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Nafional Foresf Products Week Committees Named For Los Angeles

Meeting April 11 at I-os Angeles It Chamber of Commerce Building, members of the Los Angeles Committee for National Forest Products Week, under the able chairmanship of Dee Essley, laid the groundwork for "The Week's" promotion f.or 1962.

National Forest Products Week this year will be observed October 2L-27. The following committee chairmen were named: was also suggested.that IVIr. Osterman name someone in the Los Angeles area as co-chairman.

Finance : Leonard Crofoot.

Allied Services: Bill Hanen.

Display: Paul Hollenbeck.

Retail Relations: Wavne Mullin.

Publicity ; Stella Roaih.

I.uncheon : Harold Cole.

Hoo-Hoo Coordinator: Harvev Koll.

Speakers' Bureau: Elmer Ostlrman.

George Scrim continues to serve as secretary.

A suggestion was also made that a "Forest Products Personnel" committee be set up, with a union representative to be asked to head this, action to be taken on this subject by Wayne Gardner.

Opening the meeting, Chairman Dee Essley first observed that because of the diversity of local groups concerned with wood promotion, a great deal of lost motion resulted, and that the solution should be in a more combined effort.

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Things done by men r.r'ho enjoy doing them, are very likely to be done u'ell. That applies to both the big and the little things of life.

A well known actress was seen in public with an ex-boyfriend, and a pal said to her: "I thought you said you'd throrvn him over." "I did," said the actress, "but you know how women throw."

And then there is the grandpappy who admits that chewing tobacco is a filthy habit, but defies anyone to prove that it ever started a forest fire.

There are two reasons why many people don't rnind their ou'n business. First, they have no mind. Second, tl.rey have no business.

A super-salesman is a man who can convince his best girl that a gaberdine coat looks better on her tharr mink. Ife can charm the birdies out of the bushes, and then sell then.r at a profit.

Two Athenians back in the days of Diogenes, saw l-rim on the street one day and one said: "There goes that old infidel Diogenes---he thinks there's only one God." Arr infidel is often just one whose opinions are different from yours.

Abe Lincohr rvent to hear the great orator, Colonel R. G. Ingersoll, and returned ar.rd said to his .ivife "What a r,vonderful instrument is human speech when played by a master." Abe, a great orator himself, bou'ed before the almost superman eloquence of Ingersoll.

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A gang of colored boys in the south were arguing one day about what was the best food in the world. Nominations were made by various of the group in favor of many delectable dishes, from possum to ham-bone, until finally someone spoke up ancl said, "I votes for black eyed peas as de best." Instantly an older man retorted : "Bov, you don't mean de best, you mean de very best."

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