company, Mr. Hudler worked at 10 or 12 locations, and was a manager of five of them. He said the only time during the period that he did not receive a promotion at the time he transferred from one location to another was during the depression.“But, at least I never lost a day of work during the depression, which is something an awful lot of people did do,” he said.After resigning from the Galveston firm in 1947, he began a survey to locate a place to set up a retail lumber yard. “I was one of many to want to do something like this, and I was lucky enough to be able to do it,” he said.He looked over many sites, including some in West Texas, but finally decided La Marquewould be the best place. Heand the Moores organized the company in 1947. The Moores never took part, Mr. Hudler said, except as stockholders.In 1962 Mr. Hudler bought their interest and now the■