Wholesale Lumber J. H M 0.

1822 4rh Ayenue' Los Angeles 6, Colifornia

RePublic 2'9171

The management committee is the governing body representing the Pacific Northwest panel factories which produce two-thirds of the nation's plywood' The fir plyivood plants are locat ed in D Washington, Oregon and northern California cities.

New Ycrrd tr Scrn Frcrncisco

Clarence Hansen opened a new retail yard in San Francisco at 1990 Evans Avenue, October 1, which will be operated as Hansen Lumber Company. The telephone number is VAlencia 4-3517.

Mr. Hansen was sales manager of Hayman Builders Supply Co., San Francisco, up to September 30' He was sales -un"g", of that company,' and was with them for 14 years. He was formerly with Smith Lumber Company, San Francisco for nine Years.

Hoo-Hoo Bostrum

The rostrum used by the speakers at the Hoo-Hoo annual convention held in Los Angeles, which attracted considerable attention, was made by Sierra Woods Products, Inc. of Pasadena.

On the front of the rostrum is a circle of frosted glass on which is embellished a large Hoo-Hoo Black Cat, illuminated from behind. The rostrum is made of mahogany plywood, contains the latest in electronic equipment' .o-Uirri.rg a public address system and a high fidelity record player that will play up to 12 records, a recording device lt-tut *itt record a speech as it is given, and a'traveling mike that can be used for audience participation'

Through the courtesy of the company, it was loanecl to the Hoo-Hoo Committee for the convention'

Los Angeles Building Permits Nearly Double Last Year's Total

Building permits in Los Angeles for the first nine months of 1948 are nearly double those for the same period last year, figures released by G. E. Morris ,superintendent of the City Department of Building and Safety, showed.

For the first nine months of this year 50,688 permits were issued for a total value of $304,326,772. For the first nine morrths of 1947 the building permit valuation was set at $175,827,459.

Building permits for September of this year, holvever, tapered off slightly from September, 1947. In September, 1947, 5400 permits with a valuation of $30,898,662 were issued. For the same month this year 4888 permits were issued at a valuation of $23,094,627.

Morris' figures showed that in the first nine months of this year 17,535 housing units were completed.

National Budget Committee Meetg in San Francisco

A meeting of the Budget Committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association was held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, September 27 and 28. Hammond Geis, of Baltimore, Md., chairman of the committee, presided. Also present were J. H. Kirk, Santa Maria; Ned Ball, Baton Rouge, La.; Jack Woodruff, Akron, Ohio; Wes Anderson, Ogden, Utah; Cy Sweet, Longview, Wash., vice president, NRLDA, and H. R. Northup, executive vice president, NRLDA, Washington, D.C.

Thcrt Hour

Ah, how the colder pulse still starts, To think of that one hour sublime, We hugged heaven down in our hearts, And clutched eternity in time. When Love's dear eyes first looked in ours, When Love's dear brows were strange to frowns, When all the stars were burning flowers, That we might pluck and wear for crowns.

Chcnge The Ncrme OI Arkanscrs

(Excerpt from the famous speech of Cassius M. Johnson in the Arkansas legislature.)

"Change the name of Arkansas? You may put your hand on the sun's face and make it night on the earth; bite a piece out of the moon and hurry the seasons; shake yourself and crumble the mountains; but, Sir, you will never change the name of Arkansas. The man who would change the name of Arkansas would massacre isolated communities as a pastime; he would destroy nationalities as a serious business. He would use the boundless fastness of the Great American Desert for his private graveyard. He would attempt to extract sunshine from cucumbers. Hide the stars under a nail keg; put the sky to soak in a gourd and hang the Arkansas River on a clothesline; unbuckle the belly-band of time, and turn the sun'and moon out to pasture; but you will never change the name of Arkansas ! The world will again pause and wonder at the audacity of the lop-eared, lantern-jawed, half-bred, half-born, whiskey-soaked hyena who has proposed to change the name of Arkansas !"

Iust The Hogs

A couple of Texas men went over into Arkansas with the idea of buying a big farm. A real estate man showed them a fine tract near the White River, good soil, and everything a farmer could desire.

But it was low land and.close to a creek. They observed on the trees about five feet from the ground, the marks of dark, rich mud.

"Looks like this land is overflowed in high-water time," said one of the prospects.

t'No, Suh," said the real estate man. "This land never is overflowed. Them marks is where the hogs come up from the bottoms and rub the mud off their backs."

"\Me've decided not to buy that land," said one of the Texans, "but we'd like to buy about six carloads of them hogs."

Frcrnkly Specrking

"Ffow do you like your job, now that you've been cooking for us a month?" asked the lady of the colored maid.

'Oh, f fike it here all right," was the answer. "Youse jus' the sorta missus I like to work fo'-plain, pleasant, and not too high-toned."

Right Or Wrong?

Two young women were visiting Rockefeller Center, in New York, and stopped to look at the magnificient statue of Prometheus. One of them asked:

"Who is that supposed to be?"

"Are you kidding?" asked the other modern gal. "Why, that's Promiscuous."

To Reporters

By Joel Chandler Harris.

Life is short-a feeting vapor, Don't you fill the whole blamed paper With a tale which, at a pinch, Could be cornered in an inch. Boil her down until she simmers Polish her until she glimmers, When you've got a thing to saySay it ! Don't take half a day !

Ben Frcurklin On Wcrr

I joi.n with you most cordially in rejoicing at the return of peace. I hope it wiil be lasting, and that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason enough to settle their difrerences without cutting throats; for, in my opinion, there never was a good war, or a bad peace. What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of life might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of utility ! What an extension of agriculture, even to the tops of the mountains; what rivers rendered navigable or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices and improvements, rendering England a complete paradise, might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief, in bringing misery into thousands of families, and destroying the lives of so many working people, who might have performed useful labors.-Benjamin Franklin.

One Big Dillerence

Teacher: "Tell what you know about nitrates."

Pupil: "Only that they are lower than day rates."

Spell oI the Yukon

There's a land where the mountains are nameless And the rivers all run God knows where; The;e are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just hang by a hair; There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There's a land-oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back-and I will.

Robert W. Service

Make the Most of lt !

Ever stop to count the ADVANTAGES ol being cr retcril lumber merchcart? Perhcrps the first crdvcntcge, these dcrys, is the lcct thct you, and ONLY you lumber merchcmts, cqn sell PEEil.ESS.

Atnost every issue oI eveqy mcrgcrzine devoted to the home is telling folks crbout modern, convenient, becutiful kitchens. Every lamily is sold on the idec. So-won't you merely go out crnd CTOSE fiIE ORDEBS? We'll be glcd to hecrr lrom you.