flfV 6]auoaik Sfuul aa

Bf /e Sioaae

Age not guaranteed---Some I have told $or 20 years---Some Less

Noturol Fons

The savage African tribe of Ubangis stretch th.e lips of their women around circular wooden disks until finally they become six or eight inches in diameter, sticking right out of their faces like two plates. you've seen them in travel magazines.

Two Ubangi girls met one very hot day in the jungle. One of them stuck her face up close'to that of the other, and rapidly repeated over and over:

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers ! Now you fan me for a while."

Thriving Cqrter Lumber Compony in Oqkland, Too

(Continued business by stocking a complete line of paints, builders hardrvare and other elbow-trade eye-catchers. As a result, the yard is rapidly l:ecoming a Mecca for the Oakland do-it-yourself trade, as well as the contractors who prefer to do all of their buying in one place.

Reviewing the success of her business for The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, Mrs. Meglen noted, "A good crew makes the difference. It's really hard to say who the 'right-hand man, is around here. Foremost among the men lvho 'run the show' are Jack Cutter, Jim Stewart, Raymond Flood and from Page B)

Eugene Cassidy. In addition, rve have tr.r'o more key men with ideas as well as action out in the yard. One is the yard foreman, Manuel Freitas, and the other is Walt Rogers, who is in charge of a l?-man crew out in our mill," she concluded.

The CALIFORNIA LUN{BER I\{ERCHANT sincerely hopes this brief description of the thriving Carter Lumber Company in Oakland sets at rest the minds of any readers who might have gained the idea the yard was not now still successfully operating nnder its owner, Mrs. Meglen.