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Ask o user cnd you, too, will instoll the time. tcrted lloore Cross-Circulolion Drying System.

.clelivering 1100 neu'spapers da,ily in the cle:rr mornir-rg air before-going to his regular olfice job. Later he began-his profitable career of u'riting about r.enturesollre businissrnen :rfter. personally .trying -his oIn luck in gold mining. oil driliing ar.rcl cattle ranching. T1'rese all served the beiovecl atrtl.ror for 12 straight best-selling novels, nhich he rluipped l.rad financecl more bums anci gai-e hinr more fun than'inv contenrporary author, and tr.hich gzrve-and u.ill gir.e- l.nanv generations the thrills of his "Valle.,- of the Giants,, (about the red'n'oorl country), "The lrride of J,:rlomar,,' "Kindrcd of the Dust," "The Three Godfathers." "The Enchanterl Hill," "The l,ong Chance," "Tide of Empire', and others including, of course, the entire series t,f ..Cappy Ricks." John Frederick Corker, (16, died Octt,ber 22',if :r heart attack at I'lacerville, Calif. I.-or 40 years he had been the conrpany engineer of N{ichigan-California I-umber C,,., suffering the:rttarck on the j,,b and tll.inq tu'o hours later at thc I'lacerville Szrnatorium'u-here hi u'is rushecl bv an.rbrr- l;tnce. He started rvith the lumber firm in l9ll.left it for six yeirrs, rejoined it in 1917 and remained there the rest of his life. Very fer ' lnen eve_r take part in as m:rny civic and county. activities as rlid Nfr. Corker. nor are as-rvidely es_ teenred l,ly ever)'one.

38o/o of Single-Fomily Houses Being Built qre BRICK

- Thirty-eigl.rt percent of the single-fanrily horrscs being built today are brick houses, Di. llol,ids,,n Nervcomb]

Structural Clay I'rtiducts Institute markct analyst, reports. Tl.ris represents-zr-ris.e of l5/" ove.q last year's figurc ol-33o/o. Nel'comb basecl lris report .rn a IJ.S. I)epartmdnt of Labor Survey supported bv private industry rvith SCI)I and other grolps participating. The industrl,. has set for itself a goal rvitlr the slogan "5O/o in'60."

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