Program for Rebuildins

San Francisco, Nov. 16.-The Pacific Fruit Express Co. announced today a $10,000,000 program for the rebuilding and repair of refrigerator'cars during the first six months of 194O.

"Rebuilding" a refrigerator car, it was explained, means replacement of the box part of the,car with an entirely new superstructure, the only parts of the original car going into the rebuilt unit being the underframes and trucks.

The budget for 1939 provided for rebuilding of 2300 cars and 500 are yet to be completed before the end of the year.

By July 1940, an additional 2500 cars will be rebuilt in readiness for seasonal peak handling of western perishable cfops.

The rebuilding program f.or l94O will be divided between Los Angeles, Roseville, Colton and Nampa, fdaho, officials said.

BURT BELESS WITH OWENS.PARKS LUMBER CO.

Burt Beless is now with Owens-Parks Lumber Company, Los Angeles, as lumber purchasing agent for Douglas Fir and Redwood. He was formerly with the Lumber & ,A.llied Products Institute, and prior to that was associated with the lumber business in Los Angeles for man;r vears. He is well known in Southern California lumber circles.

Washington, November l5.-William D. Smith, of Portland, Oregon, civil engineer with the U. S. Forest Service, was named today as the winner of the $500 first ptize in a timber bridge design contest sponsored by the American Forest Products Industries, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, a,nd Timber Engineering Company. The announcement was made by Harry G. Uhl, contest secretary, at the annual meeting of the N.L.M.A. in San F'rancisco.

The winning entry was a 7Gft. Pony truss briclge, designed for an H-10 loading, with an l&ft. roadway, and, in the opinion of the judges, best demonstrated the inherent advantages of the use of timber as a structural material.

The design had among its outstanding features an unusual treatment of the bottom chord splice. The splice u'as effected by the use of a single splice plate between the spaced members, each member being spliced individually at different points along the splice plate. This eliminated the necessity of outside plates adding to the appearance and economy of the design.

The top chord of the bridge was made to approach a parabolic arc, thereby reducing to a minimum the stresses in the web members due to dead and uniform live load.

A thorotrgh knowledge of the material to be used was demonstrated by Mr. Smith in his use of a saw kerf in the verticals, lessening the posibility of difficulty in erection of splitting due to shrinkage. He also specified the nse of driven plates betrveen butting members to assure good bearing.

The contest, offering $1500 in cash prizes, was open to architects, engi,neers and students of these schools in the United States and Canada. The first student prize of $200 was won by Daniel Burnett of Vancouver, B. C., who submitted a three-hinged arch bridge of. 70-ft. span designed for an H-15 loading and having an 18-ft. clear roadway.

The judges of the contest were: .R. G. Kimbell, Director of Technical Service; F. J. Hanrahan, Structural Engineer; L. M. Stevens, Architect, all of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association; J. E. Myer, Chief Research Engiqeer of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., and J. H. Carr, Jr., Structural Engineer for the Timber Engineering Company.

Ilefore the aclvent of Superior Fireplacc Heat Circulator Units, around u'hich to build a really cfhcient frreplace, cabin, seashore hollse or home, o\\rners had to depend upon haphazard and often inefficient labor to build u'hat often proved to be a hreplace ir-r name only.

Such fireplaces often srnoked and had no \\'a)' of darnper rcgulation. They were excessive fuel burners, and yet afforded no circulation of uniform heat tl'rroughout the cabin, seashore house or home. Contrast that with the modern lireplace built around a scientifically double-rvalled metal form such as the Superior Fireplace Heat Circulator. Such a fireplace is easy and economical to build-you merely follou'the nretrLl contour of the Superior LJnit. It has built into it a pnrperlv constrtrctcd throat danlper ancl tlver and above all provicles a means of circulatir)g warm air r.rniforn.rlv throuthout the roorn atrd adyttinrng rooms. This futnace e{ficicncy is acl'rieved tl-rltru{h cool air intakes rvhich drarv the cold air frorn tl-re floor level, passing through the heating cl-ramber rrnd otrt tire rvarm air or.rtlet. tVhen fireplace is located on inner rvall, heat outlet vetrts at rear provicle u'arm air to rooms behind the fireplace.

Superior Fireplace Heat Circulators enable seashore house or cabin owners to extend tl-re season of occuPancy-for they can thus be made comfortable and cozy earlier and later than usual.

Lumber and building supply dealers see in the Superior Unit a means of increasing cabin construction, thus affording not only increased sale of materials, but in addition gaining extra profit by selling this unit to the builder.

Top, lelt: Warm air outlet through the ghell. Suitcble lor rrountaing or rcnch. Right:

Modern fireplcce ueing Superior Glogcrs Grate cnd Norwegricn mtrrble.

Boliosr" leli: Superior Circulator in Cclilornic sdobe rcrnch hou:e. Right Fireplcce flueh rrilb wood ptrneled wcrll modern in leeling.

The Cry Of The Wind

I can hear the wind, wild in the trees, Talking and crying, days like these. It is never happy, it is not contentIt is begging to know where Summer went. It tears at the twigs and sobs in the fern, Poor wild wind, will you never learnThat Summer went in the Springtime's track And that crying will never bring Summer back!

Tried And Found Wanting

"Jack, do you know what good clean fun is?".

"I'll bite, Gracie, what good is it?"

Late News

We were sitting in a dentist's office the other day when some guy looked up from the paper he had found on the table and said brightly: "Well, I see there's been some fierce fighting round that Argonne forest."

GLADSTONE'S ADVICE TO STUDENTS

Be assured that every one of you has his place and vocation on this earth, and that it rests with himself to find it. Do not believe those who too lightly say, "Nothing succeeds like success." Effort, gentlemen, honest, manful, humble effort, succeeds by its reflected action, especially in youth, better than success, which indeed, too easily and too early gained not seldom serves' like winning the first throw of the dice, to blind and stupefy. Get knowledgeall you can; and the more you get the more you breathe upon its nearer heights their invigorating air and enjoy the widening views, the more you will know and feel how small is the elevation you have reached in comparison with those immeasurable dtitudes that yet remain unscaled. Be thorough in all you do and remember that though ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

A LIFE TERM, IN FACT

Rastus: "\ll/hat do that there word 'matrimony' mean?"

Mose: "That ain't no word-thats a sent6nce, man!"

Too Expensive

Positively no more baptizing in my pasture. Twice in th'e last week my gates have been left open by Christian people, and I can't afrord to chase cattle over three counties just to save a few sinners.

Using The Old Bean

An Irish soldier in France during the Great War received a letter from his wife saying there wasn't an ablebodied man left, and she was going to dig the garden herself. Dan wrote at the' begilrning of his next letter; "Bridget, for heaven's sake, don't dig the garden; that's where,the guns are."

The letter was duly censored, and in a short time a lorry load of men in khaki arrived at Dan's home and proceeded to dig the garden from end to end. Bridget wrote in desperation, saying that she didn't know what to do as the soldiers had dug up the garden.

Dan's reply was short and to the point-"Put in the spuds.t'

Smart Scholar

Professor-"What is the most potent poison?"

Student-"An airplane; one drop and you're dead."

And Forgive

A retentive memory is a great thing, but the true token of nobility is the power to forget.

WHO ELSE?

Teacher (lecturing on perseverance)-"He drove straight to his goal. He looked neither to the right nor to the left, but pressed forward, moved by a definite purpose. Neither friend nor foe could delay him, nor turn him from his course. All who crossed his path did so at their own peril. What would you call such a man?"

Graduate (quickly)-"A truck driver !"

Confession

I was kissed by a rascal with laughing eyes, And his kiss was hearty and warm.

He thought he had taken me by surpriseJust an innocent lass from the farm.

He said he was partial to dark brown hair, And he pulled my brunette curls;

He though I'd be spellbound and wouldn't care, Just like all his other girls.

He lauded my figure, my eyes, my skin, As only a ladies'man does.

He thought I would surely be taken in; As a matter of fact-f was !