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The young boy was registering for the first day in school and, when the teacher asked him his name, he answered:

"'Washington, ma'am ; George Washington."

The teacher smiled and said:

"That's a mighty fine name. Are you going to try and be like him?"

"Like who, ma'am?" asked the boy.

"Like George Washington," she said smilingly.

The boy looked puzzled and distressed.

"Ma'am," he said, "I don't see how I can help being like George Washington, 'cause that's who I am."

And there is another story of the same sort:

The little boy applied for a job and said his name was Henry Ford.

The employer remarked, "That's a mighty well-known name, isn't it?"

The boy answered:

"Well,-it ought to be; I've been delivering groceries around here for two years."

-Nalional Forest Products Week October | 6-22-

Bob Richter Joins Osgood Firm

Bob Richter of the Jackson, Nlichigan, wholesale lumber family, has joined the sales staff of Robert S. Osgood, Los Angeles importers and wholesale distributors, and will cover the midvvest and south with Southern California.

Glenn Thomqs Joins Nelson lumber

Glenn Thomas is now associated with Nelson Lumber, N{onrovia, Calif., as manager of the wholesale only firm. He has recently been manager of the Butt Lumber Co. in Azusa and, before that, was for many years manager of the llammond Lumber Company's yard in Arcadia.

-National Foresf Producls Week ' ' October 16-22Hubbqrd & Johnson ls'CqrgoYord'

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('x16" planer, a 54" band resaw and a l2"x3U' timber surfacer, the largest of its kind in the area.

A "war baby" sired by partners Bud Hubbard and Chet Johnson, the Hubbard & Johnson Lumber Company was i'born" in Los Gatos clurirrg the early 40's, shortly after Bud and Chet left the employ of McElroy Lumber Co' to errter business on their own. A few years later they ex-

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