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ing to be met at the train, but his sister pre-empted his greeting committee of one by having a baby. So with no one there to meet him the 14 year-old youngster stared at the first street cars he had ever seen, chose one to his liking, and rattled ofi into the Big City.

As luck would have it he chose the right car and as it passed his brother-in-law's store he simply bailed out and practically rolled into the shop.

Frank worked in Los Angeles as an errand boy and later as a butcher until he was almost 18" when he returned to Jackson to drive a delivery wagon for another brother-in-law. During all this time the

FRANK PARAMII{(I object, of course, was to save enough money to go to San Franeisco and continue his schooling because Frank was aware that his education was on the shorts.

At the age of 19, Frank entered Heald's Business College in San Francisco and upon graduating he went to work as a bookkeeper for the otrd Albion Lumber Company under Miles Standish.

Frank was at his desk when the shattering 1906 Quake rocked the Crocker Building and as he milled around with the crowds on Market Street a few minutes later it became evident that the fire would soon consume the entire business district.

Frank raced back into the badly damaged Crocker Building and up several flights of stairs to rescue the company books. Unable to locate Mr. Standish or any of the Albion company officials, he fled to Jackson with all of the company's valuable records.

A few days later, when it was safe to return, he took a train down to Ist and Broadway in Oakland, and then began the formidable task of lugging the big stack of ledgers on foot all the way up to Standish's upper Piedmont home.

Fatigued from the San Francisco holocaust and the exertion of walking miles with the heavy books were too much for even Frank Paramino. He soon came down with (Cor*inued on Page 74)