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Fibreboard's name is built on r Quality Products manufactured in our state-ofthe-art facilities o Qualiw Service for you and your customers o Quality Teams of professional foresters, millworkers and truckers to manage our ultimate renewable resource. Wood.

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Southern California's 6.6-magni- r \ tude Northidge earthquake did more than just shake up local lumber yards, Hull Bros. Lumber Co., Canoga Parlg employees, customers and business. nooding the entire building. Without

With damage estimates topping electricity, a skeleton crew wzts forced $30 billion, making it the costliest to recall prices by memory and tally U.S. disaster, the Jan. 17 quake them on pocket calculators. Custodestroyed main freeway passes, busi- mers sloshed through the paintnesses and approximately I1,000 residences. Elecnicity, wat€r and phone service was lost for days.

Yards miles away experienced an avalanche of falling wood products and other merchandise, ceiling tiles, light fixtures, file cabinets and computer temrinals. Windows shattered and paint cans erupted.

And from daybreak, customers lined up outside building supply stores for emergency supplies - flashlights, batteries, generators, hard hats, cabinet restraining latches, shoring timbers, roofing, plastic, water heaters, plumbing supplies and, of course, earthquake kits.

The water main broke underneath mixed-with-water, leaving tracks across the floor.

The strucure itself took a hard hir "There are so many cracks, we're afraid to look," said Linda Hull. "We should have close( but we had people lined up around the building. We threw liability to the wind and it worked."

At Koontz Hardware, West Hollywood, a batteries-only counter was set up on the sidewallc Inside, customers were escorted by clerks with flashlights. Instead of leEing customers in the racked store, Fisher Lumber Co., Santa Monica, had runners venture through the piles for orders.

At Northddge Lumber, Northridge,