MY FAVORITE

By JacJ< Dionne

not guarant€ed---Some I have told fot 20 years---Some less

Modernistic

I get lots of kick out of modernistic stories, concerning both the young and the old.

One I like is that of the marvelously beautiful young bride, so wispish, so angelic in her gown of gossamer white that she seemed to actually float down the church aislc at the very fashionable wedding. The foot of the altar was a bower of flowers and tfiere she stubbed her toe against a flower-pot, and was heard distinctly to exclaim to the Bishop who waited there to marry fuss-"f{61ry isn't that

a Hell of a place for a lily?"

And there is anottrer of the dear, white-haired, lovelylooking old grandma,.in her gown of rustling silk, sitting before tfie fire and knitting, while her young granddaughter watched her nimble and flying fingers with a sort of fascination.

"Grandma, why do you knit so fast?" asked the young one.

"Oh, just for the Hell of it," replied Grandma.

Emergency Reductiong From Cost- C. C. C. Camp Setup For Summer Protection Prices Announced

Washington, D. C., March 19.-The action of the Lumber Code Authority at its last meeting permitting the granting of reductions from established cost-protection prices in order to move particularly distressed stocks has already resulted in three applications from the Southern Pine Division and one from the Southern and Appalachian Hardwood Subdivision for relief under this new ruling.

In the case of two Southern Pine applications it was found upon investigation that the stocks were deteriorated and badly broken, having remained in pile three or four years. In both cases the mills had cut out and ceased manufacture. In one the Authority gtanted special relief to the extent of a price reduction not exceeding 25 per cent from established cost-protection schedules. In the other, varying differentials were authorized for each grade"

No action was taken with reference to the other two applications, one of which involved a request for a $2 per thousand leeway under current code prices on 200,000 feet of cottonwood, as the information submitted was insufficient to permit a decision without further investigation.

In applications of this kind the Authority must be certain as to the ownership of the lumber, its present condition, whether deteriorated or otherwise, and the danger from flood or other hazards. It is also essential that information concerning market conditions be submitted, particularly with reference to volume of sales by other shippers of the same items at full code prices.

On Trip To New York

Leo Cheim, McElroy & Cheim Lumber Co., San Jose, sailed on the Santa Rosa from San Francisco for New York. March 16.

The distribution of C.C.C. camps for the summer of.1934 in California will be: national forests 39, national parks 13, state parks 14, state forestry on private lands 10, a total of 76, according to S. B. Show, regional forester and coordinator for California.

There were 167 operating in this state last summer and 150 for the enrollment period ending March 31. There will be no changes this year in the total number of C.C.C. camps for the entire country nor in the number of enrollees and facilitating personnel. Many Conservation Corps companies will be moved flom California and the west coast to middle west and eastern states.

According to a report of Director Robert Fechner, the C.C.C. at maximum strength is divided into 250,000 enrollees, 27,ffi veterans, l4,m Indians and 35,000 forestry foremen. The total number of camps will be 154O, including those in Porto Rico and Alaska.

The number of camps assigned to the,different national forests in this state are: Angeles 3, Claveland,,l,,Eldorado 1, Klamath 4, Lassen 3, Mendocino 2,,plurnas 3r,'San Bernardino 3, Santa Barbara { Sequoia 2, Shasta 3, Sierra 2, Stanislaus 2, Tahoe 2 and Trinity 4.

Acts As Starter At Track Meet

M. R. Gill, Union Lumber Company, Los Angeles, stepped into a new role Saturday afternoon, March 24, when he acted as the official starter at the track meet between Cal Christian and La Verne colleg.es at La Verne, Calif. He ran the events off in fine shape. As Mr. Gill is an expert marksman and also a hunter of note, he handled the gun like an expert, just like he would bring down a duck on the wing at a distance of 75 yards.

Meeting at Santa Rosa

A dinner meeting attended by members of Subdivision No. 7 of the Retail Lumber and Building Material Authority, Inc., was held at the Occidental Hotel, Santa Rosa, March 16.

Russell B. Stevens, Stevens Lumber Co., Healdsburg, Code Authority member of this subdivision, presided. The other members for this subdivision are Mead Clark, Mead Clark Lumber Co., Santa Rosa, and Chas. Lund, Hess Lumbei Co., San Raphael.

The entire evening was given up to a discussion of the Code by Ralph P. Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced, chairman of Division No. 2 (Northern California), who recently visited Washington as representative of the district, and by D. C. Essley, San Francisco, secretary of Division No. 2 of the California Code Authority.

Resigns as C. of C. Director

Charles G. Bird, for the past twelve years a director of the Stockton Chamber of Commerce, resigned on March 16. Julius Blum, vice-president and manager of the Bank of America, Stockton, was elected to serve the two years of Mr. Bird's unexpired term. Mr. Bird said that his work in connection with his membership on the Retail Lumber and Building Material Code Authority for Northern California and as president of the Central Valley Lumbermen's Club prevented him from further carrying on his duties as a director of the chamber.

H. S, Crosby Joins Authority Staff

Washington, D. C., March 2Z.-Harcld S. Crosby, former manager of the Trade Extension Department of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, has been appointed to the staff of the Lumber Code Authority. Prior to his connection with the National Hardwood Lumber Association, he was for five years witfr the National Lutnber Manufacturers Association, starting as field engineer attached to the New York office and serving subsequently as manager of the association's Pittsburgh and Kansas City offices.

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