The Van Nuys News from Van Nuys, California • Page 5

Build Now! REDI-CUT MATERIALS to Build That Home IMMEDIATE DELIVERY EASY TO BUILD (IT'S REDI-CUT) EASY TO PAY THE AMERICAN WAY WE WILL HELP YOU WITH PERMITS NO PLANS NEEDED--We Furnish Them ONE OR TWO BEDROOM HOMES UP-TO-DATE PRIORITY INFORMATION ONE OR TWO CAR GARAGES "Largest of its Kind on Pacific Coast" AMERICAN BUILDERS VAN NUYS OFFICE 4559 Van Nuys Blvd. STate 4-3157 OPEN SUNDAYS Want Ads--Best Buy, Sell, Trade Medium Neighbors Do Chores for Valley Citizen Bob Burns Canoga Park business men paid their respects to Bob Burns, honorary mayor, in a practical way Tuesday when some 40 of them visited the radio star on his 10-acre Bazooka Berk ranch. Attired in work clothes, and shouldering shovels, hoes and rakes, the business men worked up an appetite lor a barbecue lunch, by cleaning devil grass and weeds out of iiieir mayor's parkway and fence corners. Furthermore, they whitewashed the fence. When the cleanup crew, headed by Ray Downs, president of the Business Men's Association; Ray Horton, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and W.

(Dick) Spear, chairman of the arrangements committee, had eaten all the barbecued beef, smoked ham, butter, cream, salads and desserts in sight, they were escorted by their host on a tour of the ranch. What the visitors saw were prize Berkshire hogs, purebred cattle, all sorts of garden truck, peacocks, pheasants, squirrels, chipmunks, a wide variety of tropical birds (five of them in Bob's bedroom), and the equipment for a score of hobbies including carpentry, photography, gunnery, pipe-making, tree culture, weaving and microscopy. The visitors learned also that their host, once a peddler, dance hall manager, dock worker, banana roustabout, civil engineer, cafe singer, sergeant in the Marines, hobo, cow- toy, streetcar motorman and coastal boat waiter (not to mention all activities) has bought a sea-going cruiser to go on fishing trips this summer with his wife and three children. (anoga Park Civic Merger Proposed Proposed merger of the Canoga Park Business Men's Association with the Canoga Park Chamber of Commerce will be considered at meeting: of the association called for next Wednesday night, President Ray Downs reported today. Many members of the association think that their program of civic development could better be carried out through a business men's branch of the Chamber, he said.

Rotary President Names Committees For 1946-47 Claude A. Pox, incoming president Hawkins, Victor Obegi. of Van Nuys Rotary Club, has issued a list of the members of committees who will serve during the coming club year. With the chairman named first in each instance, the committees and members of same are as follows: Aims and Objects--Claude A. Pox, Warren A.

Lanz. S. A. Zook, Morris Gaylen, Richard C. Holloway, Russell E.

Budss. Louis M. Voivod. Club Service--Moms Gaylen. Classification--Harvey Hiers, A.

T. Stiverson, Carl Eerggren, Membership--Ralph H. Markham, Art Meacham. A. Zook, Glenn Hershner, Tom Brahm.

Fellowship- -Ward Keasbey John Cliristersson, Johnie Neal, Richard Baum. Attendance--A. T. Stiverson, Harry Kahn. Budget--Arthur H.

Daniels, Dale Carter, Gerald O. Richardson. Rotarygram--Merle Goff, Rev, J. G. Carmichael.

Rotary Information--William Eat a Little Less a the starving millions may have a little more Public Information--J, H. Wray. Sports--John C. Campbell, Claude C. Clarke, C.

V. Mathews, Lester Pierce. Magazine--Rev. J. G.

Carmichael, Bertram O. Sanford. House Committee--Paul Stretch, R. L. McDonald, Carl W.

Bagley, Ed Waters, William R. Pioch, John D. Pra is water, mter-cifcy--Johnie Neal. Vocational C. Holloway.

Fred W. Larson, Dr. Clifford A. Hegness. Dr.

William M. tiyers. Dr. William J. Gilchrist.

Community Service--Russell Budge, Opie Gates, Seth Smith, Dave Gardner, Lowell J. Beat-tie. Roy B. Bucitley, James Grey. Scouts--Dave Gardner, Paul McRae, C.

Mathews, B. McDonald, Robert O. Hall. Youth--C. Mathews.

International Service--Louis M. Voivod. Charles S- Vialh Dr. Merle Catterlin, Harold Kibbsy. Sergeant-at-Arms--Robert O.

Hall, (Dr. Reuben B. Hbvland, John chris- tersson. Also appointed: Pianists--Merle Goff, John Chris- tersson. Songr J.

G. CaJtni- chael. These committeemwi will assume their duties on July 1 when Fox succeeds Ralph Markham, outgoing Rotary Club president. Enlists in Army Donald H. Carey, son of Mr.

and Mrs. P. L. Rambo, 8936 Willis has enlisted in the U. S.

Army to serve three years with the ordnance corps in Europe. The News want ad section is the Valley's bargain place. Toastmasters Will Attend District Contest Saturday High hopes of Van Nuys being represented in the speaker's contest staged by Toastmasters International at its July convention in Seattle were held today by members of the Van Nuys Toastmasters club as they prepared to attend a district contest Saturday night In the Friday Morning Club theater on Fteueroa St. Representing the Van Nuys club will be Jack Cutler of Badioplane, winner of a recent area contest. He is secretary of the local club, members of which plan attendance, en masse at the Saturday One of seven contestants will represent the district at the Seattle convention.

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