Executiv es o1 New Distribution Yard

The September 1 issue of The California Lumber Merchant carried an announcement of the opening of the distribution yard and remanufacturing plant at Newark, Calif., of the American Forest Products Corporation, a subsidiary of the American Box Corporation, San Francisco.

It was intended to run pictures of the manager, C. P. Eddie, and the sales manager, Kermit Noble, with that article. These did not arrive in time but we are pleased to present them here.

Although nearly 2l million veterans have purchased homes under the GI Bill of Rights, there still remains nearly 13 million veterans of World War II .ivho have not used their GI loan privile*"r.

Veteran home buyers have compiled a phenomenal repayment record according to the National Association of Home Builders, defaulting only on I of l/o over home loans granted, a record individual hom*e buyers cannot match.

Americans spent more last year on taxes, $201 billion, than they did on cost of housing, $19.9 billion. Americans last year spent $23.7 billion on liquor, cosmetics and amusement and only $19.9 billion in housing costs.

Russ Morgan's Lumber Handling Services

Russ Morgan (not the musician) is in the lumber handling business in Los Angeles, furnishing a wide variety of services to the lumber trade.

In fact, it is strictly a service organization that he operates. With a yard covering over six acres located at 7M5 E. Firestone Blvd., Downey, and complete equipment for handling, hauling, tallying, storing, seasoning, etc., he does a wire variety of things for the lumber people. All softwoods are included in his efforts.

Included in the services he offers the trade are car and truck loading and unloading, sorting and grading lumber for width and length, pool car distribution, storage, air drying to texture, complete custom milling and kiln drying, in short almost anything lumber folks want done and are not in position to do for themselves. Trucks, lift trucks, carriers, etc., are included in their equipment.

1\{r. IMorgan has been in the practical end of the lumber business for about twenty years, all the way from handling to selling lumber. His yard is on an S. P. spur track. Phone number is TOpaz 2-9712.

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5050 Ealt Slaucon Af".,Los Angel es 22,Calil.Phone LOsan 5-5144

Quality Ponderoso Pine Mouldings

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Distribution Worehouse 6106 Wolker Avenue, tlloywood, Cqlifornio

Pioneer Shippers of Philippine Mohogony, Joponese Ook, ond Jcponese Birch LUMBER, we hove now odded PTYWOOD qnd VENEERS to our imports. We solicit your inquiries for:

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General Manager . MAdison 6-9134

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SOUTH BAY TUMBER CO.

Wholescrle Distributors of GATIfORNIA REDWOOID

Shipments direct from mill, or less thcrn cqrloqd lots from our Distribution Yord

5001 El Segundo Blvd., Hcrwthorne, Calif. ORegon 8-4597 OSborne 6-226L

Interesting Fcrcts About Ccurtaloupes

The cantaloupe, a type of muskmelon, is an annual vine of the gourd family, native to India and New Guinea. In the Old World it has been cultivated for upwards of 2,000 years. This fruit is depicted in an ancient Roman painting excavated at Herculaneum. The name "cantaloupe" is derived from the Castle of Cantaloupe in Ancona Province, Italn where this fruit was first grown in Europe, from seed believed to have been brought in from Armenia.

In the United States there is no clear distinction between muskmelons and cantaloupes. In Europe, however, the term is applied to a definite type of melon which is not grown in this country. General practice in the United States is to classify muskmelons as cantaloupes, honeydews, and honey balls.

Sweetness, fine texture, and flavor of the flesh are factors that determine quality in cantaloupes and are found only in well-matured melons. The stage cf maturity is indi cated by the netting on the surface and the condition of the scar at the stem end. The netting should be coarse, corky, of grayish color, well developed, standing out in bold relief and fairly well covering the fruit.

The dark green color of the rind should be developed to a lighter shade and may have either a grayish or yellowish tinge. CANTALOUPES DO NOT DEVELOP ADDITIONAL SUGAR AFTER THEY ARE PICKED.

If taken from the vine too green, they will never get sweet, although they may soften. They should be picked at what is known as full-slip; that is, when the melon pulls off the vine smoothly, without leaving a jagged scar. Flowever, they should still be hard when picked, and be promptly cooled and shipped. If not shipped until ripe, they will be over-ripe and tasteless when they get to market.The American Eagle.

Old Bookies

That fellow Charlie just dropped in, To take tomorrow's bet, I didn't win for near a week, I ought to quit-but yet-

There's just one thought that helps me, Consoles me in my grief,

They say old bookies never dieThey just go on relief.

-Los Angeles News.

Money Chcnged His Mind

The story is told that Winston Churchill hailed a cab one evening in West End, London, and ordered the cabbie to drive him to BBC, where he was scheduled to deliver an address.

"Sorry, Sir," said the driver, "you'll have to get yourself another cab. I can't go that far. You see, Sir, Mr. Churchill is broadcasting in an hour and I got to get 'ome to 'ear 'im on the radio."

Churchill was so pleased, that he handed the cabbie a pound note, at which the fellow shouted: "Hop in, Sir, I'll take you to BBC. To hell with Churchill !"

Recipe For Long LiIe

Dr. Rudolph Matas is a famous New Orleans doctor and an authority on surgery. Recently when he celebrated his ninetieth birthday, he was asked the secret of long life, and he replied:

"Just keep right along. Keep the flame of your enthusiasm fed. Mix merry laughter and earnest labor. Always have some unfinished task, but not too much and not too urgent, at your door. To kill time is murder in the first degree."

He said that nothing keeps one alive longer than an optimistic attitude and the will to live.

A Recsoncble Requesi

A drunk driver ran down a pedestrian, brought his car to a stop right over the victim. Looking down at the unfortunate fellow the drunk said to him: "Say, Pal, while you're down there, how about taking a look at my oil?"

Reclly Bcd

' The weather had been abominable for several days in a row, and Jones was thoroughly displeased with this interference with his golf game. "Fine weather.!" he snorted. "ft couldn't be much worse if the government was running it !"

Mohammed

"Mohamed is admired for having raised himself from a camel driver to a pontiff, a legislator, and a monarch; for having subdued Arabia, which had never before been subjugated; for having given the first check to the Roman Empire in the East, and to that of the Persians. But I admire him still more for having kept peace in his own house, among his wives.-Voltaire.

Autumn Days

Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty, cloudlets floating: Winking at the blushing trees, And the somber, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the Southward flying swallow. Sweet and smiling are their ways, Beauteous, golden autumn days.

-Will Carleton.