ANGELUS HARDWOOD COMPAIIY,

'Jubilee' ot Uplond Yord

(Continued from Page 8) 35% and, 50Vo over the yard's normal business.

The flrst annual "Jubilee." in 1959. was held on the occasion of the retail yard's Gra^nd Opening after its remodeling, reported in these pages at that time.

It is also a leadpipe cinch that this Spring's attendance successfully passed tJne 1959 Jubilee, which counted 2,000 guests trying for the yard's Grand Prize of a free trip to Disneyland for two.

The veteran retail lumberman. W. F. Rugg, started his successful career in the Louisiana mills as a boy at $2.75 per week salary (but it included board and keep).

Ife grew up in Kansas City, the son of Frederick O. Rugg, a wholesaler there.

Dealer Rugg went to Los Angeles in 1914 and first tried ranching (yes, Virginia, there was ranches in them days) but opened his own lumber business in 1923 and, in 1929, on the present site.

The progressive thinking that characterizes Mr. Rugg's business administration may be found in the changes shown through the years by the old photographs accompanying this story.

W. F. Rugg, Jr., no\ r actively associated with his father in the operation of tfiis admirable retail yard and store, gxew up in the yard the hard way (sweating and straining for a son-and-heir's usual salary, he claims). but it must have been excellent training, at that, for young Bill Rugg holds a high place in the respect of all lumbermen thereabouts.

After Army duty in Korea, BiU settled down to retail lumbering in earnest in 1952, married and started raising his own family, who will, no doubt, before long be unloading cars of lumber to start just like their daddy.

The capable manager of the retail store is Philip Born, who has served the Rugg flrm well since 1945 now, and knows and can pinch-hit in all the yard's departments.

Mr. Born is the caliber of man, and lumberman, active in the Southern California retail yards today, and the W. X'. Rugg Lumber Co. is the caliber of yard that attracts good men to its employ and keeps them through wise ard profitable operation.