullest animal dar is is the chickens, fur yo' can cotch dem wid de leastest ob troubles on de darkest ob de nights, an' dey kin be et bofe befo' dey is bawn an' afteh dey is daid."

And He Srill Thoughr So

This country's going straight to hell, My grandad told me so.

The old gent ought to know.

I asked him why he was so sure;

He said long years and years agoHis grandad told him so.

-American Legion Weekly Thqt's How

Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad -about a woman.

Then SHE finishes the job.

A Modern Soliloquy

(With due respects to Hamlet and William Shakespeare)

To appease, or not to appease: that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in this country to suffer

The insults and cold wars of outrageous Russia,

Or to take arms against Castro and Red China

And by opposing, end them? To compromise: to sleep

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heartache and the thousand natural taxes

That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

For in that sleep communism what dreams may come

When we have shuffied off freedom's coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect

That makes calamity of such a life;

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare knife? Who would such things bear Under that dread of something called communism, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than to fly to that we know not of ?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all:

And thus the native apathy of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of little strength and importance

With this regard their currents turn away, And lose the name and necessity of action.

-Mike Cullinan