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Age not guaranteed---Some I have told for 20 years---Some Less

All values, they say, are relative.

In moonshine districts where whiskey looks and is drunk the same way, they have their own what drunkenness really is.

fn such a district village one Sunday morning

Not Drunk

like water ideas about they found a man lying unconscious in the middle of the road, in the broiling sun, his mouth gaping open, and an empty whiskey jug by his side. A crowd gathered. Someone said: "He's drunk."

A woman quickly replied: "No he ain't. I jest seen his fingers move."

Western Regionol N.P.D.A. Meeting ln Son Frqncisco, October 29

A meeting of western members, associate members and guests of N.P.D.A. has been called for October 29, at Lhe Sheraton-Palace hotel, San Francisco. President Albert Hersh has formulated a one-day program of vital topics keyed to today's conditions in the plywood industry, .ivorthy of the attendance and travel expense. Expense at the meeting is only $5 each, which includes lunch.-Items u'ill be discussed fully from the floor, rather than formal addresses. Certainly plywood jobbers have much to discuss no'rv, said Charles E. Devlin, secretary-manager, National Plyrvood Distributors Assn.

lmprovement Locrns Hir $7OO Million

Washington, D.C.-The government guaranteed loans totaling $700,000,000 for home improvement last year in almost one-million loans made by banks and other lending institutions. The average homeowner in 1955 borrorved ffi3 for improvements, to be repaid monthly over three years or more. Nine out of every ten loans r,vere made to single-family homeolr.ners.

Additions and alterations were the highest at l9/a, with insulation, heating, exterior finishing, plumbing and interior finishing close behind, disclosed FHA Administrator Norman P. Mason, the former lumber dealer.

TMANC Adds Grover Ciry

Grover City Lumber Company, P. City, has become a frrll member of the Assn. of Northern California. Clarence manager of the concern.

O. Box 67, Grover Lumber Nlerchants

L. Clark is general

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AT THE OPEN HOU5E:

TOP LEFT: Outdoor booth gove cornivol otmosphere ond kept crowd flowing from showroom to outside

TOP RIGHT: Flecto's Jock Vefterli wiih mechqnicql hurdy gurdy used oclion ond noise to drow to booth

IOWER [EFT: The DeWqlt Powershop booth (qs ir is ql every open house) wos populor exhibit

TOWER CENTER: Free refreshment boorh ron full copocity lhroughout opening; oncient oulos owned by lewis qnd Ed Silverq qdded flqvor to show

TOWER RIGHT: Armstrong Cork's "Moose" Slreeler wos one of ouldoormen enioying weother, crowds.

Remodeling Triggers 'Big Show' lor Silvero's Trode

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TOP IEFT: Yord's essentiol police protection is shown here, with Ed Young of The Gqrehime Corp. greeting the officer; Gorehime plonned Silvero's remodeling ond grond opening with usuol closs

TOP CENTER: New lighting eliminotes shodows qnd deod spots in slore; inventory is deportmeniolized, price togs on new Doley Fixlures

TOP RIGHT: This pretiy miss greeied Silvero's Home Showgoers (over 1,000 strong) ond registered lhem for door-prize drcwings

LOWER IEFT: Remodeled siore hos exlensive gorden equipment disploy, moin tools to reor of slore ond hond ond power mowers offering "godget oppeol" next to checkout counler shown right

IOWER RIGHT: Administrqtive sloff in new offices; 5ilvero Lumber employs 12, none with yord less thon five yeors; note festive, helium-filled bolloons

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County crnd City 'Right to Work' Spreods in Gqliforniq

The_ Trinity County, California, Board oi Supervisors p.a.ss9d a right to work law on August 19, becoming the third county to take such action within the past-four months. The larv was passed by a four-to-one volte within minutes after presentation to the Board of a petition by 693 signers, surprising all concerned. The ordinance is similar to .those passed by Telrama and San Benito County supervisors. The latter has been declared unconstitutionai, while the former has been ruled to be without effect in incorporated areas. Further court action may be taken in both cases.

Meanwhile, a petition already signed by 20/" of the residents of the seaside resort city of earmel-is to be presented to the city council. The ordinance, if drafted and passed, would make Carmel the second California citv to pass such a law. Palm Springs, the Southern California- desert resort, adopted such an ordinance last November, but it has been ruled invalid in Superior Court.

Howard C. Murphy, retired engineer and leader in the movement, said he had sounded out public opinion before offer-ing the petition. Some 450 persons signed the petition the first day, he said, and the total rose to 900 within three days. Carmel's population is 4351. Mr. Ifoward added: "We seem to be dribbling away our freedom without a shot. Some of us just decided it was about time to take a stand."

Augusf Consfruction Figures Show Fluctuotions in Building Scene

Contracts for future construction in the United States totalled $2,817,966,0W in August, a decline of. 5/o from the same 1956 month, the F. W. Dodge Corporation reported. For the first eight months of 1957, the cumulative tbtal of construction contracts amounted to $22,676,552,0W, up Z% over the corresponding 1956 period. Residential building contracts in August totalled $1,283,513,000, an increase oJ 5/o over August 1956.

A substantial gain in contracts for multi-unit dwellings more than offset the one per cent decline reported for one-and two-family houses. The number of dweiling units represented by the August contracts totalled 96,965, up one per cent over a year ago. For the first eight months of this year, residential building contracts were valued at $9,053,7&,000, down one per cent from the comparable 1956 period. These contracts represented 692,151 dwelling units, a decline of 7/o from a year ago.

lofoyette Decrler Sechrist Elected President of Ooklond Hoo-Hoo Club 39

Nfore than 50 llast Rav lumbermen attended the September l6 .Llectiun-\ ite rrreeting sl)onsorccl lry Oaklanrl -HooHoo Ciub 39. The evening meeting u'as held at Oakland's Fishernran's f ier in Jack I-r>nclon Stluare zlncl pre-dinner lilratior.rs u'ere libe ralll' rlispcnsed. complinrents of : NIr. Al Kelley, doing business ;rs himself ; I )ealer Rob N{eyer, Home Lumlter & Supply Co.; \"ic llttth, ou,1er of Triangle I-umber Co., ancl l)ealers Joe l'erry arrd Bob I',eileck, N{ulford I-umber Cr.r.

Follou.ing an excellent roast beef clinner a la Ancly, Past President Lee LeBreton took thc mike and read the nominating committee's choice of offrcers and directors for the neu.club year. The roster, headecl l>y Dealer Chris Sechrist for president, $-as unanimously approved (a{ter a coupie of dissenters u'ere dulv disposed of by Sergeant-at-Arms Jim Hendrick).

Besides Sechrist for president, new officers of Club include Jerr_v Nlashet<. Hitt & Nt,rton. Inc., vice-presirlent; Ev Leu,is, Gamerston & Green, secretary-treasurer, and Sky Lervis, Gamerston & Green, sergeant-at-arms. Directors are Hollis Jones, \\'estern Door & Sash Co.; Ralph Hill, Hill Lumber & Hard'rr,are; Frank Timmers, Strable

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