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June Lumber Production

Estimated lumber production for June reached 3,154,207,000 board feet, the Civilian Production Administration stated August 27.

The estimated total output for June was 2.6 per cent more than May, 15.3 above June, 1945, and was kept from a three and one-half year record only by the August,1944, production ol 3,238,665,000 board feet.

Biggest monthly increases were recorded in the two Pacific states of Nevada and California where June production went up 21 per cent over May.

Softwoods accounted for 2,D3,152,000 board feet of the June total, and hardwoods totaled 861,055,000 board feet.

L. H. Eubank Attends Fcmily Beunion

L. H. Eubank, head of L. H. Eubank & Son, Inglervood, Calif., manufacturers of specialty home fixtures and builtin items, was a Texas visitor last month, his first return to the Lone Star State since before the war. It was largely a vacation visit, Mr. Eubank meeting with members of .his family who gathered for a reunion at Willis, Texas, the home of his sister. Mr. Eubank stopped over in Houston, after a trip to Glasgow, Ky., rvhere his brother and the latter's wife joined him in the return trip to California with other members of the family.

The Eubank home building products, especially the swivel-type combination ironing board and cabinet, recently created by Mr. Eubank, are well known in the Texas territory, where they are distributed by the Houston Sash & Door Company, of Houston.

Ceiling Increcsed on Direct Mill Shipments oI Shop Lumber To Millwork Manulcrcturers

The OPA announced Sept. 4 ceiling price increases for rvestern pine shop lumber-ponderosa, Idaho and sugar pine-and Douglas fir lumber on direct mill shipments to millwork manufacturers. The increases were granted to comply with an NHA directive to channel more lumber into the manufacturer of doors, sashes, frames and other millwork.

The increases are : $5 per 1,000 board feet on 4/4 inch shop common, No. 1 and 3 shop ponderosa pine, sugar pine and Idaho white pine; $8 per 1,000 feet on Nci. 2 shop grade ponderosa pine, sttgar pine and Idaho white pine; and $8 per 1,000 on vertical grain Douglas fir shop lumber and B/4 inch and thinner.

Redwood Ceiling Prices Increcrsed

Ceiling prices {or redwood lumber were increased by $2.50 per thousand bgard feet in all measurements except one-inch finish, u'hich was increased to $3 per thousand board feet. (Amenclment 12 to MPR 253, efiective Sept. 6)

Hynes Ycrrd Hqs New Owners

L. A. Merrill and Earl W. Chandler have formed a partnership and have tirken over the yard of the Fanning Lumber Company at 247 South Garfield Avenue, Hynes, Calif. The business will be operated as the Merrill-Chandler Lumber Company.

Both Mr. Merrill and Mr. Chandler were formerly with the Hammond Lumber Company for several years, and are experienced retail lurnbermen.

Enioy Bcrbecue

Employees and friends of the San Lorenzo Lumber Company, Santa Cruz, had their first postwar barbecue at De Laveaga Park recently.

J. Newell "Newt" Maddock, George L. Winterhalder, and Robert M. "Bob" Maddock are partners in the company. The yard is located at 474 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz.

Coast Lumber Compcny Picnic Big Success

Coast Lumber & Equipment Company, Long Beach, held a picnic for employees and their families in Irvine Park, Sunday, September 8, 1946.

The affair, which the company intends to make an annual one, celebrated the anniversary of their founding. They are now one year young.

The arrangement and planning was under the jurisdiction of Francis Mandis, general salesmanager, ably assisted by Frank Dbnaldson, manager, hardware and paint departments, and Irene Ames, purchasing agent.

The barbecue and all the trimmings were handled by a catering concern, and the games and races were under supervision of Fred White, yard superintendent. No effort rvas spared to have everyone share in the fun.

A Savings Bond rvas given as door prize. There were games and races for ladies and children, and a baseball game betlveen the mill and the yard men. Appropriate prizes were distributed.

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The U.S.G trademark on building materials is the buyer's guide to value, his guarantee oflasting satisfaction. For it appears only on products of the highest quality. Back of it stands one of the 'rvorld's finest research laboratories and a rigid system of product control. Shorv it to your customers with pride.

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A philosopher was the drunk who sat in a night spot while a gal with the orchestra sang in throbbing tones the popular ditty: "'I'm laughing on the outside, crying on the inside." Said the drunk sq that all around might hear him; "You know yourself, a fellow could drown that way." *>fi*

And a late saying of Confucius is: "The salesman who covers chair instead of territory, always on bottom."

According to written history, his disciple Tzu-lu once said to Confucius: "'What makes a gentleman?" the great Chinese teacher replied: "'A gentleman nrne aims: to see clearly; to understand what he warm in manner; dignified in bearing; fai keen at work; to ask when in doubt; to think of difficulties; and in sight of gain, to of right." *:N(,k

A philosopher of the moment says that the atoplc bomb will never determine *n*o t"*.t*la; only whoff left.

And another wise guy says that the question which comes first, the chicken or the egg, has givy way to the more immediate and serious question; wi!/people abolish wars, or will wars abolish people? .{ **{<

Says Fortune: "If we are to meet the challenge of atomic fission. we must cure the fission that exists in men's minds and in their hearts. In this sense it appears that the problem is not mechanical, or even just political, but spiritual and personal."

James Street wrote a book named "The Gauntlet," in which he makes a character utter this prayer:: "Lord, give me the courage to try to change things that should be changed for the good of mankind, serenity to accept things that should not be changed, and sense enough to know the difference."

William Allen White, the sage of Ernpd, Kansas, said: "Liberty is the one thing you can't tyfLe unless you give it to others." f

That smacks of the other piece of philosophy to the effect that you can't smear happiness on others, without getting some of it on yourself at the same time. ***

What's been happening to the stock market of late, reminds me of what a man who had been through the wringer in L932, said on the subject of investmeats. His remark was: "The next'stock I buy is going to have four legs, and f'll water it myself."*

"Each of us is a power plant," writes Thomas Dreier.

"We send out a current. Its quality'is;oq/quality. It is power derived from our chancte/tttl/ft or it heals. It ure or pain. We ourselvesfcide the effect it must produce." rl*{<

"You do not have to be educated tp'be honest," says George \)l/est, Bishop of Rangoon* .jfr?ou do not have to be literate to be inspired. You do ib{ have to be academic to be guided by God. fn utter simplicity it is possible to be loving and useful."

Collier's printed a letter from a reader expressing the opinion that the current national labor policy reminded him of the technique of a one-time Mayor of Indianapolis, Lew Shank. One day the Ladies' Aid Society telephoned Mr. Shank asking him to lend them fifty chairs. He replied that there were fifty chairs over at the fire department headquarters and that they could go and take them. When the fire chief arrived he found the chairs gone, so he tellephoned the Mayor stating that he was about to hold a meeting and needed fifty chairs right quick. His Honor told him: "The Ladies' Aid Society has fifty chair$; go get them"'{<**l

Some clear thinker has given us this, "Yooilgf"trr""" is measured by your kindness; yogreducation an[ intellect, .by your modesty; your ignorag{is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices; and rftirr real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others."

Read an epitaph the other day, of a man whg/had just passed away. He must have been a great manlfl his way, for it was said of him: "He helped people aboTe him and below him. He reache$/out for better ideas, and made use of them. He read an4/studied. He achieved popularity by being thoughtfal any' considerate. His associates liked to have him arcund,.1ftIamade them feel better. He was a man of good will.***

During the war we read and heard much of our relations with the nations of South America. Our good neighbor policy was largely directed at them. We know more about them than we do about most of the countries that lie between us and South America; yet these nearer countries ilationally Advertised Building and Plywood

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