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LOST: 90 FIRE HYDRANTS.The following plea was issued in
a newspaper after an 18-inch snowfell in Florham Park, N. J.
"Lost—somewhere in the neigh-borhood of 90 fire hydrants inany section of town on January20.
"Reward to the finder—superfast water hookup in case of fire—net worth about $20,000.
"Equipment needed for search—one snow shovel, five minutesand a fear of fire."According to Mueller Co. Sales
Representative Herb Hufflne theplea worked. Many of the citizens7,200 shoveled out the hydrantsafter the wind-whipped snow cov-ered almost all of the hydrants.
The new director of the Ameri-can Water Works Association Ad-vancement Program is Eric F.Johnson, who also serves AWWAas Assistant Secretary and Direc-tor of Publications.
He succeeds James B. Corey whoresigned recently.
A member of the Associationstaff since 1940, Mr. Johnson cameto AWWA from Wilcox & FollettCo., Chicago publishers. He re-ceived his AB degree in Englishand Business Administration fromAntioch College in 1939.
As the result of Mr. Johnson'spromotion other changes havetaken place in the publicationsprogram of the AWWA.
Arne E. Gubrud, Associate Edi-tor, has been appointed AssistantDirector of Advancement. In addi-tion, Lawrence Farber has movedup from Managing Editor to As-sistant Director of Publications.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?Sometimes there are problems
if the name happens to be Jonesaccording to William Manuel JonesJr., heavy construction contractorin Magnolia, Ark. whose companyspecializes in sewer and water con-struction and general dirt moving.
Like so many of the Jones boysthe nickname Casey was givenWilliam Manuel and the companybears the name "Casey Jones andSon."
Fred A. Pierce, Credit Managerat Mueller Co., while correspondingwith Casey Jones asked the oft-heard question: "Are you relatedto the famed engineer of the Illi-nois Central Railroad?"
He said this same query comesfrom telephone operators, businessacquaintances and most otherpeople he meets. Although thereis no relationship the questionshave prompted him to become in-terested in the lore of the famedrailroader who met an unexpecteddeath with his hand on the throttle.
He said he had read much aboutthe railroader and has saved clip-pings from the past 30 years thatare related to Casey Jones the first.
The nickname was attachedwhen he was a baby, Mr. Jonessaid. The song about the famousengineer was a hit tune around thenation at the time of his birth.
Although his parents were notat all happy with the monicker heis not readily known today by anyother name.
The famous engineer now has ason named Charles Jones.
That's right, you guessed it. Theson associated with Casey Jonesand Son is also Charles Jones.
MUELLERR E C O R D
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Published by
MUELLER CO.512 W. Cerro Gordo St.
Decatur, Illinois
Editor
Jim M. Milligan
Assistant Editor
Joe Penne
Member:Central Illinois Industrial
Editors Associationand
International Council ofIndustrial Editors
FACTORIESDecatur, Illinois
Chattanooga, TennesseeLos Angeles, CaliforniaSarnia, Ont., Canada
SALES OFFICESNew York CitySan Francisco
SINCE 1857Quality Products for the
Waterworks and Natural GasIndustries
The name MUELLER is a registeredtrademark of Mueller Co.
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Contents
4 WATER VEINS REFILLED BY VENTURA PROJECT . ... is a story abouta S30 million water project in California.
11 TWO NEW DIRECTORS NAMED TO MUELLER CO. BOARD . . . relates thelatest changes in the board and pictures the officers.
14 WETTEST WATERWORKS MAN tells about a superintendent whoworks with, in and under water.
15 CHULA VISTA MOVES INTO NEW SHOPS describes the newdivision workshops of California Water & Telephone Co.
16 THOSE DROPS ARE IMPORTANT tells about a new processfor de-salting the sea.
18-19 STRICTLY OFF THE RECORD are the pages designed to tickleyour funnybone.
20 MUELLER CO. PRODUCTS
This scenic setting- in Southern California shows the prin-cipal features of the Ventura River Project. The CasitasDam, at lower left, and reservoir are being planned as aplay area in addition to holding a capacity of 250,000
Water Veins Refilled
By Ventura Project
Transfusion To Pump
New Life Into California
(Photos Courtesy of U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, U. S. Department of the Interior)
acre-feet of water. A total of 9,500,000 cubic yards of fillwas used to build the dam for the 30 million dollar waterproject.
A 30 million dollar river andwater project undertaken by theU. S. government and local inter-ests now is pumping new life intothe Western Ventura County areaof southern California.
The multiple-purpose project isdesigned to furnish an average of27,800 acre-feet of water annuallyfor irrigation, municipal and in-dustrial use, and recreation in thearea about 60 miles northwest ofLos Angeles.
"Development of the additionalfirm water supply was urgentlyneeded in the area to stabilize thepresent economy, for new irrigatedlands, new industries, a rapidly ex-panding population and new eco-nomic opportunities," said H. P.Dugan, Regional Director of theBureau of Reclamation of the U. S.Department of Interior.
The project will more thandouble the supply of water for irri-gation, city and industrial use.
Because of the extreme vagariesof watersheds and streams and theuncertain uses of the water, stor-age was only possible duringperiods of high runoff. Such flood
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storage is the basic plan of CasitasDam.
The project was authorized bythe federal government in March,1956 and all major projects werecompleted in about four years, al-though, work still is being carriedon.
Casitas Dam and reservoir arethe principal storage features ofthe project. The contract for theconstruction of the dam wasawarded in mid-1956 and in De-cember, 1958 it was completed tothe point where storage was begun.
A total of 9,500,000 cubic yardsof earth, sand, gravel and stonewas placed in the dam embank-ment. The crest length of the damis 2,060 feet and the maximumheight above the streambed is 285feet. The reservoir has a storagecapacity of 250,000 acre-feet witha maximum water-surface area ofabout 2,700 acres.
Although the country is moun-tainous, rugged and beautiful, theterrain presented a problem for theengineers on the river project.
The main source of water for thereservoir is the Ventura River butthe reservoir is located miles fromthe natural flow of the stream.
The storage area is located far
down on Coyote Creek, a tributaryof Ventura River, because it is theonly suitable site for a storagefacility of the required size thatcould be utilized without extensiveright-of-way and pollution prob-lems.
Water for storage, other than thenatural flow of the Coyote Creeksystem, comes from Ventura Riverthrough the 51/2-mile-long Robles-Casitas Canal.
The canal is a 500 cubic foot persecond concrete-lined canal formost of its length but includes one,78-inch-diameter, reinforced-con-crete-pipe siphon about 5,000 feetlong. It has a width at the top of27 feet, sloping to a bottom widthof seven feet.
Water enters the diversion canalthrough headworks constructed asan integral part of Robles Diver-sion Dam, a low rockfill structureacross the Ventura River a shortdistance from the community ofMeiners Oaks.
Although the diversion dam isbut 24 feet above its foundation, ithas a crest length of 598 feet. Thedam's sluiceway has a capacity of10,000 cubic feet per second.
Water from the reservoir is dis-
tributed to all subareas of the Dis-trict through a main conveyancesystem consisting of 33 miles ofpressure pipeline varying in sizefrom 54 to 14 inches in diameter.
Water enters the conveyance sys-tem directly from Casitas Damthrough an intake structure be-lieved to be unique in ReclamationBureau experience.
The intake is a reinforced-con-crete structure which rests on thesloping upstream face of the damand encases a 48-inch steel outletpipe which is fitted with nine hy-draulically operated slide gates atuniform intervals between mini-mum and maximum reservoir waterlevels.
The outlet pipe joins an 1,800-foot-long outlet tunnel boredthrough the abutment of the dam.The outlet tunnel is a seven-foot-diameter circular section terminat-ing at the main valve chamber.
From this point, the tunnel is aneight-foot horseshoe shaped sectionwith the water flowing through a51-inch steel pipe. Each outlet gateis fitted with a screen which canbe removed and taken to a wash-rack above high water through the
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Robles-Casltas diversion dam takes the water of the Ventura River and sendsit down a S'/z-mile long canal to the main reservoir.
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At the rate of 500 cubic feet per sec-ond the water rushes along this canalfrom the diversion dam to the reser-voir. The trip includes travel through4'/2 miles of canal like this and onemile through 78-inch concrete pipes.The canal is 6.8 feet deep.
The 285-foot high dam embankment,outlet works, intake structure andspillway inlet in the foreground areviewed from atop the left abutment.The crest length of the dam is 2,060feet and goes from a base width of1,625 feet to a crest width of 40 feet.
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The time expected to be necessary tofill the reservoir runs from a mini-mum of five years to a maximum of20 years. Approximately 21,200 acreswithin the area will be used underfull development. More than one-halfis now dry-farmed, grazed or under-developed land.
Mueller Co. 48-inch and 42-inchgate valves are located on theCasitas Gravity Main at the headof Canada Larga main. The Can-ada Larga main feeds the City ofVentura Reservoir.
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operation of an ingenious system oftracks, cables and pickup carriage.The hydraulic slide gates are op-erated by means of controls in-stalled in a control house at thetop of the dam.
Since a large portion of the ser-vice area of the project is at ahigher elevation than the mainreservoir, five pumping stationswere constructed along the pipe-lines to lift water from the eleva-tion of the storage level in thereservoir to elevations of points ofdelivery.
The main pipeline moves south-easterly from the dam, and thenafter crossing the Ventura Riverone branch goes south to the cityof Ventura and another branchgoes northeast to serve the citiesof Oakview and Ojai.
The Rincon pipeline serves thewest coastal region of the area. Itstarts at the dam where a pumpingstation lifts the water 900 feet overCasitas Pass to a balancing reser-voir near the coast 10 miles away.
The main pipeline has an initialflow capacity of 135 cubic feet persecond.
Five balancing reservoirs, all ofwhich are covered steel tanks,along the mains provide effectiveoperation of the project by storingwater to meet peak demands andfor emergency supply in case ofpump failure. The balancing reser-voirs range in capacity from 1,000,-000 to 6,500,000 gallons.
Disinfection of the water is donethrough the operation of five clori-nation stations along the mains.
To ex-tend the conveyance sys-tem farther into certain areas of
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A backhoe digs a ditch for part ofthe Rincon main overgrade. The hill runs atalmost 80 per cent andhas to be held in placeattached to a heavy tractor on aflat spot above.
the District, some 15 miles of mainextensions are being constructed.The district is also financing andconstructing about 25 miles of 4-inch to 12-inch lateral distributionfacilities.
Although persons in the Venturaarea had thought about this sortof project for years, the first defi-nite step was taken in October,1952 when the Ventura River Muni-cipal Water District was formed.
Six months later the District con-tracted with the government for aproject investigation and fromthere the project advanced to itspresent proportions.
Officers of the Ventura RiverMunicipal Water District a r eGeorge M. Purvis, President;Charles W. Petit, Secretary-Treas-urer; Leland G. Bennett, GeneralManager and Chief Engineer, andRobert R. Willard, Attorney.
The Rincon pipeline serves the western coastal area ofthe project and was laid for 9.7 miles through ruggedterrain such as this. It starts at the dam where a pumping
plant lifts the water 900 feet over Casitas Pass to theRincon balancing reservoir.
Mr. Kemper, Mr. Schluter Named
Two New Directors Elected
To Mueller Co. Board
Two new members were elected to the Board of Directors of Mueller Co. atthe annual two-day shareholders and board meeting which opened in DecaturDecember 1.
Elected to the Board were John A. Schluter and Jackson Kemper. All othercompany officers and board members were re-elected.
Mr. Schluter succeeds his mother, Mrs. Charlotte Mueller Schluter, whoresigned from the board.
Mr. Kemper, Executive Vice-President of Mueller Co., was elected to fill thevacancy created by the resignation of W. H. Hipsher.
Mr. Kemper, formerly Vice President and General Manager of the Forgeand Fittings Division of the H. K. Porter Co., Inc., joined Mueller Co. July 18after Mr. Hipsher resigned due to ill health.
Mr. Schluter lives in New Tork City, is married and has one son. He is a1951 graduate of Williams in Williamstown, Mass., and served three years in theU. S. Navy as an officer.
He is a member of the Sales Division of International Business Machines, Inc.,in New Tork.
RE-ELECTED COMPANY OFFICERS WERE:
A. G. WEBBER, JR President and Chairman of the Board
JACKSON KEMPER Executive Vice-President
LEO WIANT Administrative Vice-President
FRANK H. MUELLER Vice-President and Director of Engineering
DAN R. GANNON Vice-President and General Sales Manager
LEROY J. EVANS Vice-President in Charge of Eastern Sales
LYLE R. HUFF Secretary-Treasurer
RE-ELECTED TO THE BOARD WERE:
JOE H. GARDNER
EBERT B. MUELLER
FRANK H. MUELLER
MRS. PAULINE V. MUELLER
MRS. LENORE MUELLER SCHMICK
FRANKLIN B. SCHMICK
HAROLD M. SHERMAN, JR.
ALBERT G. WEBBER, JR.
LEO WIANT
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JACKSON KEMPEKExecutive Vice-President
LEO WIANTAdministrative Vice-Presklent
ALBERT G. WEBBER, JR.President and Chairman of the Board
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FRANK H. MUELLERVice-President and Director of Engineering
LYLE R, HUFFSecretary-Treasurer DAN R. GANNON
Vicc-President and General Sales Manager
LEROY J. EVANSVice-President in Charge of Eastern Sales
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Port Huron, Mich.
Wettest Waterworks Man
If you are looking for a man im-mersed in his work, you mightconsider L. D. (Les) Working,Superintendent of Utilities in PortHuron, Mich.
He is one of the most saturatedmen in the water business becausehe not only works with water, butin it, on it and under it.
The city of Port Huron is at theextreme south end of Lake Huronwhere the lake and St. Clair Riverjoin. The city extends about sevenmiles from north to south, alongthe western shore of Lake Huronand the St. Clair River.
With this extensive shoreline,the city has many underwaterstructures such as intakes, outlets,river crossing syphons, bridges,and docks, none of which can beinspected without some form ofdiving gear.
In order to make the inspectionsof facilities first-hand Mr. Work-ing undertook underwater diving.
In the summer of 1959 Mr. Work-ing became interested in Self-Contained-Underwater, Breathing-Apparatus (SCUBA). He boughtthe basic equipment consisting ofan air tank, pressure regulator,hose and mouthpiece, mask, fins,depth gauge, compass, and weightbelt.
Using typical waterworks ingen-uity, he tailored his own "wet suit."This is a close-fitting garment,styled somewhat like old-fashionedlong underwear, made of foam rub-ber sheeting one-eighth of an inchthick, with hood and boots. Thesuit allows just a little water toget inside with the wearer, whosebody heat then transforms him intoa sort of animated underwater hotwater bottle.
The suit also protects the diveragainst the cold waters, bumpsand cuts.
Dressed for diving, the wearercarries about 80 pounds of equip-ment, including weights worn inhis belt. The weights give an equal-izing bouyancy which allows himto move to various levels in thewater with a minimum of effort.
Mr. Working has gone to depthsof 60 feet in his outfit and couldgo deeper.
The current in the vicinity ofPort Huron flows at a rate of 8 to
This Is Les Working. . . In the Office
10 miles an hour, giving it a flowvolume of about 175,000 cubic feetper second. The water at PortHuron is pure and clear enoughthat the only treatment necessaryis two parts of chlorine to a mil-lion of water.
Port Huron is located just acrossthe river from Sarnia, Ontariowhich is the home of Mueller, Lim-
ited. Through this strait pass greatboats and ocean-going vesselswhich travel the St. LawrenceSeaway.
Mr. Working said, "From myfirst dive in the river, my enjoy-ment exceeded my wildest expecta-tions and I get into the water everychance I get. The possibility ofbeing able to inspect the submergedstructures plus a long desire andfascination to explore the hidden,prompted the venture," he added.
He went on to say that therewere some hazards in the sport,however, adequate training andpractice and an understanding ofthe hazards, make it a sport witha good safety record. The "BuddySystem," which provides that adiver doesn't go down alone, is in-variably followed.
Mr. Working does not lack"buddies." He is a member of theboard of directors of the PortHuron Channel Cats—a recentlyformed diving group of about 50persons. There are more than 200active skin divers in the Port Huronarea.
One trophy that Mr. Workingdiscovered on the bottom of theSt. Clair was a four-cylinder Starautomobile—a 1923 model.
He said there was no indicationas to how the auto got to the riverbottom, but it was removed be-cause of its threat to navigation.
Les Working's working hobbyhas been an asset in his businessbut also provides him with a meansof excitement and pleasure, andcertainly qualifies him as one of thewettest waterworks men in thebusiness.
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Chula Vista
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Moves IntoNew Shops
New division shops in ChulaVista are in use by the San DiegoBay Division of the CaliforniaWater and Telephone Co., accord-ing to A. F. Poulter, DivisionManager.
The new shop building replacesdivision shops located for manyyears in National City. Divisionheadquarters offices are also inChula Vista.
The new facility houses the com-pany's superintendant of construc-tion, meter readers and dispatcherin 1,600 square feet of office space.Eight thousand square feet will bedevoted to warehouse space, andmeter and welding shops.
The remaining 1,600 square feetwill be utilized as a repair shopfor the division's construction andtransportation equipment.
The division shops will serveboth the Sweetwater and CoronadoDistricts of the water and telephonecompany.
Sea Water Fills
Holes Under CityPumping millions of gallons of
sea water per day into the groundbeneath the city, Long Beach,Calif., is winning the battle againstland subsidence. This problem hascost the city and its industriesmillions of dollars during the past30 years for the construction ofharbor dikes, replacement of dis-rupted pipelines and repair of dam-aged buildings. The subsidence,caused by the pumping of oil andgas from shallow unconsolidateddeposits, has been slowed to halfthe prevous rate of one foot peryear in the harbor area and vir-tually eliminated in the downtownarea, where one building dropped27 feet since the early 1930's.
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De-Salting the Sea
Those Drops Are ImportantThat "drop in the bucket" you
hear people scoff at may soon be-come precious stuff . . if it's water.Few Americans realize how theconsumption of fresh water hassoared and how ingenious somescientists have been in seekingways to maintain an adequate sup-ply in the face of the explodingdemand.
One idea—closer to reality thanmost of us think and far morepractical than it may sound—isto de-salt the sea.
At the root of the supply prob-lem is the fact that our futureneeds cannot be met by water fromour lakes, rivers and streams. Theadvent of air conditioning, auto-matic washers and a host of othernew products, not to mention theeffects of improved plumbing andhealth standards, have upped ourindividual daily water requirementsfrom 40 gallons in 1900 to 150 gal-lons or more today.
Although great in themselves,individual requirements pale before
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the burgeoning demands of indus-try. The American industrial com-plex now uses an estimated 110billion gallons of water a day toslake its ravenous thirst and it willneed more than twice that much by1980. It takes nearly 1,000 gallons ofwater to make just one automobiletire, 65,000 gallons to produce aton of steel, and 200,000 gallonsto process a ton of viscose rayon.
In testimony filed with a U. S.Senate Committee, Charles A. Rob-inson, Jr., staff engineer for theNational Rural Electric Coopera-tive Association, warned that "ournation will dry up" unless appro-priate action is taken.
Dr. Leroy E. Burney, SurgeonGeneral, U. S. Public Health Ser-vice, has predicted that in 20 years,"the United States will be short 85billion gallons of fresh water everyday."
You needn't wait 20 years to seethe shortage, however. In 1957,water supplies plummeted to dan-gerously low levels in 47 states,
necessitating emergency measuresin more than a thousand commun-ities.
Dr. A. L. Miller, director of theOffice of Saline Water, has this tosay: "It is my personal opinion thatshould a severe drought occur, sim-ilar to those we endured in theearly thirties and in the years 1953and 1957, a real emergency wouldoccur in thousands of cities andtowns in the United States."
Interestingly, the problem isn'tnew. Ancient writings indicate thateven before the Greek philosopherAristotle tried his hand at it 2,300years ago, efforts were made toobtain sweet water from salty seas.This is why converting sea waterto fresh has been called "theancient dream of man."
In the 16th century, when sailingships began to roam the seven seas,one of the most critical problemsfaced by their crews was an ade-quate supply of fresh water. In aneffort to help her Navy, England'sQueen Elizabeth I offered the equiv-
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The churning and swirling' waters ofa turbulent ocean . . . do they holdthe solution to America's steadily-worsening water supply problems?
alent of $50,000 (a vast fortune atthat time) to anyone who coulddevise a commercially useful meth-od of conversion.
About 200 years later, ThomasJefferson conducted some successfuldistillation experiments, reportingto Congress in 1791: "From 16 pintsof sea water he drew off 15 pintsof fresh water in 2 hours and 55minutes, with 3 pounds of dryhickory and 8 pounds of seasonedpine."
Today, most major ocean-goingvessels carry their own conversionequipment. Our aircraft carriers ofthe Forrestal Class, for example,have f o u r 50,000-gallon-per-dayevaporators to supply the waterneeds of these huge ships and theirlarge crews. Land-based plants havebeen erected in several arid loca-tions and many more are plannedas the cost of conversion is reduced.
Since World War II, scientistsaround the world have been dili-gently searching for more efficientand less costly processes.
New on the horizon, but captur-ing the attention and imagination
of the world, are the efforts nowunderway to produce fresh waterfrom the sea by freezing.
Scientists have known for a longtime that ice crystals consist ofpure water. Unfortunately, whensea water freezes, salt or brine istrapped between the crystals. Thus,desalting the sea by freezing givesrise to two major problems: first,to develop an economical methodof freezing individual ice crystals,and second, to develop a practicalmethod of separating these crystalsfrom the salty brine.
Recently, Struthers Wells Cor-poration of Warren, Pa., and Scien-tific Design Company of New YorkCity succeeded in developing afreezing process that features theformation and growth of large icecrystals. The result: a marked re-duction in surface area makes itfar easier to separate and wash thecrystals free of brine.
Working under a contract award-ed by the U. S. Department of the
Interior's Office of Saline Water,the two companies completed anengineering evaluation of theirprocess in a laboratory model ofthe plant. The next step will be theconstruction of a large size pilotplant to provide a full scale testof this exciting new approach tothe freezing method.
The system operates this way:by bubbling a refrigerant throughsea water under controlled condi-tions, large pure water ice crystalsare produced and then washed freeof salt in a centrifuge, leaving theice free of brine.
If the system works, and labora-tory tests give every promise ofsuccess, it will be a real step for-ward in the urgent search for anew, low-cost source of fresh waterthat can banish forever the specterof water shortage that now hangsheavy over our heads—for it willtap the world's biggest supply ofraw material . . . the estimated 320million cubic miles of sea water!
A technician adjusts dials on a sea water conversion apparatus which is partof a process that freezes sea water in order to obtain fresh water in the formof ice crystals.
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Strictly
The senior girl sniffed disdain-luEy as the pink-cheeked freshmanboy cut in. "Why did you have tocut in when I was dancing?"
"Sorry," the freshman answered,hanging his head in humility. "I'mworking my way through college,and your partner was waving a $5bill at me.
sobbing as though his heart wouldbreak.
"What's the matter, Bobby?" sheasked.
"Daddy was hanging up a pic-ture and dropped it on his toe."
"Why, that's nothing to cryabout; you should laugh at that."
"I did," sobbed Bobby.
Office Manager (to new em-ploye) : "You should have beenhere at nine o'clock."
New employe: "Why, what hap-pened?"
Little Bobby ran to his mother
A woman who ran a boardinghouse would get her knives sharp-ened several times a week. Whenthe knife sharpener asked why shehad her knives sharpened so often,the woman whispered, "Well, it'scheaper than buying tender meat."
QUITE FRANKlt I'VE NEVER,GIVEN MUCH THQUGHTTO PUBLIC
"How did you make your neigh-bor keep his hens in his own yard?
"One night I hid half a dozeneggs under a bush in my garden,and next day I let him see megather them."
Somebody told us about a littleboy and an old man who had lostten dollars. After listening to theoldsters's story, the kid, who hadfound the money, decided it mustbe his, and handed it over.
"Hey," says the old gent, "you'rean honest boy, but what I lost wasa $10 bill, and you've given me tenones."
"That's right," says the boy."Last time I found one, the mandidn't have any change."
Warden: "I've been in charge ofthis prison for 20 years and thatcalls for a celebration. What kindof party would you boys suggest?"
Prisoners: "Open house!"
The boy looked at the prices ofthe menu at the drive-in, thenturned to his date and said, "Whatwill you have, my plump littledoll?"
Customer: "Hey, waiter, thissteak is burnt black."
Waiter: "Yes, sir; it's a mark ofrespect. Our head waiter died thismorning."
Jim: "Why did you break yourengagement?"
John: "She wanted to get mar-ried."
The Smiths were on the balconyand could hear the young couple inthe garden below. Mrs. Smithnudged her husband and whispered,"I think he wants to propose. Weought not to listen, Whistle at him."
"Why should I?" her husbandasked. "Nobody whistled at me."
He: "Please, darling, whisperthose three little words that willmake me walk on air. "
She: "Go hang yourself."
Hank: "You used to say therewas something about me youcouldn't help loving."
Claire: "But it's all spent now."
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Strange GameIn Sacramento it is required that
hunters who shoot other huntersfile a report with the Fish andGame Department within 48 hours.
A local business man had hireda new messenger.
Instructing him on picking upcertain items, the boss said, "Andif they can't give you these things,be sure to phone me. Just dialCApital 7-5526."
The boy stood thoughtfully, mak-ing no move to get started.
"What's wrong?" asked the boss."Oh, nothing's wrong. But I just
don't know how to dial a capitalseven."
The hillbilly signed the hotelregister with an X. Then he drewa circle around the X. The clerk,watching him, said, "A lot of peoplesign with an X, but that's the firsttime I've ever seen it circled."
"Tain't nothing so dad-burnedodd about it," retorted the hillbilly."When I'm out for a wild time, Ijust don't use my right name."
COPYRIGHT 1957 CARTOONS-OF-THE-MONTH
"I'm going to explain all this to youonly once, so listen carefully...!"
small shotsOH, HELLO, CAROLINE
POP DIDN'T INCREASEMY ALLOWANCE /
HOW DID YOUMAKE OUT?
BUT HE OFFERED MESEVERANCE PAY/
Tommy looked up from his bookand asked, "Pop, is it true that aman is known by the company hekeeps?"
"Yes, son, and always rememberthat."
"Well, Pop," asked Tommy,"what I still can't understand isthis: If a good man keeps com-pany with a bad man, is the goodman bad because he keeps com-pany with a bad man, or is the badman good because he keeps com-pany with the good man?"
The salesman was getting dis-gusted with his relations with thefront office, so he sent the follow-ing wire to the boss: "Must haveraise at office or count me out."
He received the following reply:"one, two, three, four, five, six,seven, eight, nine, ten."
"Nope," argued Uncle Ezry, "Idon't like this improvin' of ourlivin' standards."
"But why, Uncle Ezry? Hasn'teveryone a right to a decent liv-ing?"
"Well, now, mebbe they has, butwhere we gonna git our great menwith humble beginnins?"
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NOTICE TO POSTMASTER
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AFTER 12 YEARS 1;WWW/OF RESEARCH AND 45,000OPEN-CLOSE TESTS, THE MUELLER8 ORISEAL-
CURB VALVE MAS GONE TO WORK. AND ON THE JOB, AS IN
THE TESTS, rgs^g^ THE ORISEAL HAS PROVEN LEAKPROOF
IN SPITE OF REPEATED USE^OR PROLONGED IDLENESS. THE
'TEFLON'"* COATED PLUG f oj RETAINS ALL ITS LUBRICATING
QUALITIES IN ALL CONDITIONS. EVEN THE 2" ORISEAL VALVE
IS OPERATED WITH JUST A I2'̂ X WRENCH-UNDER 125 PS. I.
ONCE INSTALLED, THE ORISEAL SELDOM NEEDS ATTENTION-
THE LINE WILL PROBABLY BE REPLACED BEFORE THE ORISEAL
WILL REQUIRE SERVICING!
IA/RITE FOR MORE FACTS ON THE ORISEAL
VALVE OR ASK YOUR MUELLER REPRESENTATIVE.
NEWCURBBOX
for theORISEAL
ORISEALCURB VALVE
SIZES3/4", 1", T/4", I'/z", T
IWIUELI
DECATUR, ILL.Factories at: Decotur, Chattanooga, Los Angeles
In Canada: Mueller, Limited, Sarnia, Ontario
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