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...kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock, who had been warned by a stool pigeon of his intentions. Mortally wounded, Bass died two days later. The jail, a null affair built of heavy timbers, was forthwith erected, since crime was obviously getting to be a problem. But after 73 years of waiting for more gunfire. Round Rock decided that Sam's visit had been a little unusual, and sold the jail to Appliance Dealer Edward Walsh Jr. (who wanted the timber...
...infiltrating India itself. Indian troops have caught 300 in the past year. Some said they were deserters from the Chinese army. Others, disguised as lamas, beggars and traders, were riding brashly into India on the Tibetan caravans. Red Chinese troops cross regularly into Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, cutting timber, surveying the passes, making contact with local Communists...
Years ago, when a set of new goal posts cost about $2, happy students endangered their purses and their health perhaps two or three times each fall to grapple for the timber trophies. Since then both the cost and the mortality rate of the posts have risen to the absurd, and the job of replacing them has become a near-weekly routine...
...probably Canada's largest single foreign investor. His holdings, worth some $50 million by his own estimate, are scattered from western Ontario to the St. Lawrence River. Canada's McCormick-land now includes two big paper mills, two hydroelectric plants, some 8,179 sq. mi. of leased timber lands...
Stiffener. A new boxmaking and panel material that combines the stiffness and strength of wood with the smoothness and lightweight of fiber cartons was brought out by Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Called "Ply-Veneer," it is made of Douglas fir veneer sandwiched between thin layers of Kraft container board. Price of paneling: about...