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husband was a preacher. And the fourth husband was an undertaker. Now, why did she marry them in that order?"

"I give up," said her father. "Why did she?"

And little Mary danced around and sang:

"One for the money; two for the show; three to get ready, and four to go."

Britain May Buy Lumber

Washington, Dec. 21.-Great Britain, offrcial quarters disclosed today, has offered to buy between $15,000,000 and $30,000,00O worth of lumber in the United States if she can at the same time purchase American ships in rvhich to transport it.

The sale of the ships, reported to be ten in number, has been discussed by the government's inter-clepartmental neutrality committee.

Negotiations for the purchase of the lumber and ships are in the hands of Sir Ashley Sparks, British shipping magnate, who is a member of the British purchasing mission in Nelv York City.

CENTRAL VALLEY HOO-HOO CLUB MEETS AT MODESTO

Central Valley Hoo-Hoo Club held its monthly dinner meeting in Modesto on Monday evening, December 18.

Herb Florcken, history instructor at Modesto Junior College, gave an interesting talk on the Eur,opean situation.

President Robert Fuller presided, and Dick Ustick, Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto, was in charge of the program.

Hawk Huey Bass 650-Pound Elk Hammond Redwood Co. Builds Warehouge

The accompanying photograph shows Hawk Huey, lumberman-hunter of Phoenix, Ariz., with the bull elk he killed December 2 in the Sitgreaves National Forest. The elk weighed 650 pounds and one shot brought him down, Hawk reports.

The season on elk which opened November l8 was scheduled to close December 10, but an extension was ordered until sundown December 31 by the Arizona Fish and Game Commission. The extension was decided upon, the state game warden reports, after a survey of the checking stations disclosed that storms had impeded hunters in their attempts to find the animals.

Washington, December l3,-Lumbermen have been told of the efficient use of timber connectors in heavy construction for the past six years, and many of them have been using this system in the maintenance of their own plants. The latest concern to employ connectors in mill construction is the Hammond Redwood Company, of San Francisco, California, who have erected a dry lumber storage shed 120x5@ feet at their sawmill at Samoa, Calif.

The truss members of the building were pre-framed, bored and grooved for split ring and shear plate connectors in the fabricating shop of the Hammond Redwood Company. Ordinarily this shop is used for the fabrication of redwood cooling tower members. The timbers were cut to proper shape and dimensions with power cut-off saws and then sent to the "gang drill" for boring of bolt holes. The grooves for the split rings were cut with a portable drill.

The efficiency of fabricating the members was demoustrated by the fact that not a single piece r,'i'as cut, bored, or grooved incorrectly and not a single piece had to be replaced during the assembly of the trusses. This was due to the stenciling on the members themseh'es of the exact faces on which grooves were to be cut, as recommended in the new Teco Manual of Construction.

The season was opened to elk hunting in two major areas and a smaller area because of reports of damage caused by an overabundance of the animals in the forested areas of the state.

Attends National Ski Meeting

Wendell T. Robie of the Auburn Lumber Com'pany, Auburrn, Calif., nationally known for his interest in the sport of skiing, attended the annual meeting of the National Ski Association at Minneapolis last month.

The trusses were stacked three deep along the length of the building. A single crane then lifted columns whicl, were guyed into place and the trusses were lifted into position and fastened without the necessity of temporary erection bolts. One unusual feature about this was the li{ting of the trusses several feet off the ground in their horizontal position before turning the trusses right side up for placement on the columns. This was done to allow clearance for the knee-braces, already attached to the trusses. and to prevent their possible breakage.

The entire framework was erected by four men in six days with a single crane. Despite the fact that a plumbline was not used, no column was more than 1732 inch out of line on the entire length of the building.

The structure was diagonally sheathed in redwood with all framework of Douglas fir.