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"Lady,I had a good home, a good job, a good automobile, plenty of good clothes, and a good-looking girl. Along came the draft and took me away from all that. I didn't mind that so much, it was what they did with me. They m;arched me away, and brought me here to this camp. They gave me a pair of shoes that were too short, a pair oi pirrt, that were too long a coat that was too tight, and a bed that was too hard. They made me put on those awful clothes and then they drilled me ten hours every day for six days. When Sunday came, instead of letting me get some sleep and rest for my weary bones, they made me roll out early in the morning and go to a church f didn't belong to, to listen to a sermon I didn,t agree with, preached by a minister I didn't want to hear. So when that preacher said: 'We will now stand and sing hymn No. Seventy-Six-'fi1s you footsore, are you weary?'-I got ten days in the guardhouse for ?nswering-.Hell yes !, "

To The Tumber Deaters

After two yecrsoI wqr we are still engaged completely in mcnulccturing articles lor importcnt wcr uses.

We are finding time, however, to plcn lor postwar production ol Eubcnk Ironing Bocrrds,-Ccbinets, Mcrntels crnd other specialties. So when the wcrr needs cre served we ercpect to be crble to oller you cn enlcrged line oI Eubcrnk products.

Sell lumber that yi€lds o prott and ldsting satktoction. CZC, th€ prolectcd lumb€r, i8 cleo, odorlcss 6d service curd aill shipnent plca.

Goodyear Experimenb \(/ith Small PostwarHomes in Arizona

In 1916 the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company bought 35,000 acres of land 18 miles from Phoenix, Arizona, and here they now have a huge experimental station that works in many directions. Among the many interesting things they are working on here for postwar days, are two small houses, one a collapsible home, the other of the igloo type.

The first is a portable house, and not a trailer.It is built of double layers of plywood with'resinfoam insulating material between. Inside are two bedrooms, a kitchenliving room, toilet, shower, and space for mechanical refrigeration. It is so made that the bedrooms telescope into the center when necessary, redu,cing the over-all size of the house from 14 by 27 ieet, to a width of 8 feet, thus allowing it to be hauled along the highway when moving is necessary. They think such houses could be used for comfortable quarters for men working on farms, and like places, where they work in one place a while, and then move on. They have built a number of them and rented them to factory workers in the neighborhood, and they have proven very practical for that sort of dwelling.

The igloo type of house they are experimenting with is dome topped, and'contains kitchen, living room, two bedrooms, and bath, and are equipped with an evaporation type of air conditioning.

They figure the collapsible house to cost about $1,800 in postwar prices, and the igloo about $2,800.

Flexwood in Good Demand

A good volume of business is reported by Langford W. Smith of U. S. Wood Products Co., San Francisco, distributors of Flexwood and Flexglass. In talking about these products Mr. Smith said:

"Flexwood is genuine wood veneer cut to %o of an inch and glued under heat and hydraulic pressure to cotton sheeting with a waterproof adhesive. It makes very beautiful walls and provides economical and durable installations for homes and offices. Installation is simple. Any skilled paperhanger can do a perfect job by following printed instructions. Flexwood, because it is wood, takes any wood finish. Practically all the wood veneers are available.

"Flexwood is manufactured jointly by The Mengel Company, Louisville, Ky., and the United States Plywood Corp., New York.

"Flexglass combines the qualities of availability and versatility, and therefore appeals to the designers, who have found it possible to create many startling designs with this material. One of the largest uses is for display. Another spectacular use is for outdoor'signs."

U. S. Wood Products Co. recently furnished a large quantity of Flexwood for the offices of the new Kaiser steel plant at Fontana, Calif., and also for the New York offices'of Henry J. Kaiser Co. and for Mr. Kaiser's private home.

Buy Ycrd

Winchell Bros. Lumber Co. has purchased the Sprowls Lumber Co. at North Hollvwood. Calif.