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From fire trucks roaring by.

There are innocent forest creatures

Fleeing in pain and dread

As black clouds billow upward

And darken the skv overhead.

The demon of fire sweeps onward, While brave and intrepid men

Recoil from her unleashed fury

Then turn to fight on again. She flaunts them u'ith crackling laughter, As they shrink from her acrid breath, Her, ways are the ways of destruction fn a sudden access of fury, She hurls her brands through the air; They fall in a wooden canyon

And her paths are the paths of death.

And spot fires are kindled there. She leaps to a stand of timber

And, "she crowns !" Is the frenzied cry, "Run ! Run for your lives, men !

To linger now is to die !"

Grim days and nights of horror, Then she dies as fire fiends die; Licking the ghastly wreckage

That was left when she thundered by. And the blackened hills and canyons

And stark, dead forests tell, Of the wealth of life and beauty

That died in the fire fiend's hell.

Was the fire fiend unleashed in her fury

And her course of destruction set, When a spark fell into the dry, brown grass

From YOUR lighted cigarette?

A. Merriam Conner.

L A. Building Permits Gain

Building permits issued in Los Angeles during October continued the upward trend with a total of 2,159 compared with 1,987 in September and,1,79 in August. Compared to October, 1942, when the total was but 1,380, the increase is more than 55/o.

Total valuation of $4,379,U9 for October, 1943, however, is considerably below the valuation of. $7,472,255 lor October, 1942, but is greater than the $3,V24,99t valuation for September.

Permits issued last month include plans for housing a total of. 26 families-20 in apartment houses, 232 in single dwellings and 14 in double dwellings. Average cost of the single dwelling units is $3,064 as compared to $3,300 a year ago.

Lor Angeleg Hoo - Hoo Meeting

A large turnout heard Navy Chaplain K. P. Buswell give an interesting talk on some of his war experiences at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club luncheon meeting held at the University Club, Los Angeles, on Tuesday, October 26.

Lieul J. T. Vandiveer, Public Relations, United States Navy, Los Angeles, introduced the speaker.

Roy Stanton was chairman of the meeting. J. A. (Al) Privett, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was honorary chairman and made a brief talk. Bob Osgood, member of the Program Committee, introduced the guests. Old Cats in attendance, including Frank Curran, C. W. Pinkerton, Frank Connolly, W. B. Wickersham, and Ed Martin, were asked to stand and take a bow.

Vicegerent Snark Dee Essley reported that he had received a number of reinstatements for membership, and also has several Kittens signed up for the next concatenation.

Major William Edwards, Lumber Supply Officer, Los Angeles, was one of the guests, and reinstated his membership in Hoo-Hoo. Prior to going into the Armed Services, he was with the Park Avenue Lumber & Supply Co., in Chicago.

Arizonc Conccrtenction Nov. 20

N. H. (Hawk) Huey, Vicegerent Snark for Arizona, is planning a Hoo-Hoo concatenation to be held at Clay Springs, Ariz., on Saturday, November 20.

IIe has appointed Albert Lewis as master of ceremonies. Mr. Lewis lives in Clay Springs, and is arranging for the concatenation to start at 3 09 in the afternoon, and he promises Kittens from McNary, Pinetop, Young, Heber, Nutrioso, and way-side points. Dinner will be served following the concatenation. Vicegerent Huey is busy lining up a degree team.

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A. A. Arends, and his brother, J. B. Arends, proprietors of the Growers Lumber Company at Sunnyvale, have purchased the Campbell Lumber Company at Campbell. J. B. Arends will m'anage the Sunnyvale yard, while A. A. Arends will be in charge at Campbell.

Personcrl ltems

George R. Kendrick, sales manager of pope fnc., Lumber Division, San Francisco, returned I from spending two weeks in the Northwest. visited the sawmills and northern offices.

& Talbot, November where he

George H. Young, vice president of Friend & l'err.y Lumber Co., Sacramento, left October 28 to spend his vacation salmon fishing on the Smith River with a party of friends.

Charles R. West, wholesale lumberman of Phoenix, Ariz., was a recent San Francisco visitor.

Dean Creath of Juan Creek Lumber Co., Calif., manufacturers of Redwood lumber, in San Francisco on business.

Juan Creek, was recently