An Editorial

a total income to the Government for the year of $2,9?0,574,000 from the hard drink department. A neat sum, wouldn't you say?

Other large contributors to the excise tax department were gasoline, which brought in $1,030,397,000, an increase of about 70 million over the previous peak year, 1955; automobiles and other vehicles paid in a record $t,376,372,00O1 tobacco, $1,613,497,000; and cigar€tt€s $1,549,045,000, an increase over the previous year.

Junior, look those final figures over, and try to figure what would happen to this country if all of a sudden folks quit drinking and smoking. What a deficit!

Joe Petrqsh Joins Roddiscrqft

Pete Speek, Southern California manager of Roddiscraft, fnc., announces that Joe Petrash, well known Southland lumber salesman, has been assigned the San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego and Orange county territories for the wholesale lumber division of the distributing firm. Petrash has been active in wholesale lumber since the end of World War II. He will take the place of Gene Charles on the Roddiscraft sales staff. Challes has resigned to become a'partner in Stephen G. Freeman & Co., wholesale lumber concern at Newport Beach, California.

"In addition to calling on retail accounts in all the southern counties, including Imperial, Joe will also rnaintain direct contact with dealers in and around Los Angeles whom he has previously serviced," Speek said.

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