MY FAVORITE STORIES

Bv Juck Dionne Ag" not gualrnteed---Some I have told lor 20 years---Some less

Hadn't Changed His Pronunci ; Bit

known as the Al Srnith dialect is "Look !" one of the spectators in huge excitement. of the brown derby has any cor- "It's ou mean Lindbergh," corrected the man next to famous plane, with a still more famous occupant Sud-

Several years ago a great crowd of people was at Mitchell Field, New York, waiting for the arrival a The first speaker took another good look at the plane, then turned to his neighbor.

What has come to be not one that the owner ner on. denly the shining "Spirit of St. Louis" appear gan sailing in circles over the field. be-

"Well," he said, "you may be right ! But it's Linboig's plane."

Talks on Small Farm Structures Heads N.L.M.A. Promotion Department

An interesting talk was given by Max E. Cook, agricultural engineer, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, at the Pacific Coast Section Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, held at Davis, Calif., January 10 and 11.

The subject assigned to him was "Small Farm Structures. Standardization and Closer Utilization of Lumber in the Development of Minor Structures and Accessories."

While not advocating prefabrication for farm dwellings and farm structures other than the smaller utility structures and accessories, Mr. Cook did illustrate by the use of scale miniatures or models of Sectional Septic Tanks and poultry Feeders some of the results accomplished by him to date in his work for The Pacific Lumber Company.

In highlighting the demand for structures that will lower farm production costs, either by developing lower unit cost structures or through improved types that will efiect economy in farm management, he made observation that the best recommendations from the most reliable sources are of little value if the farmer cannot be induced to follow them. He stressed the key position of the retail lumber dealer in influencing the farmer in the solution of his building problems. He maintained that the farmer much prefers to be actually shown rather than told how to improve his structures. He also brought out important advantages of standardized prefabricated structures, not the least important and valuable of which is definite control of the grade of materials most suitable to insure satisfactorv service and long life.

Moves To New Quarters

The Security Materials Co. is now established in new offices and warehouse at 1111 North Highland Ave., Los Angeles. Its former location was 916 North Formosa. f'he company is opening a lumber department.

Washington, Jan. 3l.-Richard G. Kimbell has been put in charge of the national trade promotion wbrk of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, under the title of Director of Technical Service. Mr. Kimbell has been for many years (and will continue) in charge of the Building Code D,ivision of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and in close touch with all the departments of that Association. For the last several years he was stationed in the Chicago office, but otherwise has been at headquarters ever since he joined the Association.

H. R. Northup has been added to the staff and will have the special duty of assisting Mr. Kimbell in building code administration. Mr. Northup has served the Association in different capacities for a number of years.

Appointed \(/est Coast Traffic Manager

K. C. Bachelder of Longview, Wash., has been appointed manager of the traffic department of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. He succeeds Herbert N. proebstel, who after fifteen years of service with the Association, resigned to become assistant freight agent of the Great Northern Railway at Seattle.

Mr. Bachelder has had fifteen years' traffic experience rvith railroads and shippers in the Northwest. For the past five years he was secretary-manager of the Longview Chamber of Commerce at Longview, Wash.

DrcK JONES BACK ON JOB

After an absence from the office of four weeks. two of which were spent in the hospital where he underwent an operation, R. C. "Dick" Jones, of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, is back at his desk again. He says the old vim and vigor have asserted themselves, and he is feeling fine.