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SoGql Building Still Tops 1955

Despite a generally slow summer and under the new alltime record total of July this year, August building permits in Southern California, nevertheless, were still near the record mark and kept 1956, to date, slightly ahead of 1955. The August total lor 69 representative cities and nine unincorporated county areas, as compiled by the Research department of the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, was $194,585,293, compared to $198,063,3,14 last August.

The total for the first eight months this year stood at $1,474,130,588, which was a bit over lo/e above the same 1955 period.

Both Los Angeles city and county set new records, with the city's $335,118,484 in the first eight months topping the similar span's $297,046,5L8 last year; its August $49,422,515 figure was above this July but under last August. The county's August mark of $37,&8,177 was the highest total in its history. County totals in the first eight months werc $266,484,34O.

Hoywcrd lumber Go. 46lh Yeor

Corona, Calif.-George Padgett, manager of the Hayward Lumber Company's yard here, celebrated the 46th anniversary of the lineyard concern August 31 along with other yards throughout Southern California. The Hayward yards marked the occasion by offering free prizes to registered customers.

The Troinmqn's Proyer

An old railroad man was converted at a religious revival, and when they asked him to lead the congregation in prayer, he did this way:

"O Lord, now that I have flagged Thee, lift my feet off the rough deck of life and plant them firmly on the deck of the train of Salvation. Let me use the safety lamps known as prudence, make all couplings on the train with the strong link of Thy love, and, fleavenly Father, keep all the switches closed that lead off the sidings, especially those with.a blind end. O Lord, if it be Thy pleasure, have every s€maphore blocked along the line; show the white light of hope, that I may make the run of Life without stopping; and, Lord, give us the Ten Commandments as a Schedule. And when my train shall have pulled into the great, dark station of Death, may Thou say with a smile: 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant ! Come up and sign the payroll, and receive your check for eternal happiness !' "

Personol Note

"The many friends of Bogus Wilbanks, who for the past several weeks has been so sick he hasn't even been able to raise a knife to his mouth, will be glad to lcrow that he is at last on the grend."

Recollections

I remember, I remember, Ere my childhood flitted by, It was cold then in December, It was warmer in July. fn the winter there were freezings, In the summer there were thaws, But the weather isn't now at all Like it used to was.

Worse

"Is there anything worse than to be old and bent?" asked a philosopher, watching an aged male figure passing by.

"Much worse," answered the wayward youth. "Take being young and broke, for instance."

Work

The young freshman was half asleep when suddenly the professor's voice said:

"Mr. Jones, what is work?"

The freshman rubbed his eyes, hesitated a moment, and then answered:

"Sir, everything is work."

"What? Everything is work?"

"Yes, sir.t'

"That desk you are leaning on-is that work?"

"Yes, sir. Woodwork."

When rhe Wild Geese Fly

Every year when the grass grows gray, And the sun hangs low on a soggy day, When the late rose lifts a faltering head

To the summer days that are almost dead; Every year when a mellow note

Floats down from some squadron-leader's throat, Faint and clear through the gun-room runs, A rustle of boots and a whisper of guns.

A whisper of guns. A memory lifts

And out of a rain-torn curtain drifts

A rushing sound from ordered wings, As a phantom legion wheels and swingsWhaels and swings on an airy track, Now faint, now clear, now beating back. Feathered troops from a fog-drenched land, Ruled by the beck of a Master's hand.

Ah, gallant geese of the misty dawn, What age-old instinct leads you on? What voice from some soft summer sea Calls out, and, winging wild and free Your mighty pinions beat the air, To bear you, all unguided, there?

No man may know ! but a spirit sings And a heart beats high to the rush of wings.

Bod Monners

The colored preacher was loud in h,is praise of the brown and juicy bird his host had served him generously for dinner. Finally he asked:

"Mistah Gre€n, Whah did you get sich a fine goose?"

Mr. Green looked much disappointed in the preacherman. He said:

"Pahson, when you preaches a good suhmon, does I evah ax you whah you got h'it? Nossuh. An' I craves dat you hab de same considration fo' me."

Diplomocy

Chesterfield said: "Put your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out just to show you have it. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman."

fhe Bqnker

Reporter: "And how did you start your financial career?"

Financier: "I had nothing to do so I rented an empty store and put up a sign 'Bank.' A man dropped in and made a deposit of $250. The next day another man came in and deposited $300. The th.ird day I had developed so much confidence in my own enterpriw that I put in $50 of my own. And that's the way the thing started."