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THE KIITENS (obove) ore (front row, l€fr ro righr): Don Everett, Wesrern pine Supply Co.; Dewey Schmidr, Diomond Motch Co.; George Alves, Modero lumber ond Hdwc. Co.; Leoncrd Fisher qnd Bud Root. Viiqlio Lumber Co. Bock row, l.to r.: fony Wcld, Weyerhoeusgr Soler Co.; Lee Droth, Lundgren Door & Plywood Co.; Bill Wclker cnd Cortos Urive, Tdrtor, Web3ier & Jo-hnson; Glinr Corrigon, Insulite, ber Company, Papific Forest Products of Fresno, Visalia Wholesale Lumber Co., Lundgren Door and plywood Company and Georgia-Pacific plywood Company.

Following a delicious roast beef dinner the I(ittens u,cre initiated into the order of Hoo-Hoo. The concat team consisted of the following:

Visiting Officer-Hugo Miller; Snark-Bob lteid ; Senior

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We Solicit Your hguiries lor Wolnanized and Creosoted lrnber, Tinbers, Poles alrl Piling

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" Father Goose" (te56)

Pefer, Peter Pumpkin-eoter, Hcrd o wife cnd Couldn't keep 'er;

Till he built with Lumber bought from Clough, And then he kePt 'erSure enoughl

Chester Brafsch Gets Write-up

Chester Bratsch, ownermanager of the Rancho Lumber Co., MidwaY City, Calif., was given a writb-up in the Westminster Herald last month on the retail yard's 10th anniversary. The paper said people felt sorry for him in 1945 when he located his yard "out in the sticks" but that he is now celebrating ten years of successful business as head of the yard.

Dealer Bratsch hails from an old Orange county family with 50 years' residence atVilla Park. He rvas educated at Santa Ana and majored in engineering at an Indiana university, becoming a Class A plane designer during tiie war, after which he started the retail yard rvith a staff of two and raised it to ten in the yard at Highway 39 and Bolsa avenue in its tenth year.

Fire Dcmoge

Morcrl:

A boiler under the drY kilns exploded early last month at Simmons Hardrvood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and caused $4000 damage in the boiler room. Repairs rvere quickly made to the proPertY, r,vhich is o'ivned by Arthur S. N{cKinney.

N-AWLA Annuol

June l9-2O

Thc National-American Wholesale Lumber Association will hoid its 64th annual meeting at the Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, R.C., June 19-20 this year.

More than 90/o of. the pulp and paper manufactured in the United States is made from wood. Don'l deplete this supply by helping forest fires start.

Hoo-Hoo-Ray Noble; Jabberwock-Louis Frame; Junior Hoo-HooBob Raymer; CustocatianCraig Gaffney; Scrivenoter-Cap Nichols; Arcanoper-Elmer Rau ; Bojum -Don Walker, and Gurdon-Duke Nelson.

The meeting adjourned promptly at l0 49 p'm' and the return trip to Fresno was completed in another 59 minutes, reports Bernard B. Barber, Jr.

Fourth Generqlion of Huff lumber Compony Hqs Arrived

Now entering tfie seiond half-century of service to retail lumber dealers and builders of Southern California, the Huff Lumber Company of Los Angeles, through its president, Allen O. Huff, announces that the fourth generation of Hufi lumbermen arrived for duty March 7,1956' On that day Mark Allen Hufi joined the family of Jerry and Sally Huff and will be ready for active duty early tn 1976, following graduation from school.

It was during the year ol I9O4 that George M. Huff established his wholesale' lumber concern. Several years later he was joined by his son, Allen O. Huff, r'vho presently runs the business assisted by his son Jerry. In order 1s keep the wheels of pro,gress operating properly during the 20th century, young Mark arrived on the scene to carry on through, including part of the 21st century.

"For the past 35 years we have been doing business at our present location, 116 West 116th Street in Los Angeles," said Allen O. Huff. "We have specialized in offering a complete service to retail lumber dealers and builders in the Southland for over 52 years and have carried in