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Jack Dionne havc told His Tastes Were High

He walked into'the swankest cocktail bar on Broadway, a place where beer cost fifty cents, and so on up. He laid a thin dime down on the bar in front of the bartendey's nose, and said:

"Gimme a drink of whiskey."

Ten Years Ago Today

From October 1, '1928 lssue

$ot 20 yearr---Some lecr

Up went the nose of the white-aproned gent behind the mahogany.

"We don't sell ten cent whiskey," he sniffed. The visitor picked up the dime, sighed, and turned away. "Then I'll have to go somewheres else," he said. "I just can't drink that nickel whiskey."

News Flashes

This of the Calif.

issue carries an illustrated article on the operations Southwestern Portland Cement Co' at Victorville, planing mill of the Peoples A new mill will be built

Announcement was made by Long-Bell Lumber Co. of the sale of 60O,00O,00O feet of standing timber in Klamath and Lake Counties, Ore., to the Lamm Lumber Co. at Modoc Point, Ore.

J. E. (Eddie) Peggs states that a large entry list has been received for the San Francisco lumbermen's golf tournament to be held at the Presidio Golf Club on October 5.

"seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Friend & Terry Lumber Co." is the title of an illustrated article appearing in this number. The history of this pioneer Sacramento firm goes back to the earliest days of California business-the days immediately following the great gold rush.

W. H. (Bill) Woods, who was assistant sales manager of the Coos Bay Lumber Co. for the past ten years, has entered the insurance business.

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hall recently returned to San Francisco from a vacation spent at Wawona. Yosemite National Park.

W. F. (Bill) Button, Milpitas Lumber Co., Milpitas, is an enthusiastic deer hunter. He returned recently from a two weeks' deer hunting trip in the Portola district.

Fire, believed to be incendiary, destroyed the planing mill of the American Lumber Company, Modesto, September 13, causing a loss estimated at $10,000.

Clay Brown, general sales nranager, Smith WoodProducts, fnc., Portland, Ore., recently spent a week in San Francisco and Los Angeles on business.

L. R. Byers, Citizens Mill & Lumber Co., Ventura, spent the month of September in the East.

John Deats, Deats S""h-&Door Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Deats, are on an automobile trip to Maine.

Yet FAS We pcry c A HIGHER Sth & Brcnncn Sts., San Frcncbco Sutter 1365 500 Hish St. Ockland Andover 1600 Harduood Headqaarters Since 1872

Five California Cities Listed Among First Twenty in Building in United States

Five California cities were listed among the first twenty in the United States reporting the largest volume of building for the first eight months of 1938. Los Angeles was second with a total of $44,250,2&, San Francisco sixth with $13,&7,234, Long Beach fourteenth with $7,431,710, San Diego seventeenth with $,270,315, and Oakland nineteenth with $5,925,542. New York City continued in first place with a total of $n6,48,583.

Following are the building permit valuations for the twenty leading cities for the first eight months of the year and comparative figures for 1937 as compiled by Dunn & Bradstreet, Inc.:

Eight 1938

New York, N. Y. ......$276,468,583

Los Angeles, Calif.. 44,250,2&

Detroit, Mich..

Houston, f.'ex..

Washington, D. C.

San Francisco, Cal.

Chicago, Ill..

Baltimore, Md.

Philadelphia, Pa..

Boston, Mass..

Cincinnati, Ohio.

Miami, Fla...

Yonkers, N. Y..

Long Beach, Calif.

Jacksonville, Fla..

Pittsburgh, Pa..

$an Diego, Calif..

Indianapolis, fnd.

Oakland, Calif..

Dallas, Tex...

WESTERN PINE ASS'N PUBLISHES REVISED DIRECTORY OF MEMBERSHIP

Portland, Oregon, September 1S-The Western Pine Association has published a revised directory of membership, corrected to September 15, which replaces the one issued last May lfth. The listings of member mills and tabulated data pertaining to their products have been revised to cover changes and additions that have developed since the previous directory was printed, so the information shown is currently complete. As in previous issues, the revised directory of membership is an 8-page folder, 8/2,,x11,, in size, and punched for a three-ring binder, which may be easily folded for mailing or pocket use.

Copies will be sent without charge by addressing the Western Pine Association, Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon.

WITH HOGAN LUMBER CO.

J. G. Frampton, formerly with the National Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland, is now with Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland, as salesman for the wholesale department, covering the Northern California territory.