INSECT SCREEN CLOTH

Rich Man, Poor Man, Mayor, Chief-Or ls He Just Your Lumber Dealer?

November 9, 1948-It some day you call at your local lumber and building material yard to buy a pound of tenpenny nails and the man behind the counter is wearing a Fire Chief's hat or a Sheriff's badge, don't be surprised.

Retail lumber and building material dealers as mayors, deacons, or chairmen of civic committees were graded as run-of-mill, but the National Retail Lumber Dealer Association's public relations contest which closed during its annual meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, revealed some communty services never listed on a lumber yard letterhead.

Not many dealers have secured new fire engines for their towns, or acted as Chief of the Volunteer Fire Department, but the head of the F. S. Pendleton Lumber Company in McComb, Ohio, has done just that. He also is credited with being a leader in securing the funds for a waterworks and reservoir for the town, and a movie projector for the local high school.

Swinging across country, we find a dealer in Lovell, Wyoming (the Diamond Lumber Company), who has formed a Future Farmers of America club in the local school and works consistently with the students to enable them to carry on their program, offering expert advice and materials when they are needed.

Down in Oklahoma, the 41 dealers belonging to the Tulsa Lumbermen's Association, just this past summer donated all the materials needed to construct a home for a Gold Star Widow with 5 children who could not find suitable accommodations elsewhere.

Among the unusual activities of members of L. Grossman Sons, Inc., Quincy, Massachusetts, was a magazine stand business provided for a blind veteran and a trip for the outstanding Boy Scout of the area to the World Jamboree in France.

And up in Detroit, the National Lumber Company, again thinking oI the youngsters, sent three children to summer camp with all expenses paid in an effort to combat juvenile delinquency during the summer months rvhen schools were recessed.

The new fiberboard plant of Stimson Lumber Company at Forest Grove, Oregon, is near completion, and production is scheduled to start soon after the first of the year. Capacity at the start will be 60,000 square feet daily, but eventually the plant will produce 150,000 square feet per day.

West Coast tree species put on their most growth during the second 50 years of their life. After that the volume of new wood added begins to decrease and the volume of decay increases. At the age of 300 years, volume of decay added begins to exceed the volume of new wood and the total volume of good wood in the old tree actually decreases each year.

Attas Iumber Company

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2035 E. tsrh STREET tos ANGETES 2l

Telephones: PBospect 7401-1394

The world was troubled and weary, With doubts and fears oppressed, But night enfolded it gently And held it close to her breast; And all through the hours of darkness, She quieted grief and pain, 'Till dawn light tinted the shadows And the day star shone again.

The world forgot its sorro'wsThere was a joyous song, The beautiful song of the ages, That we have loved so long; And the hours were filled with gladness, For it was Christmas Day And the inner light of the spirit Was shining upon life's way.

Each year, at the Yuletide season, We stand by an open gate, Beyond whose smiling portals, Our dreams and our visions wait; Dreams of the past we cherishHow swiftly they pass in review ! Dreams of a brighter tomorrow, Dreams of a world made new.

We capture the soul of beauty

And the spirit of Yuletide joy, When we, with deeds of kindness, Our hearts and our hands emPloy; For the world and its troubled nations, There is balm of Gilead still, In the glorious Christmas message, "Peace upon Earth and Good Will."

Adeline Merriam Conner.

Phonc KEllog 4-1884