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are practically the only sources of local employment. He further cited the relatively high labor-material ratios in the use of lumber compared with most other materials.

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association today cited the improvements in logging methods, manufacturing and processing and increased facilities for seasoning during the past 20 years which have resulted in more uniform sizes of lumber, more systematically graded and inspected than heretofore. Facilities also for prefabricated and demountable lumber structures have been developed in recent years to a high stage of efficiency. Practically all of the housing for the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Association announced, is now of this simple, convenient, portable type of construction which is readily adaptable not only to troop housing but to industrial housing.

It Sounded The Same Anyway

F. N. Carson, Pacific Portland Cement Company, San Francisco, sends in the following story:

A new gal is hired by a lumber sales office; a trusting soul, but one entirely unfamiliar with the terms and expressions of the industry. She accepted things as they came, and wrote.them down as they sounded, until one day the boss wrote a customer:

"We are shipping you, as ordered,. one carload of pea poles."

When the letter came back for signature, she had typed it:

"We are shipping you, as ordered, one carload of peep holes."

Tcn Yarrs Ago Today

From August 1,1930 lssue

More than 2000 attended the fourth annual meeting and get-together of Northern California Hoo-Hoo at Fall River Mills, Calif., July 4-5-6. The meeting was sponsored by Westwood Hoo-Hoo Club No. 38. Among the speakers was Hon. Frank Jordan, Secretary of the State of California. Vicegerent Snark Flenry Neunaber of Westwood was in charge of the concatenation.

The Journal of Forestry, official organ of the Society of American Foresters, will be edited by Professor Emanuel Fritz, member of the staff of the Division of Forestry at the University of California, according to a statement by Paul G. Redington, President of the Society. He succeeds S. T. Dana, dean of the Forest School at the IJniversity of Michigan.

Harry Trimble has purchased the Dudfield Lumber Company yard at Palo Alto, Calif., and is operating it under the name of the Trimble Lumber Company. I{e was formerly manager of the'Dudfield yard.

The tri-annual meeting California will be held at dena, AugustT-8-9. W. L. & Mill Co., Pasadena, is committee.

"Why Sell Grade-Marked neth Smith of Los Angeles,