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A big husky Sergeant was drilling an awkward squad made up of a bunch of double-tough rookies from the Bowery. Every time this Sergeant gave an order, it was like this:

"Present arms! So are you! Should,er arms! So are you! Left face ! So are you ! Right face ! So are you !" And so on. Every order he gave was followed by "So

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Another Sergeant said to him: "Look here, friend. What in the Hell kind of orders are those you are giving? Where do you get that 'so are you' stuff? That's not regulations." fire other one said: "List€n, soldier. This bunch of tough punks I'm drilling don't fool me none. I know every time I give them an order, every man of them says under his breath-'All right, you dirty big so-and-se'-x1d I just say 'So are you' and beat them to it."

Son Diego Grcrvel Strike Ended

The l3-day strike of AFL-CIO operating engineers which shut down all major rock and gravel plants in the San Diego area was ended September 5. About 150 men were out and several hundred in construction trades were affected by a general slowdown in building activity. Settlement calls for a 5l/o pay boost now and a 7/o increase during the second year of the new pact. Average pay hike will be 3lf cents an hour, with top pay the first year $2.81 an hour.

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Monogemenl Clinics Will Aid All Deqlers ql Exposition

Fourteen management clinics covering a broad range of interests are being planned for dealers who attend the third annual Building Products Exposition, December 10 to 13, in Chicago, of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association.

Four action-type clinics with demonstrations will be staged at the International Amphitheater, where the product exhibits will be held. The clinics are: Materials Handling and Warehousing, Component Construction Techniques, Retail Store Layout and Display, and Use and Sale of Power Tools.

Ten other clinics. which will be held at the Conrad

Hilton hotel, NRLDA's Exposition headquarters, will deal with Profit Sharing-Retirement and Pension Plans, Land Development and Community Facilities, Building Profits with Job Responsibility, Horv to Cash in on Operation Home Improvement, How to Deal with Labor lJnions, Advertising and Merchandising Techniques, Profitable Kitchen Remodeling, lfow to Estimate Repair and Modernization Jobs, Instalment Selling and Mortgage Credit and FHA's New Minimum Property Requirements.

Phil Creden, chairman of NRLDA's Exposition committee, stated that a dealer chairman will be appointed to plan each of the clinics and that professional assistance will be provided where necessary to assure the highest quality of presentation.