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INSI-COTTON comes in three thicknesses, one, two cnd three inch; cnd three widths to fit lrcrming spcced lG", 20" cmd 24" on centers. Call us lor your reguirements, c cqrton or q ccrlocrd.

Sorrow

One asked: "What is sorrow?" And I gave reply.

To see your horse's lead diminish And lose the race by a photo finish.

Memo to the Moscow

Classified

The boss and the clerks had gone out to lunch leaving only the pretty young lady bookkeeper in charge of the store. Enters a very handsome young man, and says to the pretty young lady bookkeeper:

"Do you keep auto accessories?"

And the pretty young lady bookkeeper smiled her prettiest, and replied:

Benjamin Franklin's words could with regard to the present world si

When the Constitution of our c been spoken ntry was under discussion by Congress, Franklin sai "I confess that there t'Dontt which I do not at haven't tirdel present approve, but I am not ure I shall never approve busier or more\i them: For having lived I have experienced many and makes you pity instances of being obliged better information or fuller consideration, to change jects, which I once thou even on important subright, but found to be other-

"Only me."

"ft is therefore am to doubt my the older I grow, the more apt I judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of/others. Most men indeed as well as most sects in ReliSion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and th/t wherever others differ from them, it is so far error. almost as hi t though many private persons think of their own infallibility as of that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady who, in a dispute with her sister, said: 'I don't know how it happens, Sister, but I meet with nobody but myself that's always in the right.'

"Oh the whole, I cannot help expressing a wish that evefy member of the Convention who may still have objectfions to it, would with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibitity-and to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument."

Mood lor Mountqins

'm in a mood for mountains nda Where Of the dawn that's swift and keen, wild waters join the music wind and the evergreen. the sky's a roof of turquoise, there's silence deep and sweetes ! I'm in the mood for mountains.

But I walk a city street.

If say or even k, 'I am busy,' 'I makes you feel even than you really arethat much more."

Scrtislying the Customer

"Contractor, spare that tree, I crave to build a home, And many kinds of wood I'll need From basement through to dome." "Your worries are all passed and gone," FIe sez to me, sezzee, "Your maple, cherry, hardwood foors, Will all come from that tree."

-Wend B. Duncan

A rich man lying o4f his death bed called his chauffeur, who had been in his for years, and said:

"Ah, Sykes, I oing on a long and rugged journey, worse than ever yoY drove me."

"Well, sir," consoled the chauffeur, "there's one comfort t's all down-hill and you won't need any gasoline."

Cuts Lumber Prices

Los Angeles, Calif., April 1.-J. B. Wood, vice president of E. K. Wood Lumber Company, announced today that his company reduced the retail price of all grades of lumber an average of ten per cent, effective immediately.

"This voluntary price reduction is our company's effort to help curb living costs in line rvith President Truman's recent appeal to American industrr-, in spite of the fact that our costs remain the same, " Mr. \\rood said. "Today veterans are desperately in need of nen' homes, and we hope that our reduction of lumber prices rvill help solve that problem."

E. K. Wood Lumber Company operates fifteen lumber yards in California and two sawmills in Oregon. The company has an anpual sales volume of approximately one hundred million board feet.

Vclley Logging Congress

The Willamette Valley Logging Con ill be held 'Ihe Wlllamette Valley Logglng Longress wlll be held on Friday and Saturday, Maf-Z and 3, in-Eugene, Ore. Mayor Earl McNutt of Eugene n,ill be the fi;TTd4;lGT;l* the Friday morning session, and Nlayor George W. Peaverof Corvallis will respond. Orville R. Miller will make the keynote address. There lvill be an all-day session on Friday and a half-day program on Saturday in the Eugene Armory. The annual loggers' banquet rn,ill be held Friday evening at the Osburn Hotel. Tl-re machinery show and exhibit will be located on a large plot of ground near the Armory.

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Seven 16,000 lb. Lilt Trucks

Twenty-Seven Acres Pcved Lcrnd ct Two Locqtions

Served by L. A. Junction Rcilrocd

Shed Spcrce lor Two Million Bocrd Feet

Spur Trcrck to Accommodcrte Thirty Bcilrocd Cars

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American Lumber & Treating Company offers a pressure treahnent, answering it. Tell us your needs. \ o Where should the small home prospect go for new ideas, plans, building information, and advice?

O Eoch month in one of the leoding nolionol shelter mogozines Weyerhoeuser odvertises to millions the current month's design selection. Eoch month home plonners ore invited to use this Service which is ovoiloble qt lhe offices of retoil lumber deolers-their locol shelter merchont3.

In the majority of Americaq'"o*-onit6" he should go to the retail luntber dea)6 and. his cooperating contractor custorgeds.

The lumber dealer is the lpglcal shelter merchant, since he furnishes the materials when small homes are being built. He should therefore logically fumish practical guidance when small homes are being planned.

To help the retail lumber dealer supply this type of planning servi@, Weyerhaeuser developed the 4-SqulRE Home Building Service Program.

No Home Servlce Equols lt

The 4-squenp Home Building Service contains scores of house designs complete with working drawings, specffications, and ma' terial lists. It clearly outlines and illwtrates the fundamental principles of sound and economical construction. It also outlines the fdndamental principles of planning for ut- mosteconomy, convenience, and final satis- t faction. It contains detailed material lists for ordering out materials. It contains consolidated material lists for use with estimating guides for obtaining preliminary costs.

A New Home Eoch Monlh

The 4-Squann Home Building Service is kept continually up-to-date through monthly additions of house designs illustrating many of the new developments and improvements in home building which have been proved in actual use.

The Service and the retail lumber dealer's part in it are advertised every month to millions of readers interested in homes. The entire program forms a comprehensive effort to direct home prospects to retail dealers cooperating with Weyerhaeuser.

WEYERHAEUSER SA]ES CO.

Will Speak On Plywood At

Producers' Council Meeting,o,'

,Charles E. Devlin, managing diiect-or, and Win.ston H. l\{cCallum, publicity director, of the Douglas Fir Pl-vwood Association, Tacorna, rvill attend the evening meeting of the l'roducers' Council, to be held in the Alexandria Hotel, I-os Angeles, April 21, at 6:30 p.m.

XIr. Devlin u,ill address tl.re group, rvhich rvill be cornprised primarily o{ architects and engineers, as u,ell as members of the Producers' Council. The subject of his talk r,vill be "A Report On Fir Ply\\rood."

The Association's film, "The Nliracle In Wood," u'ith sound, and in color

Selling Hcrrdwood Doors

Announcement is m4de by Back Panel Company, Los Angeles, that they are a distributor of "Rezo" doors, manufactured by Paine Lumber Company, l,td., Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Annucl Spring Pcrty oI Northern Retcrilers

The annual spring party of the Lumber N{erchants Association of Northern California, held at the Old Hearst Ranch near Pleasanton, Calif., March 28 and 29, lvas voted a success from every point of view. This get-together meeting brought members into contact rvith each other rvho had not met for some time, and in a fe'uv cases, for solne years. The party was strictly stag, and was well al tended.

OHE tVill Take Over Compliance Functions Of Veterans' Housing Program

Washington, D. C., March 30-The Office of the Housing Expediter rvill take over on April 5 the compliance functions of the Veterans Housing Program previously administered by the Office of Price Administration, Housing Expediter Frank R. Creedon announced toda;r. Transfer of functions was made necessarl' by recent cuts in OPA funds.

"The Government rvill continue its efforts to protect veterans and their rights nnder the housing program," Mr. Creedon said. "My staff rvill proceed with all pending cases ancl will investigate all nerv complaints which are received."

Pending cases include civil sttits non' in the courts (such r.s injunctions to compel return of overcharges to veteranpurchasers and to cancel sales illegally made to non-veterans), cases in the hands of Ll. S. district attornel's awaiting criminal prosecution, cases rvhere investigations have been completed and au'ait the filing of suits, and cases of alleged violations lr'hich are in process of being settled or where further investigation is needed.

The compliance activities to be taken over and carried on by OHE are intended to protect veterans' rights on :

1. \/eterans' pre{erence-first choice to buy or rent all hcusing built under'priorities regulations.

2. The maximum price authorizecl by the Federal Housing Administration for a house started under authorization issued prior to last Dec. 24.

3. Obtaining substantially the size and type of house that rvas approved by FHA u,hen construction u'as authorized.

"The compliance investigations u.ill be handled by the personnel and the organization u'hich rvas formerlv the Compliance Division of the Civilian Production Administration which we are taking over on April 1," Mr. Creedon said.

Scn Francisco Lumbermen's Club Meets April 29

The next luncheon meeting of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club rvill be held in the California Room. Palace Hotel, San francisco, on Tuesdav, April 29.