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$75,OOO Fire in Tucson Yord

' Tucson, Ariz.-A large part of the S & W Lumber Co. was d-estroyed by fire June 3 at a loss estimated at $75,000, with the usual crowd of gawkers estimated at 10,000 persons complicating the work of the fire-fighters. The fire was believed to have started in the wiring. It broke out about

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7 :30 p.m., lune Z,and burned till 4 OO a.m., said Ben J. Wr<ibel, president of the yard, and piles of lumber, insulation and roofing materials continued to smoulder through the night. The Arizona Star said of the spectators: "The milling gar,r'king and stumbling crowd clogged East Speedway, Br-oadway, 5th Street and Swan Road with hundreds of cars-hindering fire and law-enforcement units during the fire; only the efforts of the city police and sheriff deputies kept the traffic from becoming total chaos."

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Jack Allenby (left), sales manager of Ukiah Pine Lumber Company, was elected president of Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Cluub 181 at a dinner meeting in Ukiah; May 24. Allenby succeeds Jim Hennessy, Hollow Tree Redwood Co., the first president of the new club. Allenby, along with the club's other new officers and directors, will be installed at the evening meeting, luly 17, at the Maple cafe in Ukiah.

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Other new officers are: first vicepresident, H. P. "Bud" Crofoot, Crofoot Lumber Co.; second vice-president, Harold lfess, fndependent Redwood Co. and secretafy-treasurer, Bob Vice, Richarclson Lumber Co.

Directors are Fred Christie, John Crofoot, Crofoot Lumber Co.; Swen Gummer, Builders.Lumber Co.; Jim Maher, Ridgewood Lumber Co.; Gil Sissons, Sissons Lumber Co.; Henry Hulett, Willits Redwood Products Co.; Bill Scott, Masonite; Frank Crawford, Crawford Lumber Co., and Warren Lindberg, Lindberg Lumber Company.

A total of 40,0(X) Americans were killed in 1956 trafEc accidents.

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