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Age not guarantced---Some I have told Jor 2o years---Some Less

He Knew the Answeru

A city man wrote to his brother in the country:

"Yesterday we motored out to the country club where we golfed until dark. Then we motored to the beach for the week.end."

The country brother wrote him back, as follows:

VALLEJO LUMBER CO. EXPANDS

Vallejo Lumber Co., Vallejo, recently added a Willamette combination lumber carrier and stacker to its lumber carrier equipment, making a fleet of three Willamette carriers.

This company also has installed a new burner of large capacity, built by the I & R Incinerator Co., Oakland.

Vallejo Lumber Co. has had a large increase in its volume of business in the past year, due to the great local activity in this important defense area.

J.

H. Cosper is manager.

"Yesterday we Forded to town and base-balled all the afternoon. Then we went to Ned's and pokered until morning. Then we muled out to the cornfield and geehawed until sun down. Then we suppered and then we piped for a while. After that we stair-cased up to our room, and bed-steaded until the clock fived."

Huge Volume Of Repair Loans

Washington, Juty 19.-More than 700,000 property owners have been enabled to repair and improve their homes or other buildings with loans insured bv the Federal Housing Administration since July I, lgqj, when the defense program began to get under way, it was announced today.

In the fiscal year just ended, lending institutions re_ ported $300,000,000 of such loans to the FHA for insur_ ance, the largest amount in any comparable l2 months.

Requirements for Regulating Moisture

U. S. Forest Seryice Earns $7001000 Content of Lumb et Elbctive Aug. 1 During Fiscal Year

The Federal Housing Administration, Los Angeles, on JulyT,issued Bulletin No. 11, Insuring Office Requirements ior Regulating Moisture Content of Lumber which becomes effective August l, 194L. This bulletin cancels and supersedes Bulletin No. 6, dated November 14, 1944, and letter to California Redwood Association dated December 11, 194O'

A copy of the bulletin follows:

1. All lumber shall be well seasoned. Lumber 2 inches thick and less to have moisture content not to exceed 19 percent at the time dwelling is enclosed.

2. All redwood. and pressure-treated framing lumber to be used on properties insured by F.H.A. located in the Southern California District shall comply with paragraph "1", as determined by moisture meter readings, or comply with the following requirements: a. All 2-inch and 4-inch redwood lumber to be legibly date-marked with a symbol indicating month and week in which the lumber was milled; all Z-inch and 4-inch lumber of other species to be legibly date-marked with a symbol indicating the month and week in which the lumber was pressure-treated; for example, the symbol 5-2 indicating the second week in May, and 64 indicating the fourth week in June' b. Acceptability of date-marked lumber to be determined by a minimum drying period, as indicated by the date-mark as follows:

Z-inch thick Redwood: 8 weeks c. The date symbol should be incorporated as part of the grade-mark or trade-mark stamp used for identification purposes. Samples of markings should be filed with this office for comparison purposes' d. Markings should be placed on the face of the timber not less than 12 inches from an end' e. Pressure-treated members of the same size used in a project shall have within one week of the same dryin! period, unless all such members have a drying period of 10 weeks or more' as reflected by the symLols stamped. thereon' (Note-This paragraph "e" effective October 1, 1941')

2-inch thick Pressure-treated Lumber: 6 weeks' (The drying period to be increased 2 weeks for each additional inch of nominal thickness).

San Francisco, July 25-Net receipts from national forest business in the California Region for the 1941 fiscal year amounted to $699,656, Regional Forester S. B. Show reported today. This represents an increase of. $71'720 over the previous fiscal year.

Timber sales totaled $361,883 ; grazing receipts were $145,837; special uses yielded $159,336; and miscellaneous receipts, including water power' came to $32,600.

The 18 national forests and one purchase unit contributing to the earnings were: Angeles, $28,266; Cleveland, $8,021 ; Eldorado, $28,915; fnyo, $20,451 ; Klamath, $14,98O; Lassen, $1O7,980; Los Padres, $12,7X); Mendocino, $3,606; Modoc, $62,163; Mono, $25,345 ; Northern Redwood Purchase Unit, $5,842.

Plumas, $177ffa; San Bernardino, $41,310; Sequoia, $36,241; Shasta, $16,245; Sierra, $41,930; Stanislaus, $40,603 ; Tahoe, $21,252, and Trinity, $6,6L7.

Regional Forester Show said that 25 per cent of this forestry income, about $175,000, would be apportioned by the U. S. Treasury to California and Nevada for distribution to county schools and road funds. An additional 10 per cent will be spent exclusively on roads and trails.

Counties containing national forest lands will receive amounts proportionate to their yield of national forest revenues.

\(/. B. Pinneo

Funeral services for William Bell Pinneo were held at the Wee Kirk O'The Heather in Forest Lawn Thursday afternoon, July 17. He passed away Monday, July 14. He was 65 years of age.

Mr. Pinneo, who owned a building materials business in Los Angeles for thirty-five years, was a native of Cordova. Ill. At one time he was connected with the lumber and shipping business in Los Angeles.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Esther Pinneo, two daughters, Patricia Ann and Mrs. Ernest Sook, and two sisters, Margaret Pinneo and Mrs. Birlie Tindal.

3. All sills, girders, joists, and other framing members to be used below first subfloor shall be on the site at time First Compliance Inspection is requested.